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And so I started to get like frustrated cuz I was so used to having energy and people tell me cuz you're getting old and I didn't buy that, thank God. And I thought to myself, what should I do? Model someone who is the best in the world? Go for immersion?
I thought, Stu, I went and looked up, he's still the best in the world. He's now almost 50. I hadn't talked to him in about 10 years. We've been busy, both of us, in different parts of the world. So, I called up Stu and said, "I want to come see you."
I came and sat down with Stu and I told him what was happening to me. And he's nodding his head like this the whole time. Like, even before I finish the sentence, he starts finishing my sentences. He goes, "This happened, right?" I said, "Yeah." He goes, "Tony, same thing happened to me." He said, "It has nothing to do with age. It has to do with your lifestyle."
He said, "You do so much good, Tony, but you also go 10, 12, 14, 18-hour days. You build so much lactic acid just because of the intensity of what you do that what's happening is the acid over the decades is starting to break your body down." And he said, "You got to cleanse your body and alkalize." I said, "I've done lots of cleanses." He goes, "Tony, most cleanses break you down." I said, "That's exactly what happens."
He said, "No, I'm sure you've heard about alkalinity, but there's a specific way to do it that's superior and I've done it. And if you want to know how effective it is, guess what I'm doing for my 50th birthday." I said, "What?" He said, "I'm going to break the record I set when I was 32." I said, "No way. You're going to run 1,000 miles in 11 days?"
He goes, "No. I'm going to run 3,000 miles. I'm going to run from San Diego to New York City across the country through Death Valley, up mountains, cold, up and down." And he said, "I'm going to break the world record by a month by running 52 miles a day, two marathons a day for 52 consecutive days." He said, "52 miles a day at 50 years old for 52 straight days?" He goes, "Yeah."
I said, "Why are you going to do this?" He goes, "I want to show people it's not age. He said, "It's what we've done to our bodies with acid. When you burn sugar, you burn a lot of acid. When you work out like a crazy person, you get lactic acid, and it builds up over the years, and it starts to break you down, and now you become sensitive to things, and now your body it's harder to lose the weight, and you run through all these things that acid is the basis of it."
And he said, "Tony, we're going to clear that acid up. I'm going to show you what I do." He laid out a whole plan. So, I took four of my friends, and I said, "Let's go do this." We went to Fiji. We spent five days together, six days together, and transformed our bodies. He told me, he said, "Tony, you will feel stronger than you did at 23." And that sounded like a bit of an exaggeration, but I can swear to you there's no question about it. I am stronger. I lift stronger weight. I can run faster, but I do this every year and a half to 2 years. I rejuvenate it. I rebuild it. I create it.