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Today’s word of the day is “Choline.”

Say it with me, “Ka-Lean.”

This magical, real, superfood is found almost exclusively in animal foods. It will power your thinking.

Egg yolks and liver being some of the best sources.

If you want to perform mentally, you need to be getting this essential nutrient from animal foods.

You’ll see many supplement stacks that add acetylcholine formed from choline.

We must consume choline dietary to get proper amounts the body can’t make sufficient amounts on it’s own, animal foods are our best source.

It also plays a key role in the formation of all our cell membranes.

Don’t mess with choline deficiencies if you want healthy cell membranes and powerful brain.

Ensure you get adequate amounts regularly.

Personally I eat a lot of red meat, beef liver 3-4 x/week, 4-6 egg yolks most days.

How are you getting yours?

This is one of the most compelling arguments for why humans are intended to eat animal foods.

Our stomach acidity is logarithmically much more acidic than our herbivore ancestor primates.

Humans gut PH levels can be lower than 2, down to mid 1s - extremely acidic.

Why is this so compelling? Carnivorous animals and scavengers all have stomachs that are highly acidity just like ours.

Evolutionarily it is extremely expensive metabolically to maintain that level of acidity. Stomach lining, acid production, all require more energy.

Why would humans have stomachs like this if we weren’t evolved to primarily consume animal foods?

Higher acidity creates a powerful adaptation to consume foods with bacteria and pathogens it can kill of.

We likely started using rocks and tools to crack open bones early in our evolution. This gave us access to incredibly nutrient rich, fatty, animal foods in bones and skulls left from animal remains. Our brains grew.

We weren’t tall enough and fast enough yet to hunt, our guts evolved and their acidity aided in the breaking down and protection from other harmful organisms we would’ve ate from these remains.

When eating plants it’s not necessary to have that level of acidity, but instead you need a much larger volume of space.

Our gorilla cousins have huge protruding stomachs to house much more “piping.” Ruminant animal foods have 4 different stomachs!

Both these animal groups chew on plant foods a large majorities of their days, they have consume massive volumes of plants to get their nutritional needs met.

Plant eaters kept lower levels of acidity, and have much longer intestinal tracts to ferment plant fibers into fats and nutrients the could utilize.

Nature doesn’t design things by accident it does so by necessity. Our ancestors who procreated had more acidity in their guts, ones who didn’t perished. Or they’re still in the trees eating their own p**p. (Sorry vegans)

I talk more about this in detail in my book. (Grab a copy, link in bio)

If you like this type of post throw me a comment and let me know your thoughts. I’ll share & make more.

During these “strange” times let’s better focus on what moves the needle for our health.

This pyramid is a great framework for optimal performance for the majority of us.

Though I’ve rarely discussed it, I write about it deeply in my book. Stress wrecks your performance.

It is a health killer and if you don’t understand and learn to frame it well you will feel its wrath in powerful ways.

Quality is another foundational area to master. It’s so important to master sleep, 1/3 of your life is in it.

Yet very few people take the time to really study, master, invest in it. Yes you can over-think it and over-complicate it, but if you’re ever had insomnia or just no longer sleep soundly and deeply all night, it’s not an “age” thing, you can master this.

ish. Another lever that is pretty obviously something I believe in. Animal foods support optimal human health in so many ways.

They give us the fuel our brains need to better balance and power our thinking, mood, and vitality. No skimp on your meat portions.

this is a pillar. Go walking, go running, go swimming, get outside. So many studies show benefits to profound health benefits of avoiding the sedentary lifestyle. Humans evolved outside, moving and being physically active.

on that same line we got sunlight. I realize we need to respect social distancing but your body needs full spectrum light to produce adequate hormones and fuel your immune system. Nature did not design us to stay indoors all day long, sun is the world’s primary fuel source. Don’t burn but make a real effort to get exposure to full spectrums of light regularly.

Our world and devices can now reach us the moment we open our eyes from rest. And the media is designed to keep us addicted coming back for more. Practice mindfulness, being without constant stimuli of content meditating. 10 mins / day every morning is the first thing I do when I wake.

Let’s get optimized!

I have to respectfully disagree with professionals who say we should be staying inside.. IF we can stay socially distanced.

Yes we should be socially distancing ourselves from others to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 transmission. To prevent becoming infected or infecting others.

But sunlight is an “essential” human nutrient that many are already deficient in. And many will be missing this if they heed this advice and stay inside.

D3 is largely produced by UVB sunlight, not oral supplementation. Your immune cells and hormones are supercharged by the sun.

UVA also super charges your cardiovascular system by supporting nitrous oxide production.

So I highly suggest more time outdoors away from the city in “social isolation.”

It’ll be amazing for your human spirit too!

Throw back to my appearance on the podcast last week.

Great convo with about the for the perspective of someone who might be a bit less versed in .

My book is out.

Businesses are closed and people are home “social distancing.”

You should get a digital copy today.

It will teach you how to optimize your mind, body, and performance.

Yesterday I released my book! It’s now available to get your copy (optialign.com/book).

It talks all about how to optimize your overall health through the Carnivore Diet.

I share my story going from an anxious wreck with gut issues and whack skin to absolutely thriving. How I am just one of many.

I go in detail into why this is not harmful, and why it’s actually incredible healthful. Cholesterol, cancer, fears of missing vitamins and nutrients, it’s all in there.

I break down the mindset, the progression and how to sustain this way of fueling the body. If you’ve ever wondered, or dealt with any sort of autoimmune or inflammatory condition, check this out.

My Carnivore Diet Book is live! Link to get it is live in the bio!

Foreword by the man himself 🙏🏻

Couldn’t be more excited to share this out, especially given the time and seriousness of human health right now.

There’s no better time to invest and spend time learning more about how you can optimize your overall health.

This book has been labor of love for nearly six months, dissecting and mastering my Carnivore Diet journey.

If you’re looking for an easy to digest resource to help you better understand this way of eating, why I started, some of the greatest concerns, how you can optimize, go grab a copy now. (Optalign.com/upcoming)

We’re offering limited free coaching for the first 50 who pick up their copy.

Should we hold off on animal foods?

I don’t know about you but when I seek advice I tend to take it from those who seem to be going where I want to go.

I wouldn’t listen to a doctor who is overweight, dealing with chronic inflammation or preaching taking meds vs solving the root cause of my disease.

What do you think of animal foods? Do they make you feel and look good? Maybe they really aren’t causing disease when we live a healthy life and optimize their quality while also removing plant toxins.

This is such a animal-based superfood.

If you’re plant-based, or limit your animal food consumption consider supplementing Creatine at the very least!

You get almost no creatine from plant foods and our body’s don’t make enough to thrive.

In fact there are studies that clearly show when vegans are supplemented creatine, mental and physical performance significantly improve.

Why would you limit foods that naturally contain this super food along with so many other health benefits and bioavailability.

Being plant-based is not better for the plant and it’s certainly not better for human health.

We must eat to fuel our brain’s and muscle’s natural ability to produce energy. Anything other way and we risk losing the most important thing truly have, our minds.

Are you getting enough Creatine?

Have you heard of inflammation?

Or insulin resistance?

Doctors and researchers today are starting to think these may be the root causes of most modern mental and physical deterioration in the human brain and body.

Did you know the Carnivore Diet is extremely low inflammatory and reduces insulin resistance?

Omega 3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) are ONLY in animal foods (the plant-form ALA isn’t really beneficial to humans) and they are a key essential nutrient to human health.

“Seasonal” fruits and veggies - not from an equatorial location are mostly genetically modified and shipped in from all over the globe.

You’ve been told to consume these foods year round but what if they are actually hurting you immune system and overall biology?

Plant “foods” we see in a western supermarket are the remains of a kingdom of organisms that co-evolved with animals of hundreds of millions of years on earth.

These organisms did not evolve to be a “perfect” food for their predation, being rooted and immobile they had to architect their own defense mechanisms.

By removing them you are toning done the bombardment of these pesky defense molecules and allowing the human body to reset and optimize to what we evolved to consume.

Kudos to my great friend and author of The Carnivore Code for his brilliance in questioning our “common” knowledge and looking further and helping me and so many others better understand these concepts.

Anyone know where I can get a Woolly Mammoth?!

Check out my latest interview with founder and CEO Matt Maruca.

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Testosterone is a key hormone for optimal human mental and physical performance.

Not just males, but females need it also!

It is converted from cholesterol in the body.

Food sources such as red meat rich in Zinc are an excellent way to get the this essential mineral needed to produce adequate levels.

In total awe and grateful at the size of this bison heart and all I was able to consume from her.

When you can see regenerative farm and experience the field harvest first hand of an animal, you can truly appreciate and respect the food you consume.

My body has been nourished by her incredibly nutrient rich nose to tail foods the last 5 weeks, literally eating every part of this animal every day.

1000s of calories, vitamins, grams of fat and protein.

First hand hunting and farming has brought me much closer to my source of food and I have gained a great respect for animals humans I am evolved to consume. @ Fredericksburg, Julia McCurley

Three things I will continue to prioritize into 2020 that have absolutely changed my life and allowed me to earn more, and live where I want and create freedom I've never thought was possible:

1) I realize I am not, nor will I have ever be as smart as I think I am.

So many of us go through life in a delusion. Thinking we're in control, that we can easily figure it out on our own. Kobe, Jordan, Tiger, you name it, they all invested massively in coaches despite their already elite performances. As humans we create cognitive biases and interpret our performance subjectively in many cases to "soften" the reality of poor results. Seek out high achievers and realize if something matters to you, don't be cheap, invest HEAVILY ALL out in it.

2. Extreme, relentless priority for health over almost everything else.

Let me ask you a question? How much time do you spend consuming media vs actually reading about nutrition and health science the last six months? Okay for this audience it might be a bit biased but I see so many people who are clearly and publicly ADMITTING that they are not where they want to be with their health and yet they haven't picked up a book on health in literally YEARS. They'll read the news, they'll study the Corona Virus but when it comes to what will deeply and truly impact their long term health, crickets.

Anything you want to improve in, you MUST educate yourself on. Ignorance is NOT bliss, it simply breeds more ignorance and supports habits that do not help oneself. You must make this a powerful rule for yourself. That you will spend more TIME and ENERGY focusing on what you are NOT satisfied with in life, to learn and improve that area. Look down the barrel of those problems and condition yourself to face them and seek answers despite the fear we all have.

A. By using a Carnivore elimination diet to identify the plant foods that were chronically hurting me for years, creating inflammation and reducing mental and emotional health, I was able to cut down the dietary "noise" in my body. Most people don't realize kale, broccoli, spinach do NOT love you back. Olive oil, yes, olive oil can carry reactions for human bodies! Many of the plant foods can actually be causing serious health damage. They don't realize plant antioxidant triggering molecules can actual damage DNA and accelerate your risk of dementia and cancer development. Because this was such a profound shift for me personally I wrote about it in my book (linked above in my bio) to learn more. Sorry had to plug that one. But the point is when you eliminate foods that are not empowering you and give your body an ancestrally aligned consistent diet for extended periods of time it can heal and you can come out of the fog of sub-optimal health. You can then re-introduce these foods with much less noise and see if they truly don't hurt you and limit your performance.

B. Prioritizing my sleep. Going to bed EARLY, sleeping longer times, consistently has been a game CHANGER. My mind, mood and body have completely transformed. Hormones have become much more robust and my strength, thinking and vitality much more consistently potent. Tracking with Oura and/or Whoop or some device. What we don't measure we cannot improve. Eliminating higher half-life stimulants (some metabolize coffee better than others - I am not one of those), cooling and darkening my sleep environment. Getting more sunlight on my skin and in my eyes during the day. Stay tuned as I'm writing my second book entirely on sleep.

I know people say you should sleep faster, you should hustle hard. But preindustrial societies work less than 20 hours a week and they sleep much more than the average westerner. We have to respect our ancestral design and get this right, or we fall victim to modern disease of metabolic dysfunction, disease, and mental erosion after years of neglect.

C. Investing in food quality. Grass fed, consuming regeneratively raised and wild animals living, moving, and consuming their natural life of food and sunlight.

3. Investing heavily in personal coaching for my health and business. My doctor charges $1,000/hour. He's a #1 best selling author in 2020! He speaks to audiences all around the world educating them and searching for the root cause of illness and disease. He engages CONSTANTLY in discussions to sort and seek the root cause of diseases. He does not hang to conventional wisdom and myopic isolated pharmaceutical health solutions.

Do I think having $1,000 in my bank account is a better decision than the analysis and advice he can give me in one hour every few months? Absolutely not. In fact I wouldn't have earned the 5-10X what I invested in his advice and been the strength in mental and physical health to get there if I hadn't parted with that investment in his coaching.

My business coach is $2,000/month. is arguably more reasonable than many I know of. But how much time and energy would I spend trying to figure out the 1000's of hours and network of connections she's been able to curb for me? It has been instrumental in my writing my books, learning all that goes into the process, finding and hiring the help I've needed to invest.

Your mental, business and physical performance should be as valuable as your shelter. Your body is your only true shelter. Your mind and brain health, really the only tool you actually have.

Yet how many people today are spending at least $1,500/month on coaching? It seems the more I invest the faster I grow and I have yet to find an upper limit where I have spent too much time and money investing in the right coaching.

Most people will retire with some sort of wealth and stability but by the time they can afford to do that they'll be way beyond their prime to really enjoy it. Imagine how powerful a compound effect would be if you were just 5% more sharp on your decisions today. A flight that is off course just 2% degrees will end up hundreds if not thousands of miles in the wrong destination.

Now imagine if you have 15% more energy and your brain could process those thoughts? Life is short, I am looking for every edge I can take to legitimately cut my learning curve and short my approach from point A -> B.

We are social creatures. We become much more intelligent by osmosis (Imagine 10 minutes in a room with someone like Tony Robbins, how much time could that cut in your ability to overcome serious challenges). We have incredible blind spots and our minds protect us emotionally because fear (false evidence appearing real) is truly a primal mechanism that helped our species avoid real death in a time when it was evidence everywhere.

We must rise up, the fear of not investing, the fear of not knowing, the fear of not being able to figure it out can all be overwhelming. But if you stare down that barrel and if you look for the answers, you will begin to build distinctions, you will begin to see more and you will become optimized.

Can I get an amen on a Friday?