Dr. Robert Kiltz On Hormone Balance, Managing Inflamation, & Gender Roles In Fertility

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36:47That's D-O-S-E-D-A-I-L-Y.co.co slash skinny for 35 % off your first month subscription. You know why I think this is so hard for some people as it relates to fertility or weight management or any of this stuff is a lot of, I think we've got to a place where we hope that we can go to a doctor and that you guys can prescribe us something that'll instantly change our condition, right? Like I can't lose weight. Give me the thing that's going to do it. I think it's harder to go to someone and say, Yeah, we have all those tools, but by the way, you changing your mind or you changing your diet or you getting into getting some exercise will have a great impact.

37:30And I think sometimes that message is hard for people to stomach because it means that you have to change your life. Well, I ask people, what's the most important thing for you in your life? And since I take care of people wanting to have a baby, they say having a baby. And they say, well, what would you do for that most important thing in life? And the answer almost always is anything. And so I, again, I'm just giving the anything you could do. And some people do it right away. Some people never do it. and quite often I see people that like they tried, didn't work, and then they might have done keto or carnivore and they had success.

38:14They did acupuncture, they did yoga, meditation, prayer, they had success and that's one of the most powerful things. What are the affirmations that you tell people to shift their mindset when they want to get pregnant? I'm a mom, I'm a dad, I'm a parent. it's the simplest thing to do. I am. It's, I'm sure it's hard when you can't get pregnant because your brain is telling you, Oh my God, I can't get pregnant. Oh my God, I can't get pregnant. Oh my God. I had this experience with weight loss with my first baby. I kept telling myself, Oh my God, I can't lose weight. Oh my God, I can't lose weight.

38:50And guess what? The second that I told myself, I am losing weight, it started to fall off. Well, number one, being overweight is not a disease. It doesn't cause any disease, which is kind of radical. Obesity is not a cause of disease. It's an instinctual process to get fat enough for migration, hibernation, gestation, or famine. We're built to get fat. We're just living in the wrong environment because food was never easy to have. You had to go hunt and gather. So we have overexposure. Some of it's bad. It's just overeating is the biggest problem. And so you have to get the mind there first, mind first.

39:44So watch shows like yourself, you listen and learn from others that have been there. And basically you're learning, even if you're learning a diet or an exercise or a pill or a shot, you're still learning something, mind. Our job is to put the right stuff forward. so your mindfulness changes early and you see you have the power. Quite often we look at ourselves in the mirror and we don't think nice about ourselves. Well, when you don't think nice about it yourself and you fail, well, that's easy enough to go right back into things that just make you happy, which make you continue to fail. So if we can help each other recognize that you're beautiful and amazing already, and then you see the person you wish to be as if it is, it'll always be that or better.

40:40And the journey is not straight. It is a practice too. Like for me, at least it's not something I've changed my mindset many times, but you do, to me, I have to keep coming back to it every day. So I have to keep going back to my, to my positive affirmations. It's not something like that's natural, you almost have to put yourself in the practice. Your heart's beating and you don't have to talk to it and tell it to beat. Your lungs are moving air in and out. You don't have to remind it. And it is a daily practice. It's actually an infinite practice. See, every thought you think is a prayer to the universe.

41:19Every negative thought attracts, every positive thought attracts. You are very Louise Hay. I love Louise Hay I can tell yeah yeah yeah but it took me a while to figure this out it was sort of like this it's just my thinking that's the problem this is why I was served your content on Instagram because I found you on Instagram because all my starred content's Louise Hay and that's why you must have popped up I don't remember the video it must have been something like this though because I sent it to the team and I was like he has to come on the show well everything happens as it's meant to be and God puts us in places at times in ways that we don't always understand.

42:00But if we just take a moment and sit back and go, okay, God, what do you have for me today? Wow, this looks interesting and amazing. And we're open to it. Why do you think that people are constantly worrying and having a sabotaging mindset? Because that's natural in our instinct. Yeah. Because as a hunter-gatherer, wherever we were, we had to think and be prepared for the worst case scenario i call it michael does it sometimes i call it saber tooth it's a saber tooth that's absolutely it and and it's so but the the philosophy of our ancients taught us the black wolf for the white wolf where do you put your mind to and it changes your life by changing it and this is we were ancient philosophers thousands of years ago that's what made us different and i think god changed our lives when we recognize there's something out there but i think what we didn't realize we created it it's in us what's your practice that you do to shift your mindset in the morning?

43:17Oh, I usually get up between three and four. Ooh. Well, today I get up at 1.30. It was a little crazy. And I sometimes do. What time do you go to bed? Usually nine o 'clock. Okay. And I take one to three naps. I'm a napper. I mean, lions nap. Dogs and cats nap. I'd love a nap. Practice and nap. But you have young children, which makes it a little harder for moms but I think it's one of the most powerful things we do. And when I nap, 10 minutes, I love you. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. I go through my gratitude list of the people in my life, even the hard people. Yeah. And I'm grateful for the people in my gang, in my father going to jail, in my grandparents dying when I didn't know them in suicide.

44:08There's a gratitude to all of us because we're all on an amazing journey. this is like such an amazing journey and we're all going to die. Let's make ourselves the best food and fertilizer for the next life. And let's see the next life in the energetic way that we want it to be. Well, if you start to worry about something and you start to spiral and you can't get off the worry and you're ruminating on the worry, how do you walk yourself back? I love you. Thank you. you just constantly say your attention it's my go-to i love you thank you i love you thank you and i wake up in the morning i do my gratitude prayer i make my bed i do 100 push-ups oh nice and i can tell you look i'm not some strength under that blazer i'm not bad for almost 70 i'm finishing my 70th year in march and i've learned so much in the struggles the pain the sorrow, the breakup, the, you know, friends who died of cancer, which inspired me every day to be on this quest.

45:19Like, I feel like a kid in a candy shop that I, like, I figured something out and all I want to do is share it with the world. Do you think a lot of dis-ease comes from dis-ease? it's natural to feel uncomfortable and i think when we focus on it's okay it's natural and i think the power and belief in god is like the most amazing thing it's a it's a mythologic story that has such greatness to all of us in this world. And when I practice that, I have pain, I have regret and judgment. I get depressed sometimes, relationship problems, work problems, life problems. But when you can imagine, because I look at the world, the great mountains and the rivers and the grand canyon let's just say was once flat and smooth and then something happened earthquakes tornadoes fires and all sorts of things happened that changed it to create the beauty dark and the light the rough and the soft that's what life is really about and so when you finally go through the hardships and you find that okay I'm I'm still alive but I found something that fed me much more so than food and and I'm on my three-day fast I may go to fast through tomorrow right now I did a 15-day fast three months ago damn and I do five days quarterly three days a month and I do one meal a day.

47:07Is it easy? It's not. Until you think forward, my next meal is Friday. You have a five-day fast. That's easy. Fasting is easy. I love it. What does the fasting do for you from a mindset perspective and then medically? So our problem is three meals a day. Our gut is full from the day we're born to the day we die, which means the food in your gut is always digesting and always sending sugars and amino acids to the liver. That means sugars always circulating your bloodstream. Insulin is always elevated, big cause of disease. And plus the microbes are always fed and happy. And then everyone's got bloating and they've got upper and lower respiratory problems.

47:56They get bowel bleeding, endometriosis and pelvic problems is a bowel problem. Infertility, every disease, in my opinion, is a bowel problem. So by emptying the bowels, truly emptying them, which I think takes three days of fasting. Now autophagy sets in. That means your body heals itself. The microbes are suppressed. The plant antigens and chemicals and the plant sugars, which are highly allergenic to us are gone historically from an evolution perspective it must have been much more common for us to fast for that period of time because of the hunting yeah well that's natural to us like it was our ancestors likely were forced to do that because of lack of food sources i wouldn't use the word forced it was natural for them okay okay the Mongols.

48:51I love the Mongols. They ate horse meat, blood, and milk. And they didn't carry a bunch of food and people to cook. They rode horses. They fasted. They didn't eat. They never felt, oh, I'm hungry. They didn't even stop to camp a lot of times. They just go in and make a vein and drink the milk the blood and that's how they were able to conquer everybody and they ate fat and so our problem is we don't eat fat and so when we hunted and killed you ate the fat the blood the organs you used the parts of the animal for your shelter your clothing medicinally and for weapons and the best way to control a human, domesticate them, or convert a lion or a wolf to a dog or a cat is feed them plants.

49:55Bread and beer control the masses. We will do anything once our brain gets addicted to beer, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, even coffee, highly addictive plant chemicals, that control humanity. And so I think the pharaohs and the kings figured it out. They knew how to control the masses. Sugar was one of the first products of controlling. Explore the world to find places to grow the sugar, which was the most addictive substance, which basically because of the exploration and exploitation of humans around the world because of sugar and then tobacco and alcohol which became large commodities opium opium which which was controlled by the kings who forced people around the world to use these things it's industrialization a lion and wolf fed plants becomes dog and a cat warrior humans become slave soldiers peasants and prisoners it's a simple truth we all i mean i drink coffee sometimes and i'll drink a little alcohol sometimes but i recognize that there's a little bit of an addiction.

51:27Now I'm a good minimizer, eliminator. I went two and a half years, no coffee. I just started back up a couple of months ago. I'm off it again. I'm pretty good at that. Mindset is the master way to control the master, which is within all of us. What do you think about GLP-1s if those help balance your insulin? Well, the birth control helps balance your hormones. Right. And so I've got a drug for those in menopause will balance your hormones and help prevent disease. So I'm always concerned that we're mostly selling a drug because it's too hard for you to lose weight. We've got a drug, a doctor, dissection will help you out.

52:16Now, you're going to have to take this drug for life, which if you look at the war on obesity, we've made a lot of money on that one. Just like the concept that menopause might be a manufactured modern medical creation to sell drugs and treatments. Now, I'm not saying these things don't happen to people, but we've lost our way in thinking about drugs. natural healing about mindfulness about grounding about sunlight about simplicity about spring water and maybe we don't have to fill our home up with a bunch of alcohol and processed food and synthetic fragrances and chemical cleaning supplies it's everywhere it's on our clothes it's you know we use these things we can't get away from them completely I don't worry about most of this stuff, but I, if someone has a problem, it's like, well, what can we do to help you?

53:22So if someone's listening right now and they're struggling with infertility, you have helped, like I said, 40 ,000 people, women get pregnant. What would you tell them? Never give up. Okay. And give it up to God within yourself. Not a lot of doctors saying that we don't talk about god very much what kind of pushback do you get from the medical community for from your critics that are there if there are any they all love me and and it's interesting obviously there's a lot of things i do that my medical community doesn't believe in my dietary approach the mindset approach and i usually do a lot of reproductive immunology and there's a lot of pushback with that.

54:11And then there's a question, well, what age is a woman allowed to have a baby? And there's some discussion that maybe we shouldn't allow women over 55 to have a child, which is growing tremendously. And there's a lot of other things that go on. I'm not here to answer what anyone should do, but there's a lot of questions. Do you ever use IVF in your practice? I have one of the largest IVF centers in America. cny fertility which is also the most affordable but this is where i'm confused so when you've helped these people get pregnant is it mindset and diet with ivf or is it just ivy like is it a mix i don't know the numbers exactly i'm not here to count numbers it's a mix and and we see a lot of people for IVF because IVF is very expensive on a quarter of the price almost everyone else plus we integrate a lot of different things I practice medicine coming from the standard approach but I've learned a lot in the non-standard approach which I always want to help people here and helping them get pregnant naturally, but depends on the amount of disease they've already suffered from.

55:30Some people have lost their tubes or they have severe pelvic damage from scar tissue and infections. And so IVF might be the right thing for them, or that's not right for them, even if it would be. You take a more holistic approach where you look at all of the different possibilities and try to all of the different options, medical and spiritual and mindset, and then inform your patients on what decision is right for them? I only share ideas. I never tell them what to do or ever say, yeah, this is the best option. I give them the odds in a sense. A 50-year-old doing IVF, we haven't seen that happen now 44 year old still might get pregnant even naturally with a lot of changes and i so focus on the carnivore lifestyle and for me it's faith first see what you wish for and be grateful for that already eat fat when you eat fat suppresses the microbes in the gut when the microbes are high they they create alcohol aldehydes heat and gas they're toxic james henry salisbury salisbury steak have you ever heard of him sure yeah he's a doctor that graduated albany medical school in 1850s he went on to the civil war his men were dying of dysentery and pneumonia he noticed their diet and he switched them to a meat diet and they got better.

57:09He did science looking at a microscope and recognizing the microbes were flourishing in the diarrhea and in the lung. And he wrote a book, a very detailed book. And we have Salisbury steak today. We just don't know who the guy was, but it's science that fat and meat reduces inflammation in the gut. You never see meat in the toilet because it's the most readily absorbed in the upper gut. Meaning like, okay, so when you say that, like if somebody goes to the bathroom and they look at their pieces. They look at their stuff. They will see sometimes vegetables or undigested plants that they've got that just basically pass through their body.

57:49But with meat, it never comes out that way. It doesn't. That's interesting. And a friend of mine, Lee Copas, Kent Carnivore, was very sick with IBS and eventually had his whole colon removed. Now, no doctor ever mentioned keto or carnivore. They said more plants. So when he had his colostomy, He can see what comes out in the bag on his standard diet. Plants were coming out whole in the coal from, so no colon, just coming out from the small intestine. See, it's in the large intestine that the microbes will take down the fiber in the plants. So you rarely see them in your poop. He went carnivore, nothing.

58:31So if somebody comes to you and they say, I have a plant-based or a vegan diet, and I'm suffering with gut issues or migraines or sleep or hormones, do you advise them to stop with that diet? Well, I advise them at some things. I have people that say, well, I'm not going to change my vegetarian diet or vegan diet. Well, vegetarians are easy. They can do eggs, butter, cream, and cheese. So now you have no plants in your diet. And if you did that for a month, it's quiche. Wow. You might get pregnant. But again, I only offer these things for vegetarians and for all of us, more fasting windows. That's how we evolve.

59:14More fasting windows. And for vegans? The same thing. So vegans cook your plants well to simplify them. You want to kill the microbes because plants are highly contaminated with microbes. Salads and plants are recalled all day long. How often is ribeye steak recalled? It's not. And so I work with my Mediterranean's, add more fat, cook the plants well, eat less frequently. But it's more fat, which is, again, that's keto and paleo. I'm not telling everyone to go carnivore. I do carnivore. Okay. Sometimes I have some French fries or a cookie cake or ice cream. I love these things time to time. I drive cars, fly airplanes, and I live with a human being.

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1:05:29Check them out. I stand with my pack.org. What's wrong with the sperm? Ah, okay. So let's not just pick on the girls. Let's pick on the boys. Okay. So it's a hundred percent, the woman's cause and it's a hundred percent, the man's cause. Ooh, that's interesting. It's a hundred percent both. huh so our ability to say oh it's it's 70 percent yours and 30 percent yours how do we know that i feel like every marriage we should approach it it's 100 my fault and it's 100 your fault always always you're gonna say it's 100 your fault if you say it's 100 your fault i will wow we have had a breakthrough yes you're right yes dear yes dear always i agree that it is 100 percent your fault and a hundred percent my fault but also a hundred percent your fault i usually say yes dear when he gets to 70 he'll say it too well i'm i'm very imperfect on this too by the way so michael it's this is we are all on a journey of learning and we try to be perfect today and we do our best today it just takes men longer it takes well we're okay men are dumb sorry well we're simple yeah you're like golden retrievers if you flatter us and feed us and it's your back and then yeah make love to us take the credit card do whatever you want dear it's simple it's pretty simple we really are very simple and this is where I think the carnivore lifestyle ideas come in again I love you and I love you the more we say you're right honey I love you just the word I love you and eye contact.

1:07:17And sometimes, you know, the other thing they tell us in medicine, you can't touch people. And people say, I don't hug, because they know I'm a hugger. I'm Italian. And so connection and positivity and faith in God is critical. So it's always a sperm problem. It's always an egg problem. So how do you fix your sperm? Well, the same way you fix your eggs. Mindset and carnivore? Faith, fat, fasting. fertility. It's simple. It's fat. It's fat forward, fat focused. Men don't want skinny. We want fat. Women are trying to be skinny and it's not working because we've given people the wrong information.

1:08:01If you simply focus on faith, fat, fasting, and fitness, and you have to be, we're meant to be sensual. It's not meant to be slam bam. It takes time. And how do you heal it? Look at all these ideas. See the plants in the gut ferment in the colon. The bugs for women go right out the rectum anus and right into the vagina. Vaginitis, cystitis, cervicitis, cervical cancer, endometriosis, endometritis, ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, irregular periods. All these things are just secondary to our diet. It's a gastrointestinal problem. For men, the same problem. They have libido problems. They have testicular problems.

1:08:53They have testicular cancers on the rise. And they're all secondary to those bugs that are not just sitting in the cold and it's going to go right in the toilet, they're moving. The microbes proliferate. Every time they proliferate, they grow. The mass grows. And so that's why the fat and fasting is important to suppress them. Stick of butter a day for men and women. A stick of butter a day? That's the best. I eat a lot of butter. I eat a lot of butter too, but a stick? Well, I have a stick to a stick. You define it. I mean, ultimately a lot of fat might make you fat. I see this on the rise a lot.

1:09:29okay so i'll preface this my dad is 82 years old i told you about him he's a pilot still weight lifts still works still sharp as a tack run around still drives you know fast cars and all sorts of things his entire life everyone told him his diet was terrible it was mostly meat and potatoes butter eggs mine's all there and and what's interesting for me to see him now is he this guy at least assault his watermelon and apple yep and everyone i remember being a kid and be like man you're people would say your diet's gonna kill you now at 82 still sharp strong running around working mine's all there jerry bostic was right and i and i now and i see this there was a lot of cholesterol discussion at the time but now i'm seeing this news that cholesterol you might want higher cholesterol and it may be a good thing and it may be preventative from Alzheimer's and dementia.

1:10:21And I wonder if you have a perspective on that because I go back and forth with one of my business partners and I say like, listen, you should not be avoiding eggs and salt and butter and meat. And I think that's a novel idea for a lot of people right now. The recommended diet is fruit, fiber, vegetables, seeds, nuts, salad, lean meat, no red meat, and three meals a day. Are we getting healthier or sicker? Is the cost of healthcare going down her up. And so we need to just look at that. My parents did a lot of meat and eggs. They lived in 94. My grandma lived 104. Despite drinking and smoking, she lived a long time.

1:11:02She was a very positive working woman. They worked. And cholesterol, let's see, low cholesterol and no hormone regularity, damage to your hormones, thyroid, big, big problem. The plants, by the way, attack the thyroid gland. They're called goitrogens. And we know they damage the thyroid gland and they're all plant-based, but my bit is they damage every single cell of our body and cause all the diseases. Oh, and by the way, one thing to add about my dad, that guy's never met a salad in his life that he's liked. I don't think I've ever seen him eat a salad besides maybe like once or twice in a restaurant.

1:11:41Well, so it's interesting about fruit. So fruits, ripe fruit, simple sugars digest in the upper gastrointestinal tract, small intestine. And so they don't get down to ferment and add salt. We don't use enough salt. Salt, extra salt is excreted. Extra sugars are converted to fat in the liver via insulin and distributed everywhere. So the salt leaves the body, but the sugar sits in the body and poisons us essentially. Well, why do we like sugar? Yeah. Because it gets us fat. Why do we love to make love to our partners? Because it gets babies. These are strictly nature saying, I know you don't want to eat that fruit today, but if you don't, you're going to be dead in a week.

1:12:26Because famine and starvation were very common. They're still common in this world for different reasons. But ultimately, we're working to get back to our ancient nature. you have said that you're not a fan of exercise but you're a fan of being in motion what does that mean well animals don't exercise they do what they naturally do if they're running it's either usually capture something or run away from something but they're not exercising and so the repetitive motion can i borrow your ferrari and take it to the racetrack three times a week to to get it worked out so it's gonna last longer? No, but if I had a far, you could borrow it.

1:13:11Okay, good, thank you. But ultimately, friction, heat, and damage to the body, the number of joint replacements and people that fall and hurt themselves is on the rise. But we tell you, you should exercise. And we've looked at people who are exercising and they live longer. Well, are they living longer because of exercise? Or you just pick some people that were older and they happen to be exercising? We sell a lot of stuff that's related to exercise too, by the way. And so I can only tell you that I used to do a ton of exercise and I hurt my knees, my hips, and I finally stopped. I do light walking, I do some hills, light weights on my back.

1:13:54I do about an hour of walking a day. I don't get it every single day, but I go to work every day. And I have a standup desk and I'm always moving. and that's what we're here for. You're not telling people to stop moving their body or stop lifting everyday objects or maybe challenge yourself with a couple of pushups here and there in the morning, right? You're not telling them to stay stagnant. You're just saying to not do the exercises that potentially cause life altering. We have a comfort crisis. Yeah. And this couch is really nice, but I usually use it to take a nap. And otherwise I'm up standing up and doing work like that.

1:14:32I think it really is. we're telling people, oh, can't wait for retirement. Don't you want to work less? Oh, you shouldn't have to work so hard. But what in life is created through easy? Nothing. Hard is what we're born for. And so when you have that mindset, I love to watch movies and shows or read books that are about heroes and hardship and challenges. This is Joseph Campbell's work. and there's so much great stuff out there that inspires us. I love Superman and Mighty Mouse and all these superheroes because they sort of put in our brains. That's why we need the images. We need the thing to hold on to see because our brain moves through vision.

1:15:21And we've been led to think you should just lay on the couch, sit and watch TV. I mean, you can listen to these podcasts while you're on your walk. and that's the beauty of so much. I do a ton of audio books. I move and I take a nap or go to work. And so I think we need to encourage people that it's okay that you failed. I want you to get up. I failed the test. Okay, great. I fail. Oh, couldn't read. I'm still, when I take a test or I go through the security at the airport, I'm always a little nervous, right and i'm like okay where's that coming from you know i always get through anyway and i pass the test and but i realized that that's a normal feeling and it's okay to fail wipe yourself off get a mentor a coach listen to him and her podcast show because these are inspiring things for people And that's one thing that changed my life.

1:16:21I did audio books. And I always, if I'm in my pottery studio, my painting studio, or on a walk, or riding my bike, I'm listening to something inspiring. And that's what we all need to get to. I love this conversation. Beautiful conversation. Thank you so much. Where can everyone find you? DrKilts.com is a great place. kilts. I've got Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, all the things out there. And we'll link it all out. Thank you for making the trip out here. This was fun. I'm really glad we got to do this in person as well. Well, I got to fly my airplane both ways and it's always a blast to be 40 ,000 feet up.

1:17:06Really appreciate what you guys are doing. And it's very inspiring also. Thank you. Come back on anytime. Love to.