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Highlights from today’s show…

1. Dr. Dave has a very exciting announcement! Are you on the list yet?
2. Dr. Dave talks about practicing what he preaches… 
3. Dr. Dave wishes a Happy 4th to all his American listeners! 

Hey there! It’s Dr. Dave and welcome to episode #143 of The David Madow Lifestyle Show. This is the show where I help you live stronger, thinner, healthier, and happier. And a lot more than that!

Be sure to follow my LIVE daily broadcasts on Periscope at www.periscope.tv/davidmadow.

Happy July 4th if you are in the U.S.A.! We are celebrating Independence Day today. So to all my American listeners, I hope you have a great day today! Celebrate, remember what you are celebrating, and be safe as well. Please have a great day!

Weirdness

I have some exciting stuff to share with you today. I want to share something kind of funny with you right off the bat. You might remember that in previous episodes that I sometimes record outside. And somehow noise tends to follow me. And I have a great example. It’s crazy. I can’t explain it. I don’t think it’s negative.

So I am ready to do this conference call yesterday. I found a place that was very peaceful and there was no one around. So I made the call and we were talking. And about 5 to 10 minutes into this call a landscape truck show ups right where I am and unloads I can’t even tell you how many people with lawn mowers and other equipment and they start working right in the middle of my call. Now I realize that they have a job to do but I tried to find the most peaceful place ever and within 10 minutes this truck pulls up and I had nowhere to go. So I had to walk around and try to avoid these guys on these really loud machines.

I know that there’s energy out there in the universe. We pray, we hope, we look for positive energy. I swear I am not out looking for noise. But what I think it does it make you realize that there are not a lot of quiet places anymore in popular areas. Our peace and quiet is getting more difficult to find. You might not realize it if you are not out recording something or on a very important call. You probably don’t notice the extraneous noise. But let me tell you something, take a microphone and start recording something outside and you’ll see how incredibly noisy it is almost everywhere.

Weirdness follows me for some reason. It just follows me. I have a great life and I am living my lifestyle, The David Madow Lifestyle. But for some reason, it follows me and I can’t explain it. Like one day, several episodes ago, I was in my car and I found this back parking spot in a very large mall area. I was meeting someone for lunch at the mall. So I parked a ways away from everybody. And sure enough a whole landscape crew found me and surrounded me.

Exciting Announcement

I have something incredibly cool to share with you now. A couple weeks ago I was doing my Periscope broadcast. And many of you that are listening to this now are regulars on my Periscope broadcasts. If you are not sure what Periscope is, it’s a free app that you can download on your tablet or phone and watch live streaming broadcasts. So you can pick it up and turn it on and start to broadcast. And if your title is interesting enough, people all over the world will pick it up and start watching you. Over the past year, I have developed a really good following and audience. I do a daily broadcast generally Monday through Friday around 8:15a.m. EST.

So I was doing a Periscope broadcast a few weeks ago and on the spur of the moment I had an idea. I have several of you guys and gals that are really interested in living this lifestyle and maybe even changing a lot of the things you are doing in your lives. So I came up with this idea that I would love to have kind of a 2 day retreat. You would come into my home and for two full days you would hang with me and my wife Yoko. We only want to take 10 people. We want it to be very intimate so that we are teaching 1 on 1. We want to teach you how to live this lifestyle and show you every single day. Now, you won’t be sleeping at our house because we just don’t have the room to hold 10 people to sleep. But there are some nearby hotels that we are going to recommend.

I started talking about this a little bit and as soon as I said I wanted to limit this to 10 people, people began messaging me that they want in and that they want to do it. I am not sure how many are serious and are gonna do it but I’ve got a list going already. I want to keep it to 10. It’s going to be awesome! Our friend Sandy who is a Yoga instructor came over yesterday and after Yoga we began brainstorming and she was crazy about the idea. We are going to be teaching Yoga, meditation, and cooking demonstrations. We’ll also be taking some group mastermind walks where we will be sharing ideas and looking at nature. We will have a drum circle. If you don’t know what that is, stay tuned because that’s incredible in itself. We will be answering any questions you have and I will be sharing my life and opening up about things that I have never ever talked about on Periscope or here on my podcast or shared from the stage. Yoko and I will be sharing everything. The group that comes will be like an elite group that will be privy to the exact way that we live this lifestyle. And it’s not difficult. By the time you leave, if we haven’t totally changed your life than we haven’t done our job.

Nothing is set in stone yet and we are looking at calendars. From what I am seeing there is a very good chance that it is going to be in April of 2017. That’s how crazily booked I am up until then. But it’s most likely going to be a weekend in April 2017. I will keep you informed as to happenings. Right now I am calling it the 2 Day David Madow Lifestyle Retreat but we might come up with a catchy name. As a matter of fact, if you have a really cool name idea, message me and let me know.

We’re also going to have 2 lunches and 2 dinners together. I’m actually going to pick 4 places that Yoko and I love. The meals are going to be vegan but even if you’re not vegan you will be living a vegan lifestyle for this 2 day retreat. We are going to teach everything. I have not come up with an exact pricing yet, but I am going to make it fair. I promise you will get much more than your money’s worth. Unfortunately we can’t put the whole thing on for free. There will be expenses involved. It will be planned out and it’s going to be an amazing weekend.

If you are interested and want to be on the list, send me a Facebook message here or you can email me at rundrdave@gmail.com. I will confirm that I received your message and add you to the list. There is no commitment just yet and we will remove you from the list at your request. But it will give me an idea who is interested. However please only sign up for the list if you are seriously interested.

It’s super exciting! And we hope to see you there. We want to hang out with you. We want to change your life! If you’ve come this far, it’s about time to really totally change your life. And we are going to do it!

Practice What You Preach

I want to finish off by sharing something that happened to me the other day. I want to share this with you because I preach a certain lifestyle. I was coming home from work the other day. It was a rainy day. I live in a rural area. I was going to make a left hand turn on my street and there was a car coming towards me making a right. He was going very very slow and I felt that I had plenty of time. I felt that I had plenty of time to make the left turn in front of him before he was even going to get to the intersection to make the turn. So I made the left hand turn not thinking anything of it. Next thing I know I am driving down my street and he is behind me. Not only is he behind me but I see he is really tailing me and it looks like he is not really happy. He is trying to swerve around me and pass me. He is honking his horn and this guy is going crazy. At first I was trying to figure out what they story was. I couldn’t imagine why he could be so upset. The only thing that I could possibly think of is that maybe he felt that I cut him off. But this guy was going nuts and he was trying to pass me but I was not letting him. In a situation like this, you have to think fast. What do you do? This guy could be a mad man. He could be looking for a confrontation. Who knows?! I thought that if I let him pass me, he would have the upper hand. So I was not going to allow this guy to pass me. It was maybe a mile from my house. He was honking the horn and trying to come around me. I felt that the smartest thing to do would be to not drive into my driveway because I don’t want this guy to see where I live. My license plate does say Go Vegan so the guy could have very easily remembered my license plate and do a search. So I decided to keep driving straight past my house and I would try to pull into a fire station or police station even though I was pretty far from anything like that out in the middle of nowhere. I was not going to let this guy intimidate me. But I was going the speed limit and I was not going to give him the finger or anything like that. I kept cool.

What ended up happening is that he turned off into a small side street before you get to my house. And was never to be seen again. I continued on and turn into my driveway and that was pretty much it. I didn’t get pissed off, I didn’t get upset,my blood pressure didn’t go up, I didn’t feel that I needed to go find this guy and take revenge or anything like that. I practice what I preach. I let it go. The last thing I want to do was to have this ruin my day, my life, ruin my week, or step into some type of revenge. It’s not worth it.

When I got home I told my wife Yoko about it and I think I talked about it on my Periscope broadcast. I wanted to share that with you because it’s a learning experience. I do practice what I preach and what I teach to you. I teach not to be stressed out, and not to fight with people, don’t take yourself to their level, try to do the right thing. Maybe I made a mistake. Maybe I should have waited for him to make the turn.

My lesson for today is to please don’t let idiots stress you out. Recognize that they are idiots and some things are just totally out of your control. Think and try to do the right thing. That’s just one part of The David Madow Lifestyle. There are so many things I want to teach you and so many things that I have taught you over the life of this podcast.

Thank you so much for hanging with me. I hope you enjoyed it! We got through this without any landscaping trucks finding me 😉 We did it! Happy Holiday! I’ll be back next Monday. Have a great one!

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1. Dr. Dave shares two reasons why you probably eat meat…
2. What are some of the benefits of living a vegan lifestyle?

Welcome back my friends! It’s the show that helps you live stronger, thinner, healthier, and happier! I want to start off the show today and make it a point to tell you that life is good. Life is good. I know there a lot of crazy things going on around us probably almost every day. We hear bad things in the news and I don’t want to go into details.  You can only imagine what I am talking about. There’s just so many weird things. We can be down on life, down on the planet, and down on the government, and down on terrorists but we have to look for the good.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” – Fred Rogers 

Right now, I am down in Florida and I am speaking to an incredibly motivated and positive group of  about 1500 different people. It was a great day feeling all the positive energy. There is some good in this world. So no matter how bad you think things are personally or collectively in the world around us; stop for a second, breathe in some fresh air, and look around. There is good out there.

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I want to ask you a question. I have talked a lot about eating and being healthy on my show since the beginning. Are you still eating meat? Let’s talk about this for a few seconds. If you are eating meat, why are you eating meat? I realize that 97% of the people in North America are eating meat. So I am in the minority. The overwhelming minority. If you are a vegetarian or a vegan, we are in the minority. But here’s the deal, I want you to reflect and close your eyes for a few minutes and think about why you may be eating meat. And I will tell you probably why.

1) You were born eating meat. When you were growing up, that’s what you did. That’s what everybody did. You are born eating meat, milk, eggs, cheese, and dairy and things like that so you think it’s normal.

2) You have probably become accustomed to love the taste of it. People talk about how great bacon tastes, and how good meat is, and how great it smells on the grill. It tastes so good. So that’s probably another reason you’re not willing to give up that taste. And I don’t know whether you think it’s healthy or maybe you realize that maybe it’s not healthy but I think that most people believe that anything in moderation is ok. I am here to tell you it is not healthy at all. The way that these animals are bred and raised is with sickness and illness. They are bred unnaturally and they suffer too. There is nothing healthy about eating any of these animals. There just isn’t. I would challenge you to show me that eating any type of meat is healthier than eating plants. It’s not.

I have done it both ways. I grew up eating meat. And a little over two years ago, I switched to an all vegan diet. I do not eat or consume animal products. I spent 58 years of my life, eating what you may be eating now. Yes meat used to taste good to me but when you quit eating animal products and you’re eating beautiful wonderful glorious plants all day long it’s amazing. There are so many things that come from the ground that you can eat that are plant based. Such as greens, fruit, nuts, beans, seeds, and grains. There are so many varieties. I don’t walk around feeling hungry or that I am missing something. Because of where I am in life and what I have discovered, when I am at a family event where people are passing around a dead animal it actually grosses me out. It doesn’t make sense to me. I am not saying you are a bad person at all but what I am saying is that most people aren’t really thinking at all where it’s coming from. How they’re raised and how they’re bred. What chemicals are being given to them to try to cut down on illness and toxicity coming from these factory farms? There is so much illness and sickness. And animals are sitting in feces and there’s nowhere to move. They’re overweight and have heart problems because their bodies can’t support how quickly they grow from breeding. I have learned a lot over the past 2 to 2 and 1/2 years. I learned things that I never knew. And when innocent people are eating meat, you really don’t know what you’re eating.

When you stop eating meat, you will notice some things happen to your body. Your skin is much more vibrant, you lose weight, cholesterol levels go way down, if you have diabetes or pre-diabetes your blood sugar will begin to normalize. I can’t say it’s in 100% of cases. But it does happen in the overwhelming majority of cases I have seen. You become happier, healthier, more energetic, and more positive. My outlook on life and positivity has increased so much since I became vegan. Because I was eating cruelty and suffering. I am not blaming anyone. As I said, I was raised to eat meat and most likely you were too unless you were raised vegan.

If you decide to change, and adopt a plant based diet. I don’t mean drinking diet coke and eating potato chips because that is theoretically plant based. That is not a healthy diet. I am talking about eating healthy. When you eliminate animal products from your diet, you will be amazed at how much younger you will look and feel. I am 61 years old and I feel like a kid. I feel like I can do anything. People tell me all the time that I look vibrant and young for my age. And I take that as a compliment. I believe that it is a side effect of being vegan.

I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to try it. Just test is for 90 days and see what happens. I admit it’s anecdotal and there is no scientific evidence but I can only tell you what happened to my body and my outlook on life and the same with my wife Yoko. So many things have changed for the better in our life and in our relationship. I can’t sit here and tell you that everything is perfect. No, I am a human being like everyone else, things that come up, and problems and issues. Taking animals products out of your life is not a panacea that will solve all the problems in your life. If you’re $100,000 in debt, going vegan isn’t going to solve that problem. You have to do that on your own. I do think it helps to go vegan because I think that you can think clearer. Like I said, I can speak to this because I have done it both ways. If you have never tried to go vegan, there is really no way you can say that you can’t do that. It’s not difficult at all. I used to think that being vegan would be impossible. It’s actually one of the easiest things I have ever done because I prepare. I don’t eat in the junk food places that 90% of Americans do. I don’t want to look like most Americans do. 61 might be considered old but I don’t feel like an old man. I feel like a young vibrant man that can do almost anything.

What do you think? Have I convinced you to try it? See how you feel and see how your health is. I feel so much better knowing that I don’t have any part in animal suffering.

I hope this was a good message for today. I know a lot of you are already plant based but I think this is an interesting message so I hope you listened until the end anyway. If it’s not for you, I still love you as a human being.

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1. It’s Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. And this is what I am doing…
2. Something I have been dreading for years…
3. It’s just about never as bad as you think. I go in depth about this statement today. 

Welcome to episode #139 of The David Madow Lifestyle Show. It’s the show where I help you live stronger, thinner, healthier, and happier. And as you know a lot more than that.

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Before I get started, I have got to tell you a funny story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed it. I just recorded episode #139 or at least I thought I did. I recorded it a short time ago. I was finishing up and I look down at my recorder and for some reason it just wasn’t recording. I figured out the reason. It was a technical problem but I had just gone through this whole thing and recorded a beautiful episode for you and there was nothing there and no way to retrieve anything. It just stopped. So this is the second time, I am recording this episode. And I think it’s going to be even better than the first time. Because whenever you do something once it’s good and everything but it’s like a practice. But then the second time you do it, you nail it. Now obviously I don’t have the time to record it once and then record it again but it does happen sometimes. I like to think I am a perfectionist to a point. Of course every episode I put out won’t be perfect but I am enough of a perfectionist that if I ever record an episode for you and I don’t think it’s great, I will delete it or abandon it and record another one for you. Because I really want this to be great. If you are taking 20 or 25 minutes out of your day to listen to me, I want it to be good. So, this is the second time I am recording episode #139 so enjoy it.

Memorial Day

It is Memorial Day weekend here in the United States. And it’s a day where people normally barbeque (hopefully just vegetables). And I always take several minutes out of my weekend and just reflect and think about being thankful and praying for the men and women that made the ultimate sacrifice and lost their lives in military service. So I always give my thanks, I think, I meditate, I pray. And I think that’s what the holiday weekend should be about.

Choices

I also wanted to take a second and tell you what else I am thinking about and praying for. I am referring to the billions and billions of land animals and even more aquatic animals that are killed every year so human beings can eat. It’s unlike those people that gave their lives either volunteering or knowing that they are defending our country. The animals, unfortunately, don’t really have a choice. They are bred into this animal agricultural system. They are living lives in misery, sickness, pain, disease, and fear. It’s a horrible life. And then comes the point where they are taken to the slaughterhouse and their lives are ended. Unfortunately, that is probably the best day of their lives. It’s just horrible. Hopefully one day this craziness is going to stop. So if you are doing any kind of thinking or meditating or praying, just think for a couple moments about all the suffering of the animals and the killing.

By going vegan and eliminating animals and animal products from your life, this world would be such a better place. Since going vegan, I just feel so much better about my purpose and I am so much more at peace with myself because I am no longer contributing to the suffering. Every time a person decides to stop eating, wearing, and using animals, it makes a big impact on this planet. If you haven’t done it yet, all I ask is that you just think about it. That’s all I ask. Can you do it?

T Shirts

Before I get into today’s show, I just want to talk to you about my website really quick. It’s going crazy and we are getting so many visitors. Thank you so much for listening to The David Madow Lifestyle Show. I have my “Oy Vegan” T Shirts  on the site. They are a beautiful green color with “Oy Vegan” accross the front. And let me tell you something. They are a conversation starter. I guarantee you that if you are wearing one of these you are going to get noticed. They are going to ask you about what “Oy Vegan” is and you will be able to tell them. Not just the good that we are doing here. Not only that, but when you order a t-shirt from me, I donate $2 per shirt to a charity. Right now I donate to the Catskill Animal Sanctuary. I have visited there personally with Yoko. It’s a beautifully run sanctuary. A little bit adds up and we can help the animals that way too. So take a look. We have sizes running from small to extra large. We just received an order from a few good people in Australia. I want this shirt to be all over the planet. Order yours today and know that you are not only promoting being a vegan but you are helping the animals so please consider that.

The Crap in Your Life

I want to talk to you today about something I have been dreading for somewhere between 5 to 10 years. I will explain. I have my office and I have a little warehouse in the back. And over many many years not only have I been shoving a bunch of files back there but things that I don’t really need but didn’t want to part with. This warehouse has become a storage area for Dave’s old cluttered junk. I don’t want to say junk because a lot of this stuff was important to me at the time, I just didn’t have a place to put it. I put it in this warehouse knowing full well that one day I would have to be in there sorting through all of it. It’s not that I obsessed over this day, I didn’t. But I am happy to announce today that I did it. We are downsizing our office which is a great thing because these days so much stuff is done virtually. I work from wherever I am on the planet. I don’t need a private office anymore. Our team needs an office of course for their desks, computers, and phone lines but we don’t need anywhere near the space that we had over the past 10 to 20 years. So we’re moving into a much smaller place. I am really excited. Downsizing just means that you don’t have all the junk that you once had.

But along with downsizing means that you have to start going through junk and clutter and figuring out what to do with it. Like 5 to 10 years worth of stuff that was cluttered back in this warehouse. I had to clean out. The day was scheduled out and it was on the calendar but let me tell you something. I was dreading it. I was obsessing a little over how difficult it was going to be; I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to be in the situation of having to figure out what to do with everything. I was going crazy over this. I was losing some sleep. I did not want to be in this situation. It was last Tuesday. Number one, I am still alive. I didn’t get hurt. I finished the job. And let me tell you something,  it was much easier than I thought. All this worrying and wondering and it turned out to be easy. I had a couple team members back there helping me and it was great. We made piles for trash, stuff to keep, and stuff to give away. As it turns out I did a little post on a local Facebook group stating that we were cleaning out our warehouse and that most of the things were free. I announced the time as between 2pm and 3pm. And sure enough by 1:40pm people were already lining up outside on the warehouse steps. I am not exaggerating. And I have not seen so many happy faces in one place in such a long time. Because of my clutter and my junk, I made so many people happy. A woman came in and bought a guitar from me which was actually one of my first guitars.  She bought it for $40 and said that she was going to be giving it to her 10 year old son on his birthday and that he was going to love it. It made her so happy. Bottom line is that all of those people from the community that were in there talking and smiling, I made their day. We had a great time. I learned that there was no reason to learn to dread this day. It turned out to be so much better and so much more fun because it turned out to be so much easier than I thought. I started thinking back and there have been so many times when I have had a meeting or an appointment or an interview and I thought I just don’t want to do it. And 99.9% of the time these things turn out to be nothing. They turn out to be much better than we ever expected. Things in our lives are generally not nearly as bad as we think they will be.

Suicide

As I am walking down the street in my neighborhood, there is a little memorial on the street. There is an orange traffic cone with a large flag coming out of it and flowers and memorabilia around it. The reason this cone is here is that about 3 days ago, unfortunately a young man decided to take his life by driving down my street and putting a bullet through his head. He was 18 years old and was a volunteer firefighter for our local community. He was also a student. I didn’t know him personally but he lived nearby and drive by here all the time. So a few days ago he decided to end his life by putting a bullet through his head. And I started thinking how bad did he perceive things were? What was going on in his brain? Did he lose a girlfriend? Is he broke? Did he lose a job? Is he flunking out of school? What could have happened that was so bad that this 18 year old man decided to end his life? Thank God I have never really had a problem with some type of chemical imbalance in my brain. I know how bad that can be for people and how bad depression can be. But it’s generally never as bad as we think it is. There is always a way to get help or medication if you need it. There is always a way. I just feel horrible looking at this memorial right now knowing that this great kid who was already contributing a lot to society decided to end his life.

I come back to the warehouse in my office. Again, I don’t want to even begin to think that the two are equal. Me cleaning out the warehouse is not the same as someone taking their life. Trust me. I know how horrible that is. And maybe he had some real problems, I am not really sure. But I thought the warehouse clean out was going to be horrible. I thought it was going to take me days and days and days and a lot of stress to clean it up. It was nothing, it took a few hours, and it was a lot of fun. As I think back on my life and getting into college and professional school and a lot of things that I did in my life, I thought they were going to be hard. But rarely did they ever turn out to be as bad as I thought they would. I wish I could have talked to this young man before he did this to himself. So if you think there is anything going on bad in your life, if things are tough and they are tough for a lot of us. I have told you on this show many time how much junk and stuff I have been through. I am here to tell you that things get better. They get better if you work at it. Things have a tendency to work out. If you are sitting here now thinking there is no answer, no hope, I am here to tell you it is almost never as bad as you think it is. No matter how bad of a situation you think you are in.

I want you to take some time to reflect. I have given you several things to think about. The military people that have given their lives and the billions of animals that die every year. Think about anything that you’re going through or a loved one and please get some help for yourself or help somebody out. Because again it’s rarely as bad as you think. Let’s get that crap out of your life too! It’s not nearly as bad as you think! I love ya!

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1. We have a special guest. Welcome Andre to today’s show. 
2. Andre gives his life changing advice for a healthier you!

Welcome to episode #137 of The David Madow Lifestyle Show. This is the show where I help you live stronger, thinner, healthier, and happier. Fasten your seatbelt! This is going to be an incredible episode.

Be sure to follow my LIVE daily broadcasts on Periscope at www.periscope.tv/davidmadow.

Here’s what happened…I ran into an old friend of mine that I hadn’t seen in quite some time. And he was telling me a story about how his life changed. And I said, “oh Andre, I have got to get you as a guest on my show because you will inspire so many people.” So he agreed to do it and here we are. Listening to this will change your life!

Dr. Dave: “So, I’ve got my old friend Andre on the show with me today. Thanks so much for being here.”

Andre: “It is an honor. It’s great to speak with you Dr. Dave.”

Dr. Dave: “It’s great to have you on the line. I apologize to my listeners for the sound quality. It’s usually pristine studio quality sound but I am doing this over phone line so just bear with me. The content is going to be so worth it that you will forget about the sound quality. It’s not bad but it’s not as good as my studio quality. Andre listen, it was great catching up with you the other night. We hadn’t really talked in years. We’re old friends and we got on the phone a few nights ago and you told me an amazing story. So just to recap that story a little bit for my listeners. You told me the other night that you cut something out of your diet because of migraine headaches. So tell me a little bit about why you did it and how you did it?”

Andre: “Sure, I gotta tell you the process started over a year ago. I’ve been suffering from migraines and I’ve tried everything to get rid of my migraines. But the one thing that made sense was changing my diet. I cut out meat and within weeks the difference was incredible. I was getting migraines twice a month. And I am not sure if you have ever suffered from migraines but it’s just the most awful feeling in the world. I can’t describe it. Long story short, I cut out meat (and eventually alcohol) and it’s made all the difference in the world. And I was supported by my physician who happens to be a 70 year old vegan in better shape than I was. It was a common sense issue at that point.

Dr. Dave: “Wow! That’s very interesting. You didn’t tell me about your physician the other night. We will have to go into that in a little bit. But Andre, how long have you been suffering from migraines? Has it been a lifelong thing or were they more recent?”

Andre: “Oh man! Late high school. So 20+ years. I am 40 years old now and it started in my late teens. But in my late teens I didn’t really chalk it up as a migraine. I just, I didn’t know what it was. It was these awful headaches. I would lose 2 to 3 days of school and I wasn’t really sure why. Looking back, now that I have changed my diet and I am a lot more careful with what I put into my body. I ate like crap and it definitely didn’t help the fact that I was getting migraines. I was put on many different types of medication and I don’t want to knock medication but it didn’t help. All it did was suppress the pain but I was trying to get rid of the migraines. It’s been close to 70 weeks that I have been doing this to try to get these migraines and in those 70 weeks the reason why I have changed my diet has transformed. It’s so much more than that. I don’t want to oversimplify it but it’s just a common sense issue. And I think one of the things I said was that ingesting suffering just didn’t sit well with me anymore.”

Dr. Dave:  “Hold off on that because we are going to get into that in one second. Getting back to the migraines, you decided to cut out meat from your diet. At first it was only meat. Is this something that you researched online or did your 70 year old vegan physician recommend it? How did you actually determine that you were going to cut out meat from your diet to try to get rid of these migraines?”

Andre: “So, the doctor I went to suggested it. He didn’t tell me this is the reason and he didn’t tell me this is not the reason. He suggested it. And he described certain enzymes and reactions in my brain that could have triggered by meat – especially processed meats like bacon and hot dogs for example. When I started listening to him, I realized that everything on his list was something I was eating on a regular basis. Not once or twice a week. I was eating it every single day. That’s bad for my health to begin with, you know?”

Dr. Dave: “Once you cut out the meat, how long before the migraines totally subsided?”

Andre: “My migraines almost had a schedule at this point. It was like twice a month and I was just waiting for them to return and they didn’t. They didn’t. In the past year, I would say I had 2 migraines.”

Dr. Dave: “Wow. Then you decided that cutting out meat is not enough. At some point you decided to go completely vegan. What made you actually do that? The migraines were already gone pretty much then you decided ok, I am going to go completely vegan.”

Andre: “Right, so it started off as, ok this is going to be a challenge. This is going to be a lifestyle change. This is going to be a personal “Can I do this?” challenge. At first it was a challenge and the peer pressure around me was worse than my cravings which to be honest with you I never had. So I started off being vegetarian and then the vegan change for me was more like, look I can do this! It became my lifestyle not just my diet. It became an act of kindness. I was understanding my surroundings. I became a part of something better. It made all the difference in the world. It changed my mood. Which is something that I am not sure your listeners would agree with or have experienced but my mood changed for the better. I felt better about myself. I felt better about my conversion. That change to veganism was one of the biggest and most proud moments in my life. I know that sounds dorky to a lot of people but to me it was a huge accomplishment. I am really really proud of it.”

Dr. Dave: “Actually it doesn’t sound dorky. It’s funny that you said that your mood because I have been doing this show for 2 1/2 years now and I do my daily Periscope broadcast as well so I have a lot of people following me and asking questions. And one of the most common questions these days is; hey Dr. Dave, what do I do if I am sad? What do I do if I am feeling down or depressed? So tell me about your mood. How bad was it before you went vegan? Describe some of your moods that were not good.”

Andre: “The first thing that comes to mind is that I had a short temper. I was aggressive. I always thought I was a nice guy but in lots of ways, looking back, I had no patience at all compared to now. I consider myself a lot more patient and a lot more understanding. It changed my outlook. I think once you make that change and you see every living being as an equal instead of having a sense of entitlement like God put this animal on the Earth so that I can eat it. It really truly does. And I don’t have any scientific background to back up what I am saying. I can only talk about the experience that I had. And I really hope that my friends are listening to this or the friends that I have never met that are listening to this podcast because it’s absolutely awesome! It’s just something I am really proud of. It made sense for me.”

Dr. Dave: “You should be proud. You should definitely be proud. Was it difficult at first? You made the decision to go vegan and I know a lot of people say that they get a lot of flack from friends and from social pressure. You hear things like I need my cheese and I need my yogurt. How long did it take you once you made the decision to do it?”

Andre: “When I first started I thought it was necessary for me to have to explain myself. At BBQ’s especially. I started my journey on Cinco de Mayo. And there were a lot of BBQs and outdoor grilling. At first I was hesitant to even go to these events and be social because I thought I wasn’t going to be accepted or I would have to explain myself for three or four hours at a time. But I went and heard what they had to say and let them get it off of their chest. I thought it sounded ridiculous but I had a good time. I am not here to tell somebody else what they should eat, I am here to tell them why I am not eating it. They may ask me where I get my protein. But I think that is the dumbest question that you can ask someone who has stopped eating meat. Honestly, why do I keep getting asked that question?!” (chuckles)

Dr. Dave: “It is the most commonly asked question. I just look at people right in the eye and say from plants. That’s all I say. I used to go into this tremendous detail but now I just say I get it from plants. The same place the animals get it from. It’s not difficult.”

Andre: “You know, I couldn’t agree more.  A plant based diet offers you everything and more than a non plant based diet. Shopping for myself when I was a single male, I was throwing away about $50 in groceries every single week. I thought going vegan or going vegetarian was going to cost me more because I thought organic food was very expensive but that wasn’t the case at all. I saved money every week, none of my groceries went bad, and I ate fresh fruit every single day. the food that I was putting into my body, I knew where it was coming from and I knew how to pronounce and spell all the ingredients. That was major for me. The resources available online for anyone thinking of starting a plant based diet was incredible and the support online and in the community was incredible. I am still learning. I don’t see a such thing as a perfect first year. We trip, we fall, we make mistakes but we learn and we don’t make those mistakes again. It helps us to coach our friends to make the same decision that we have if they ever choose to do so. I hear a lot of excuses like going vegan is super expensive and I don’t have the budget for it. When in reality, you’re saving money and eating fresh every day. It’s a no brainer.”

Dr. Dave: “You gotta love it. I think you said it beautifully. That’s another common question that I get. People think it’s so expensive and that they can’t afford it. That’s just crazy. You said it. You had meats that you had to throw out. They spoil and they go bad then you can’t eat them. So that was a great point. Andre, tell me a little bit about your 70 year old vegan physician? What does he look like? Does he look healthy? Does he look young?”

Andre: “I will tell you this, I would have never guessed that he was 70 years old. He is in much better shape than I am. He tells me that he runs every morning, 5 miles per day. He enjoys biking. He is healthy and happy. His mood is something I was shooting for. Here I am 39 years old at the time and I was in a bad mood, I was chubby, I was eating crap, smoking, and drinking. And then here’s this guy who is not supposed to look better or thinner than I do and he did! Instead of pressuring me or making me feel bad about my diet, he just told me some facts. He told me, look this has been going on for 20 years and yes medication suppresses the pain but I think your goal is to get rid of the migraines, isn’t it? I said absolutely. And he said just try it. Just try it and let me know what you think. And that’s exactly what happened. He was right…again.”

Dr. Dave: “And if he would have pressured you and said Andre you are crazy for eating this way, you better start eating vegan. If you had felt pressure what would you have done?”

Andre: “I think I would have been more afraid than inspired or motivated. When someone pressures me to do something, more often than not, I don’t. That was what used to be. He really motivated me more. When someone that looks better than you, that’s happier than you, and it’s not a financial thing by any means. I just mean that he wakes up and he has a goal and he is kind and he rescues animals. He’s just a good guy. We never talked about money but he was just like look I suggest this and I think what he really suggested was a lifestyle change. And it changed my mood, it changed my weight, it changed my outlook, it changed the way that I speak to people, and my relationships. Just to give you a quick example, I just had lunch with a veterinarian friend of mine. At first I was nervous. She chose the restaurant and I was nervous that because I didn’t want to make someone else feel uncomfortable. But she sat down in front of me and said, I hope you don’t mind but I don’t normally eat meat but you can order anything you want. And right there I knew it was going to be a great lunch date. It was really cool.”

Dr. Dave: “That’s great! That’s a cool story. If you had to give one bit of advice or wisdom to someone listening to the show right now that is eating animal products? They are listening carefully but they are not sure what to do and they think they don’t really want to change. Just one little piece of advice from Andre. What would your advice be?”

Andre: “I will repeat the one piece of advice I got from the physician I visited. It’s that you have nothing to lose. Honestly, give it a shot! See how you feel at the end of the week. Let it be a personal challenge and see how you feel, see how much money you saved, see how you feel about yourself that you are not a part of this cruelty that’s going on. You know where your food is coming from and you know you’re not hurting anybody. You’re only bettering yourself in every single aspect. Every part of my life has gotten better. I personally guarantee that if I can do it so can you.”

Dr. Dave: “Since we have a couple more minutes, why don’t you talk about another aspect of your life that changed once you went vegan. I’d love to hear that I know you had several.”

Andre: “Sure, my relationship with my family is one. To me that’s number one. How I speak to my mom, how I interact with my family who by the way are not vegan and we had our first vegan Thanksgiving. In the beginning they didn’t understand. They asked a lot of questions. And they expected the old Andre, the no patience for explaining things Andre. The old Andre that would have blown up maybe. But I didn’t. I just sat down and said let me prepare you a vegan meal and see what you think and how you feel. I wish I had scientific proof behind the things I am telling you but it’s just my experience. I just became a happier individual.”

Dr. Dave: “Well that’s ok, like I told you before we went on the air today, I don’t need scientific evidence from you. There is plenty out there. If people do the research, there’s plenty. I wanted to hear it like I am sitting down on the couch next to my friend Andre and hear your exact personal experience. So we don’t even need to go into scientific evidence. What happened to you was incredible. And let me tell you that you are not the only one that I have heard this from. I heave heard it many times from other people that go vegan. It’s a lifechanger. I really want to thank you for your time today Andre and I would really like to have you back another time because I think we have a lot more to talk about. I have one more question that I want to ask you. And that is, you said you just turned 40 right? And you have just celebrated your one year vegan anniversary. The way you look at it now, is there any chance that you would ever go back the other way to being an omnivore and eating animal products? Any chance whatsoever?”

Andre: “No chance, no chance. I will not sacrifice all the good in my life that I gained just to go back to the way things were. And I gotta tell you Dr. Dave there isn’t a day that goes by that I crave animal products. That’s garbage. People will say well don’t you miss this and don’t you miss that? And no I absolutely do not. I would not go back.”

Dr. Dave: “Andre, I don’t know if you realize this or not but you just inspired many many people. And I really appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me on The David Madow Lifestyle Show. You are welcome to come back anytime. I have a feeling we just touched the tip of the iceberg here. So Andre thank you so much.”

Andre: “Oh man! I can’t wait. It’s been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for inviting me Dr. Dave.”

Dr. Dave: “Great having you Andre.”

Hey, it’s Dr. Dave and I hope you enjoyed that interview. Andre is a really great guy as well as an inspirational person. And he totally changed his life. I hope you enjoyed the episode today. I will see you back next time. Remember, I love ya and keep doing what you’re doing. You’re doing a great job!

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Highlights from today’s show…

1. Join the selfie party on Facebook! 
2. What I discovered in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 
3. Get my free goals worksheet to help you reach your dreams. 

Hey there it’s Dr. Dave and welcome to The David Madow Lifestyle Show. This is the show where I help you live stronger, thinner, healthier, and happier. It’s episode #135 and right now I am on US Route 15 heading north through the beautiful state of Pennsylvania on my way to Toronto, Ontario. It’s hippie road trip part 2! I had such an incredible time on part 1 driving from Phoenix, AZ to Memphis, TN between speaking gigs. And this is part 2. I am speaking in Toronto on Saturday and I could have flown there, worked, and then flown back. But I said to Yoko that I think I want to do part 2 and she said “if you want to do it you should do it.” So I thank my wife Yoko for totally understanding me and “getting” me. Maybe most people don’t, I don’t know. But she really “gets” me. So I had her blessing to go on hippie road trip part 2, so here I am. I have an incredible show for you today. I am going to pack a bunch of stuff in. So fasten your seatbelt, we have a lot to talk about.

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First, I want you to do me a favor. I don’t ask for favors too often. But I look at my statistics and I know how many listeners I have, where they come from, but I don’t know exactly who is listening and when they are listening. For example, I don’t know that John Smith is listening right now from Dayton, OH. They don’t give me that. So I am going to ask you a favor. I want you to pause this podcast right now. And I want you to take a selfie. That’s right! Take a picture of yourself and I want you to post it on my Facebook page. It will take you 2 minutes if that. You can follow me or you can friend me. But I want you to post a selfie so I will be able to see you and all the cool people that are listening to this podcast. If you don’t want to post it, you can email it to me at rundrdave@gmail.com. So do that right now…

Highways

So I am driving on US Route 15 going through Pennsylvania and I saw this sign a few miles ago that was advertising for a restaurant that is in Williamsport, PA. Which is where the International Little League Headquarters are located. So I saw this billboard for a restaurant named Olive Tree. I was driving by it quickly but noticed it said home cooked vegetarian and vegan meals in Downtown Williamsport. That’s all I had to hear! Coincidentally it was coming up on lunch time and I was getting hungry. So I got on my Waze and searched for it and then programmed in my GPS. When I got there it was nothing like I thought it would be. It was a very tiny restaurant and shop in a residential/business area of downtown. I walked in and there was a small counter and a few tables and chairs. A woman greeted me and I walked in. I assumed it was the person that owned it since no one else was in there.

Vegans

So as I am looking around checking the place out, the woman kind of frantically tells me to sit down. I said ok no problem. So I decided to sit at the front counter. So I asked her for some change so that I could feed the parking meter and when I came back in she not only had menus but also a huge board of all the specials and soups, and entrees, and salads and sandwiches. You name it! It was incredible. So I told her that I saw the sign a few miles back that said vegan and what can you make really good that’s vegan. So she asked me what types of food I liked and I told her that I typically eat ethnic foods at home. I decided on a bowl of artichoke soup that was highly recommended and a vegan gyro (after being assured that it was completely vegan). So I took my laptop out and began doing some writing. A few minutes later my soup came it. I took a picture of it. It looked beautiful and my first spoonful was delicious. It also came with homemade bread with a touch of cinnamon. So the woman, her name was Sophie, began talking to me. She was from Greece and tries to go home to visit as much as she can. We were talking about the restaurant and I asked her about the sign and how does it do? And she told me all about that and how she used to own a pizza place. Sophia and I continued talking and she was so incredibly kind. I got only about 2 to 3 minutes of work done but it was such a cool experience sitting down in a restaurant in Williamsport.

And this is exactly why I am doing my hippie road trips. If I was in a plane I would never get to sample these things. If I were on a place I would not get to experience this country. I would never get to see the beautiful mountains in northern Pennsylvania. It’s beautiful here! I have to give this are a plug. If you drive up US 15 through Pennsylvania into New York, do it. Don’t put things off. Life goes by too quickly. I know you have plans for the future, but do it now! You can do a road trip very inexpensively.  Sophia and I were talking about how we both want to get a recreational vehicle. If you are ever in the Williamsport area of Pennsylvania visit The Olive Tree owned by Sophia Daskalakis at 412 Williams Street.

Goals (free download)

There is something major I want to share with you. One of the reasons that I am able to do the things that I do now is that I came up with goals. I wrote them down and studied them very carefully. I read my goals every single day. It’s a lifechanger and you heard this from me before. I have had a lot of people recently say, “Dave, I want to do what you’re doing. I want to have goals. I want to live my life exactly the way that I want to live and not the way somebody tells me. I have a lot of goals and I don’t really know how to make them come true. Are you telling me that if I just write down my goals and read them they will come true? How do I do it?” I used to write them in a notebook. I do read my goals every single day. As old goals become reality, I formulate new goals. I am always a goal oriented person. But, since there has been some questioning and people aren’t really sure where to write them, I have come up with a goals worksheet. It’s actually 5 pages. It’s a very very simple goals worksheet that takes you from the start to actually coming up with the exact goals. These are my personal goals worksheets. I made them for you just because so many of you have been asking me about these. So how do you get them? Click HERE to grab your free copy. I recommend that you print it out. I do almost everything online but in this case I recommend that you print out the goals worksheet. It should come to five pages. Fill them out. Take your time. It doesn’t have to be done today so take your time and do it right. And then the instructions are on there to read them every single day. Once you do this, your life will change. You will see it. It’s a guarantee from me!

I do have my conversation starting “Oy Vaygan” T-shirts on my website now. If you don’t believe me that these are conversation starters. Believe me! I went to the Baltimore Veg Fest last weekend and I wore my “Oy Vaygan” and I had a lot of people come up to me and say I love your shirt. Where can I get one? It was a a big hit. And not just a veg fests, I have had flight attendants tell me they love it, checking into hotels people tell me they love it. And you don’t have to be “vaygan” to wear the shirt.

This episode went by so fast. When I am recording these I have so much fun. I love helping you, I love teaching, motivating, and I love inspiring. Next episode, I have some incredible stuff for you.

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WARNING: EXPLICIT MATERIAL

Highlights from today’s show…

1. Dr. Dave is on the road again! Find out about day 3 of his hippie road trip currently in progress. 
2. Protein and sleep. I share the results of my interesting research.
3. The absolute best advice I can give you…

Hey there! How are ya? Welcome to episode #133. This is the show where I help you live stronger, longer, healthier, and happier. If you’re a regular listener, welcome back! I appreciate you. If you are a new listener, thanks so much for being with me. And for the first time in 133 episodes, I have to give you a warning at the beginning of this. There is a very good chance that this is going to be explicit. So if language offends you, or if you are in a public area or with kids, and don’t want to hear certain words; I am giving you the warning right now. This will most likely become explicit because I have got something that I want to share with you and there will be some language involved.

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It’s Day 3 of my #hippieroadtrip. I was in Santa Fe, NM yesterday and let me tell you something, Santa Fe is such a great town. I definitely want to spend more time in Santa Fe. Yesterday was my first time ever being there. I’ve driven through New Mexico when I helped my son Evan relocate to California. But Santa Fe is very cool and it’s definitely a place worth revisiting. Especially when I am with my wife Yoko and I have more time. My hippie road trip is 5 days going from Phoenix, AZ to Little Rock, AK in between speaking gigs. I some time constraints and I just don’t have time to stop at any one place and do a whole lot. I would have loved to have done some hiking in Santa Fe. There is good hiking all around the Santa Fe area. But I just don’t have the time.

People have been asking my why I call this the hippie road trip. And it’s just simply because these 5 days are all mine and other than having to be on stage to speak Friday morning, I don’t have any destinations planned and no reservations.

I am now entering Texas. And I just thought about this but I just lost another hour changing time zones. So I may get to my destination an hour later but it’s ok because I have nowhere to be 🙂

So what I have been doing is that the afternoon that I am traveling, I go on to www.hotels.com and finding a last minute deal. And it’s been working out incredibly well. There are deals to be had. And if you have some flexibility in your travel, it’s great. For tonight, I got a hotel suite for $69 plus tax. C’mon now!! That is incredible! And I am loving it.

So enough about my trip, you want to hear some good information. So today I am going to share a few things with you that are really important.

• I elluded to this a few episodes ago, but I have been having some trouble with my sleep lately. I’ve never had a sleep problem until now. So here is what happens, I will get up sometimes say about 2am. I’ll get up to go to the bathroom and then when I get back to bed, I can’t fall asleep. So in other words, I sleep really well until that time. I just about fall asleep when my head hits the pillow but when I wake up to go to the bathroom, I get back and can’t fall asleep. It’s been bothering me for at least a few weeks now. A couple weeks ago I got a Fitbit. And I am learning about my sleep pattern. On the first night of my hippie road trip, the same thing happened. I woke up and couldn’t fall back to sleep. I’m tossing and turning. So I went online because I was very curious What I found was very interesting. I read several articles that said a lot of times it has to do with low blood sugar and not enough protein. It said that what you might want to try is to eat some nuts or nut butter. So I ate a big spoonful of almond butter and I ate some pistachio nuts and so I laid back down in bed. Sure enough I fell asleep and I slept really well. I don’t know if that’s the problem but it happened again last night and I tried it again last night and I fell asleep. I believe I get plenty of protein. I am not getting my protein from animals but I have been vegan for about 2 years now and this just started happening. I do take some supplements. I take B12, D3, and fatty acids. I don’t think I am protein deficient but the nuts and the nut butter in the middle of the night did seem to help. I’ll be looking into this further and will report back to you as soon as I have some more information. But I thought this was interesting. I’m gonna check it out. I do have a physical coming up in a few months.
• I’m going into week 2 with my Fitbit and I love it. I bought the Fitbit Blaze. I’m going to recommend something but I am still researching and trying it out. In another week or two, I am going to be recommending (or not recommending) the one I am wearing or others models of Fitbits. Don’t go out and buy a Fitbit yet if you don’t have one. I am doing some extensive testing with mine, researching others, and I will let you know what I think is the best Fitbit for you. As I said before I love it. It tracks my steps per day, my sleep, and my pulse rate. Not only will I recommend them but I will be including a link directly to them so that you may check them out.
• I did a Periscope broadcast yesterday when I was driving from Flagstaff, AZ to Santa Fe, NM. I had a lot of time of my hands so I did a Periscope broadcast. There were some really interesting topics and I had about 120 people watching. I had a great audience. Somebody asked me during the broadcast, “How do [you] have such a positive outlook on life? How do [you] stay so motivated?” I had an answer for them and I want to share this with you today because I thought it was a great answer and I think it will really help a lot of people. It’s something I have discovered over the last several years but I have been more in tune to it over the past few months. And so when someone asks me “So Dave, how can you stay so positive? How can you be in such a good mood?” Look, I am only human and I get in bad moods. I never get in really bad moods. I’m not moody. But sometimes you wake up and you just think it’s not your day. For the most part, I am really positive and like to make the most out of every day. So my answer to the person who asks how I can remain so positive especially with all the people around you who are not so positive and are downright negative was this I learned how to get the mother fuckers out of my life. There we go. I said it. That may be the first time in the history of the David Madow Lifestyle Show that I used that word. But let me repeat it because it bears repeating. I learned how to get the mother fuckers out of my life! And when I say mother fuckers, I am talking about the people that just drain your fucking energy out of your system. Either their negative. Now I am not saying they are bad people but maybe they don’t mesh with you or your lifestyle. They are pessimistic or something like that. I get those mother fuckers out of my life. Or actually maybe they even wean themselves out because they are not for me and I am not for them. It doesn’t mean they are bad. It just means that the way they choose to live their lives and the things we do are different. Perhaps very different. So I have learned that they need to be “photoshopped” out of my life. I don’t mean them any harm at all. I try to inspire and I try to motivate people. I don’t eat meat but as I have said many times that doesn’t mean you are a bad person. But the people that want to go against me and say that all I talk about is being vegan, those are the people that I really don’t want to have anything to do with. They try to bring me down and they are very negative. I just don’t need them in my life. I have said it and will say it again if you have people, and you probably do, but get the mother fuckers out of your life. When you are able to do this your life will be so much better. And you will get to live how I am living. I truly try to stay and hang out with people like you. If you are listening to me that means I am either entertaining you or maybe you are trying to learn something or maybe it’s both. Many people have listened to my podcasts in the past and they probably said to themselves “Eh, that guy is full of shit! Who does he thing he is?!” And that’s ok with me because I am not for them. I cannot be for everybody. I don’t try to be for everybody. I don’t try to please everybody. It’s impossible. And I realize that I can’t please everybody. Not everybody is not going to be aligned with me. Not everybody is going to like my lifestyle and not everybody is going to agree with me. When you have that attitude and you realize that, let me tell you something, your life totally will change. I didn’t invent the term mother fucker but I have to admit when I said it, it’s almost like something was lifted from my shoulder. A big weight was lifted. If you’re in a public place or with your kids you probably don’t want to scream it but when I said it on Periscope yesterday I was literally yelling it. And it felt good to scream that. It really felt fantastic! And when I did I think I helped a lot of people. I apologized on Periscope for using that language but you know what the reaction was? People came back on and said “hey that’s totally fine”. I owe you the best. I take my podcast and my broadcasts very seriously. That doesn’t mean that I don’t joke around. I want to give you the best and I want to give you the true me. And if I try to censor myself and try to pretend to be this innocuous person that everybody loves but really nobody loves because you try to please everybody. I have learned more lately that I am going to be totally myself. Yeah I might make some people angry and I might lose some listeners or viewers but you know something? Since I decided to be totally me, I just feel so much more at peace. I don’t have to worry about pleasing anybody because I please the people that are aligned with me and the ones that are not and don’t like what I have to say, they go away and they find another podcast. That’s ok. I urge you to please try to live this lifestyle. That does not mean you have to walk around saying mother fucker all the time. I certainly don’t. I don’t walk around saying that. I am not going to hold back because people feel that it’s not proper and I shouldn’t do that. If I alienate a few people along the way, it’s ok. That means they didn’t want to see the real me.  I feel so good talking about this. It’s great that you’re still with me because that means I am resonating in some way with you. I am telling you something, I know you and you’ve got a least one mother fucker that is getting you down. I know it for sure. Am I right? So here’s my advice. My advice is to ease them away from you. I don’t want you to stop talking to a family member. If it’s a family member, you still love them, you still see them maybe during the holidays, but you just don’t spend as much time as you are now with them.

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Welcome back to The David Madow Lifestyle Show. This is episode #131 and it’s great to have you with me here today.

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I have a lot of great stuff for you on today’s show. First, I want to give a shout out to my good friend Don Robertson of EarthSave Baltimore for allowing me to play my brand new song, Dear Vaygan, at his pot-luck dinner last night. It was the first time that I had played this song in front of a live audience. I got a great response with lots of laughter and applause so I think it went really well. I will be going back to EarthSave Baltimore on June 25th to give a great talk titled, “How to Thrive on a Plant Based Lifestyle”. If you are local to the Maryland area, I highly recommend that you get there and check it out (register here).

By the time you listen to this podcast, I will be driving from Phoenix, AZ to Little Rock, AK in between speaking gigs. I have about 5-6 days to do this little road trip. I am not making any reservations. I am just going to go ahead and follow my energy and see where it takes me. As long as I make it to Little Rock, AK by Thursday, I will be ok. So I have time to hang out and hopefully check out some really cool places. I will be listening to a lot of music and hopefully some good podcasts as well. I will be working as needed. I will be taking lots of really cool pictures. I am also taking my hiking boots, some cash, and my recorder because I will most likely be journaling the trip in some way. I will be completely by myself. I just pray that the weather will be good and the traffic will be clear. This is going to be really really fun!

Now, let me explain why I am outside right now. I am in Reisterstown, Maryland currently and it’s early April but it is a very cold and windy day for April. Ordinarily, I would not be out here today taking my walk. I probably would have come up with some excuse why I need to stay inside and do my exercise. But when it gets to be Spring, you are just ready for some warmer weather. I am ready to throw on some shorts and a tshirt and do some walking or running. My leg is getting a little bit better as we speak. So I am able to do a tiny bit of running. I am working my way into it. I hope it’s ready for the Bay2Breakers 12k Race on May 15th in San Francisco, CA.

Anyhow, the reason I am out here today is that I got myself a new present. It’s something that I have been thinking about getting for a few years but I never wanted to mess with it. But I finally purchased a Fitbit. They’ve come a long way. I bought a Fitbit Blaze and I love this thing. It looks like an Apple watch which is what I liked about it but it costs a third of the price. I paid about $200 for this thing. It doesn’t do everything that an Apple watch does but that’s ok because I have everything I need at my fingertips. First of all, it tells the time. It tracks the number of steps I take per day and tracks your sleep.It also sync up with my iPhone so that I can see when a call is coming in or control my music. I am sure I am missing things, it does a lot more than I am mentioning. A few episodes ago (Episode #129), I was talking about how I use the scale as a fitness instrument. Just like the speedometer in my car that tells me how fast I am going, I like to see how I am doing. The scale does that for me and now I have another tool on my wrist that tells me how many steps a day I am taking. It is recommended that you take 10,000 steps per day to get in your aerobic exercise each day. As we speak, I am up to 8494 and it’s only about 4pm so I have quite a bit of time to get another 1500 steps in. That’s going to be my goal to get in at least 10,000 steps a day. I will crank it up and do more as my leg gets better. That’s a decent start for me. The bottom line is I compete with myself. For example, the other day at about midday I saw that I only had a few thousand steps and I said to myself, “I’ve got to get outside now and do some walking so I can get up to 10,000 steps. Now here’s my point, had I not had this Fitbit, I probably would have said, “you know, it’s too cold today. It’s windy and it’s April. This is bs and I don’t feel like going out.” I would have probably come up with some excuse as to why I did not have to go out that day. But since I have the Fitbit, it is almost forcing me, or at least strongly suggesting, to push me to get to 10,000 steps. It gave me the nudge to get outside and do that. I have talked to you about the”Magic 4″ and I have been saying this for years. Way before the Fitbit was even invented. If you can get out and walk 4 miles per day, you are going to feel great. Not only physically but mentally too. I still stick to this and try to do at least 4 miles every day. I have been saying this since I wrote my book back in 2007.

Don’t rush out and buy the Fitbit just yet. Give me a few weeks and I will have a full recommendation for you. I am also working on recommendations for a few other products. I don’t make any money on these. When I recommend something it’s not because I get a bonus or commission or anything like that. I recommend things because I use them and because I recommend it for you. I would never recommend a product just because I am getting paid for it.

By the way, I am seriously considering coming up with an updated version of my book, Impress the World with Your Body in Seven Days. Back in 2007 when I wrote it, to this day it is still a good short book that tells you how to live a healthy lifestyle. But, back then I was not vegan. I was still eating some fish and a little bit of meat. I think I talked about chicken or fish in the book, and if I update it, I will of course have a chapter in there about being plant based and what to eat as opposed to eating things like sushi, sashimi, and chicken.I wouldn’t talk about these things in the updated version. I never knew how horrible the egg and poultry industry was. So I will never recommend eating eggs or chicken. Otherwise, most of the stuff is really relevant. I would include more about some of the stuff I am doing now like meditation, yoga, and setting goals. And I would probably change the title of the book. So if you have a title to suggest, I would love to hear it. But again, I am so busy these days I am not sure I will have the time to do this. But it’s kinda on my list because I think I have so much to teach and to show people. I think that if I updated this a bit and retitled it, I think it could breathe new life into the book world and the health and lifestyle sections.

So I am on my trip from Phoenix to Little Rock and it’s going to be great. I will be doing a lot of cool stuff from the road. According to Google, it’s about 18 to 19 hours of driving so I think if I split it up and do 5 or 6 hours a day, I should still have plenty of time to screw around and may even get to my destination early.

I think I covered everything I wanted to share with you today. I am excited! I have some cool stuff coming up soon. By the way, if you have a friend that you think may benefit from my show please feel free to share it with them. The easiest way to share is to go to my site at www.davidmadow.com and send them the link. All of my podcasts are up on the website starting with the most recent. And not only that but there are also transcripts for each show so if you are not an audio person you can go read them as well. There are also usually links and photos for things that you may want to check out. If you friends are really tech savvy. Tell them to go to iTunes and search for my show. They can click subscribe and a new show will be downloaded for them each week on Monday when it is released. Thanks so much for listening. Until next time…

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Welcome back to the David Madow Lifestyle Show. This is the show where I help you live stronger, thinner, healthier, and happier. Today, I am out on the street in one of my favorite cities in the world – New York City. I am broadcasting live on the streets of Manhattan today. And I am going to get right into today’s show!

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Today’s topic is about your weight, the scale, and whether or not you should weigh yourself. Should you care if you gain weight? This all started a few days ago when I was on a Facebook group and some woman wrote into the Facebook group for help. She is trying to eat right but she has noticed over the past few months she has gained a lot of weight. And as a matter of fact she weighs the most she has ever weighed. So she wanted advice on what she should do. I have to admit, I was appalled by some of the responses that were coming in. And I know we’re living in a world today, at least in the U.S., where everybody is a winner and everybody should get a medal. But the responses were something like “oh don’t worry you are still a great person inside” “the number on the scale doesn’t mean anything”, and “don’t worry about the scale, you’re beautiful inside and out”. And I am thinking this is making me sick because this woman is getting such horrible advice from people saying not to worry about the number on the scale. Not to worry that you are the heaviest you have been in your entire life?! That is such horrible advice. I was in disbelief.

Let me back up for a second because I want to be very clear. I do believe this woman was probably a great person and she probably has a great heart but to have someone say to her not to have somebody say to her “don’t worry about the number on the scale, it doesn’t mean anything.” That’s crazy advice and you are not helping that woman out. It is a fact that when you are overweight or obese you stand a much greater chance of getting diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, knee problems, and joint problems. I can say this from experience. I have two parents who are both up in age right now but they are both overweight and they are seeing the results of being overweight for a long time. They are experiencing health problems and let me tell you something, it’s not fun. So for someone to tell this poor woman who was reaching out and asking for advice, “don’t worry about it the number on the scale, it’s only a number. You’re still beautiful” Ok she probably was a beautiful person but she needs help.

If I were to tell you not to worry about the number on the scale, I would be doing you a disservice. I am here to help people. I am here to teach people. I am here to inspire people. I want to make people feel good but I also want to tell the truth. And the truth is being overweight kills. I am not God and I don’t try to play God. But it’s been shown in study after study that if you are overweight you stand a much greater chance of getting diseases. Does that mean that every overweight person is going to get a disease? No! It’s just the same as every smoker does not get lung cancer. I don’t know about you but I like to play my odds. I know that being thin, and moving my body, and eating plant based foods, and not eating processed foods, and limiting salt, oil, and sugar; it’s not a guarantee of a long life and it’s not a guarantee that I will be free of disease. I realize that.

It is almost like an insurance policy. First of all, you will look and feel better. Again, I am not against obese people but I would challenge anybody to tell me that an obese person looks better and healthier than a thin person. I would challenge that. I just don’t think it’s true. There are so many problems that come with obesity.

When I was growing up, the winners were the people that came in first place. The people that were the best in the class, they are the ones that got rewarded. It wasn’t everybody. We’ve gone too far in this country to make sure everything is politically correct, we have to watch what we say, and everybody’s a winner. We’re afraid to say it like it is.

So I am going to tell you right now. First of all, I appreciate you being my listener! No matter what kind of health you are in, no matter what you are eating, no matter what your weight is, I love you! But for me to say that you’re doing it right and that you look great at 500 pounds, I’m just not going to say that. I still love you but I am not going to say that. And you know as well as I do that if you’re 500 pounds you could do better than that.

I just did a Periscope broadcast a few minutes ago and I had people from all over the world. I was talking about these things and people started asking me if I am a racist? If I hate people? And why I am so angry? The funny thing is that they don’t know me. I am not angry. And I am not a racist. What I have to say has absolutely nothing to do with someone’s skin color, religion, or sexual preference. If you are a friend of mine or a listener of mine and even if you don’t agree with me, I still love you.

I really do apologize for the background noise. It’s a totally different world in New York City. I had a show a few weeks ago (Episode # 127) and I talked about how I love Colorado and how it’s so peaceful and beautiful but I like a lot of different things. And although I don’t love the noise, I do love the hustle and bustle of New York City. I think it really is one of the coolest cities in the world. So if you are listening to me in another country and you have never been to the U.S., I am going to recommend that you come pay us a visit and come to the coolest city in the world – New York City.

I use the scale as an instrument. The scale is a valuable instrument that I use practically every day. If and when I see the pounds creeping up a little bit, I know to back off on something. Whether it be that I am eating a little too much or that I am eating the wrong things. I use the scale as a guide and it has worked for me for many years. I know there are schools of thought out there that say eat the best foods, exercise, and don’t weight yourself. This is because they think you are going to be too obsessed with a number and I see their point but I disagree having done it the other way and using my scale as an instrument that gives me information about my body. And these days I have it hooked up online so it records all the weight, BMI, and percent body fat and then I can go to an app and check that and see how I am doing over years. I use the Withings Smart Body Analyzer. It was one of the best gifts I ever received.

If you’re screwing something up in your life, not just your weight, for example I know there are people who have spouses in their lives who are alcoholics or drug addicts and they just keep enabling them thinking it’s going to be ok. It’s not ok! You need help if that is the case. Let’s not sugar coat it! Tell it like it is!

As I am out here on the streets of Manhattan, a lot of people are walking by. I am seeing people who are all different shapes and builds. Unfortunately, the heavier people are going to be more prone to disease as they get older. There is no doubt about it. If I was a betting man, I would say that the thin fit looking man will live a longer life than the overweight couple I saw. Love me or hate me, I am just being honest.

Let me just tell you one more thing before you leave today. I love you and appreciate you as a listener. No matter what you are trying, let’s do the best we possibly can!

I can’t wait to see you next week! Until next time…

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We are back with episode #127! This is the show where we help you live stronger, thinner, healthier, happier, and a lot more. If you have been a regular listener to my show, you can recite that without even thinking as well. You know exactly what this show helps you do!

Right now, I am on Interstate 70 driving East from Breckenridge, Colorado to Frisco, Colorado. Today is the day that I am flying back to Maryland. It’s a little bit bittersweet because I love Colorado. There is something about the mountains here that are just incredible. There comes a day when I have to go back home to Maryland but guess what? I’ll be back in Colorado before we all know it.

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Before we get into today’s topic, I wanted to welcome you all today. If you are a regular listener, I really appreciate you! If you are a brand new listener, then I welcome you, I appreciate you and I want you to listen to this whole thing. Not only that I want you to immerse yourself in this culture. The #davidmadowlifestyle will absolutely help you in your life! If you have any kind of issues, whether they are health, emotional, or you’re just not where you want to be in life; I want you to stick with me I am going to help you.  I LOVE doing this! I love talking to you! Whenever I record one of these shows I picture you in front of me. Whether you and I are having coffee or sitting on a sofa in my living room, I am not just talking into a mic. I am talking directly to you and I am sure there’s going to be so many things in today’s episode that you can identify with. I don’t consider you a fan or a follower, I consider you a friend.

Let’s face it, we can all use help sometimes. I can use help! Everybody thinks that Dr. Dave life runs perfectly and I have no problems. But just like you, I have the same things going on in my life that you’ve got. Things don’t come easy for me all the time but I love, love, love helping. So I wanted to share with you some of the things that happened to me in Colorado.

During the past three weeks or so I lost about seven pounds. When I am in Colorado for some reason the lifestyle really agrees with me. I feel great and it’s the reason I lost the weight naturally. I am moving my body every single day.Whether I am hiking, walking into town, skiing, no matter what I am always moving my body. Unlike when I am back on the East coast. Let’s be honest I try to move my body as much as possible but I have business meetings and lunch meetings and it’s just not the same. That’s why one day I really believe that Colorado is in my future because I think the lifestyle out here is just a healthier lifestyle. I really do. There must be something about the altitude that really agrees with my metabolism. I am not exactly sure but I am going to have to look into that. Not only did I lose weight but my skin looks so much better. People always say that when you go out West it’s so dry that you have to use moisturizer all the time or your skin is going to be dry. In my case that is not true. Partly, I think, it’s because I am eating so healthy. I basically eat plants all day long and I think that plants give me the nutrients that my skin needs so I don’t have to be putting moisturizer on my skin all day. I am also drinking a lot of water. One of the reasons that people’s skin gets so dry is because they are just not getting the proper nutrients. I guarantee you. I hate to say it like this but I just think that if you are eating animal products your skin will not be as healthy as if you were eating plants all day long.

I am really serious about the diet. I have been vegan (no animal products at all) for two years now. But not only vegan but I also do not eat any processed foods and very minimal sugars, oils, and salt. I grew up believing that olive oil was healthy and it’s not. Just like people believe that coconut oil is healthy. It is a processed product. Do not use coconut oil and think that you’re going to get healthy. Trust me, you are not. I know we need oil but get your oils naturally from plants such as avocados, nuts, seeds, and things like that. Oil and fat come naturally in plants. You don’t have to use processed oils such as olive oil and coconut oil.

As I am traveling and driving on Interstate a lot of thoughts come to my brain 🙂 In about a month, I have two speaking gigs that are about six days apart. One is in Phoenix, Arizona and the other is in Little Rock, Arkansas. What I am thinking about doing is taking a little road trip by myself.

But anyway back to my original topic. As you can see by my rambling, I am regimented but also fly by the seat of my pants.

It is difficult for me to live the exact life I want to live back home in Maryland. I love Maryland and I love my house but I don’t have the mountains and the exact outdoor things outside of my doorstep like I have in Colorado. When I come here I look at it as a cleansing. Yes, I drank a lot of juice and meditated every day but by cleansing I mean that I moved my body a lot every single day. I also ate really good healthy food. Can you do this? I think you can.

I just got off the phone with my Dad, who, as many of you know has been having health issues. He is 86. He told me he has good days and bad days. Some days he just doesn’t feel right and he feels dizzy and tired. I told him that the two most important things you can do every day, no matter how old, are one to move your body every day. And number two eat healthy all day every day. Notice I didn’t say vegan. I understand there is most likely no chance that my Dad will ever be vegan. He is 86 and has eaten meat products all his life and he is pretty set in his ways. But can my Dad eat healthier than he has been eating? Absolutely!

If you are living in the United States and are over 40 years old, I will almost guarantee that you are on at least one prescription medication. As you get to age 55-60, the average American is on 5-6 different types of medication. That’s just crazy! I honestly believe it’s because we are not moving our bodies enough but more importantly we are not putting the right “fuel” into our system. If we’re eating processed products, and greasy fried things, and things that are high in sugar, salt, and oil, it is a recipe for illness. There’s no question about it. Human beings are not designed to eat animals products. Some people think that we are but actually my training is that I am a dentist by profession. And when I look at a human beings teeth and I compare our teeth to a true carnivore there is such a difference. Our teeth look like an herbivore’s teeth. And the length of our digestive track is too long. Animal products spend too much time in the gut and they rot. Since I stopped eating animal products I feel so much better, I am on no medication, my weight is good and my skin is good. When I turned on the microphone to talk to you today, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to talk about. I kinda knew but I didn’t know what kind of detail I was going to get into. But I just feel so strongly about a plant based diet. Now am I going to hate you if you don’t do this? No! I consider you my friend and I have told you this before. It got back to me that someone thought I was really arrogant about if you don’t do what I do then I think less of you. And that could not be further from the truth. I still have a lot of friends of mine that are eating animal products and I have family members that are eating animal products. I do not think any less of you. I am here to teach! I think that maybe one day the time will come where you see that the people who are eating animal products have more health issues. There’s no question in my mind there. Maybe one day you will say ok I am just going to give them up. It’s not difficult to do. It’s really really not.

I hope I have inspired you today. And that there’s at least one piece of information that you can use in your life.

One last thing, if there is something that you are trying to do in your life, please do it regardless of what it is. One of my true passions is teaching, helping you, inspiring you, and motivating you to live a better life. And you would not believe how many people in my life have told me that was the most ridiculous thing ever. There was no way that I could change people, and I am not going to change the world, I am not going to get people to go plant based, and I am not going to save the animals. People have told me just to stop. Guess what? That is so far from the truth! I’m doing it! Let the naysayers make fun of me, I don’t care. Live your life the way you want to! Don’t put it off another day please!

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Welcome to episode #125! Where does the time go? I have been doing these podcasts for over two years. Wow! I LOVE every second of it. I love helping, teaching, inspiring, and motivating. If you are listening today, thank you very much. Today, I am going to share with you three rules that I live by every single day. It has nothing to do with eating, nothing about exercising, nothing about meditation, these are three entirely different rules that I live by every day.

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• If you haven’t caught me on Periscope yet, I am going to strongly recommend. I broadcast live from wherever I am at and you get to interact with me. You can show me love by giving me hearts and you can ask me questions. Periscope is a fun platform. It’s growing and I want you to be there with us. It’s a free download for iPhone or Android. Download and follow me @davidmadow. If you keep your notifications on, you will receive a notification when I am broadcasting.
• My book, Vegan in 7 Days, has hit a few roadblocks. Originally we were going to have this ready by summer of 2016 but it does not look like it will be out in time. It is going to happen at some point but it won’t be by summer. I apologize, I did not want to lead anybody on. It’s a great concept and I am still moving forward with it.
• I want to have some fun. Let’s try this. I want to see who you are and what you are doing right now. My challenge to you is that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, stop what you’re doing for just one minute and take a selfie. We don’t want this to be dirty so please keep it family friendly. Snap a selfie and send it to me Facebook page here.

The 3 Rules I Live By Everyday

1. I did not invent this but I follow this rule everyday. I follow the “golden rule”. For those of you who don’t know that means that I treat others that way that I want to be treated. It sounds so simple and trite. But these days it seems that people are so inconsiderate. I spend my life trying to be considerate to other people and I think if more people were like that the world would be a better place to live. I always try to do the right thing. Whatever I do in my life I would never want it to negatively impact someone else’s enjoyment or time. So please live by the golden rule. If even most of you listen to me and abide by that then I think we will have a much better planet.
2. I’ve talked about this before. It is something that I believe in very strongly and do everyday. Do what you love. My life has totally changed since I began living by this rule. It hasn’t always been this way. When I was going through secondary school and professional school, I wasn’t doing what I loved. I couldn’t look in the mirror and say that I loved what I did everyday. I got into the mindset that I am going to do what I love everyday. When you can’t tell the difference between work and a vacation or the weekend and your work, then you have arrived and you are doing what you love. It really bothers me when I hear people say things like “just two more days until the weekend then thank God it’s Friday”, or “I can’t to go on vacation, I have to get out of this rat race”. I think to myself what kind of life are you living? Why would you ever want to live most of your days doing something that you don’t like? Why would you ever do that? I’ve done it both ways. I have been there. I have been in jobs that I didn’t like and jobs that I didn’t like and relationships that I didn’t like. I don’t think there is anybody out there that is going to argue with me when I say that it’s much better to be doing what you love everyday than something that you hate every day. If someone disagrees with that and says that you should be doing something that you hate, hey if you want to follow them go ahead and follow them. I’m not going to 🙂 The same thing goes for a relationship. If you are in a relationship and it is not working out for you and you are dreading it, it’s going nowhere, and you are upset and anxious, change it. I am not a proponent of divorce. Divorce is not easy. It’s horrible. Your first choice is to try to make it better. Go to counseling and work things out if necessary. But if it doesn’t work, move on and find something better. Life is short. Don’t stay in something that you are hating. Don’t do it!
3. This is something that I have been doing lately. It is a game changer. It’s one compound word – downsize. I’m coming at you from experience because I have done things both ways. I used to live a life where I had this big house, fancy cars in the garage, and the kids in private school, and a closet full of clothes. It was a bunch of things I just didn’t need. There was not one “thing” that made me happy. Things don’t make me happy. Being with the right people, that’s what makes me happy. Not something in my closet, jewelry, or a fancy car. I like a good car but that does not make me happy. So I’ve learned to downsize my life. I paid off anything that I owed. I paid off my mortgage and I own my home free and clear. I have regular bills but I don’t have any loans or credit card debt. It doesn’t matter how much money or how little money you are making, you can do the same thing. It’s called downsizing and it means that you are spending way less money than you make. It’s not difficult to do. I don’t spend my life chasing after the almighty dollar like so many people do. I keep my life very simple but I have always been responsible with my money. I put money into retirement. I just don’t need a ton of money to be happy. My wife Yoko and I are able to travel and do the things that we want and we don’t travel extravagantly. I am not staying at the Ritz Carlton. We stay in comfortable places. I’ve even gone through my closets and cabinets to get rid of stuff. When you try to get rid of stuff in your life, it will be so much better. I will leave you with this story. Sometime last year I ended up writing the largest check I’ve written in my entire life. And I wrote this check to this person to make my life more peaceful. The minute I wrote that check most of my money was gone. A good percentage of it anyway. But guess what? I feel better now than before I wrote the check. It was worth so much more than having that money sitting in my bank account. I have less now and I am happier than I have been in my entire life!

These are the rules that I follow everyday. If you do, I am sure good things will happen in your life as well.

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