#788 - Brendan Schaub

Joe Rogan (0:29)

You know, before we get into the UFC stuff, Brendan and I were talking before this about, he started the no sugar diet. He went straight keto.

Brendan Schaub (0:38)

Which is crazy for me.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Yeah, for you, dude. I was like, there's no way he's ever gonna do this.

You're so addicted to candy.

Brendan Schaub (0:45)

I was the straight candy man.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Like you and Ari Shaffir.

Brendan Schaub (0:47)

Candy in my car, everything.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Ari Shaffir is probably the worst I've ever seen.

Brendan Schaub (0:50)

Really?

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Yeah, he'll take a day off candy, and he'll just eat like pasta and bread all day, like giving his body candy in some other form.

Brendan Schaub (0:59)

For me, I think it was just like, I've tried all these diets, and I've never got the results I've wanted to. And then as soon as I started doing this, everyone's like, be careful, man. The cravings, you're gonna have headaches. I'm gonna have shit.

Matter of fact, I work out more.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Was it hard at all over the first couple of days? That's interesting.

Brendan Schaub (1:17)

Not at all. Not at all.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Well, if you talk to that Mark Sisson guy, he would probably say that your body just adapts really well to it. That's what I would probably imagine.

But I think to be sure you're even in a state of ketosis, you got to measure your blood. But it's going to be annoying for you, just like it was annoying for me. I have to find out where's the right place to stab yourself, because the fingertips weren't working for me.

Brendan Schaub (1:40)

It's like the little insulin when you check your blood sugar?

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Yeah. They weren't getting through my fingertips.

Brendan Schaub (1:46)

You have some thick-ass fingers.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Thick-ass fingers. So all those kettlebells. I got some serious calluses up in here.

Over the last couple of years.

Brendan Schaub (1:54)

I think most guys doing their pinky. My dad's diabetic, because I see him doing the pinky all the time. He has some big old banana fingers.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

Somebody sent me one, though, and they said there's a legit one now for your breath, that the ones for the breath used to suck, but now they have one that's legit.

Brendan Schaub (2:07)

And it shows what level of ketogenic you have?

Joe Rogan (2:11)

Yeah.

Brendan Schaub (2:11)

Ketosis, really?

Joe Rogan (2:12)

I have to look into that. I don't even remember who sent it to me.

Brendan Schaub (2:15)

I don't give a fuck. I just feel good. You know what I'm saying? I just feel good. I'm just going to keep doing it.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Dude, you're going to feel... This is the crazy thing. You're going to feel this way, and this is how you feel now. Like, you know, this thing in the middle of the day where you get tired, that's going to go away. And I got that when I went to Mexico when I'm on vacation.

Had a great old time. But I said, fuck it, man. I'm in Mexico. I'm on vacation. I'm going to go off my diet. I'm going to have some fucking burritos, you know?

Brendan Schaub (2:42)

Why not?

Joe Rogan (2:42)

I'm getting in there. I had tacos. And then I said, fuck it. While I'm doing that, I might as well get dessert.

Dude, I felt like diggity dog shit. When you haven't done that in two months.

No, then, right away. I was like, oh, yeah, right away. I felt terrible after eating the cake. And then later in the day, I mean, I was just, I could barely stay conscious. I can't do that anymore.

Brendan Schaub (3:04)

Yeah, I think my thing was, is I've always wanted to do it, but I never really had like a strict reason to do it. Like something that just put it put me over to finally make the decision to do it. And I was thinking about how much you do, because I have a lot of stuff going on. I'm like, dude, I'm getting tired, man. I'm not doing that well. Like I could be doing better just mentally more clear. And I'm working out, doing all this stuff.

And you and I have been talking about it for a while. And I was like, fuck, I might as well try it, man, because coffee really does nothing to me anymore. I could drink six cappuccinos before I go to bed and sleep.

Just fine. Just fine.