From the latest in supplements and innovative health plans to the genetic roots of obesity, join us as we explore a multifaceted perspective on weight management and overall health. Along the way, we'll also touch on survival fitness plans, the emerging science behind vision supplements, and the therapeutic wonders of myofascial massage.

Additionally, we'll delve into the benefits of a minimalist lifestyle and highlight some of the best biohacking podcasts out there. Whether you're seeking knowledge on combating obesity or simply keen to enhance your health from different angles, this episode has insights for everyone. Stay tuned!

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00:00:00 Introduction

02:05:14 Survival Fitness Plan Updates

04:02:23 Viome and Supplements

05:28:68 Supplements for Vision

06:06:07 Myofascial Massage

08:04:69 Being Minimalist

08:38:01 Biohacking Podcasts

09:05:96 Is Obesity Hereditary?

11:27:28 Lifestyle Changes

12:35:16 Closing

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 Hi guys, Sam Fury here with another episode of the Survival Fitness Plan, your ultimate flight and fight fitness training program. I'm currently in Phoenix, Arizona. Oh, sorry about the sun. Let me sit down. Let me sit down over here while I talk to you. So I'm currently in Phoenix, Arizona. I flew in.

Friday, today's Monday as, as I do this, and then I had the weekend, just I've been hanging out with a friend here, so I haven't really done much work-wise, so, but during the week, my friend goes to work, so I can catch up on work, so that's good, and so I'm hoping to get quite a lot done in the next month while I'm here today's episode, I just wanna just a few random things, I think, just to catch up, more to filter my mind.

And, and then next, on the next episode, we'll get back on schedule a little bit. Here I am, this dog. For those of you that are watching this and not just listening to it on the podcast, my friend's got a dog, and it's a, I think it's a rescue dog. It's a bit It's skittish, but it's a beautiful dog.

It's in a, I just like the pattern on its face. So if you're listening to the podcast and you want to see the dog, you have to go onto YouTube or Facebook or whatever and have a look at it. I don't know when the episodes come out. Here he is. I think I think he's ready to go home. Right? Yeah. Aren't a sniff around.

So I think every day. What I might do is walk the dog mid-morning and do the, do the podcast. Not every day, I only do this three times a week, so that's good. Yeah, it's a good dog, but it gets a bit scary. Anyway, I can't go running with the dog. I think it's got leg problems. But I found that running with dogs isn't that good anyway, because they they always want to stop and sniff.

And you take the dog for a walk, it's really for the dog, not really for the human. So I like to let them stop and sniff and stuff. But then also... I want to keep running myself, right? So this dog's been sniffing around for about 10 minutes and I only just started, I should have started, because I didn't know what was going to happen, I should have started this recording when it, when we first rocked up.

Anyway, it doesn't matter.

 So, in today's episode the main, the main thing I wanted to talk about is a podcast that I listen to, I forget what the, I think it was like a biohacking podcast, and they were talking about Big Pharma and their take on obesity, but I'll get to that in a bit. Today, first of all, let's give you some updates on what's been happening.

I'm gonna update the timetable again. I can't give you details right now, because I haven't really sorted it out in my mind still, but I've, I've found that, especially for people that travel around a lot, and maybe don't have a stable base, the way the timetable's laid out at the moment, it's a bit hard, it's like, alright, so...

You're doing sprints and then you're doing strength, and that's like together at the moment, that's together. But, if you're like, like where I am here, it's kind of hard to do sprints and then strength training because you don't have the same equipment everywhere you go, right? So it's better to switch it around a bit and just combine sprints with parkour and running because you're already out there.

There's no point going out twice, like going out every single day because it's a time killer. And I think the survival fitness plan, it's not just a fitness program. As I've as you've probably alluded to, like, it's a bit of a lifestyle and I think one of the big things about it will be to how to, how to, like, stay fit and learn all the stuff, but, like, without wasting, like, within in efficient timing.

So I'm going to change it up a little bit. Maybe the levels will disappear. I'm not sure, but I'll let you know. You might take me a couple of days to figure it out, but I'll let you know, and then we'll update the app again, and then we'll, ah, so much work. But I want to get it good, you know what I mean?

I want to get it perfect before I release it. Also, it might take, it might set me back about a week to release it, but hopefully, by the end of this month at least something will be released. You'll be able to download the actual app. But of course, you can always go and go and register now and you'll get six months free because once it does release, like I keep saying, once it is released, it will cost money.

So go get it now for six months free. Alright, so that's that.

 The other thing is I've been doing a lot with supplements lately and I came across this thing called Biomi. It is available in other parts of the world, but it's easier once I got to It was just seemed easier to do once I got to the States because it's a United States-based company and I think some countries wouldn't allow it because I don't know the states have different laws or whatever But I did it.

And so today I took all my samples. It was a stool sample a spit sample saliva samples I don't spit sample Saliva sample and blood samples, right? And I did all that this morning, so I'll send it off today. And I think it takes like three weeks to process and what will happen then is that they'll send it back.

They won't send the samples back, but they'll send back a personalized one, I'm not really sure what it is, but it tells you all that according to your body and your gut microbes and all your test results, what you should be eating and what you all this sort of stuff and then they also although I won't do this because I'm not Like, I'm only in America for a month at this stage and it'll give you like, personalized supplements, like, they'll create them, depending, so it's got all the specific mic.

Prebiotics and probiotics that you actually need according to and then every like few months or every six months I think you retest and then it readjusts. So that's pretty cool It seems like a pretty good way to do something as opposed to just taking Taking all of this dog needs a lot of attention if you stop patting it, you know, it wants you to pat it more Anyway, alright, so that's the supplements thing.

 And so I'm trying that out also My mum, my Malaysian mum gave me, she's noticed that I've been starting to wear glasses, right? And she's like, oh, you know what? Take these, because she's, does this company called Elkin, and it's all about supplements and like reverse osmosis water and all these healthy things, right?

And so she gives me these, like, tablets, and it's like, these will fix your eyes. Well, maybe don't fix them completely, but it's, it'll make, it'll make them better, right? So I'm gonna start taking them and we'll see what happens. I'll give you a report after I finish the bottle. You see if my eyes are getting any better.

I mean, they're not terrible at the moment, but if they get them better, why not, you know what I mean?

 Anyway, alright, the next thing is about the massage. So, in the survival fitness plan now, there's Myofascial Massage, right? I've got this from Dr. Kelly, I don't know if he's a doctor, but Kelly's someone, he's like the forefront person of, he wrote this book called How to Be a Supple Leopard, or How to Become a Supple Leopard.

And he's like the forefront of what's that called? Like, flexibility, mobility, and injury repair, right? Like, injury, mus musculoskeletal injury physio sort of stuff. Anyway. And so he's like, doing a facial massage, and he's got all these exercises or whatever, but somehow I find them hard or not willing to do them.

Not saying that I'm not willing, but they're kind of dunno, there's just something about them. That prevents me from, like, I do them, but I'm not happy about it. But then yesterday, so I was working at the shops or whatever, and I saw this, like, massage ball rolling. And what is it? It's a ball, ah, I should have it on me and I could show you.

It's a ball, and it's like, in a, in a little case, and so it rolls freely, and it's like, and it makes it really easy to do the myofascial massage. It might not be as... It's not as good as the way, the specific exercises he does, but it's definitely a lot easier to use, which means it's more likely to use it, right?

And basically, what all, all you do with it is you're just kind of coloring your body with it, right? And you're just rolling it over and it's good. And it's always, and yeah, like I said, so it might not be perfect, it might not be as good as the exercise that he uses or as good as the ones on YouTube where you get a tennis ball and like do specific ones.

It's better than nothing, and it's a lot easier, and it takes, and it's much faster. So, I think I'm gonna incorporate that and replace those other ones. And then every day, instead of doing specific exercises for the moment, and you can, like, go learn the ones, of course, if you're into that more. But I wanna make the survival fitness plan more it is accessible to everyone, but more easier to use, so people are more likely to do it.

 What else? Also, I've decided that even though the Survival Fitness Plan, is supposed to be a minimalist thing and you don't really need anything. But you do need some things, like, you need a place to do pull-ups, right? And when you go swimming, you're gonna need swimming goggles or whatever. So, there are some small things that you'll need when you get up to those things.

So, I'm gonna make up a gear list and then put that on, like, the minimalist gear list and put that up on the website. And so people can go there and you can see the stuff that I personally use. Or something similar that you can easily order off Amazon or whatever and get it delivered. There you go.

 So that's that. The podcasts. Alright, so I was listening to some podcasts. I've been listening to more biohacking podcasts like just general health and fitness podcasts. And it was interesting. Yesterday there was this subject and they were talking about Big Pharma. And I think this is United States base and what happened is like, I think one of Biden, is that the president of the United States?

 Yeah, Biden, someone from his department, whatever, maybe the person, the spokesperson of health or whatever, come up and he, and she said that obesity is Genetic or hereditary or something like that and I think the idea was is that and they've done this before apparently is where they claim something is like not really your fault, right and then big pharma can come in and offer you a pill and And there are all these other reasons political reasons for doing this sort of stuff.

So I just wanted to touch on this because first of all, I don't believe obesity is hereditary. I mean, there's not enough science to back it up yet, so once they prove the science, maybe I'll change my mind. It might be a little bit hereditary, like, but in reality, like, I don't think obesity was around.

Before we've had our modern life of being making it is like all this junk food that makes it so easy to eat bad and you don't really have to move that much anymore If you didn't want to like back in the day when you had to work hard, right? You have to do stuff these days a lot of people including myself just sit behind a computer You're right You drive your car across the road or do no people a lot of people eat really poorly They're eating like just McDonald's or even like frozen foods and all that sort of stuff just a poor diet and a poor lifestyle So I think maybe it's true that obesity is ready to like to some extent but I think like 90 95 percent of it is lifestyle.

So I think the thing is that just be careful about when the government, including the government and anyone, claims that some things it's like, Oh, it's just, that's just your hand, you dealt with, here's a magic pill to fix it, or there's nothing you can do about it, that's, cause that's bullshit, right?

You can always do something about something, and you just gotta put in the effort. I think a lot of people are just lazy, so when they hear like, oh, it's hereditary and then Big Pharma will come up with some pill that you can fix all these problems or whatever, and then they'll take it, but then you don't really know.

It's not really fixing the root cause you got it. You got to go out there and do stuff You got to you got to take care of your body. You got to exercise you got to eat Well all that sort of stuff. So I just wanted to because maybe you haven't heard about it yet But it'll you'll be hearing about it soon So just be careful when you hear about that on the news that it's not your fault if you're overweight or whatever.

 I'm not saying it's your fault. I have lifestyle changes It is your fault. It's all about how you can change. It doesn't matter. I've had a bad chop like oh, all right. Yeah, fair enough So maybe you're not taught by me from when you were younger if your family ate well I ate poorly and you never they didn't encourage exercise or whatever but now if you listen to now, you know, right so go make a change just do a little bit every day and And then that little bit will get more and more and more to get easier and easier and then you can You can reach your goals and I actually to be fair.

I assume like people listening to this the few of you that listen to this are probably not obese anyway, but if you are, if you got a little bit, if you put a little bit more weight on over the holidays or whatever, and Survival Fitness Plan isn't about losing weight, it's about being healthy, but as a good side product of that, you go, you get your optimal weight, whether you have to lose it or put it on or whatever, you will be at a healthy stage unless you've got chronic actual illnesses, which you should go see a doctor about obviously, but nutrition, you'll be surprised about how many problems.

Modern, modern illnesses, just nutrition and exercise and like living a healthy life and they like to fix them.

 So yeah, alright, that's it for today guys. I've been out in the sun too much. It's good to get sunlight, but I don't want to get sunburned. Yeah, I'll see you next time in a couple of days. Bye.

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