Oh my god, y'all not fit up, bruh. Y'all not, bruh, look, you too.  Y'all not fit up, believe. Can you zoom in, can you get on my face, bro? Why you making me so dark? Stop making me dark, camera. Bruh, some stuff just happened. Some messages were sent, and I'm gonna show y'all, I'm gonna show y'all receipts and everything, because you know, there's always people in the comments, fake, fake, fake, I'm gonna show y'all receipts and everything, y'all gonna be like, what the fuck, bro? I want life, this is it. This is it, there's no, I could die. I could die right now, and I'll be cool, I'll be chillin', bro. Like, no niggas can say they beat me, bro. I want, I beat all y'all niggas. This is, this is it. Like, I beat all y'all niggas.     This is a big capital W. I'm gonna be exposing my messages with Mia Khalifa to you guys. You realize what this mean, right? After I expose these messages, there's probably no chance that I'm actually trying to talk to her, I'm actually trying to do anything, because I'm exposing these messages to y'all, because this happens with every girl, bro. Every girl who I've exposed my deals with on YouTube, that's why I stopped doing these videos for a minute and the world was kind of dry, but every time I expose my stuff to y'all, the girls either block me or they stop messaging me, and they even unfollow me. So I'm literally making content for y'all, making stuff worse in my situation, just so I can make content. Does that not deserve a like? I think that deserves a like and the deserve to spam up W's in the comments, bro. But, uh, let me just get straight into the video, right? So for y'all that don't know a quick little background story, I saw on Mia's TikTok that she divorced recently. I didn't even know she was married, but she divorced recently, which means she is no longer with whoever she was with. And me, I saw this as a fabulous opportunity to slide in DMs. Now, I didn't expect to get a message back. I was surprised when I even got a message back, because she had a lot of followers, which at the same day, at the same, she also is a similar one of the type of people that don't really care about like following and shit, and I was more worried that I'd have a big enough following to where I can make it internship to begin with. Follow me on Instagram. That's why I want you to follow me on Instagram, bro. I can make more videos like this than trying to slide in more DMs, and the more followers I have, bro, the more followers I have, the easier it is for me to slide in DMs, because you know, now you do Instagram, you have to have a certain amount of followers for people to be seen. So follow me so I can make better content. But yeah, I'm finna be showing y'all what we got today.  So look, this is her page, right? Yeah, I can see. I'm gonna scroll down and up for y'all. You know what I'm saying? This is her page. 100%, this is her. Now I'm gonna click on Messages, and it brought me to... Like I said, bro, I'm only that nigga because of y'all. Y'all helped me in this. I'm gonna cover some of these shits, right? Yeah, if it wasn't for y'all, I wouldn't be that nigga. So yeah, I had to blow out this. I wish I read it in the head, because I know some of y'all can be reading the head. Stop trying to read the head, bro. We're doing this as a family. We're doing this as a group. So yeah, we got... So look, let me show y'all... Let me show y'all what we working with. So, you know, I messaged her first, right? I was like, you finally left that lane. So where we finna go to eat? I'm getting straight to it, because I know she got hella people in her DMs period anyway, bro. I'm getting straight to it. I'm not doing no pickup line.  I'm going straight for the kill, bro. I know what I'm working with, bro. I'm not finna... You know what I'm saying? There's a normal girl, random girl. You find, yeah, you can do a pickup line. You can't do that to famous, famous people, bro.  You just gotta go straight in for it, bro. That's what they want, bro. I know what she said, y'all. She said, um, first of all, can I just say the fact that she responded, period? That's all I wanted to say. I'm, like, actually shocked about that, bro. 24 million. And I'm gonna be real. I must look... To me, look, that's the bottom thing, right? I must look some type of good if you responded to me to begin with, because I know you got a lot of the things. Niggas, especially your DM, bro. You responded to me. But we... You know what I'm saying? Whatever, whatever. Let's get what she said. She said, um, excuse me? I don't even know who you are. That would kind of hurt, Shardy. Like, I would expect you to know who I was, but the fact that you said it, like, you're not the only you didn't know who I was.  That kind of hurt. That kind of hurt. But then I was like, that's what the date's for. You know, gotta be smooth. Gotta roll it off the tongue. That's what the date's for. You won't learn. You won't feel how my body is after the date, Shardy. You know what I'm saying? You gon' feel it. You gon' feel this. You know what I'm saying? You gon' feel this. So, yeah. And then she goes, oh, it's a date now. And I'm just like, hey, you can call it whatever, Shardy. You know what I'm saying? You want to call it a date. You can call it a date. If you want to call it the meat section, you can get the meat in this section.  You can call it what you want to call it, bro. I'm not judging. But then she was like, how about we call it nothing because it's not happening? How about we call it nothing because it's not happening?  Right there. That was a violation. She didn't need to. That was a violation. I was like, I mean, she's still responding, though. That's the thing. That's what I got to realize. Dude, all my dudes listen to this. All my dudes watch this. If they responded, you're not losing.  Me, I'm still in here, bro. I'm still in here, so I'm talking about something. Yes, it is. I wasn't giving you no choice. You know what I'm saying? The fuck? Like, girls like when you demand them, bro. Don't give them a choice, bro.  Because that's what we doing. Like, you tell them. You don't ask them to go out. You tell them you're going out.  So then she's like, what do you have to offer me, sir?  When she said that, I really had to sit here and think because, bro, in reality, this girl has everything more than me. She's like, I don't got more money than her. I don't got nothing. I'm just being real. I'm just being honest. You know what I'm saying? She is in a higher point of her life than I am. What do I have to offer her? Materialistic-wise, I have nothing to offer her. She can't get herself. That's tough. I don't think I'm stuck on that. So you don't need me being me. Boy, I had to be funny, bro. So I just said I can give you the one thing on this earth or on this planet that nobody else has. I can give you that one thing, that one thing. I ain't no one nuts. You know what I'm saying? I can give you that one thing that nobody else can. Of course, you're gonna ask, which is? And y'all know how to say myself.  Why ain't no way, bro? I don't know what other appropriate answer there was in that situation. I just said myself. Because technically, like, nobody else has me. I can give you that. Now you got one of the only things in the world that nobody else has. You know what I'm saying? That's more valuable than gold and diamonds. I'm more valuable than gold and diamonds. You know what I'm saying? Like, right? Nigga, uh, no. And then she seems like such a steal of a deal. Let me sleep on it. Let her sleep on it. And Shawnee, I got something you can sleep on. No, Nigga, let me stop playing. Let me stop playing. Um, so, yeah, those are the deals. Like I said, y'all, I'm gonna be real. If there's a part two, there probably won't be a part two because every time I expose the deals on YouTube, the girls do not message me anymore.  And maybe even potentially actually being with Amiga Khalifa because I made a video. I mean, the video, I tried, I was calm in the video. I saw I was calm in this video. I didn't want to do too much because I don't want to lose all the chance. But hey, I feel like I deserve a like and a comment just because I still showed y'all this video, which, bruh, like, I still showed y'all this video, bruh. So please subscribe, like and comment, bruh. If y'all want more videos like this, like I said, like, I need to know y'all actually like these DM videos while I show y'all my DMs. Yeah, they be doing good numbers on the channel. So I'm gonna try to show them as much as possible. It's been your boy Biscayne. We out. Please help me.


Around two dozen fighters, dressed in military-like uniforms and believed to be from Eastwap group, sneaked on foot into Gidam town late yesterday. They rounded up nine people in the barn and slaughtered them, some with their hands tied behind their backs. They killed nine people in the barn, including two women and a retired police officer.


You know when I had first started coaching people on helping them to improve their life after they had seen some of the results from the strategies I put into action, the number one thing I was surprised to hear people say that was the specific barrier to them having the life they want or to doing the things they know would make their life better was motivation. And I was really surprised to hear that motivation, discipline, willpower, I guess I'm just lazy. These buzzwords kept coming up over and over and over again. You know, and even on my channel here, some of the top videos are all about laziness and motivation. Now, having gotten to where I am, I don't think everything is about just working hard and just pushing. So I thought in this video today, I would share two strategies that you can use that are the exact opposite to reach your goals in life. What's up guys? Alex Hine, author of the weird book, milk the pigeon on how to figure out what to do with your life. Before we jump in, check out the link right below this video, which is for a free goal setting worksheet that will help you figure out how to have the best year ever of your life. All right, you can check it out right there below. Now, early on in my self growth quest, I felt the same thing that so many people feel. You know, if I want to get fit, I want to get a serious long term relationship. I want to have more friends. I want to travel. I want to have more money. I want to get a raise, but I don't really want to do any of it. So what exactly am I supposed to be doing on a daily basis? Right? Who doesn't want to be fit? Who doesn't want to have the ideal person they're dating? Who doesn't want to have lots of money in the bank so they feel safe? Who doesn't want to travel to Italy every summer? Right? But not everyone does that. And why is a complicated question with a complicated answer. Now, for me, though, I realized early on, you know, I read this great article that Tony Robbins was cited in, he was quoted in. Now, it was around the time of the early days of LinkedIn, where they were publishing content online. And they said they were interviewing influential people on the best advice they got in their 20s. When Tony Robbins was asked, he said, you know, you can push a lot of things uphill in your 20s. In fact, you can push almost anything into making it happen. But pushing will is an energy that will never last. And eventually, you have to find something that pulls you. Now, not too far later, I read this book by the creator of the Dilbury comics. And in his book, he talks about this one principle that was the most influential principle in his life as someone who is trying to become rich and famous, his words. And he said he calls it the energy metric. So when he was working a full time job, and he was trying to build a business in the part time hours, how did he keep himself disciplined, knowing that almost all those businesses were going to fail. But maybe one would work out. And he said, the energy metric is simple. Basically, what you do is you choose to work on the business that you are the most energized by. Because at the end of a full day of work, you're not going to want to work on a business that's hard. And as someone who worked for over three and a half years before he made enough money from Modern Health Monk to quit his day job, I can tell you working seven days a week and coming home every night to work on a project that sucks, not that fun. And probably 0.00001% of people will actually make it.  And then from eight until 11, you work on your passion project or your business. I did that seven days a week for three years, only sell my girlfriend on the weekends at the time. So if you are willing to pay that price, I'm confident you'll get anything you want in life. But most of us aren't. So what do we do? That experience about the Tony Robbins, my own experience, Dilbert, made me realize you can reach goals in two ways, which are really this polarity opposite sides of the spectrum. One is push goals and pull goals. And you can decide consciously ahead of time, what strategy you are going to use to reach your goals. And so I decided that guess what business was going to be my push goal? I was going to have to push myself every night to do it. And so having primed myself ahead of time, I would remind myself, I had to come up with a ritual before coming home to work on my business because I wasn't that motivated to do it. And what I ended up doing was every night before I worked in my business, I would eat dinner at the office, I would go work out for an hour, and then I would go to my favorite 24 hour cafe. So because it was a push goal, I had to come up with a ritual or a series of rituals that made that easier. For me, the gym, leaving where I live, getting out to a cafe was the ritual. So if it's a push goal, you may have to come up with a series of rituals and habits you stack together to get something done. It may be external accountability, it may be internal. Now the other thing was pull goals. There are going to be some things in your life that naturally draw you and a lot of things that don't. And I decided that you know what, one of the things I was really excited to do was I've always wanted to write a book. And so because there was that in your calling for it, you know, it was a lot like this goal was sitting out of the dinner table with a girl I knew right away I was into. I felt it. So it wasn't hard for me to put in a lot of effort towards something that I felt that inner draw towards. So for my book, I still had to be disciplined. I still had to come up with a ritual. And so for me, the first half of my evening ritual became I'm going to go to that cafe out of my house and I'm going to work on this book. But I think the big lesson here is that some things in life you will have to push and some things will pull you.  It's magnetic and less of your life you have to push. Well, at the same time, understanding sometimes you're just going to have to be a fighter. And if it's like me, then maybe you're going to have to do a whole ritual before you do that one thing you know will improve your life, but you're having a hard time really doing it. Long story short, think about is this a pull goal or is it a push goal? And if it's hard, what system can I set up to make it a little bit easier? All right, you guys. So before you go, download the free guide down below, which is a free worksheet on how to have the best year ever of your life. And then before you go, I have two related videos for you here.


Welcome to Adventures in Small Business. This is a collaborative effort by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Hawaii District Office, Hawaii Small Business Development Center, the Patsy Ming Center for Business and Leadership, and the Veteran Outreach Center for the Pacific. We showcase most locals, most businesses here. My name is Sandra Kancinos and I'm with SBA Hawaii District Office. Today we have Marina Nishimura who owns Illuminati Group LLC. Welcome Marina to the show. Thank you for having me. So I just was wondering about, you know, your business and say how did you get started and what inspired you to get into the lighting? Well, the Illuminati Group, my business started in 2012 here in Hawaii. It was a family business in Japan that started and we created a Hawaii version of that. Okay, so you started in Japan and about 20 years ago back in 2000 when LED was still very new. My father was a pioneer of the LED product. Do you have big projects out there in Japan? Right, he does. There's a couple businesses that he does. The main business they do in Japan is illumination events where they have like a light park where people enter enjoy the lights at night. Like kind of Christmas time? Christmas time. They have some for the summer and also for the spring time as well. And then how did that come about over in Hawaii? We had an opportunity, a conversation with the government to do something similar to that when they saw that in Japan. So that's how we came to Hawaii. But our business has changed since the time we started in 2012. Okay, and then I was wondering about the LED movement, you know, being environmentally conscious here in Hawaii is very big. So I was wondering, has your business adapted to that? When you do light installments, things like that, do you put that in consideration when you do a job? Yes, well, everything we do is any product that we use are all LED, so we are very energy conscious. We work with Hawaii energy, so we like to maximize and use their rebates to have businesses convert to LED. We also try to be a part of, HIKO wants to be fossil fuel in about 20 years, so we hope we can contribute to that as well. Okay, and what type of different lighting services does Illuminati Group offer? There's the commercial side and the decorative side for the commercial side. We sell products for upgrading for parking or interior for lighting for businesses, as well as we do energy consulting services and calculations as well. On the decorative side, we create custom lighting for Christmas or any for business further customized signs all created by LED. Okay, and is there different types of LED lighting that you recommend or that your company specifically use for your projects? It varies for the commercial side. There's various LED products, so if there's parking light, then we recommend parking light lighting. There's many different products. For the commercial side, we have LED string lights to create lights which I can explain more when the photos come up. We also have LED neon which is really exciting. We use various LED products. And since you've done, that's a niche industry. Is there any projects that we can actually see while walking down the street that your company has done for the city, for buildings, for anything like any resorts, anything like that? For the decorative side, our projects can be seen year around at the Moana Surfrider Hotel at their Banyan Tree. Can we pull up the pictures for that? Okay. The Banyan Tree, this is a year around lighting. This one was lit up in pink for Valentine's Day. It's pre-programmed, so we can change it to different colors. It's really exciting because we're able to preset the lighting and it can change by the hour, by the minute, or every Valentine's Day, it'll change to pink and we can make it so it can move with music as well. Okay. And then the other projects that we've done. Is that the Royal Hawaiian Hotel? This is the entryway. That's coming up as well. So that was the entryway lighting. So these are more of our permanent commercial, our decorative lighting that can be seen on the island. This is on the commercial side. As you can see, the left and the right. The right is where we upgraded to LED. The left is the side where it hasn't been converted yet. So, you know, our client was very happy because they were able to have, it was brighter and also they were able to save on their energy and also for savings too. So when you do this type of work for lighting up, say a parking lot, is there a huge benefit by having the LED lights installed as in financially? Some businesses are able to recoup the cost as early as six months, eight months, or it could take about three years depending on the project. So whatever lighting that they have now, we're able to show them the calculation and see how much they can save. But they do, I mean, not only are they becoming more green and energy-conscious, but they're also saving on energy costs, reducing on electricity bills. And if you keep the pictures rolling as well. That's at Mercedes-Benz showroom. There's various types of LED lights. This is going back to our decorative side for the holiday. We've done some decorations at the Kahala Ma, Kahala Hotel, I'm sorry. So what we do is we create custom designs for each hotel. The next picture is at Centro Pacific Bank. This is something that we work with the bank and created a custom installation and design based off of their facade of the building facade. So this can be seen during the holiday season. This is more of the decorative side of this is the LED neon sign. And this is all that we create customer signs for local businesses. We've made signs for the public pair, sweat and sole. We've created custom signs for that. And also people have been using that for weddings. Okay. So you also do for weddings? We just create the signs. We don't do the installation. But if anyone wants a custom sign or for weddings or birthdays, that's something that we provide. Okay. And then today you brought a couple of products that we wanted to showcase today. This is something new, a new product that we have. This is made out of bamboo. When you see it, it's like this, but it turns on. So people can post it out and outside their store window or something like that. Okay. And then we also have a bigger sign. So this is our aloha sign here. Okay. So these are all made from bamboo? Bamboo, yes. We're able to custom make designs. We're making a sign for a company here too. So anything with LED, that's what we specialize in. It looks so nice. Okay. And then any for the holiday season or another, you've done a specific bank. Do you do for the city anything like that? Not for the city, but for businesses. For this coming season, for the custom side, we're creating some, not just for Christmas for New Year's, the Moana Surf Rider, Sheraton Waikiki are having a New Year's event and some of our LED designs will be displayed. So who designs the pineapples, the aloha? Who comes up with the concept? Who says, let's take bamboo, make the sign, light it up the way that it lights up? We have a designer in our team. That's also my sister. So she's the graphic designer. She creates all the designs to make it into reality. And what inspires you to stay in this line of work or, you know, get into the lighting business besides, you know, coming from your dad, from Japan all the way to Hawaii? What's nice, especially for the decorative side, is you work on a project with a customer. And it's nice when you're able to see it installed or displayed. And then, you know, when people are happy to see the displays, that makes us, makes me happy. Okay. And I was wondering, do you have any plans to expand outside of Hawaii? We do projects in Japan right now. We've created some custom signs worldwide. We had a couple inquiries for permanent installations for the Bahamas and also in the Middle East, but we haven't got there yet. So hopefully in the future, we could do more of that. Okay.  So what, what challenges do you think, you know, you have one you've had and then what advice would you give to a small business that also wants to go into this industry? Especially since we live in Hawaii, one of the biggest challenges I had was shipping and the calculating, the shipping was very hard. And when we first started, no one really knew us. So it was hard to bring the shipping costs down or we was still understanding that. So now we're doing better, but shipping was very, it's very difficult. Okay. And then what type of advice would you give, you know, somebody who's wanting to start in the same industry? Or, well, maybe I'm in the same industry or for Hawaii, I think being in the starting a business here in Hawaii, what I realize is there's so many good people here in Hawaii that are willing to help you and give you advice to help with your business. So I think that makes Hawaii very special. And I think, you know, for a business, there's so many things that you know, at the time I didn't know. And I would, to ask people for help and ask for, you know, their advice or their feedback really helped me grow our business. So I know that I would ask about challenges. Have you had any unique problems with the industry that you're in, say? Well, tariffs. Tariffs have gone up a lot. And that has affected me. You know, that increases our price. So that does hurt our business, but that's something that we need to, I guess, you know, every industry is having issues right now. So that's something that we need, that's some of our challenges right now that we're trying to adapt to. Okay, and then going back to your projects that you've done from the photos, of course, what would you say would be the one that really just, you know, inspires you over and over again that to see your work? Two different parts. The decorative side is when I'm able to see the permanent installations and, or the Christmas installations, and when I see the public enjoy and take photos and hear from our clients that, oh, their tenants are very happy to see the lights and that they're very excited. That makes me happy to see the end product as a success. The second part is the commercial side when we're able to save money for our clients and then because they upgraded to LED and that we're able to convert them to more energy efficient or have them become more energy efficient, that's very special. Any buildings that are iconic that we can see the work in that they've done for the commercial side is a little more, it's not as exciting, but for the decorative side was the permanent installations of the Moelana Surfrider, the Royal, the Christmas time we've do lights at James Campbell Building in Kapolei as well, some smaller projects at Duty Free too. So it's various locations, yeah. Okay, we'll be right back and we'll take a short break. Hey, hello everyone and welcome to the Think Tech Hawaii Studio. My name is Andrew Lanning, I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii. We air here every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Hawaii time trying to bring you issues about security that you may not know, issues that can protect your family, protect yourself, protect our community, protect our companies, the folks we work with. Please join us and I hope you can maybe get a little different perspective on how to live a little safer. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Mellie James, host of Let's Mana Up. Tuesdays, every other Tuesday from 11 to 1130. This show is meant to dive into stories of local product entrepreneurs and how they're growing their companies from right here in Hawaii. I'm so thrilled to have our show kicked off and so please join us on Tuesdays at 11 o'clock as we talk to local entrepreneurs and hear their stories. Hi, we're back with Marina, who's the owner of Illuminati Group LLC. Thanks Marina again for coming in and I'm just wondering what I'm picking up from the conversation. What, not challenges, but what has helped you in starting your business? So what organizations have helped you starting your business? So in my business what we tried to do is I wanted to expand the government and I went online and I saw SBA had workshops to assist businesses who wanted to be in the government so that's when I reached out to SBA and I've met with Mary Dow who's been very helpful and resourceful and helped guiding me through the government process and introducing us to people. Through that she, I didn't know what was available, she also told me about SBDC which is Small Business Development Center and also Patsy Mink and told me those are good resources to reach out to so with Patsy Mink I've met with them and you know sometimes I need a guideline, a guide on how expand my business or to sometimes you know sometimes with the business side tracks it was nice to have someone to talk to and give advice on what I should be doing next to grow my business and with SBDC they've been very helpful on letting me know how to grow in the government sector and also I, we were working on an RFP for Innovate Hawaii and then they were helping, they were very helpful helping me you know edit or you know change by helping me make revisions on my RFP proposal for them so the, all the SBDC, Patsy Mink and SBA were very resourceful on you know guiding me through and helping me in the government side. I'm glad to hear that so besides the government side what do you see your business going in the future? In the future well I, we hope that when we first started, well I should have explained is when we first started it was very difficult because especially for the decorative side many people, we had projects in Japan and I had pictures to show clients but they never saw that in person it was hard for me to explain to them like oh what my, my business or they're like oh they were hesitant because it was not done in Hawaii before and it was hard for them to make a decision based off of pictures but that the beginning was hard for me to find clients who would would believe in us and we were fortunate to have a handful of them at the start that did that helped us grow our business but and you know gain more through word of mouth yeah but from now I hope that we can still organically grow and work with more hotels and businesses and also well the government is our next part where we want to grow for the commercials. So where do you see your your business and the local and business community? Well I hope that we're able as a led supplier and a system design company I hope that we are able to help large or small businesses become more energy efficient that we're able to convert and make Hawaii more green. Awesome well thank you so much for coming in and joining us in this session um thank you I really appreciate you guys coming out and is there a website or an address that people can go to to buy your product or see your product or services? Yes our website is Urumanaj, Hawaii, I-L-L-U-M-S-M-E-R-I-N-S-N-N-C-A-G-E-Hawaii.com We don't sell products online it's more custom-based so they could send us an email at contact.illuminajgroup.com or call us at 808-53-266-88. We're available anytime. Okay awesome thank you so much for tuning in and I'll see you next week. Thank you.


Good morning, everybody but the fishing here today.  I'ma go for carbs and largemouth bass Enjoy. Enjoy bassin and carpet baby It's cool, baby This all feels nice Get over here. I Got my net over here. I got white bread and sweet corn. I gotta land it first, you know It's all the way deep man. It's trying to go to the under our lug There's a lot of carbs over here So, you know we fishing for carbs We splashing We fishing for carbs And largemouth bass. I did a video already on this so you know People like it so This is my Second video of this ice pulling drag This one feels good, man. I feel it's nice. I don't know if it is a common carb or a mineral carb This one feels good.    Oh, that's what you got Over here Get over here. Got it. Ah nice carp man.    Oh dog, dude Damn, he broke the line. I got the hook out bro Look at this big carp, baby First carp, baby Bassin and carpet, baby We're going for carbs today And large mall bath Let me put her back man. I Don't want to stress this carp. Ah beautiful carp, baby Thank you for biting There he goes first carp, baby Man first carp of the day. I got white bread for the carbs and sweet corn And I got crawls And jigs for the large mall bass, so you know stay tuned guys We over here at the lake Carpent and bassin second carp, baby Another one got the bread about to set the hook Let's go, baby. Oh this one is deep Get over here second carp, baby We bassin and carpet Let's hope I land this one. I don't know if it is a common carp Or a koi or a mirror carp. Oh this one feels good Get over here. I got the drag too tight man Get over here Second carp, baby. Let's go I'm about to get the net. Let me go over here Let me see if it's big. Oh, it's a common carp.  Oh, it doesn't want Yeah, so I'm talking about baby Second carp, baby Bassin and carpet, baby. Let's go. You know how we do And they always flat too much, man They flat too much. Come on.  Come on? Let me let you lose. Let me let you free Want to go for bass now man already got two carps.   Let me just put her back in the water man Until I could get loose to she could get loose But she's okay. Oh My god, yeah, she got me all white Hold up. I'm trying to get you loose need a place for this man. What is going on man? Oh My god, bro.  This thing carps. This is so funny man.  It's cool, baby hooked up. Ah, yeah, baby. Let's go You know how we do Carp in and bassin, baby, you know how we do man, but the fishing here We have the lake central park Three carp so far. I'm using a net, you know, so now hurt these animals The second carp gave me trouble because you got tangled in the net But I was managed to release it safely On harm. Ah, this one is this one is heavy man. This one is this one feels good Another carp, baby If I land this one, but I think I got it It over here This one feels good, baby another carp. I think it's a common carp. I don't know If it is a coy Common carp Merrill carp There's a lot of carp up over here It's over here Oh, he's a Merrill carp. I think let me see. Yeah, it's a Merrill carp Get over here. Let me get the net So I could land it safely I'm using white bread.  Oh, he's getting scared. Oh My god Bro bro, he's too big. I'm missing 10 pound mono That's cool, baby. It's a Merrill carp This one is big, bro This one is big Yeah Thank you Thank you. Let me let her lose mine.  Let's go for the release. Oh Man bro safely and sound Another carp Carp number three At least this one didn't give me trouble man. Like the first light the second one You got tangled in the net. So, you know over here, man. It's beautiful morning Catching carp first bass Don't jump, baby. Get over here Right in the edge Get over here, baby First bass, baby Bassin and carping, baby so far three carbs two common carbs One Merrill carp And one large mouth bass, I started Fishing for bass right now, you know Then I'm gonna switch to carp fishing again, but Right now first bass, baby Not a big one, but I'll take it And start my whole setup probably hitting one pound Let's go for the quick release man and this little fellow Good bass, baby. We got over here on the lake.  So, you know, let's go, baby. There he goes Man bassin and carping, baby all day. Let's go, baby Another large mouth bass, baby.  I better not lose that crawl, man. Let me get him up Quit jumping man Get over here. Second bass Let's go, baby Bassin and carping, baby Now catching big ones, but hey second bass I'll take it. You know how we do, baby Not a big one again, but second bass We're going for bass and carps trying to make another video as I did before Bassin and carping So, you know, not big ones, but I guess I'll put in me the video anyways Let's go for the quick release on this little guy. Oh man Another large mouth down Let's go for another one Bassin and carping, baby all day Bet the fish in here On the lake. Let's go, baby This one feels good, baby. Let's go Bass number three, baby Bassin and carping, baby We're trying to go to the side. Oh, this one feels good, man, like a three-pounder Two and a half. Who's over here? Bassin and carping, baby. Let's go Bass number three, baby You know, get over here. This one feels good, baby Not a small one like the others.  Let's go Bro, I get over here, bro That's what I'm talking about Again On the rage bug Yeah, I think I'm just throwing Rage bug, but not I'll be throwing spinning bait I've been throwing Lip less Same calls. Let me go over here I've been throwing everything and they not biting so the only biting on the Rage bug, so that's what I keep on using and that's what I keep catching them on We almost got out, bro. Look at this.  Let's go Cool bass, baby. That's what I'm talking about That's what I was waiting for man. I Called two small one earlier In carbs. I'm a real carp And took home a carp and this group bass, baby. I have me too, baby I'm never gonna take a picture man. Let's go for the release Scroll down over here, man better not fall, bro Ah, that's baby. Thank you for biting, baby


All right. It is 255. So I think we'll go ahead and get started. My name is Kevin Nielsen and I run a bunch of the GRPC team. I manage the Go, Java and Python team and work at Google where we use GRPC a ton.  Speaking with me today is Gina and Richard. As I mentioned, this was a very, very last minute talks. You don't see their name in the system, but they are in the right place and they are in the slide deck and they're prepared and ready. Cool. So I wanted to share just a little bit of kind of overview type things with GRPC kind of show you kind of the relevance and the growth. And some of that before we share a bunch of things that are new and exciting in GRPC. So here you can see sort of the GitHub stars trending over time. And it's really exciting for me, you know, every year when I look at this, when we're evaluating how are we doing? Are we still relevant? Are we still growing? Are people still loving GRPC? This is one of the things that we look at and it's really exciting to see that continued growth, the continued kind of engagement. All of the questions we get asked in our mailing list, everything that we get out there on GitHub do absolutely appreciate it. And then you can see this massive number of pull requests to cost many of the various languages. Another cool metric I want to share is the number of weekly downloads we have in several of the different languages. You can drink that water, it's mine. Anyway, with Java for Maven, 4.8 million downloads every week. In Python, 19 million weekly downloads and in Node for NPM, 9 million weekly downloads. So really, really huge usage. We're really happy with it. I'm thrilled at the success and have all of you to thank for that. We want this to continue to grow and we would love any feedback you have or request. We're always really trying to make this ecosystem grow and continue to evolve. So please keep giving the great feedback that everyone has and we look forward to more. One of the things that we got as feedback as we started doing more and more of these talks as COVID ended, talking to folks at both KubeCon and the GRPC conference that we run, GRPCConf. And one of the feedbacks we got was a lot of our documentation, tools, blog posts, a lot of this area was lacking compared to other similar projects. And so we made a really, really big effort in making improvements there. And so over the last year and a half we've been heavily focused in these directions. One of the efforts that I've really spearheaded making happen within the team. And you can see even just in the last few months, since the beginning of this year, we've added six new guides in the GRPCIO documentation site and three new code examples. And those were areas where, you know, we really have almost plugged all the holes and got everything that we want. And then we're going to next go through and look at all the GRFCs and try to figure out, you know, mapping GRFCs to user guide entries, figuring out where it makes sense and continue to close gaps here. So we're really excited about this. And then another initiative that we kicked off about a year ago is trying to get more and more content on YouTube, more relevant content, more timely content. Because one of the things that we learned is that all of you kind of enjoy consuming things in that way as do I. I do, again, I want to invite all of you to come and join us in Sunnyvale. You can see the Google Cloud headquarters. We've got, there's a really nice event space there that is set up for doing events like this. We're going to have three tracks, hopefully some code labs. And this will be a one-day event in Sunnyvale, California. We would love to have all of you there. And call for papers opened up just this week. I think it was two days ago and the link is on there. So you can see that and we would love to have you make a submission and love to hear you talk. And we're hoping that a lot of the content there or a majority of the content is actually from the community rather than from the maintainers. We'd like to give the community and make this a community effort and a community-driven event. One of the things I'm really excited to announce is we are heavily investing in Rust and want to make it one of our supported languages within GRPC. And this is something that we heard loud and clear in Detroit, in Amsterdam, in the past, in Chicago, and then also in Sunnyvale or GRPCConf. Every single time, this is probably the most frequently asked question that we've had across all those events has been, where we're reaching out to you has been, will you be adding support for Rust? So today, Tonic has a great implementation of Rust that has great adoption. We're working very closely with Tonic to see what we can do together, what makes sense for the future, but it is a decision that we've made to come up with an XTS compliant and fully compliant GRPC implementation in Rust. So this is a pretty big deal, and we'll have a lot more to announce at GRPCConf later this year. And absolutely, if this is an area that's interesting to you, we would love your help and support making this a big success. We are looking for a handful of people who want to give early feedback, want to be part of the early design process, some of the decisions we're making, go over designs, things like that, help be part of the community making Rust happen. And so if you're interested, we would love to be a huge gift to us. There's a barcode here or a link. Please fill out the form and let us know how we can get you engaged and what you're doing with Rust. A few simple questions would absolutely love your help on that. Finally, I just wanted to share a couple of links that are out there, our main website, where you can find all the information about GRPC. There's a YouTube channel that I know many of you, we're just starting to recap that and add new content, and we're going to continue to add a lot of short five-minute videos as we add features, so I want to encourage everyone to do that. We've got a Twitter channel or X, whichever you prefer. And finally, there's a mailing list, and the mailing list is really our main form of chat and communication with the maintainers, and so it's a great place to get your support or get support for issues that you have, and ask your questions and be able to talk directly with the team. And then finally, we have something we call Meet the Maintainers, where if you would like to come and do a one-hour kind of meet-and-greet with someone from the GRPC team, it's something that we love to do, where we hear about how are you using GRPC, maybe what would you like to see from it, where is GRPC doing great so we continue to do that, and where is it not doing so great where we can fix those problems. And so absolutely sign up for one of the Meet a Maintainer talks or sessions. You can schedule within the calendar there, and you'll meet with someone like Richard, Gina, or myself to do that. So with that, I'm going to hand it off to Richard and Gina to kind of jump into more of the features, but my name is Kevin, and again, we'll be around after the talk. You know, if there is anything that you want to share, we would love to help all of you with your applications, any questions. Anyway, we can, and really appreciate all the engagement we've had from the community. With that, I'll hand it off to Richard. Thank you, Kevin. All right. Hi, everyone. I am Richard Belville. I am the Tech Lead for GRPC Python. I do a bunch of dev work for that, as well as Kubernetes integrations and Service Mesh, if you saw the last talk relevant to that. The first thing that I want to talk about today is developer tooling. Just a few tools that will help you out on your GRPC journey. GRPC Debug is a command line interface. It provides you with a range of debug information, such as stats about how many RPCs have been sent or have failed, as well as address resolution results and XGS configuration for Service Mesh. So reach for this tool whenever you need to troubleshoot GRPC. Then there's GRPCurl. Similar to the Curl CLI tool that we all know and love, GRPCurl enables you to send RPCs from the CLI, either with or without reflection. GRPCurl does a great job letting you inspect the types within your API, so it provides this really satisfying dev loop of query what an API looks like, and then manually call it based on what you just learned from GRPCurl. Next up, a tool that I'm sure many of you already know and love. Postman now has full support for GRPC, allowing you to make RPCs from a GUI, including full support for streaming RPCs. It is packed full of features that make it work great with GRPC. For more details, hop on over to the Postman website or check out the excellent talk that Postman did on the topic at GRPCon for 2023 on YouTube. Moving on to something close to home at KubeCon, we've got the Gateway API. If you saw the talk at 2 p.m., this will be a repeat for you. The Kubernetes Gateway API is a recent API that provides a more extensible way to manage traffic routing in Kubernetes clusters. It is designed as a revamp of the ingress resource to get rid of vendor-specific implementations and annotations. The special interest group behind the Gateway API has identified the most common use cases for annotations on ingress resources and built them directly into the Gateway API. We have worked with that special interest group to introduce a new resource within the Gateway API called GRPCRoute so that you can more idiomatically route GRPC traffic rather than routing at the level of HTTP. GRPCRoute is moving from experimental to standard this April.  The other really exciting thing in this space is Gamma, using the Gateway APIs to manage not just ingress, but also ServiceMesh use cases. We have been deeply engaged in the design process there to ensure that GRPC ProxyList ServiceMesh has first-class support in the APIs. Now you have the ability to use vendor-agnostic Kubernetes resources to manage your GRPC ProxyList ServiceMesh or whatever ServiceMesh you'd like to use GRPC with. We are also excited to share that stateful session affinity support is now available in GRPC C++. It is a load balancing technique that ensures all requests from a particular client session are routed to the same backend server. This is useful for applications that maintain per session state, such as shopping carts, user profiles, or game sessions. GRPC implements stateful session affinity using cookies. When the first request is sent out, the GRPC client XDS stack routes it to a server as normal based on the configured LB policies, such as round robin or pick-first. In this example, request one happens to go to server two. Server two encodes its identity into a cookie and populates the set cookie header in the response and uses the cookie in it to define a session. All subsequent requests in this session need to be populated with this cookie, and the GRPC routing stack will ensure that all requests with that cookie get to server two. So here, the client wants to send request two, also in the same session as request one. It populates request two with the cookie returned in response one. And the GRPC XDS stack routes that to server two based on the cookie. Until cookie expiration or until server two goes down, all requests with this cookie are routed to server two. As a result, you're guaranteed to always hit a warm cache for that session, significantly speeding up your application. Big win for latency-critical applications. And with that, I'll hand it over to Gina. Thank you, Richard. All right. Hello, everyone. My name is Gina Yeh, and I'm a TOM. I'm tech lead manager at Google leading the GRPC Java and Go team. So in the previous slide, Richard talked about what step of session affinity is and how it works in general. And now let's take a look how to enable it on Traffic Director. We have introduced a custom resource called GCP session affinity policy. And in the YAML file, you set the cookie TTL time in seconds. And the session cookie will be expired at the time that you're provided here. Before it's expired, the request was the session cookie are guaranteed to be sent to the same backend. And then you set the target reference to specify which route or service that you want to enable step of session affinity on. And that's all you need to do. And if you're interested in these features or learn more details about it, we have a short link at the bottom and that will take you to our talk about step of session affinity at Qualcomm last year. Another GRPC new feature is custom backend metrics for load balancing. So this is a mechanism in the GRPC library that allows you to inject your custom metrics at your GRPC server. And this metrics can be used for load balancing. So we follow the open request cost aggregation standard and you can report your custom metrics in two ways. The first option is your server attaches the metrics in the trailing metadata when RPC finishes. And another option is to be realistically sending the metrics out of a band. Custom backend metrics is available on production now and if you want to learn more details, you can always check the short link that I have below which will take you to our developer guide which also includes the example code in multiple languages. We recently added support of weighted run Robin load balancing policy and it can be used with the custom backend metrics that I just covered in the previous slides. And it's really simple to configure your server if you are using GCP traffic director. You just set the custom policy as weighted run Robin with the parameters based on your use cases. If you prefer to send the metrics out of band, you set the enable or be load report true and we also have additional parameters for you to find you the behavior to measure use cases. You can also use our weighted run Robin implementation even if you are not using traffic director and here we have an example code in go and you just set the load balancing config with the configuration in JSON format when you call on the dial function from your go application. And once you configure LB policy as weighted run Robin, the next step is to send the metrics from your back end and at the top here is a formula that how DRPC load balancer selects a back end surface with the metrics that you send to us which includes the CPU utilization, the QPS, EPS and the error penalty. And below is an example of using the auto band reporting and in the DRPC go server code you create a server metrics recorder with the options that feature use cases for example like the minimum reporting interval and then you register your recorder and start sending the metrics like the CPU utilization, QPS, EPS, etc. And that's all you need to do to enable weighted run Robin provided by DRPC and as you know you can always find more details from the show link that I have on the slides. So next, randomized pick first. So we are extending the existing pick first policy with the new flag to shovel the address order that your name resolver returns. As you may know pick first is a very straightforward LB policy and just like its name. When the name resolver returns a list of the addresses we try to connect with the first one and then connect to the second one if the first attempt fails. So pick first is commonly used with the DNS server shuffling the address order and in some cases where the DNS server doesn't support shovel or randomization you can simply flip the flag, shovel address list in your DRPC code and we will shuffle the order for you. And we are excited to announce that DRPC is adding support for open telemetry and this is a powerful tool for you to gain insights into your system's behavior and it helps you to quickly troubleshoot the problem improve the performance and reliability of your DRPC applications so that you can make better decisions about how to architect or manage your system. From 1.61 release you can get these metrics to help you to analyze your DRPC latency your RPC latency, QPS, error rate or even like the payload sizes and we are adding more metrics and extending the support to other languages. Also the open telemetry tracing design is almost completed it's still revealed but almost done so stay tuned for more updates on that. So here I want to show you how you can integrate the open telemetry metrics into your DRPC application so you will need to add a few lines of your code in your application and here we are showing the code snippets in C++ so in the main function create an open telemetry meter provider and add a Prometheus exporter and then use the open telemetry plugin builder to set the meter provider that you just created and register plugin by calling build and register global and after the registration DRPC operations performed all the DRPC operations performed will be monitored and the stats will be reported through the configured Prometheus exporter. So a few more advanced features that I like to take this chance to talk about first one is custom LB policy if our building LB policy doesn't make your needs you can definitely bring your own custom LB policy and also we recently added support for RBAC HTTP for service and method scoped client authorization on XDS enabled DRPC servers and lastly DRPC clients currently support both IPv4 and IPv6 however most implementations doesn't support or doesn't have support for individual backends to have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and we are actually working on it so in the near future resolver and LB policy API will support multiple addresses per endpoint and HP eyeballs will be used to determine the address and next we recently added support for Java modules so the module name of the DRPC draw file will be automatically generated and another feature that we have in DRPC Java is least request load balancing so which distributes the incoming request to the server with the least number of active connections at the time the request is received and it decides to improve the server utilization and the response times by ensuring that the requests are evenly distributed across the available servers so an interesting fact Java implementation of this in DRPC is contributed by Spotify so we want to encourage all of you to bring your ideas to DRPC and benefit all the DRPC users across the world and with that I'm going to hand it over to Richard Thank you Gina Alright so over the past few releases of DRPC Python we have removed all external dependencies so the library is now lighter and easier to install than ever we've also added support for Apple Silicon so M1 and M2 chips in the latest release you'll find Mac Universal Dynamic Libraries which can be run on either ARM or X86 chips in DRPC C-Core the basis for C++, Python, Ruby, and PHP we have introduced Event Engine a new public interface for applications to provide custom implementations for IO and asynchronous execution for example you can drive DRPC using external event loops such as LibUV you can implement your own Event Engine in C++ and override various methods with the behavior that you want simply call setEventEngineFactory to get started using Event Engine on the C++ side we have recently upgraded the way we notify you when asynchronous RPC events occur we're excited to introduce the new callback API you no longer need to manage threads and regularly pull completion queues which can be tricky to get right instead the GRPC C++ library will invoke user provided callbacks when RPC actions complete the callback API provides a set of methods for your application to initiate operations your application can also override methods like onReadDone and onWriteDone to get notifications when RPC actions complete and back over to Gina so for DRPC Go we introduce a new channel state idle as an initial state and it will transition into ready state when the connections are established whenever there is a period of time without using DRPC or RPC we will temporarily update the channel state back to idle and close the open connections to optimize the performance for your applications when the next RPC comes in the connection will be automatically reestablished for you so no additional effort or implementation is required on your site this feature has been available for Java and the C core and we recently added into DRPC Go so you can customize the idle timeout with the code that I have on the slides another new feature that was released in DRPC Go is Lease Request Low Balancing so if you are interested in using Lease Request Low Balancing that I just mentioned earlier check out the latest release that we have of the DRPC Go okay so that brings us to the end of the talk as Kevin mentioned earlier DRPC Conf is currently calling for speakers so some major idea with the first URL that I have on the slides and visiting the DRPC IO site for documentation and the example code subscribing to our YouTube channel to get notifications when we have new videos available joining our monthly made up to get the latest updates on DRPC and you can always request a conversation with the maintainers to help answer any questions that you might have and you also might want to join in the DRPC mailing list to get the latest updates and finally you can also follow us on the Axeward Twitter thanks for joining us and we have a couple minutes to take questions about trust support for new projects is it better to use existing implementation like Prost or Tonic or it's better to wait for the announcement I mean I think that's up to you and your application and what makes sense on the timeframe you know we are hoping to move really quickly we haven't quite figured out although we've had many meetings with Tonic and we're trying to figure things out we haven't finalized exactly what we're going to do yet as far as timing I mean I think it's hard to guess but I would think you may end up waiting I don't know we're hoping sometime this year we have something to release and if that timeline doesn't work for you then obviously you need to do what's best for your application so yeah yeah does GRPC Web is part of the GRPC project and do you know if there's any plan to support it more fully I don't know GRPC Web is part of the GRPC project you know we sit pretty close to the people who work on that there are some plans at the moment to explore extensions to GRPC Web formal extensions that will enable all arities I don't think the specific technology has been nailed down yet whether that's WebSockets or FATCH but yeah you can definitely expect more updates on that in the near future okay thank you actually we apparently do have a video about those updates already so yeah it's on our channel our YouTube channel perfect check out our YouTube channel like days ago fresh off the presses hi I have two unrelated questions the first one is I hear about this reflect API being enabled and what not how do you cope with the security risks of it so what is the expected value for reflect on production is it enabled or disabled I missed the first part the what API the reflect API reflection sorry okay so the question was how was it enabled for like in prod do you enable it in general because like in your previous talk you noticed that you can trigger this Boolean to offer and I was wondering for instance it could be guarded by some authentication step first or something I see I see so to enable reflection on your server it's actually for each language generally a separate package that you have to pull in so like for Python there's the GRPCIO package you have to pip install GRPCIO to get reflection you actually have to pip install GRPCIO reflection and then there's a method that you can call to add it to your server so it is something that you do have to manually include at the moment maybe you can improve the UX there if we're talking about gateway API yes there are security implications which is why we probably do that as an opt-in not an opt-out okay and the second question was more about the go and I was quite curious when I used the I need to find your word the service configuration in Dyara it's really specific question I was just wondering why it was expressed as JSON as opposed to you know a builder or an option button or something like this yeah so service config is actually cross language the same service config should work whether it's C++ Python go node that's why we use JSON everywhere service config you can supply manually a couple of genus slides had examples of that proxy service mesh or XDS configuration it actually dynamically translates the XDS into service config in order to make that work so theoretically any like service mesh config you can express via service config thank you hi so I'm also a gRPC web user and it's not really ideal right having to use gRPC web I was wondering if in the future gRPC could be made to run natively in the browser like maybe it's trailers right that are not present so I don't know with HTTP free or if it could be made to do it thanks yeah so definitely a good direction to look at so yeah the big issue there is trailers within HP2 we've definitely talked to browser implementers about fully implementing the HP2 spec gRPC web currently is the way that we're looking at improving that the difficulty there is not necessarily with proxies but with the limitations of gRPC web I understand you can't have all of the arities you know unary client streaming server streaming and the extensions that I mentioned in the earlier answer will enable gRPC web to handle a full gRPC API so anything that you can run back end to back end you will be able to run browser to back end as well but probably with a proxy in the middle to improve the UX of that in the 2pm gateway API talked I showed off some potential extensions to the gateway API that will help in setting up an ingress proxy that will do that translation for you because you don't have to manually manage that middleware awesome two more questions here we go I was just curious gRPC is using H2 as a transport protocol and quickies are seeing more and more right so is there anything happening on the transport side of things to evaluate quick and whether it would make sense at all I am not aware of active exploration of it we haven't had any major complaints from people so far for the most part the complaints we've heard have been 3 is bigger than 2 we kind of want a more compelling argument before we start looking into that there have been some prototypes written for htp3 so c++ definitely has an alternative transport using cronet which is the chromium implementation so if you really wanted to try that out you can compile that yourself with gRPC c++ definitely a handful of folks have been doing investigation on htp3 so far we haven't seen that it has fit the needs obviously if there's something we're missing please let us know but so far that hasn't been the case I think we're going to take one last question because we have two minutes but Gina Richer and I will be outside in the hall afterwards so if you do have more questions please feel free to join us out there so last question so I just wanted to ask about protobuf quite struck that you never mentioned it once what's shed some thoughts there do you have a more specific question who do we talk to about protobuf who's telling us what's new in protobuf I see how do we get protobuf to work faster with go yeah we will definitely have the protobuf team at gRPC probably not a great answer but they did speak last time and they are it it is two teams so Wimbo who's my peer at one point in time he actually managed the protobuf team but as things grow and we invest bigger and bigger they are independent teams we meet with them quite frequently and the two teams work really really closely together but definitely I would say protobuf specific things would be best to go to them but feel free to let us know if you want us to help make those connections great well thanks so much everyone really appreciate everybody coming helping us make gRPC a continued success both here at the conference and out in our day to day lives I want to thank you all and again Gina Richard and I will be out in the hall if you have any more questions thanks everyone


What happens if you eat peanuts every day for 30 days? Well, one thing is for sure. You'd be doing your health a huge disservice. Sorry, peanut and peanut butter lovers, but this nut can actually take years off your life. Shocking?  There's a lot of misinformation out there, especially when it comes to food and your health. So today I'm going to set the record straight on this dangerous nut starting with some myth busting. First of all, peanuts are not a nut. They are a bean, a legume. They have nothing in common with nuts. So let's start there. We should call it a peen bean. It's kind of cute. Myth number one, peanuts support energy due to being a rich source of protein and fiber which assist in the conversion of carbohydrates into energy.  Where do they make this stuff up? Peanuts are beans. They're not nuts. And as you know, legumes including peanuts are lectin bombs. As I've written about in my previous books, 95% of human beings have a preformed antibody to the peanut lectin. You are born hating the peanut lectin. Now, you've all heard of peanut allergies. This is actually not an allergy. It's not an IgE. It's an IgA and IgG modified antibody. And so you're born with that. Now, why do most people not feel that when they eat peanuts? Well, luckily for most people, the effect of eating the peanuts is not felt. Although you don't have to be a hermit to know that in recent years, peanut allergies and anaphylactic shock from eating peanuts has gone through the roof. In fact, as you may know, lots of little kids are carrying epi-pens of adrenaline to school in the case that some little kid brings a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school. The reason that's happened is most of us now have leaky gut. Most kids have leaky gut. And so our immune systems have been activated to be on the watch for the peanut lectin. But here's the problem with peanuts. Peanuts are an incredibly rich source of omega-6 fats, particularly nasty omega-6 fat, which is called linoleic acid. That omega-6 fat, get ready for this. There are 5,000 times more omega-6 fats in peanuts than omega-3 fats. The good omega-3. 5,000 times more omega-6 fats. And if you listen to one of my other podcasts, you know that these omega-6 fats actually cause aldehyde formation, which is one of the main drivers of inflammation and mitochondrial aging. And that's the last thing that you want from a food. 94% of people carry this antibody. So that's why number one, peanuts are not a great way to support your energy. Myth number two, peanuts support weight loss because they're satiating. Well, why they may be satiating, they certainly will not support a healthy weight, especially in the long run, because these compounds cause inflammation, cause leaky gut. And one of the best ways to make people gain weight is to cause leaky gut. And I've written an entire book, The Energy Paradox, about how leaky gut contributes to weight gain, not weight loss. We store fat in our gut as a fuel supply for our immune system, attacking the things that come across our gut like the peanut lectin. Now, here's one of my favorites, peanuts support heart health. Sorry, as a cardiologist who has performed over 10,000 heart surgeries, this one is a no-go. Believe it or not, if you want to produce atherosclerosis, heart disease, and monkeys, you feed them peanut oil. If you remove the peanut lectin from peanut oil and give it to the monkeys, they don't develop heart disease. And yet, peanut oil has the peanut lectin. So if you want to produce heart disease in monkeys who don't get heart disease, give them peanut oil. And you'll get heart disease. Need I say anything more? Now you're going, but wait a minute. The peanut skin in Spanish peanuts has resveratrol. Isn't that good for heart health? Well, that's like saying that water is good for you, but a tsunami must be the best there can be. The problem is the resveratrol content is in the peel of peanuts, and only Spanish peanuts, by the way. And it's so minimal that you'd have to eat pounds and pounds and pounds of peanuts to get the resveratrol content in one glass of wine. And all those pounds of peanuts would give you all those omega-6 fats, none of the omega-3 fats, and give you a walloping dose of the peanut lectin, which will be guaranteed to cause coronary artery disease. That doesn't sound like a very good idea. Now talk about wrecking your heart health. We've actually done studies of rats who were fed bowel movements from peanut-eating humans.  They just think poop is delicious.   So to answer your question, if you ate peanuts for 30 days, you're going to virtually guarantee some very serious health issues. The good news is that there are plenty of delicious, healthy alternatives to peanuts. So what should you eat instead of peanuts? Well, as you know, my number one go-to nut is a pistachio. Pistachios have the highest source of melatonin known to mankind. They are very rich in melatonin. And you go, well, wait a minute, I don't want to go to sleep. Melatonin is the sleep hormone. But if you've read my most recent book, Unlocking the Keto Code, there are only two antioxidants that are present in mitochondria. One is melatonin. The other is glutathione. And so melatonin is really good for your mitochondria. And so pistachios are a great source of melatonin. How about macadamia nuts? One of the great things about macadamia nuts is they not only have almost no omega-6 fat, they're loaded with monounsaturated fat, oleic acid, which is the same fat in olive oil, but they're also loaded with omega-7, which may be one of the best promoters of heart health there is. So grab some macadamia nuts. Now, just be careful. If I want my patients to actively gain weight, if they're getting too skinny, I have them eat cups and cups of macadamia nuts. So just because I say macadamia nuts are great for you doesn't mean that you want to have five cups a day. How about peely nuts? Peely nuts are one of the healthiest nuts in the world. As a matter of fact, check out episode 232 with Jason Thomas, the Peely Hunter, on my YouTube channel or wherever you get my podcast. Another great option. I have a nut mix that I give to all of my patients in my office, which include macadamia nuts, walnuts, and pistachios. And every one of them actually has to have a little cup while seeing me. That combination is great for munching on. It's also great to take to parties. I use it if I know I'm going to a party where I'm going to be tempted. I just have a handful of gundry nut mix before I go. I'm satiated. I don't need to go picking up things I shouldn't be picking up. So it's a great alternative. Everybody says, yes, but my kids need peanut butter. Well, there are a lot of better alternatives. Although very expensive, pistachio and peely nut butter are great. If you're going to get almond butter, please, please, please find peeled almond butter. It exists. There's several companies that make it. But the peel and almonds have a really nasty lectin that I really think you need to avoid. Hazelnut butter is another great option, and it's becoming more and more available. Although not from a nut, but from a seed, tahini from sesame seeds is great too. If you're looking for kind of the same mouthfeel as peanut butter. Okay, if you want to ruin your health, go on the Peanut 30 Day Challenge and watch what happens. I'll see it in your blood work. I think you're going to love this next one. Look no further than pistachios. Not only are they delicious, but they are also one of the healthiest nuts on the planet.


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