Hidden Stressors That Are Making You Sick & The Truth About Juicing - With Drew Canole

0:00You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Shawn Stevenson Stevenson. For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. Are there hidden stressors that are driving our epidemics of chronic illnesses, weight gain, and poor mental health? That's what we're going to be covering today. In addition, we're going to be talking about some of these things that are exploding in popularity that are supposed to be geared towards improving our health, like juicing. and I'm not talking about the Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi kind, the Mark McGuire kind. I'm from St. Louis. That was an epic time. There's even a highway named after him.

0:43He hit 70 home runs. We named Highway 70 the Mark McGuire Highway. It was Big Mac Highway. They changed the name after the news came out though. I'm not talking about that juicing. I'm talking about juicing vegetables and fruits and herbs. Is it really something that is appropriate for improving our health? What types of juices are ideal, if any? And we're going to be talking about this with the guy who really, this is real talk. I've known this fella for 15 years. He was there ushering in this movement towards juicing and making fresh pressed juices right at home. He, for me, was really like a modern day Jack Malone.

1:30Now, at this point, when I met our special guest, I'd already been on that juice life for a couple of years. And I'm talking heavy. I ran through some juicers trying to get my own health together. But it was so crazy because there were certain symptoms that would happen. Now, my health transformed in the most amazing ways. But certain types of juices left me feeling like I had a crash of energy afterwards, where others made me feel vitalized and energetic for hours, right? And so what were those things, what were those missteps now that we have fresh pressed juices everywhere? Is this a good thing?

2:09We're going to ask the guy himself about it. But again, we're going to be looking at the current state of affairs in our culture. What are those things that for many of us are hiding in plain insight that can be holding us back when we have aspirations to transform our bodies and transform our health overall. And so without further ado, let's get to our special guest and topic of the day. Drew Canole is a health educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Organifi. After gaining nearly 50 pounds as a new father, Drew discovered that real health isn't about pushing harder. It's about removing hidden stressors, restoring essential nutrition, and rebuilding safety in the body.

2:50Today, he is fitter than ever and on a mission to help transform the health of our families. His work focuses on foundational nutrition, nervous system health, and helping people normalize their health without force. Let's dive into this conversation with the incredible Drew Canole. We've got my guy, Drew Canole, in the house. It's good to be here, man. 15 years, man. We've known each other for about 15 years. 15 years. Yeah. I knew you back in Be Well Buzz days. The Be Well Buzz. Yeah. I was the resident nutritionist. Yeah. If Larry and Oxon are watching this. Yeah. Shout out to Larry and Oxon.

3:25They're probably DJing in Ibiza or something crazy. Exactly. But man, it's just been incredible because you were there in the early days and to be one of those people who helped to elevate this culture of juicing. Like you were really to me, like a modern day Jack LaLanne. And so now like, it's obviously everywhere, everywhere. I just went to my son's basketball game at one of these, you know, schools he was competing with. And even in these kids' lunch rooms, they've got like fresh pressed juices, you know what I mean? And so the, the, the game has changed tremendously, but having the guy here and to see the evolution of things, I want to ask you about juicing because a lot of people are doing juice fast.

4:10Right now to this day, they are looking to up-level their health to get a lot of nutrients in. What are your feelings about juicing as it stands today? Oh gosh, times have changed. I mean, you got oxalates now, which nobody was talking about back then. Goitrogenic compounds, all this stuff. But I'm still juicing three, four days a week. cucumber, lemon, ginger, turmeric, mainly greens. I wasn't really a big fruit juicer as it is, but making immunity shots for the family every day, you know, especially when the crazy weather comes in, like we're in it now. But I love it. It's a, it's a great way to get micronutrients in flooding your body with living light, as I like to say.

4:53Now I make a lot of smoothies as well. You probably do that as well, but it changes everything. My energy shifts. My body feels more alkaline first thing in the morning. It's a huge part of my life, but also I'm not only doing like juice cleanses and juice fast, which people can do the wrong way. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for that. So for you, it's like a great add-in. It's a great addition to your life. 100%. And also you mentioned about the fruit juices, because I think that that's where things can get a little bit more sketchy. Yeah. Is if you're juicing, you know, a bunch of pineapple or just straight up pineapple or orange juice and things like that.

5:32And just having that, you know, the insulin response and all those kinds of things. So you're mentioning things like cucumber and ginger and celery, right? But what about like, maybe like a little something to sweeten up a little slice of some green apple or something like that? Yeah. Green apple is great. A little pineapple is not going to hurt you either. A lot of people, pre-diabetic, diabetes, you know, you, you juice something with a lot of fruit. It's immediately impacting your liver as fructose. A lot of people have fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic, like gone up big time, not only from drinking juices that are filled with all these, uh, fruits and sugars and fructose and everything else, but also buying the drinks in the cans at the store where it's all processed, pasteurized, heated up.

6:15So you're losing the enzymes, the aminos, all the good stuff that you and I love anyway. But walking out to, let's say my pomelo trees that I have at the farm, grabbing those, putting those in the juicer in the morning that I pick them. I mean, they're picking up the biophotonic field of the humans that are living on the farm. So that's medicine for me, specifically for me. So making that first thing in the morning and drinking it, that's liquid sunshine, man. And then also staring into the sun while you're doing this, filling your body with the light from the sun and also the juice from the farm.

6:48It's an experience I can't explain on video to have people grasp it enough. Like we need to be in touch with our food. We need to be living close to our food. Even if it's just herbs in your kitchen, maybe you're not privy to a little hobby farm like I have or whatever, but even having celery and cilantro and parsley and thyme and rosemary, it's so easy to grow in your house and just sprinkle it into your food and it's giving you so many benefits. Yeah, amazing, amazing. You also slid in there and how we impact the food that's around us as well. 100%. And so this is something, again, slow down, Drew.

7:24Slow down. Yeah. All right. Now, we've got data on this, even from the US government running experiments decades ago and seeing how we impact the, in particular, we see plants as basically they're not sentient beings, right? But there's this context to where all life really on planet earth has intelligence. And it's just, we are really geared towards, and even what we see is really geared towards our own kind of human senses. And so this brings me to another thing I wanna ask you about, which is the original internet essentially, which is the mycelium network in a forest, right? And that data exchange.

8:05And there's so much information coming out about that now. And Paul Stamets has been one of the most leading voices in this and just understand, even with mushrooms in the context of mushrooms, they're more similar to human DNA than they are to say what we label as a plant, like some spinach or something. You know, it's something really interesting. There's this, there's an energy that really binds us all here and we've kind of separated ourselves from it. And so my question is, what happens when we separate ourselves from the source of where our food is coming from? Is this one of the things that is unconsciously contributing to our poor health, struggles with weight gain?

8:44Is there something missing in our relationship with food? You already know, but you're setting me up, which I appreciate. It is, it's devastational. So you and I are big proponents of safety, feeling safe in our bodies, having the nervous system feel great. So when you're eating food that's loaded with glyphosate, you're disrupting your gut. Most people have leaky gut right now. Your nervous system's going haywire. You're ungrounded. You're getting all the blue light, all the flicker from all the lights in most people's homes. It's LED lighting. They're tanking their nervous systems. So you can't function as a normal human, a light being when you're surrounded by all this stuff.

9:25So it's good to be connected to your food so that your nervous system can actually ground down and heal. If your body doesn't feel safe, there's no way you can truly heal and be an optimized human being. So safety, number one, that's why I do eat organic food. That's why I know where my food is coming from. I know most of the farmers that I buy my meat from, I have like 50 chickens. So now the eggs, I know what they're eating, you know, the worms and the oyster shells. And I play my hand pan for the chickens. I'm playing music for them, right? They like know who I am. And it's this beautiful exchange.

9:59change. Most people have become so numb to just going in the store and I'm going to buy this chicken that's been bathed in chlorine, you know, taking a bath in chlorine, and then I'm going to eat that and expect myself to be healthy. No, that's why cancer rates are up from people eating conventional chicken breasts and all of the food that we've been disconnected from. So the minute you take ownership, you start feeling safer in your body. Your body heals from things that maybe you've been struggling with your whole entire life or even the past five, 10 years, it goes away because the body heals itself through principles, not products.

10:36I am the product guy, right? I run Organifi. You know this, we've been working together forever, but if you don't have the principles in place, I encourage everybody don't buy anything that I'm selling because your principles aren't there yet. So, which is why it's so important for people to listen to your show and we're aligned on what we say because this is the real work. The stuff that you're giving to them every single day, the information, 80 % of the nutrition we absorb in our bodies is not from food. It's from the environment and the information that we're taking on, be it light or be it the voice of Sean, right?

11:12Oh man, I appreciate that. Yeah. And also speaking of, you got a great story that happened recently with your daughter and the chickens. Oh yeah. Yeah, share that for me. So my daughter's two and a half and I had 10 hens in a smaller coop, you know, 12 by 15 coop, not that big. They weren't free range yet because they were pullets and they're babies, they're growing. So I moved them to a much bigger coop with about an acre and a half of the best, it looks like it's in New Zealand, in California here. And as I'm walking my baby girl over, I'm holding her and she's looking me in the eyes and she puts her hand on my chest.

11:47She says, daddy-o, she calls me daddy-o. you're so generous. And I was like, full stop. I'm done. I could retire today. It's that one little affirmation from my baby girl that just, that's it. And what two and a half year old even uses the word generous, you know? In the right context and everything, you know, it's just, it's just a testament, man. I'm so happy for you. You know, certain people is just like, you know, I was also waiting, you know, like, when is he going to have a little cannoli? you know like when is it gonna happen and um because you were just meant to be oh thank you a dad and um you know she's so blessed and you're blessed to have her as well 100 and um you know just with that said this is a big part of helping to heal and to heal our nervous system in our societies and we're going to dig more into what that means yeah a big part of that is our relationships and a big part of the dissonance is our relationships as well and so in this context of safety signals.

12:50And so let's dive in a little bit deeper with that. So I don't, well, I already, I know this to be true because I went to a conventional university. I was taught calories in, calories out. If you want to lose weight, simply expend more energy than you're taking in. And that has been the dogma that we've impressed upon our culture. It's just a simple equation. It's a simple math equation. Left brain, like very mechanical. And it's well-intended and it has a part, but we're taking out something incredibly important, which is our bodies evolve to survive. And it doesn't always operate as far as this calculator or this manual says it's supposed to.

13:34And so our bodies can literally hold onto a resist weight loss or resist weight gain when we are in a state of chronic stress. Right. We know that our metabolism literally changes. And so let's talk about that. Let's talk about why sending our body safety signals is so important in the context of better health, but in particular with weight loss. Yeah, that's the new game, man. How safe can you feel in your body? How at home can you feel as you go throughout the day? So most people wake up, blue light on their phones, TikTok, Instagram, get in the dopamine rush. But instead, how slow can you move?

14:16The slower you move, the more your nervous system is, I'm okay. I got this. I can heal whatever it is. How much can I laugh throughout the day? How present can I really be? Like, do I need my phone in every conversation because it's a coping mechanism for checking out? Or do I put my phone away? I have a rule. I have a man cave that I work in. And then when I come back in the house, wife and baby, no phone. Because I know that I'm going to be drawn to that, that electronic tether. If I can get rid of that, I'm going to automatically be safer in my field, which impacts the coherent field of the entire house.

14:52So that's as men and as leaders as our family, I believe we get to really create that safety. So when we do that in our body, cortisol levels go down. We've seen that. Even just breathing. A couple times in, long breath out. You do that every hour. Schedule it in your phone. Have a reminder pop up 55 minutes in every hour. Do that breathing exercise for three minutes. Your life will radically change. It didn't cost you anything. You just turned your parasympathetic on more often throughout the day, which creates more coherence, which creates more connection, more presence, and ultimately gives you what you want more of, which is more love and more togetherness with the people that you care about in this life.

15:38So when you're sitting in that state, I've seen miracles, situations, people enter my field versus trying to push. So, which is why I was going to play my first song that I've ever made for you, it's called let go and let God. Because when we truly let go and we let spirit, God, I believe, take control of our lives, everything just becomes effortless. It's no more Drew pushing, which when you met me 15 years ago, there was a lot of pushing. There was looking at the analytics every day. What can I do? What can I be? How can I be clever to be noticed, to be seen in a marketplace that was just starting out 15 years ago?

16:14now it's how can I get so still and just allow, um, whatever is meant to be will unfold. And I've seen more happen in my life from that standpoint than anything I've ever tried to force being a CEO running multiple companies. It's just letting go and getting out of the way. And the nervous system loves it. Sideline benefit weight will fall off issues. Disease in the body will start to fade away. And it's, you're the science guy. So I don't have to tell you this, there's science now backing it up, which is so cool. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've got to circle back because one of the greatest takeaways from this episode already is to set a reminder to breathe.

17:00Yeah. Simple. You know, and we'll do whatever that looks like for, for everybody listening, that message, that the timer that can pop up on your phone could be something pleasant, like hey beautiful remember to take a breath or it could be like hey fool breathe remember to breathe fool you know whatever that looks like but it's a great reminder because especially as we go through the day we start to just tighten up our breathing gets shorter and shorter and our nervous system like it's so rare that we can be in that parasympathetic during the day 100 and to couple that with something that induces more parasympathetic activity you put your hand and I'm on video so you guys can see this on your prefrontal cortex of your brain and you put one in the back.

17:42This gets rid of headaches by the way too, but you put it on your occipital or right above your atlas and you just hold here and you breathe. If you've ever done craniosacral with a experienced expert, you'll notice your body just starts to melt. Do this for yourself. Take some breaths. Two in, longer breath out. and you literally feel like you're being held by maybe a parent that you never had like that's I didn't really have parents that did that for me and I do that now as a man I'm holding the little boy inside of me it sounds woo but you'll notice immediately I need to take a nap you know what I'm saying which probably isn't the time to be doing this on the show because I'm already feeling relaxed but there's things we can do that are free that align the body align the nervous system and ultimately give you what you want yeah thank you for sharing that man thank you i want to ask you about you know with our just again we are kind of um saturated in all these newly invented uh chemicals and complexes and and obviously stressors and fields you know we got 30 000 wi-fi you know, going, all this stuff, you know, like we're existing in very different conditions than even a few generations ago.

19:05And so I wanna ask you about the impact of these stressors on our sexual function. And because in the context that I'm asking specifically in regards to not just sexual health, but even in the context of weight loss and energy, it still has a lot to do with having good sexual health. And in particular, the role of testosterone, which this is critical for both men and women. So can chronic stress, my bottom line question, contribute to dysfunction when it comes to testosterone and sexual function? Absolutely. I've been saying this for the past decade, but if you're not horny, you're not healthy.

19:49So waking up with an erection turned on for life, like where are you not turned on and then analyze that is that you're thinking start to address those so then we go into um what kind of food am i eating what's the etheric energy from the food more importantly than the biology right so where am i getting it do i trust the source how is it impacting me am i allergic to something or is it really the frequencies am i in a house with black mold because mold's everywhere. 80 % of houses now have some type of mold. Stachybotrys, different types of mold that are impacting people big time. Microplastics, as we know.

20:29Sperm counts have gone down 1 % every year since what, 1950 or something insane, 70. So testosterone's through the floor. Stress levels are higher than they've ever been. And it's all fragmented artificial stress. It's the flicker. It's the frequencies. It's the having to keep up with the Joneses. It's the constant pursuit and chase of never feeling in your body, never feeling home. And if you don't feel home in your body, then you're, you're going to develop an autoimmune disease, an issue. If you're not speaking your voice out, like the, I don't know if you saw this study, but it was women that never really owned their voice.

21:07And then they developed autoimmune issues. And it was a study, I was pretty remarkable, actually, It was like tracked over the past 30 years. So I forget what it was exactly, but owning your voice, getting rid of anything that could be bogging you down, relationally, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, all of the different aspects. I think it's super important. Yeah. By the way, if people are watching the video, we'll put this study up for everybody to see that you're referring to. And again, these are things that we don't think about because we're so busy with the tactical things, right? And we're not thinking about our thinking.

21:41and how we're relating to ourselves and how important that is. And I wanna ask you about this because I first saw the guys, our brothers at Mind Pump talking about the Sheila G. And this was something, again, I've been in this field, it's getting close to 25 years for me, man. It was great, my wife pointed it out. And Sheila G was one of those things, probably about 20 years ago, that I didn't discover. Obviously, it's been around for thousands of years. But it was presented to me and I started to research it. And there wasn't a lot of data, right? As far as like peer review published data on it.

22:23But there is this like treasure trove of anecdotal information and then just the historical use in the Ayurvedic system in particular. But now, let me tell you this, man. So this particular study was published 10 years ago. This was 2015. Again, this is when the published data on Sheila G was just starting to come out. And the title of the study is Clinical Evaluation of Purified Sheila G on Testosterone Levels in Healthy Volunteers. And the test subjects were between 45 and 55, which this is one of those well-established age. 40 % of 40-year-olds have erectile dysfunction. 50 % of 50-year-olds.

23:0140%. Yes. Yeah. And it just keeps on elevating from there. But this is just what's normalized. It doesn't mean necessarily that it's normal. And so looking at this particular age group, this is a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study. And treatment with Sheila G was for 90 days consecutively. And what they found was that test subjects had a significant increase in total testosterone and in free testosterone compared to a placebo. All right. There's something remarkable about Sheila G. And so my question for you is, what the hell is Shilajit? Yeah, Shilajit is a microbial community developed thousands of years, normally found in the Himalayas.

23:43So you got to think about everything it's gone through to create itself. It's minerals, it's decayed rock, it's light that's been mineralized, turned into this goo. It's 84 minerals, humic and fulvic acid, which actually is what really allows it to do the work. because you could take salt, Celtic sea salt, pink salt, throw it in water. I do that first thing in the morning to get some electrolytes and some other minerals from the salt. You could also take trace minerals from the ocean. But when you have sheelaget in its raw form or put into a gummy like we did at Organifi, you're getting all the minerals, 84 of them.

24:20The humic and the fulvic acid actually shuttle it into your body. So that's the magic. Most minerals you're just peeing out. But when you take the she legit, you're actually getting it full force in the body and it makes all the other supplements you're taking more effective. So we are voltage beings, right? We are energy beings. Most people are so mineral deficient. There's not as many minerals in our soil anymore. In the 1950s, you could have an organic piece of lettuce that was worth 40 heads of lettuce today, right? So adding minerals back into your life, people feel it, man. I've seen adrenal burnout, like all these other things people are dealing with.

24:59They get on the Sheila Jigummies and it's like, they're a different person. I have so much energy. Like I've talked to clients on the phone that have been taking it for months on end and I'm blown away at the life difference that they have now just by adding something like Sheila Jigummies. It is wild. Before you guys put together the Sheila Jigummies, I would add it to like my coffee, things like that. I've get it from different sources. and it was like, sometimes it'd be like a resin, right? And I put it in my coffee. Hard to stick with. For me, I found a way to dial the flavor into where it was enjoyable, but you put it into a package of what so many people are leaning towards today, which is utilizing different supplements and things like that in the form of these gummies.

25:43And so can you tell people about the Organifi Shilajit gummies? For sure. And by the way, you can get them for 20 % off when you go to Organifi.com forward slash model. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com forward slash model to see it right here. 20 % off and tell them about the gummies. Yeah, so two gummies a day, you're getting 500 milligrams of Sheila Jit. By the way, in this study, it was 250 milligrams twice a day. So that's exactly right on the money. It's either 250 or 500, two gummies. I take four a day. So I'll take some at night before my workout in the afternoon. Uh, what I've noticed is my sleep's improved.

26:25I've noticed more mental clarity, more energy. I've even noticed I don't need that second cup of coffee because I feel like the, the stimulant or even I wake up three o 'clock in the morning sometimes. And I write, I make music, I write, I create video scripts. So by 12 to one o 'clock being a lion chronotype, I start to fade, but taking the she legit gummies give literally like another two or three hours of boost that I didn't have before. So take it. It's good for your ATP, good for your mitochondria, your energy. I notice it in mental clarity. My sleep, like I said, what I've really seen is moms, new moms taking this stuff too, that feel a little burnout with the kid, being in hypervigilance, constantly watching the little one.

27:12They take the gummies and it helps their nervous system too. So feeling safer, feeling more grounded, which is what some of these minerals can do. So yeah, so what makes it different is if you can form a habit around it, a ritual, you're going to stick with it, which if you stick with this for six to eight weeks, that's really the magic sauce. I'm a big placebo guy, but also I feel things I'm sensitive. So I felt it right away when I started taking these gummies. But you'll notice it. You'll notice the mental clarity with the 250 milligrams just to, if you're a guy with low testosterone before even entertaining TRT or something like that, I would literally commit to eight weeks.