Chris Terzakos' Path to True Success: Building Character, Transforming Lives, and Natural Healing on The Patrick Bass Show

Can character and integrity define true success? Join us for an insightful conversation with Chris Terzakos, a remarkable leader with a diverse background in construction, baseball coaching, and personal wellness. Chris's life journey is truly inspiring—from almost making it as a professional baseball player to transforming a local baseball league to keep the youth engaged and off the streets. Hear his unique perspective on success and leadership, which prioritizes character over material wealth. His transformative work and authorship on health and self-improvement will leave you pondering what success really means.

Transitioning from a high-pressure construction supervisor role to a semi-retired coach, Chris shares his wisdom on mental health, fitness, nutrition, and overall well-being. Discover the practical tips and holistic methods from his book "Hernia Without Surgery," where Chris details how he managed and healed an inguinal hernia through natural approaches. Whether it’s about increasing testosterone levels naturally or the importance of self-love and stress management, Chris offers invaluable insights that can help anyone on their path to better health.

Explore the profound influence of Greek philosophy and the Mediterranean diet in achieving optimal health and wellness. Chris walks us through a daily regimen that includes fasting, detox drinks, and nutrient-rich foods, emphasizing the importance of avoiding toxic ingredients. He also shares his thoughts on the power of personal choice in shaping a healthy lifestyle. As the episode concludes, Chris discusses his contributions to literature aimed at healing and supporting warriors, providing a deeper understanding of self-improvement and holistic health. Don't miss this enlightening and thought-provoking episode on the Patrick Bass Show.

Chapters

• 0:00 Patrick Bass Show With Chris Tezakis
• 10:19 Health and Wellness Without Surgery
• 18:15 Natural Ways to Boost Testosterone Levels
• 32:23 Greek Influence on Health and Wellness
• 44:30 Healing Warriors With Chris Tezakis

Transcript

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Welcome back to the program. Today we've got a really cool guy.

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He's a man who's mastered the art of leadership, not just in the boardroom but on the baseball field and now in the realm of personal wellness. For over 40 years, he's led the construction industry with a visionary approach and an unyielding commitment to excellence. He's a three-time champion baseball coach and he's inspired young athletes to achieve greatness and reach their full potential. Now he's an entrepreneur, a self-healing coach, and he's the author of three groundbreaking books. Entrepreneur, a self-healing coach, and he's the author of three groundbreaking books. Chris Tezakis is on a mission to transform lives. One of his books Hernia Without Surgery, natural Testosterone After 60, and Belonging to Yourself. These books offer revolutionary insights into health, aging and self-love. He's here today to tell us all about what he's doing. Welcome to the show, chris Tezakis. How are you doing?

Chris Terzakos: 3:24

Okay, patrick, thank you for having me.

Patrick Bass: 3:27

Yeah, we're happy to have you. So you've done a little bit of everything and we're excited to have you here and listen to your story. Okay, let's just start off. You talk about leadership. What is success to you, Chris?

Chris Terzakos: 3:47

Success to me is how you conduct yourself, your character, your integrity. You're a man of your word or a person of your word. Sure, that's success to me. You can have all the money in the world, but that's successful in one area, but the most success it comes from the character of who you are.

Patrick Bass: 4:03

I couldn't agree with you, and there's a quote on my website and it says this it says that our reputation is what people think we're going to do, but our character is what we will actually do. What do you think of that?

Chris Terzakos: 4:16

100%, 100% agree.

Patrick Bass: 4:17

Yeah, so you were a baseball coach. What team did you coach, or which teams?

Chris Terzakos: 4:22

Well, I coached a team that I played for. I nearly became a professional baseball player myself. In my younger days I was scouted by Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds. It's my responsibility that I didn't make the team. I come from a single mother family. I had no guidelines so people couldn't control me. But yeah, the coach tried to control me. He's telling the scouts to come in. They're going to be here for three weeks watching you. But you know, I was young, I did a lot of ridiculous things, stupid things, and that caused me from being not a professional baseball player.

Patrick Bass: 5:00

Well, nevertheless, baseball really influenced your life in a lot of ways, didn't it?

Chris Terzakos: 5:05

It did. It did. Now you asked me the question about coaching. I used to go to the league years later just to watch all the teams play, until the president of the league came to me and he said to me, chris, we got to do away with the senior division of the Sandlot Alliance Baseball. I said why? Now I played for them. I also played for the Williamsport Tournament. I used to travel through all the states and play baseball. So he said because two things we don't have the money and we don't have a coach. So I said how much money do you need? He told me how much he needed. I said okay, I'm going to write you a check. You've got to have this league because you can't have these kids. These kids were 17 to 20-year-old division. They can't be in the streets in the summertime. So you got to run this league, bobby, I told him.

Patrick Bass: 5:52

Right.

Chris Terzakos: 5:52

So I wrote him the check and he goes. The other problem is we don't have a coach. I said you don't have a coach. Okay, Well, not, you got a coach. I'm going to take the team, I'm going to coach them and that's what I did so.

Patrick Bass: 6:04

There you are, coaching this league and shaping these young minds, more or less right.

Chris Terzakos: 6:09

Yeah, but it was kind of tough because I had to formulate the team. There wasn't enough players, so I had to go out and scout players. So I went to the nearest park in my neighborhood. There was about maybe 12, 15 guys playing softball. Every day they played basketball. I approached them. I said hey guys, come here, I want to talk to you. They knew who I was. So I said did you guys ever play organized baseball? A couple of guys raised their hand and said yeah, I played Little League, you know, when I was 12 years old. I said, okay, well, look, how would you like to guys, how would you like to play organized baseball? So a couple of guys say, yeah, yeah, that's good. What do you think? So I said, okay, good, saturday, meet me at the Elm Jack baseball field Saturday morning. Be there at nine o'clock. So they my God, patrick, I'm going to say at least 15 kids showed up.

Patrick Bass: 6:59

Wow.

Chris Terzakos: 6:59

Right From the ages of 17 to 20. So I said, wow, I got something here. But throughout practice and training I realized that I was missing a couple of links to the puzzle. So I went out to all the high schools where these kids that's all they wanted to do was play sports in high school, right. So I scouted five players to join this team that I organized, and most of the players that I scouted five players to join this team that I organized and most of the players that I scouted were pitchers. So now I had a pitching staff.

Chris Terzakos: 7:31

So both kids, the street guys and the high school guys they were all like button heads and I was like yo guys, listen, you guys. This is where the leadership came in. I spoke to them like I was their friend. I spoke to them like we got to get along. You know we're going to be together for the next three, four months. All of a sudden, maybe a week later, two weeks later, it started blending. The chemistry was like unbelievable. It formulated At first they clashed because they were in competition with one another who's better, who's going to do this, who's going to play shortstop, who's going to pitch? I put that all to rest Once the chemistry was united. Now we were a baseball team, and that's why we won three championships.

Patrick Bass: 8:20

Wow, congrats to you. That must have been quite an exciting time, and I'm sure it had an impact on their lives that probably resonate to this very day.

Chris Terzakos: 8:29

Yeah, I do see some of the guys still. You know, periodically I see them and you know it's every time I see them I'm the one with tears in my eyes because I remember what they were. Now they're grown men and they're all successful. Some of them are in unions. They're carpenters, you know. They're laborers whatever union they're in. Other ones went to college. So, yeah, yeah, it was a good time, good time of my life.

Patrick Bass: 8:54

Yes, Now, at some point you got involved in entrepreneurship. You were a big guy in the construction industry. What was going on there?

Chris Terzakos: 9:02

Okay. So I got into construction after my high school days. I became a carpenter. So I was working with tools for about three years and then the owner of the company big company, I think, we had 200 to 250 employees the owner of the company came to me, said come on, we're going to go have breakfast. I went and had breakfast and, the long story short, he goes I want you to take your tools off. I said okay. I said are you firing me? He says no, I'm promoting you. So I said okay, cool, what am I going to do? You're going to supervise every project that we have. So normally there was about 12, maybe 8, you know, 10 projects, depending on the economy. So I supervised all the projects and I became the senior project manager for the company for 18 years and I built the largest casino in the United States, which is up in Connecticut. I spent seven years building that casino.

Patrick Bass: 10:04

So how does this all come together into what you're doing now, self-healing, where, what was the genesis of that? And, and you know, tell, tell me about that, cause I think this is, you know, not, not withstanding all the amazing things you've done. I think this is where it gets very interesting.

Chris Terzakos: 10:17

Yeah, it does. Good question, Great question, though. So, being in a leadership position, you're not only like the supervisor. You're not only the supervisor, you're not only the leader of the company. You become like a mentor. People come to you with their problems. Whatever problems they got, it could be marriage, it could be kids. They got an illness, got an illness. So here you know, besides running projects, I'm here talking to you, know guys at night, you know, or lunch break, about their problems.

Chris Terzakos: 10:52

So this carried out over the years. Now I'm semi-retired and now I'm a coach and I coach people on, you know, mental health, fitness. I'm physically fit, I have a body of a 30 year old. Uh, nutrition, health, health and wellbeing, um, and that's, that's how it escalated to where I am today from from that position as a construction supervisor.

Patrick Bass: 11:29

And probably in a lot of ways. I mean, this was your calling right, this is your passion and this is what you're very good at.

Chris Terzakos: 11:36

Yep, yep, yep yep. I had to teach myself self-love over the years.

Patrick Bass: 11:42

So what is that

Chris Terzakos: 11:42

over the years.

Chris Terzakos: 11:45

So what is that when you're always thinking about someone else before you? So there are so many people in my life at that time I always would put them first before myself. So I needed to get a grip on myself and self-love myself first, you know, and just put people on hold, I'll get there when I can get there. You know, normally somebody would call, I would be in your house in 15 minutes or I'd be at a job site in 30 minutes. Now it's totally different. You know, I self-love myself, I take care of myself. You know healthy mind, healthy body, and yeah, so that's what I did.

Patrick Bass: 12:29

Well, I guess it's hard to to take care of someone else if you're not being taken care of, Right?

Chris Terzakos: 12:33

So you got to take care of yourself.

Chris Terzakos: 12:36

That might enable you in a better way to to help someone else, then and that's exactly what I did.

Chris Terzakos: 12:41

I did a lot of research on a lot of things. You know how people should take care of themselves from eating right, increasing testosterone naturally, without taking steroids or putting yourself on TRT Just self-healing and that's what I'm big on. I don't believe in conventional medicine.

Chris Terzakos: 13:05

I believe in functional medicine and TRT. That's the testosterone replacement therapy right.

Patrick Bass: 13:10

Yeah, yeah, that's very big today.

Patrick Bass: 13:11

There's a lot of risk with that.

Chris Terzakos: 13:14

Oh yeah, you know that's why I didn't want it. You know, I went to the doctor. I had low testosterone. He said you're a candidate for TRT. I said I don't want TRT. That's for the rest of your life. So, to answer your question, yeah, so you got to watch your prostate, you got to watch your red blood cells, you got to check your blood, because it thickens your blood You're susceptible to a stroke, heart attack. So yeah, there are benefits to it, but then there's a lot of non-benefits.

Patrick Bass: 13:45

A lot of things can happen if you don't watch it, yeah, and so one of your books Hernia Without Surgery. I guess we need to start at the basics. Some people may not understand even what a hernia is.

Speaker 2: 14:00

Okay, okay, so a hernia I have an inguinal hernia. I had the hernia. I have an inguinal hernia. I had the hernia. I got the hernia 14 years ago.

Speaker 2: 14:07

What happens is from strain. I know a lot of women get it from. They get hernias from giving birth because they're pushing. So from strain of exercising in the gym. What you do is you perforate a hole through all the layers of your skin and now you create a hernia which is your intestines. So it's like a ball. You know it could be all different sizes.

Speaker 2: 14:35

Mine was about a little smaller than a baseball, about that size, and I went and saw a doctor. He goes we've got to perform surgery. I'm against surgery. So I said I've got to perform surgery. I'm against surgery. So I said I'm going to try to heal this on my own. And that's what I did. I did a lot of studies, a lot of research, I did a lot of testing on my own and I went from a hernia smaller than a baseball. Now it's like I have a little ball. That doesn't affect my life. I live a normal life without surgery. There's no mesh in my body, there's no foreign objects in my body, and that's what I didn't want, because that can lead to something else.

Speaker 2: 15:18

So I self-healed my hernia on my own.

Patrick Bass: 15:21

What's the key to it all? I mean, I know you've got this book about it that we want to read, but what's the main idea there?

Chris Terzakos: 15:31

Yeah, good question. So the first step is you have to accept that you got the hernia. The second step is you got to have a positive mindset that you're going to do this on your own If you don't want surgery.

Chris Terzakos: 15:43

You have to have a positive mindset that you're going to do this. My program, that I wrote in the book, I followed all the procedures and that's why I'm here today, you know, with a hernia still training in the gym, still feeling strong as ever, and I have no problem, wow. So you know. Just to give you a couple of the things that you're supposed to do, first thing you do is you got to try to eliminate stress. Stress will really inflame your hernia like greatly. So you got to try to eliminate stress greatly. So you got to try to eliminate stress.

Chris Terzakos: 16:30

What I did was I took Epsom salt baths for about 30, 40 days straight, every single day, hot Epsom salt baths, and I did a lot of massaging. You massage around the hernia and then you push the hernia back into your body, because what you're trying to do is you're trying to teach the hernia hey, you belong inside, not outside. So, believe it or not, when you massage it and you come out of the hot tub with the essence salt, you know the hernia you don't even know you got a hernia.

Chris Terzakos: 16:57

Now, if you maintain it and you do what I did 30 days straight, 40 days straight, then you just follow all the other steps that I did after that.

Patrick Bass: 17:07

Okay. So I mean, it's a pretty straightforward process, but you know it takes some patience, some dedication and, you know, following this protocol and it worked for you, yeah, yeah.

Chris Terzakos: 17:19

You mentioned the two key words dedication and discipline. Gotcha, you got to have both, because if you don't, then you're just going to go get surgery and then that can lead to other complications.

Patrick Bass: 17:32

Let's talk about testosterone because as a guy you know once we hit a certain age it's going to start naturally decreasing. That's just part of life. And we talked a little bit about the TRT and you know that's got all kinds of risks. When I had my pulmonary embolism that's the first thing they asked me. They said are you on testosterone replacement? I wasn't. That was not a factor. I had it for other reasons. But come to find out a lot of people, a lot of guys who have, who are on trt, they put themselves at great risk of a pulmonary embolism and heart attack and stroke and all these other things.

Patrick Bass: 18:07

It sounds like a bad idea yeah, and, to be honest, the for the women who are on it. They they have similar kind of risks. So, you know, these natural alternatives, like the ones that you've identified in your book Natural Testosterone After 60, can be very useful, especially if we approach it in a way where we're not putting ourselves at risk for something even worse. So let's talk about that. What are some of the keys there? For, you know, increasing testosterone.

Chris Terzakos: 18:38

Okay. So first you got to eliminate sugar. You got to eliminate the sugar because, um, the sugar increases insulin and what happens here is, when the insulin goes up, the, the estrogen follows the insulin. So what are the two big um blockers of testosterone? What will block testosterone from producing will be insulin and estrogen. So you have to eliminate those from your life. So you got to do away with the cookies, the sugar, the coffee. You have to eliminate all that. So cortisol is another thing. Cortisol is a hormone caused by stress. If you're very stressful you know your job, your family you got to try to reduce the stress. A couple of things that I do here I use ashiganda. It's all natural from India. I use also a product called shalacha Shalacha. Shalacha is another product, all natural from India, also from Tibet. All to eliminate stress, or help eliminate as much stress as possible, because once you have that, you're not going to produce testosterone.

Patrick Bass: 19:59

Okay, that's interesting, interesting. So yeah, because estrogen is a antagonist for testosterone and you're saying insulin is too. I didn't know that. But then increased cortisol, which is, you know, a byproduct of stress, and you know, always being like in a fight or flight situation or whatever, will just release cortisol, which has a lot of other negative effects on your body Right. So this will probably have generally an overall very positive impact on your health, aside from increasing testosterone. What do you think?

Chris Terzakos: 20:35

Oh, 100%, 100%. So you know there's a couple of items that I like to share with the audience. You know there's a couple of items that I'd like to share with the audience. You know to help you increase testosterone naturally, okay, so first I recommend healthy fats. Healthy fats is olive oil, avocado, omega-3, egg yolks, brazilian nuts, pumpkin seeds, which is loaded with zinc Zinc will also increase testosterone Wild-caught salmon and grass-fed meat.

Patrick Bass: 21:12

Okay.

Chris Terzakos: 21:13

All of these healthy fats will help you increase testosterone naturally. Now I want to share on the olive oil. When you go to the supermarket or any store you shop at, look at the back of the bottle on the olive oil. If it comes from five different countries, put the olive oil back on the shelf. That's not real olive oil. You got to look at the label. If it comes from one place, one destination, it could come from Italy, it could come from Greece, but it has to say one country. Now you're buying authentic olive oil. I just wanted to put that out there

Patrick Bass: 21:47

and does it matter?

Patrick Bass: 21:48

like you know, virgin, extra virgin, whatever you know.

Chris Terzakos: 21:51

I would always go with the extra virgin. That's what I do but all the olive oil I buy in my house it comes from one country only.

Patrick Bass: 22:00

Let's see here. So we've got, you know, the healthy fats, the grass-fed meats. What else are the other keys?

Chris Terzakos: 22:07

Okay, so the other keys to increase testosterone naturally, the main key is vitamin D. I think the country is rated, I think 70% of the country you know through a survey. They all lack vitamin D. Now. Vitamin D is so essential for so many reasons and, talking on this topic, increasing testosterone natural sunlight is the first.

Patrick Bass: 22:36

And if you don't get natural?

Chris Terzakos: 22:37

sunlight. I would take 10,000 IUs of vitamin D every day for five days, five days on, two days off. Okay, 10,000 IUs because it's equivalent to 30 minutes in the sun. Wow, and that will help increase testosterone, naturally, with vitamin D.

Patrick Bass: 22:56

This is all pretty common sense stuff really if you think about it, and I'm assuming you know this is going to help with our overall discipline and dedication to improving our health, which, if we have a healthy body, we should be able to heal our bodies more easily and rapidly, right?

Chris Terzakos: 23:11

A hundred percent. So in the book there's two tests that I have taken. The first test, my blood came back. My testosterone level was 81. 81 is horrible, patrick.

Patrick Bass: 23:22

What's normal?

Chris Terzakos: 23:23

Normal is the range between 3 and 600. That's normal, 3 to 600. I was at 81. That's why the doctor said hey, you're a candidate for TRT Now going on my program that we're talking about now and in my book. Nine months later I went back to a holistic doctor, took another test. You know what it said.

Patrick Bass: 23:44

What were you at the test?

Chris Terzakos: 23:46

648.

Patrick Bass: 23:48

You were above the normal.

Chris Terzakos: 23:50

Yeah above the normal,

Patrick Bass: 23:51

wow, yeah above the normal, yeah, what kind of you said a holistic doctor.

Patrick Bass: 23:57

I mean because a lot of regular MDs or whatever they're not going to be dialed into this right.

Chris Terzakos: 24:02

No, no, you go to a regular conventional doctor. He's going to put you on TRT. Holistic doctor is not going to put you on TRT.

Patrick Bass: 24:09

Okay.

Chris Terzakos: 24:11

Oh, by the way, that would be the last resort.

Patrick Bass: 24:13

Sure.

Chris Terzakos: 24:25

If you tried my program and you can't, for some reason increase your testosterone and you got no choice, then you got to go on TRT for the rest of your life. So I'm not opposed to TRT, I'm not going to knock it, because some people can't produce testosterone naturally. So the ones that can't, then I would say you just got to microdose, what they call microdosing or TRT. You know you do it every week, but make sure you see a doctor.

Patrick Bass: 24:45

Chris, you might. You might ask me asking how old you are.

Chris Terzakos: 24:57

I'm 65, 65, because when I got your, your bio photo, I would you know I would have thought late 30s, early 40s.

Chris Terzakos: 25:00

Yeah, that's great, I appreciate it. No, I'm not even trying to, you know, win your favor or whatever. That's really what I thought you know. Yeah, that's awesome.

Patrick Bass: 25:08

And you're 65. Wow.

Chris Terzakos: 25:13

So just to share a little bit with you. I don't know if you saw it on my blog, but last week I decided I'm going to make a change and so I'm blogging about this on PWBasscom. You can go check it out. But I'm being very upfront, very honest, I'm laying everything out on the table and I'm on a goal. I started at 508, chris, which is a huge number. My goal is to get to 275. First week I'm down 13 pounds. Awesome, bro, huge number. My goal is to get to 275. First week I'm down 13 pounds. So I'm awesome, awesome. Yeah, I'm already starting to see a decrease in my blood pressure. I'm trying to write nearly every day, but I've got a uh abscess in my from a, from a root canal. I'm still kind of nursing, so I've missed a couple of days, but my goal is to hit most days okay.

Chris Terzakos: 25:57

So I'm really on a change, you know, and, uh, I got a good start the three things that I can recommend is that any white flour you have to, you have to eliminate it from your life. Okay, so that white flour, uh, white rice, uh and sugar the three uh deadly things to have is, uh, I know, if you're gonna have pasta, you can have pasta once a week, but you can't have pasta every day. Right, you know, but but the white rice is no good, uh, white uh flour is no good. Um, and sugar, you got to get rid of the free white.

Patrick Bass: 26:34

Yeah, they just uh refine it so much it's just almost like poison, right?

Chris Terzakos: 26:39

yeah, exactly, you know, when you go to a supermarket, everything in the supermarket is a lie. Everything on the shelf is a lie. Wow, see, that's why you got to be careful. Listen, I did so much search. Uh, you know I'm 170 pounds. I got a six pack. You know I lift like a young guy. Still, you just got to watch. Watch what you put in your body. 70% of the battle is what you put in your body.

Patrick Bass: 27:12

Yeah.

Chris Terzakos: 27:14

And have you always been naturally fit, or was there ever a time where you weren't in shape and had to?

Speaker 2: 27:20

you know, refocus no, no, that was my. That was my drug of choice. You know a lot of guys in my life, you know, years ago you know they would drink, you know, like every weekend, you know, get drunk, get blasted, you know, do drugs, cocaine well, that's right. That wasn't for me. I was an athlete. My drug was I'm going to go exercise or I'm going to go play baseball, something athletic. That's why I got into construction because I needed freedom, I needed to move around. I needed to go on roofs of buildings, get into the grind. I couldn't work in the office behind the desk, I couldn't do that I couldn't do that.

Speaker 2: 28:03

I'm an active person, so being active, the gym I don't mind going to the gym. You know, you know some guys, you know they go. Oh, I'm at the gym again, you know me. I can't wait to get into the gym. I have fun at the gym, you know I put my headset on listen to the greatest rock and roll. You know my area was Led Zeppelin.

Chris Terzakos: 28:21

There you go.

Speaker 2: 28:22

The door, the doors and all that. So I have fun with my headset. I don't talk to nobody, I do my exercise. Now I used to spend two hours in the gym. Now, now that I'm 65, I spend about an hour, maybe an hour and five 10 minutes at the gym, the most Every day, or what? Five days a week. Just like all my supplements, everything is five days a week.

Chris Terzakos: 28:46

Do you ever go crazy and just have a crazy meal or whatever?

Speaker 2: 28:52

Once a week. My wife and I we have a pasta dish once a week. We don't go out to eat anymore. We stop going out to eat, Not because of money or anything like that. It's just what they put in the food.

Chris Terzakos: 29:03

Well, yeah, and you know, if you go out to eat anymore, the quality is not that great. Frankly, the food is not that good and you don't know what you're getting, right?

Speaker 2: 29:16

See, yeah, you're right, and they don't have organic food. Everything we eat is organic. Okay, they don't have organic food Everything we eat is organic. Okay, Everything in my house is organic Strawberries, blueberries, you name it Bananas everything's organic. Watermelon everything's organic, and I'll tell you why.

Chris Terzakos: 29:39

Because pesticides are bad for hormones. Bad for hormones, yeah.

Speaker 2: 29:45

Oh, bad for hormones. I mean it. I mean it's poison, right? Oh yeah, why would you want to put pesticides and explain why the cancer is you?

Chris Terzakos: 29:49

know so big today yeah because people are eating pesticides that was something I was going to ask you and I'm glad you brought it up, because cancer is increasingly more common. You know, like, like when my grandparents were young, you know, and they're deceased now they would be around 100. So you know, 70, 80 years ago people got cancer, but not like they do now.

Speaker 2: 30:16

I know You're right Because I'm sorry. Everything in the supermarket is a lie, yeah, and the other thing Don't believe it.

Chris Terzakos: 30:24

What's the other big thing? Everybody's lactose intolerant now, or they have a gluten allergy, I know, and it didn't used to be like that. You're right, and it's got to 100% you know, if we have not fundamentally changed, then what we're eating must have right, yeah? So let me ask you this Go ahead.

Speaker 2: 30:48

No 70%. I'm going to just repeat myself 70% of the problems with people today is what you put in your body. Just keep that in mind. 70% is what you put in your body, everything. Keep that in mind. 70% is what you put in your body. Everything else you know. The other 30% you know. If you exercise, you eat right, you sleep good, you've got to get good night's sleep. You know you'll be fine.

Chris Terzakos: 31:16

Yeah, chris, let me ask you do you have any core beliefs or philosophies to success that may be about health and wellness or other things that other people might disagree with, or do you think this is pretty midline stuff?

Speaker 2: 31:35

Well, I'm going to say you got to be true to yourself. I'm going to say you got to be true to yourself. If you're true to yourself and you know what you really want, you really have to have your goal, what you really are looking to do. Be true to yourself about it and you'll be successful. Whatever it is doesn't have to be exercise, eating healthy. Whatever it is you want to be a better husband is be true to yourself. What you really want is your success yeah, it wasn't in.

Chris Terzakos: 32:12

Shakespeare said to thine own self, be true, a A hundred percent. Yes, he did so. You must be in good company.

Speaker 2: 32:20

Yeah, yeah, I am.

Chris Terzakos: 32:23

As you've matured and aged and over time, and especially after writing your books. Have you had any philosophical shifts on life and success then, or have you always thought like this?

Speaker 2: 32:34

I always used to think like this it comes from wisdom. You know, the more wisdom you have and the more awareness you just you could share it. Yeah, I'm going to, and I always say to people whatever God gave you, share it.

Patrick Bass: 32:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 32:51

Share it. Don't, don't keep it to yourself. Share it, Let other people hear you, Let other people admire you. You want to inspire people. You want to motivate people. You know if they want it, they want it. If they don't want it, that's their choice. You know you want to sit on a couch all day and watch movies and eat potatoes and popcorn, drink Coca-Cola and Pepsi. That's your life.

Patrick Bass: 33:15

Right, I'm not going to judge you.

Speaker 2: 33:16

I'm not going to tell anybody, don't do it, because that's what you want to do, but I'm going to live my life the way I want to live my life.

Chris Terzakos: 33:24

Yeah, no, I get that because I've had people tell me for a long time I need to make changes and it wasn't until I decided that I was going to make a change that I even started in earnest doing that. So even started in earnest doing that. So I get that.

Patrick Bass: 33:40

uh, we can't change anybody, but we can only change ourselves, that's for sure.

Chris Terzakos: 33:42

Let me, let me ask you, you got greek heritage right yeah, how has that? Influenced your view on health, and wellness and community well it's fortunate because we have a good diet. Yeah greek food is really good. Yeah, well, don't they call it like the mediterranean diet or whatever?

Speaker 2: 33:55

yeah, yeah, it's the mediter diet, so it's actually pretty good. So, you know, if you're going to eat food, I would recommend go get a Greek Mediterranean diet food. Yeah, you know. So, yeah, you're right, it's probably one of the best. So, Other than Chinese. I think the Chinese have a good diet too.

Patrick Bass: 34:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 34:15

Not Chinese food. You go to a fast food place and you call up and say give me a pound of chicken. Lo mein, not that chinese food, the authentic chinese food that they yeah yeah, because most that's just americanized asian food yeah, yeah, but what is what like?

Chris Terzakos: 34:32

what is the core of a mediterranean diet? What, through a day, what do you eat? First I fast.

Speaker 2: 34:42

My fasting is between 14 and 16 hours. My last meal is 6 o'clock at night. That's my last meal. I don't eat until 10, maybe 11 o'clock in the morning. The next day. The first thing that I put in my body is homemade olive berry drink. I buy two leaves of olive era. I wash them really good, I chopped them up, put it in one gallon container with mountain water. I shake it up, I put in the refrigerator for a day. I let all the aloe vera, the aloe, drip into the water. The next day I shake it up, I pour my first glass. This is a glass size of aloe vera I drink every morning. And the reason why I drink aloe vera. Here's the benefits Detoxification to the liver and to the kidneys, antioxidant, anti-aging, reduces inflammation.

Speaker 2: 35:47

It protects the cells in the body, it helps digestive health, it's vitamin C and it's good for skin health. Wow, now why wouldn't anybody drink homemade aloe vera? Why wouldn't you drink this? It's so good for you. So that's the first thing I put in my body in the morning is aloe vera. And then anything I eat. If I have a protein, everything has protein in it. By the way, if I have a pancake homemade pancake it's got protein and it's got pumpkin seeds in it. So the protein obviously feeds my muscle and the pumpkin seeds is my zinc, because zinc increases testosterone. My oatmeal has protein in it for my muscle and has pumpkin seeds in it because it's high in zinc and increases testosterone. So everything I do has protein and pumpkin seeds in it.

Chris Terzakos: 36:51

So you wake up 10 or 11, you start out by drinking some aloe vera water basically Right aloe vera and then you eat a small meal protein-infused meal, pancake oatmeal, protein oatmeal.

Speaker 2: 37:09

And then for lunch I have eggs. Really yeah, boiled eggs or what. That's my lunch. Oh yeah, I have either boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, sunny side up eggs, and if I eat sunny side up and scrambled eggs, I always cook it with olive oil. I never use butter.

Chris Terzakos: 37:27

So there you get more protein and then some healthy fats.

Speaker 2: 37:31

Exactly, you got it.

Chris Terzakos: 37:34

Healthy fats. And then what do you normally have for dinner? And you say you stop eating at 6.

Speaker 2: 37:39

Yeah, so normally for dinner we'll have like vegetables with a steak, vegetables with a grass-fed hamburger. We make everything at home fresh. We have wild-caught salmon. We don't need farm-fed salmon because farm it's toxic. Just so your audience knows when you buy farm salmon they're eating each other's pool. So why would you want to eat that salmon when there's pool in the fish so big wild-caught salmon? There's no pool in that fish. Wild-caught, it's better for you. It's very high in omega-3.

Speaker 2: 38:23

And yeah, so I eat grass fed meat only steak fish, salmon fish. I don't buy other fish because it's high in mercury, right? Um. So I eat a lot of vegetables, I have a lot of salad I am greek so I have a lot of, you know, salad. Um, chicken, I eat it, but I I don't eat it. I eat chicken maybe once a month, really, and the yeah, and I'll tell you what the chicken is toxic.

Chris Terzakos: 38:58

I didn't know that.

Chris Terzakos: 39:02

Yeah, chicken has a lot of bacteria. So you know, I try to stay away from it. I do eat it, I wouldn't lie, but I wash it really good, I cook it really good. I make sure it's really cooked well, because I know it's toxic. You know all those chickens running around with each other, nah.

Patrick Bass: 39:23

Yeah, they get salmonella and other stuff, yeah, yeah. So by 6 pm you're done, and that's kind of it for a day.

Chris Terzakos: 39:33

Yeah, about 6 pm I'm done 7 o'clock. You know my wife will come over. She gives me like a little coffee cup of blueberries and strawberries

Patrick Bass: 39:42

Gotcha

Chris Terzakos: 39:43

, you know where I get my fiber. That's where I get my fiber from. You know I do drink protein shakes during the day. I have two protein shakes after my lunch, actually After I eat eggs about I want to say about 45 minutes, maybe an hour later, I have my first protein shake.

Patrick Bass: 40:04

And you got the body of a 35-year-old, you know.

Chris Terzakos: 40:07

Yeah, yeah, let me tell you, patrick, on the protein shakes. You know I just don't make a protein shake. You know I throw banana, strawberries, blueberries. I put Brazilian nuts in there, pumpkin seeds are in there, macadamia nuts are in there, the protein's in there. I put powder. I have a peptide. It's a collagen peptide. I put collagen peptide in the protein shake. It's just not a protein shake. This is like a superfood. Wow, you know, you get a blast of energy, you feel good. You know your skin looks good, your muscles look good. You know, because you know we lose muscle. The older we get, we lose muscle, right, so you got to be on, I know, a lot of protein to maintain the muscle, besides exercise.

Patrick Bass: 40:56

Well, yeah, and by the way, if you're just listening to the audio version of this, let me tell you I'm looking at Chris on the video feed here. You don't want to go up against this guy. Trust me, trust me on this.

Chris Terzakos: 41:07

Yeah.

Chris Terzakos: 41:07

Thank you.

Patrick Bass: 41:09

He's hard as nails. I'm just telling you the dude is ripped. So everything that he's saying, you might be saying to yourself I'm not buying it, I'm. I'm looking at it and the proof's in the pudding, I mean, you cannot fake this, right. So my my hat's off to you. You've really inspired me, chris, and uh, you know I'm working hard on this side. I got a ways to go, but you know I'm taking all this in, trust me. I don't know if you notice I'm over here taking notes as we're, as we're chatting, okay, but what a great story. What you know? Where can we find your books? You've got a program. You do coaching and stuff like that. How can folks connect with you?

Chris Terzakos: 41:49

They can connect on my website, healingwarriorscom. All my books are on Amazon. You can find me there. And then I have an Instagram channel. You can find me on Instagram. And I have a YouTube channel.

Chris Terzakos: 42:04

I'm putting a lot of content out how to exercise with a hernia period and I'm going to put a lot of recipes out so people can see what I do, what I eat, my daily routines. I'm going to tell you what supplements to take to increase testosterone so people can see what I do, what I eat, my daily routines. I'm going to tell you what supplements to take to increase testosterone, which I didn't tell you, patrick, I want to share with your audience. Here's one Tonkat Ali. This is an all-natural supplement. Okay, this will help increase testosterone. It's natural. It's one of the items that I took.

Chris Terzakos: 42:41

Here's another one. This is called boron Boron. What it does is, if you eat meat, this is in meat also, but if you don't eat meat, you should be on boron. Boron releases the free testosterone, not only testosterone, the free testosterone. Here's another supplement this goes good with Tocadale. It's called Fandogia Aggressus. They go good together. When your testosterone level goes up and you're on this supplement, this will hold it where it should be so. If you raise it to 450, this supplement will keep it at 450. It won't drop. If you're on this supplement, fandogia, they're all on my website.

Patrick Bass: 43:25

Everything's on my website Healing Warriors or Warrior, healingwarriorscom plural S at the end, and, of course, chris, we're going to put links to all your stuff on our website. So we will link to Healing Warriors to your Instagram, your YouTube channel, and your books will be available on our guest resources page on our website, pwbasscom. So you guys will want to definitely check that out. Chris, we're coming to the end of our time, but we got a few minutes left. Anything we didn't cover that you feel is important you want to talk about?

Chris Terzakos: 44:00

No, I just want to let people know that don't let anyone stop you from your mission In this life. You've got one life to live. Don't let anyone stop you from what you really want to do. I love that. That's one thing, and growing old is a choice.

Patrick Bass: 44:23

That's deep.

Chris Terzakos: 44:25

Yeah, that's deep, it's a choice.

Patrick Bass: 44:30

Chris, thank you so much for being on the show today, anxious to check your books out. Again, his website, healingwarwarriorscom. And again, that'll be available all by the links from PWBasscom. Thank you so much, and check us out tomorrow for the next episode of the Patrick Bass Show. We'll catch you then, take care.

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