welcome to the cabal concept where board certified naturopath and Integrative Health practitioner Dr Steven cabal shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for Recovery it was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine ancient ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life it's time to discover how to get well lose weight and finally feel alive again and now here's your host Dr Steven Cabra welcome back everyone great to be here with you today excited because I get to share with you one of my favorite shows of the week and that is the Friday review thank you so much by the way for writing in many of you saying that you enjoy the Friday reviews you enjoy the kind of back and forth between what's going on the research the book reviews I'll be sharing with you this week the product reviews I'm sharing with you and my goal goal is it's just a fun show I love being able to more like a talk show for 20 minutes be able to share with you a bunch of different topics just two to three minutes each so if one doesn't interest you that's okay we'll be back in just two or three more minutes uh with a brand new topic but really what the Friday review is is my ability to try out a lot of new products for you some companies send them to me some I just purchased I read books every single week and I just try to pick one book that I believe will be maybe of Interest to you or of course someone that you know not everything is always going to be something that you might enjoy using or that you would love but again there are many people in our life that it could be that right book for um husband wife partner children parents friends at work you name it so we'll go over that today what I always like to do is just start the show with a little update as to what we have going on for me and you might see my blue tongue if you see that there's a there's a reason behind that blue tongue and I'm going to share with with you during our product review of the week all right so just kind of letting the uh just talking about the blue elephant to the room right now so if you see that there is a reason for that all right but here's here's the fun thing I love being able to do just a quick update with you but honestly I just want to share with you this is that I mean this has been a tough 18 months now yeah about 18 months and it's because of all the turmoil of course in the world but even more so than that I could deal with turmoil we've had turmoil before most of us in our lives but it's the it's the separation between different beliefs and not being able to say that we have different beliefs and yet we can still be kind to one another we can still respect one another we can still love one another and you know that's what I think is is troubling me the most uh it really is and so I just wanted to share that with you I don't have an answer may maybe you do have an answer you know my belief my belief now for more than a decade is just trying to be like do right by others understand that you're different I'm different than other people other people are different than me because of that we just see the world in different ways and it doesn't mean necessarily that one way is better than another and so I've just learned to you know I appreciate um people showing me respect and I try to always respect everyone out there because at the end of the day there's a another famous quote that I heard that I love is just like everyone is dealing with their own issues in their own way and we know nothing about it right so you see someone having a really bad day yelling at another person or whatever might be like listen like they shouldn't be doing that but you have no idea what they just went through over the last day or week or whatever it might be maybe a family member is sick or maybe they lost their job or maybe whatever right it's like anything could be going on we just we have to sometimes understand that we all have bad days and also that we're we're we're humans uh we're not always going to agree on the same thing we have to learn just to Simply really be kind to one another that's really what it's about I try to we TR my wife and I uh try to teach our daughters that literally all the time I like listen uh other kids they might have different beliefs and Views than you that's okay you know nothing wrong with their beliefs and nothing wrong with yours be kind right that's the first thing so that's really I don't have a lot of updates except that I do want to share this with you I'm going to be doing I'll probably be sending out an email if you're not already a part of my Sunday rewind email it's free you know you're welcome to I send one email a week it's on Sundays I will be sending out my winter stay healthy protocol and I'm not sure that that will not be not not sure it definitely will not be on a podcast uh just because of different viewpoints and and I simply I'll send that out an email that's basically it the email is completely free let me just make sure my team has set this up it should be at Steven cal.com newsletter keep it really simple and that newsletter has been around since 2004 believe it or not so that's how long I've been writing uh well it's not at Stephen cal.com newsletter but it will be uh by the time that this podcast airs but even still you can just go anywhere in stepen cal.com enter your name uh wherever you find a signup box oh it's actually at the very bottom of every page I take it back you can use newsletter but honestly at the bottom of every single page is a little that says join the community and St to date that's my Sunday rewind email um and um I would love to be able to send you what I'm doing this winter and I just made up four different um bags basically I call it the in emergency break class and so if you ever get sick this winter this is what I'm doing I actually simplified it I gave you it back on uh well a year ago and now I'm just simplifying it into a few products so that it's less expensive for everybody and that's that's of course always my goal is to get you the products you need at you know a price that's quite reasonable so that's what I do that's always been my myo as to what I've tried to do but that's it besides taking good nutritional supplements eat well as well as you can walk your 10,000 steps per day ideally outside breathing in fresh air getting sunlight if you're able to if you've already worked up to your 10,000 steps now work in some resistance training eat 7 to9 Cups of brightly colored fruits and vegetables every single day play laugh and love one another that's my best medicine that's the best advice I can give you all right so and the other last part is this get listen like we all have different viewpoints in the government we have all view different viewpoints on politics except for me like I literally just don't care but of course I do have my my viewpoints on the government and it's just because simply they're made up of people right the government is made up of people we kind of elect them and we think that they're somehow a higher power than this they're not right the regular people and what I just always want you to remember is look out for your neighbors look out for your F family look out for those in your church congregation your spiritual practice your community your co-workers really we have to help each other out that's honestly what it's about it's helping each other do not rely on other people they may be there they may not but take care of your little community and if each Community takes care of theirs then fantastic I think we're all going to be doing pretty well so and of course let me know how I can help you know that you can reach me in at least a half a dozen different ways uh DM me on Instagram go to Stephen cal.com text uh email us at support stepen cal.com if it's an equal life uh formula or lab email us at support.if uh if it's Integrative Health practitioner Institute email us at support Integrative Health practitioner. org you can reach us Monday through Friday uh for about 12 hours during the day and so again we're happy to help all right uh what is going on this week over at equal life it's a great question well again I said this in the intro and I I want take this to Heart the big five is the absolute best set of labs that you can do no doubt about it big five best set of labs that you can do however what I want to share with you is that not everybody can afford the price of the big five and I get it and I understand that remember back in the day when I was first getting started in this my parent we were we weren't running the big five but believe it or not they were offered back then so what we did was the minerals and metals test that I still run today and we did a hormones test that was a 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supplies La last going on this week all right quick cap of the podcast Monday's show hopefully you didn't miss it how to wake up earlier and get more accomplished honestly the one superpower everybody has I know there's a lot of different excuses I've used them myself at least less than the episode before uh saying no okay that's all that I ask of you that's episode 2047 episode 2048 2048 was five immune system suppressants that was more of a rant than anything else uh if you want to listen to rant about how I feel about um why I don't actually believe that I believe that we could be helping people to such a greater degree and we're not we refuse to talk about the topic of Health we only talk about the topic of sickness we only talk about sickness when it comes to our media on both sides by the way I'm not again first of all I don't watch TV so please don't blame me for any particular channel that you love or don't love uh but I just we can help people do a greater degree and when I see all these comorbidities I all see all these people at risk I'm saying let's help the them Let's help them that's what we want to do help them get healthy so that was just an enormous rant um kind of was like should I publish this should I not publish this but honestly it's how I feel and I try not to make it too controversial I'm sure that it will be but at the same time if you understand where I'm coming from a place of wanting to help then hopefully uh everyone will be okay with it uh on Wednesday's show 2049 we did eliminate how to eliminate lower belly bulge uh that was a big request by uh listeners so we did a show on that and then yesterday was three ways to lower blood sugar without eating less that was a fun show so definitely check that out because that's important that was episode 2050 you can find all podcasts at Steven cal.com podcasts all right today's product review of the week that hopefully will explain why I have a blue tongue one more time again if you don't want to see me stick my tongue out at you don't watch this on video uh if you want to watch things like this I definitely recommend it head on over to YouTube YouTube and you can just subscribe it's just my name Steven cabal hit the notification every day we put out a new video and a couple uh fun whiteboard videos along the way as well so bright blue tongue that will last the whole day so if you don't want a blue tongue for the entire day then you can't even brush it off mine has not brushed off uh then you won't want to do this before let's say a business meeting if you unless you want it to be uh the topic of a fun conversation um so I've been getting again this is by honestly this is by listeners request lot of questions from our ihps and others about this product called methylene blue methylene blue the actual name for this naturally occurring product is called methyl Thum chloride now was that the proper pronunciation almost it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue methyl thinium there we go chloride that is the proper pronunciation right there and believe it or not it's been used for well almost 100 years not quite no actually it has so it was originally used as a natural uh stain or Dye like a sparina or a turmeric right or a beet juice all of these things can be used as natural dyes and it was used even before that to treat malaria I don't know about in the US but definitely overseas uh for malaria because it is an antimicrobial it's an antifungal and it's also one of the reasons why it's mainly used to this day inside of fish tanks if you wonder why hey what fish tanks have blue water well it is because of methylene blue so you might be saying to yourself why would I ever put methylene blue into my body uh when it's used to clean fish tanks well understand that it's simply an anti-fungal and it's an anti- potentially anti-parasitic which is why it helps with parasites as well but lately it's been studied uh to a greater degree and there's some PubMed studies that I'm going to link up today at Steven cal.com 2051 that's Today's Show uh methylene is blue has been shown to potentially have to say potentially help with Alzheimer's and Dementia and Parkinson's and cognitive ability cognitive function helping with memory neural synapses in the brain so it does that by actually improving electron transport improving ATP which is energy in the body energy in cells and brain and it is an electron carrier so basically what it does is it helps with free radicals as an antioxidant which our whole body needs so there's a lot of potential benefit to it it can help with energy it can help with your brain it can help with Clarity and uh and a lot of people are asking about it and they're thinking about trying it now um I will say too much of it it takes a bit takes a lot but too much of it could cause oxidative stress and uh neurological issues ETC so of course I'm not recommending that people on certain medication like MAO inhibitors uh probably should not use this product again you need to speak to your doctor if you using any medications well the leading company right now for methylene blue is called uh tros scriptions and it is this product right here called tro just blue and again if you're not watching on video I will not be able to link this up of course uh because it's a podcast and I'm talking about health and we're not allowed to link up nutritional supplements so what can I do in order to get you this it's a great question why don't I do this go to stepen cal.com sltr TR Steven cal.com and I will Ford you over to the company's website now you of course you can just look them up as well this product though called um just blue is just methylene blue and uh it comes in what do they call them troes tro troes I don't even know how you pronounce that but basically it's in four quadrants and you can break it in half and just start with half which is what I did or you can even start with a quarter so what I did is I had a bunch of people up on the weekend we all had blue tongues it was actually really hilarious it was fun and what did they feel well I actually did feel a little it's I wouldn't say like Euphoria but you definitely feel like a little bit more of your like a little bit more of not a head high that's probably the wrong thing to say but a little lighter yeah I felt a little lighter that's probably the best way to describe it okay so that is that again there is um some good research behind it I'll link that up and um then they have another product called tro blue Cantine show you that it looks just like the other packaging but this one contains caffeine 50 milligrams which is about A4 cup of coffee it's about a quarter of a cup of coffee about a third a cup if you're at Dunkin Donuts and not even a/ qu cup if you're out of Starbucks right small Starbucks is 272 milligrams uh small Doug and donuts is 140 so it's a small amount of caffeine but it's 50 milligram it contains hemp extract so some CBD 5 milligram not a bad dosage but a smaller dosage but but it's it's something it contains methylene blue and it contains a uh like a pharmaceutical grade nicotine now you might say why would anyone use nicotine well you're not smoking nicotine which is good because I don't believe in putting smoke in the lungs and what nicotine does is it's a stimulant so you have caffeine which is a stimulant okay you have the nicotine which is a bit of a stimulant and it enhances performance and in this case it enhances cognitive performance so if you're someone that likes this is more of a biohacking thing you'd like to just say okay I'm going to do three hours of focus work right now that's how people are using this product I'm not a big nicotine user just to be honest with you um I do use some caffeine in my own life uh I'm not against this product whatsoever I think it is actually Best in Class I actually don't think that there's a better uh methylene blue based product and so you can use the just blue if you just want the methylene blue and then if you want more of that enhanced cognitive Focus then you can use the uh tro blue and the Cantine I will link these up and they'll both be at the same page I'll just go Steven cal.com for/ I can definitely recommend these products uh daily use I'm not sure about that I personally wouldn't use them for daily use it doesn't mean that you can't uh but for me this is a every once in a while product and it does what it says it's going to do so I can definitely give it a good review there all right that will be at stepen cal.com and I'll send you right over to their website and of course course if they have any uh discount codes well I will always pass that along as I typically do all right book review of the week I just heard Mr Tim Grover speak Tim Grover I I share I feel like I share a lot in common with anybody that comes from the fitness and health-based Industry uh Tim has been in this industry for about 30 years and he was Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant and many other great athletes uh athletic trainer personal trainer and he helped them get in great shape so like Michael Jordan when he had difficulty beating the Pistons and other teams he helped Michael get a lot stronger put on more muscle mass and come back re really like you know with with vengeance in order to be able to win all of those championships so Michael Jordan's quote was actually Tim Grover was by my side for 15 years and knows more than anyone about building winners this book is essential for those who want to be the best at whatever they do and are willing to pay the price to get there so Tim actually wrote a book previous to this um called Relentless I believe that's a book I believe he wrote I know I read that uh this is a short book and this is only about 200 pages easy to read through and it is about developing the mindset of a winner and what a Winner's mindset looks like so when you look at people at the top of their game then you're saying okay what is this person act like what do they do and it actually shows you that for a period of time that a lot of winners are actually pretty unbalanced in one part of their life in order to go all in for that and I'm not against that so let's say that you would revolutionize your life if you got healthier you would revolutionize your life of course in a good way if you lost 100 pounds uh if you built your career up to a certain Financial amount where you could take care of your family then for the rest of your life like could you go all in for one year now not losing everything else in your life of course but could you go all in for a certain period of time I got the pleasure of listening to Oscar De La Hoya speak and for one year he moved into basically not the mountains but he moved away and set up a training camp and he trained for a full year in order and here's the reason why he wanted to become a five time world champion in five different weight classes do you know how difficult that is that's unbelievable and I think he was the first one to do it and he did that and for one year that's what he did he ate slept and drank I guess boxing right that's what he did and he did it he accomplished it now was was he balanced in other areas no but it set him up for the rest of his life so it's an interesting perspective is it for everyone um of course it is absolutely not this is very strong in One Direction but again you don't have to believe everything you read you can just say Okay I want to take this parts from it and and I could maybe use that in my life so great book uh he's a great guy really a great guy um to be able to hang out with and meet and so that's winning by Tim Grover and I can link that up so that will be at stepen cal.com 2051 two research for the week two research um items the first one is this is an interesting one so my youngest daughter got poison ivy one of my fies got poison ivy for a long time but my daughter she's seven years old got poison ivy so there's a product that I used because poison ivy can be quite vicious u meaning like it can spread over your whole body especially for kids they rub it can go all over their body and if it hits your face it's just bad news so I use a product I'm going to link it up I don't have that product off the top of my head that's not what today's research is about but I'll link that up here today as well uh but there is actual good research but science can figure out why it works so I should say there's lots of great anecdotal research tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people using this but science doesn't know yet why it works let me just share it with you though um if you've been exposed to poison ivy you want to wash the area first soap and water wash the area soap and water and ideally with a washcloth because you want to you want to rub off the oil a big part of poon Ivy the issue is the oil so the oil stays on you and doesn't wash off with water so that's why you need to get a resin something that takes off the oil so it doesn't spread and then it can start to dry out so you want to wash soap in water and that removes the uh urol resin that causes the uncomfortable blisters and itching okay so what you can do though is actually after once it's clean you can use a banana pil and you can use the inside of the banana banana peel the white part to rub on top of the poison ivy rash the riper the the riper the banana the better so uh science still doesn't know why this works but there's obviously some type of enzyme or something inside of that banana peel that seems to help with drying up and getting rid of the poison ivy give it a shot and I'm also going to share with you uh an over-the-counter product that works within a day of getting rid of poison ivy now has it gone into a day no but it starts to dry it up immediately so it can't spread all right I'm going to link that up for today uh the second research is this 4 seconds of exercise that now that caught my attention 4 seconds of exercise that seems like too small of a amount but let but let me just share with you this and then let me let's go with it so small BS of exercise just as little as 4 seconds can actually share great results or can end up with great results so for people that sit the majority of the day at a desk or at home if they get up five times for the hour and just do 4 Seconds of high-intensity work it's only 4 seconds it improved their overall fat metabolism and it lower their triglycerides so if you have issues with cholesterol if you have issues with triglycerides uh or fat metabolism you might want to check it out this was done at the University of Texas at Austin and it was published in medicine and Sports in sports and exercise Journal so I'm going to link that up for you here today how can I use it honestly if you're at your uh work you're probably not going to have a bike right to do high-intensity full Sprints for 4 seconds what we can do is you can do a burpee and you can do it really fast so hands up hands down to the floor kick your feet back jump up I bet you can do four of those in four seconds four burpees if you don't know what a burpee is uh we'll link up to a video here today as well so I'm just going to type in Burpee video for my team and uh you can do that 4 seconds five times so what is that over an hour well just set your timer for once every 12 minutes and um or even 10 minutes if you wanted to get an extra one and you can just do four burpees you won't sweat anything going on it actually probably give you a nice little boost in energy so I just wanted to share that with you and uh if you try it let me know how it goes that is it for today's show thank you so much we really did Cover a lot today so hopefully you enjoyed the show I appreciate you I'll be back this weekend with another cabal host call answering all of our communities questions take care everyone thank you so much for just tuning into the show and 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