Coach Ted talks about desire and diligence creating change in our internal pharmacology.
Internal Corrective Chemistry
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Internal Corrective Chemistry
Season 9/Episode 4
June 26, 2024
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Introduction
This is The Ted O'Neill Program, where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill, with John Leon Guerrero.
0:23 Jon
Let's talk about the utility of having a special site for particular programs and what you intend to use the Clayton facility for.
0:31 Ted
Okay. So, well, I'm gonna say this from the top part. One, I don't totally know yet. But what the original idea was, when we talked about getting a second facility was I wanted to launch a couple of our proprietary high end programs. And by high end, I mean, it's not a normal gym experience, the gym, or the physical location becomes part of the curriculum, to where it's not. Traditionally, people think they're going to a physical facility to do physical things, and they stop thinking about it from that point. I recognize we've always been quite a bit different with that. But this then becomes like the PE class of much greater training. So the two programs that I have developed and have been in development now for the last two years. One is called Timeless. Right? I think you can relate to this, because timeless was for people that are 50. Plus, I see you, I just jumped off that boat, I said, you can relate to it, we're going to use x. So I say that because you've completely changed everything in your life and seemingly rolled 20 years off. (Yeah) So I've always said, That's not true. I've frequently said, age, as we know it, people say it sucks getting older, I'm old now, or this or that. Or maybe now this is happening because I'm older. age related symptoms, I say are age related practices put into place years and years in advance of feeling those symptoms. (Wow) So we get good at what we instruct the brain and body to do. So if you're, if people say yep, I used to be able to eat whatever I wanted, and now I can't. It's like, well, you've been training your body. Right? Like your body wants to do something different. You've been training it, just to eat garbage all day long. And eventually, you've trained your metabolism to slow down in accordance with the instruction you're giving your body. And if you're sitting around all day, then you've trained your body to not be active and have a lower metabolic output. So that's nothing to do with age, it didn't suddenly just mysteriously happen. It's because you've been training specifically for, quote, getting old. That's how that works. And I believe we have enough data now where we can conclusively prove this, In fact.
2:54 Jon
and a lot of data in the other direction.
2:59 Ted
This is what I mean. (Yeah) So we can roll those years off by practicing the opposite of entropy. Right? Or things get into mechanical breakdown. (Yeah) Through practice habits, sometimes unaware. But we use a lot of people who are just kind of sleepwalking through life, in my observation, doing the same things that everyone else does, the same stories without making any effort to change. And if someone has no desire to change, that's great. I'm not the one to tell him to change. If someone comes to me and says, Hey, I feel this way. I like to feel different, like I can show you exactly how we can turn this around. Right? Like in your case, he lost 80 pounds of body fat and gained a bunch of muscle mass totally reinvigorated into new hobbies (Yeah) and are you living in a very, very different way.
3:44 Jon
Well, those are the things that we've discussed and the things that we know that I celebrate in my life, but also, well, you know, when I originally came to you, I was pre-diabetic. And we were having a conversation with my physician, where she said, it's likely that the next time you come in here, we're going to have to talk about pills. And so I was gonna have to get on medication to regulate my diabetic functions.
4:15 Ted
I want to talk about that for a second because the A1C reading is now one of the big things that people use as an indicator. (Okay) And I don't remember which one of our members came to me, but they say I went to my doctor, the tests in my A1C, it's now down to normal levels. And the doctor was taught because in 25 years of practice, I've only seen this happen twice. So shocked that they asked what I had been doing. So I explained your program. They just didn't get it. They said I don't get it. But just keep doing it. (Yeah) Now, during that same week, I had four people with the exact same story. Not their doctors telling them that the fact that they no longer needed medication, (yeah) or that their numbers had dropped into this place. Because we were no longer training to have that be out of the norm. (Yeah) When we do things that are out of the norm, how on earth would we expect for our bodies to be in a healthy state? So this is kind of the backbone of this program that I called Timeless. It's first an examination of what are the things that we're doing or have been doing leading up to the years 50+, (yeah) that we're now seen as an effect. Everything works off of cause and effect. (Sure) And…
5:23 Jon
Well, let's expand on that just a little bit. Because I recently heard from a friend of mine who's a pilot, that when a plane crashes, it's not because something went wrong. It's because 10 things went wrong in the right sequence. And so by the time that catastrophic event happens, whether it's a plane crash, or whether you have diabetes, is because this series of events led up to that.
5:47 Ted
What set into motion. (Yeah) Yeah, that's exactly. Okay. So that's perfect, because what generally what happens, and the reasons that I have observed traditional doctors don't have a great handle on this, is because they end up treating the end symptom, there's not much in the way of evaluation that they can help to say, let's walk this back, what are the habits you're engaged in And here's a set of precise and clear cut directions to change those things, because they don't have that in their wheelhouse. (Right) So we address this through so many different avenues in this program called Timeless that I believe anyone can reverse the effects of aging, as we know it. And more and more, you know, hard sciences coming out around this. Now a lot of it is actually drug based, people are doing all different kinds of nootropics or peptides. And, you know, this is not what I'm talking about. To be clear. What I'm talking about is, well, it's a little bit synonymous with how people compare the placebo effect by people will take something and say why hope it wasn't placebo? That's I hope it's not why it worked. I don't want to be a placebo. (Why not?) Thank you. So, to me, it seems like this entire model is broken. (Yeah) Placebo, is the standard in which a medicine has to be able to conclusively beat before it's brought to the market. Now, what that means is for those who are having the placebo effect, they are turning on their inner pharmacology in a way that heals their body. (Yes) And this is an untrained individual, they've not been trained to do this. In other words, they just believe that this thing outside of them is changing them. So to me, it seems like this entire model is incorrect to say let's make better drugs. Whereas if 1/3 of the population untrained can turn on their inner pharmacology and heal from all manner of illnesses and maladies should we not be training to get better at that skill, because let me tell you something that is 100% and achievable outcome, you can absolutely train to learn how to change your chemistry, you can absolutely learn how to create epigenetic changes in your life, just by changing the way that you think and love the ways you engage certain things.
8:12 Jon
Okay, now, let's apply that to the standard of medicine beating the placebo effect. Because as you just explained it, what we're doing is activating our internal pharmacology to solve the problem. But on paper, what they're asking a drug to do to be certified is something slightly better than nothing at all.
8:39 Ted
Right. That's another way to look at it. Well, let's say nothing in the sense of a chemical.
8:47 Jon
Of a chemical additive to what you're already capable of producing. So the focus on that should be as many of us have experienced in our training, because I didn't, I wasn't aware that you had that many of us come to you. Because my most recent checkup in my blood work I went from, you know, being pre diabetic five years ago, and of course, that evolution has taken place over quite a bit of training. But the last blood work that I did, I don't remember specifically the numbers, but they were right down the middle.
9:23 Ted
Yeah. As they should be when you're practicing to have an integrated response within your different internal system, then that would be the expectation the same way. If you practice free throws, (yeah) you're likely to get better at free throws. So we don't look at it that way because we're so hypnotized into thinking about, for example, food. We look at food based on his packaging and marketing if it tastes good in our mouth. We don't think of food in terms of what that really does to serve our body, as fuel and as raw material and in terms of having a resource. But most people are massively under-resourced. When it comes to how they consume things, at least in the sense of creating a positive effect in their body, and they're massively over resourced, on the things that we would call negative effects, the things that ultimately they want to change that mysteriously have come out of nowhere, because they're not looking at where the cause and effect model was taking them. Or they've been practicing these things for so long that they end up all of a sudden with type two diabetes, how did this happen? (Yeah) It's really easy. (Yeah) Folks, this is super simple stuff. You just have to be able to allow your brain to accept the information that has proven to be effective for many, many people who have come before you. But it's really it's holding on to our attachments to the way that we think things need to be, that ultimately determines if we're going to continue to live a predictable future, which will look exactly the same as the past or if we can let go of our attachments and begin to experience things in the new. So that's kind of the whole concept around this idea of Timeless. (Yeah) Because you know, we have people in our community in the 70 plus range, that physically and mentally and emotionally are more connected and perform better than people in their 20s. And 30s.
11:26 Jon
Just yesterday, we were talking about training with some of our community members who are in their 70s. And that is probably the last thing on the consideration list that you should be looking at if you're trying to keep up with these individuals. (Yeah) You know, and I believe the quote, an American quote, I won't mention names, but one of the things that was said was, he's twice my age and twice as strong as I am.
12:03 Ted
Yeah. Right. It kind of feels like that's how it should be. Like if you're practicing correctly. (Yeah) Like a lot of people think, you know, they say, Well, I don't have experience. So if you're gaining experience, that is aiding your process. The farther you go, the better you should be. (Yeah) But what generally happens is in our society, we learn something and then we stay dogmatic. And so as we're practicing our dogma with the rest of the world is evolving. Or if nothing else, the effect of linear time is marching forward. And then all of a sudden, we feel like we've somehow missed out or things just happened. I don't know how it happened. Well, you went to sleep for 30 years. (Yeah, right) And you kept practicing the things that make your body fall apart. So a very predictable thing happened. So unraveling that is really gratifying. It takes a special person to be able to stand outside of that box of convention, and to be brave enough to say, I do want to reinvent my life. And I want to know what it feels like to be in a body that functions the same or better than when I was 30 or 40, or whatever it was, but it's absolutely an attainable goal if someone has enough desire.
This is The Ted O'Neill Program, where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill, with John Leon Guerrero.
0:23 Jon
Let's talk about the utility of having a special site for particular programs and what you intend to use the Clayton facility for.
0:31 Ted
Okay. So, well, I'm gonna say this from the top part. One, I don't totally know yet. But what the original idea was, when we talked about getting a second facility was I wanted to launch a couple of our proprietary high end programs. And by high end, I mean, it's not a normal gym experience, the gym, or the physical location becomes part of the curriculum, to where it's not. Traditionally, people think they're going to a physical facility to do physical things, and they stop thinking about it from that point. I recognize we've always been quite a bit different with that. But this then becomes like the PE class of much greater training. So the two programs that I have developed and have been in development now for the last two years. One is called Timeless. Right? I think you can relate to this, because timeless was for people that are 50. Plus, I see you, I just jumped off that boat, I said, you can relate to it, we're going to use x. So I say that because you've completely changed everything in your life and seemingly rolled 20 years off. (Yeah) So I've always said, That's not true. I've frequently said, age, as we know it, people say it sucks getting older, I'm old now, or this or that. Or maybe now this is happening because I'm older. age related symptoms, I say are age related practices put into place years and years in advance of feeling those symptoms. (Wow) So we get good at what we instruct the brain and body to do. So if you're, if people say yep, I used to be able to eat whatever I wanted, and now I can't. It's like, well, you've been training your body. Right? Like your body wants to do something different. You've been training it, just to eat garbage all day long. And eventually, you've trained your metabolism to slow down in accordance with the instruction you're giving your body. And if you're sitting around all day, then you've trained your body to not be active and have a lower metabolic output. So that's nothing to do with age, it didn't suddenly just mysteriously happen. It's because you've been training specifically for, quote, getting old. That's how that works. And I believe we have enough data now where we can conclusively prove this, In fact.
2:54 Jon
and a lot of data in the other direction.
2:59 Ted
This is what I mean. (Yeah) So we can roll those years off by practicing the opposite of entropy. Right? Or things get into mechanical breakdown. (Yeah) Through practice habits, sometimes unaware. But we use a lot of people who are just kind of sleepwalking through life, in my observation, doing the same things that everyone else does, the same stories without making any effort to change. And if someone has no desire to change, that's great. I'm not the one to tell him to change. If someone comes to me and says, Hey, I feel this way. I like to feel different, like I can show you exactly how we can turn this around. Right? Like in your case, he lost 80 pounds of body fat and gained a bunch of muscle mass totally reinvigorated into new hobbies (Yeah) and are you living in a very, very different way.
3:44 Jon
Well, those are the things that we've discussed and the things that we know that I celebrate in my life, but also, well, you know, when I originally came to you, I was pre-diabetic. And we were having a conversation with my physician, where she said, it's likely that the next time you come in here, we're going to have to talk about pills. And so I was gonna have to get on medication to regulate my diabetic functions.
4:15 Ted
I want to talk about that for a second because the A1C reading is now one of the big things that people use as an indicator. (Okay) And I don't remember which one of our members came to me, but they say I went to my doctor, the tests in my A1C, it's now down to normal levels. And the doctor was taught because in 25 years of practice, I've only seen this happen twice. So shocked that they asked what I had been doing. So I explained your program. They just didn't get it. They said I don't get it. But just keep doing it. (Yeah) Now, during that same week, I had four people with the exact same story. Not their doctors telling them that the fact that they no longer needed medication, (yeah) or that their numbers had dropped into this place. Because we were no longer training to have that be out of the norm. (Yeah) When we do things that are out of the norm, how on earth would we expect for our bodies to be in a healthy state? So this is kind of the backbone of this program that I called Timeless. It's first an examination of what are the things that we're doing or have been doing leading up to the years 50+, (yeah) that we're now seen as an effect. Everything works off of cause and effect. (Sure) And…
5:23 Jon
Well, let's expand on that just a little bit. Because I recently heard from a friend of mine who's a pilot, that when a plane crashes, it's not because something went wrong. It's because 10 things went wrong in the right sequence. And so by the time that catastrophic event happens, whether it's a plane crash, or whether you have diabetes, is because this series of events led up to that.
5:47 Ted
What set into motion. (Yeah) Yeah, that's exactly. Okay. So that's perfect, because what generally what happens, and the reasons that I have observed traditional doctors don't have a great handle on this, is because they end up treating the end symptom, there's not much in the way of evaluation that they can help to say, let's walk this back, what are the habits you're engaged in And here's a set of precise and clear cut directions to change those things, because they don't have that in their wheelhouse. (Right) So we address this through so many different avenues in this program called Timeless that I believe anyone can reverse the effects of aging, as we know it. And more and more, you know, hard sciences coming out around this. Now a lot of it is actually drug based, people are doing all different kinds of nootropics or peptides. And, you know, this is not what I'm talking about. To be clear. What I'm talking about is, well, it's a little bit synonymous with how people compare the placebo effect by people will take something and say why hope it wasn't placebo? That's I hope it's not why it worked. I don't want to be a placebo. (Why not?) Thank you. So, to me, it seems like this entire model is broken. (Yeah) Placebo, is the standard in which a medicine has to be able to conclusively beat before it's brought to the market. Now, what that means is for those who are having the placebo effect, they are turning on their inner pharmacology in a way that heals their body. (Yes) And this is an untrained individual, they've not been trained to do this. In other words, they just believe that this thing outside of them is changing them. So to me, it seems like this entire model is incorrect to say let's make better drugs. Whereas if 1/3 of the population untrained can turn on their inner pharmacology and heal from all manner of illnesses and maladies should we not be training to get better at that skill, because let me tell you something that is 100% and achievable outcome, you can absolutely train to learn how to change your chemistry, you can absolutely learn how to create epigenetic changes in your life, just by changing the way that you think and love the ways you engage certain things.
8:12 Jon
Okay, now, let's apply that to the standard of medicine beating the placebo effect. Because as you just explained it, what we're doing is activating our internal pharmacology to solve the problem. But on paper, what they're asking a drug to do to be certified is something slightly better than nothing at all.
8:39 Ted
Right. That's another way to look at it. Well, let's say nothing in the sense of a chemical.
8:47 Jon
Of a chemical additive to what you're already capable of producing. So the focus on that should be as many of us have experienced in our training, because I didn't, I wasn't aware that you had that many of us come to you. Because my most recent checkup in my blood work I went from, you know, being pre diabetic five years ago, and of course, that evolution has taken place over quite a bit of training. But the last blood work that I did, I don't remember specifically the numbers, but they were right down the middle.
9:23 Ted
Yeah. As they should be when you're practicing to have an integrated response within your different internal system, then that would be the expectation the same way. If you practice free throws, (yeah) you're likely to get better at free throws. So we don't look at it that way because we're so hypnotized into thinking about, for example, food. We look at food based on his packaging and marketing if it tastes good in our mouth. We don't think of food in terms of what that really does to serve our body, as fuel and as raw material and in terms of having a resource. But most people are massively under-resourced. When it comes to how they consume things, at least in the sense of creating a positive effect in their body, and they're massively over resourced, on the things that we would call negative effects, the things that ultimately they want to change that mysteriously have come out of nowhere, because they're not looking at where the cause and effect model was taking them. Or they've been practicing these things for so long that they end up all of a sudden with type two diabetes, how did this happen? (Yeah) It's really easy. (Yeah) Folks, this is super simple stuff. You just have to be able to allow your brain to accept the information that has proven to be effective for many, many people who have come before you. But it's really it's holding on to our attachments to the way that we think things need to be, that ultimately determines if we're going to continue to live a predictable future, which will look exactly the same as the past or if we can let go of our attachments and begin to experience things in the new. So that's kind of the whole concept around this idea of Timeless. (Yeah) Because you know, we have people in our community in the 70 plus range, that physically and mentally and emotionally are more connected and perform better than people in their 20s. And 30s.
11:26 Jon
Just yesterday, we were talking about training with some of our community members who are in their 70s. And that is probably the last thing on the consideration list that you should be looking at if you're trying to keep up with these individuals. (Yeah) You know, and I believe the quote, an American quote, I won't mention names, but one of the things that was said was, he's twice my age and twice as strong as I am.
12:03 Ted
Yeah. Right. It kind of feels like that's how it should be. Like if you're practicing correctly. (Yeah) Like a lot of people think, you know, they say, Well, I don't have experience. So if you're gaining experience, that is aiding your process. The farther you go, the better you should be. (Yeah) But what generally happens is in our society, we learn something and then we stay dogmatic. And so as we're practicing our dogma with the rest of the world is evolving. Or if nothing else, the effect of linear time is marching forward. And then all of a sudden, we feel like we've somehow missed out or things just happened. I don't know how it happened. Well, you went to sleep for 30 years. (Yeah, right) And you kept practicing the things that make your body fall apart. So a very predictable thing happened. So unraveling that is really gratifying. It takes a special person to be able to stand outside of that box of convention, and to be brave enough to say, I do want to reinvent my life. And I want to know what it feels like to be in a body that functions the same or better than when I was 30 or 40, or whatever it was, but it's absolutely an attainable goal if someone has enough desire.
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