Staying healthy and feeling young starts with what you eat. Choosing whole, unprocessed foods over heavily processed ones can make a big difference in energy levels, mental clarity, and overall well-being. Processed foods can introduce toxins that lead to inflammation and weight gain, while natural foods like quality meats, eggs, and healthy fats support your body's natural balance. By focusing on real, nutrient-dense foods, you can improve how you feel and function every day.

Detoxing isn’t about taking fancy supplements it’s about giving your body what it needs to do the job itself. Supporting your liver and kidneys with the right nutrients, like B vitamins and NAC, helps them flush out toxins naturally. Keeping hormones in check, especially vitamin D3, also plays a big role in making sure nutrients get where they need to go. At the end of the day, eating cleaner and cutting out unnecessary processing is one of the simplest ways to feel better and age well.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 - The Role of Diet in Anti-Aging

01:41 - Returning to Natural Eating

03:30 - Animal-Based Diet Benefits

07:04 - Detoxing & Fat Loss

10:20 - Supporting Natural Detox

11:50 - Hormones & Aging

13:36 - Avoiding Processed Foods

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So we started talking about anti-aging diets. Um, so this is a big piece of the metabolic biochemistry piece. Um, this is one of the things that when we work with people, it's one of those primary things that we're trying to figure out is how to make the body as healthy as possible so that we not only look the best, but feel the best for the longest period of time, which is my definition of wellness, highest quality of life for the longest period time, uh, diet plays massive role in this. Um, You know, if it was like, which one's more important, the diet or the exercise piece, probably diet, um, but diet includes all of it. Diet includes your, your hormone function, your supplementation, which reading your mouth, uh, eating wise, that's the thing. Um, when we do diet, we're really doing like a from scratch start function. What we'll normally do is we'll start them in a carnivore cell diet. put a, uh, continuous glucose monitor on them, make sure their body is producing the amount of sugars that the blood requires. Um, and then we can tie trade up and down on how much fat they need. So we can dial in their macro set where they need it. Um, if they're not producing the sugars they need, we start adding in carbohydrate function until we get, um, baseline glycemic index, uh, until we, get them kind of where they, where they need to be, um. As far as blood sugar goes, insulin function goes, uh energy, mental clarity, all that fun jazz. Uh, and then we make sure that we have a list of foods that they had giant lists of foods they can choose from to eat, because if you don't have good foods to eat. You can't sustain a diet.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:41] So that's typically how we kind of set those things up. But the thing we have to understand is that the body is, was created to function in a very specific way. Um, the, the we didn't just, we didn' just evolve out of, out of nothingness. That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my life. Uh, oh, it's just happenstance. And you're like, whatever. Uh, no, uh, anyway, we were designed to function in a very specific way. Uh, the closer we get back to that design, the healthier we are. Um, and the evidence of this is all around you. I mean, if you look at the people who are doing, you know, doing the carnivore diets, they're, you don't know, minimal processing, you know, they are healthy, their hormone levels where they're supposed to be. Their fat comes off, they have the energy, they've got all those things. Uh, the more processing we have in our foods, the worse it is for us. Um, and you know, people have tried to lie and come out with all sorts of different things, um, like, I mean, the FDA and I think we've, we can all, well, not all of us, a lot of the medical doctors still 100% believe everything the FDA says, but the FDA came out and said that lucky charms and frosted flakes were better for you than steak. The FDA has come out and sit for a long time that eggs are the worst thing in the world. Um, and the FDA is still on this idea that cholesterol is bad for you, even though it's what your brain is made out of the primary fuel source for your heart. And it's, but all your hormones are made out. Metabolic health could not be attained without high levels of healthy cholesterol. Um, so we're kind of in this battle between, you know, the FDA telling you that, you, know, carbohydrates should be the basis of all of our diets, um, specifically genetically modified wheat should be, the basis for all of diets. And that lucky charms are better for you than steak and that opioids aren't addictive. And the list goes on and on.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:30] So it'd be a little bit kind of difficult to kind of figure out where that is. But the reality of it is, is that we're, you know, you walk around this giant meat machine and people tell you that meat is bad for you. That is dirty. Meat is bad for you process. Meats are bad for you. You know, like the salami, the deli meats, things like that. Steak is great for you, eggs are great for. You, you, know, the fat that comes from tallow is great. Like all these things we've started to have to tell people again, no, Hey, check it out. The things that people have been eating and been healthy with for thousands of years, that's actually good. The Twinkies and the processed food that man has created and made really, really cheap and mass quantities. That's the stuff that's bad for you. And I don't understand why this is such a hard thing for people to understand, but that's kind of where it is. So the closer we can get to the natural foods, the better we're going to be. Uh, the biggest thing is, is that we are starting to see a lot of poisons in a lot of the plants. So not just the stuff we spread. I'm not just think glyphosate and the atrazine and all that type of stuff that's, you know, horribly disruptive and terrible for you. But we're starting to more oxalate damage. We're starting see more issues from the very specific plants that we're eating. Kale is one of the big ones. There's a lot of these things that are, that are problematic for us. You know, the problem we get into is that people look at the, the chemicals that are in there and they're like, oh. Sulphurphane is fantastic and we should have some more of that and Sulphorphane's great actually, take Sulphophane. The other thing is that there's other things in there that are not as great for you. However, if you were to eat these vegetables that are these plant foods that are not great for you, just the actual plants, actual kale, actual that, you know, that type of stuff, it's still going to be better for you than any of the processed foods that you can fine. And any vegan thing that's trying to be meat is inherently toxic.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:19] Like I've never seen like the beyond burgers and that type of stuff. That's supposed to be, Oh, it's vegan. So it's healthy. Some of the worst foods you can put in your mouth. Um, I mean, it stuff there was cereal as terrible as that is. So, you know, and that's a great example. Take a look at milk. Uh, we take a look up milk. Milk is raw milk from the actual healthy cow. That's grass fed and the whole thing is one of the best things you can eat, you can consume. However, like the milk in the store is horrible for you. Like, and this is just the processing aspect of it. Like I talk about this all the time, but when we look at milk, you, I don't know if you ever heard the expression, cream always rises to the top. Well, it doesn't do that milk because you know, and the cream rising to the topic is just physics. It's density function, but we have altered our milk to the point where physics no longer applies. Uh, we've homogenized it, chemically altered it so that physics no long applies. Cream won't rise to the tap. It'll stay in a suspension. Um, we also superheat it. So there's no bacteria in it, even though that bacteria is wildly beneficial to us. and it fractionates and destroys the proteins, which is why it's highly inflammatory. It's bad for the gut. It's pretty much one of the worst things you can consume is cow milk from the store. Because man has decided that we're gonna improve upon nature or God's design and we've messed it up, which is pretty much every single, what we do every single time we try to improve upon the things. So when we're startling at this from an anti-aging aspect, the body has to process out all of the processing. So it's going to chemically rip them apart. It's got to push all that stuff out. You have to excrete it. Um, and so that's one of those big things. So that the, the less work the body has to do, the less old it gets, think of it that way.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:04] So if you take all the processing out of your foods and see your body only has to break it apart and then utilize those chemicals, you're going to live a lot longer, you'll be a lot healthier. Like this is the whole basis for metabolic biochemistry. So if your body has to sequester off, 60% of what you ate, bind it in fat so that it no longer damages the body. Guess what? You're going to have a lot of, you're going to have A lot of fat. And so what are the reasons that we, when we, when we start putting people on a really, really clean diet and we feed their liver and their kidneys, we give their body back the nutrients that they need, they start shedding this weight and the reasons because your body goes great, we want to get rid of this stuff. It's toxic, but we kept getting so much toxin in that we couldn't do anything about it, but just being like an emergency state. This is also why a lot of times, you know, when you start putting people on a really, really good clean diet, um, for instance, you know, I mean, not carnivore is not the greatest diet in the world. It's a fantastic diet, but I, I'm going to keep using it because it's an extreme piece. Um, you put people on a carnivor diet and a lot of people will lose 10 pounds in the first week. Now they didn't burn 10 pounds of fat. What happened was that their body was able to offload or ditch 10 pounds and inflammatory weight that you're right. No longer needs to hold because it is now getting the chemistry it needs and it can get rid of that stuff. So that's one of the primary things that happens. I tell people all the time who are on carnivore diets, like, man, I've lost so much weight and I feel so much better. My mental clarity is here and I have all this energy and I, I just feel fantastic and I always have to remind them like, Hey, look, yeah, meat's great for you. The carnivores diet is great for. However, you're not poisoning yourself anymore.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:38] And that's where the major reasons you feel better is because you're not taking in all the toxins that are in all of the processed foods. Uh, the number one thing you can do for anti-aging is to get rid of all of the toxins in your diet, um, which are the vast majority of those are going to be processed stuff. So the, the less processing in your, the better you're going to. Um, and when I walk people through this, there's a lot of stuff we do. We replace things. Now there's still some processing stuff. Like it will not take somebody from a normal diet. We'll give them a lot less processed, a lot cleaner diet. There's still processing in it. And then we start stripping out the processing as we go along because you know, it's really, really difficult to go from fully processed foods into nothing and maintain that. So we'll still use some stuff, like some of the pizza crust options, some of the, uh, some of the snack stuff, some of the, the, uh, yeah, some of the stuff that we see with, um, you know just some of the, like the cookies or the candies or things like that, you know that helped kind of transition over some of those things still have a little bit of processing in them, but they're significantly less than were before because the whole point of this is to detox the body. So, um, and for those of you don't know, I designed the detox box Friday life. We do a giant amount of detoxification stuff. We do antiparasitic stuff. we do all this stuff all the time. And what you have to understand is that the supplements you take actually don't detox the. The goal is to feed the organs that the body uses to do the detoxing. So this goes back to the premise of. me, your medical doctor, there is not another human being who can heal your body. We can't heal the body. The body heals itself.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:20] That's why the whole chiropractic function of the power that made the body heals the body, you have to understand that's actually what's going on. And so you're like, all right, well, what does the body need to clean itself? Well, it needs meth, let it be vitamins. There's a whole host of things like the liver, for instance, like turmeric is great. Milk thistle is great, you know, there's a handful of chemicals that are really, really good. NAC helps the body produce, so NAC, which is N acetyl cysteine, helps the body produce glutathione, which was one of the most powerful ways our body does the detoxing. So the supplements you're taking, the foods you're eating, those things don't detox the body. You feed the organs, the organs then do their job better and they detox the body. So that's what you're looking at when we start doing that. Yeah. The detox works pretty good. Um, that's, what we're looking at when you start, uh, changing the way the body functions. Is we're trying to feed the organs these specific nutrients they need to do the job. They're supposed to do Um, and that's where a lot of this stuff comes in This is why you know when people start taking their methylated B vitamins all of a sudden they start getting oh man I've got this energy back and like my skin's clearing up and like I just my my mental fog is kind of going away Yes, because you gave the body back the chemicals. It was designed to have and now it's functioning um, you know, that's and it's really really pretty simple as far as that goes the uh, You know, there's a lot of that in the anti-aging stuff. So if, you know, we keep the CoQ10 levels up, we keep hormone levels where they're supposed to be. And that's testosterone and estrogen, progesterone, that's kind of all of them.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:50] For women, this is again, very, very small piece of what's the bigger pie, but as women age, the need for progesteron does actually drop and the need of estrogen does actually drops. So as soon as women get to the point where they are not trying to have babies anymore. whether that's 40, 45, 50, wherever your frame is. My wife and I had kids when she was in her 40s. So that's totally fine as long as you prep for it. But as you get to that point, you don't need the hormones that create fertility if you're no longer trying to have babies. So those levels can come down, but you're still gonna maintain those levels in a functional place. D3 is probably one of the biggest hormones that people don't know to take. People call it vitamin D3, which is fine, whatever. It's not really a vitamin, but it is what it is. And then most people don't have those at the levels they're supposed to, you know, like we like to see them between 80 and 120 to keep everything functional. What D3 actually does is it carries all the nutrients in your body to where they're suppose to go. So like it delivers the bullets to the fight, if you will, which is why having high D3 is so important. Um, but. When we start looking at, you know, how can we, how can we start Looking younger, feeling younger, uh, from the jump and that is fine. Go through everything you're eating and pull out all the process. And when I talk to people about this all the time, they're like, well, what, what bars should I eat? Like, well. You shouldn't be eating bars, um, you know, you can, there's some that you can make at home that are going to be a lot better for you. Like then you can eat those. Those are fine. But the process ones that come in the cellophane bags, the little plastic bags you tear open, um those are all highly processed just by, by pretty much definition.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:36] Um, a lot of those are going to be, yeah. And again, blanket statement, there's going to give me some that are better than others. Um. But a lot those are gonna be really, really bad. You know, if basically the idea is that it comes in a box or a bag that's sitting on a store shelf. Probably shouldn't eat it. Um, so, you know, look at all the stuff that you're consuming, you know, how many, what, what are the chemicals that are in it? Even the foods that you make at home, look at the chemicals that are at it and see, you know, what all's inside. If there's not, you know, the, the old, you know, if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't need it. It's a pretty solid rule. Uh, but look at those things that you, that you are consuming and then wonder how much of this is working against me versus how much is working for me. Um, yeah, yeah. A lot of, a lot of the bars are not super tasty. the, you know, some of the ones that are really, really good, you know have lots of sugar in them, lots of, you know, artificial stuff in them. So that's a lot of the bars are not, not the best thing. So when you start going through the cycle and you start trying to figure out, okay, what am I supposed to be eating? How am I suppose to be getting it, uh, you know, just that general rule. If you don't have somebody walking through this, that general rule of, You know, as much processing these leave as possible is going to be great. Uh, one of the things, but what am I going to do, you if I'm, you know, I'm short on time. We work with people's schedules to kind of get this thing done, but you can meal prep and cook a bunch of food all at once and then have it for the rest of the week. That's what we do. Um, we'll make, you know, sometimes it's a little bit difficult when, because some of the stuff Lou makes is really, really good.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:04] So instead of making it once or twice a week, you're gonna make it three times a week. But it is what it is. Uh, there's a lot of foods, you don't catch rules and things like that. You can make like one day and eat for four or five days afterwards. Uh. A lot of the natural foods you can actually do this with, um, know, which what I find is really interesting is when you make stuff with sugar, with like, you know, cane sugar and stuff like that, it goes bad faster than if you use monk fruit and erythritol and stuff, like that. So, uh, the, the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway from this is that if you will just strip out all the processing out of your food, you will live longer. Uh, you will live healthier. You will live better. Now nutrient density, anything like that some of those things are going to be specific to you. Um, but that's gonna be the biggest thing. So the number one key takeaway from this position is start looking at your food, start seeing how much processing is done to your food. Maybe Google it and start stripping that out. The closer we can get to the natural function, like the way it was, you know, the closer to the earth without any processing, the healthier you're gonna be all the way around.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:08] Now, there's a lot of different foods that fall into that category that are awesome, fantastic and delicious. Um, and so that's one of the things we try to help people get to. That's why I always ask people, what are your 10 favorite foods? Because there's ways of acquiring these things with a lot less or no processing. So if you're looking for anti-aging and you're looking for that type of thing, strip the processing out of your food, strip the chemicals out that you don't recognize. Um, which means some of the stuff you're going to have to make it home or buy from a different place. But that's going to be the primary start to, you know, getting, getting better. So if guys have any questions about that, hit us up, drop it Questions at questions. questions@chalmerswellness.com, or you can drop them in the comments or hit me up in the DMs. Talk to you guys later. Thanks for your time.

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