In this eye-opening episode, Joe Fier sits down with Funk Roberts—fitness coach, UFC trainer, and founder of the Over 40 Alpha community—to tackle the crucial topic of toxins and their impact on men's health and testosterone. Funk shares his personal journey navigating a toxin test with Dr. Savage, revealing surprising findings and practical strategies. The conversation weaves through actionable detox tips, the power of behavioral change, building sustainable health habits, and why community and data are game-changers for peak performance—especially for men over 40. Whether you’re looking to boost your testosterone, clean up your environment, or build new healthy routines, this episode is packed with real talk and actionable advice.

Topics Discussed

• Funk’s Toxin Test Journey: How never-before-seen results changed his perspective on health.
• Common Sources of Toxins: Plastics, heavy metals, mold, and everyday consumer products—what to watch out for.
• Real-Life Detox Strategies: The role of saunas, switching to glass containers, and reading product labels.
• Data-Driven Health Decisions: Why knowing your personal toxin profile matters more than generic advice.
• Testosterone & Toxins: How environmental toxins disrupt men’s hormones and what you can do to counteract it.
• Healthy Habit Stacking: The power of incremental change—starting small and building sustainable routines.
• Nutrition & Supplementation for Men Over 40: Protein quality, healthy fats, vital supplements, and how to organize meals for energy, recovery, and hormone support.
• Leveraging Technology: Using tools like ChatGPT for smarter label reading and toxin awareness at home.
• Community & Accountability: The importance of support systems in achieving long-term health goals.

Resources Mentioned

• Over 40 Alpha: over40alpha.com
• Funk Roberts YouTube Channel: Funk Roberts YouTube

Two Other Episodes You Should Check Out

• Breaking Down a Real Toxin Test: What You Can Learn About Your Health
• Reclaim Health: Dr. Gertrude Lyons’ Experience With Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

Connect with Us

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• Instagram: @tpeblueprint
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If pro athlete Funk Roberts, who's training literally thousands of men every

day and lives and breathes fitness and health, discovered that he has a bunch

of hidden toxins quietly disrupting his hormones and his performance.

What does that mean for the rest of us?

I mean, could toxins literally be silently holding you back too?

So let's find out.

All right, Funk.

I appreciate you for taking the time today, man.

We were doing a little chat before this man, and, uh, I think you got

a really cool story, like a little before and after all about toxins.

I mean, you've been, you've been in the fitness and the

pro athlete, the whole nine.

So how you doing today?

We'll just

I'm, I'm great.

Yeah, I'm great.

I'm excited about this.

Just, you know, a lot of, a lot of aha moments, a lot of things to change,

a lot of, you know, understandings through some of the, the talks and stuff

that, that I know about and that, you know, the tests that I went through.

But yeah, I'm excited.

I'm excited to share whatever knowledge I can and, you know,

whatever tips and strategies as well.

Well, like we invited you here because we just thought, well, for

one, like love your personality.

We've chatted before and you got to work with Dr. Savage a little bit too.

You took his toxin test like, I don't know, a couple months ago I

think, and you just were like, whoa.

You know, like just blown away with what's in you, what's, what's

lurking in your blood and plasma.

So, dunno.

I guess let's start there

Sure.

like what's on your mind and then we can dive deep into, uh, background

and then kind of some aha moments.

Yeah, so the toxin test was definitely an eyeopener.

Um, you know, I was excited about it because I wanted to know, like, I already

know that there's a lot of toxins in the air and in things that we use and, you

know, things that we store our food in.

So I kind of, you know.

But as a fitness expert and you know, you, I'm, I'm one of those

walk the walk talk the talk, but the only way to walk the walk is if you

understand what the heck's going on.

So when I got the test.

You know, instead of us.

'cause he said, you know, maybe we can uh, maybe we can do it

offline and then talk about it.

I'm like, no, no, no, no.

I want you to do it online in front of everybody so that they can see

what, you know, what, what that looks like and we can all learn together.

'cause that's really what it's all about.

Yeah, like what you're talking about now, because you have your own YouTube channel.

Very successful.

I follow along and do the workout.

Love it.

Love it.

big shout out there.

Go follow Funk

Thank you.

And of course there's more we'll talk about, but yeah.

So you actually interviewed Dr. Savage, right?

And talked about your toxin test results and he broke it down live with you.

That's what it

Yes, yes.

Sorry.

Yes.

So I have the over 40 Alpha podcast.

I also have a membership of like 15,000 men over 40, 50, 60, 70.

So this was very important because one of the key elements to my program is not

only helping men get in the shape, but also naturally increased testosterone

and toxins is a massive disruptor of the endocrine system and testosterone.

So me.

I mean, I needed to see where I'm at, let alone and not, not like I had any low T

but just understanding what toxins are affecting my health, my overall health.

So when I had him on the podcast and he went through things, some of the,

the key thing that we're talking about, the plastic, um, I all, I,

you know, BPA plastic, that was like a moderate, uh, toxin I guess.

'cause there's different levels.

High, moderate, I guess low.

That was one that was moderate.

Uh, for me.

I. Even though I know that I still need to get rid of all the plastic

food containers downstairs, but we are getting our kitchen done.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a, it's a plastics inside the food containers.

Right.

So, so, um, we are getting our kitchen done, so yes, I'm gonna move to glass, my

wife and I, but that was another, another.

Um, eye opener.

But the cool thing was he actually talked about how to detox

that, like how to fight that.

So, uh, sauna was a big thing, right?

So doing saunas.

So that's one thing that I've added, um, more frequently, frequently is saunas.

I, I'm, I'm, I'm doing this because I have a, uh, one of those sit down saunas.

Um.

Yeah, it's like the, so I work for the UFC, so whenever the fighters are, I dunno

if you guys can see it, but it's over.

It's in that corner there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, yeah, so you just kind of just open it up.

It's like a tent.

You sit in it and then you have everything and it's great.

It's a steam song and it's perfect because I can just open it up

here, but the, you know, one of the ways to get rid of toxins.

Is using that sauna along with all the other benefits that comes with it.

So that was a, that was a behavioral change from that specific episode from

him telling me that it's like, okay, so okay, let me just use that sauna

instead of it sitting there all the time.

Let's use it more and more.

Right.

Um, my, my, uh, heavy metals in the air, food, and water, so.

When he said that, that was high for me.

So I think that's called csum.

That's, uh, that's heavy metals in the air, food and water.

And so, you know, again, it's like, oh, where would that come from?

You know, and, and because toxins are everywhere, it is very difficult

to know exactly what one it was.

But just understanding, like mold, for instance, is another big one.

I had a, I had a high toxin that is associated with mold.

Um, and not just mold in the, in the walls, but.

I did have a, a water leak here, right?

So there was, so our next door neighbor had this massive water leak and it came

into our walls, it came into our carpets.

And this happened a few years back.

But, you know, like the, I guess the companies come in and they do

what they need to do, but maybe that's where a lot of the mold is.

'cause I don't eat peanuts, I don't eat cotton seed, I

don't eat, uh, a lot of dairy.

So, you know, it's, it's, it's kind of like an eye-opener to.

Okay, this, this specific toxin, which is a high toxin for liver

cancer, where is that coming from?

Right.

Where is that coming from?

So I just,

is something like

oh dude.

you know, like I have high mold as well, like

Right,

back of mind and I live in San Diego.

I'm like, it's not wet here.

right.

a lot of people are like, well, air conditioning, you

know, and things like that.

So circulated air could

Something.

Yeah.

And so like it was just.

There's tons.

I mean, I, there's so many things that we went over.

Um, but, but the point was, you know, just taking a look at the, the toxins that were

high for me and looking at, okay, what can I start to do in order to alleviate that?

'cause obviously, you're not gonna alleviate everything all at once,

but if you understand, okay, for this pesticide that I have, that's

high, that's gonna affect my nervous system, my memory, and my dementia.

What are some of the things that I can.

Do.

Oh, sulfur containing foods.

Okay, well, I didn't know that there was a ton of foods that contained sulfur.

Yeah.

So you just start to become more aware, right.

With, with more information, you become more aware.

And when you're, when you're more aware, you start to make better decisions

instead of like pushing away from it.

You're like, okay, I know that if I eat this or if I do this

specific thing, this is what's gonna happen because now I understand.

Now I, I actually understand.

Instead of somebody like I. Don't do this, don't do this.

There's a difference between someone just telling you, don't do this,

don't do this, don't do this.

And then someone telling you, oh, the reason why you shouldn't

do this is because of this and this is what it's affecting.

And maybe if you did a couple of these things, you could start to, you know,

alleviate or, or, or get results or whatever that is that you're looking at.

Um, and so, yeah, that's what this was for me.

that's, yeah, and that's what Dr. Savage talks about a lot.

It's like, know your own data.

Yeah.

that's why, yeah, like I, when I, similar story, like when I saw my toxin

test, you know, after getting it back and then doing the whole thing where

he kind of breaks it down for you and, and tells you what it all means, which,

uh, you know, is fascinating in itself.

I didn't like, just didn't even realize what kind of toxins were even out there.

Like, to the degree and just keeps increasing of

Yeah, I know.

But now it's like, I got my data, you know, like I know exactly what's in me.

So as you said, it's, it's not blanket statement.

Statements anymore.

It's

Right.

a podcast and being like, oh, I'm gonna try it all.

It's like, well, maybe there's a handful of things we're like, that really is me.

I need to target that or change that in my life.

yeah.

Because sometimes when you get all of this information, it

can be overwhelming, right?

There's a lot of information.

There was like, and so the nice thing about it was like, okay, listen, there

are some, some high levels, um, but.

In general, your, your toxin test was actually not bad.

It was pretty good.

But there's definitely some high levels you want to look into and

here are the two or three things that you want to start with.

Which was really, which really good for me.

phenols was another one, which is a estrogenic.

That's a xenoestrogen, right?

So that's another, that's a big thing like that, that affects testosterone.

Um, and that was high.

For some reason.

Right.

So I, I didn't know that had to do with charcoal and clay and glu glutathione.

So glutathione probably.

And, and so again, these are just some of the things that, okay.

I gotta look a little bit more into the consumer products because that's

the phenol portion of it, right?

So phenols, which are like, uh, our shampoos and our body washes and

all of those things when, you know, you get the general body wash or the

general shampoo, or the general soap.

Th those have phenols and those phenols have, uh,

xenoestrogens, which is estrogenic.

And the more estrogenic your body is, the less testosterone you're gonna have.

The man boobs the belly fat, and just those hormones and,

and un unbalanced hormones.

So that one was big for me because.

I know that a hundred percent, that that's what that came from

because I use just regular body wash, you know, all of that stuff.

But now I'm moving into more organic soaps and, you know, it's just

being more, uh, in, uh, uh, just in, what's the word I'm looking from?

Just being more focused on, you know, those, those, those type of things

as opposed to just like, oh, no, I'm gonna save money if I, if I, uh.

You know, if I use this, but do I want to save money or do

I wanna save my testosterone?

Like, you know what I mean?

Which is downstream of like so many other things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's easy to, I mean, that's, let's, let's be honest, it's a life we live in.

You know, it's like everything's convenience or

it's cheaper, and those are.

Unfortunately, most of the times, a lot of the times have

all this kind of stuff in 'em.

And literally just last night I was using chat GPT and using the

camera feature, you know, taking a picture of the different lotions and

bottles and shampoos in my house.

Luckily, my wife's pretty ding on it,

Right.

like there were a couple I noticed and it, it will say, you know, if you, if you

say, Hey, what are the toxins in here?

Or like, give it.

Just what you're looking for, it will do the research.

So it's kinda like a little hack for anyone listening, watching

to start using the tech that you literally have for free in your hands

I, I used it yesterday with, uh, my wife has shingles right now, so I

used that yesterday 'cause she's at a point where the itching's starting

and we have a, we have a, I know we're going on a tangent here, but this is

using the, this is using the tech.

But anyways, opened up the first aid, took a picture of and said What

things in here are good for the itchy?

Scalp for shingles, and Chad just came out with things, you know,

do this, maybe try this, you know, do not do this, do not do this.

It's like, it, it's, it was amazing that if you tried to Google it, there's

no way you're gonna get that answer.

Whereas, you know, taking that picture and, and again, it's just like you said,

you know, going to your fridge, going to the bathroom, and just taking that

picture and saying, okay, what are the things that I need to, to, to get rid of?

And what are, and what should I replace them with, right?

So that you have both, right?

What, what should I go on Amazon to order today to get rid of this, right?

Yeah.

this evening,

What, what can I do?

But, and it almost makes, I mean.

For guys.

I, I, you know, for us for, I mean, I'm sure for everybody, but that's fun for me.

Like, it's like, all right, I'm gonna, you know, go in there and I'm

gonna, I'm gonna surprise the wife.

I'm gonna take a picture and I'm gonna get rid of all the bad stuff

and I'm gonna get the good stuff.

I'm gonna order it.

I'm gonna say, Hey, guess what I did?

I did.

You know what I mean?

So, and, and it just Right.

alone Yeah, you're taking charge.

A hundred percent of, of your health.

So, um.

Yeah, making sure that you use the tech you have, but understanding

what's around you, what you're eating, uh, and what things have

toxins and what they do to the body.

Yeah, man.

And.

I, I, I want to go back to the t, you know, like

Yeah.

since you're working with men over 40, like, you got,

you got this awesome program.

I already said, you know, I follow you and

Thank you.

you put out some just epic stuff.

So thank you

Thank you.

because it's a democra graphic that needs it.

um, so toxins and

Testosterone,

I'm just like, I want you to just kind of give us what you know, you

know, what you knew before, after, maybe, maybe you short up, I know you

already dropped some knowledge here,

but I'm just thinking

it plays into peak

performance.

what you're focused on as we get older, you know, just,

Yeah.

It's, it's, it's, it's the big one that people, it's the last

thing, it's the big one that people miss, but I think it's the.

It's, it's one of those things that when you understand that,

okay, so here's the thing.

Um, testosterone to naturally increase testosterone.

There's a, there's a few pillars that you need, right?

You need nutrition, you need, uh, specific types of workouts, right?

Different types of workouts.

Uh, you need, the sleep is huge, so six to nine hour sleep, but

quality sleep, you know, two to three hours of restorative sleep.

Um, you need, uh, recovery.

So recovery, both physical recovery so you're not getting injured,

but also the mental recovery.

So.

Cortisol stress that causes your, I mean, it causes a ton of chronic health issues,

but also just T levels to decrease.

So you want to be able to manage that chronic stress that

most 40, 56-year-old men have.

But a lot of, so once you have all of those things in place, maybe some

supplementation, making sure you're getting vitamin D three and magnesium

and zinc, and all of those things.

Now I have plenty of guys in my program who are hitting.

Every one of those pillars.

Consistency, right?

Uh, and we have something called the alpha Zone inside of the program,

because I can have a, a workout program and a coaching program and a community.

But if there's no, like KP, I like, okay, Funk, how much, what

is the testosterone number that I need to, to strive for, right?

Because testosterone, just that number.

On its own, it's like, like it's between 200 and and 900 is normal like that.

Well, that makes no sense.

That makes no sense.

How can something 700 points be normal?

Like when people have two, you know, when people have testosterone levels

at 200, and I'm speaking nanograms per deciliter, that's total testosterone.

When it's 200, 300, 100, 400, 500 ish, that's low, right?

That's very 400 low.

Under is very, very low.

Are you seeing most

Most people.

in your program, assuming that you know their data, like are you

seeing more on the low side or,

A hundred percent.

It's the, every single person that comes to the program has low T. Every

single person that comes to my program pretty much has low T because they're

at the point when people join my program, they're at their lowest point.

So whether it's belly fat, chronic health issues, brought 'em in, whatever it is,

they're, when you're taking prescription drugs, that kills your T level.

So they are, they're at their lowest point.

And so now.

First getting their T levels checked, because most men don't do that.

And that's because most doctors won't do that.

So that's a whole other thing.

But when you know your numbers, then it's like, okay, well if I do

all of these things, why are what?

What's that North star?

What should I be striving for?

When do I stop?

Well, first you never stop, but it's 600.

So in my program we have what's called the alpha zone.

You have 600 nanograms per deciliter of your testan levels are higher.

And your body fat percentage is 15% or lower because that's the optimal,

uh, uh, number that testosterone production happens, right?

So now we know that's the number we get to, but there's guys in the program

who, like I said, nutrition, following the nutrition, following the workouts,

they've got everything in place and still have a little bit low testosterone.

Maybe it's that.

500, maybe it's at five 50, or they, they want to get to that 600 plus,

and then we start asking questions.

Okay, well you've got all of this in place.

What about toxins?

Right.

And that's when that, you know, is there BPA that you're using, you

know, uh, uh, uh, the, your consumer products like we talked about, right?

Do you, do you work in a, do you work in a, a place where there's toxins, right?

Maybe you work in a, in a factory or, you know what I mean?

And then, or maybe you dry trucks or you know, where there's all that

pollution and all of those things affect your testosterone, your hormones.

And so like, then, then when that starts to happen, oh, well my, maybe

my wife, uh, smokes all the time.

Okay, well that's gonna.

That's toxin, right?

Like, oh yeah, I live, you know, I work in a factory toxin, so I drive a bus.

Toxins.

Like, there's all of these things that you're like, okay, because that can be

frustrating when you know that you've maybe what started at a hundred nanograms

for deciliter, then you went up to 300, then you went up to 500 and you're,

you're there and you're doing everything right because you, because it takes

time to implement everything, right?

So now you're there and you just, you just it, you don't know you

got your sleep and everything.

And that's generally the last.

Piece of the puzzle, but that's a tough one.

'cause toxins are everywhere.

Yeah.

So when you start to ask those questions, okay, where do you work?

Let's talk that through.

Right?

What, um, you know, where, just, just asking those questions.

What, you know, you're always using plastics when Yeah.

Lifestyle.

And then, then, okay, let me try, let me, you know, try that.

Let me, you know, remove this, let, let, let me add this.

And then, you know, in the end, that could be the one thing

that pushes 'em over, right?

Um, so that's, that's, that's where the toxins piece comes in.

Um.

Because it's everywhere.

It's tough.

It's tough, man.

Uh,

tough.

It's tough to get.

escape it.

And like, you just got to realize, okay, well that's

That's the world, right?

But yeah, it's up to us to try to control, I guess, the intake of it,

Yeah.

Like, um, like filtered

Water.

Water, yes.

foods as best you can.

when we know that this is, this could be the, the tipping point or if we're,

we continuously are getting sick.

Even though our whole, we have everything healthy.

Why am I still getting sick?

Why am I still getting, you know this?

Or you know, what's going on?

Then you start to look at, okay, am I, like for me, I used to drink

outta water bottles all time.

Literally like we would have cases it on my coaching calls.

On my coaching calls, I'd have the water bottle.

Water bottle, and then, you know, the toxins started to become.

Wait, I start to educate myself on that and it's like, okay, well now we get the

water filter and then I tell 'em, all the guys gotta get your water filter,

you know, the, the, the water bottles, you know, the, the, the, exactly right.

So it's just you start making small, um, you know, changes and.

You just continuously do that.

You continue to make those small changes.

It's just not everything at once.

Just small things.

Okay?

Make that one change.

Get used to it.

Make it a habit.

Move on to the next thing.

Instead of just trying to like, okay, I did this, I did this.

Let's just hold on a second.

Just let's start with the water bottles.

Okay, let's get rid.

That's gonna be tough to get rid of just to begin with because all

you do is drink out a water bottle.

So let's.

Start, give us a month.

Okay?

That's what I usually say to people.

I usually tell people, listen, when you change something, we're

gonna do it for a month, right?

Because some people want quick change to deny.

You're not gonna get quick change.

Second thing you want to build, uh, a new behavior, a new habit.

So you have to break that old habit and start building a new one.

And that takes time.

And it also gives you a little bit of grace, right?

Like, I don't have to get this right off the bat.

I don't have to be perfect.

I can just, okay.

I can ease my way in.

Yes.

I'm gonna probably have a bottle of water.

Oh yeah.

I'm not supposed to have this water.

Okay.

I'm not gonna beat myself up.

I still got 27 days left.

I, you know, I, so it's like, it's like, it's like that's.

A great way to implement new behaviors, new things get used to that.

Make it a habit where you don't even think about it anymore.

Okay, now what's the next thing I can stack?

Right?

And that,

to how like, I'm just imagining 'cause Yeah, it's, I've never thought of it this

way, but it's behavior change with toxins, but it's just like diet or dieting.

You know, if someone's trying to lose weight or

hmm.

you know, focus on testosterone, whatever the goal is really, like,

there's always like, okay, what are the contributing factors?

What can I control?

Right.

Totally.

it has to be in layers.

Like you can't just assume you're gonna be able gangbusters

day one and stick with it.

'cause we're human,

Yeah, for sure.

And that's, and that's generally what happens with workout programs.

So, you know, generally with workout programs, people get excited.

First thing they do is they get to the workouts and they

diet or the nutrition, right?

And they just go.

Ham on it, right?

Okay, I gotta work out more, I gotta do more, I gotta do more.

But that's not sustainable and you're not really taking in the behavior, you

know, and the mindset actually you gotta, you gotta get the right mindset as well.

But yeah, you're right about about stacking things because the way I

have my program, because the workouts are follow along, they don't really

have to worry about the workouts.

They just have to show up and click that button and then they're

working out with me, right?

So I try to take that away.

In regards to the habit, you know what I mean?

Like I try to give them the ability to just say, okay, all I have to do

is click play and I'm working out with the re here and we're good.

The nutrition takes a little bit more time.

So when someone comes in, I give them a 90 day kind of period.

I say, okay, stick in here for 90 days.

That's when you're gonna see the biggest difference.

'cause again, most people want that immediate, oh, I've been here for 30 days.

How come I haven't seen a massive difference?

They do see a difference.

They do feel a difference.

But that 90 days, and by the time they get to 90 days.

They've, they know the nutrition, they know the, you know, the workouts.

Obviously they've implemented like yoga and mobility, because

that's foreign to most men over 40.

Right.

And it's difficult.

in

Yeah.

It's, and it's difficult.

So that's something new.

Um, and just everything else that goes along the community, all of that stuff.

So 90 days for a workout program, uh, is, is, is realistic.

Like you have to commit to that.

Uh, and, and same thing with anything, just committing to.

One specific part of whatever you want to change and, uh, taking the

time to, to, to get that new behavior.

Uh, like you said, it's a commitment, so it's

Yeah.

it's, and that's how I see toxins and luckily, like I mentioned, my wife has

been great with this for a long time, and

Yeah.

now working closer with Dr. Savage and, and getting my own toxin

test and just my eyes are open and that's like suggest everyone to

just do the same in your own way.

It's like then you start to have more of that commitment, at least to yourself.

Whatever the self-worth side of things, like however you want

to approach it, but it's like,

Yeah.

okay, I can't really ignore it now.

Yeah, because you know.

how do I commit to me, you know, and, do it in a sustainable way.

Like I got a calendar here with three months, actually.

Ironically, I'm like, there you go.

90 days just like, check it off, you know, blah boom.

Amazon.

It's an easy buy.

Yeah.

And I like that you, you, your wife, like the two of you are committed.

Because that's the same with Angela and I we're like committed to, you know, like we

have to catch each other sometimes, right?

Like, Hey man, we said that we were gonna do this.

Let's, okay, you're right, let's go.

Right?

So that, so it is, it is much easier when you have that, that you know that, that.

Buddy or, or wife or whatever.

yeah,

which is why it's also good to get into a community or you know, a place where

other people are tackling the same thing.

Um, because that helps too.

You know, when, when everyone's on the same journey, that that

collective identity is much, much better, keeps you going, keeps you

accountable, and everyone, you know, everyone understands each other.

Like if we're all trying to get rid of, you know, plastics.

Right.

And we're all in a place where we're all got, you know, high plastic toxin.

We all know, okay guys, let's, okay, what are we doing?

Okay, we gotta do our infrared, we gotta do our sauna three times a week.

Okay?

That's the behavior to help get rid of this.

Hey Jimmy, I saw that you, uh, you posted a picture with, uh, you know, plastic.

Let's get rid of that plastic.

You know what I mean?

So we're all,

Yeah.

you're right.

Funk.

You're right.

I gotta get rid of a blasting.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, where do I get this?

Where?

So when you're all on that same journey, it makes it much easy.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

and, and even just, you just feel like you're a part of something where we're

all trying to get healthy, but we all understand the, the, the battle, right.

So we're doing it together.

we're all in it,

Yeah, totally.

escaping the toxins.

So, and like, yeah, and, and whatever mo mode you can do, you know, like

obviously we're talking about, sometimes we talk about TPE on

here with some of the docs as well.

yeah.

That's a whole different program in itself.

Like go check it out.

And there's cool episodes here, but there's a lot of

stuff you could do in-house,

Yeah.

yourself, lifestyle changes that are

Mm

very important.

And, um, I was thinking like, just to kind of wrap it up here, Funk,

sure.

wins for like, I. Uh, diet or supplementation?

Like anything that you think that we're, you know, like what, what

do you kind of recommend folks now with this whole thought of, you

know, hey, let's eliminate toxins.

So it's like, I'm thinking of like protein.

If there's

Yeah.

Yeah.

anything on the diet side, you think would be good here.

I think the diet side's important because a lot of the toxins also come

from the foods that we eat, right?

Um, so if we can eliminate the crappy foods and focus on the good

foods, so what does that mean?

So if we go into the, in that portion, so for, for.

For those listening, I try to make it very simple.

It's three meals a day.

Each meal has a source of protein, high quality protein, so grass fed instead

of, you know, grain fed if possible.

So when it comes to the foods, you're kind of moving more into the organic

and grass fed and well caught, because that's just gonna be a much.

Better, uh, safer, uh, food from toxins or what have you.

So, uh, protein, high quality protein, uh, you want a complex carb.

What, that's one thing that most people miss.

They don't eat carbs.

It's not simple carbs, not the pastas and the, you know, the

chocolate and all that stuff.

Um, you want to have a healthy fat, because healthy fats

specifically if, if you're a man.

Has cholesterol, and cholesterol is a precursor to testosterone.

So healthy fats like avocado and um, you know, olive oil and grass fed

butter, like those are Brazil nuts.

Um, when we go, and by, by the way, with carbs, I'm talking about, uh,

sweet potato, jasmine, rice, quinoa.

Steel cut oats.

Uh, and then when we move into the vegetables and fruits, like we've gotta

be eating more vegetables and fruits.

We don't eat enough.

And the more organic you can go, the better it is because the broccoli

that we eat today is not the same broccoli that we ate 30 years ago.

Right.

The, I mean, it's just not even close to the nutrients.

And so because we don't get as many nutrients from our foods,

we do have to supplement.

So good high quality whey protein, um, grass fed whey protein.

I mean, I actually created my own protein powder.

Really?

I

yeah.

Oh yeah.

We did that.

The um, alpha, alpha Lean Pro and I created that like six years

ago because there was no protein.

And probably to this day there probably still isn't much, uh, out there.

That's healthy.

Most protein has have, um, I. Soy, they have, uh, sugar, um, you know, they,

they, they've got, uh, hormones and so when you go with a cleaner protein, grass

fed, um, you know, just, just very clean.

Doesn't have any of, of that, all that extra fillers in there.

Um.

I'm also lactose intolerant, so I built one that's lactose free, but you want whey

protein because that's the highest quality of protein on the biological scale.

It's, it's whey protein.

And protein powders are important because we do need protein in most

men or most people in general, women who don't eat enough protein.

So getting it through a shake, which is with water after a workout.

I, I like to put it in my steel cut os in the morning, so I'll have

steel cut os big scoop of protein.

Tons of berries and then, um, you know, almond butter and that, that's the all.

so you're getting like the fat and the fiber all in there as

Everything we're getting fats, carbs, proteins, and, and the fruits

because of the berries, right?

right.

Yeah.

so you want a nice high quality protein and, and invest in that because you're

gonna be using that protein quite a bit and you do not want to be using

protein that's just not, not as healthy.

You also want, uh, vitamin D three.

That's another, I mean, we've learned just from, you know, COVID and all of

that stuff, how important vitamin D is.

For our overall, um, health,

Mm-hmm.

our immune, because our immune also helps us fight toxins and,

uh, we're mostly deficient, right?

That was that big thing that came out.

So vitamin D three, magnesium omega threes.

So kind of like there's a, those, those zinc, those are kind of the ones that

you want to make sure that you have.

Don't shy away from supplements because.

Again, the foods aren't the quality that they used to, so we need to supplement

that with, uh, supplements, right?

With vitamins, minerals, and the things that we're not getting

from the foods that we're eating.

and what you listed there, it seems like a pretty across the board for the most part.

Like

Yeah.

It's everybody.

Yeah.

Like even my, my, my, my sister-in-law, she eats the exact

same way, three meals a day,

yeah.

No snacking.

So three meals.

A source of protein, source of healthy fat, source of vegetable or fruit, and

a source of complex carbs on that plate.

So what if you just should be able to pick it out?

Cool.

I got it all.

Let's eat right.

It's, and because you're eating carbs, you're not gonna have to snack, right?

You don't, you don't need to snack in between because you're getting

enough carbs, which is important for the thyroid, which is important,

important for fat burning metabolism.

But that's another, that's another, uh, that's another episode.

That's another episode.

if you can, if you can eliminate snacking.

Yeah.

I

All good, huge.

body weight or whatever it is, you know,

Yeah.

like

Yeah,

and down, right?

You're just making your body work and never, metabolizing

exactly.

so,

Yeah.

well, Funk, I mean, dude, you load of information.

I wanna like do a whole, you know, extract some notes.

We might do that.

Start to do that in these,

Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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It's been, it's awesome.

Always awesome chatting

Thanks man.

thank you.

Yeah.

I appreciate you so much.

Appreciate you too.

Thanks so much.