The Partovi Effect

Unlock Your Body's Potential with a Customized Nutrition Plan Tailored to YOUR Unique Physiology

• Dr. Ryan and Mrs. Madi Partovi • Season 1 • Episode 14

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What if the food you eat could unlock the healthiest, most balanced version of yourself—on a cellular level? In this episode, Mrs. Madi Partovi and Dr. Ryan Partovi , JD, NMD, MIFHI, take you on a life-changing journey that reveals how personalized nutrition holds the key to transforming your body, mind, and future.

About This Episode:
This isn’t just a discussion about food—it’s an invitation to reshape the way you nourish and care for yourself. Mrs. Madi Partovi and Dr. Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI,  share raw and relatable stories from their personal health journeys, offering insights into how understanding your unique nutritional needs can lead to profound transformation.

With science-backed methods like the Blood Type Diet, SWAMI software, and the emerging field of epigenetics, they explore how food doesn’t just fuel us—it reprograms us. If you’ve ever wondered what it means to truly eat for your body’s needs, this episode delivers clarity, inspiration, and actionable steps.

What You’ll Discover:

  • The surprising role of genetics in food choices.
  • The evolution of Ryan’s journey from health struggles to mastery.
  • How Madi overcame anxiety and dysregulation with personalized nutrition.
  • A sneak peek into their upcoming course, "Your DNA, Your Diet."

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Unlock Your Body’s Potential with a Customized Nutrition Plan Tailored to YOUR Unique Physiology

[00:00:00] Introduction to The Partovi Effect

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[00:00:00] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Welcome to this episode of The Partovi Effect. My name is Mrs. Madi Partovi. 

[00:00:06] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I'm Dr. Ryan Partovi. 

[00:00:08] Mrs. Madi Partovi: We are going to take you on a ride today. And introduce you to the Partovi world of food. Why we eat what we eat. 

[00:00:20] The Journey Begins: Early Influences and Health Struggles

[00:00:20] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Beloved, why don't you start off with how we got here. 

[00:00:26] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: How we got here. Well, I'm gonna, I will, Tell the story of how I got here and you can tell the story of how you got here.

[00:00:32] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: How about that? This may take a minute. So I first I have to give credit to my mom because she had a degree and went to school for home economics, which now is known as human actually reissued her diploma with a new major on it. And a big part of that was nutrition. So something that she was always interested in, I think really from [00:01:00] a pretty early age, was nutrition.

[00:01:02] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I grew up going with her to health food stores. We had a small town in East Texas where I was born and I lived the first nine years of my life. There was only one health food store. And But I would go with her and thumb through the books. And as we moved around, continue to do that.

[00:01:21] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And it was something that was always part of the conversation. There was things that she taught me along the way and that I resisted frankly, for the first, Oh, 19 years of my life. And then around age 19, I started experiencing my first health problems. And I think much of that was really as a result of me resisting my mother's nutrition advice.

[00:01:48] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And, basically eating, going to Wendy's and getting triple cheeseburgers and Biggie fries and Biggie Diet Coke and thinking I was doing good by having a Diet Coke, right? And [00:02:00] not to mention the Frosty for dessert. So You know, lest anyone think that I have lived this sainted life of perfect nutrition, my entire existence, let me disabuse you of that notion right now.

[00:02:12] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And just say that, yeah it's been a journey for me. So, and frankly, I think because I'm a non secretary and we'll talk more about the secret or non secretary difference, I'm sure, and one of the other installments of this series, but because I'm a non secretary, my level of compliance, if I'm going to get the kind of.

[00:02:30] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Outcomes that, an average patient would get. I have to be like 98%, 99 percent compliant. Versus like an average patient secretor would be able to do 80 percent compliance and get the same result as I get at 99%. So, I think because of that, we non secretors are, we sort of. Or more of a canary in the coal mine.

[00:02:52] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And because of that, I then started to get health problems at an earlier age. And so I, at the time was going to school at my [00:03:00] alma mater, the university of Texas at Austin. And there was a doctor locally, his name was Ron Manzanero. And I think he's still in practice, but I think he moved up to Arlington.

[00:03:13] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Anyway, he He was at the time the only MD that was doing integrative holistic stuff in the Austin area, if you can imagine that. And the doctor I was seeing at the student health center said, oh, you should go see this guy, I've met him at some of our local conferences, I know he does other things, because I was dealing with a thyroid problem.

[00:03:36] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I asked her, I said, what is going on with my thyroid? And why do I need thyroid hormone? I mean, I don't know. People don't get fevers because they have an aspirin deficiency. I mean, how do I get this thyroid deficiency that now requires that I be on thyroid hormone? And she was like, well, we don't really know.

[00:03:54] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And, and if you want to find out more, I said, well, who could help me figure it out? She said, this guy. 

[00:03:59] Discovering the Blood Type Diet

[00:03:59] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So I went to [00:04:00] see him I had previously seen Dr. D'Adamo's book, Eat for Your Type, at the local bookstore. And I picked it up, and I thumbed through it, and I'm like, oh, blood type diet, that's, this has gotta be, there can't be anything to this.

[00:04:14] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I hummed through it, I put it down, I said, this is, sounds like bunk to me. And then I went to see this guy, though, that my, the doctor at the health center had recommended, Brons Manzanero, and I, we did a bunch of lab work, and he diagnosed me with insulin resistance, and, he was evaluating my thyroid and all that kind of thing, and I noticed on his bookshelf was eat right for your type.

[00:04:36] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I said, what's this eat right for your type? And he said, well, here's the thing. I read it, it's scientifically sound, he said. And I started following the diet last year when I was sick. And not only am I better now, but also, and he didn't get into the details. But he said, I also lost 25 pounds in the process.

[00:04:58] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So I said, okay, well that [00:05:00] sounds cool. So I went home and I said, well, yeah. And he said, at the time he said, look, you're a typo. You should try and avoid gluten. That's the biggest avoid for typos is avoiding wheat. So I said, okay. So I went home and I, do to do, I thought I was doing really good avoiding wheat.

[00:05:17] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I was sitting there about a month later, having some graham crackers because, of course, graham crackers are made out of graham flour. That's what I had remembered learning in American history class, that there were these, that graham had created this Graham cracker company with his religious followers at the time.

[00:05:37] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And this is what they did is they were using Graham flour to make these crack. Anyway, obviously I was looking with the box and I was like reading the ingredients and I'm like wheat and other kinds of wheat. And I was like, what the heck? So I got really frustrated. I was like, I can't do this.

[00:05:52] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: This is too hard. And so I went back to him, Ron Manzanero, and he said, I really think you should try [00:06:00] Cutting out gluten because I just wasn't getting any better and so I said, okay, I'll give it another try. So I went through and I went home and I and specifically again, recommended I check out the blood type diet.

[00:06:12] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So I went home, I put everything containing gluten in a box. I read the label. This is the beginning of my label reading, here at 19. Put everything in the box that had any bit of gluten in it. Gave it to a friend of mine and then I bought a copy at the time of Live for Your Type, which was Dr.

[00:06:32] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: D'Adamo's second book, and was the one written for more of a medical scientific background, people who had really strong were interested in science. And that was me. I was at the time a biology major. So, or I had been a biology major, but then I was majoring in history. It's a long story.

[00:06:54] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: But anyway I ended up reading that and I sat down for what I call my [00:07:00] last ignorant meal. And I remember vividly what it was. It was salmon and like a one of like a yogurt with some cucumber in it, which I'm not supposed to eat. And then some orzo pasta, which I'm not supposed to eat. And that was at central market in in Austin.

[00:07:20] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So I sat down and I had that meal and I started reading live right for your type. And it was like, wow, this, it was, it opened up this whole new world of nutrition for me and understanding and and making connections between. Sort of the way that I had wound up in life and all of the strings and susceptibilities that I'd already started to notice as I'd gone down this health journey and how it all fit in to this blood type paradigm in a really beautiful way.

[00:07:50] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: But, that was just the beginning. 

[00:07:52] Transformative Health Journey

[00:07:52] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And then as I, As I adhered to the nutrition plan for the next, well, over the course of the next year, I ended up [00:08:00] losing 50 pounds, my energy bounced back, I mean, all the health problems I was dealing with, my insulin resistance improved really resolved at that time.

[00:08:13] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: It's since come back. Damn you med school. But anyway, the point is that was a really watershed event that sort of revived my health in a way at that age of 19. So that by the time I was 23, I ended up attending the first, it was at the time called the blood type diet conference was the first blood type diet conference.

[00:08:37] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And this was in 2003, and it was at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, which eventually became my alma mater. And it was there I actually met Dr. D'Adamo and Mrs. D'Adamo for the first time. And really, I remember at the end of the conference I shared with him that I really, as a mentor [00:09:00] and he said to me that he was really moved by that and he really appreciated that and it meant a lot to him.

[00:09:06] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And that really began a beautiful relationship, which continued on. And I think ultimately in many ways culminated in my residency after med school, because I continued to attend what eventually became the Institute for Human Individuality was no longer the Blood Type Diet Conferences.

[00:09:24] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: It was the Institute for Human Individuality conference and typically we would have them every other year and throughout the 2000s, that was the pattern until I think the last one that was, in that pattern was 2011, and two years I would go and I would sometimes move heaven and earth to go and continue to learn, and I learned about SWAMI, which is the software that we use now, that where we are, are pulling together not just blood type, not just secretor status, which I've touched on, but also many other 200 variables, genetic, [00:10:00] epigenetic, which are like the volume control settings on the genes, family health history personal health history, presenting symptoms, lab data, biometrics, which are measurements of the body.

[00:10:11] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: We put all of those into the software and it performs. Over 12 million calculations and generates an individualized nutrition plan, recipe book, meal planner for that person where they are right now on their health journey. So, I was one of the first people to receive a SWAMI. I was also one of the first people to learn how to use a SWAMI, the software and the, sorry, the SWAMI stands for Serotyping with Advanced Modifying Inventories, I believe, is the it's not a easily memorable thing, but the Swami part is very memorable.

[00:10:43] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And that really began the concept in my mind as well. Around that time, it was a 2005 where Dr. D'Adamo introduced even the concept of epigenetics because at the time, genetics was really popular and, the blood type diet was the first genetic diet. It was the first nutrigenomic [00:11:00] diet.

[00:11:00] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And. Adding in the secretor status, another gene, right? So still in that realm of neutrogenomics, but in terms of epigenetics, like the volume control settings on the genes, D'Adamo really introduced that to common parlance, in my view, at least anyway, at least for me in 2005. And. Starting there, it opened up the realm, which eventually he ends up exploring, I think, more fully in his 2009, I want to say, book, which at the time was the genotype diet.

[00:11:32] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: It's since been the name changed to change your genetic destiny, which is the idea that the what we're eating can actually alter the course 00: 0 p sort of health span and our life through turning on certain genes, turning off certain genes, turning down or up the volume on certain genes. And that's really a lot of the power and promise of naturopathic medicine, generally speaking, but I think, [00:12:00] personalized nutrition in particular is it has that capacity to alter gene expression and literally remake who you are as a person over the course of.

[00:12:10] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: seven years, right? Because all of our cells turn over within a seven year period. So, if you are what you eat and all of your cells are turning over within seven years, then within seven years you can literally remake yourself. And there's some limitations on that. It's not completely, strictly true, accurate to down to the smallest, Because so what happens is, and I'll just briefly explain this and then we can get on to your journey is the there is a plastic phase really starting for about six months prior to conception all the way up through about 18 months and then you have like a semi plastic stage which continues until the child is about I think it's 3 to 5 years and then there's a little bit of plasticity until about 16 years old and then pretty much you're in the post plastic phase.

[00:12:59] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So your [00:13:00] genes are pretty much dialed in terms of what. Part portion of that gene is available for expression. So the way I explain this to patients is, look, imagine when you're conceived that you've got a volume dial that can go from 0 to 100 on every gene, but over the course of your life, as you're exposed to different environmental factors, the portion of that volume dial that's available to you narrows.

[00:13:24] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So maybe by the time you're born, it's zero to 50. A particular gene, right? And then by the time you're 16, maybe it's now only 20 to 40 that you actually have access to. But then within that 20 to 40, we can use nutrition to dial it up or dial it down. But, beautiful thing is, within each generation, we actually have the ability to alter that by At least 10%.

[00:13:53] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And so the cool thing is that theoretically anyway, within four generations, if I can have a family [00:14:00] within four generations and alter their nutrition pattern and bring it in alignment with her optimum health and wellbeing, we can eliminate chronic disease within four generations. That's the fundamental promise and principle driving.

[00:14:16] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: generative medicine, which is the specialty that was created by Dr. D'Adamo. 

[00:14:21] Professional Growth and Contributions

[00:14:21] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And when it was time for me to do my residency and, I went through a bit of a crisis of faith regarding being in medicine in particular, because I started in conventional medical school, I think primarily because I really had.

[00:14:36] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: The vision of I really have to live in Texas. That's where my family was at the time. And, I couldn't imagine living anywhere else because I'd grown up there. So because there was no naturopathic licensure in Texas I said, Well, I need to become a conventional medical doctor. And then I can, learn about all the rest of this.

[00:14:52] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: But because I sort of knew too much, that really didn't work for me. I got to the point where I was in my, and I, [00:15:00] we can talk more about this, and we may have actually in our first episode, but I got to this inflection point where I had a conversation with Dr. D'Adamo, and really, I was going to get out of medicine entirely, or I was going to go to naturopathic medicine, so that's what I did, and he really helped inspire me in that conversation.

[00:15:18] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And so then I went to Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, where at the time we had the Center of Excellence in, in generative medicine. And then oh, no, is the, what was it called? The Institute for Human Individuality Center of Excellence, I think. And then. In the, at the, by the time I graduated, Dr.

[00:15:38] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: D'Adamo said, well, sorry, Ryan, I'm not taking any more residents. So I said, okay, well, we'll see. And I waited a few months and then I sent him this email when, which I outlined my vision for the residency and how I'd like it to go and what I saw was possible, which is that we could actually create.

[00:15:56] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: a specialty inside of naturopathic medicine [00:16:00] through this residency program that we could create. And he was so enrolled by that, that he not only said yes to the residency, but also wrote a white paper for a new center of excellence in generative medicine at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.

[00:16:17] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And then that, that inaugurated the next over decade, really, of Dr. D'Adamo's involvement with University of Bridgeport which really only came to a conclusion when the new head of that school decided to the new head of the University of Bridgeport decided to axe the naturopathic medicine program, which I think it's pretty tragic because it was, I guess, other than the school in Toronto, it was the only school in the United States, anyway, on the east coast.

[00:16:48] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: What we used to call the wild east of naturopathic medicine, because most of naturopathic medicine's historic sort of base of influence is on the West Coast. So this was sort of [00:17:00] the outpost and Dr. Jidamo was very influential in shaping and supporting that over the last decade and ultimately came up against, a university administrator who just didn't get it.

[00:17:12] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So, but through that residency, I became the first resident in generative medicine and really spawned an education program that continued to Educate and train people in the bioinformatics platforms that Dr. Diadamo had developed, including really all the Datapunk platforms, including Opus 23 as the main one, I would say, which is the genomic analysis platform that he created was really the first one that allowed for, typically most genomic analysis platforms.

[00:17:48] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Platforms for people who are aware of it are going to look at maybe 20 genes, maybe up to 100, but this was the first platform to look at basically all the health actionable genes [00:18:00] and also allow the users to provide feedback and context and clinical data that would then inform future clinicians. So it was sort of the first sort of crowdsourced genomic platform, and it's still the best in my opinion.

[00:18:20] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So, yeah, I mean, And then I ended up finishing my residency and moving out to San Diego, where I met Madi, starting my practice there. And been on a mission to make a difference in the lives of people and really share this information. And to this day, I mean, Dr. Adamo's work from forms the foundation of my practice.

[00:18:40] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And guess I skipped the part where in med school, I ended up. gaining that 50 pounds back. But then when I went into residency and I started working with Dr. D'Adamo, it was really like a revival for me and an opportunity to get healthy again, which I did. I lost the weight [00:19:00] again and, tighten up the diet and actually.

[00:19:03] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: There was this confusion in the lab where, because I had blood in my saliva, they thought I was a secretor, and it turns out I was a non secretor, and that can happen when you're doing saliva testing, and, anyway, once I was able to get on the non secretor diet, that made a huge difference for me, and and it still does, to this day, so.

[00:19:28] Mrs. Madi Partovi: So you know how it's not an episode unless I cry. 

[00:19:33] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So I 

[00:19:33] Mrs. Madi Partovi: was moved during multiple points of your story. And I'm present to your profound a connection to Peter.

[00:19:47] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And I'm also present to that anything is possible in a conversation and how he enrolled him, we can create this. And so here's this new [00:20:00] possibility for people, for humanity that you created out of saying, okay, You didn't take no for an answer. 

[00:20:07] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Yeah, well, my concern was to create a legacy for him.

[00:20:10] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: I wanted him to have a legacy that lived on for him. And I think, now I'm not going to take credit for this, but I do think that inside of him creating that specialty and that center of excellence, his youngest daughter, Emily, was actually enrolled in, I'm going to be a naturopathic physician, because I think when I first met her, she was interested in being a, An international law attorney.

[00:20:36] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: That was the, that was her initial interest, but that I think because of the energy that came out of that center of excellence she was like, no, I want to do this too, and Yeah, so now he has a literal legacy through his daughter, which to transmit as well, but also all of those of us who trained with him and who are part of this society can carry [00:21:00] on his work forward, long after he's gone.

[00:21:02] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: So it's pretty exciting. And that's what I wanted. I didn't want. To me, the greatest possible tragedy would have been for his work to end with him. That would have just been, absurd to me. So, I think we've, I think we've secured a future in which that's not going to happen. And yeah, I was I'm, I feel honored and humbled to be a part of that.

[00:21:25] Personal Reflections and Future Plans

[00:21:25] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And yeah, well, and I think the part I didn't say in, also in just, talking about, I skipped over at the end because I said I moved to San Diego, sort of my practice. But I mean, what I am also present to is that Dr. D'Adamo's work saved my mom's health. I mean, she was having horrible health problems when she started the blood type diet and then it just eliminated them.

[00:21:50] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: She was having horrible gut issues, constipation and other stuff. And then as I started using it [00:22:00] clinically with patients, just seeing people that, what would come in after three months and I'd be like, you look vaguely familiar, but I don't, it's because they lost like 30 pounds in three months, which is, not typical. I'm not saying everybody's going to do that.

[00:22:14] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: But I mean, I've seen it. I've seen it multiple times. And Just this amazing revive, return of vitality that people experience when they really eliminate the foods that are not a match for them. And when they put in the foods, especially, and that's really the juice of the blood type diet.

[00:22:32] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: The secret weapon is the beneficials. It's not just, Oh, this is what you need to avoid. It's what do I need to focus on? What do I need to make 60 to 75 percent of my nutrition on a daily basis? And I think that that's actually probably one of the biggest pitfalls, which I'm sure we'll get to that more.

[00:22:50] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: But I think that I've just seen such great outcomes over and over again. And also, to me, it makes sense. I understand how the diet works. I [00:23:00] understand mechanistically. I always say that I either, for a treatment, for me to recommend a treatment to a patient, it either needs to have done, wonders for me, or I need to be able to understand it and explain it in such a way that it makes sense.

[00:23:16] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: To me, mechanistically, scientifically, and that's a baseline at a minimum, and I know that's, just because something's done wonders for me doesn't mean it's going to do wonders for somebody else, so that one I think is a bit weaker, and I'm not, I don't rely on it really, but but being able to explain something mechanistically to me is my, that's my go to, that's really what animates my practice and I think having both of those be true in my case with Dr.

[00:23:41] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: D'Adamo's work is, what really lit me up around it and has me continue to share it to this day.

[00:23:53] Mrs. Madi Partovi: That's so beautiful. Thank you. 

[00:23:54] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Sure. Sorry. I cut you short. I realized I left that out. 

[00:23:59] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Thank you. [00:24:00] Thank you for that. Every word matters.

[00:24:06] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Plus it gave me a little bit of time to unravel and collect myself and I'm still moved. Something really stood out about what you said about the seven years. And I got something for myself that I've, that's so distinct that I've never gotten before. 

[00:24:26] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Okay. 

[00:24:28] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Cause I've been I'm about, Eight years in I've been very coachable on the blood type diet, and 

[00:24:35] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Well, you have a SWAMI.

[00:24:36] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Not just that, but like, I have the, the drilled down version and the very specific version that's for, that's made just for me. 

[00:24:44] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Right. 

[00:24:45] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And my genetics, my unique genetics. I used to deal with crippling anxiety.

[00:24:59] Mrs. Madi Partovi: I [00:25:00] feel a little vulnerable sharing this. Like all throughout my corporate experience, I would have moments where I would be so stressed and then I would feel so dysregulated. And I couldn't breathe. It's like, I just, I was trying to catch a deep breath and I just couldn't breathe because I felt my chest and my heart just beating so fast.

[00:25:25] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And I had these recurring moments. Where I just had to do everything I could or just calm, calm myself down. And I also dealt with my right shoulder and it was a specific spot that seized up and that yielded tremendous pain. So a lot of the time where I was, doing my sales thing and incorporate, I put on a front.

[00:25:53] Mrs. Madi Partovi: But I was just, I was really suffering inside and mentally and physically. [00:26:00] So when you said that I was looking back, I scanning back like how, like, when was the last time I really dealt with that? It was before I met you even during my yoga days. When I was doing yoga a lot and meditating, that I would still come up against moments where, oh gosh, I just felt so out of essence like myself.

[00:26:30] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And

[00:26:34] Mrs. Madi Partovi: so it was before, before we met. And then you introduce this whole world. I had become aware of the blood type diet when I owned Yoga Monkey. And I said, this is so interesting. So I was listening to an excerpt about it. I think it was big in the news because that was when Peter was, on, on the news and.

[00:26:56] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Talking about it. And 

[00:26:57] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: well, there's a lot of the top [00:27:00] trainers in Hollywood that use them. 

[00:27:03] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yeah. It was like this big secret, that was unleashed to the world. Okay. And it never really made its way into my life until I met you. And what stood out to me when you said about the seven years was that when was the last time I experienced that, dysregulation and that I can't catch a deep breath.

[00:27:26] Mrs. Madi Partovi: It's been a long time because the way that being on my Suomi has really regulated me on a cellular level balanced my hormones supported me through pregnancy and birth two times. Thanks. Empowered me to get pregnant at 39 and 43, easily. I am, I'm celebrating that. Like, holy, I am proud of myself [00:28:00] because it was such a journey.

[00:28:02] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Thank you. And I was also so moved by your initial gratitude for your mom. Because I have a very similar story growing up, there was this on the wall was your health is your well, written by my mom in her beautiful, exquisite calligraphy. So I must have looked at that thing every single day of my life.

[00:28:34] Mrs. Madi Partovi: I 

[00:28:36] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: know at least one person listening to this, who is going to laugh at that. The Dr. Margarita that's her saying, loves that. Beautiful. 

[00:28:47] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And the way she would cook dinner every night and we would have family dinners every night and they [00:29:00] were a protein rice and vegetable, just be simplistic.

[00:29:06] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And I thought that I, looking back, I think I really thrived with that as my foundation, because when I moved away and went to college I, I still experienced, I, I was able to approach like the, my world of food with equanimity. This wholeness, because I had been trained and developed all my life.

[00:29:32] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And my, my journey with food is not perfect either. I remember when we were young, my brother and I would, we would go to the movies and we would go out together And then we would buy this bounty of candy, right? And just, so that was the way all this candy and all this junk food.

[00:29:57] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And then we wouldn't do it for a while, but then we [00:30:00] would do it again. I don't know how many iterations we. We had to stop doing that. And then one day, I just told my brother, I can't do this anymore. Like, I am really keen to the impact that it has on my body, and my brain. So what we did was we still continued our, brother, sister outings.

[00:30:24] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And we invested in like top quality stuff. I would read ingredients and I would, okay let's try this. I mean, it doesn't, that's, this is a candy that doesn't have any, you dies and supposed to be sugar free refined sugar free and all these new foods. That I normally wouldn't spend money on, right?

[00:30:49] Mrs. Madi Partovi: But I'm okay. I, at this point in my life my body deserves this. 

[00:30:55] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Yeah. 

[00:30:56] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And so that was a it's leading up to the time that I, 

[00:30:59] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: it's funny. You said [00:31:00] new foods and I'm thinking to myself, new old food. These are foods that they use the way they used to make them. 

[00:31:06] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yeah. A 

[00:31:06] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: hundred, a hundred plus years ago.

[00:31:08] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Whole foods, not processed. And with the conscious of back packaging and Yeah, so that was a nice adventure, and I Oh I've shared before that the wisdom of my body really informs me on a lot of things, whether I am like out with myself or not in alignment with myself. 

[00:31:31] Mrs. Madi Partovi: The next expression. This is a 

[00:31:33] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: big creator. 

[00:31:34] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yes. Co creator with you, with God. And so what would be the next expression of everything that we just talked about and ending it? In a nice package, a gift to humanity. 

[00:31:57] Invitation to Join the Journey ( The Partovi World on Food 4-Part Series)

[00:31:57] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And it's [00:32:00] going to be an online course that we are going to record live for the first cohort, your DNA, your diet.

[00:32:15] Mrs. Madi Partovi: The future of personalized nutrition now. 

[00:32:21] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Yeah, well what that really does is it invites people into the world that we've just created, right? It invites people to into the journey that we have been on and have undertaken. We've been on the journey so you don't have to, you can come in where we are, you don't have to start from the very beginning.

[00:32:39] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: You can come in where we are and join us and Continue from here and 

[00:32:47] Mrs. Madi Partovi: learn 

[00:32:47] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: everything that learned from everything that we've learned from and 

[00:32:51] Mrs. Madi Partovi: yes, and if you really take a moment to connect to it, like your own personal world of food, right? And there's there are [00:33:00] many of us that are There are external factors that affect that, like you have the season of food coming up, all these indulgences throughout Thanksgiving, wait, first start with Halloween, and everything that parents and kids are consuming starting in October sliding into November, you got Thanksgiving, and then those indulgences.

[00:33:24] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And then boom right into the holidays and the New Year's and then those Indulgences and then come the new year you have a mass of people saying okay buckle up button up and change everything and work out and eat right and How long does that really last? I was just a big pendulum swing.

[00:33:46] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Yeah. I was just listening to Dr. Jordan Peterson talk about that. He says, basically how it works is you go exercise one time and then you basically convince yourself very effectively about why you really don't need to keep doing that. Yeah, so [00:34:00] 

[00:34:00] Mrs. Madi Partovi: yeah, I mean on 

[00:34:01] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: average probably once or twice people go and actually fulfill on it, 

[00:34:04] Mrs. Madi Partovi: right?

[00:34:05] Mrs. Madi Partovi: and then you have the world of Fertility and infertility as well and women and men Constantly grasping for what is the perfect fertility diet? And it's not a one size fits all, it's really customized to your genetics. What is this? So what other world? Binge eating, emotional eating people that are aware of what you're eating has an impact on your mental and spiritual and physical health.

[00:34:34] Mrs. Madi Partovi: People that are dealing with fluctuations in weight or that have been obese or overweight for a large part of their life or their whole life. And no matter what they do, people are going to destroy themselves. They don't lose any weight. 

[00:34:51] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Sometimes that just makes it worse. 

[00:34:53] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yeah, so there's just this whole world of food.

[00:34:55] Mrs. Madi Partovi: We all deal with it in our own way. And I [00:35:00] will posit it again. Like, what if this equanimity And wholeness and a sense of peace and ease were available to you presented with any, like a whole table of food. Like you'd be able to choose powerfully what is optimal for you. That really contributes to a life of aliveness.

[00:35:30] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And being present with yourself instead of at the effect of what you're eating. What if that was available to you? Like, how would it alter your life? What, where would it make a difference for you?

[00:35:49] Mrs. Madi Partovi: So that's my question and my invitation for our community. And I'm just, I'm really lit up by starting. [00:36:00] We're going to give you all the details, we'll likely start recording live in either late January or early February of 2025. and all the details will be coming out very soon. And also our wellness plan patients, even though you have your SWAMI and you've been participating in your DNA, your diet, there is an extra level.

[00:36:24] Mrs. Madi Partovi: You can participate in this online course as well. And the first recording of it for a special price, because we're also going to address the mental, emotional, and like the spiritual commitment. That it takes

[00:36:41] Mrs. Madi Partovi: in order to have a complete transformation in your relationship with food.

[00:36:51] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Well, and that brings up a really interesting point. I was talking to the patient this last week about concept of the [00:37:00] ideal diet for an individual. And then there's where they are right now and what they're eating right now. And that's maybe anywhere from a few yards to a few light years away from the ideal.

[00:37:12] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And then there's sort of the point in between those two points where they're approaching the ideal and it's a still a sustainable process for them. It's still a sustainable diet. And The way I was bringing this up in this particular patient call was the, as I was explaining to her that the closer that, that sustainable point is to the ideal, the fewer nutraceuticals that she would need to take, or medications, etc.,

[00:37:44] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: to make up the gap. The further away the sustainable point is from the ideal, the more nutraceuticals and maybe medicines she would need to take. But I think what you're pointing to is what [00:38:00] is it that really determines where that sustainability point is? And truthfully, that is In it's in the realm of how food occurs for you, which ultimately comes back to how you're being about food and how you're being about eating and how you're being about everything related to how you nourish yourself.

[00:38:25] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And a lot of that, you're right, does come from at the end of the day, it's a choice, right? But a lot of the default way, a lot of the way we wound up with being about food comes from our childhood. 

[00:38:38] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Which is not a choice. 

[00:38:39] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Yeah, which is not a choice. But what I'm saying is that's something that can be, what I think you're pointing to and correct me if I'm wrong, but what I think you're pointing to is that also can be processed that can be completed and which can leave space for the space for it to be a choice.

[00:38:59] Mrs. Madi Partovi: [00:39:00] Yes. We have this thing where we're very intentional about our language and very precise. I would call it Most of the time. Most of the time. That's our commitment. Except That's our commitment. Except when I'm 

[00:39:12] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: making woo jokes, obviously. 

[00:39:16] Mrs. Madi Partovi: So, I would call that a decision, because the Latin root of decision, is to kill off.

[00:39:26] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And so in order for you to be in a complete place of choice, you have to, like, know the whole entire buffet of, options that you have. You didn't get my joke, my buffet joke? 

[00:39:40] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: No, I think I got it. Okay. I think that, I think yeah, you have to know about the options you have. And you also have to, you have to unconceal or reveal that which is Hidden from your view that is in between you and, sticking with our analogy here of ideal [00:40:00] being the goal, what's in between you and having what is sustainable be as close to that as possible or even closer to that, right?

[00:40:13] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yes. 

[00:40:15] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I'm present to that in my own life. I'm present to that in my own life and I know you are too. Yes. 

[00:40:19] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And we want to share this with as many people as possible and ride this wave, this global wave, really. Healthy again. 

[00:40:31] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Well, I don't see it as I don't see it as riding the wave. I think we're making waves.

[00:40:36] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Oh precision of language. Yeah. Yeah. So we can wait for anybody to 

[00:40:43] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: because there's no one coming. 

[00:40:45] Mrs. Madi Partovi: There's no one coming. There's no cavalry coming. There is you. And this will, this comes forth from our expression. What are we going to do? How are we like, what did JFK say? Ask what 

[00:40:59] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: [00:41:00] your country can do for you instead.

[00:41:01] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Ask what you can do for your country. Yeah. 

[00:41:03] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yes. So this is what we are going to do for our country. 

[00:41:07] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: Yeah. Our 

[00:41:08] Mrs. Madi Partovi: community. 

[00:41:10] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And our country. 

[00:41:11] Mrs. Madi Partovi: Yes. And the world. Let's, yes. So thank you for your generous listening. 

[00:41:18] Conclusion and Final Thoughts

[00:41:18] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And this is the first part in a series of the Partovi World of Food. Thank you for joining us.

[00:41:26] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: I'm Dr. Ryan Partovi. 

[00:41:28] Mrs. Madi Partovi: And I am Mrs. Madi Partovi. 

[00:41:30] Dr Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And this has been the Partovi Effect, creating the consensus. Thanks for joining us. Be well. 

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