Hypertension Course and Medical Management

last thing I want to cover is, I do, I do want to say too that, I mean, there are, look, I mean, we, we get it. There are, cause this is stuff you're not supposed to talk about it anymore because everybody's got trauma and psychological i get totally get that and if that's the case you don't need a trainer you need to go talk to a counselor and and get your shit sorted and then you know don't worry too much about the weight loss just get healthy exercise do all that stuff you're supposed to do you're falling off the rails get a counselor learn to work through that you know go to a dietitian nutritionist that can help you it specializes and those types of disordered eating things. So there are people like that. But look, let's be honest, for fucking the vast majority of people, they just have a hard time saying no. You don't have a, if you're going out with the girls every fucking Thursday night and you're drinking four margaritas, a bowl of queso all to yourself, a whole thing of fajitas and then some fucking tres leches cake, this isn't a trauma, probably not a trauma thing. It's a social thing. And for the vast majority of people, um if you're significantly overweight you're morbidly obese and this has been a problem for a long time and it's a trauma thing cool get help but if you're the if you're the normal clients we get where it's like you're just sabotaging yourself because you can't say no at a social gathering that's a whole completely different ball game learn to say no and learn how to control your impulses um or or just just be fine with the way you look and just get strong and and get fit and just be happy with yourself. That's a huge thing is learning to stay and being okay with other people's reactions because it's not for you to manage. It most likely is them being jealous or insecure that they can't do what you're doing and that you're changing and blah, blah, blah. Like that show, like your former client, My 600-lb Life, I have coaches watch that because I'm like, see how every person on that show has had some sort of psychological childhood trauma that they're dealing with. And that's how they get there. Cause that takes work to get up to that, you know, like there's, there's something wrong. So people usually don't tie those in. That's a conversation I have a lot with guys with erection issues or sexual function issues, like in their twenties and stuff. I'm like, so what was your first relationship like? And they're like, well, I was 14 and you know, I got nervous. I couldn't get a boner. And I'm like, what happened? And when you're 14, the girl's not going to be like understanding and talking through it. So they don't connect that as maybe causing performance issues when they're older. So of course people aren't going to think, oh yeah, what happened as a kid is like affecting my food, you know, relationship. There's so much that happens to us in those really fragile times. It's like, you know, God, thank God this never happened to me. But if this happened to you, that sucks because, you know, you're 14 and that happens. And the next thing you know, you go to school on Monday and you're known as Timmy Floppy Dick. And that's all you think of. So every time you try to be intimate with somebody, you're like, oh, Timmy Floppy Dick and you can get a fucking erection Yeah And then you carry that like the rest of your life or you know something as simple as like being told to clean your plate all the time when you a kid that a big one that is a huge one because then it's like anything that you're given even for free well if it's free then you have to clean your plate like that just go you know so that was i mean that was i had that conversation with somebody the other day about like growing up in texas and you're expected to play high school football even it doesn't matter especially in a small town like my town was like friday night lights that all 7 000 people in town would be watching the football game every friday night and so your parents would just feed you and you were expected to eat two or three plates of food and you're expected if it goes on a plate it goes in your mouth um and then when you get out of high school and you're not playing anymore a lot of people keep eating like that and they wake up you know they wake up a few years later and they put on 30 40 50 pounds and now they've got this this whole process of if it goes on the plate i have to eat it so they go out to eat and they always clean their plate off they never leave anything and that's that is a big american thing buffets like dude if you think about the price of a meal and then you compare it to like a buffet so like at disney they have tons of buffets they they don't call it all you can eat anymore they call it all you care to enjoy to be politically correct and i'm like oh my god yeah yeah swear to god and i was like but it's like that impulse like oh if it's all you can eat then i'm just gonna like go to town and it's like yeah how uncomfortable is that like stuffing yourself to a point where i do i do i do miss i do miss that though going to a good american buffet and He's paying like 12 bucks and just eating five or six plates of food and being sick. Oh, I mean, maybe if you're like going to go lay down. I did that. Well, I did that in Vegas because we paid $90 because that was the only place I could diet because they had like plain turkey with salad. Oh, you can eat turkey and salad. And I was like, woohoo. And Charlie's like, they have ice cream. It's like little shots of ice cream. I'm like, it's okay. You can have it. I'll watch it. But then you watch around you and you're like, yo, stacking up on like crab legs and everything. And I'm like, damn, it is hard. Where's Charlie? He's over on the soft serve. Just like, ah, just pouring it right in his mouth. He totally would. Cause it's free, you know, take it. Cause you can sample size. But speaking of health, so talk a little bit about the hypertension course that you have. Is that just for fit pros or is it for everybody? No, no, we actually, you know, most of our courses, most of our courses are obviously for fit pros, but they're at a level that anybody could take. But I did, I wanted to go a different direction with this. I actually wrote it for the general public. So I'm speaking to the general public, but then every once in a while I'll say, hey, also for you trainers. So we actually targeted it for general public, but also trainers will want to get it. So I'm trying to trying to figure out how do I get like normal people that aren't trainers to actually buy the course instead of just hoping your trainer will buy it and then relay the information. So the whole thing has been written about, hey, if your doctor's been giving you this medication, this is what it does. These are some things you need to talk to your doctor about. Sometimes you might need more than one medication. If your doctor puts you on these two medications at the same time, you need to talk to another doctor because you definitely don't want to do that. So it's a lot of that. And like, hey, these are supplements that help rectify some of the nutrient deficiencies and the side effects of this. Talk to your doctor and see if they're okay with you taking this with that. So it's a lot of that stuff. And then like a lot of the training and the nutrition we've done of like, okay, these are what will raise your blood pressure if you train like this. so we've actually put templates in there and structures so that even if you're a general public and you don't have a trainer and you're like i actually don't know what to do we have a whole program all you have to do is follow the instructions so lift like this here's your templates here's your conditioning here's the way i want you to eat this how i want you to monitor it on chronometer or my fitness power whatever so anybody can do this one um and i actually had i had to cut with zoe zoe and i did a one together we did the pharmaceutical one because she's she's done pharmacology one and two and universities she knows way more about that than I do like I it's stuff that I would have to look up she can just rattle off top her head it's so bad that when she first started she started talking and I went because I because she's been in school forever now and I'm like all I think about is how much money she's spending on university and then I'm like wow that was money well spent holy shit my wife is brilliant that awesome the lecture off talking to coaches and i like no no no no no remember we talking to normal people not coaches Like we talking to their we talking to their clients and them too So let keep it on the level What are like like a couple stats that you realized like researching for this or putting it together that you're like, holy shit, people need to know this. Oh man. Like one of the things that really blew my mind was that over 50% of people who were prescribed hypertensive drugs either never filled them out or stopped taking them. Um, yeah and so i from what i from what i gather doctors aren't they're not scaring clients enough they're not scaring patients enough they're like if you get cancer you freak you start crying in the oh you freak the fuck out right even if it's a cancer that's not and i'm not saying that there's some cancer is not a big deal but there are there are some cancers you get where it's like okay that's got a 90 chance of you know you get something that has a like my father ended up dying of multiple myeloma like you get that especially stage four he was at you're done like there's not there's not a whole lot you got you you're you're not a lot you can do except try to manage it and try to live as as good as you can but if you get that or if you somebody says hey you've got 98 blockage in your arteries like you're gonna freak the fuck out but if you say hey, hypertension is basically the number one risk factor for almost every single non-communicable disease, and the top 10 things are going to kill you. If you tell somebody that, they're going to freak out, but doctors aren't doing that. They're like, oh, your blood pressure's a little high, you need to get that down. Here's the medication. So they give them the medication, but they don't fill it out because maybe they can't afford it, or maybe they just don't think it's a big deal. they're like oh it's not as bad as acid reflux you know it's that type of thing um the second thing is the side effects for a lot of them are really bad nausea um losing boner losing your sex drive um you know there's a lot of head fog fatigue and so a lot of people will do their first round and they give up after a week because the side effects are so bad So that actually blew my mind that, you know, it is a massively underdiagnosed and massively mismanaged pathology for a lot of people. And they don't they don't they need to understand that that is a that's the check engine light that you are going to progress to something way more heinous if you don't take care of this now.