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Look, this is Mindful Movement Mondays.
There we're talking about the connection between movement, mental health, discipline, stress, and healing.
Because many of us are carrying, we're carrying stress on our backs, anxiety, stomachs, trauma in our sleep and exhaustion in our minds.
And sometimes the body just starts screaming.
When the spirit has been whispering all far too long.
Ray.
Yes, sir.
Man, that was, you know, I think the information from that last segment is very interesting, but I wanted to, I wanted to know, you've been under some stress.
Sure, yeah,
yeah.
Absolutely.
Been under a little stress.
Are you a little stressed right now?
I'm pretty
good
right now.
You know, healthy stress.
The smiling because we're smiley guys.
Yeah, we're actually this is a smiley type of atmosphere here.
Yeah, for sure.
Are we are we does it look like we're under stress or is it are we masking things?
What do you think?
So I know for me a lot of times the smile is a mask.
Yeah, where you know, just kind of to.
to present to the outside world that everything is okay while trying to balance all types of different fires going on on the inside and different emotions and mental struggles.
But you still gotta try to show up in a positive manner in the world.
So that's why I think I try to smile a lot.
I'm just full of this stress and I'm about to explode.
But I do wear the smile as a mask sometimes.
When you are doing your, when you are going throughout the day, do you feel, sometimes I feel stress in my stomach.
Like even today, it's been a lot going on.
And I know as the day wears on, I'm just like holding everything in until I explode hours.
You know, you
ever been like that though?
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, you feel it in your stomach.
I think for me, a lot of stress is retained right behind your eye sockets.
And in your head, you feel over the back of your head.
You feel like a little stress tension.
That's why I feel it a lot more.
And then sometimes stress for me shows up in a physical manifestation of actually being sick to where it's like, dang, I need to sit down for 48 hours.
and just let this feeling pass through, but yeah, so it shows up in a couple different ways for me.
Man,
chronic stress is real, though.
Absolutely.
I think if we look at people living in survival mode, a lot of moms, a lot of people who are single, and a nuclear family, you can be in that survival mode, and you're always constantly hunting for the next thing.
And I recognize that you can recognize that, you know, from afar, especially if you've ever been in survival mode.
Even if you're comfortable, you recognize that a person running back and forth trying to do things almost like they have ADHD or some whatever type of, you know, they they're in survival mode.
How do you ever been?
I mean, you're been in survival mode like that.
Um.
I'm going to say this and it may be an unpopular take.
Yeah, I think as black men.
Add black women, black people in general, I feel like there's always some sort of survival mode that we're in, right?
No matter how well off we think we are, no matter how successful we think we are, there's still this experience of feeling like I'm still in survival mode, right?
It doesn't have to be financially.
It could be like, OK.
walking out the house, you know what I mean?
You get pulled over, you know what I'm saying?
And I say every encounter with law enforcement is a negative
one,
but there is like, I have to be honest, there is a sense of anxiety that comes over you and you go into this like survival mode of like, okay, what's the right responses?
How do I make sure this is, you know what?
Interaction where everybody just goes back to their respectful places,
right?
You I remember I remember if you bring up cops.
I remember One night I was I was going to Come in from a friend's house and I got pulled over by the cops and it was about like 130 and had a Ford tourist station wagon and at the time I was transferring I was moving
my clothes and I had a whole bunch of bags and stuff in the car.
And I was, you know, I had the stuff in there and I was going to go move, put the stuff in my, I think my mom's basement or something
like
that.
Right.
And cop pulled me over and these bags.
What you got in these bags?
Oh, listen, it was close.
But right before as I'm, I'm going through an alley out coming from my friend's house and I hear whoop, whoop, whoop.
And I hear like.
cops all over the neighborhood.
And I'm thinking, Oh, that's not for me.
So I pulled to the end of the alley and I see this cop come right racing to my car.
So he
tells me to pull around to the right side of the street, pulled around to the right side of the street.
He, he, you know, turns his lights on tells me to step out the car.
You know, initially my thought is like, Hey, I don't got to step out the car.
There's no one from my rest, but I knew it was just me and him.
Yeah.
And.
So he came out real aggressive.
So I was like, all right, you know, I'll have anything in this car.
He pulls me out and I'm nervous now.
And he, you know, he questions me or whatever he says.
We got a, we had a report that suspicious,
suspicious vehicle,
blah, blah.
And you fit the description of somebody who.
Ain't it crazy how we always fit
the description?
I was fitting the description.
I fit the description like clearly, because he was like, you fit the description of somebody who slashed a woman's throat.
And I was like, nah, that ain't me.
That is not me, right?
And so I tell him that.
How did they get your
description to even say you fit
it?
Exactly.
That's a wild
question.
They made up a whole, you know, they made up a whole story.
So I'm in, I'm in the handcuffs.
He throws me in the back of the car and I don't know if the window was rolled down or not, but he goes into my car and I can see him like just rip things up.
Like in my car, in the back of the car, everything is being thrown all over the place.
In the, in the, in the radio, I can hear we're, we're, we got him.
We're chasing him.
Yeah.
Those words we got him.
We're chasing him.
come all units, blah, blah, blah, whatever they said.
He takes me out, uncuffs me, I'm pushed to the side.
He throws my keys in a field and gets in his car, takes off.
So now,
I look
for my keys at night in a field and my car is wrecked.
So that, that in turn, that initial, because I was younger,
That initial kind of real life moment made me super weary of cops.
Now, my father, on the other hand, he was a different story.
He was the cuss out king.
He was like, you pull them over for a speeding ticket.
He's cussing you out.
He don't care.
Me, on the other hand, I'm not my daddy.
I'm not trying to cuss you out to,
you know.
Create no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Now, I definitely remember the experience I had when I was younger, actually, on 18 years old.
And I will say I was on the way to the lakefront to participate in traffic and cruise, right?
But I also understood the laws of cruising.
Right.
Cruising, you have to be spotted more than once within a certain time frame.
circulating a certain area.
That's what the laws was right then.
And they said, you know, we're pulling you over for cruising.
I'm like, well, I just got down the hill.
I ain't even made one lap yet.
So I know you can't be pulling me over for cruising because I just got here.
Right.
And is as if when you you understand your rights, they try to get a little more aggressive to see if, you know, you provoked to do some other things.
So.
He snatched me out the car, and I'm like, yo, I wasn't cruising.
Where's your proof that I was cruising?
You have not seen me circling this area more than a certain amount of times.
Took me all the way back to, I don't know what the district is, but the police station on Locust and MLK.
Took me over there.
And it's just sat me in like the holding room for like an hour and then just released me.
No ticket, no nothing, nothing like that.
And it was just like, I'm like, dang, this is a terrible experience.
When you verbalize that you know your rights and you, it's not like I was being combative.
I wasn't arguing.
I was just like, hey, you got it.
I just got here.
So I've always had that anxiety reaffirmed whenever I do get pulled
over.
Cause I feel like this, like every time I work out or something like that, I feel that I'm getting, I'm getting those stresses off of me.
Yeah.
Like every time it feels, it feels like a super relief.
Like, oh man, all this stuff goes to your head.
Yeah.
Um, for me, yes, uh, sprinting, sprinting on the treadmill definitely is, um,
It makes me feel that release of that anxiety, that pressure.
But for me, man, I like to meditate and sit in silence.
When did you start doing that?
So, honestly, I will say, my homie DJ, Willie Shakes, is who put me up on meditation.
This had to be right around 2000, let's just call it 13.
Probably one of the, some of the darkest times, you know, Bow had settled down.
So, you know, the ebbs and flows of music when, when, when everything is calm and ain't nobody around no more.
Cause you ain't in the club buying bottles.
So, you know, you had that time of isolation.
You ever brought
bass, ace of spades though?
I've never bought an ace of spade bottle, no.
I've been, uh, comped an ace of spade bottle for, um, that was in my writer, but, um, no, I've never physically purchased, uh, a bottle of aces.
Okay, sorry, let me keep you.
No, no, no, you're good, you're good.
So, um, yeah, uh, it was through, through those times and he introduced me to, he was in LA at the time, dealing with stress of moving from Milwaukee to Los Angeles, chasing dreams and whatnot.
And, you know, it was good to have a homie that you could have these type of conversations with as a black man.
But he introduced me to these meditation guided meditation experiences that was being performed by Deepak Chopra and Oprah.
Remember those?
Oh, yeah.
It was like a 30 day
meditation experience, right?
So I started doing that, man.
I was like, dang, this feel this feel good, man.
Yeah.
And then I just continue to stick with it, continue to stick with it.
Now I try to implement it in my life as much as I can, even if it's just two minutes to just sit in silence and breathe and try to quiet that brain.
I think our brains are like vehicles.
It runs, it runs, it runs, it runs, it runs.
But when do we turn it off for a second so it could cool down and just let the body reset, let the mind or the car, your vehicle reset for a second?
So meditation, man, and then recording music.
That's why I kind of like leave it all there.
I leave it in the stillness and I leave it in the vibrations of the music as well.
And we'll be right back.
We're going to pay some bills.
And we got Ray Nitty on the co-host machine in the grapevine on the truth radio station 101.7.
Let's pay these bills.
We're back, we're back in the grapevine with Bernard Severe.
That's me and my brother Ray Nitty in the co-host machine box.
What up, what
up?
What's up?
So we was just talking about if social media is destroying our peace.
My opinion,
yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's
destroying our peace, man.
Absolutely.
Especially if we use it in the wrong way above social media.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is.
I recognize, this is a really interesting topic, but I recognize that I had a friend who was telling me that some of his relationships broke up over the social media kind of piece, right?
And he was saying that his partner was addicted to social media so much that
the partner happened to just utilize the influence of social media to, you know, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not going to go too far to that, to that situation because they, they're probably
listening, but
yeah.
So social media is destroying a lot of pieces.
Matter of fact, I reckon there was a, there's a professor, and I probably said this before, but there's a professor that took.
a study on social media and correlated social media with the rise of teen suicide.
And they said the moment social media came about, then teen suicide kind of started upticking.
Have you recognized that
too?
I definitely saw that study.
I definitely notice a rise in, I can't say that I've noticed a rise in suicide routines, but I've definitely noticed a rise in, and not saying that it doesn't exist, right?
Because I do believe there is some sort of, I'm just saying I haven't really saw any thing for that, me personally.
But I have seen a lot of young people talking about the mental,
stress that social media puts on their lives.
You know, wanting to fit in or seeing all of their peers have all of these things
on
their highlight reels on social media and feeling like, oh, you know, they're using all of these filters to make their lips look juicy and all of this, you know what I mean?
All of these other things and it brings a sense of insecurity for them.
It brings a sense of insecurity for some people, right?
And they start to judge their own lives based off of the things that they see.
So I just try to encourage people that don't always believe the highlight reel on social media.
It's comparison culture, man.
I was in
Miami, and look, let me tell you, in Miami, what happens is, especially if you're in the tourist areas, you'd already know about this.
In Miami Beach, if you live in there,
you know the influencers when you see them.
So on Tuesday to Sunday night, maybe Monday morning, you get the influencers on, no, on Thursday, sorry, Thursday to Sunday, you get the influencers on Sunday, on Monday morning to Wednesday night.
you get the regular person.
So when you see the influence, you're like, oh my gosh, that's the influence for me.
Then you see them at Publix, or you see them at Walgreens.
Just normal life.
Normal life.
And then
you see
them going into the Botox injection place,
and
they're like, they're looking swollen.
But we already know that they have to repeat this process over and over and over again, while also going broke, building their influence and their brand.
These people are literally compared like they're they're the top tier of us trying to compare ourselves to them.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Comparison culture.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Is it is it recognize you?
I mean, I think it is.
I think it's definitely detrimental to us.
I think it's easy to just say social media.
Right.
But I think it's how we use it.
how we overuse social.
So using myself for an example, right?
I found myself.
just opening and closing apps, just scrolling, just like a robot, like not even looking for nothing, bro, just Instagram, TikTok, boom, just scrolling, boom, then out of there, then back to what I was doing.
And then two seconds later, back, pick up your phone.
It's like, or you see a little notification, you got to run to your phone and pick it up because you feel like, oh, I don't want to miss whatever that notification, and it's just T-moo.
You know what I mean?
Try to tell
you.
Open
this
prize.
With
the
fake jewelry.
Yeah, so.
I
think it is doing a detriment to our society because everybody wants to be an influence.
Everybody wants to be loved.
Everybody wants to be liked.
I say, you know, them likes is probably one of the most dangerous drugs right now, man.
Is it?
I think so.
The social media likes trying to get them little hearts and them followers and blue checks and all of these things.
Man, people, people, like, look at it.
People doing all kinds of crazy things for the likes and to go viral.
Is it normal?
I mean, now it's normal.
It's become a part of life.
Not knocking anybody.
I also want to use his his drop his the something he says as a drop for the truth Yeah, but it's a guy.
He literally goes at Walmart and pours cereal and milk on himself.
Oh, yeah
It's the truth
I don't I don't want to I don't want to have to I don't want that to be my thing You know what I'm saying?
I'm just in the more anywhere just pouring flour on me and milk and
and given a positive message, but that's the thing that you have to use to catch people's attention.
And I'm like, eh, is the message not as valuable without the antics?
You know what I mean?
So I feel like, okay, the message gets lost because of all the antics that we see with social media.
Yeah, our kids are addicted to it too.
I've seen kids like have
complete meltdowns just because they couldn't get the screen.
Couldn't get in.
Couldn't get in.
A lost day account or something.
Right, yeah.
And I understand that too because for some of these influences that is their business.
You know what I mean?
So I could sit here and humble myself and say like some people do have a livelihood that they need these pages so they could provide for their families and do the things that they do.
There was a...
This guy, another researcher who said that the majority of apps are geared towards people who have feminine qualities and or are women.
And they said because that, and if you can even look at the app and the app itself has like, you know, a rounded quality, it's not jagged, you know what I'm saying?
Like some rough neck dude, you know, this came from the gym, right?
Like it's,
It
looks smooth.
It's
smooth, right?
You
know, even
aesthetically pleasing.
Right, you look at your phone, you know, you got to take care of it.
It look like,
you know, if you
crack your phone, you're definitely going to eye breaks you fix, or eye fix you break, whatever, you break eye fix, you going there?
Absolutely.
Man, even the phones
itself is for, you know.
No, even the phones itself is a trap, in my opinion.
Yeah.
Why would we make phones out of glass?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why your iPhone?
Like, why would we?
The most dropped thing from humans is when you either drop your keys, your phone, and it's like, let's make it glass.
Yeah, so you don't drop it.
But you're gonna still drop it.
And then we do things like, don't put a case on it.
So now we have to go to this.
You break, I fix whatever companies that fix these things.
I just think we became so...
reliant on these products and these apps and so forth that we will just ignore so many things and just continue to follow the herd.
There's a saying
that you got to treat your, you know, there's a saying that you have to treat your woman, the lady that you're with.
Yeah.
It's turns if you're a guy of this genre, treat your woman like glass, treat your wife, your partner like glass.
Don't
want to
drop.
Don't want to drop her.
Don't want to fumble.
Break
it.
Might break.
Can't put it back together.
Lay it,
baby.
Lay it, baby.
We want to go to you break our fix.
Don't go anywhere.
Straight
up.
You know what?
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Our phone culture is really disturbing.
Yeah.
And I'm trying to figure it out, but the more we try to figure it out, the more
deeper they go.
They go really, really deep.
Yeah, it's only going to get more.
These ain't even phones no more.
These are like computers in our pocket, you know?
They spy on us, too.
But we're going to be right
back.
We're going to take these breaks, these next couple of breaks.
We're going to pay some bills.
We'll be right back.
This is The Truth Radio 101.7, The Great Vine.
We're back.
We're back in the grapevine with the non severe.
That's me and my brother Ray nitty in the co-host machine box.
What up?
What
up?
What's up?
So we was just talking about if social media is destroying our peace.
Yeah, my opinion.
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Destroyed our peace, man.
Absolutely.
Especially if we use it in the wrong way above social media.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
I recognize, this is a really interesting topic, but I recognize that I had a friend who was telling me that some of his relationships broke up over the social media kind of piece, right?
And he was saying that his partner was addicted to social media so much that the partner
happened to just utilize the influence of social media to you know Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna go too far today into that situation because they they're probably listening but
Yeah,
my
business my business,
but yeah, so social is social media is destroying a lot of pieces matter of fact I reckon there was a there's a professor and I've probably said this before but there's a professor that took
a study on social media and correlated social media with the rise of teen suicide.
And they said the moment social media came about, then teen suicide kind of started upticking.
Have you recognized that too?
I definitely saw that study.
I definitely notice a rise in, I can't say that I've noticed a rise in suicide for teens, but I've definitely noticed a rise in, and not saying that it doesn't exist, right?
Because I do believe there is some sort of, I'm just saying I haven't really saw anything for that, me personally.
But I have seen a lot of young people talking about the mental,
stress that social media puts on their lives.
You know, wanting to fit in or seeing all of their peers have all of these things on their highlight reels on social media and feeling like, oh, you know, they're using all of these filters to make their lips look juicy and all of this, you know what I mean?
All of these other things and it brings a sense of insecurity for them.
It brings a sense of insecurity for some people, right?
And they start to judge their own lives based off of the things that they see.
So I just try to encourage people that don't always believe the highlight reel on social media.
It's comparison culture, man.
I was in
Miami, and look, let me tell you, in Miami, what happens is, especially if you're in the tourist areas, you'd already know about this.
In Miami Beach, if you live in there,
You know the influencers when you see them.
So on Tuesday to Sunday night, maybe Monday morning, you get the influencers.
Yeah.
On.
No, on Thursday, sorry, Thursday to Sunday, you get the influencers on Sunday, on Monday morning to Wednesday night.
you get the regular person.
So when you see the influence, you're like, oh my gosh, that's the influence for me.
Then you see them at Publix, or you see them at Walgreens.
There's normal life.
Normal life.
And then
you see
them going into the Botox injection place,
and
they're like, they're looking swollen.
But we already know that they have to repeat this process over and over and over again.
While also going broke, building their influence and their brand.
These people are literally compared like they're they're the top tier of us trying to compare ourselves to them.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Comparison culture.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Is it is it recognize you?
I mean, I think it is.
I think it's definitely detrimental to us.
I think it's easy to just say social media.
Right.
But I think it's how we use it.
how we overuse social.
So using myself for an example, right?
I found myself.
just opening and closing apps, just scrolling, just like a robot, like not even looking for nothing, bro, just Instagram, TikTok, boom, just scrolling, boom, then out of there, then back to what I was doing.
And then two seconds later, back, pick up your phone.
It's like, or you see a little notification, you got to run to your phone and pick it up because you feel like, oh, I don't want to miss whatever that notification, and it's just T-moo.
You know what I mean?
Try to tell you.
Open this prize.
With a fake jewelry.
Yeah.
I think it is doing a detriment to our society because everybody wants to be an influence.
Everybody wants to be loved.
Everybody wants to be liked.
I say, you know, them likes is probably one of the most dangerous drugs right now, man.
Is it?
I think so.
The social media likes trying to get them little hearts and then followers and blue checks and all of these things.
Man, people, like, look at it.
People doing all kinds of crazy things for the likes and to go viral.
Is it normal?
I mean, now it's normal.
It's become a part of life.
Like, not knocking anybody.
I also want to use his drop, something he says as a drop for the truth.
But it's the guy, he literally goes to Walmart and pours cereal and milk on himself.
Oh, yeah.
And he's like,
it's the truth.
And it's like.
You know, I don't want that to be my thing.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm just anywhere just pouring flour on me and milk and giving a positive message.
But that's the thing that you have to use to catch people's attention.
And I'm like, eh, is the message not as valuable without the antics?
You know what I mean?
So I feel like, OK.
the message gets lost because of all the antics that we see with social media.
Yeah, our kids are addicted to it, too.
Like, I've seen, I've seen kids like have complete meltdowns just because they couldn't get the screen.
Couldn't get in.
Couldn't get in.
A lost day account or something.
Right.
Yeah.
And I understand that too, because for some of these influencers, that is their business.
You know what I mean?
So I could sit here and humble myself and say, like, some people do have a livelihood that they need these pages so they can provide for their families and do the things that they do.
There was this guy, another researcher who said that the majority of apps are geared towards people.
who have feminine qualities and or are women.
And they said because that, and if you can even look at the app and the app itself has like, you know, a rounded quality, it's not jagged, you know what I'm saying?
Like some rough neck dude, you know, just came from the gym, right?
Like, it's,
it looks good.
It's smooth.
It's
smooth, right?
You
know, even.
It's
aesthetically pleasing.
Right, you look at your phone, you know, you got to take care of it, it look like,
you
know.
If
you
crack your phone, you're definitely going to iBreaksUFix or iFixUBreak, whatever, you break iFix.
You going there?
Absolutely.
Man, even the phones itself is a trap in my opinion.
Why would we make phones out of glass?
Why?
Why?
Why your iPhone?
the most dropped thing from humans is what you either drop your keys, your
phone.
And it's like, let's make it glass.
Yeah.
So you don't drop it.
So.
But you're going to drop it and then we do things like don't put a case on it.
So now we have to go to this.
You break our fix, whatever companies that fix these things.
I just think we became so reliant on these products and these apps and so forth that we will just.
ignore so many things and just continue to follow the herd.
There's
a saying that you got to treat your, you know, there's a saying that you have to treat your woman, the lady that you're with, in terms of your guy of this genre, treat your woman like glass.
Treat your wife, your partner like glass.
Don't
want to drop
her.
Don't want to drop her.
Don't want to fumble.
Might
break
it.
Might break.
Can't put it back together.
Lay it,
baby.
Lay it, baby.
We want to go to you break our fix.
Don't go anywhere.
Straight
up.
You know what?
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Our phone culture is really disturbing.
Yeah.
And I'm trying to figure it out.
But the more we try to figure it out, the more
deeper they go.
They go really, really deep.
It's only gonna get more.
These ain't even phones no more.
These are like computers in our pocket, you know?
They spied on us too.
But we're gonna be right
back.
We're gonna take these breaks, these next couple of breaks.
We're gonna pay some bills.
We'll be right back.
This is the Truth Radio 101.7, the Great Vine.
We're back.
On the grapevine with Ray, Nitty, and Manon Sabir, that's me.
Listen to us.
We're talking health.
Yes.
And we're talking how expensive it is.
It is.
To be healthy.
Is
it really expensive?
Man, I think them fruits is, especially if you want the organic stuff too, man.
Right.
Not the stuff that got all the pesticides and the preservatives.
Really, in my opinion, hurting us some as well, too.
Right.
Yeah.
You know, I think I was, as we was talking at the break, I was talking, I was thinking about the four, I was thinking about the four detoxes that we all, you know, I always say our four levels of detox or detoxification or urination, defecation, perspiration and respiration, breathing, defecating, sweating.
and do urination, defecation, and urinating, right?
So
like, if we don't do all four of those every day, and I keep repeating this throughout, like these segments is, if we don't do all four of those per day, you wind up holding back all of the, and holding in everything that is supposed to go out, right?
Like, it's so important, it's so important now, but if we are,
If we're under stress, we miss, at the very least, one of those per day.
Especially, you know, defecating, because, you know, our body tries to like, you know, constrict.
So it can conserve energy.
Kind of like when you're shivering, you ever shiver, get real cold, you get shivers.
Well, that's what happens with the organs.
The organs, your organs start to like, they start to like vibrate, basically.
And that's where the shivers come in.
Yeah.
I wish we had a biochemist doctor.
This should be calling in soon.
But that's what happens.
Your body tries to conserve energy.
And I think if we're not conserving that energy, if your body isn't conserving that energy, man, you know, you're gonna be in trouble.
I think we got a caller on line one.
Lai Wan.
Hey, how's
it
going?
This is the caller.
What's up?
As I've been referred to for about four years, the call.
Yeah.
Yes.
I frequently talk to Sherwin and encourage him to work out more because you can be 60, 70, 80 and be in much better shape than people who are half your age.
And I.
I like to say that I'm proud that I'm an example of that as a person that was in the military when I was a young person, played sports my whole life.
I never stopped the cardiovascular workouts.
And even when you're busy and you're stressed, I heard recently someone talk about what's called workout snacks.
You know, like if you're eating a full meal, that's, you know, something very nourishing and fulfilling.
but throughout the day just general movement that you might take for granted just increasing that slightly you know when you you know maybe when you run to the restroom stretch yeah stretching before you get out of bed will be I don't know how old you guys are but as you get past 35 there are two
things that
I always encourage
You're 42.
I'm
22.
I'm 22.
22.
Oh, no, I'm just kidding.
I'm just
kidding.
As you as you hit 25 and beyond, the first thing that you will lose as far as your mobility is hip strength.
So exercises that increase that hip mobility, stretching before your feet hit the ground and knowing that every day you're getting a little bit older.
And I kind of knew that as a teenager even I had like a knee injury playing sports.
And
so
you feel old when you're injured.
You understand what your grandmother is going through when she has knee pain.
So I think that injury kind of propelled me into bike riding and things that increase your heart rate.
Because your metabolism is what it is.
And there are a lot of people who are very slim.
to Mr. Nitty.
There
are a
lot of people who are really slim, who are unhealthy.
So a lot of times your weight, you know, may be based on genetics, but your heart may actually be more healthy than somebody who's weighing 170 pounds.
Yes, interesting because
you're fast.
So that's good stuff there, bro.
Man, the caller, I really appreciate you, man.
Appreciate that.
Yes,
sir.
I appreciate y'all too, man.
Yeah,
keep listening.
We're
talking about health.
Yeah,
can I give
you
two more
things?
Yeah, for sure.
Weedies with fruit as far as that that defecating and, you know,
just say that one more time with fruit.
Can you say that one more time?
Weedies, weedies or high fiber.
Another one is cashew cereal and fresh spinach, which is very inexpensive.
You can get that at most grocery stores for
$2 a bunch and you can make salads for a day and a half with adding adding strawberries or blueberries and You'll find yourself much more fulfilled by eating that and maybe adding a little bit of chicken or some salmon with it and Keeping those carbs out of that, you know, and that has worked for me.
Yo the caller I love that
I'm definitely gonna try a little blueberry, strawberry salad.
I haven't been a real fruit in my salad kind of guy, but I think it's time for some new healthier habits.
Yeah, you know, I used to, when I was lifting a lot of weights, so I used to take, I did an experiment on myself, so I did creatine, and then I did a creatine experiment.
That's just for my body.
I'm not giving advice to anybody.
but I did an experiment on my body where I took creatine.
I was lifting a lot of weights, man.
I went from like 165 to 175.
My body was maxing out at like 175, 76.
I was big, back was big, everything, but to everybody else, it was like normal size.
However, you could see it.
Then I started, then I took away the creatine for like maybe a couple of weeks, and then I started eating bags of spinach.
Bags of spinach with
think blueberries and raisins.
And I would just mix it up and start eating the bags of spinach.
Man, the, the, the gains I saw were just as much as the gains I saw when I was eating the creatine.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
Like I was like, okay, so this is, this is what,
yeah,
this is what eating spinach and, you know, vegetables could do.
Yeah.
I was, I didn't know.
I didn't know how valuable vegetables were in relationship to working out until
then.
Man, you know, somebody said something.
I can't remember what program or what I was listening to, but they was like, look at the silverback gorilla.
How massive that animal is.
It doesn't eat meat.
It just eats.
berries and things like spinach and grass and twigs,
you know what I
mean?
So it's like, okay, look at what it's doing for that muscle mass and so forth.
So that always stood with me like, dang, that is true.
Silverback gorilla definitely don't
eat meat.
Yeah.
Do you feel better?
When I take, when I eat healthier, I feel one, I guess,
Easy, I feel very easy.
Getting into this real high endorphin state, I feel like I'm just good.
I can take the stress,
but the
moment I eat wrong and bad, it's
all
the stress that comes.
I'm like, oh
my gosh,
oh man, I
just eat this
fried chicken.
For sure, for sure.
Fried foods, so.
If we listen to our body to tell us how it feels, like how you use the restroom after certain things that
you,
if you gotta go right to the restroom after, your body probably, that ain't a movement, that's a rejection.
So for me, like pork, my body does not, oh yeah.
And I know it's just, fuck.
For you, it's like, what?
You should've seen the dream I had last night.
You can't even say that word.
That crazy dream last night, yeah.
So, but yeah, pork was tearing me up, tearing my stomach up, man.
I feel sick, nauseous, but it's like, dang, I love ribs.
You know what I mean?
But it's like, I had to get that up.
Fried food,
even
like, you know, how your body reacts to fried food, you could tell.
And yeah, man, it's just...
Certain things just don't sit right in our bodies and we just got to listen to pay attention to our bodies and how it reacts to certain foods.
That's right.
Hey, we got Ray Nitty in the co-host machine box booth microphone.
He's in the truth radio station 101.7 and this the great vine he's going to be filling in for me later on with and he's going to interview a good friend of mine.
Real good friend of mine.
named Jeff Lewis.
He's a financial literacy coach.
He's coming up.
So you guys make sure you tune in at three o'clock.
But real quick, if you are using the restroom in terms of that detoxification, make sure it floats.
Because if it goes on, you got a lot of acid inside your body.
So if it's floating, you good.
It's floating you good.
If it goes straight to the bottom, you bad.
We're going to pay these bills.
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