Name: Joe Rogan Experience #935 - Robb Wolf
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #935 - Robb Wolf' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-03-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #935 - Robb Wolf' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-03-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #935 - Robb Wolf

four three two yes rob wolf what's up buddy you look great man you look super
healthy oh thanks
what are you doing i know you're doing a lot of jujitsu but you look like leaner
and
they took the pineal gland out of a small child and then implanted it in me is
that all you need
to do pretty much imagine if that was the case you just people run around with
like helmets on
their kids it's illegal here yeah so uh yeah where'd you go to get it done i i
can't really
divulge that oh cool cool cool wherever it was as long as it wasn't america
right right
so uh your your balls deep in jujitsu these days man trying to trying to yeah
but you could see
that in you like you look different you really do you look like you know when i
was on here last time
i was at the end of a pretty big travel cycle like doing military gigs and
stuff like that and i was
pretty beat down and uh we've had two kids since i think i was on the podcast
and although that has
beat me down has beat me down in a different way so i've just been at home and
i can train
don't travel as much and so yeah everything's been pretty good i do this uh
gymnastics bodies
programming a couple of days a week a little bit of squatting a little bit of
dead lifting pretty
on point with the food and then just getting the dog piss beat out of me at jits
like two to four
days a week so yeah yeah what got you into that oh man i've always been
interested in martial arts
like as a kid i had a brown belt in like the ed parker kempo system old school
yeah old old school
elvis presley style yes and uh and you know like i knew that uh parker had some
connections with like
bruce lee and jkd and i was really always really interested in that so i went
down to long beach
california and ended up tracking down some folks at the inosano academy and
went and sparred with a
kid that had been doing tie boxing for like six months and he was 60 pounds
lighter than i was
not particularly athletic and he beat the crap out of me i mean it was just
like a man fighting a boy
only i was bigger and stronger and faster and he just destroyed me so i went
back home and i burned
my brown belt and i started studying some tie boxing and it wasn't long after
this that i encountered
brazilian jiu-jitsu for the first time and i had a little bit of a high school
wrestling background
and i was a state california state powerlifting champion so it's a strong
athletic kid
and again like this guy like submitted me 50 times in like two minutes and i
was just kind of
blown away but this was back in like 92 and unless you were in a major
metropolitan area you just
couldn't find jiu-jitsu so i did a couple of weeks of it then you know around
like 92 93 and i didn't
have a second jiu-jitsu session until like 2003 and again it was like a month
or something because
at that point the folks that were usually running these schools like they could
barely keep them
open they were at like nine o'clock in the back of a karate school or something
so it's only been the
past couple of years that i've been able to be pretty consistent so you just
found a great gym out where
you were at yeah yeah i've kind of bounced around a little bit uh kelly farrell
at conviction martial
arts and then also the gorilla jiu-jitsu affiliate there in reno and then i get
out to elko to the
guys that uh straight blast gym in elko under chris meyer every once in a while
so are you out in the
reno area yeah yeah dude i didn't know what reno was like i went to reno this
past august and uh
went i've maybe had passed through once when i was younger right but we went
through reno into the
mountains in nevada it's beautiful it is it is yeah it's four seasons like the
summer's great
winter was really cool this year good snowboarding and all that so it looks
like colorado up there
yeah like you think nevada you think desert you think barren landscape not very
pretty or or pretty
in the sort of a like a hey you better bring water sort of a way it wasn't like
that at all it was
gorgeous yeah yeah um it's kind of funny when people you know like if i'm being
interviewed
or something like you live in reno really is that part of a parole violation or
something
yeah the thing that is sad though is the casinos in reno they're weird it's it's
a really weird mix
because you have like tesla and all these tech companies that have moved into
town and it's really
got this new vibe going on yeah like the big tesla mega plant is out there kind
of east of town
so you've got this kind of technology scene there's a whole startup row in
downtown reno
and then you have the casinos and that whole underbelly element to it and so
these two things
are like literally you know you you change corners downtown and you're in
either the like
super depressing you know like failed at the casino deal or you go around the
corner and there's a
bunch of guys with the technology startup do you think the technology startups
will overwhelm the shitty
casinos i it's still you know like tech in general and this is maybe getting
off in the weeds but um
there's so much stuff that's just been built on speculation and eyeballs and
nothing real
that i'm still curious if like tech in general is going to make it so i yeah it's
uh and how so
like when in what way you know you know there was so much speculative money
that went into that
scene and there you know there's only a few entities like facebook and google
and stuff that have
really turned it into a money-making venture and a lot of these uh technology
startups there was a lot
of money going into them but it was just kind of predicated on growth or
eyeballs but they never
really had a strategy towards profitability and so i'm just kind of curious how
many of these things
are really gonna gonna make the cut but it could be really good too like if we
if that stuff tightens
up and people really start looking at it like a legitimate business and not
just eyeballs and and
bandwidth so it'll be interesting yeah i've always thought that was weird about
twitter that twitter
has so many users and has so much there's so much activity there's something
going on there right
but then they have to figure out how do you generate money from that right
right yeah and then they've
never worked a lot of money it's worth a lot of money but for no reason right
it's like god everybody's
using it yeah but what do you do with it right i don't know but i feel like
someone's gonna figure it
out but i felt like that two years ago right you know yeah how do they stay
open i have no idea i have
no idea like uh yeah i i don't know i don't know i keep hearing that i'm on a
shadow band list have
you heard of that i don't believe it i think it's horse well you would think
you did have jordan peterson
on so that probably got you on some sort of a short list i've been i've had a
bunch of people on gavin
mcginnis is more egregious probably and more ridiculous and uh stephen crowder
uh alex jones
is the biggest one for sure right did you see what the list like means like
what it means to be on
that list no not exactly you just get your tweets reviewed by a person before
they make it out to
your feed or something get out of here really is that real that's what it said
i don't know if it's
real but that's what it said well most of my tweets will make it out there and
the ones that don't
thank you thank you for cutting those off because some kind of oversight yeah
if i'm hammered at the
comedy store at two o'clock in the morning i want to rile some people up for no
reason yeah thank you
thanks for protecting me from myself i'm kidding i'm not in any way advocating
censorship and i don't
i'm not i'm not necessarily sure i believe it either yeah sorry about that
deviation not at all
not at all yeah so i've been following your instagram feed and uh you and your
wife have been doing some
crazy blood sugar tests after foods post-carb meals like beans and a bunch of
other different
high-carb food yeah what are you trying to do there are you on a keto diet or
what are you doing
i generally run really well keto or pretty close to it um fueling jujitsu is a
little rough with that
so i maybe do about 75 to 100 grams of carbs on harder training days than other
days it's pretty
low carb my wife though is kind of like wolverine like you just can't kill her
and this is some of the
stuff that i've learned in the past couple of years this personalized nutrition
where there's a huge
variation from person to person and how they respond to carbohydrates foods in
general but in particular
carbohydrates there was a study done at the weitzman institute in israel a
couple of years ago and they
basically put a continuous glucometer on folks it's a little disc that you pop
on the back of your arm
they did a full genetic screen on them a gut microbiome test and then they
started feeding
these folks different meals and the blood glucose responses were all over the
place like one person would
eat rice and they would have a barely perceptible blood glucose increase
another person would be
near diabetic from from eating that rice and do they believe this is a genetic
variability is it
location like where their ancestors and gut microbiome seem to drive it and so
if the gut is unhealthy
then that seems to make your blood sugar response worse and then conversely if
you eat in a way that makes
your blood glucose response look pretty good then the gut microbiome seems to
shift towards what they
consider to be a healthier profile huh so now is there anything you can do to
your gut biome to change
the glucose profile yes um but exactly what to do is pretty complex like you
know some people can have
a condition called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth where the bacteria are
basically growing too far north
in the gut essentially and then whenever you eat something with carbs in it it
makes those bacteria
grow in an inappropriate place and inappropriate way and it's kind of difficult
to basically starve the
bacteria in the foregut and then feed the bacteria in the hindgut and there are
some some yeah chris kresser on
like he's one of the best people in the world probably in dealing with stuff
like that but it's um
uh i'll put it like this in the last five years we've learned more about the
gut microbiome than we
knew in the previous 50 years and like literally every month that goes by we
will learn more and more and
more but the clinical application of doing something to help somebody that's
sick is not easy it's a
pretty complex process a lot of people will experience a lot of improvement
from just kind of a low carb diet
but it doesn't work for everybody like they may a lot of people may need like
some herbal interventions
like uh garlic and and different antimicrobial agents that help to knock that
bacterial overgrowth back
and it's a it's a pretty challenging process particularly if the person is
really sick does fasting have any
effect on it it can it can just like reduced meal frequency seems to improve
the gut microbiome and and
the overall gut health so this is some of the stuff that i think is going on
with intermittent fasting
where instead of eating like six or seven meals a day and just constantly kind
of keeping the gut
inflamed instead doing maybe one or two meals a day pretty broad spacing seems
to have some great
benefits for folks i've been doing that um thing where you only eat for 10
hours a day yeah yeah i did a
podcast with dr ronda patrick and she was explaining it to me and i said let me
give it a try and i've had
some really great results i lost a lot of body fat like almost immediately i
started losing body fat from it but
didn't lose any energy and don't i feel great i mean everything feels really
good but uh it's been
it's challenging because i would come home from shows like late at night and i'd
be hungry right and all
i'm supposed to be drinking is water like you're not even supposed to have
anything that your body has
to metabolize right yeah even coff