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Matt Roeske, founder of the Scottsdale-based company Cultivate Elevate, said his company’s mission is centered on providing the right superfoods to help people heal their bodies.

“Certain superfoods can provide the nutrients we're missing from our body, because many times the root cause of illness is that we're just missing nutrients,” Roeske told host Leyla Gulen on The Grand Canyon Times Podcast. “Once we start to bring back in the nutrients, the body begins to heal almost instantaneously.”

“We started with one product, which was Lion’s Mane, and now we've moved into about twelve different products, which all help to heal different pathways of the body,” said Roeske. “What I realized on my journey is that we don't just need minerals and vitamins, we also need nutrients that are going to feed certain organs.”

He said that, for example, Lion’s Mane, a type of mushroom, feeds the brain. He said freshwater pearl feeds the eyes and bones, and dragon’s blood helps feed the skin. He said his company provides all of those products, as well as a variety of mushroom powders. 

Roeske founded Cultivate Elevate with his wife, Amra, “to educate and empower individuals to rise above fear and illness and take control of their health's future.”

This podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Full, unedited transcript of podcast episode -- Matt Roeske, founder of Scottsdale-based Cultivate Elevate, on the Grand Canyon Times Podcast (September 13, 2023):

[00:00:00] Leyla Gulen: Welcome to the Grand Canyon Times Podcast. I'm your host, Layla Gulen. In this episode, we welcome our guest, Matt Roeske. Matt co-founded Cultivate Elevate, along with his wife Amra, to bring into the spotlight information that has been well suppressed, which has been leading to a sicker and weaker society together.

[00:00:22] Their mission is to educate and empower individuals. To rise above the state of fear and illness and take control of their health's future. Matt, welcome. Happy to be here. So first of all, tell us more about Cultivate Elevate and why you founded

[00:00:36] Matt Roeske: it. So we started cultivate, elevate to provide solutions and not fear.

[00:00:41] And so when it 2020 was all beginning, we rolled out our first. Superfood, which was called Lion's Mane Mushroom. And I'd been into a journey of my health, improving my health, improving our health. We've gone through the rabbit hole on this topic from GMOs to pesticides. We had lots of health issues in the [00:01:00] past, and we realized that it stemmed down to what we were putting into our body and what was in our terrain.

[00:01:05] And so in the past we watched a documentary called GMOs Revealed, which I highly recommend everybody to check out. It's a 22 hour documentary on GMOs and pesticides and the dangers that come with these. And when I watched that, it really changed my mind on the food that was being sold at the grocery store.

[00:01:25] You know, I was very used to, you go to the grocery store, you buy the food you, you maybe go to, let's say, trader Joe's Whole Foods, wherever it may be, and you just kind of purchase your food. But as I started to do a lot of digging on this, I started to realize that a lot of things were missing from. What I was kind of being shown, such as if, if there's genetically modified foods, if they're spread with pesticides, do they have artificial flavors, all of these different things which can impact my health.

[00:01:50] And so as I got into learning about superfoods, I. I realized that certain superfoods can provide the nutrients in which we're missing from our body because a [00:02:00] lot of the times, almost 99% of the times the root cause is we're just missing nutrients. Once we start to bring back in the nutrients, the body begins to heal almost instantaneously.

[00:02:11] And so as this journey began, we started with one product, which was Lion Mane, and now we've moved into about 12 different products, which all helped to heal different pathways of the body. What I realize is too on my journey is we don't just need minerals and vitamins specifically. We also need certain things that are gonna feed certain organs, you know, so you have things like lion's mane, which help what helps feed the brain.

[00:02:34] You have pearl, which helps feed the eyes and the bones. You have dragon's blood, which helps feed the skin. All of our organs also need nourishment and also need the right foods. And so that was the starting point in how Cultivate Elevate blossomed into what it is today. You've said so

[00:02:50] Leyla Gulen: many things. I've got so many questions for you.

[00:02:52] Certainly I wanna get to that suppression aspect that I mentioned in the very beginning, but when you're talking about Lion's Mane and some of these other things, [00:03:00] a lot of people, they think that running to the vitamin store and using supplements to supplement their diet helps. Does it in your view, and is that.

[00:03:10] A good way for people maybe to just sort of dip their toes, get their feet wet into a more holistic

[00:03:16] Matt Roeske: lifestyle. So I was in the health and fitness world for a long time, and a lot of the stuff in the minerals and vitamins issue that I see is that things come from a single nutrient or a single source.

[00:03:28] That usually is very hard for the body to absorb. So a lot of the times people can buy maybe a vitamin C product and that vitamin C is derived from let's say, A G M O ingredient. So then you already have that to start. Then usually in these minerals and vitamins, there's inactive ingredients and it's important to always read the bottle.

[00:03:47] If you purchase anything, look, if there's things like soy lecithin, which can actually block the absorption of bending different minerals, including your B vitamin, zinc vitamin D, iron B 12, all of those things. [00:04:00] Sometimes there's citric acid, which results in mold allergies or allergic reactions because it's a mold.

[00:04:05] There's things like maltodextrin. There's other things that are other fillers. Whenever you are purchasing something, if you are opting for a mineral or vitamin, you wanna make sure that it has just one ingredient and that's it pretty much, because that's, that can, there can be a lot of culprits in here now.

[00:04:22] Like I was saying, I always opt for getting things from food because food provides everything in a full spectrum. Food is designed to go into your body and absorb in every single way. Minerals and vitamins unfortunately don't work in the same fashion as that. And I've learned that because a lot of times when people start, for example, a lot of minerals or vitamins, they might start having like maybe stomach or indigestion, maybe brain fog, things like that, because they're trying to bring in something that's almost.

[00:04:51] Not being able to absorb. So I always say stick to the food source. Look for things like superfoods, look, even things like superfoods that are [00:05:00] different, plants like maringa and all these different things. All of these things can offer a wide variety of healing to the body rather than just trying to single something out.

[00:05:09] Because if you think about it, when you're trying to heal, let's say your leg. You're not just healing your leg, you're trying to feed all the rest of the body so that the leg can heal and the skin can begin to repair and all the tissue and everything else. So we wanna look at it as a full spectrum rather than a single nutrient spectrum.

[00:05:27] Leyla Gulen: Let's take a few steps back because you were starting to describe just what led you to the founding of Cultivate, elevate, and. I'm sure there are lots of people currently today that are walking in your old shoes. So can you describe your old lifestyle before you made

[00:05:44] Matt Roeske: that change? So before I had changed everything and kind of got aware of these things.

[00:05:49] I used to have a lot of health ailments. I used to get tonsillitis all the time. I used to be bloated. I used to be swollen, used to have acne, used to have memory fog, used to have fatigue, used to have chronic pain [00:06:00] all the time. Inflammation. I was in the fitness world. So that kind of comes with it as well.

[00:06:05] But the tonsillitis thing used to be a huge one for me. Used to have it all the time. And they used to tell me, the professionals would tell me that I needed to remove my tonsils, and I never agreed with that because I thought I shouldn't have to take anything out of my body. There's something obviously like a different culprit that I'm not seeing, and when I dived into the understanding of pasteurization, I.

[00:06:27] How pasteurization is actually toxic to the body. I realized that every single time I had, for example, pasteurized milk or pasteurized cheese instead of raw milk, I would actually start to develop the tonsil like symptoms. The other thing I noticed too was anytime I dous my body with a fragrance or a scented product, like a, like a cologne or like a body wash that was scented, my tonsils would begin to swell.

[00:06:51] And as I was doing my research, I realized your tonsils are your first form of pretty much defense to tell you that something is wrong with your terrain. [00:07:00] So when I had all these health ailments, every time I would go to the professionals I. They would tell me that it's genetic. You're getting older, all these things.

[00:07:09] And they even did all these like dust pollen tests, sodomy and whatever.

[00:07:13] Leyla Gulen: You're a young guy. I mean, and I've heard this before, sorry to interrupt you, but I have heard this before, where doctors, they point to your age, you're

[00:07:20] Matt Roeske: young. Yeah. I was only, I was 26 years old, like, I mean, I shouldn't have any of these going on, so it just, yeah, I, I started having a lot of these things and.

[00:07:30] Even as I hit about 30, I was noticing even more of these things and things like that, and it was just mind blowing because yeah, like I was saying, the professional would tell me just it's genetic. You're getting older, things like that. And I'm like, I'm not even that old. I've only been here for 20 something years.

[00:07:45] When they were telling me that, I realized I think something's wrong. As I realized through my research that most professionals only have five hours of nutrition in 10 years of schooling, so they're not going to point towards the nutrition [00:08:00] because there's only five hours of information on that in 10 years.

[00:08:04] So I started to think, you know what? I think I can. Fix myself. We should be able to heal ourselves. My grandma always said, health is wealth and it's the only thing that you all, and I realized like, I'm gonna try to figure it out for myself. So I started trying different diets. I went to vegetarian, paleo, vegan.

[00:08:21] I tried every single thing. And just over time I started to realize that it comes down to just a couple simple things. First and foremost is making sure your food is organic so that you know that it's not sprayed with pesticides and it's not G M O cooking from scratch so I know what I'm putting into my body, so I'm not going to some place and not being aware of what's going into my system.

[00:08:43] And then pretty much just cleaning up my terrain, whether it be my water, whether it be my house, whatever it may be. Instantaneously, everything is fixed, and it's wild because I've had many messages on this topic where people have done the same little baby steps of just [00:09:00] paying attention and being aware, and their health has completely reversed in just a short amount of time.

[00:09:05] So I. What I've realized is through this journey is that we are a beautiful self regenerating crystal ball of water, basically. And when we are just put in the right terrain, in the right environment instantaneously, things all are fixed. But if we're put in a poisonous one, I. Obviously we will have ailments and we won't be able to, for example, determine what the root cause is because there's so many ailments going on at the same time.

[00:09:33] Leyla Gulen: Let me ask you this, when you said that even when you sprayed yourself with cologne that your tonsilitis would flare up, was there any allergy tests that you took just to maybe kind of go through the gamut of tests and see if there was maybe something in your environment that you should just completely

[00:09:49] Matt Roeske: eliminate?

[00:09:51] I didn't do any testing for that, but what I would notice is every time I would spray myself, I would start sneezing, my eyes would get all messed up, and then my tonsils would pretty much [00:10:00] swell up in about an hour later. And what was interesting was I watched a documentary, which I highly recommend for everybody to check out.

[00:10:07] It was called Stink, S T I N K. And this documentary is about a father who basically finds out that a lot of the clothes are sprayed with a fragrance. And this fragrance has a loophole where it can contain up to 13,000 different chemicals that are derived from petroleum. If we were just to kind of think about it, if there's 13,000 different chemicals in that spray, one of them was causing my allergic reaction.

[00:10:33] But if there are that many as well, then I don't think we should be putting any of that on our body. If there's that many and maybe opt for essential oils or something derived from nature instead. But that was pretty much me. I did have a Dustin Pollen test where they told me I was allergic, but they also poked me, you know, with something, which would cause an allergic reaction too.

[00:10:55] 'cause you're poking the skin. So when you get into the testing, it's a very interesting thing as [00:11:00] well. But tho that's my, my, my situation on the fragrance.

[00:11:04] Leyla Gulen: My gosh. So the clothing, 13,000 different chemicals. That's wild. That blows my mind. I've never heard that before. But I think some people who may be listening to this are thinking, well, You'd have to live in a bubble to, to eliminate any cross-contamination, any possibility of you coming in contact with these chemicals and it affecting you?

[00:11:24] I, so how, what is your lifestyle now? Like,

[00:11:28] Matt Roeske: so if it started with one step at a time, like I was telling you of cooking from scratch and then just being aware of things with clothing and opting for organic clothing, natural materials, all these different things, but. It's really just paying attention and changing one thing because once you change one thing, for example, your body is gonna be healthier, it's gonna be stronger, you know it's gonna have more vi vitality.

[00:11:52] So a lot of the things that are maybe out there are not going to impact you at the same level. Now I can still smell FRA fragrance from pretty [00:12:00] much like a mile away, but it's not going to impact me in the same way 'cause I'm not putting it all over my body. So when I learned a lot of this stuff, it's pretty much what I'm putting into my body or what I'm surrounding myself will help to heal.

[00:12:13] But as I say it, take it one step at a time and just change one little thing and see how you feel and see how your home feels, and see how your kids feel and your family and everything else be. What I've noticed is once you start doing just a couple things to elevate your health, You really don't wanna go back.

[00:12:30] It's just, it's like your natural instinct to just be healthy. So for me, you know what it's led me also too on this path is I've met so many other people who are all doing the same exact thing. There's so many people out there, and I think that's a part that's always missing from the equation. But there's so many other people who are also a about this and they're teaching their kids and healing for free and naturally and all those things.

[00:12:54] And it's just, you start to see there's a much larger community of all the people going the [00:13:00] natural route rather than the unnatural route as well of what we've been told. So for me, it's just spending a lot of time in nature, cooking from scratch and just being aware of things and just being conscious to what I'm either putting into my body or putting onto my body or bringing into my home.

[00:13:16] Leyla Gulen: Yeah, a lot of people, they're, they live in conventional homes and homes inherently are made up of a lot of different chemicals. So would it be unrealistic to think that one could just completely eliminate all of those threats from their life and still live a normal existence and work in the same office buildings and do all the things, but still see an improvement in their lifestyle?

[00:13:43] Matt Roeske: So I've had a lot of people who, they've just changed maybe one or two things such as switching maybe l e d lights to incandescent bulbs, something like that. So they can sleep better, they can rest better. Just little things. And they have seen drastic improvements. Let me stop you right

[00:13:57] Leyla Gulen: there, Matt, because [00:14:00] again, the L e D lights, that's now the rule.

[00:14:03] The incandescent lights have been outlawed, so. So what do people

[00:14:06] Matt Roeske: do now? So there are still incandescent bulbs on the market. I thought they were gonna be taken down. That's what I thought was gonna be happening. But they're still being sold on Amazon. They're also still being sold at Home Depot and Lowe's.

[00:14:17] What's weird is they're just not sold in the store. They're just sold online now. So I thought that was really strange because they did pass that bill, which I talked about, and they're still selling all of them online, which, so there are, the availability of incandescent bulbs are still there. And I think they will continue as we look at it because other people will also create more bulbs and things like that.

[00:14:40] But just changing one thing at a time can drastically improve your health on so many ailments. And it is, like you said, very challenging when there are all of these different ailments and things out there. But you know, we just have to be aware of them and as we are more aware of them, we can then create awareness for others so that they [00:15:00] can be aware of those things and help.

[00:15:01] Heal theirselves because like I was saying with the beginning with my health ailments, I couldn't figure out what the root cause was. I just had to figure out what my body was showing me as a sign to determine what that was. I mean, now since that day, even just going back to the fragrance one, I mean, I haven't worn anything with fragrance or put anything on my body with fragrance in probably I, I would say 10 or 12 years and I haven't had any problems since.

[00:15:28] So, Just doing that eliminated the tonsil problems and all the things I was having related to that, and my life continues to go on when I use essential oils instead. Now, if I want something scented, but. It's the little things that people can change that could really make a difference. But it is challenging because we are bombarded with so many different things.

[00:15:48] But if we have awareness, we can make change and other things can happen and it can happen in a very large scale where things may be get banned, they get regulated, they get ruled out, and [00:16:00] that's things that why I try to put out solutions so that people can elevate their home to the most that they can with everything obviously that we face.

[00:16:09] And

[00:16:09] Leyla Gulen: among your five principles you were mentioning, getting out in nature is incredibly important. Eating dense super foods is important. So I have to ask you this, and I don't know how to pronounce it. Is it Shaji?

[00:16:23] Matt Roeske: Oh yeah. Shila,

[00:16:23] yes.

[00:16:24] Leyla Gulen: Jiji. Okay. So that's prominently featured on your website. What is that?

[00:16:29] Matt Roeske: So JIT is the compression of two, uh, basically two, two different mountains compressing together the soil. To create this very mineral dense, that's the best way to describe it. And as you bring these little, we have it in tablet form and they have no fillers. They dissolve instantaneously and everything.

[00:16:47] But as you bring that little tablet into your body, you're providing the body with 84 of 102 minerals. So the biggest issue that we face when we're going on this health element is that we're missing nutrients and minerals. And what [00:17:00] happens is because the Schott is in a natural food form, it's very easy to absorb those 84 of 102 minerals.

[00:17:08] It's also loaded with fulvic acids, which fulvic acids are great for the body, for detoxing, pulling things out of the system. Because a lot of the times when we look at a lot of people's chronic health issues, Their digestion is not flowing well, which means their brains are usually not flowing as well too, because they're both connected.

[00:17:27] But when there's a lot of backup in the digestion, then the body cannot function because it's using so much energy to basically try to digest instead of providing energy to the body and the cells. So Shila Jacque can work really well at cleaning out the body, pulling things out of the system. And re vigorating the body because like I was saying, if the body is missing nutrients, it has a very hard time producing energy similar to a battery.

[00:17:54] When we start to bring Schott into the body, and I always recommend with a source of fat because there are [00:18:00] fat soluble vitamins in there. But a, as we start to bring that into the body begins to heal. And it's interesting because when you look at Schott and you look at the studies, there are over 5,000 studies on the benefits of healing almost everything, and it was considered the conquer of weakness.

[00:18:18] So if a person is suffering from some sort of either chronic fatigue, inflammation, brain fog, digestion issues, Schott can be a very simple natural solution for that.

[00:18:29] Leyla Gulen: You talk a lot about ancient, healthful, holistic ways of eating and feeding your body, and is Schott one of those things? I mean, and let's talk about some of the other ancient ways in which people thrived before any of the processed foods ever

[00:18:47] Matt Roeske: came along.

[00:18:48] So Sheila Jang would be one of those. The other two that we offer on our website are pearl powder, which is grounded up pearls and pearls have been used since the dawn of time with Ayurvedic [00:19:00] medicine where they were healing people if they had an eye issue. It's interesting, there was a lady who showed how if a person was given pearl powder, that it can help dissolve cataracts and actually restore eyesight.

[00:19:12] And then we've had a bunch of testimonials of that happening on our website as well. The cool thing about burs is it provides the body with structured water, which is very important because structured water helps heal the body and brings back structure, but it also helps to bring in magnesium, calcium, and selenium in a carbonated form.

[00:19:31] So it's a very easy way to absorb these things because as we were talking about in the beginning, A lot of things that are not in a carbonated form are usually hard to absorb. So they used to give people pearl all the time, and that's where the whole pearly whites came from because when they used to replace people's Pearl, Pearl, I'm sorry, people's teeth back in the day, they would actually put a pearl in their mouth because it was the same d n a as a tooth.

[00:19:55] You get into all of this and you start to connect all these dots of wow, like they were healing [00:20:00] almost. All these different ailments with just a few things. And what's interesting is Pearl activates the spleen pathway, which is a organ that doesn't get a lot of nutrition. And that pathway is connected to your bones, to your teeth, to your eyes, and to all the rest parts of your body.

[00:20:16] So that was one way of the ancients of healing. And then the other one is with dragon's blood, which dragon's blood is an ancient tree sap. If you think about tree sap, you could think of things like turpentine, which you know, comes from the the pine trees. And then you could think of maple syrup, which also comes from the maple trees, very healing for the body.

[00:20:35] But it's an ancient tree sap that has over 3 million antioxidants, and it's the highest on the ORIC value, which is the antioxidant score. I. It's very beneficial for the skin. I've had so many testimonials where I've put up people who've had chronic skin conditions and they've used dragon's blood and it has resolved it, and they get, they can now play with their kids and not have to have the painful skin and things like [00:21:00] that.

[00:21:00] But it's just interesting because if you go into South America, they've used dragon's blood since the beginning of time for if somebody had, for example, a wound or a cut. They would actually place dragon's blood on the skin so that the wound would begin to heal a lot faster. And there's plenty of studies on this that have shown that dragon's blood can heal a wound in up to 72 hours verse the placebo or control it would take a person maybe two to three weeks.

[00:21:30] So through all this research of the ancient ways of doing things, it's made me realize that the body can heal very fast once it's provided with the right nutrients. The right foods.

[00:21:41] Leyla Gulen: That is so fascinating, like a lot of people have to walk before they can run. Of those three things that you mentioned, what would you say would be the one thing that people should absolutely at least start with?

[00:21:53] I mean,

[00:21:53] Matt Roeske: you can start with either any of the three. It just determin. I would just say it's determining what's going on with your body, [00:22:00] but most people, for the most part, always kind of start with chill, shot and pearl. That's usually a great combination, but if you want to just start with one and see how you feel.

[00:22:08] That's a great thing too because they all cover pretty much about the same pathways of the body, so they're gonna help to restore balance, but we do have them all in capsule and tablet form, so they're very easy for anybody to start or to use, and very beginner friendly of just trying something new to bring into your regimen regiment.

[00:22:27] That's great.

[00:22:28] Leyla Gulen: Let's talk about electro culture. What is electro culture?

[00:22:32] Matt Roeske: So electro culture is the, what I've been doing a lot of research on and presenting a lot of information on. It's. Harnessing the atmospheric energy that's all around us to increase our food production. And it dates back to 1835. The Royal Agriculture Society was using electro culture to increase their yields.

[00:22:50] So withhold this whole thing about we have food shortages and we were not growing food and our food's not growing as well. Electro culture can actually be a very simple [00:23:00] solution to this, and what you're doing is you're getting a piece of wood. Wrapping it with copper, creating an induction coil around that piece of wood, and so that the coils are around the wood and the copper is going up into the air like an antenna, and you're taking the other piece of copper and you're placing it into the soil and you're just putting that into your garden.

[00:23:19] And what you'll start to notice, you'll start to notice that your plants will grow faster. You'll start to notice you have more bees, more pollinators, more birds. All these beautiful animals because they all resonate to pick up on this energy. But it's interesting because when I got into the research of electro culture, they were talking about how there, they didn't need to use pesticides, they didn't need to use chemicals, fertilizers, anything derived from Monsanto, and you could just use the earth's energy.

[00:23:48] This is all fully documented in the 1835 Royal Agriculture Society where they were writing essays on this because people were having so much food from harnessing the beautiful [00:24:00] energy that's all around us, or that Nicola Tesla said is all free, the beautiful ether. So it's a very fun topic to get into, and people's gardens have been going absolutely wild.

[00:24:10] I've been showing people's before and after pictures. And all of the food in which people have been yielding, and it's a great solution for anybody who's trying to increase their food production and also be connected to their food production because I'm very big on people being able to get the food from their backyard rather than having to go to a grocery store where there could be traveling involved or pesticides or other things.

[00:24:36] You know how your food is. And then it's also connected to you on a beautiful energy level too, as well.

[00:24:42] Leyla Gulen: Absolutely. A lot of times now that I go to the grocery store, my produce doesn't really even last beyond the day that I bring it home. It just immediately starts to deteriorate in my refrigerator, so I can just picture people going out and getting wood and starting to wrap it in copper wire.[00:25:00] 

[00:25:00] I think that's, that is so fascinating, and obviously there's a cult group of people that are onto this, but. This sort of technology has been around for a very long time, and it would seem like this would be one of those things that has been suppressed that we were talking about that earlier. And I wanna talk about just the government and how it subsidizes commodity crops and c a commodity cropping, corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, anything that can be traded or stored for a long time, grown in bulk, things like that.

[00:25:31] But, Is there a reason why we are not coming back to basics and we're sort of pushing this agenda of corn, wheat, soybeans, rice onto everybody.

[00:25:43] Matt Roeske: So there's quite a lot of factors in this and I could, I'd probably list off about a hundred, but we'll go with just a couple to make it really simple. But with that, there's a lot with this.

[00:25:52] So you look at World War ii, A lot of information was reset with World War ii. A lot of ancient farming practices were lost with World War [00:26:00] ii, and then chemical farming pretty much took its place, and chemical farming has pretty much gone up since World War ii. You have lots of use of pesticides and all of these things.

[00:26:10] And a lot of information when I dig into these books just simply on just electric culture alone. A lot of this information is very challenging to find, you know, a lot of, there's only a couple books of information and then I'm going through newspaper articles that maybe have been archived from, like we were saying, the 18 hundreds or 1840s on small websites and things like that.

[00:26:31] And what that has led me on is to make us dependent. Like you said, some G M O foods and G M O crops and gene editing and all of this, and it's all, in my opinion, it's a push and a ploy to tell people that they need gene editing and pesticides to grow food. If we go back just before World War ii, just to make it very simple, there were many people not using any of this, and there's still people today not using any of this, and they have tons of food.[00:27:00] 

[00:27:00] And the fact that all of those crops, like you mentioned, all are subsidized, that's a really big thing because in my opinion, what we, if we're gonna subsidize anything, The organic should be subsidized so that it can help promote a healthy planet, a healthy population, a healthy, just everything healthy, because you don't need to use all these toxins.

[00:27:21] But post World War II, when they had a lot of these toxins left over, I. Those started going into the food supply, and then they started funding studies saying that this stuff is great for growth and these things and all this other stuff. But the problem with all of that is even the pesticides which are being used such as glyphosate, glyphosate was originally patented as an antibiotic.

[00:27:44] It's an anti-life product. So we can't spray anti-life products onto our plants and expect them to be healthy, or us to be healthy at the same time. Because what happens is it blocks up the ability for the plant to absorb [00:28:00] nutrients. So when the person goes to eat that same product, then their body is blocking the ability to absorb nutrients as well, and then develops a lot of health issues.

[00:28:10] Now on this topic, there's a great documentary called The Light Bulb Conspiracy, which people can look into, which is how these things are pretty much manufactured so that it keeps the economy going in a circle and having people come back. So same thing with the root, not addressing the root cause of illness has people coming back to spend money.

[00:28:31] Same thing with the crops, same things with material. Same thing with devices. It all interconnects and in through my research of the last, I dunno how many years, but through the last amount of years, I've seen so much of where it's creating a dependence and not restoring the beautiful independence that we're known for.

[00:28:50] I.

[00:28:51] Leyla Gulen: Yeah, I had just been in Indiana for a month and just driving through that state, it's all corn fields. It's all soybean fields, so those are [00:29:00] cash crops, quite literally. And when supply goes up, prices for consumers go down. Now organic foods. A lot of people shy away from 'em 'cause they are expensive.

[00:29:11] And I'm just curious if this whole lifestyle change for you, if this has increased your cost of living or has it

[00:29:19] Matt Roeske: lessened it? That's a great question. So overall I would say it's lessened it completely. And this is, the reason I say this is I used to go out to eat all the time and I thought it was all, whatever.

[00:29:32] But every time I would go out to eat, I'm paying for one meal and it ends up being, I mean, who knows how much now it's like $50, a hundred dollars, whatever it is. But you're just, you're only getting one meal and I don't even know what I'm eating. You know? That was the other thing. I watched the cooking and whatever, but I don't know the oils that are being cooked with.

[00:29:51] So I started developing health issues, which would make me not be able to work, not be able to, let's say, make money, whatever it may be. So it actually was going [00:30:00] costing me more money to not be aware and not pay attention. Now when we did go all organic and still to this day, all organic, I've learned to, I shop at farmer's markets, I talk to directly to the farmers.

[00:30:13] I connect with farmers. I try to find people who are doing things on the local level. I try to find people who are doing things maybe with grass fed, grass finished beef on the local level. It's really connect me to the paths and resulted in not paying as much money. And the reason I say that too is because.

[00:30:31] When you start cooking from scratch and understanding how your meals are made and all of these things, you start to see also the cost of how much it costs for you to make the meal for somebody else to make you the meal. There's like 50 different factors when you're going out to eat, and so what happened was it started to make me realize, oh my gosh, I'm spending so much money if I'm doing it this way, but if I do it this way, I'm gonna have better quality food, I'm gonna have better quality sleep.

[00:30:57] I'm gonna have better quality energy. And with that I can [00:31:00] use that energy to do even more and then plant my own food and do other things as well. But if I'm slowed down and my health isn't as good, then it's going to cost me more in the long run. And interestingly enough, the last study, just so everybody knows, the last study done on organic was done in 1992 showing that organic foods yield 100 times more.

[00:31:25] Nutrients then conventional. So if you are purchasing a lot of conventional food, you might be only getting two minerals. So if you think about it in a cost perspective as well, even though you are purchasing the food, you're better off buying organic even if it's only half organic or whatever it may be, because the minerals are the key point of there.

[00:31:49] So you're almost, it's kind of like buying iceberg lettuce. There's not really minerals in iceberg lettuce. There's just water. So if over time you're spending money on food, you're better off buying [00:32:00] less and more quality. That's pretty much what I've learned. Then more and less quality, if that makes sense.

[00:32:07] Leyla Gulen: It does. I do love my wedge salads though. I don't know if I can give up my iceberg lettuce just yet, but, and you've been so incredibly candid and informative, Matt, thank you so very much. I'm gonna ask you one last question and I. There are people who want to make that lifestyle change, but then there are certain things that they really don't wanna give up, be it.

[00:32:25] They still want to have their wine and drink it too, so to speak. Is there anything that you have not touched in your lifestyle that I. You still do the old way just because there isn't necessarily a new better way of doing it. I

[00:32:42] Matt Roeske: mean, I guess once in a while maybe I'll have a kombucha or something. Not like a trip to McDonald's or anything.

[00:32:48] Yeah, no, I've changed so much because I've just, I've seen it all. And on this story, to add more to this, Is my great grandmama. When she started developing dementia, it was when she started [00:33:00] eating fast food. We ate fast food together. My grandma, I mean, she was healthy as can be till 85, full head of hair, full teeth.

[00:33:09] Just a beautiful, strong woman. And when we started eating fast food together, this was when I was much younger. This was when I was about 10 years old or 12 years old, that's when she started developing dementia. So a lot of this I hold really heavy to my heart because I've seen what these things can do.

[00:33:29] And if, for example, let's say I want to have a cake or a chocolate or a glass of wine, whatever it is, either I make it like we'll make chocolate or we'll make it from scratch. Or if I do buy it, it's organic. And the only reason I say that is because. I never want to go back to the ways I used to feel because I, I feel my energy.

[00:33:51] I mean, now I'm 37. My energy is through the roof. I don't get tired. I'm functioning, I don't know, all day for, I get up at, let's say 6:00 AM I go to bed at, [00:34:00] let's say 10 o'clock. I read a lot. I research a lot. I, it's like I have an endless supply of energy and. Going backwards would just kind of set me back.

[00:34:11] And that's why I've just kind of been, I'm stern on my ways, but also I've seen so much with the health side that just is just crazy. And a lot of this, in my opinion, all of this stuff should be illegal. They, a lot of these things shouldn't even be able to be sold because of the detrimental health impacts that they're selling to the people.

[00:34:30] But through it all, I mean it's, there's not really much I can think of anything that I do the same. And I will tell you too, moving out to Arizona also amplified that even more because when I was in Chicago in Illinois, and it was, let's say more of being inside rather than being out in nature, that also I think played a drastic role as well.

[00:34:54] Because being outta nature just changes your whole mind on things. And if I [00:35:00] can't advocate even just the food, it's being outta nature as well, because that also plays a tremendous part on your moods, how you feel, your energy. And just connecting is just another aspect of what we're supposed to do, but.

[00:35:14] Overall in general, I can't say of anything. I still do that's the same, but I'm happy that I changed these things and like I said, I did it over time. I'm not saying everybody go out and you have to change it all tomorrow. Just two things. One step at a time. What fits you, your family and your kids and your pets, and any of those things, because just one thing at a time can make a drastic difference.

[00:35:37] Then as you help with one, you can start to help with others, and then you can also help others and maybe help them if they have health ailments as well. Well, Matt,

[00:35:46] Leyla Gulen: I feel healthier just talking to you. Matt Roskey, co-founder of Cultivate, elevate and Holistic Lifestyle Advocate. How can people find out more

[00:35:55] Matt Roeske: information about you?

[00:35:57] So they can find us on our website, cultivate [00:36:00] elevate.com. We have a plethora of information on there from blogs and all types of information related to our products. I also show all the studies, so if people wanna research those things as well, check out the studies on all of our product pages. And then we also have a telegram and a YouTube channel at Cultivate Elevate, where we have a community that all chats together.

[00:36:20] And I put up videos on all different types of topics as well, but, I try to show a solution to everything because I don't want people to be in the fear of the things in which we face. Matt,

[00:36:30] Leyla Gulen: thank you so much for joining us. Been a pleasure.

[00:36:34] Matt Roeske: Thank you so much for having me on.