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The presentation that I'm going to share with you today is all about this right here. Uh, why doctors, conventional doctors, got it wrong and why I believe sugar is not the cause of obesity, metabolic syndrome, something else is. And you know what's interesting?
When I was in college, I was about to graduate my two-year degree. And in order to graduate my two-year degree, I had to pass speech class. Anybody remember speech class in college? Oh, yeah. The requirement to pass on the last day of school was to present in front of my, I don't know, 15 classmates for 10 minutes on a topic. I didn't want to do it. I was freaking out. I pulled my professor out of the room and said, "I can't do this. They're going to judge me. I can't speak in front of people." And he told me what he should have said. "Face your fears. We got you. Nobody's going to make fun of you." You know what I did next? I said, "I got to go to the bathroom." And never came back to class. And now here I am with you today. I literally dropped out of college because I didn't do that. It's just crazy how things become full circle.
I'm going to start with some stats that are going to be alarming and shocking to maybe some of you, and then we're going to do some drawings together here, and I can guarantee a large percentage of this presentation will be unlike anything you've come across before. So let's get started. These are stats according to the CDC and cancer.org.org. Let's, let's start with the first one here. I'm going to use the pointer the other way right there. Okay.
One out of three women are diagnosed with cancer according to the CDC. And for men, it's one and two in their lifetime. 60% of Americans are what they consider pre-diabetic or diabetic. Get this stat. By the year 2032, they're projecting that one in two children will be born on the autism spectrum. When we think about heart disease, number one killer in the United States, one person dies from heart disease every 33 seconds. I've been on here for a couple of minutes. Already four or five people have died from heart disease in the US. And in the US, we spend $4.6 trillion dollars on healthcare every single year. If that was a GDP, that would be the fourth largest GDP in the entire world. Okay, we spend that much, we must be a very healthy country, right? Top five. Got to be top 10, 20, 30, or 37 in the world. And what's interesting about that, that amount of healthcare spend, $4.6 trillion, one out of every $4 is spent on diabetes, primarily type two, which is 100% preventable and 100% reversible.
And get this, only two countries in the entire world allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise on TV. Just two. New Zealand and the United States. Because nothing says healthy democracy like a TV commercial that starts out with, "Ask your doctor if this pill is right for you." And these commercials are ridiculous. You've seen them. They're absolutely ridiculous. "Do you suffer from giant head syndrome? Is your head so big it's technically its own zip code? Try Deflatics. The only pill guaranteed to take you from Fred Flintstone to normal human proportions. Deflatics. Finally, a hat that fits." What about gas and bloating? Now, don't you dare change your diet. Try Explodics. Explodics works to instantly clear the room, the building, and possibly the entire zip code. Explodics. Turning every bathroom break into a hazmat operation. But guys, Phyllis, this is where it gets personal. Man, is your erectile dysfunction keeping you down? Don't jump. Try Mount Everhard. The only pill strong enough to turn your bedroom into a national park. Mount Everheart. Your new safe word is avalanche. But my favorite part of all these commercials, the side effects. Side effects may include cancer, emphysema, heart attack, stroke, and sudden death. Those are not side effects. That's an obituary. It's absolutely insane what we see. We've been brainwashed, but we're in this organization, in this group, because we need to unlearn and then relearn.
Any doctors in the room here? Raise your hand if you're a doctor in the room. All right. Not a lot of doctors. That's actually a good thing because doctors need to unlearn and relearn a lot of the things they've been taught. I'm not a doctor either. And one of the things that's really alarming is obesity. Harvard is saying by the year 2030, that's just in a few years from now, 50% of the entire population will be obese. And most people believe it's genetics. As a matter of fact, there was a government official that came on 60 Minutes that shared that notion. If you diet, you lose weight, right? The number one cause of obesity is genetics. That means if you are born to parents that have obesity, you have a 50 to 85% likelihood of having the disease yourself, even with optimal diet, exercise, sleep management, stress management. So when people see families that have obesity, the assumption is, what are they feeding those kids? Okay, if, if she's right, let's just pretend she's correct. It's strictly genetics. That would mean in the 1930s, when we looked at obesity rates, we saw that there were 5% or less. Right now, it's around 42%. It's about to be 50%. Our genetics don't change that fast. Yeah, it's lifestyle. But yet, when you tell people it's strictly genetics, it kind of takes the ownership and responsibility out of that person, right? Just take this, take Ozempic, or do this gastric bypass surgery, or do something extreme. But that's not the truth.
And you know, South Park, they got some things right. And many years ago, they nailed it with the food pyramid. Check this out. Sometimes they get it right. Ain't the truth. A lot of what we've been told when it comes to our nutritional guidelines is the complete opposite. That's a perfect example right there. And what I've learned over the years is that it's not really your fault. Or we have friends and family that are unhealthy. In some ways, it's not their fault because of the information, the brainwashing. But it is our responsibility, and there's a difference there. And you know, for me, 17 years ago, when I was obese, physically, mentally, I was suicidal, was wanting to give up on life. Uh, my intro video kind of shared a little bit about that. But this, these are some photos of me, um, when I was 23 years old and then 24 years old. But one of the things that changed for me was was taking personal responsibility. I remember reading books from Dr. Wayne Dyer. Anybody know Dr. Wayne Dyer? Yeah. He's incredible and he's passed on now. And he, he would describe the word responsibility like I've never heard it before. I was 23 years old. Of course, I heard the word before, but I didn't get it. He said, "Responsibility is your ability to respond to life. If your ability to respond to life is poor, like you're the victim, it's your genetics, it's your enabling family members, then you're going to get poor results. But if you take ownership and responsibility and you, your ability to respond to life is great, you're going to get great results." So for me, once I said that, everything changed for me. It was, it was this, my, my whole body shifted into ownership and responsibility.
So what I want to do with you right now is we're going to shout those words out loud together. "I am responsible." And I know you already are showing that by being here, but I think it's important to declare that together. So on the count of three, we're going to say those three words out loud, and we're going to say it like we mean it. And if you don't, we'll do it again. One, two, three. "I am responsible." Wow, y'all nailed it. Doesn't that feel good? That's the first step towards great change.
And when it comes to disease, when it comes to symptoms, when it comes to why people don't feel well, it has to do with cellular inflammation. Okay, this is where we're going to go to the, the chart here, and you could take the, uh, slides off the screen and show me so we could make sure everybody sees it. Now, if you have a pen and paper, you could draw along with me. And if you don't, that's totally fine. I want to make sure everybody sees this. Okay, cool. I'm on the screen. So, if you can't see it, I'm on the screen. So, what we're going to do here, we're going to draw a cell. So, if you have a piece of paper and if you want to draw with me, great. If you just want to watch me, that's also great. But this is a cell. We have about 50 to 70 trillion cells inside of the body. Inside of your cells, of course, you have your DNA nucleus. And I'm not the best, uh, artist here, but that's a DNA nucleus. You also have these little bacteria that Caroline Allen and B mineral support, the mitochondria. There's thousands to hundreds of thousands of mitochondria in a single cell. They produce ATP, energy currency. Every cell has a membrane around it, a lipid membrane. It's a fatty membrane. It's called the cell membrane. It's actually where the intelligence is to your cells. And what's really cool about your cells is that you have these little antennas that are called cell receptor sites. So I'm drawing four. There's about 30,000 on a single cell.
So this is how your body works. This is how metabolism works when we have, uh, nutrition. So I'm going to put the word nutrition here. You could write it with me. Nutrition, if you're writing and drawing this out. We have oxygen and then we have hormones. All of these are what's considered substrates, energy sources for your cells. So they send signals to your cells. You have hormones, you have nutrients, you have oxygen. The receptor sites pick it up and the cells produce energy. The cells burn fat. The mitochondria produce energy.
Now, it's true, you can't change the genes you're born with. If you have cancer that runs in the family, or diabetes, or heart disease, you got those genes. You can't change it. But you can change the expression of those genes. Epigenetics and lifestyle is what turns on genes or turns off genes. You may have, may not heard the old quote, "Genes load the gun. Lifestyle pulls the trigger." So, the body was designed so incredible. God has designed the body to be incredible, incredible, um, metabolism. But there's one thing that blocks this human body from performing its job and creating symptoms. And that one thing is called inflammation. And when I talk about inflammation, I'm referring to cellular membrane inflammation. This is chronic inflammation. Different than if you sprain your ankle or have a sore shoulder. That's acute inflammation. Cell membrane inflammation is chronic. Now you have these receptor sites that are blocked. So hormones, including testosterone, leptin, estrogen, I mean, there's over 600 hormones. They need to connect. You need to hear the message. It needs to get into the cell. When you have cell inflammation, that message is not getting in efficiently. Same thing with oxygen, same thing with nutrients, from nutrition or from supplementation.
So, what happens next is this amazing human body is going to show you a symptom. So, I want you all to shout out what are some of the most common symptoms that people are dealing with? Pain. What else? Fatigue. Pain. Fatigue. Keep going. Gut health. What else? Mother-in-laws. [Applause] Okay, so sleep, obesity. Okay, so you, I could go on. We could be here for hours listing symptoms. Let me ask you this. Is this the problem down here, the symptom, or is this the problem at the cell level? The cell level. Mainstream wisdom, conventional medicine is focused on this, the symptom. One of the things that I'm, I always say I talk about in my book, uh, Metabolic Freedom, is that weight gain, obesity, being overweight, insulin resistance, there's a lot of people I work with, and I imagine you guys do as well. Nobody has a weight problem. It's a weight symptom. So, for example, focusing on just calories in versus versus calories out is focusing on the symptom. When you take care of the cause, get healthy, lower cell inflammation, the symptoms go away by default. But the symptoms are actually a gift. It's your body's check engine light. I'm actually grateful when I have a symptom because it's showing me, "Hey, Ben, something you ate, something you're thinking, something in your environment. It's taking your body out of homeostasis. It's creating cell inflammation." So, I will show you a symptom to pay attention and correct, course correct. So, we need to look at those symptoms as a gift.
So, I'm going to focus on a few of the things I believe cause the most amount of cell inflammation. So, we can put the slides back up and I'll show you what I believe is probably the biggest thing here. The first thing is going to be industrial seed oils. They're in 80% of our food supply. And as you can see here, in the early 1900s, there were barely any production of it worldwide. In 2019, this goes until 2019, there's a dramatic increase in vegetable oils and seed oils. And let me just show you an example of one of those oils, canola oil, and how it's actually made. Check this out.
The seeds enter a roller mill. A conveyor then feeds the flakes into a screw press. Its threads squeeze the flakes with high pressure, forcing out the oil, which then drains out through the slots. 42% of canola seed is oil. This screw press extracts nearly three-quarters of that. The remainder is still trapped in the pressed flakes, now referred to as canola cake. The cake exits the other end of the press and moves on to a second extraction. [Music] A 70-minute wash with a solvent. This chemical extraction process removes all but a trace of oil. The factory then grinds the cake into protein-rich meal, which it sells as animal feed. The extracted oil, stored in large tanks, now enters the refining phase. First, they wash the oil for 20 minutes with sodium hydroxide. They spin the oil at high speed so that the centrifugal force separates the natural impurities, which the factory later sells to soap manufacturers. After this cleaning process, the canola oil is visibly clearer. However, it still contains natural waxes which make it look cloudy. So, the next step is to cool the oil to 5 degrees. This thickens those waxes so they can be filtered out. The waxes don't go to waste either. The factory uses them to produce vegetable shortening. In the factory's lab, technicians recreate production on a small scale to ensure performance and quality. After washing and filtering the oil, they bleach it to lighten the color, then use a steam injection heating process to remove the canola odor. The oil is now fully refined.
What a process, huh? That video is actually longer. I just cut it down for the presentation's sake. You know how you make olive oil? You just crush the olives. That's it. So, canola oil is one of those oils. There's, uh, about eight of them. And there's some gifts that you have in your desk that I'll talk about in a second. But it's important to understand this. This is from chapter, uh, four in my, my book, Metabolic Freedom. Dietary fatty acids incorporate into your cell membranes. Remember, we were just talking about how important the membranes are through a process called lipid membrane reorganization. And it happens in hours. Meaning, when you eat these bad fats, within hours, they will be embedded into your cell membranes, your mitochondrial membranes, creating inflammation. And you might think, "Okay, Ben, it's, what's the big deal? All right, damage is done. My body will get rid of these bad fats in the next few hours or few days." Well, it takes a lot longer than that. And I'll share that in a second. But this is showing that when these fries that are cooked in vegetable oil are analyzed by a toxicologist, it was reviewing the aldehydes that were produced. And it showed essentially this, a large order of McDonald's French fries, or you could say any French fries cooked in vegetable oil, contains the same amount of carcinogens, toxins, as 25 tobacco cigarettes smoked. In other words, one French fry cooked in vegetable oil is a tobacco cigarette smoked in terms of the aldehydes that are produced. Again, you might think, "Okay, my body could get rid of them in, in, in weeks through detoxification." Well, not so fast. This is showing the half-life, meaning after 680 days, half of these bad fats will still remain around your cell membranes. And in six years, about 95% of them will be removed. So they stay in your body for a very long time.
Here is the list of the ones we want to avoid and remove. I'm going to read them out loud because this is being recorded to go on YouTube. So we have canola, rapeseed, it's called rapeseed oil in the UK, corn, soybean, cottonseed, safflower, refined peanut, sunflower, grapeseed, rice bran, most fish oil. These are called polyunsaturated fatty acids. They're very unstable and they're in 80% of our food supply. The ones on the left actually lower cell membrane inflammation. They're the building blocks for the membrane and they're called saturated fats and monounsaturated fats. We have olive oil, avocado oil, those are going to be mono. Then we have co, um, saturated fats like duck fat, ghee, butter, lard, coconut oil, and beef tallow. Those are great to cook with. And, and here's something that's crazy. When I was a kid, I was obese. You saw some photos. I wasn't chunky. I wasn't husky. I was, I was freaking fat. And guess where my mom worked? Kentucky Fried Chicken. I swear to God, that's like a cocaine addict's mother working for a Colombian drug cartel. Can you imagine? Not good. She'd come home after work and I would scream, "Here comes the Colonel." And she would hand over a bucket of fried chicken. I would devour it like a feeding frenzy. And sometimes she'd come home without any food. And those were dark days. Very dark days. And I'd scream to my mom, "Mom, what the heck? Where's my chicken?" You know what she said to me? She said, "Ben, they're still frying in the same oil." And I'm like, "So what?" And she'd say, "No, you don't get it. The oil is supposed to be crystal clear. This oil is pitch black. It's been 14 days frying in the same oil. It looks like motor oil." And I didn't understand that. I'm just like, "Okay, but where the hell is my damn chicken?"
I say all this because when you go to restaurants, and most of them are going to cook in vegetable oils, you have no idea if they've been re-frying in those oils over and over and over for maybe 14 days. So all of you should have in front of you this. Do, does everybody have this in front of them? The seed oil card. We should have passed it out. Yeah. Okay. This is what I use at restaurants. I've been using it for years. My entire community uses it for years. And it, you literally just show this to the server. It makes it easy for them. It makes it easy for you. And it says, "Dear Chef, I have food allergies to vegetable oils. I must avoid the oils marked in in red X's, and then the other ones are safe." And this works like a charm. So I want you to use it. You have it in front of you here, those seed oil cards. And you might think that's a little extreme and neurotic, Ben, but remember, 680 days is the half-life for these fats. So you could use them or not, but that's my gift to you. Uh, after this keynote, I'm going to be doing a book signing with the, um, some of the other speakers for the VIP members. My book is called, uh, Metabolic Freedom. Anybody read the book or listened to the book yet? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I know Angela, who I met. Is Angela here? Yeah, there she is. I met her yesterday. She was listening to it when I walked into the restaurant. I love it. We just came out with this book in May. It's a New York Times bestseller. Uh, it's all about the metabolism 30-day plan. Uh, Dr. Mindy Pelz wrote the foreword. We have an entire course that we built out on the metabolism that we're giving away for free for anybody who gets the book, um, through that QR code, or if you text BOOK to 7863965359. There's like 12 lessons in the metabolism you get for free. Interviews with Dr. Jason Fung, Gary Brecka, Megan Ramos, Dr. Daniel Amen, the GOAT in the space, um, and a few others in there. So you get that for free if you just go there, or it's metabolicfreedbook.com. But for those of you that are VIP, we're going to do a book signing right after this.
Okay, now this is my favorite part. Chapter 10 of my book talks about this. How your thoughts influence your health and your metabolism. This is good stuff here. Dr. Bruce Lipton has proven, he's a world-renowned cell biologist, that your, that your thoughts, he's proven that your thoughts are a frequency. So, we could put thoughts right here. Your thoughts are a frequency that have the ability, and you could take me off if you could take the slides off and put me on there. Your thoughts have the ability to penetrate the cell membrane and communicate with that DNA nucleus, your thoughts. And he's showed that in research. It's not just woo-woo. And what he's seen is that if your thoughts are hateful thoughts, angry thoughts, bitter thoughts, resentful thoughts, the signal that's sent to your DNA creates inflammatory processes within the cell where it creates inflammatory proteins. Your telomeres that protect your cells are shortened, and then your DNA gets damaged. So essentially, a bad thought shortens your life. Compound that over thousands of bad thoughts, you're creating inflammation in your body with a single thought. Now, the opposite is true. If it's a healthy thought, loving thought, abundant thought, grateful thought, same signal sent, but now it's creating anti-inflammatory proteins where your body's lowering inflammation and protecting your DNA.
You can put the slides back up. That's pretty cool. And guess what? The average person has 60,000 thoughts every day. It's a lot of thoughts. And they estimate that 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts from yesterday, and 85% of them are negative. Stinking thinking, as Zig Ziglar used to say. And if you have 60,000 thoughts a day and those thoughts are communicating with your DNA, I think, no pun intended, the greatest biohack in the world is that your thoughts could literally shape your DNA and change your life. You have 60,000 opportunities every day to do that, either inflammatory or anti-inflammatory.
But here's the thing. Just because you have your thoughts, if you can put the slides back on. Just because you have thoughts, which is mental activity, doesn't mean you're actually thinking. There's a difference. I'm going to make the case here. Let me ask you this. How many, raise your hand if you talk to yourself every day. How many of you talk to yourself every day? Keep it up. Keep it up. Okay. Now, you can put it down. There were a couple of you who didn't raise your hand. You're thinking, "Do I talk to myself?" Oh, yeah. He's right. Here. I'm talking to myself. But just because you're having thoughts doesn't mean you're thinking. We want to actually think. All right. What's, what do I mean by that? All right. Here's the example. You see the word on the screen? Silk. We're going to say that word out loud five times. Silk. Silk. Five times. As soon as we say it out loud five times, I'm going to ask you a question. You're going to shout out as fast as possible the answer to the question. Make sense? You ready for it? On the count of three. Silk. One, two, three. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. What do cows drink? Who said milk? Raise your hand. All right. They drink water. They produce milk. Just a silly example to show you. Sometimes we're just not thinking. Hey, I got caught, too. Don't worry about it. You're not alone. You know, George Bernard Shaw said, "2% of the population actually think. 3% they think they think. And 95% of people would rather die than think." I'm inclined to agree with it.
How many of you know Dr. Emoto's book, Hidden Messages in Water? Anybody know that book? Caroline does. Okay, back here. So this is a study done by a doctor who, uh, did some research on the structure of water. And what he essentially did is he would write a word on a piece of paper next to a body of water, a word like "love and gratitude" or "you disgust me," and then he would use this high-speed photography to see if the crystals of the water change shape based off of the word next to it. And it did. "Love and gratitude" shaped it into this beautiful crystal. Look what "you disgust me" did. Isn't that crazy? You might be thinking, "All right, man. Cool. What does that have to do with me?" Well, your human body is 70% water, at least. Those 60,000 thoughts you're having are literally changing the structures within your cells every single second.
And we've heard of the placebo effect. When you think you're going to get a positive outcome, you get it because they told you you were going to get it. There's also the nocebo effect. And this is a true story. In the 1970s, there was an entire stadium just like this in a soccer game, a football game in California. Two people, opposite ends of the stadium, get really sick. They start throwing up. They both go to the medical unit on the facility, and they're really sick. The doctor's trying to figure out why are these two people so sick? They didn't come together. The only thing they had in common when he was asking them a series of questions is that they both drank from the soda dispensing machines. So the doctor thought, "Oh, that must be it. There must be copper, heavy metal, something going through the soda machines. I need to let this entire stadium know they should not drink from the soda machine." So he goes on the PA system, "Attention, we have two people that are really sick. They are throwing up. They got sick from the soda machine. So I advise everybody to stop drinking. Do not drink from this soda machine." What do you think happened next? The entire stadium starts throwing up. Ambulances are coming to the stadium, taking people to the hospital. People that didn't even drink from the soda machine were throwing up. And hours later, they've investigated the soda machine. There was nothing wrong with it. They gave that information to the folks over at the hospital that were sick. They stopped being sick. Right? That's the nocebo effect. Your thoughts are very powerful.
And what I've learned over the years is this is the most powerful lesson that I've learned in my entire life. And it's called paradigms. Anybody know Bob Proctor in this room? Raise your hand if you know Bob Proctor. Keep it up. Okay. Bob Proctor is the GOAT of self-development. Look him up. And he has taught on paradigms more than anybody else. He's passed on now, but his work is great. But here's how it works. We have a self-image. It's how we view ourselves, how we see ourselves, not at a conscious level, but at a subconscious level. And you cannot outperform the way you view yourself at a subconscious level. There was a book that came out in the 1950s called Psychocybernetics, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, plastic surgeon. And he found out that when he performed surgery on individuals who had really severe facial deformities, a large percentage of them, nothing changed in their life. Their face was completely changed, but they, their self-image was with that deformity, and they were still unhappy, unhealthy, depressed, suicidal until he changed their self-image.
Okay, how does this relate to us? In my space here and in your space here, we have people that are identifying as an overweight person, an obese person. That's, that was me for a long period of time. So, let's say that person decides to go on a diet. They make a conscious decision. "I'm going to do keto. I'm going to do fasting. I'm going to do whatever it is." They move into action. They start to lose weight because they're, whatever, cutting calories, exercising more. But something happens a few weeks or months in. I'm sure all of you can relate to this here. The weight that was lost is now found. When a person who's overweight goes on a diet without altering their self-image, any weight that was lost will be temporary. The self-image will correct itself. It's called a cybernetic instrument. All right. What does that mean? An airplane. I flew here from Miami. Many, who, who flew in here for the event? Oh, that's awesome. First of all, give yourselves a round of applause. That's awesome. That's really, really cool. So, I flew in from Miami with my beautiful fiancée over there, Natasha. And when you go on an airplane, the autopilot is a, a cybernetic instrument, meaning the pilot sets autopilot, the pilot set autopilot, and whenever the plane hits turbulence or goes off course, the, uh, autopilot course corrects and continues to help them get to their destination. The pilots could essentially go hang out with you and eat dinner with you if they needed to. The plane will fly itself. Glad they don't do that. But they could do that. Same thing with us. If the self-image is not changed, this is what I see. We want to lose weight and then we course correct by binge eating or going back to our old ways, sabotaging ourselves. And this is relating to every area of life. Not just weight loss, not just health, but there's a financial lid we have on ourselves. There's a relationship lid. There's something that's limiting us at a subconscious level. And what I learned is that you cannot escape a prison if you don't know you're in one. And a lot of us are in a mental prison. A lot of our friends and clients are in a mental prison. And the chains are unlocked. The door is wide open.
So you might want to want you might be asking or thinking, what, how do you change a self-image? Only two ways. That's it. An emotional impact or constant space repetition. An emotional impact, nine times out of 10, is negative. It's unexpected. It's a, give you an example what that is. A cancer diagnosis, a near-death experience, the loss of a loved one. That's an emotional impact. It'll change the way you think. Have any of you gone through something like that before? I have. Ideally, that's not what we want to do because a lot of pain involved. So, the other option is repetition. That's the way it was built. That's how you know your name. If I was born and my mom told me, "Your name is Ben." And she only said it once and she goes, "Your name is Ben. Don't you ever forget it." She had to say it over and over and over, and then she said, "Ben, and that's me, Ben." Same thing for you. It's the repetition. So what has built your self-image is all that repetition. So we need to replace that with the new idea. Now, some of you that are left-brainers in this room are going to be thinking, "This is bogus. Get, where is the science to back this up?" Because this is going to get a little woo-woo, but I'm telling you, there's science to back it up. And I'm going to show you the research, too. But affirmations are this constant space repetition. This is the affirmation that I have in the book that I give to my clients to change their weight loss, their overweight person self-image. "I'm so happy and grateful now that I'm at my perfect weight. I'm looking good. I'm feeling great. The perfect health I seek is now seeking me. I've removed any blockages between us." You know, if somebody reads, somebody who has an image of an overweight person reads that for 30 days, they will change their life. That's enough time to replace the old image. And I tell people, you may be skeptical of this. I get it. But if your way is not working, try mine. Do it for 30 days. 30 days. And this could be a financial one affirmation. This could be whatever you're looking to improve in your life to change in the self-image. And I'll give you some studies to back this up. Dr. Ellen Langer, Harvard psychologist, 1981. She had her graduate students take this entire building and dress it up as if it was 22 years in the past. And she had eight men in their 70s live there for five days. And they were asked to act as if they were 22 years younger. They were pretending. So they didn't have any assistance. They had to pick heavy things up for those five days. By the end of the study, the men showed improvements in hearing, eyesight, memory, dexterity, and appetite. Those who needed canes walked without them, and all participants displayed increased independence and vitality. Super cool.
Now, what determines that self-image? What determines your thoughts is your environment. That's why I love being in this environment because this is like a, a boost for all the things you're trying to accomplish in life. But your environment determines that. And here's an illustration and how, of how your environment molds you. Check this out.
Training fleas requires a glass jar with a lid. The fleas are placed inside the jar and the lid is then sealed. They are left undisturbed for three days. When the jar is opened, the fleas will not jump out. The fleas will never jump higher than the level set by the lid. Their behavior is now set for the rest of their lives. When these fleas reproduce, their offspring will automatically follow their example. Their offspring did the same thing. You know, all of this is going on right here in the subconscious mind.
There was an author from the late 19, no, mid-1950s, Neville Goddard. Neville Goddard, he said, "We are only limited by weakness of attention and poverty of imagination." So when we think about weakness of attention, we think about social media, mainstream news, family TV. We're being distracted. So, I'm going to show you a little video here to test your, your focus and attention. Some of you have seen this, maybe you have not. So, if you've seen it, don't give it away. So, here's the experiment. Just follow the instructions. It's just going to be a minute. Count how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball. How many passes did you count? The correct answer is 15 passes. But did you see the gorilla? [Music] Who didn't see the gorilla? I didn't see it the first time. Then, yeah, look at that. That was actually in that first video. I know. Because you were so focused on the distraction, which is the basketball. That's kind of what mainstream news and social media does to you, right? It's pretty crazy.
There's a science to having purpose in life. Longevity. Those who live a long healthy life have purpose. They have goals. They're doing what you're doing. They're in a community like this. So, I always tell people, stop following the crowd. Stop, start following your purpose. One of my all-time favorite quotes is this one. It's changed my life when I read it. You ready? "In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." Daily trivia are addictions, doom scrolling, toxic relationships. That was my life, and I was obese. And you know, I came to realize that we don't have an obesity problem because of what people are eating. I think we have an obesity problem because of what's eating people. The lack of goals. That was my life. And there's studies to back this up. Look, this study shows that 85% of people in America have their first heart attack Monday morning between 8 and 9:00 a.m. What, what does that have to do with heart attacks? Monday morning, going to jobs they hate after the weekend of having a little bit of a reset. 85% of people. Earl Nightingale said, "Most people tiptoe their way through life hoping to land safely on death's door." Bob Proctor used to say, "For a lot of people, when they died was just the mere formality. They were never living." And what I love about the word success, and at least the definition of it, is what Earl said. Success is this progressive realization of a worthy ideal. An ideal is a goal that you have fallen in love with, something that you are progressing towards. So it doesn't matter what that goal is. It's something you love to do. So as long as you're closing the gap between where you are and that ideal, you are successful. That's my favorite definition.
And sometimes TikTok, it gives you some good golden nuggets. And I came across this woman, and she's just beautiful. Check this out. "May I ask how old you are?" "I'm 93 going on 94. I don't have that much longer in the world." "What's one of your biggest regrets?" "My name is Raalin. I was born in Highland Park, Illinois. Then I married and I lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And I was there for many, maybe for 40 years. Oh, wow. And now I live very near to Washington Square Park. Yay. That's awesome." "I know. Are you happy?" "Yes, I am happy. Why?" "I'm happy because I did, I'm doing what I want to do that I get to come out to Washington Square Park and watch all this crazy stuff, and because I have my own work." "How do you stay happy?" "I stay happy by being involved with my, with projects. That's part of it. And with friends. So for someone who wants to be happy, what advice would you give them?" "I would tell them to find something that interests them, interests them very, very much, and to pursue that interest. And I would tell them to reach out to other people, but to be happy in their own company. Thus I have spoken." "When someone looks at you, what do you think they see?" "I never think about it." "What would you like them to see? Or what do, what would you like them to know about you?" "That I'm a good person." "Is that enough?" "Yeah, that's enough." "What's one thing you wish you could change about the world?" "Oh my God. I'd stop all the wars. Yes. I'm very unhappy about those and about what the future may be." "Do you have any regrets? What's one of your biggest regrets?" "I should have regrets, but I really don't think I do because I have what I want in my life. I have my work. I have grown children. I have a good family." "May I ask how old you are?" "I'm 93 going on 94." "Wow. I thought you were like much younger, like 70s or 60s." "So, come on. So, tell me, how does it feel to be that age?" "Well, my feet hurt. Otherwise, well, I know that I don't have that much longer in the world, and I don't feel sad about it because my feet hurt and other things hurt, and it, my physical condition is just going to get worse. But otherwise, I have a good life and I enjoy it." "Well, thank you so much for this amazing interview."
So, she, she mentioned, um, "I have my work. I have," like she, she's involved with things, right? I believe that's kept her going for such a long time. I believe it keeps a lot of people going. I, I believe goal setting, the right way to go set, really extends your lifespan. And here's a study that backs up what I'm sharing here. Same, um, researcher, Dr. Ellen Langer, did a study in the 1980s, I believe. And what she did is she had two groups of, uh, elderly patients, and they were essentially on their deathbed. But one group was given a house plant to take care of. That was their goal and full autonomy over their schedule. So they still had control over their schedule. They had a goal of taking care of the house plant. The other group was given a house plant, but was told the staff would take care of it, and they didn't have control over their schedule. They didn't really have any, any goal. After 18 months, twice as many in the group given goals for their plant and schedule were still alive than the other group. Twice as many. Having a simple goal of just taking care of a plant and having control over your schedule. Pretty cool.
So, there's three ways to set three types of goals. The ABCs of goal setting. A-type goals are things you already know how to do. Meaning, you drive a, um, 2020 Toyota Corolla and you want to get a 2025 Toyota Corolla, right? Doesn't mean you shouldn't get a new car, but you've already done it before. There's nothing really exciting. It doesn't grow you, doesn't stretch you. Most people set A-type goals. B-type goals are goals that stretch you a little bit, which are good, but if you think about how to accomplish that goal, if this person pays you, if this comes through, you could hit that goal. You kind of could think about how things could come together to hit that goal. That's a B-type goal. What we really want is a C-type goal. A C-type goal is a goal that you have no idea how you're going to get there, but you really want it. It's not logical. It's not rational. It's not even realistic. But you really, really want it. Anybody have an idea? Anybody have a C-type goal in mind? Can we bring the mic? Can we, can you share it real quick? Can we bring the mic to her right here? "I want to build a million-dollar company." Let's go. Clap it up. Quick, quick question. What's your name? Renee. Renee, do you know how you're going to do that? Nope. That's a C-type goal. Does it scare you? Oh, yeah. That's a C-type goal. Congratulations. You had one right here. One more. What's your C-type goal? You got the mic coming here. What's your name? Lane Kohama. Lane. Hey. Um, my big bold dream is I want to live to a hundred and see tons of grandchildren, but just live a happy, long life just sharing with people I love dearly. I love it, Lane. Give him a clap. That's awesome. I love it.
So, in front of you, you have this goal card. Everybody have that? You see that? And a plastic sleeve. This changed my life. It will change your life if you do it. I mean, it's your choice at the end of the day. But I've been carrying around goal cards with me for years, years. And you write a date like for your million-dollar goal. You write a date when you want, would like to have it. You're guessing at the date, which is fine. And you write it in present tense. "I'm so happy and grateful now that." And you insert that C-type goal. Let me give you an example of what I did this year. I, um, when, when I was writing this book, Metabolic Freedom, uh, it came out in May, this past May. And in December of last year, before it was out, six, seven months before it was out, uh, yeah, six months before it was out, my C-type goal was, "I want this book to be a New York Times, uh, bestseller." So, thank you. So on there, I wrote, "I'm so happy and grateful now that my published book with Hay House, Metabolic Freedom, is a New York Times bestseller." All right, I want you to understand this. I had no idea how to do it. There are 33 million books out there. Only 10 books make that list every week. Yeah, it was my fifth book, but they were all previously self-published. I've never done it before. It was a total C-type goal, but I kept reading it. I took the card with me. I'm at a red light. Pull it out. Read it. Read it in the morning. Read it before bed. Read it while red light. Read it while doing the sun. I have it with me. But not only that, I pre, not pretended. I, I acted as if I was already a New York Times bestselling author. So, I'll give you an example. A month before the book came out, my videographer was over, not, not David, the great David that's working with me today, but in Miami, and we're recording reels, and I said, "Oh, my book's coming out in a month. Let's record a reel of me celebrating hitting the New York Times list. I want you to edit it. I'm going to pay for it." So, I was acting as if this is going to happen. A week before the book came out, I was speaking at an event in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and there was a documentary crew there on the carnivore diet, and they asked to interview me. And I sit down, getting all miked up, and they said, "Introduce yourself." And I said, "My name's Ben A. O'tti. I'm the New York Times bestselling author of Metabolic Freedom." Seven days later, we hit the goal, right? We hit the goal. And I'm saying this not to impress you. I'm saying it to impress upon you that let yourself just dream. Like, use that card. Sit in a room for 30 minutes and let your mind dream and write down whatever lights you up. Don't worry about all the left-brain stuff. "How are you going to do that? You're not smart enough. Where's the money going to come from?" Don't worry about that. Just write it down. Write it down in the present tense and just read it every single day.
It'll, it'll change your life. Okay. This brings me to the last part of the lecture here. The strongest vitamin in the world is vitamin G. So Joe Despensza has done workshops in vitamin G and he's measured cortisol levels, IgA levels. So cortisol, of course, is a stress hormone. IgA helps support the immune system, and he's seen after just a few days of taking vitamin G, cortisol levels drop, the immune system increase through IGA levels. He also has seen 1,200 chemical reactions take place in the body in the brain. Dopamine, oxytocin, GABA to repair the body and lower inflammation as soon as they took vitamin G.
This study from Harvard is the most comprehensive study ever done on vitamin G. It looked at 49,275 older female nurses, and it showed that the nurses who took vitamin G had a 9% reduction in dying from all-cause mortality and a 15% reduction of dying from cardiovascular disease compared to the nurses who didn't take vitamin G. UC Davis shows those who take vitamin G have healthier blood pressure levels, healthier blood sugar levels. There's a study done on the mitochondria in caregivers, and it showed the caregivers who took vitamin G at night had healthier mitochondrial function the following morning compared to the caregivers who didn't take vitamin G.
So I was just out in the vendors, and there are some amazing vendors. I didn't see a vendor selling vitamin G. Where can you get vitamin G? What's vitamin G? Gratitude. The feeling of gratitude, not the practice, my left brain friends. The feeling of it. What you appreciate appreciates. I want you to check this out. Psychologists have scientifically proven that one of the greatest contributing factors to overall happiness in your life is how much gratitude you show. Yeah, think about that. Go ahead and marinate on it for a second. You can thank me later if you want. It'll make you feel better.
According to this study, we gathered a selection of volunteers to act as our subjects. We asked them to close their eyes and think of somebody who was really influential in their life, somebody who did something really amazing or important for them. We had them write down as much as they could about why this person was so important and tried to get them to call that person and read what they wrote about them. Thank you, Jessica. We're going to have to have you call your mother. So, who was that right person for you? Person is my sister, Erica. We're going to give Erica a call. Okay. Who'd you end up picking? Friend of mine, uh, Craig Ains. Her name is Dora, my college accounting instructor. Really? Is this somebody you're still in touch with today? No, I'm assuming that he's passed on. That's That's a shame. Oh, no. Number by heart, dude. This is awful. That's fine. I don't know. My mom's number by heart. If it's true that uh those who are going on are looking down on us, maybe he read my and scratch. Hey, sweetheart. Hey, how you doing? Um, you got a second? Where you at? In the hotel. I am. I'm in the hotel. Uh-huh. You scared me. Let me ask if I had a second. Something's wrong. No, I'm on this I'm on like this little TV show and they told me to talk about the person that influenced me the most and I picked you and then and they're making me call. They're making me call you. Oh, wonderful. Hello. Hi. Hi, Erica. It's me. All right. So, I got to read you this paragraph. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Go ahead, sweetheart. All right. The person that influenced me the most would be my mother, Marlo Dawson. She is a single mother of two. She is a very hard worker and dedicated to her family. Hey Craig, this is Loie. Um, this is going to be a funny little voicemail, so I hope you enjoy it. I'm so sorry for calling you at 4:00 in the morning. Is everything okay? Yes, but I have to read this out loud to you. The person who has had the biggest impact on my life outside of Jesus Christ, who is responsible for my existence, was my college accounting instructor. He had a joy and enthusiasm for his job like no other teacher I have ever known. I love her to death and she keeps me going with positive talk. She is a woman that knows what she wants and won't give up until it is achieved. Oh, something I I don't know what I'm about to cry because that's so beautiful and I I have I have to say that's just wonderful. I first met Craig on an independent feature film set in Whitefish, Montana. I recently have been sending Craig a lot of positive thoughts as he suffered a series of health problems. Despite his medical problems, he's continued to work and take pleasure in the small things in life, like sitting quietly with his wife Janine on the porch. Erica is my older sister and my best friend. Sometimes it even feels like we are twins. She's my number one fan and my number one supporter. She makes me happy because despite all my mistakes and my decisions, she still loves me no matter what. Your friendship is everything. And you are you are one of the most important person in my life. Even when she has a kid and many children, I will love her more than her kids. Okay, maybe not. I will never forget when she flew 3,000 miles to the drop of a phone call to save me from a breakup. I'm being blessed by having a son like you. I love you. Bye. [Applause] [Music]
Before we let them go, we gave our subjects one more happiness test. For those who took the time to actually write something down but couldn't make the phone call for whatever reason, we saw happiness increase between 2 and 4%. Now, for those who actually picked up the phone and personally expressed their gratitude, we saw increases between 4 and 19%. So either way, expressing your gratitude will make you a happier person. But you want to know something really interesting? The person who experienced the biggest jump in happiness was the least happy person who walked in the door. What does that mean? That means if you're having a particularly tough time, trying this out will more likely have a greater impact on you. Trust me, I'm in a lab coat. It's a good ending. Isn't that beautiful?
You know, we have like three minutes here. What I want to do in the next 60 seconds, grab your phone, everybody. Grab your phone. Think of somebody in your life that you're grateful for. And I want you to text them right now. I'll give you about 60 seconds. I'm going to do the same thing. Text somebody you're grateful for. First person that comes to mind, you got one minute. I will do the same thing. 15 seconds. [Music]
Okay. You know what's going to be interesting? And you probably got this already. Is everything okay? Did anybody get that text? You got that? No. I'm thinking if you send it to your husband and your husband to you and you're in the same room. Oh, that happened to you right now? Oh, that No, I'm just Okay. I sent one to my fiance. Did you send me one? That would be awkward. No, what I was going to say is that you're going to get some text. Is everything okay? Because it's not normal. Unfortunately, it's not common to text people out of gratitude. But I'm I'm telling you, maybe do 30 days, 30 different people like that. It'll change your life. It'll change that person's life. The um the dosage on gratitude is um I call it capsules, but in the morning I I like to spend one minute on three different things or people or memories that I'm grateful for and use as many feelings as possible. You could do gratitude journaling as well.
I'm going to share this quick video and then I'm going to get off here. But check this out. How do you think you've lived to be 97? Like how do you think you made it this many years? I don't know. I don't know. Because I'm naughty. I eat sugar. I eat butter. I eat things that I should not eat. And I have all my life. Well, what do you think is the secret? You know, people ask me and I tell them that you um you pray a lot. You have faith. I do have faith. Yes. I and I really spend like I I cannot end my day without being grateful. I never take anything for granted. So that's that's probably the secret. That's how you've lived to be 97. I don't know. Because you never end your gr your day without being grateful. I don't know. I really don't. That you have a lot of gratitude in your heart. Yes. She's awesome. Give her a clap. I love that lady.
I want you all to grab your right hand. Everybody, right hand or Well, lift your right hand. Sorry. Yeah, grab it. You're paying attention. You're thinking I wasn't. Lift up your right hand. Put it over your right ear. Leave it there as I say the next few words. Okay. Your body was built to heal itself. Every cell in your body was built to be self-healing. God has built your body to be self-healing. You are a masterpiece because you are a piece of the master. You can bring your Amen. You can bring your hand down. Why don't I have you do that? I didn't want it to go in one ear and out the other ear. Keep it there. Thank you. I've got vitamin G for you and Anthony and everybody. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Wow. Thank you very much. Vitamin G for Thank you. vitamin G. Thank you.