Raw Transcript: How the Massai and Hadzabe Eat, Sleep, Live and Train for Optimal Health | Hyperarch Fascia Training

[Music] so today we have our honored guest Susan Alexander and she's the co-author of the ancestral diet Revolution and the reason I reached out to her is because I saw a clip of a I think it was a uh some guy was talking to um a a tribes man about you know the diet of a of a tribe I don't know exactly what tribe was it but they said Oh all they did was drinking uh the milk raw milk from the from the gold or the cow so I was very surprised but then underneath the comment I saw your comment and your comment was very detailed because you studied the Messiah you live with them and uh and and I was very grateful because you're your your answer was very detailed and it's very long and I read everything and it really intrigued me because I never been into Africa and uh however our work is to trying to understand what makes natural athlete right so previous two uh let's say athlete going to division one or any weightlifting program there's always natural development so that is the part we are really really interested in because a lot of athlete prior to lifting weights they are already exhibiting a lot of the athletic characteristics which cannot be reproduced in the gym setting so our goal is to inate of course and also help the public understand okay there is a another portion of the athletic development that could occur in the nature underneath our awareness but we want to bring that up to the people absolutely perfect thank you for providing me this opportunity to share the information I have thank you thank you great so first can you tell me a little bit about your background like what made you particularly interested in going to Africa and study there oh this goes back to a long time ago maybe back in the 1960s in the early 19 um like 63 64 and my grandmother um well first of all we're we're part native American which is alanin sector and we're from up near the Canadian region and um so she's always just been you know that was her mother and um so she's very much tribal but she her dream was to always go as an educator and go and live with tribes in Africa so she did and she lived for many years with them and then when she come home I would sit at her feet and I was very sickly I was we didn't know I had celiac disease and didn't my father he died before we could figure it out but I'm pretty sure that's what he had as well because I inherited it and I would ask her so many questions about the tribes and she would show these slides and they're so beautiful just so pristine and and I would ask about the food because I knew I felt so sick every time I ate and um and she would describe what they were eating and um from that point on and my father was an animal Rehabilitation and um and he had his Doctorate from Clum University and so we raised wild animals and so basically a lot of my siblings were wild animals and so I studied them all the time watching them and and learning and how they they would catch their animals and they would eat them and or or they would eat plants and you know they were eating their species specific diet living as their species would live but I said to my father find me about 10 years old I looked at my father and I said Dad I think I know I were so sick and he said why and I said it's the food I said I I have no idea I'm sitting here looking at Captain Crunch every morning my cereal and the Tang that we're drinking and I I can't make heads or tails out what the what ingredients are they don't there's nothing real in this and I said but yeah our animals are eating from the land they're eating what God put placed on the earth I said the tribes that grandma lived with they're eating off from the earth I said we aren't and he's like so good hypothesis you know and so from that point on every time I went to the doctors they kept saying this is just who you are this is you know you're going to have to suffer I said I don't believe God doesn't make mistakes and so from that point on I have been researching and then I you know I went on became an educator and then I went on and started working on my doctorate in health and nutrition and one thing led to another and so finally um you know I met Dr Chris Kenobi and we worked together and we created our book and we we researched we researched and finally last year um in February it's almost almost a year now I I finally said I'm just going to go by myself and I'm going to go and live with seven different tribes in Africa and two of them were the Messi and and now so now I can just share anything you'd like to ask yeah per yeah perfect I mean we we uh in the athletic world we you know the Messiah is known for their uh ability to jump effortlessly and the high jump that they do um what is the cultureal background of that and and can you tell us more about that type of activity yeah was called adumu and it's um it's their jumping dance and it's it's very competitive and and and of course when you think of the it's the Warriors of the murans and um and I I I sometime I will I will of course if you go on my my channels and stuff you'll see that I have um live Instagram chats because whenever I I stay and live with the tribes I do live Instagram chats so that my followers can ask questions and and con you know converse with the tribes and you can see them jumping they are just it's it's it's very competitive and it's also a way that they also attract they can attract their their mates and and it's it's it's beautiful and it and they're just pristine and they're like of course they start they start from from childhood this is who they are this part of their culture and it's it's their athletic skill and it's you know show it's very and they're very very masculine and when they're in this Warrior state which is between the ages of 15 and 30 they only focus on being a warrior there can be no religion they they are religious people they are very religious but they in that period you cannot because they feel that makes them weak and so they cannot they they are when I was around them and the fact that they even allowed me to be around them was a lot of them didn't want anything to do with me but me some of them were just so I got pictures of them they were just coming over and I was just they were just adorable you know and they would kind of smile even though they weren't supposed to um and they were just um it's it's it's remarkable but I do believe it's the continuous it's continuously every day they're working on being so pristine they from from the moment you're born till your till your children have gone on and left you you are not to smoke you are not to drink you are just to maintain this beautiful Temple that you have and of all the tribes I've lived with and when Dr kenob and I went to um the Pacific Islands and we lived with seven tribes there um last October November no one comes close to the Messiah I mean telling you I was just in awe and they kept calling me the white Messiah because I'm very much built like they are except I have a lot more muscle because they don't have muscle but the strength that they have is extraordinary you you did the physical contact with them like yeah oh yes and you felt and you felt their strength yes oh they were just um it it's overwhelming and even the women the this will give you an example how strong they are so because I W I I totally became a messiah whenever I live with them I I don't I don't stay in a hotel like a lot of people do you know I have my little tent and I'm right in there in their BMA with them and you there's no bathroom there's no water you're out in the bush going to the bathroom you know it's very it's very dangerous it's it's basically you're putting your life in your hands when you're there because you don't know what's going to happen but anyway so I I went out with I was always with all of them but to show you the strength of just if this is the women think of how strong the men are so were out there and and they're chopping wood because that's the part of their daily chores and they've got these um bands of that they've made from the the the hides from the animals that they're that they're in their livestock and they wrap I I I I could only guesstimate I would say they're between 150 and 200 pounds of of wood that they finally collected and they wrap them around and they're asking for help they they they picked them up and they put them at the band over their head and I've got pictures and videos you can see this and we carry them a couple miles couple miles and and and do they wear any shoe or they're Barefoot well this is the thing because I'm a Barefoot Gale and of course they had never because most people who come to Africa they wear these really thick you know boots that are G be effective and I I don't do that I I live very tribally even here I wear barefoot shoes I have special shoes made for me that are just just millimeters so that if I can't go barefoot when I go out they're just micro thin and um in matter of fact I even have I have things that are made to to to mimic what the tribes used to wear it's like a sandal leather sandal it's just a piece of hide it's only a piece of hide right that's that's really a hide okay this is what they would have worn back in the day they they don't anymore and so what they're doing now I was kind of bummed when I saw that