Leaders and Their Stories

Richard Lowe: Hello and welcome to the leaders and their stories. Podcast my name is Richard Lowe. I'm the writing king and ghostwriting. Guru, my guest, today is Rico Kavia.

Richard Lowe: and he is going to talk about aging and growing old, and how to do how to be healthy. So, Rico, please take it away.

Rico Caveglia: Thank you very much, monsieur. It's a pleasure to be here.

Rico Caveglia: Well, I'd I'd like to begin with. You know what I feel is

Rico Caveglia: one of the biggest challenges that we are all facing as humanity is becoming old and sick and dying way too young.

Rico Caveglia: You know. Science now tells us that our genetic potential is to stay healthy, to at least 125. So that means our lifespan can be 125. But yet we know our life expectancy in America has actually been coming down in recent years. It's only 76 for men and 79 for women.

Rico Caveglia: So.

Rico Caveglia: But that tells me, you know most people are missing out on a lot of good years of living.

Rico Caveglia: and we also know from science that our genes. Now, we know, only play a small role in how healthy we're going to be and how long we're going to live, maybe 10 to 15%. So. The reason that we have all this chronic illness and people are dying way, too young in America is because of our unhealthy lifestyle.

Rico Caveglia: So it's it's really all about the about your lifestyle, and that's good news, because

Rico Caveglia: you can change your lifestyle, and you can create a much healthier lifestyle and live a lot longer, healthier life.

Rico Caveglia: And you know what, Richard, you know one of the reasons that I really think that's why it's so important other than the obvious. I mean, everybody wants to be as healthy and live as long as they can.

Rico Caveglia: but I feel as as you know, as we age. You know we gain knowledge, we gain wisdom.

Rico Caveglia: And so I think that you know, because of people are becoming sick and dying way too young. We're missing out on all this knowledge and wisdom that our elders could be giving back, not only to help solve all these monumental challenges we're having in the world, but also to be mentors and role models for younger people. And we're solely lacking in that. So that's why I developed what I call the ageless living lifestyle.

Richard Lowe: I'm not.

Richard Lowe: and we'll get more into that in a minute. But I I do understand what you mean. Actually, I've been making some lifestyle changes myself. Thank you. Doctors. And I have to eliminate most of my salt from my diet and

Richard Lowe: carbs and exercise more. Damn it.

Rico Caveglia: And

Richard Lowe: So I've done that, and I'm feeling much better. I've only been doing it a few weeks. I'm feeling better. The body's feeling better. The mind is certainly better, and I can see the difference even after just a few weeks.

Rico Caveglia: Yeah, I have no question about it. It makes a huge difference. And you know, if if exercise is not something that you really think about, or enjoy, or want to do. Don't think about it as exercise. Think it's just about as movement. Our bodies are made to move.

Rico Caveglia: You know. There was a really interesting study, Richard, not too long ago. I don't recall what university or exactly what it was, but the parameters was for weight loss, and so they had one control group and they had them exercise real intensely for an hour every day.

Rico Caveglia: The other control group, they said, look, you don't have to do any kind of formal exercise, but just keep moving. Don't sit for more than at the most an hour and get up and move. Just keep moving throughout your day.

Rico Caveglia: and guess what? At the end of the study the people who just moved a lot more throughout their day lost more weight than the people who exercised real intensely.

Rico Caveglia: You know, I like to ask people I like to ask people I know who are exercising. I say, do you have a centenary lifestyle, and they go. Oh, no. I exercise an hour every day. Okay, but what are you doing the rest of the day we sit in front of the computer. You're sitting in your car. You're sitting in front of TV. You're sitting down to eat. So if you're just sitting the majority of your time.

Rico Caveglia: That's a secondary lifestyle. So the main thing is just to keep moving. The more you move, movement is improvement.

Richard Lowe: Yeah, I went to my chiropractor once because I have bad knees.

Richard Lowe: And I said, What do I do about these? I don't want to get them. I don't want to go to the doctor and surgery and stuff, and he said, you have to keep them moving.

Richard Lowe: which is counterintuitive. The doctors always say, Okay, you know you need to rest. Don't don't move that knee because you don't want to make it any worse. Don't aggravate it, chiropractor said, and I don't really like chiropractors. But this one said.

Richard Lowe: you need to move. You need to be mobile. That will keep the knee, and I haven't. My knees don't even hurt anymore. I mean, they don't bother unless I really abuse it. They don't bother me anymore at all, and.

Rico Caveglia: I'm really good to hear that. That's the right. That's absolutely the right thing. You have to realize that most medical doctors.

Rico Caveglia: you know, they're kind of caught up into this, you know, to the big all them just on medications, and they don't want to get sued. So they always just say, Oh, take it easy, don't hurt yourself and all that stuff, and that's just counterproductive. Our bodies are meant to move, the body can heal itself if you give it the right nutrition, give it the right amount of movement and rest. The body can heal itself.

Rico Caveglia: So that's absolutely the right information. You got to move and strengthen your muscles around your knees.

Richard Lowe: Right.

Richard Lowe: That's exactly what he said. In fact.

Richard Lowe: when my knees were really hurting, it was like level 7 level 8 pain. And so I went to the I went to 2 surgeons, you know, orthopedic surgeons, so I went to the Indian 1 first.st Thank God, I did that.

Richard Lowe: the Indian surgeon said.

Richard Lowe: I said to the Indian surgeon, Do I need new knees? And he said, no, I said, we haven't even examined me yet. How do you know that.

Richard Lowe: And he said, because you didn't tell me you need new knees.

Richard Lowe: Asked me if you needed new knees, you would come in here saying, Give me new knees because it hurts.

Richard Lowe: I said, oh, when I went to the American surgeon, what do you think? He said.

Rico Caveglia: He said.

Rico Caveglia: We'll schedule your.

Richard Lowe: I said, we'll have you, and we'll have you scheduled for surgery tomorrow.

Richard Lowe: and it's like I'll listen to the Indian one, because the Indian. Guy gave me these things like Msm. And glucosamine, and you know a few other supplements.

Rico Caveglia: Collagen, to.

Richard Lowe: Yeah. The pain.

Rico Caveglia: And can help.

Richard Lowe: Depending, which

Richard Lowe: until now, like I said, it's barely there. So that's when I learned the importance of second opinions.

Richard Lowe: Yeah, second, diverse opinions don't just go to 2

Richard Lowe: say, medical doctors who are schooled in Western tech medicine. Maybe I'm not saying go to some, you know, alternative medicine people. You don't necessarily have to do that, but at least go to somebody who's skilled

Richard Lowe: with a different viewpoint, who who

Richard Lowe: understands it's not all about knives and medicine.

Rico Caveglia: I totally agree. This sounds like the American surgery surgeon wanted to make. He wanted to buy a new Mercedes, so he said, oh, here's my new Mercedes going in. It's all about the money. Unfortunately, too much of a mainstream medicine.

Richard Lowe: I didn't even look. I didn't even look sorry. I didn't even look at it like that. I looked at it as that's what he's skilled in. That's his skill set.

Richard Lowe: so his skill set is pills and cutting.

Rico Caveglia: That's right.

Richard Lowe: The skill set of the Indian doctor. He has the same skill he can cut he can prescribe, but he had another skill.

Richard Lowe: which is, maybe we don't need to do that. Yeah, sure, I lose that 50 grand, or whatever it is to to cut off his knees.

Richard Lowe: I have this other. I have this other set of tools, which is natural stuff. You can always get your knees cut off, you know. I mean.

Rico Caveglia: Yeah, well, here's the thing, too, Richard. We actually have it backwards. You know what's called alternative medicine really should be mainstream medicine, you know our bodies are meant to heal. If we get our body back in balance and do all the right lifestyle things. Quite often our body can heal from just about everything. And you know, for centuries we use all these different kind of things where

Rico Caveglia: which are now called alternative, were mainstream, homeopathic medicine, ayurvedic medicine from India. All these kind of things

Rico Caveglia: were mainstream, but Big Pharma just came in, pushed it aside, and said, Oh, no, this is what we got to do. And so actually, we have it backwards. You know, all these natural healing modalities should be our 1st choice, our mainstream type. And then, if that doesn't work. Sometimes we get in certain situations. Yeah, drugs and surgery have their place, particularly, you know, for acute situations. If you get into an accident, they can put you back together and save your life. They're great, but for most chronic illnesses that we deal with

Rico Caveglia: mainstream medicine. Allopathic medicine is not only the not only the treatments, mostly ineffective, but downright dangerous, you know.

Rico Caveglia: So if we got that backwards.

Richard Lowe: If I got a bone sticking out of my knee, I'm gonna go to a doctor.

Richard Lowe: If I've got. If I got a headache, I'm probably gonna go to more of an

Richard Lowe: look at non medical interventions. First, st

Richard Lowe: there might be a medical intervention down the road, but if I'm not gonna die from it in the next

Richard Lowe: months.

Rico Caveglia: Yeah.

Rico Caveglia: 2, or whatever. I'm probably going to go. I might go to the medical doctor to get an X-ray.

Rico Caveglia: Yeah, exactly.

Richard Lowe: And check it out and make sure it's not something horrible, but given that, it's not horrible.

Richard Lowe: I'll go to somebody who's not interested in the, in, the cutting, in the pills.

Rico Caveglia: That's exactly right. That's exactly right.

Richard Lowe: I use my brain, but it's here for.

Rico Caveglia: Yeah, if I may, I'd like to make that point about aging and old.

Rico Caveglia: I think that's that's something that I don't hear from hardly anybody else. If you look up, the definition of aging aging is, the definition is to become fully mature, to reach your full potential, like fine aged wine, and so aging, we're here to do it, and you can't stop aging. Aging is a natural process. When you're 40, then you're 41, and you're 42.

Rico Caveglia: But if you look at the definition of old, old means to be worn out, used up unexcited about your life, unable to care for yourself, and guess what being old is pretty much

Rico Caveglia: primarily our choices, how you care for your mind, and how you care for your body.

Rico Caveglia: So if you believe that you're going to be. Get old and sick, like most people are. Well, that's what you're going to create. But if you buy to that mainstream narrative, but you, if you change your mindset and say, Hey, I believe I don't have to get old. I can stay healthy, pretty, healthy, and energetic all of my life. That's the 1st part, and then you have to take care of your body as best you possibly can, and you can stay. Obviously we're not going to be as strong, as

Rico Caveglia: fit, as healthy as when we're twenties or thirties. But we can stay.

Rico Caveglia: We can say much better than we are doing now, and I and my clients are living proof that that works. You know, a healthy lifestyle really makes a big difference.

Richard Lowe: Healthy lifestyle makes all the difference. I'm

Richard Lowe: in the last few months I've been

Richard Lowe: switching to a more healthy lifestyle

Richard Lowe: for various reasons, and it's tough to break those old habits, and when I grew up my mother used to

Richard Lowe: I mean they didn't know she didn't know any better. She she used to. If I was acting up she'd give me candy chocolate.

Richard Lowe: But we're not talking just a candy bar. We're talking a pound of candy.

Richard Lowe: You know she she's like here, have all this candy? I get pounds of candy for Christmas and stuff. So I grew up on candy and chocolate and caffeine. Fortunately I avoided alcohol and cigarettes and drugs. So

Richard Lowe: you know. Good job there, Richard.

Richard Lowe: a good job. They're bad influences that made them turn me off because they had really screwed up lives.

Richard Lowe: And I could even see that at an early age.

Richard Lowe: So the habit the body's like, I want sugar. I want salt. I'm like, body shut up.

Richard Lowe: We're not doing that today. Go for a walk.

Richard Lowe: and that seems to work much better.

Rico Caveglia: You know. One thing, too, a tip is quite often when we we think that we're we're hungry or we have some kind of a craving. We're really thirsty. So quite often, if you think you know, you had a meal already, and later on you think you have a little craving. You're not really hungry. Just yeah. Drink some water or go out for a walk. Do something different. It's just really a you've got to shift your your perception, your mindset.

Rico Caveglia: And but again, you know, I don't believe in being extreme. Don't forget now we need salt. You don't want to eat a lot of just plain table salt, but but you know we can't function without sodium in our body.

Rico Caveglia: so you don't want to be extreme like, I never eat any salt. But if you're going to eat salt, make sure it's, you know, like a sea salt or a natural mineralized, you know, like pink salt, there's all kinds of healthier salts on the market, and then also it's never good to be extreme like like they say, Oh, remember, the big thing was fat is an evil thing. You can't eat any fat. That was totally the wrong information. You know. We can't function without healthy fats and the same thing. All carbs are not bad either.

Rico Caveglia: and there's some of the latest studies have begun to show out. There's more and more

Rico Caveglia: like functional medicine. Doctors and research are coming out and saying, You know all this thing about how much carbs and sugar is the cause of diabetes, and maybe not. It's not quite that clear cut as well, so you still need. Don't forget. Fruits and vegetables are carbohydrates, but we also still need some starchy, some starchy carbohydrates, you know, like it's still good. Eat some

Rico Caveglia: some rice and some, maybe some potatoes, and a little bit of bread here and there. Everybody's different. You know what you what your body these are. There's no one diet or foods that are best for any

Rico Caveglia: for for everybody. So you have to determine what really works for you.

Richard Lowe: Well, you actually hit on the key, I think, and you didn't. Not directly, though. Is it the balance?

Richard Lowe: You you don't.

Rico Caveglia: All good.

Richard Lowe: Like, I was saying, I don't stuff anymore. I don't stuff myself with a pound of chocolate.

Rico Caveglia: That's good.

Richard Lowe: Instead. Yeah, I've learned instead. You know, having one piece of can. Well, I tend to be addictive towards candy. So I'm avoid candy, but you know it's not gonna kill me to have a piece of candy other than I'm gonna want another and another, and another, and another.

Richard Lowe: I forgot.

Richard Lowe: But

Richard Lowe: you, you know, have have that balance in there like you said a little rice, a little potato, a little fruit, a little vegetables spread through the day. You're gonna do fine.

Richard Lowe: I think. But if you if you want to have 3 potatoes or have that big meal

Richard Lowe: that might be a problem if you can continue to. Yeah, obviously, you know, you might have a huge meal on Christmas.

Richard Lowe: Why not? But you should definitely keep it down to just those special days, if you can.

Rico Caveglia: That's exactly right, if I may. I have. I have some some tips that help you on eating, too. It's called eating awareness techniques. So the 1st one is

Rico Caveglia: when you eat, just eat.

Rico Caveglia: you know, if you're distracted. If you're watching TV or you're having a discussion, or you're looking on your phone.

Rico Caveglia: See what happens if you're not paying attention, what you're eating and you're not. And also the next one is to eat slow and chew your food. Well, slow down, eat slowly, because we have a thing in the base of our brain called the apostat. It's what lets us know when we're full. But if you're distracted and you're eating too fast, you can eat a whole bunch of calories before your body probably tells you, hey? That's enough. I'm full.

Rico Caveglia: So, if you know, we should take eating as a time out from our, from whatever else we're doing in our life, it's a time to

Rico Caveglia: to renew ourselves to enjoy the food. Take some time out, you know, bless your food.

Rico Caveglia: eat slowly, and enjoy the food, and really chew it well, and really enjoy it, and that way you won't overeat, but that's the biggest thing we all tend to overeat. So if you eat slowly and you eat with with awareness and just focus on eating and enjoy your food. Then the tendency is not to eat too many calories, and you'll know you're full, and the other one is to realize

Rico Caveglia: when we eat we're eating to get energy, not to get all stuffed and slow us down. If you eat too much. If you feel a little bit.

Rico Caveglia: you know, tired after you eat. That's because you probably ate too many calories, or you ate, or the other thing is, you ate the

Rico Caveglia: food that was so nutritionally empty that your body kept saying, Yeah, here's the calories. But where's the nutrition? So that's why it's important not to eat up, you know. Get that processed junk food out of your diet. When you eat nutritious whole foods, your body goes. Yeah, your body gets satisfied a lot quicker. But you know you're eating. You're eating fast food, you know, fresh fries and hamburgers and cokes and all that stuff

Rico Caveglia: your body. It's taking all those calories, but your body says, Okay, but where's the nutrition that we're looking for? And so it still thinks that you want to eat more.

Rico Caveglia: So that's the key. So slow down, chew your food again, appreciate your food, be grateful for it, and that way you won't overeat. So so it's not always so much what you eat, but how you eat, and when you eat.

Richard Lowe: True.

Richard Lowe: true. And what I discovered also, now that several times I've tried to change my diet, and I'm really, really working on it now, and it's being successful, is there is a withdrawal period, I mean, just not eating sweets or not eating stuff with salt. The body's going. No, no, no! Where's that salt dude? Where's that? Sweets dude? And it you I feel it

Richard Lowe: like.

Richard Lowe: and it's you have to get through that. It's not as bad as caffeine. That was, I got off caffeine about 10 years ago. That was a nightmare, you know. I was drinking a lot of soda

Richard Lowe: and.

Rico Caveglia: So worse.

Rico Caveglia: Yeah, no kidding those diet soda. So it's even worse, probably. But.

Richard Lowe: But

Rico Caveglia: You know, you know, Richard, I just heard I just saw a thing

Rico Caveglia: on Youtube. They said they said, President Trump.

Rico Caveglia: he doesn't drink water. He drinks up to 12 diet sodas a day.

Richard Lowe: I believe.

Rico Caveglia: I just go. I don't know how that guy's still alive. Man.

Richard Lowe: He's surviving on caffeine.

Richard Lowe: they'd wait till he goes through withdrawals. Oh, my lord, though that much that much caffeine sugar.

Rico Caveglia: That's so bad for you. Yeah. Soda, especially diet sodas, because diet sodas are worse than a normal soda. I think they have those artificial sweeteners in there, which are known to be carcinogenic. Also.

Richard Lowe: Yeah. Yeah. You have a book. I might understand.

Rico Caveglia: I do. My main book is called Ageless Living, and I wrote that in the year 2,000.

Rico Caveglia: And then it's it's it's kind of a compilation of all I've learned. You know what the body requires, body and their mind requires to function optimally. So it goes through the whole. The whole thing

Rico Caveglia: mindset. You know, nutrition, sleep, exercise, all the things that that we we need to do to just to function optimally. And what I really did, Richard, I kind of boil it down to

Rico Caveglia: what I call the 7 essentials of life. These are all things that we're doing already, just to stay alive where we have to use our brain and think what we're doing right. We have to have our system. We have to have oxygen. We have to have water. We have to have food, we have to eliminate the waste products. We have to move our bodies, and we have to get rest and sleep.

Rico Caveglia: So those are things that we're already doing. But no one taught us really how to do them optimally, and how to do them, how to master those things. So my lifestyle in my book, I go through all those things of how to master each one of those.

Richard Lowe: Okay.

Rico Caveglia: To suit you, and so you can live a much healthier and energetic life.

Richard Lowe: And that's available on Amazon, on Kindle, and a paperback, I assume.

Rico Caveglia: It is on both. Yeah, it is on. And you can get them on my website as well. Yeah.

Richard Lowe: Okay, what's your website?

Rico Caveglia: My website is agelesslivinglifestyle.com.

Richard Lowe: Easy to remember. Good. Good. Well, thank you for coming onto the podcast

Richard Lowe: it's been fascinating. Hearing, hearing. You talk about these things and

Richard Lowe: definitely something I'll take to heart.

Richard Lowe: I'm Richard Lowe. This has been the leaders and their stories podcast and i'm, the writing king and ghostwriting. Guru. And thank you. This is pretty much a daily. Podcast so tune in tomorrow. Thank you.