Bryan Mirabella Joins Time to Talk with Jen

Time to Talk with Jen Graziano

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(00:00) Hudson Graziano funeral homes Jennifer is here to discuss a sensitive subject we all need to talk and think about here now is Jennifer Graziano and time to talk good morning Westchester it's 9 A.M on Monday and that means it's time to talk with me John Graziano I'm a licensed funeral director who oversees my family's funeral homes Cox and Graziano of both Mamaroneck and Greenwich and the Zion Memorial Chapel of Westchester every Monday I come to you discussing important topics and sensitive matters
(00:31) that all of us need to pause and reflect upon at some point and through this show, I hope to provide a platform to do so if you're joining us this morning on wvox 1460 a Whitney Global Media Station we will gladly take your questions and comments and calls to 914-636-0110 good morning to Vinnie and everyone back in the control room and good morning Facebook live viewers happy Monday what a great way to start the week with all of you appreciates all the great feedback that I've been getting from the show and Tim judge sitting next
(01:02) to me um in front of the camera, today greenwichlocal.com the man in front and behind the camera so it's a Monday it's a new week we are refreshed we're ready to start again and let's try once again to be healthy this week perhaps we're still going on our New Year's resolutions hopefully um and if not it's not too late if you fell off the horse you can get right back on so good morning to uh Health wellness fitness expert Brian Mirabella Brian are you on the line yes Jen can you hear me I can great to
(01:36) hear from you it's been a while since we had you on the show yes it has I'm so excited to be back on thank you thank you for being here so I teed you up a little bit in the morning show when I was on with Dennis and Tawny um because you are a health and wellness expert I want to get to what your official title is but you have such an unconventional approach to health and to your diet but it works wonders for you and you so strongly believe in this so I want to talk about your platform um what it is you do and what you have
(02:10) your fruitarian lifestyle so tell us a bit about yourself Brian hi Jen um yeah well I guess it's been quite a while since I've been on and um when I was last on I had mentioned that I had become fruitarian meaning uh 95 of my diet is subsisting on fruits berries melons and five percent maybe salads so you were not always subscribing to this lifestyle this is something you know could you give like an honor about what age you were when you began this year when I was 40 uh 49 years old I was
(02:52) told by an um very experienced well-to-do acupuncturist that guys like me have a heart attack in their 60s and die and that's because the acupuncturist was looking at my ordinance and the energy in my body related to how my organs were functioning and at that time I had lived a life of complete and utter stress being born to stress then got married had a lot of stress for 18 years so my child was old enough to leave the house and um you know stress is what comes back to haunt us and I found that it was destroying my ordinance and he looked at
(03:34) my tongue and said it was from childhood like an acupuncturist can see these things and so I had done a lot of research that a fruit diet would clean you out at the same time that it nourishes you no other fruit can do that because apparently, humans are what we call frugivores their digestive system is really only designed to digest fruits and I know that sounds crazy because a lot of people are healthy living on Meat and Fish and vegetables but there are also a lot of people that are not healthy and we wonder why with the reason it is for
(04:14) that well some people are just better adaptable to eating a diet where they mix a lot of foods but if you look at nature you'll never see an animal anywhere in nature eat more than one food at a time and you'll never see an animal eat outside their species species-specific diet unless they're forced to by a change in their environment so Brian I think one of the common threads that weave through many of these um and I'm going to say radical diets because even what I subscribe to is a bit radical in the restrictive nature of
(04:52) it but the Common Thread that weaves through these types of um Lifestyles is that we need to eat what our predecessors ain't know the original raw foods of the land are the things that our bodies are designed to metabolize and break down so when you talk about the fruit I mean we know meat's been here since the beginning of time I mean you know humans are carnivores by Nature as well but when we talk about fruits have these fruits I mean from the beginning of time as far back as we can go were there berries
(05:28) were there melons were were was early man eating and digesting this was readily found in the land that was here at the beginning of time um the answers and an absolute yes because as far back as we know we can go geology that we were a tropical climate Okay and and all the hominids that were surviving in a tropical climate would have been even more protected by a forest than an open Savannah where they're much more easily killed right so they'd like to have you believe that you evolved on the Serengeti where
(06:09) you devolve to eat meat and that's how you grew a bigger brain but that couldn't be further from the truth because if God were to place you naked anywhere in this world and you would never have the ability to kill an animal because you don't have any tools in your body to do it and your brain would have taken you millions of years to figure that out just to make a fire and then you'd have to understand how to kill an animal and then you'd have to understand how to eviscerate it I mean you guys think about all that yeah none
(06:43) of that is natural it took the brain to adapt to do it but for millions of years we were living in symbiosis and symbiosis was the fact that they were readily beautiful vibrant colored fruits everywhere hanging on trees and these fruits have seeds in them and then when the hominid or another animal ate the seeds of the fruit it would procreate it around the rest of the forest every other animal has been given a tool to eat their species-specific diet and we don't we don't have any of that except for the digits that we can pluck stuff off
(07:18) trees is there a difference in your diet of fruit that's found um you know certain fruits that are found readily in a given environment um up here in the Northeast you know we're limited with our growing season whereas down in Florida you know you have a year-round growth of certain fruits such as oranges does it matter um you know fruits that are readily found in a certain area that are endemic to an area versus now you see um indoor gardens um does any of that bear weight on your diet where the source of the fruit is
(07:58) coming from yeah well luckily I do live in the heart of New York City and I could get fruit anywhere it's kind of easy and everything is slash Frozen even comes from South America so the freshness is still there especially with food because it hasn't been alive very long so you could eat fruit at any point throughout the year which I do either as cold climate because I haven't done I'm not done finished cleaning my organ although I have cleaned out the major damage my acupuncturist told me not to do it
(08:31) he didn't think it was going to be healthy for me and now four years into this diet he says what I've done with my body is nothing short of remarkable he's never seen it and I and I keep hitting new layers of cleanliness where I can I can feel the difference and then it was my breathing practice that got me on to this kind of Lifestyle I started doing a specific breathing practice a year and a half before that and then all of a sudden my body started to gravitate to what I would consider to be a higher
(09:01) biophoton type of Lifestyle biofotons is because these fruits all grow above the ground so they're being nurtured by the Sun and they very specifically have what's called structured water which is H CO3 and it's three hydrocarbons two one oxygen molecule and that's structured water and that structured water is exactly what the zygote makes when the sperm and the Egg are fused and it's available in the body and it's the solvent where all the chemical reactions take place the word also taught that you should
(09:41) drink water and that's also not really true you don't need very much water you only need like 210 milliliters a day but people are eating a diet that's dehydrating them so every type of cooked food steals water from your body instead of gives you water so then people will say oh I'm dehydrated when in fact you're oxidized that's what aging is it's oxidation so I'm looking to put in what I call a mucus free lifestyle where the foods don't leave residue fruit is the only food known to men that doesn't require
(10:20) insulin that means every other food that requires insulin means your body has to burn energy to break down the food you know there's no second Creation in nature you can't ingest protein to make protein I don't know where that came up with but it's unproven and it's not true okay I'm sorry Brian I just want before we can go forward I just want to bring everyone up to uh speed who's listening and viewing um so your exact title uh are you you're a health and wellness expert you work with clients to
(10:56) physically train them or do you do nutrition counseling just um count your title a bit more specifically for those who are tuning in well I was personally training people for 33 years very successfully and then during covert when I saw the need arise about people's breathing habits and how they could be helped I started my own breathing Company online and now it's grown pretty large and now I'm really only helping people to teach them how to breathe because we just came out of a an event where we were stifled
(11:28) to breathe but now people's breathing mechanics are off so I am a human performance specialist okay to focus on restorative breath training so let's talk about that a little bit I mean we take breathing for granted we just do it as long as we're here we're breathing um and we often don't give much thought to that but you have techniques that um breathing for a better lifestyle to release toxins um which you know I'm sure mindful breathing also promotes relaxation one of the things you alluded to in the
(12:00) beginning of the show was the impact of stress on the body which I I totally support I think that high levels of stress can yield severe or negative impacts on the human body but talk about what this breathing technique is and what tangible known benefits from employing these techniques sure well there isn't two incredible studies that have come out in the recent years one was in 2017 where Stanford proved there's a part of the brain that spies on your breathing and if you're breathing too fast it'll
(12:38) send feelings of agitation to the brain and if you're breathing slowly it'll send feelings of Tranquility to the brain and that's really important to understand that slow breathing can actually create an environment of Good Feelings so everybody needs to be assessed in how they breathe are they breathing too fast or are they breathing too slow are they making noise when they breathe or are they breathing silently and that makes a huge difference into how you feel throughout the day because it's your breathing Rhythm that controls
(13:10) the pH of your blood and if you're breathing too fast then you're going to have an alkaline blood and that means that your carbon dioxide levels drop and that's important and the other study was in 2021 by Washington University and they came out and you can type it into Google just like this the length of your breath hold time and determine your risk stratification to respiratory illness so now we know that there is a very specific length of time you could hold your breath that will determine whether or not you
(13:51) are susceptible to respiratory illness so I teach people how to assess these numbers and how to fortify their breathing so that they never get sick like that ever in their life because it is preventable so how do you assess someone's rate of breathing or you know because it seems that if we're Physically Active obviously our rate is growing up or we're breathing more labored or more rapidly if we're sedentary or sitting at our desks or sitting around a table or obviously much more regulated and Baseline how do you
(14:23) measure where do you take these measurements from is it post workout or is it when you initially meet with the client or how do you do this remotely that you're that you're getting them to do this via a zoom call or Skype yeah the good thing is it's a very simple test and it can be taught to people on Zoom very easily and it's you would wake up in the morning and you could sit still for about five to ten minutes just to spill you don't have to meditate you just have to be mindful of sitting still
(14:53) and and watching how you breathe just being observative how you breathe and then the test is very simple you take a silent normal breath in and a silent normal breath out and when you get to the out breath you would pinch your nostril which would pause your body from breathing as you pause your body from breathing you wait till you have your first definitive sign that you're holding your breath and as soon as you feel that sign you would let go and that length of time when you pause your breath and when you feel it is what
(15:37) we call your threshold to carbon dioxide and it's a physiological test based off of physiological law of cellular respiration that everyone on the planet needs to know so what what of the what is the impact been on your clients can you share some stories with us absolutely yes uh recently I've been I hired a new marketing coach and we've been putting together all of my testimonials from the people who take my six-month course and you're going to see testimonials on my Instagram page which is breath
(16:16) underscore verse like in Universe breast verse and you'll see a woman who's a veteran and she was an agoraphobe trapped in a room at the VA Hospital thinking she would never get out of the psych ward and they were about ready to remove her thyroid because they told her she had to have her thyroid out but she was also 50 pounds heavier at the time and she was suffering from PST PTSD and she started breathing with me and it took about six months she didn't say a word in class and then all of a sudden
(16:49) she started to speak and she started to speak about the things that were happening in her body and the changes that were taking place and all of a sudden she was getting out of the house and she was losing weight and she was moving and now she's a master instructor women's self-defense teacher who travels the world and it's only been two years wow major turnaround for her yeah so but you know but it works hand in hand for you the diet the lifestyle and and the breathing so you know too the diet does not have to be part of the
(17:24) breathing practice okay I teach it yeah okay do you find that most people um are apt to try it yes so you said look at me they look at me and you the listeners don't know but uh our good friend Tim judge has known me since we were 14 years old and I've always been in impeccable shape yeah no definitely definitely but being in shape didn't always work out to the meaning that I was healthy and that's what even being in shape five years ago everything was unhealthy and it was because of the way I was breathing
(18:01) so it didn't matter what I looked like and and say pretty much what you said there we went to high school together here in Rochelle the sacrament and we were on the wrestling team together and Friends uh you know since freshman year but uh you know Brian grew up in the in that physical trainer mode and I you know became your average typical guy with uh you know 20 extra pounds around this belt um and and but through the recent years we reconnected and and I've been doing breath uh holds um of course not as focused as some of
(18:38) his uh you know clients um need or want but I do want to improve um in this area but I do find it helpful very much helpful and very much um being aware of my breath has helped me deal with stress um not not because I have five kids or anything like that but you know just the the average stuff going on in my life it definitely affects um you know your thought patterns and and what I how I feel physically because of the training that I've gone through with Brian and and just and and just for everyone out there you can take it
(19:14) little by little or as much as you think you need it it just improves um your focus and um ability to concentrate on yourself and and that breath hold and that breathing exercises has been very much uh relaxing and helpful uh exercise for me there's a lot of Articles as well that support this there was an article in business day um about you know being mindful of breathing and how breathing techniques can help the body and um yeah there's one uh holistic healer from Canada a man by the name of William mcgur
(19:49) um he pointed out a lot of people were under breathing or not taking deep breaths often enough and he said breathing was the main way to detox the body which ultimately improves function so there's um you know there's a lot the you know the body's a system for sure so obviously any buildup of toxins is undesirable so a release um it makes a lot of sense that mindful breathing techniques um would yield great effects from the body but circling back to um the fruitarian lifestyle and people can go online and read about this this
(20:23) is um this is a known practice this is um a way of life um but also uh with any type of and it is anything like this we do put in a radical category and not saying that pejoratively but it's it is restrictive so we do call it more of a radical approach and with any approach like that there are criticism can you address some of the criticism Brian that it's a it is a very restrictive diet and it doesn't allow for a variety of of different substances that provide different nutrients to us sure I think the two things that people
(21:01) would say are most restrictive is that you're not getting enough protein in your diet well when your mother gave birth to you and the first thing she did when you locked onto the nipple was produce colostrum in the first one to three days and that's when the mom gave us a lot of human growth hormones and protein but it only lasts the most three days then after that mother's milk switches to 2.
(21:34) 5 percent protein which is barely any four percent fat and nine percent sugar and the rest water so that means that you are reared on sugar nothing else you need very little protein and very little fat you're reared on mostly sugar but then as you grow up then you pass the milk stage people think that it's common to continue to drink milk but yet no other being on the planet does that except for us kind of strange if you really think about it because no other body does it and then we think that we need more protein but yet you really still only
(22:15) need the same exact constituents that was in your mother's milk because every protein cell you're ever born with you make and fat cell it's already there in your body it's just getting bigger and smaller over time but you're not creating more of them different fibers yes but not more cells they're born in your body and the other misconception is that fruit sugars is too much sugar except like I said and this is very easily researched sugar when it goes in as a fruit when it goes in alone it doesn't require any insulin
(22:50) by the body to be absorbed through the membrane which means it's completely and totally safe in fact it would be the safest food on planet Earth for a human being when I did some research um on fruitarian Lifestyles uh some notable followers came up and for five years Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi was uh was a fruitarian but it was uh he was advised to return to a vegetarian lifestyle due to a pre-existing medical condition um Ashton Kutcher adopted this diet uh to play a role when he was playing um Steve Jobs and Apple for weight loss
(23:35) he did this but um this act actually he said affected his pancreatic level so he came out of the diet um once that happened and then Steve Jobs himself as a college freshman employed this lifestyle so it's certainly you know a known a known diet it's not a fad it's been around for a while they also say that nuts and seeds are are part of this diet but that remaining five percent Brian um so fruits nuts seeds what else is permitted what else would be even rarely permitted or sometimes permitted in this diet well my my theory
(24:19) is that I'm still not clean enough in my body I want to continue to clean so to do that I have to eat of food that doesn't leave any residue and that would mean it needs as little insulin as as possible so number one it'll be any kind of fruit then number two I could switch to leafy greens okay so when I when I feel like I want to eat something else which is only at night if I feel like I'm I don't want to eat fruit today then I'll have a spinach salad with some sort of some form of vegan dressing but I won't put anything
(24:56) on the salad because I mean other than the salad because I'm I don't want to mix Foods when you mix Foods they turn to acids in the belly and this is where everyone on the planet doesn't understand is that it doesn't matter what the food looks like above ground it matters how it mixes in your body and if it turns to acid then you're going to have to use oxygen to get rid of the acid and you're going to need insulin and then after salads would be seeds and nuts and then vegetables okay so
(25:36) um but again this is working for you this has worked for people you've given us some fruit for Thought here but we've been speaking with Brian Mirabella um Human Performance expert can you just give us your website Brian or listeners and viewers today it's Quantum Fitness dot org Quantum fitness.
(25:58) org okay well thank you Brian for taking the time and thank you everyone for taking the time to listen as we took the time to talk have a great day Westchester we'll see you soon bye-bye