Week 29: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life

Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and Best-Selling Author. All right, everyone, welcome to week 29 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Here we are making ourselves into an unprocessed person and by the five pillars diet and movement. And sleep and connection and with our plastic free living um this is the Halloween edition hence and also captain jean-luc Picard sir Patrick Stewart just died this past week what a really fateful week for that and hence I brought up this old costume that I wore several years ago for my astronaut outfit somewhat fitting I guess a lot of this this certainly is not plastic free living this is going to be a lot of plastic here that is on my body.

However, it's difficult to find costumes that are natural. So be it, right? So you only live once. You have to do some living here. And here we are. Week 29, Halloween edition. This is the holiday where we really eat a lot of candy, right? And that is antithetical. to what we're doing in our life here. Okay, so, but a little bit of candy here and there. And as long as we are really situating it in a healthy way and getting out meeting people Halloween is a great time for connection meeting the neighbors where else can you go out and we're having a trunk or treat out in the park here um and the kids are going to be coming around with their parents and we get to meet everyone so and potentially time for parties and hanging out with your friends and the rest of the holidays are coming up and really need to get that exercise in.

If you get out trick-or-treating, hey, that's exercise too, right? So if you're trick-or-treating with your kids or by yourself, if you get out there, if you're an adult, by yourself maybe, and get some meeting the neighbors, getting some exercise. You have to walk around the block, right? And it's walking around in the evening. This week also, about 10 days ago, released a book by Darius Mozaffarian, Food is Medicine. Really highly encourage this because it really gets into the meat of the matter as far as the history of diets and also government intervention in diet. and why it came to be. This book is really good about showing from World War II, World War I, and World War II that the world really had a problem with hunger and with vitamin deficiencies.

with undernourishment of the population, including the United States. And I'm not saying there's not that problem. There is still that problem that we still have children who go to school without breakfast, without lunch, maybe because they can't afford the school lunch. And this kind of thing is what we need to fight against. And so, but. In doing so, in fighting against that, the government had some heavy-handed hands in our lives in fortifying food and with the food pyramid that put a lot of breads and grains at the bottom and put the fats at the top. Meaning the top being a low level of amount of food and the grains being the bottom and the grains being the bottom being the base and that you should be eating all these grains and you want high fat because supposedly that was cholesterol issues speaking and The whole low fat and getting rid of saturated fats may have not been exactly the right thing to do if you are replacing it with sugar and processed foods.

And that whole thing, I've talked about this and my parents becoming parents in the 60s and 70s, growing up in the 40s and 50s, they... were, and still are. My mom still is heavy into processed foods and the ease that that has. And I think she just got brought up in that generation. I was brought up in that generation, still trying to get rid of processed foods out of my diet, still trying to escape that, right? And now we're finding. Not really now. We found this out in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and still continuing to harp on this, still continuing to get more data on the fact that a pescatarian diet or a vegan diet with supplementation or a Mediterranean diet, less red meat.

high in good, healthy polyunsaturated fats with good omega-6 and omega-3 fats, low in sugar, whole food diet, less packaged foods is the way to go for a long and prosperous life. Okay, so we're going to live long and prosper, as Jean-Luc Picard would say. We need to get rid of our processed foods. Get rid of the candies that are going to be handed out in plethora, in handfuls. And these kids are going to be pulling them out of the bowl. putting them in their little Halloween candy basket. And the less we can do of that, the better. He also goes into a lot of what can happen in the future and goes into green organic regenerative farming. etc. And I think it is a great book to read.

I'm only on chapter four of this so far. I haven't gotten to that green organic regenerative farming yet. I listened to just a minute of it or so, but this is a really good book if you want the history of and the reasoning behind what happened. in the 70s 60s and 70s and you know even back into world war ii where we started to have fortified foods fortified flowers and now getting to where we are at now in this world so thanks for joining me here um we are all really excited about Halloween um I the lovely thing about these

Okay, so let's get it off. Is it night? Can't see that very well on the camera, but it is a red light there. So maybe at night I could wear this red, which I did the other night at the end of my run that I did for the run club that I did. I can get out there and... still have just a red light under me. So maybe that'll help with my sleep for tonight, for Halloween. And so let's get to what we're doing here this week in week 29. And obviously we've already talked a little bit about diet. Okay. diet and holiday eating, emphasizing low calorie, whole foods, time restricted eating, and intermittent fasting. So treat yourself to yogurt and fruit instead of the candy.

If you're going to have sugar, make it a good sugar that is, you know, these sugars and, you know, they say carbs are bad. But carbs are not bad when you have a good reason for it. Now, carbs are fiber and they are vegetables that have that sugar potentially, but they have polyphenols and antioxidants that balance it out and make it a good, healthy thing. Refined sugars and sugar that you put in a candy bar and sugar that you put in... gummies, etc. may not be so good. All right, so treat yourself to yogurt and fruit this Halloween. I'll certainly be having some yogurt. I have a homemade oat milk yogurt that I made this week, and we have some good hummus. I love these hummuses that are made with organic olive oil. Love it. increasing the home garden this week. And we're going to talk about this in really everything, connection and movement, increasing the home garden, planted some tomatoes and peppers this week and hoping that I can get a harvest in before December with that. So I'm going to take

Okay, so really bothering my eyes there, right? So maybe it's the artificial light. All right, so planted some tomatoes and peppers and really looking at also in the diet organic gardening, kind of some of the same regenerative gardening that you can do, that the farmers can do, right? Using those same processes of... Tilling in and if you have a tomato plant, you till it into the garden when it's done, right? And peppers the same way. Then harvesting your own seeds. If you have organic seeds already and you're growing it organically. And with that home garden, some different things that I've been trying to do there as well, planting with cedar as an above the ground garden and trying to make sure that I bring in good organic topsoil. etc.

Trying to not treat with any pesticides or anything like that. And what else with that? Trying to use composting, home composting and that kind of thing. All right. So that kind of thing is where we're at with how we want to be for. this home gardening as well. Okay, so movement. For movement this week, I'm really starting to plan and purchase home gym things again. Dumbbells, home gym, a functional trainer. Getting those things, and obviously it is difficult to have that be plastic-free, right? But mostly stainless steel with that. Increasing the home garden, again, is part of the movement, part of doing everything yourself, okay? So sleep, we're going to work on bedtime tea. So this week is the tea as it gets cooler here in Florida.

We don't have as much of an issue as you guys do up north, but wherever you're listening to this, bedtime tea can be a great thing for sleep, using a diffuser at night, and then avoiding exercise after 6 p.m. And this is something that I've had some problem with. in the past because of my lack of time right and it's if you have to do it you have to do it if every night you get home after six or seven o'clock then you have to do it at some point just try to make it so it impacts sleep less yeah you know in the middle of the summer in the past When I lived on Davis Island, Florida, I would run around the island at like 11 o'clock at night.

This was about 10 years ago, let's say approximately. And that, I'm sure, affected my sleep. But at that time, I thought I was living healthy. And hey, I was great getting my exercise. And I would run that six miles. But 11 o'clock at night probably is not the greatest idea. All right, so connection. This week, what's signifying as the connection is donating blood. I donated some blood. An organ donation. I am a big proponent of organ donation if you happen to not live long and prosper. And you do die early, let's say in a car accident or something like that, because that certainly takes lives away from us. Organ donation is the way to help make sure that you are connected to the community. Make sure that you...

If you have the opportunity and if you believe in this, do so. Because I certainly do. And plastics. Just purchased today a tea kettle made out of glass and a steeper that is made out of stainless steel. And that is... Where we're at this week with our plastics, getting rid of any potential. You know, I'm used to even microwaving water. What does microwaving my water do for me when I am making a... I love my tea. I love making it with... And the other part about steeping is that even getting some dry loose leaf tea... You don't necessarily have to get dry loose leaf tea. For me, my favorite tea is peppermint. And you can get the tea leaves.

You could even maybe even get your own peppermint plant, which is something I'm going to be doing soon as well, getting a peppermint plant and using the leaves from it. So getting all of your... herbs and teas grown in your own garden can be a huge help for the environment and storing those leaves. You could dry them and there is certainly some effect that drying does on polyphenols, but so fresh peppermint leaves. would be an even better tea, right? I’ve made that many times before. And that's some of my favorite tea is one I can do that way. And that gets rid of, what is plastic in a teabag? A lot of these teabags are made with plastic. How is that, right? So, all right. So, I was going to mention this at the beginning.

I want to try to get this mentioned at the beginning is where to watch this podcast. Thank you for joining us here for week 29. It's going to be a short week this week. Last week was pretty heavy because we got into manifestation. We are manifesting 111 here on the Go On Pro podcast week 29. And the GoOnPro.com, Apple, Spotify, Substack, YouTube is where you need to get your Go On Pro podcast. You can also check us out on social media, on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Substack, LinkedIn, everywhere, right? Thanks for joining us here, week 29. It's a little bit of a short week because of needing to get out and trick or treat. Thanks for joining me. I love it. Love that you're here with me. I love you guys. I love the life I'm building and the love for longevity, right? So live long and prosper, everyone. All right, take care.

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