The Importance of Mastication and Digestion

one of the things that's kind of most underrated exercise that most people are doing it is a masturbation it's mastication so people need to listen to that sentence again can you talk about the importance of kind of the importance solve mastication too. And because it is one of those things that I think we're all guilty of at some point. I'm still guilty of it. Like we do get it wrong as well ourselves. Yeah. You know, I think it's funny because again, old companies to work for supplement company at love pushing five, 600 pills on people a day. And I got caught up into that. I'm like, all right, cool. You got gut issues We just going to throw every fucking supplement on it Right And now later on I realized man if people would just sit down and calm down and enjoy their meal and chew their food like a fucking adult most people gut problems magically go away So, you know, it's like sitting down, be social, eat slowly. If you do that, you manage your hunger. If you chew your food appropriately, great. I'm going to absorb more of my food and I make it less hard for my system to have to process. the the thing that people need to understand about digestion is kind of the main purpose or the main the main ongoing theme with digestion is surface area right so you have massive surface area in your intestines um and you want to try to chew your chew your food until it's in as small a piece possible the more the more work your mouth gets accomplished the easier it is on the stomach Like that makes it easier on the small intestine, easier on the large intestine. Right. So if people would chew your food until it's in a semi-liquid state, I think it's like old Chinese proverb or some Confucius shit or something like chew your water and drink your food or some shit like that. I don't know if that's true. Somebody said that to me once, but it's kind of stupid to chew your water. But if people would just like men, here's where I'm going to pick on men. men and you've seen this you sit around with a steak a dude will take a 500 gram rump and see if he can eat that in three bites yeah right and that you know and then goes i don't know why i'm so full and my stomach's wrecked and why i'm so constipated well you just create a situation where you're you need more gastric juices to try to break that down so it's just going to sit in your stomach like a fucking brick all night right um trainers are the worst at it too because trainers, at least old school trainers that like the work, they'll pile 10 people back to back to back to back. They'll say, oh, go warm up on the treadmill. I'll be right back. They'll run into the break room. They'll make a shake or they'll throw something in the microwave and they'll unhinge their jaw and they'll just throw it all down and they won't chew it at all. And then when they come to me for a consult, I'll go, okay, well, let me look at your schedule. When do you actually have time to eat because I see you got like fucking 10 people in a row. Oh, I eat between clients. No, no, no, no, no. We don't do that anymore. Who's in control of your schedule? I am at least put 15 minutes between some of these clients, your client. There's no rule that says your client has to come in at 5. Your client's okay to come in at 5.15, give yourself 15 minutes to go calm down, enjoy your food and chew it. And I guarantee you all your digestive issues go away without any fucking pills and probably nine times out of ten that's the case and like oh the power of chewing it doesn't even cost me anything yeah it's too good to be true almost yeah um