In this episode, Dr. Schurger honors his dear friend and colleague, Dr. Philip Schalow, who passed away suddenly. They also share some things we do and sacrifice as doctors to maintain our health. Dr. Bagley shares her struggles and journey with sugar. Dr. Schurger shares his new favorite recipe with low sugar, full of flavor, and fun to make and eat. Apologies to those watching, but Zoom changed a setting, and we didn’t get Dr. Schurger’s visuals, so we’re missing his smiling face for this episode. Tune in to this conversation with The Bald and The Blonde and understand what doctors do to maintain their health.
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Honoring Dr. Schalow, Dr. Bagley’s Sugar Struggle, And Missing Visuals
We are making sure we get content out to people talking about all that is great in the world of upper cervical chiropractic and in general. I want to start with some sad news. My good friend, Dr. Philip Schalow, passed away due to complications from some cancer treatment. I’m not going to get into any details because I don’t have a whole lot of them, but it was rather sudden and unexpected. Philip was an interesting character. This is my eulogy about Philip and my honoring him. You know because you’re also a singer and I’m a musician myself, but Philip and I immediately bonded.
I’ve got a funny story about that. We immediately bonded because we were both musicians and, for both of us, this was a second career because he was a professional musician as a violinist for many years. It was a good long time. I was an engineer. That was one of our best parts. We could have this conversation that was completely sidebar that nobody else understood the jokes when they were musician jokes, but the three of us would appreciate it. We’re all tall. Tall jokes came in as well.
I knew him just from a few seminars. I did not know him as well as you did, but he was always the sweetest guy. On Facebook at least, when I would comment on any of his posts, he would put musician jokes and things that normal people who don’t play an instrument or read music wouldn’t know. Some of them, I didn’t get. I had to look things up a few times because he was so much above me musically. He has an analytical brain. He has such a beautiful brain for his craft, which was the NUCCA technique, which is an upper cervical technique. He brought it down to Earth. He was an amazing man.
We immediately connected because we were both very cerebral. We met in person finally. The first day of that upper cervical diplomate, he and I both got into the front row. All these chairs in this conference room was two seats per table. The only reason that I had the inside spot was because I got there two minutes before he did because I brought my coffee and he brought his tea. We were immediately fast friends and hanging out, and super cerebral. We were always asking the questions that made everybody else in the class’s head hurt. They’re like, “I don’t understand that.”
We were also the ones who would push to say, “This is why we have to elevate things to this level because we had seen it from an outside perspective, whereas a lot of the other docs in that program had, nothing against them, but their entire experience had been in chiropractic and not outside in the real world working with people.” For you and I, it’s a strength because we don’t automatically assume, “it’s a chiropractic thing.” No, it might be your work environment sucks. For him as a violinist who was working with musicians, this is a horrible position for your neck. It is even worse when you’re trying to play your bass like that.
You should not play your bass like that.
I do not. It doesn’t fit my chin. My cello players every now and then do something silly like that. I’m like, “Don’t do that. You got a nice long pointy stick at the end.” The funny story is he and I were connected even before this because he sat down next to my wife at a Medicare seminar here that I didn’t go to. This is back when we were upper cervical health centers. He sees that she’s wearing upper cervical. He’s like, “I don’t know you. I got to figure out who you are.”
They connected and she said, “You two are going to have a great time.” Sure enough, we roomed often together when we were doing all these diplomate things. He and I would argue at length about the immune study because we put him as the lead author of the study. I had put of the other all the pieces and parts behind the scenes. He and I would end up working on trying to figure out how to put all this stuff together to figure out, “How do we do this?”
It’s going to be rough not to have him around because he intellectually pushed me in directions. I think I did the same with him. He was in that perspective of in the NUCCA group where he would look beyond what was taught in that technique. I’m not saying we have blinders within our techniques, but we have blinders within our techniques where, “Do this,” because we know this works.
Philip and I were oftentimes are like, “What’s over there? That’s fascinating.” The way our musical tastes worked, we didn’t just say, “I love this. I’m only going to do this.” We are like, “I like a little bit of rock and roll. I like a little bit of jazz. I don’t really like classical, but I like Josh Jacobs.” That’s a musical joke for people who understand it, but we could have those conversations. You don’t always have those people in your lives. When you do, you need to cherish them.
Philip had 3 or 4 children. His wife is still around. The upside is his associates are holding down the fort at his practice, but it’s not the way you want to get patients. Funny aside, a new patient comes in. She’s like, “I’m having all sorts of problems. I used to see Dr. Mathias,” who we’ve talked about in the past and he passed away. She comes on in. Her boyfriend or husband brings her with them. He’s like, “This office look familiar. Have we been in this building before?” “I don’t remember it too.”
Sure enough, she came in when Dr. Mathias had fallen off a ladder. She kept looking. She went to see somebody on 4th Street who would have been retired and moved by that point in time or one was retired and one that wanted to move. She’d come in years ago. I helped her a little bit in DocBetter because I got DocBetter on straight and he got DocBetter back then.
It’s funny how those things come full circle sometimes. She’s doing great. I took her a little bit to unwind from the problem she had. She hadn’t seen doc in a few years. I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that it took her that long to say, “I need to get and see somebody,” or the fact that it feels like time is running that fast, and you don’t realize that that much time has passed between the last time you saw somebody.
I don’t know if this is a new phenomenon since COVID. I feel like that’s happening a lot in my office where somebody was coming back and I’m like, “Welcome back.” We code them a little differently when they’ve come back about six months so that we have a bit more time to talk to them and they’re like, “It hasn’t been that long.” I was like, “It’s been two and a half years.” They’re like, “What?” There’s no concept of it.
For me, as a doctor, a lot of times, they’ll be like, “We saw you,” and then I’ll look and it’s been seven months. The one last thing I’ll say about like Philip, and I’m sure he would feel the same way, is if I were on my end-of-life journey, you care about family and all this stuff, but as chiropractors, we’d be worried about our patients and somebody taking care of them. I feel like one of the incredible things about chiropractors is that we put so much ahead of ourselves a lot of times.
That’s a wonderful thing, but there’s also the detriment. Sometimes our family suffers from that. Sometimes our personal lives or friendships suffer, but I am happy that he has some trusted doctors in his office who can help his patients get through the grief of losing their doctor but also take care of his people because he loves them like family, like we do our patients. Rest in peace, Philip. I hope your journey is swift and it’s bright and beautiful where you are.
I’m going to try to make it up to the visitation to visit with family and give my condolences. I’ve got several people who have said, “Give his wife a hug for me.” I’m like, “There’s a lot of people. It’s a lot of hugs.”
It’s going to be one powerful hug.
It will be. It’s one of those things where you have a good friend and colleague who is that person you can depend upon, and then something happens and they go. We don’t know.
You never know. That’s why you’re going to live every day to the fullest. One of the reasons that we spend these hours with you guys reading is because we want this information to you. We want to get this incredible story of these doctors and what we’ve dedicated our lives to in improving the health and wellness of others and sometimes the detriment of ourselves.
That is unfortunate. This happens to be when we’re doing an episode. I’m not dressed up in my normal work attire.
I am dressed in work attire because I’m going to work after this, but we’re in our homes.
I haven’t gotten to the point where I’ve taken a shower, “We don’t have a vision.” It would be not good. It’s because of the fact that the things we have to do, everyone looks at our schedule and says, “You don’t even work.” You don’t see the hours that I’m not working. One of the things that I’m doing on those hours is I’m doing that personal care so that I can be as strong as possible so you can spend that time with your family and I can make sure my wife’s taking care of the way she needs to be taken care of.
We were joking. It’s like, “We could do this earlier.” My response was no because I’ve got my normal morning routine, then I’ve got my workout, then I’m eating lunch. It was 12:30 when we started this thing. When you don’t take care of those things and you don’t take care of yourself in that meaningful manne, and it applies to everybody, something’s going to give. You have to take a step back periodically and say, “Is everything that I am doing now serving me this thing here?”
It’s great because it gives me a lot of connection, but then I can spend easily an hour flipping through Instagram just on the stuff that friends send me. I have a funny story. Do you know what’s bad about hunting close to a Wi-Fi signal? You can look at all your Instagram with an earplug while you’re waiting for the deer to come by.
You might cross a deer.
No, because half of the time, I’m more listening. I’m back and forth.
Honestly, I might like hunting then and fishing.
I had a decent Wi-Fi signal, but I got up into the tree. I’ve got my earpiece in ready to listen to my podcast or whatnot as I’m waiting for stuff to happen, then I go to find my phone as I get all the way and situated. I realized, “I must have left the phone back at the house,” but it was close enough in my brain that the Bluetooth worked. I’m like, “This is more than 30 feet. Maybe Bluetooth is 30 yards.” Maybe I’ve mixed those two numbers up in my head.
A little bit later after I finished listening to the podcast, I took the earbud out because I was like, “I can’t control the phone remotely,” then I hear a buzz and I look down. There on the ground in the leaves is my phone shining up at me. I’m like, “I could get down, grab it, and watch Instagram, or I could leave it there and just enjoy the outdoors and watching the squirrels.” They were hiding a little bit further back where I could see very well.
Every now and then, they pop out. Lo and behold, I see a peregrine falcon clear as day, probably 10 feet away from me as it comes up and lands on a limb. It didn’t stay there very long because I looked up at it and says, “I don’t want you to watch me,” but I could hear it. It’s such a pretty bird and there was a lot of all of that nature noise. It was nice to unplug that way.
That is such a good story for someone reading. You are now on a device reading this, but you’re missing the world around you. Don’t turn us off, but when you’re done. Kids nowadays don’t get that moment of boredom, which takes creativity away. If you’re constantly on a device and you’re always interacting with that device, when’s that time that you get bored where you came up with something, like an idea? Parents talk about screen time and decreasing that, even for adults.
Our creativity is getting sucked out of us because we don’t have idea. When it is time for your brain to have an idea, even if you’re, “I listen to my Audible when I’m working around the house,” that may have been the time when you were going to think and come up with an idea of something with your family or friends. We need downtime for our brains. In this day and age, sleep isn’t enough. Brain breaks. You can go outside, put your feet on the ground, ground yourself, and listen to nature.
This is the best time because you bundle up. I highly recommend picking up a pack of socks. In fact, I’ll plug this hollow brand. These things are great. No kickback yet. They don’t stink because they’re wool.
Is that a real thing where they don’t stink? Does it have a smell resistance?
It’s not so much as smell resistant as it is much as anti-microbial resistant. It has gross smell, but if half your purpose of being out in the woods is not to be smelled by deer because they smell everything, then it’s going to be great. It’s also warm. My aunt like to have the chemical foot-warmer things that she sticks on her socks. Quite honestly, I find that they’re hit-and-miss because sometimes the chemicals died out by the time you bought them. There’s a shelf life on those things, whereas wool, especially something like an alpaca, is warm. I’ve climbled enough trees and sat on the ground long enough to know that a good pair of socks goes a long way to keeping your feet dry.
If you talk to a Navy SEAL, what would they rather do? Go through the shortest path through the river where they have to walk through the river and get this off with or go 20 miles around keeping their socks dry every time? They’re going to take that 20 miles around because they’ve spent enough time with wet socks that they would rather stay dry, which is an interesting side.
You take care of your feet.
All of these bits, pieces, and parts are basically saying, “Unplug.” For the Instagram thing, my joke about it falling out of the tree is something that happened on Saturday when I couldn’t even open Instagram. when the app starts getting goofy, what do you do? You delete it, reinstall it, and usually that takes care of whatever weird 1-0 has flipped.
I didn’t turn on my notifications at all. Guess what? I haven’t looked. I’ll look a little bit, but I have not looked as much as I would have beforehand. Even that little red one in the corner to tell me I’ve got one who sent me a message, that’s gone. It’s enough for my brain. Even though I’ve got some reflexes when I pick it up and I’m like, “I’m going to that little folder that I’ve got,” I don’t see it. My brain says, “There’s nothing there.” I can walk away from it. Turn off all those notification things. Everyone’s going to still talk to you and you’ll get back to them eventually, but do it at your own time and pace.
It is as you would for a child like, “This is the time when you have screen time,” and say, “I’m going to do it at noon and I’ll do it at 5:00.” Those are the two times that I look at those things if you have to. Maybe you can do none of it. Let’s do that. Can we do that?
I think we can do that. We should do that.
I have to get on socials because I have to do stuff with my work socials, but then I get sucked in. I give myself twenty minutes in the lunch hour because of my lunch hour shifts and twenty minutes after work. I’m going to put a timer on when I open it up.
Oftentimes, my timer for watching videos and such comes down to this. I have something playing while I’m making lunch and eating lunch. I’m catching up on things that I’m interested in. I have my coffee, and once coffee is done, it’s time to go do your thing. Sometimes, those can be your outs. You can nurse your coffee until it’s cold, then it’s cold coffee. Who likes cold coffee?
A lot of people do. I don’t, but I don’t like coffee.
I’ve got a recipe that I want to share in a moment. Let’s switch gears to sugar. You had some ideas on sugar.
My personal journey with my health is that sugar has been a big problem for me for years. You know that. I’ve talked to you about it. Every time I bent over to adjust a patient, whether I had eaten or not, I feel heartburn. This awful nighttime acid reflux was happening. I was having pretty much acid reflux constantly, but then I started the journey of like, “I’ll take a couple of Tums.”
That helps a little bit. I hadn’t bought Tums in years because I healed that, but it came back. It was as bad as when I was pregnant. When I was pregnant with twins, my acid reflux was awful. Anyone who’s pregnant now, it will get better when the babies come out or baby because it happened to some people. If I knew then what I knew now, I would say, “Stop eating too many carbs and sugars.”
Literally two days after stopping sugar and carbs, it’s 100% gone. It proved to me at least now in my addictive sugar brain that, “What I was doing was bad for me.” As for the standard American diet, it wasn’t like I was going to Burger King and McDonald’s. I was eating crap food necessarily. It was a little crap food. I’m not going to lie, but it wasn’t terribly crap food, but it was like pasta here or maybe some ice cream occasionally or something.
I’ve been in total keto, even through Halloween. Was that hard? It was a little hard, but I prepared. I made myself a little keto dessert. I wasn’t like a fat bomb. You don’t typically eat a lot of those, but I needed something so that I’d be like, “I don’t need to eat that. I’ve got this.” I ate a protein bar that was somewhat keto.
That’s a toasted almond Keto Brick from Robert Sikes, Keto Savage.
I need to buy some of those because you let me try a little piece of something of that before and it was good.
This one’s my favorite. He’s got several different flavors, but this entire bar is 1,000 calories. It’s a lot of calories, but you can quarter it, and that’s what I do.
You don’t have to eat it all at once.
He does because this is a food product is part of his bodybuilding training regimen. I don’t know how much of a bar he eats a day, but he’s down to 1,600 calories on his main cutting days where he’s at. He’s trying to get down to the leanest man alive. Now he’s sub 4% body fat with 2 or 3 more shows that he’s going to do before he starts bringing his calories back up. His normal calorie was somewhere around 3,000. He made this as something that he could have 1,000 calories for his bodybuilding training.
What is it primarily?
It’s rough, organic cacao butter plant-based protein. He has both a pea protein blend as well as a whey protein blend. They’re good in their own ways. This brick is pea protein. He’s got some chocolate in here. Stevia is his sweetener, a little bit of monk fruit, and sea salt. He’s using Redmond’s real salt for the sea salt. He said there is a coconut. It is a good mix of flavors that they’ve come up. They do not do pumpkin spice.
As a basic girl, I love some pumpkin spice.
They did maple butter pecan. It is very good because everybody does pumpkin spice, but it doesn’t work well as well as you would like with chocolate. That’s why they avoided it. I
Cacao is the number one ingredient.
At the end of the day, it’s 1,000-calorie brick. This entire thing is 51 grams of saturated fat. No trans fat. It’s got some sodium and total sugar.
That’s for the entire brick. That is for someone who is bodybuilding. I know you’re trying to gain muscle, too, but you use it as a snack.
This is my snack after a meal. Maybe I’ll have at least a quarter at lunch. Sometimes I’ll have another quarter at dinner. If I’ve had a busy day, I might eat a whole thing, but it depends upon the day. Generally, that’s what I’m eating. It’s a simple thing. It is a full-size chocolate bar, which is your favorite thing. I don’t know what’s worse, the full-size bars or the snack-sized bars. A full-size chocolate bar is 250 to 300 calories. The snack-sized bars are a quarter of that, but there’s snack size so you can have six. Anyway, go back to your sugar.
In general, I do feel a time better. I don’t get as hungry. It’s all the things. I’ve done keto before, then you fall off. I don’t want to do that anymore because I’m tired. The inflammation process is going up and down. The big deal for me now is it’s flu or COVID season or whatever we want to call it now. Everybody’s getting sicker on me. Studies have shown sugar affects your immune system. Having insulin swings and sugar swings in your blood is not great for your immune system. I’m excited that I’m going to get through cold and flu season with high vitamin D levels, which is I’m supplementing and not going through sugar swings because I feel so much better and I’m done.
As people are reading this, what do you do about all the pies on Thanksgiving? We’re going to give you our blessing. You’re cutting your sugars back and you’re saying, “I’m not going to eat sugars.” Thanksgiving. You have all our blessings to eat every pie that grandma makes. She’ll only make seventeen. One of those is for you. The point being is, on Thanksgiving, enjoy yourself. It is one day, not Thursday, Friday and Saturday eating all the leftovers. If you got a bunch of leftovers, there’s bound to be a food pantry that will probably take half a pie.
Probably not, but they should. First of all, it’s okay to throw food away. That is okay. We host Thanksgiving. I get these Tums on Dollar Store or Amazon. I will pile a whole bunch of food in there and send them with my guests. We put aluminum foil over it and they take it home. In my house, I’ve got family so there’ll be a few things. Turkey is healthy. I’ll keep the carcass and I’ll make some soup out of it. You can still have some things that are healthy out of that meal and knowing to eat more turkey, too, because that’s a good protein.
Eat more turkey because that's a good protein. Click To TweetI am in charge of all the protein for our Thanksgiving meal. I’ve got two turkeys ordered. We’re going to smoke a brisket starting that morning as well.
Do you fry your turkey or do you just cook it?
We fry turkey.
Somebody might be interested in this. I have never done that, but we want to do it. Give a few tips on what to do.
You’re going to go on YouTube. I’ll go over some of the highlights of the tips, but this is what you’re going to do. First, find Alton Brown’s recipes for deep-fried turkey. He has two. The one that is newer has a much simpler brine recipe. He has basically said, “The simpler brine tastes better. There are a bunch of fancy brines you can do. You can try that, too, but the simpler brine tastes better.” You do the whole thing in peanut oil. Make sure it’s peanut oil and not peanut soy oil because there’s some mixing in the operations.
The other thing you want to take a hard look at is that if you’re crazy like me, Cabela’s does have bacon grease. It’s a big old tub of bacon grease that you dump in, warm up, and you can fry in that as well. My dad and I had a conversation. He’s like, “I like the peanut oil.” I’m like, “Fine. We’re going to do peanut oil. I’m okay with that.”
It’s one day. Peanut oil is better, if you’re going to choose, than canola oil.
That’s where you want to stay away from canola and soy because that is where all sorts of problems are, not that peanut oil doesn’t, but it’s slightly better.
It’s the lesser of the evil.
It’s tasty. You can make French fries in it beforehand and afterward. It’s going to taste more like Five Guys’ fries.
You blew my mind because I’m going to have a beautiful Thanksgiving, but you’re telling me I can make French fries too.
If you want to go down the French fry rabbit hole, there are a couple of things you have to do to make that work properly. Go search on YouTube.
Do you do the French fries before the turkey or when you pull the turkey and you’re letting that rest and then you do your French fries?
I’m doing french fries first thing in the morning while we’re trying to figure out our timing. I want to get my thing hot. I’ll do a bunch of French fries because we’re all prepping for lunch. I’m like, “We’re going to have snacks.” We got the kids running around. The kids are going to eat French fries. It’s a little snack to prepare us for lunch because I do two turkeys one back-to-back.
You are only using one fryer.
I’m only using one fryer. First, your bird. Watch Alton Brown stuff. He has a whole safety video on how to get this so you don’t die.
Don’t do it inside your garage.
Do it in a nice place where you’ve got a nice flat surface. It could be grass, but you want it away from things so that if it does boil over and catch on fire, you’re not going to have problems. You are going to use a fresh turkey. Not frozen turkey. If you have to use a frozen turkey, it should have been thawed. You should have started the thawing process in the refrigerator at least on Sunday.
You’re going to be brining it anyway.
You can brine a frozen turkey easily enough. You’re starting to bring it up to temperature. I would start that on Sunday. I’ll brine it Tuesday night and then we fry it Thursday morning. It’s a little bit of 36 hours or so, but give or take. A day is plenty. The problem with frozen turkeys is when you put them in the deep fryer, you turn your deep fryer into a cannon.
I’ve heard that you still could do a frozen turkey. It absolutely cannot even have a lick of freeze on it anymore. It has to be completely, but you’re saying no frozen turkey in general.
Don’t even bother because you don’t want a piece of ice. Ice in a deep fryer is an explosion. If you want a cannon, that’s a fun way to light it.
I don’t want a cannon.
You also don’t want a visit from the fire department in holidays, and you don’t want to visit the ER. You don’t want the fire department or the police to visit you. Don’t let yourself get into that situation. Alton Brown is using an A-frame ladder. He’s got a great way to pull it up. You don’t have to be that fancy, but if you’re a little bit safety and crazy, great. You can justify that $300 ladder you wanted so you don’t burn down your house.
You got it. You can use that. Those are the big tricks. You bring your oil up to temperature. I like the higher BTU burners. If you have one that you’ve used in the past, if you’re not using it on a regular, you might have little itty-bitty spiders that get in there and will create a web that is very rigid. It won’t allow air to pass through. It won’t burn because the flame is always above the area where the thing is coming out, but the area inside is effectively dead because it won’t allow the gas to flow.
I call it a flamethrower, which is like a weak burner. That happened to my flamethrower. I used it a couple of times, and then it was winter time, and then by spring, it was broken.
That’s the downside to some of these devices, but you can get compressed air.
When I buy one of these things, then once it’s all cleaned and ready, I should probably keep it on the inside, not keep it outside.
It doesn’t matter. These things are everywhere and you don’t even know that they’re there because they’re that small.
I don’t do that.
I don’t either, and I’m not going to pretend that’s a thing.
It’s not a thing. That’s one of those things. The last thing we were talking about is decreasing your social media. For a lot of older people, they also watch too much news. I don’t care if it’s CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. I don’t care what cable news you’re watching. Give yourself the amount of time that you are on screen time. Consider that your screen time. You’ve got news time and you can do half an hour or maybe an hour a day. Do not leave that on in your house all day. That’s terrible for your brain.
Decrease your social media. Click To TweetJust because they came up with the 24-hour news cycle doesn’t mean there are 24 hours of news in everything.
You who are reading know that. You know that they’re saying the same thing over and over. It’s making your blood pressure go up. Turn that off.
Also, realize that what they tell you the first time may not be the truth and it’s somebody who said, “I heard a thing,” then they do the fact check. Two days later, “That thing never happened.” It’s like the updates to the new phones and things like that. You don’t want to get the newest phone. You don’t want to get the update right after it comes out because there might be bugs and problems with it. The same thing applies to your news.
I may have gotten the newest phone only because I needed a new phone. They were like, “The new one is coming out.” I was like, “Okay.”
I have a 7+ and my wife keeps on telling me I need a new phone. I’m like, “I’m good,” because then I have to transfer everything. This is my brain.
They make it easy. It transfers in twenty minutes.
I’m aware, but I still don’t want it. Here’s a phone transfer tip that I have always practiced and that you’ll be like, “That sounds painful,” because it is. When I get a new phone, I don’t let anything transfer over. I have stuff on here that I don’t know.
It’s like cleaning out your closet.
I might use it someday.
That’s a whole thing. We could write a book on that.
What I do when I get a new phone is I download the things that I know I’m going to use, and then I don’t have the other things. As I’m like, “I need to get that,” I’ll download it.
I don’t hate that. That’s a good idea.
It takes me 2 or 3 days to get everything transferred properly. Quite honestly, I’m starting fresh. Maybe I need to do that with this, but quite honestly, I don’t want to.
You’re saying it’s a process and I get it.
Getting back to the sugar and Thanksgiving, on the deep-fried turkey, go watch Alton Brown. He’s got a whole episode talking about how to do a deep-fried turkey. It is fantastic. Most of it’s up on YouTube from his Good Eats days. I highly recommend it. Some of us need to realize that there is no such thing as moderation to certain things in our life. One of the things that I have found is that I can’t do sugar in moderation. That’s what I was going to talk about. I can do certain things, and if I can trick my brain into saying, “This is sweet like the keto brick,” I’m like, “That’s good enough.”
You’re going to love this because you may want to try this and say, “That might be good enough.” It involved a whole sheet pan, the 9×11 pan. The only two ingredients outside of water were beef gelatin. I used maple syrup. You bloom three tablespoons of your gelatin in cold water then you add about 4 ounces of maple syrup. Don’t quote me on that.
That seems to be right in my brain, but I ended up putting five in so I put more gelatin. You whip that up in a stand mixer in some hot water, and it turns into marshmallows. I did the math on 5 ounces of maple syrup as far as the carb content. The whole 5 ounces was 20 grams. That is within the safe area for your carbohydrate intake even on keto for the whole thing.
is it like a cuttable thing or is it more of a scoopable?
It’s more of a rippable because the top gets to be how Jello will get that top hard after a couple of minutes in the fridge. That’s what it ended up being because I had a little bit of it. It is simple to make your own marshmallows. I’ve been avoiding this because I saw another Alton Brown recipe that was super complicated and I’m like, “That’s going to be a mess.” This was easy that I might do it again with honey, but you want to liquid sugar. I would use either raw honey or maple syrup because both of those will mix easily. I wouldn’t do it because of sugar. I can eat the whole thing and have 20 grams of protein.
You won’t eat the whole thing. You could. If you can break it into four days, then that’s only five carbs.
It’s enough that even if you ate the whole thing in a sitting, you’re not going to have a problem. You could put it out amongst the four of you at your house, and it could be gone in a day. No one’s going to feel bad about that.
The beef gelatin is a very healthy thing for our body.
Beef gelatin is a very healthy thing for our body. Click To TweetI got beef gelatin that I picked up at Family Health Food. The recipe that I use is called Three Tablespoons, but a tablespoon has nine grams of protein. Good for you.
It’s good information. We talked about some sad stuff and talked about some happy stuff. I think we had a good episode.
I got Dr. Littrell to reach back to me. We’ll get that figured out. We’ll have her on here.
I’m very excited to have her on. She is a chiropractic radiologist and she is a wealth of knowledge. I cannot wait to pick her brain.
Let us wrap here. Dr. Bagley, Where are they going to find you?
I am in St. Louis, Missouri. You can find me at PrecisionChiropracticSTL.com.
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