What's going on? Ladies and gents Robert Sykes?
Keto, Savage.com. And today I've got special guest
Logan Sneed on the line today. How are you man?
I'm good, man. How are you?
I'm great. I'm great, never better never
better. So you've been kind of just
you've been doing your thing for a while now the keto space but
you've been just on fire lately. Oh, I appreciate it, man.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't know.
I can't remember exactly how long you've been on keto, but
I've been on keto, for, you know, about three years and, and
I started it, you know, due to my crazy situation, which we may
talk. About you know of brain cancer
in. I just I feel like I got on it
just in the right time before it kind of sparked straight up.
But um, yeah man, the the keto market and just Quito in general
has just been blowing up. It's awesome.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I've been strict hated for four
years now and I feel like, you know, it seems like over the
past year, specifically, it's really just ballooned up and
anybody that was kind of doing it, you know, pretty strictly
prior. To that is kind of seen as a
veteran in the whole key do space.
Yeah, for sure, man. I mean, it's like yeah, I mean
keto just sounds so mean back. Then if you mean, if you knew my
diet before man, I was doing 400 grams of carbs a day.
And if you told me keto back then of like it Logan, you're
going to do keto one day and you're going to be on for
probably your whole life. I would be like, okay, you're
just, you know, pulling stuff out there.
That's totally, not true. So dive into the And like you
have a different reason for for being key to than a lot of
people out there. A lot of people wanting to do
keto simple to lose a, you know, quick five pounds prior to a
wedding and your motivations are much deeper than that.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a good question.
So, you know, it's kind of a it's kind of a long story short,
but you know, I I said it's funny.
It's not funny at all. But the day that I began to I
began a shredding kind. Of Journey in my life, you know,
I was like 200 pounds and I was like a swole type of 200.
I mean, I did have some some good body fat percentage, but
the day that I actually was like, all right.
Well, I'm ready to shred down. Stay lean.
I want to keep my size. You know, let's do it.
I'm ready. Let's go is day one and I was
headed to the gym and all of a sudden I was on the phone with
my girlfriend at the time and boom had a random seizure out of
nowhere. First time.
It's ever happened in my life and then you Again, long story
short woke up in the hospital and they said there's something
in my brain needs to be removed, had brain surgery.
Then it was a stage four, glioblastoma brain tumor.
And so this took me through radiation and chemo.
And in this process, I was like, well, I still want to see my
results. Like, I don't want to lose my
muscle through chemo and radiation.
Like I still want to see these results and I need to figure out
what I'm going to do for my diet and I suddenly found a ketogenic
diet on some of the research. Each through brain cancer and
Quito and I was like, whoa. Whoa, whoa.
Whoa, okay. This can help me in my journey,
fighting brain cancer, and it's like also designed to like burn
body fat percentage and maintain muscle and develop lean muscle.
I was like, whoa, this is like a two and three in one combo that
I'm getting right here. I was like, okay, whatever.
This is I'm going to do it and I know I need this to work.
This is awesome. So I just got so excited, you
know, understanding how I could see a physical.
Will change on top of fighting cancer and going through chemo
and radiation with it. And I was like, this is awesome.
I'm going to do it. And so I know I never turned
around. I just went Full Throttle with
it, man. There's a lot of questions I
have. So just to back up a little bit.
How old were you when you, when you found out that you had the,
the brain cancer. So I was, I was about to turn 20
years old and I just turned 22. So I was like just shy of 20
years old. And you you.
So prior to that. I mean you had no symptoms
whatsoever. No seizures know, anything like
in hindsight now looking back. Did anything ever happened that
seemed out of the ordinary? Like, you know, more
lightheadedness or just anything?
Yeah. So that's another good question.
I am, you know, looking back at it now.
Yes, I had. I had significant headaches
almost every single day for about six years straight and you
know, to me, I just thought they were headaches and they were so
severe that they were There's no like, you know, Tylenol or Advil
that that had could help it at all.
Nothing. Nothing helped.
What I did. Every day was I literally would
just squeeze my head and I just kind of viewed it as something
that was normal for people. Do you know, headaches like
that? So severe headache was like the
one symptom that I had out of all, you know, potential
symptoms of tumors and headaches was was not good.
And what was your nutrition like that?
I guess you were training still but like Your nutrition was just
probably not the greatest. Oh man, if you saw again, like,
if you knew me back, then you mean it was almost a totally
different person. I was doing, I'd wake up every
single morning as soon as I woke up, I'd get you know, really
thick breakfast sandwiches. I would prep five meals for the
day of chicken, rice, beans almonds.
I brought a can of peanut butter.
I would have 1000 calorie protein shakes with peanut
butter bananas. Yogurt milk, whey protein, how
without a bunch of other stuff. And then I would have, you know,
on average. It was no lower than four pieces
of toast a day. And yeah, I mean it was just
crazy. I was doing about 4,000 calories
a day just to bulk up and bulk up and bulk up and bulk up.
It's kind of crazy man that reminds me of what I was doing
before I, you know, started keto and I was just trying to get as
big as I could and I was eating something very similar.
Our to that and I got I got big kind of like you were saying,
but it's kind of crazy. But like I did not realize how
fat I was when I was doing that. I got thought I was just jacked
and then you have like body dysmorphia same here, man.
I'm looking back at these pictures.
I'm like, wow, what were you doing?
You get the send me a picture, man.
I'll put that in the show notes because I look at you now and
like your lean, your shredded, but I could not hit your.
You at like a 200-pound plus individual.
I know I'm a liar. A lot of people are like, dude.
There's no way you're that big. I'm like, I know, I mean, it's
hard. It's hard to believe, but I, you
know, I really want is so so what what actually, this is
backing up a bit more. So you're doing, you know,
you're bulking phase. You're just eating all kinds of
food. Do you think that type of
approach Amplified? You're like, tumor growth like
that? Probably didn't help anything.
I would assume. So, it definitely was a fuel to
the fire. And this is another kind of long
story short. I was in and again, to kind of
conclude that the tumor they never know how or why it came
like the doctors, you know, have come to me and said, look, we
have no idea. This is not in your DNA.
This is not your genetics. We, I'm sorry, did we?
We just don't know. I don't think everybody anyone
will ever know but analytically looking at it, you know, I had a
severe severe injury when I was in sixth grade.
Excuse me, seventh grade, that was in a basketball game.
I was taking a charge and I was actually playing on a much older
team for this specific tournament, as I got invited to
it, which is awesome. I was taking a charge and this
guy was trying to go up and dunk and he accidentally, you know,
elbowed me right in the eye. And then accidentally stepped on
my head, landed on my head as he was going down and smashed it
straight into the ground. And I posted this picture on
Instagram before, but But my eye was swollen, shut and there's
blood everywhere and it was on the side where my tumor was.
And so, the tumor was actually six years old, in this event
occurred, six years prior to diagnosis.
And so, from some of the doctors and and you know, analytic
analytical people, I've talked to, they said, you know, this
tumor could have come from this injury and I said, okay, I think
that's probably right in over time, you know, and Mike.
We're in basketball in high school, you know, I got elbowed
and I just got elbowed so many times in hit on the left side of
my brain, the left side of my head and I had like four scars
in that area. And then over time, you know, as
time goes by leading up to this whole diagnosis and stuff, my
diet obviously was trashed. So that's just adding bad
steroids to the whole situation. Just making things worse.
As you know, time goes by. When I really have no idea that
the tumors is sitting there for This year's all the way through
Middle School and High School in a year and a half into college
has had no idea. So yeah, the diet was definitely
the worst fuel source. If not something that.
Definitely ignited it to a bad bad tumor, you know, some tumors
are out there to where they're kind of benign and they're just,
you know, settling their settled into the brain.
They don't need to be removed and I believe that my diet
really Amplified this to, you know, worst of the worst, you
know, something that is very, very severe.
So, At that diet. Oh, man, definitely played a bad
role at first. In this scenario.
We look at, you know, all the research that Dominic Dagestan
has put out with, you know, glioblastoma brain cancer being
one of his primary focuses. I mean, he's Illustrated that,
you know, they light up the same way with sugars like under like
a scan that you know, like like sugar lots of the same way as
like the cancer growth in the brain lights up and you know, if
you're eating all these super high glycemic index carbs like
The protein shakes and the peanut butter shakes.
I mean, just all the food that you eat, when you're going to
get big. It's like I did the same thing
man, and I look back on some of the stuff out to eat.
Like I would eat Pixy Stix after work out to intentionally Spike
my glucose as much as possible and yeah, kind of stuff is
basically fueling that tumor, you know with kerosene.
Yeah, man, it's crazy and like, you know, my carb intake every
day was around three to four hundred grams.
I mean, it was a it was almost tear If I didn't get x amount of
calories and x amount of carbs in, I mean, it's just so crazy
to think about and just all this sugar of what it can really do
to you. You know, it's crazy.
So what happens to your life Persona?
Like what is the thought process like you're in the doctor's
office and they're like, yeah, you got brain cancer.
That what do you even do with that information?
What happens? Oh gosh, dude, I told man, so I
actually I just came out with it.
YouTube video on my full story. I posted it.
This yesterday and basically, we went into this diagnosis, you
know, and I'm going to be honest with you, dude.
Like, I never thought anything, like this ever happened to me
personally in my life. I just know there's really never
any problems in my life, you know, everything always steadily
when very well and we go in there expecting, you know, just
kind of some decent results like, oh, you know, Logan this
it's going to be okay, you know, we'll just, you know, keep an
eye on it and it's really not that bad, but we went in and she
told me, she said, you know, Hey, you know, it's good to meet
you. And I was with my parents.
It was just me and my parents. And she said, I want to, I'm
sorry to tell you guys this, but this is a stage four,
glioblastoma brain tumor, and this is actually known as the
worst brain tumor there is, and we said, oh, I mean, okay, you
know, obviously, we didn't really have much words.
We were just kind of, like, what are we supposed to do?
And she said, I'm sorry to tell you, but You know, you have
about 1 to 10 years, you know, left to live.
That's about the life expectancy in your situation.
And obviously we don't have any words, you know, like I mean,
what are we supposed to say? Oh great.
Thank you. So glad to hear that.
I mean we didn't know what to say.
So my dad. He said, you know, hey II, okay,
I get it. But is there anything that we
could potentially do is there? Is there any diet we could
follow? Is there any food we should
maybe take in or take out as you know, he said, Anything we can
do. And she said, I'm sorry, you
know, there's absolutely nothing that we can really do or we are
going to do the best that we can.
But there's nothing that we can really do and he said, so you're
telling me. And by the way, I was not 21, I
was I was I was 20 actually I was 20 not 19, and she and he
said you're telling my son that he can go out and have a regular
burger and a beer and that's all we can do and there's that
that's it. And she said I'm really sorry to
say this. But yes, that's that's what I'm
telling him. And obviously right there, we
didn't know what to do is just kind of like, all right.
Well, everything's done. Forget it, you know, life's
over. So that's what that was like.
And I just literally felt like I was, I mean think about, you
know, I don't know, just a massive brick coming and hitting
your back and just sticking to your back.
I mean, that's what it felt like.
And I felt like I just gained a hundred and thirty fifty pounds
on top of my womb, you know, on top of my life, you know, I just
felt completely Shot down. Yeah, like that's this was
before you started going through like chemo and radiation when I,
right. Yeah.
Yeah, this was I mean, this is just the first day, everything
began soon. As she just told me what the
kind of with the scenario was. Yeah, man.
I mean like you're 20 years old like what I mean?
Well, I don't even know where to start.
Like, what do you go home and tell your girlfriend at the
time? Oh god.
Well, I mean, that's what was so just like Crazy about it, you
know, it was just like she didn't know what to expect and I
think I think everybody just kind of expected like just, you
know, just decent results and she would she saw me have the
seizure. You know, she was on the phone
with me. We were FaceTiming, you know,
just out of the blue and then she witnessed the whole seizure,
take place of like what the heck is happening to my boyfriend
right now while he's driving this car and he's just gonna is
he you know, he's having a seizure, is this a joke or
something, you know, and then I died and I had to tell people
Who were all wanting to know the results.
And obviously, I don't know what I'm supposed to tell everybody.
So yeah, I mean it was crazy. Yeah, I mean when you hear that
you've get one to ten years left to live.
I mean when that's your reality, like before you even find out
about keto and thought of that as an option, like what Do you
start thinking about, like, do you start thinking about?
Wow, if I could only live one more day.
What do I do? Like, what is the thought
process? Like, man?
So that's actually a good question.
And I don't know if I've had anybody ask me that which is
good because You know, I can't recall it, a hundred percent.
I just, I think my first thoughts were basically, like, I
had so much in my mind of what I wanted and what I wanted to do,
you know, I was living at the peak time of my life to where,
you know, I had I had, I had just great people in my life,
you know, I was pursuing, you know, entrepreneurship.
I was like, you know, I always, I always wanted to be a
successful entrepreneur and I always wanted to have the
capability of dropping out of college.
And doing what I want to do for a living and being my own boss
and I had it all kind of structured there, you know, and
I was like, oh, this is going to be is awesome.
And it was going well and then boom.
Everything was shot off. And I was like, well, you know,
if the doctor is going to tell me this, why even do this, it
doesn't even like I feel useless.
So I felt good. I felt great in that.
I suddenly just felt worthless and almost like, you know,
there's even there's not there's no point of view.
I'm even being here. So even do what I want to do and
I literally was like, I can't tell you that I lived in full
depression because I I don't really know what that's fully
like, but I would say extreme extreme stress and anxiety on
the verge of depression in my life.
And, you know, I would sit up in my room late at night in
darkness and I would literally, and no one really knows about
this. I would just sit in the dark in
the room at twelve o'clock at night and I would literally just
cry, you know, like I know it sounds like a little old baby,
but it was like I would just cry because I had no idea.
Like why am I even go to bed and wake up like what?
I mean, what's the whole point of this?
You know, so that's really how I felt with all that man dead.
That is that's a scary reality man.
Like when you when you look at, like, how Society has pushed
life onto a slight? What is to be expected?
What we're going to go through life doing, I mean everything
that really happens tends to take, you know years and years
to build and develop especially entrepreneurship like you're
talking about, you know, so you have to kind of get in with it
into it like this. Long game approach of, I need to
do this for the next 30, 40, 50 years before I get to where I
want to be and hear that you're not going to be around for maybe
even one year. It's like, yeah, I mean, I don't
even know what I would do. Like, I don't know how I would
allocate my time. I guess you the best thing you
can do is just to go on pushing and not you know, anticipate
dying because I mean, that's not really a healthy way to live
either. Yeah.
I know. I mean, you're totally right in
this is See, this is why I didn't know anything about the
keto diet because I went into this whole thing of like, well,
jeez, you know, I don't even know what to do.
I don't, you know, like because I've always had that mentality
that mindset of like, I'm going to get stuff done, like whatever
I want to achieve, whatever. Have my mind set to it's going
to happen and that's just always been my mentality.
And I didn't know what to even set my mind towards of like, is
there anything that we can do? I mean, you know, I'm, you know,
you know, this kind of typical like, oh, drink green tea, it's
going to help fight cancer. I was like, I mean if I even
have to drink five green, teas a day, I'll do it whatever I need
to do. And then, you know, suddenly is,
when I was with my friend out here in Austin.
We are just paddle boarding and, you know, he wanted to get a
low-down of how I'm feeling, you know, just, you know, talk over
a bunch of stuff and he told me about the keto diet and he was
like, no Logan. I think you really need to look
into this keto diet. You know, it's been shown to
potentially help fight brain cancer, and he was like, you
know, I was in Why visiting some friends there in this whole city
follows this diet. It's what everybody does and he
was like, I tried it dude, and he was like, I felt so good.
He's like, I don't know what the heck it really was but I ton of
fat and I didn't do like any carbs and I felt so good and he
was like, he was like, you really should try this because
I've seen really big things about can't brain cancer in this
diet. And I was like, oh, Huh.
Sounds really really interesting.
All have to look into that and I think, you know, whenever I
looked into it. I tried it.
I started it. That's when I just kind of turn
this whole thing into like, you know, what, whatever that doctor
said. I'm going to prove that wrong
because I'm going to make this work.
I, you know, I don't care what the stats are, the numbers are
that all that stuff. I'm going to make this work and
I'm going to prove it wrong. So yeah, that's when I kind of
found keto and I got mine, you know, my fuel source back and it
really man. It really just changed things.
So we are doing key like as you start key.
Oh pretty soon into like when you started doing chemotherapy
or with it like a lag time there there there was actually a lag
time. So so I want to clear this up as
well for people that are just wondering about chemotherapy and
radiation. So brain, cancer patients don't
actually go through the chemotherapy that all other
cancer patients will go through, you know, you'll see cancer
patients go through the rigorous, you know, six hour,
Chemotherapy sessions and brain. Cancer patients will only go
through oral chemo. So we just take oral capsule
pills. And the reason for that is
because you can only do so much to the brain.
You know, it's like you can only fight it so much.
You can't go really Full Throttle with it because you're
I mean, we're basically working with the brain here which is
like a complex formula, you know, it's like we're you know,
playing a maze in a bomb, you know, you mess up one time and
voila. Obviously, we know the outcome.
So so I went through chemo and radiation in.
I didn't find keto until I was probably two to three weeks done
with the chemo. So I brought it in towards the
end of chemo and I wish I, you know, I wish I found it, you
know, from straight from the beginning but yeah, just a few
weeks left is when I found Quito and what were you feeling like
like with the standard chemo, you know, your you always see
People like losing their hair and they just have no energy and
they just Way start, you know, getting depleted.
Is that like, did you have some of those same symptoms?
Or was it not quite? I mean, obviously not quite as
aggressive. I'm assuming.
Well, actually, there is actually a significant amount of
symptoms in side effects from oral chemo.
I don't know if it's the same, you know, overall outcome.
I don't think it's the same outcome of the rigorous, you
know, like extreme hair loss and extreme extreme.
Weight loss and fatigue and stuff, but there is a lot of,
you know, side effects. And I actually in this is
actually a blessing. I actually really did not have
many side effects at all. I would say, one of the only
ones that I maybe had was maybe some mood swings, you know, kind
and I kind of like carved, you know, people on a lot of carbs.
Like, you know, you're fully depleted in like, oh, I need it.
I need it. I need it.
You cranky. And then, you get filled with
the cards and you feel great. I would say that overall.
I did feel decently Moody. You know, it was just like I
felt gray. Then I felt, you know, fatigued
and just cranky. That was probably the only one I
really had. But man, that I mean, the list
of, you know, side effects that they told me I was going to have
is honestly just endless. I mean, you can think of any
side effect of any sickness disease or whatever.
And that's basically what what, what what it has.
But I think, I really just did not have much to the side
effects at all on it. And it did they have to like a
surgery or did I go in and cut in and Remove the tumor.
Yeah. Yeah, they did.
So the The surgery was a seven-hour, brain surgery and
this is kind of freaky. I don't know.
People want to know this but they they woke me up.
Half way you go to learn. Yeah, they woke me up halfway
through the surgery because they were the surgery was taking
place on my temporal lobe which is the left side of your brain,
just right above your ear and one of the brain surgeons that I
Talk to before the surgery. So like, you know, whenever we
found out, we had to have brain surgery, you know, we were
trying to find a very, very great neurosurgeon.
And the first one that we were assigned to, he told me he said,
hey, you know, this is going to be done by your temporal lobe
and you're most likely going to lose your ability to speak in
your ability to hear. And of course, that was another
shot to the face of like. Well, okay.
I'm going to go into this brain surgery and I'm have last words.
Is that I'm going to be able to say, and, you know, the last
things and be able to hear for the rest of my life.
You know, I mean is like it was almost just as bad as the whole
diagnosis, if not worse. And then we went to a new brain
surgeon, who is actually known as the number one brain surgeon
in the world. And he said, no, he's like, he's
like, dude, that brain surgeon really tell you that.
I was like, yeah, he did. He said no with me doing the
surgery, that's not going to happen.
And he said, don't worry about it.
I was like, oh, okay. Awesome.
And so, you know, we went through the surgery with seven
pounds. Yeah, it's crazy and it's just
two different mentalities honestly, and yeah seven-hour
surgery and they woke me up. Halfway through the surgery to
ask me questions to see if you know, I was or if I was not
losing my ability to speak or hear and none of that happened
and he did an egg. He did an excellent job, man.
It was such a blessing. Yeah, that's that's awesome man.
Like those surgeries like, that's gay man, especially like
brain surgery, like if, if they mess up or cut something, I
mean, you're a different person after that do gosh.
I mean I can't I mean I'm gonna be honest with you.
I really was not nervous about it just because I think I'm so
confident with that guy. But I'll say this in a joking
way, you know, I had to be at the hospital at 5:30 in the
morning, be, you know, prepping for this brain surgery and the
surgery started, I think at like 6:30 7:00, maybe and in my head,
I'm like, well OK crap if I'm waking up at like 5 a.m.
I sure hope this surgeon is Getting a good sleep because
golly do this has got to be a lot of pressure on this guy.
Yeah. Yeah, then that is a that's
scary man. Like that's any one thing about
that. So what was the recovery process
like there on the on the surgery?
Like we you pretty well, I mean they stitched you up.
Then you were good to go after that.
I what's that like, yeah, so, you know, obviously after the
surgery, I didn't know what they fully removed.
They did say that the tumor that they removed.
Was the size of an egg. So an egg was literally sitting
in my brain, but they didn't know if it was a good, it was a,
it was a, it was a benign tumor or a malignant.
And it took him two weeks to do to study this tumor what it was
and what it had in it and stuff. And obviously it was not good.
But yeah, the recovery process man.
It was proof. I mean, I definitely got a lot
of looks. I mean, the scars in my head
were. Unreal, I mean like, when you
look at it, you think it's like a movie shot.
It was crazy, you know, kind of sucks because I always had a
passion for working out and lifting, you know, is always a
passion of mine and I was out for, you know, over 90 days and
they literally were like, you know, for the first two weeks,
you're only gonna be able to walk on a treadmill like we
don't even want you jogging and then you know four weeks go by
and like, okay you can start jogging and then I was like,
okay now you Start, you know, start running.
And then I was like, okay, you can lift weights, but you are
not going to lift it above your head.
You know, we don't want you going past, a certain amount of
weight. So it took a lot of time and to
really be able to even just do just a fun workout.
So it took a while, that's crazy, man.
Like, did you feel any different afterwards?
I guess you feel like anything had changed with others.
You feel pretty good, man. Again, that's kind of hard to
answer. I think.
I really did not notice a significant like because again,
you know, like when I was not on keto, I was that guy that was
like we're going to go just so freaking hard, dude.
We're just going to toss up this tons of weight and I think that
my my mentality just completely shifted to this whole keto diet
thing of like now. So drilled into what this was
what it could do and I thought about that so much of what it
could do. That it really just motivated
the heck out of me of like honestly, I just totally didn't
even think about, you know, the whole recovery process of like,
you know, you're, you know, most likely going to be losing
strength and, you know, you're going to be a lot weaker coming
off of chemo. Like, I really didn't even think
about it. I was just so intrigued with
this keto diet in like my overall change that I could
bring on. And I was so intrigued that I,
you know, I just didn't focus on it.
So it's kind of weird. But yeah, I mean, it really
wasn't much of a chance. Yeah, I know it was but I really
didn't focus on it and you were losing a lot of your weight
during this time, period, right? Like you were, you know,
probably not eating 4,000 calories of, you know, I
seasoned Slurpees anymore. So you were losing a lot of that
body fat during this recovery process, right?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, and that's the thing is
that, you know, in that 91 day period of not being able to work
out. But, you know, I was on keto,
you know, about halfway through that I saw like significant.
No fat loss in little, you know, lean, lean muscle development in
results. Really through, I mean, without
even working out of time. Now, I don't want people
listening to us saying, oh, we don't have to work out on keto
great. But I mean, you know, I still
saw really good results in that time period without even, you
know, being able to work out. That is very, very cool man.
What about like? Like, when I think about Cato,
like, I talked about how much didn't enhance me cognitively.
I'm assuming the same. And to you, oh, yeah, it
definitely did man. My productivity just as just on
a day-to-day basis has thoroughly improved in one thing
was is that they actually test me for short-term memory loss.
They do that. Just because like, you know,
that could be a potential sign of a tumor coming back and like
that's also a huge side effect of chemo.
And you know, I'd go through these kind of like memory
quizzes and stuff on check. And they're like, oh wow, you
got that right? Well, that's so impressive.
You're like, I don't know if I can get that right, you know, I
give props to keto for that benefit.
Yeah, that that. I mean, there's a whole host of
benefits. He probably came out better than
before, just simply because of that, you know, in combination
with what you're doing, live in the healthier lifestyle.
I'm sure what? And yeah, I'm curious man.
What like, how did you kind of like find your brand or your
Niche like in the keto space? Like, Fusion Lee and I talked
about that, like how about how is that born out of this?
So yeah, that's a good question. You know, I always like before
all of this. I wanted to have my own brand.
I wanted to be, you know, a public figure.
I guess you can say, you know, I wanted to be just a successful
online, fitness vlogger, you know, kind of like that.
And it was all shot away, but then you know, On this keto diet
focusing on myself. And I saw this physical change
and I started posting about this like I started posting, you
know, the overall like when overall physical results, you
know, and I was posting before and afters of myself and I was
posting that I was going through chemo and radiation and people
were so intrigued that they saw this new diet thing.
They saw what I was eating while I was going through chemo and
radiation and Like, wow, how are you seeing those results?
Logan was like why you're going through chemo and radiation.
Like, how is that happening? I was like, well, I'm doing
this, I'm doing this thing. Like it's a high fat diet, you
know, medium protein, low carb and I was like, yeah, it's
working pretty well. You should probably try it like
well, okay, cool. You know, how exactly do you do
that? And I was like, well, and I said
I was like, well, hold on. If you know, there's all these
people asking me how I'm doing this.
Why don't I just kind of write out exactly how what I'm doing
and how I'm doing? If they, you know, they want and
I'll just try and sell it to him for you know, a decent cost in.
That's a kind of made me start. This is like, okay.
I want to become an online, you know, trainer selling specific
meal and workout plans for people.
I want to grow my public figure. My brand.
I was like, I want to start this business because I'll do this,
whatever this is, I'll do it. And so, then I randomly, you
know, I just came up first thought in my head was Fusion
lean.com. And I, that was my first
business name and suddenly, I started selling it on my
website, and I have one person by it.
And then I had my, you know, my grandfather by it, just kind of
has like a little gift. And then, you know, as time goes
by, I had these like, Transformations was like, whoa,
like these people are doing so good.
This is crazy. And so then from there, I kind
of just did everything I could to spark it up and you know, I
never looked back on it. So yeah, it was such a blessing
before I need this heaven like before you had, you know, the
tumor and you were talking about wanting to be an entrepreneur
where you want. Be an entrepreneur in the health
and nutrition space. Then who?
Yeah, I actually was and I actually had my own little
supplement company. So I was a freshman in high
school and excuse me, freshman in college and I invested just a
little bit of money of my own money, you know, to start my own
supplement company and I worked with, you know, a private label
stuff, you know, it's just kind of something.
Anybody can start up his private label products, so, I came out
with this, you know. Like this pre-workout, just kind
of your typical pre-workout. You can find anywhere you want.
I had that it was actually going very well.
And then again, that's when, you know, in the midst of everything
going very well, the whole tumor thing popped up.
Obviously, then I come back and I'm like, okay.
Well, I can't even really take my own products here because I
need to figure out my diet thing.
So if I couldn't even take my own products and I'm selling
Then that's almost extremely fake of me to sell this.
So that's when I just kind of got rid of that and I wanted to
figure out what I want to do from there and start another
business and I was like, I really admire these like
extremely successful online trainers.
Like I admire what they're doing?
How they're doing it, just on their free time.
Like I was like, I want to do that.
And so then I that's when I brought in the keto diet and I
was like, okay. Whoa, I wanted to do that in.
This is different. Like there's no one else that
I've seen this doing this through the keto diet and so
When I brought the keto towards this whole thing and it kind of
all sparked. But yeah, it was it was I always
wanted to be like that. I wanted to pursue it.
But obviously, this whole thing coming up.
I just kind of Stripped Away, but then, it came back all in
and just a positive way. Do you think you would be seeing
the success you are? Now, if it weren't for, you
know, you having the tumor and like being diagnosed with the
cancer, what not? Like, do you think having that?
You know very very pivotal moment in your life happen.
That kind of like change your thought process and just like
your whole perspective in mind set in a way that's resulted in
your success. Now, may I ask a question?
So it's tough to answer, you know, because I always had that
mindset of being successful. I always had that mindset of
doing whatever it takes, you know, of developing a business.
I always had that mindset, but if you told me back then and you
said, hey, Logan, you know, So forget your business.
What you're doing? Now, you're going to cut your
carbs and you're going to have a brain tumor and it's going to be
a somewhat of a good thing in your life.
You know, I would think that you're just completely lying to
my face about whatever you're saying there.
But, I mean, it's kind of hard to answer.
I can't say that I would be doing the keto diet of like,
starting this whole online business.
I think it just been would have been a different journey of
trying to be, you know, a public figure in an online.
Lion trainer. I think it would just be a
different sort of approach in a different different outcome
because again, you know, you never know.
I mean I could have totally just washed away all the fitness
aspect and just got into a, you know, corporate job, you know, I
don't know. I mean II, just I really have to
look at all this and just say, wow.
I mean with what's going on. Now, in my business and my life,
like I don't know if I would be here if none of this happened.
So I mean part of me says No, I I cannot see that this would all
happen. But you know, that's how I look
at it as a just a very Big blessing that, you know, of this
happening. Do you think that these are the
questions? I love this stuff though.
Yeah, you think yeah, I'm all about mindset, man.
Do you think Kevin the the taste of death?
It's just go dark with her and say the face of death.
So close to you has like really kind of improved your hustle and
intensity like knowing that I mean everybody knows are going
to die someday, right? Like everybody knows.
It's inevitable, but To be so young and have such ambition.
And then to hear that, you're only got a year to 10 years, and
then now having that life back, the tumor gone, and your health
recovered and restored, like I would just have to think that
having been there and tasted it here like on fire now.
Yeah, man, you know, it really has fueled the fire.
And, again, it's Another Blessing that I have been given
the characteristic of like overcoming the odds because, you
know, they say like, Like, you know Logan your tumors gone,
that's great, but it is coin. It is going to come back and
come back in one year. Come back in 10 years and come
back in 20 years. It will come back in for me to
for them. Telling me what the outcome of
my life will be saying, Logan you're gonna die at this time.
The chemo is going to just destroy you.
Okay? The tumors coming back and
there's nothing we can do and I'm sorry to tell you that
hearing those words is literally just Like you know, what?
If I have to spend my entire life proving these people wrong
and creating the best version of myself.
I'm going to do whatever it freaking takes and I'll do it
every single day of my life. And that's just what has
completely changed me. Completely fueled.
The fire and makes me so motivated.
I know it sounds like well, Logan, isn't that supposed to
not motivate you and kind of like, destroy you?
Yes, that's correct. But I'm taking those words.
I'm taking this whole thought of what's going to happen.
And turning it into like, you know, I want to make something
happen. And so that really just has like
motivated the heck out of me on a daily basis and that's how I
view every single day of like a. You know, I'm gonna dominate
this day, like I'm not going to let a scenario like the last
one, destroy me. And if something like that does
come up again. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
do everything I can to make something out of it.
You know, I look at it as the obstacle is the way.
So it's become a very positive. Pulling fuel source in my life.
Every day of creating the best version of myself.
I freaking love it, man. I'm assuming you've read the
book, the obstacles the way, right?
Oh, yeah. It's a great one, man.
It really is. It's literally, my favorite
book. I've given that book to more
people than any other hands down and like everything you said, I
can basically see a tie with like, from that book.
Like they there's so many parallels there and I don't
know, man, like, I've never had like a life-threatening illness,
like a pivotal Moment Like That. That I've had hardships, but I
can really appreciate where you're coming from and I don't
know man. Like when people tell me I can't
do something, or I shouldn't do something, or I won't do
something. I love it.
I've learned to love it when people say that because it's
those words that ensure that I'm going to do it, you know, yeah.
Yeah, dude, a hundred percent. I'm with you on that, you know,
and like in my life, there are people before this tumor stuff
or like, you know. You know, starting an online
business like, you know, it's not realistic, the
competition's, just too much, you know, it's not going to last
for you, you know, and I actually, this is kind of a
college story. But when I was in college, I
have a professor fail me for writing a paper about being my
own entrepreneur and starting my own business.
She failed me. I almost failed the entire
course because of that. And I had professors, you know,
tell me like, you know, you need to focus on what job.
You're going to be getting one day.
So yeah, doing all that stuff is just like, it's like my new
bread and butter of a day-to-day fuel, man.
Yeah. Yeah.
I love it man. Like it's, you can go back and
you could pull that out whenever you're in a dark time, and
that's all the motivation. You need it.
Like, you don't need anything else.
You don't need any outside, external help.
Like you just deep, you know, reach deep into the mind, have
yourself and those dark times in those dark words that people
have said, and that's all you need 1%, man.
Absolutely. So, Man, what I mean, what?
What's next, like? What where you, where you going
with this? What's the big picture go?
Like? What do you see yourself doing
going forward? Yeah, man.
So, I mean, my, my goal every single day is to create the best
version of myself and if people want to follow along with that
and they want to, you know, go through my my planner, you know,
just follow me on YouTube, whatever, if they want to do
that, then join in with me. And that's kind of my goal is to
inspire and change as many lives as I possibly can, you know,
through through my YouTube. Um, channel to my Instagram,
through everything that I possibly can.
Do. You know, I want to grow my
business in more ways than one. I want to grow it to change more
lives to grow the Healthy Living lifestyle through the ketogenic
diet. Um, you know, I'm sure you
obviously know who Tony Robbins is, and I thoroughly look up to
him, you know, in, he actually has a tumor in his head.
I don't know if people knew that his is a benign tumor, but he
has a tumor. Look up to him.
And I, you know, I want to become a, you know, a more
public speaker, one day a motivational speaker.
You know, I want to grow my brand.
I've actually just launched another business.
We just came out with actually a nap last week, you know, just a
lot of optical amazing. What's that?
The The business or so the app is it's through an app company
called kerosene and the apps not necessarily downloadable unless
people, you know, purchase a plan but it's a full app that
guy's them like literally step-by-step through every
single workout. It's like demonstration
tracking. Everybody has their own profile.
So it's almost like social media workout plan through through the
app, if that makes sense. So, yeah, I mean, that's kind
of, you know, something we Not with, and I have so many other
business goals in my mind. But ma'am.
I over on my biggest goal is to just change many lives.
I possibly can. You know, I want to like, that's
the best color is. First of all, I mean, that's
living selflessly to take what you've learned through hard
times in life and applying that to improving the life of others
is the best. That's the Paramount of what
people can do with their time on Earth, in my opinion.
So hats off to you for that, for sure.
Thank you. Appreciate it, bud.
Yeah. Yeah, what I do man, like, what
is your what is your take on, like excuses?
I'm assuming that you're pretty much, you know, like you feel
blessed that the that you have the opportunity to live right
now and you don't take anything for granted.
So like I'm assuming you don't have much time for people that
make excuses and, you know, squander their time on earth.
Oh man, it's funny. You say that?
So my kind of one of my signature Sure.
Sayings that I say in like all my Instagram stories in my
YouTube is hashtag excuses. Piss me off.
Dude. I'm telling you I get shot a
million different excuses. Like, hey, Logan.
I want to, I want to start keto but I just don't really know if
I'm, you know, ready to cut this bread out.
Like, and I'll say this people, but I'm just like, hey, you were
just creating the full outcome right there because when people
have excuses, they're the ones carving the outcome.
And people can carve the outcome.
Now. I'm not seeing you can decide
what your life is going to be like you can't, but you can
decide different. You can take circumstances and
create a new outcome from that circumstance and people thinking
that some, you know, somebody's going to delegate their own life
or that something's too difficult.
It's too hard, you know, it's they're unsure about it again.
They're just fueling the, I mean, they're fueling the fire
in a way that they should not feel the fire, you know, you
gotta take the obstacle and turn it into something amazing.
So people who have a, you Excuses or anything like that.
Golly do. That's it's honestly, my biggest
pet peeve. And if I have an excuse for
myself, you know, I have to do something about it.
And I'm going to be honest with you.
I actually it's funny were talking about this right now
yesterday, you know, I woke up actually and I was like, oh man,
you know, just say to me, great day and I actually have my set
morning routine that I do everyday.
It's kind of like my new just my religious routine that I love
doing and I was like, you know, No.
In my first thought was like Hey, what if you went on, like
if you went outside and did a bunch of Sprints and then went
on a long run, what if you did that?
And one side of me was like, oh, no, dude, no relax, like you
don't need to do that. Like there's no reason to do
that. Logan, you know, just keep your
routine. Like it's all good.
And my other side is like, no, you know, you're making an
excuse in your head of like, you know, why you shouldn't do it,
why you don't need to do it, whatever, you know, go freaking
do it. And so is almost like a full-on
mental. I don't know.
It's like, you know what, I can't let these excuses when so
I literally just went outside at 7:00 a.m.
In the morning and did like for 100-yard Sprint's and ran a full
lap around this. This area that I live in and I
was like, wow, okay, glad it. And not let those excuses win
and I hate when the excuses win. So I do everything I can and
never let her win. So, you know, it's kind of
crazy, man. There's been like everybody goes
to life and they gain more perspective.
With each, you know, obstacle that they come across and that
perspective, you know, improves the longer you go through life
in the more obstacles you faced and what one person sees as
challenging may not be the same type of challenge for somebody
else. But you know, your perception is
your reality, right. And everybody's idea of what's
hardcore. So to speak is going to be
different, but like I've got a pretty good idea of what I know
is. Good or not, for me and see,
everybody has that own reality. Like everybody knows if they're
cutting Corners, are not even that's going to be different for
different people. But for me, like, when I'm in
the gym for instance, and I, you know, I've done everything that
I've got, you know, in my mind to do or to train that day, but
then, if I like, have the thought come into my mind of,
you know, I've got a little bit left in the tank.
I could do like another three drop sets of this weight than
just go really fall, you know, fall far out and just do
everything I can. Then as soon as Has that thought
comes to my mind if I walk out of the gym not doing that, then
I just beat myself up like it's crazy.
I have to I have to fulfill that need or else it like weakens my
inner being like it's almost like this grotesque weird thing
in my head, but it's just my ride.
Like today for instance. I've been waking up at three
o'clock and going to the gym, and I laid there for like an
extra 30 minutes and almost convinced myself to just go a
little bit later in the day. Like I actually turned the light
on. Fame was about to lay back down.
As soon as I laid back down and knew that, that was my plan.
Now. I got just pissed off at myself.
I hook up flip the light back on through my phone, put my clothes
on. I went to the gym like I cannot
stand making excuses, dude. I know I'm so with you on that.
It's like it's like I never want the excuses to win because in
people's lives, the excuses can win every single day and that's
where people start developing a low confidence, you know, the
anxiety, the depression, the stress.
Yes, and just, you know, it just honestly, in my opinion, it
ruins people's life and I've brought this into into my
overall diet. You know, I, I'm not saying this
to brag or anything because there's not really much to brag
about, but I have not cheated in over three years on the like on
my diet at all. And I actually have gone 100%
organic food. No processed food, everything
from the vegetables, to the avocados, to the stake, and I've
been on this. Three years straight and I have
not gone out of not, you know, eaten one carb or anything bad
in, you know, and I take that that excuses thing of like I say
Logan and I don't tell people this this is just my overall
thought of like Logan. Do you want to cheat in
potentially die? Or do you want to continue
eating what you're eating? It's either a 50/50 shot.
You're the one who can choose this.
Any of you have an excuse to just fall off or continue doing
what? You're doing and I'm like, okay.
Well, I obviously wanted you know do well.
So I don't think I'm going to cheat.
I don't think I'm gonna even take a bite of this bread.
So having that mentality again of like the no excuses thing,
that's what has fueled Me in My overall diet of, you know,
sticking. So strict the way I have for so
long, you know, I really, really admire that man, cuz I don't see
too many people doing that. Like, I've been like said, you
know, strict cater for four years and I haven't cheated
once. And that entire time either like
I've had days where I'll have, you know, More total carbs
through like more veggies, like maybe another kid or dessert or
something after a competition. But, you know, I haven't
breached Quito once and then entire four-year span.
And you don't hear that often. You hear people, you know, I've
been keeping for like, a couple months, you know, I deserve to
have a cheat meal or the tried to do like targeted keto or
cyclical key to, or they just try and give themselves an out.
And there's the try and convince themselves that it's, you know,
I got to make this sustainable. Like, I mean, I shouldn't
sacrifice eating. Cake on my birthday or eating,
you know, cookies on Christmas. And that to me granted.
I'm like much more of an extremist and most people
probably are, but it's just an excuse.
And it's, I mean, I'm about to get mad just thinking about it
because, like, people, you know, sell themselves short, and they
don't let themselves tap into their full potential because
they're so willing. And eager to do something easier
than what they're capable of dude hundred percent.
And you know, what's funny. Is that like No, people people
sadly will tell me like Logan. That's unhealthy of you, you
know, you have to live, you know, that's not that's not
non-human like of eating the way you're eating.
You need to go out and enjoy and just in just have that that
cheat meal. I'm like, why are you telling me
that I have to have something that is going to not help my
body? That makes absolutely no sense
to me. You're telling me to go do
something. That's not going to do my body.
Well and how it is. Everybody have to do that.
Just because 99% of people are going to say.
Yeah, you're right and go do it does not mean that I have to
follow the lead and go do what everybody else is doing.
Like, there's no excuse for me to just cut the ice and just eat
a fat load of pasta. Like, my life is on the line and
I'm going to stick to it and I get people can have excuses of
enjoying and stuff. But I freaking love what I do
through the keto diet. I enjoy the heck out of it, you
know, to me it's like a cheat meal every day.
But yeah, dude, I mean I just stick to it and, you know, I
just love it and a persimmon and kind of going back.
We're saying about you know perspective and your perception
is your reality like, you know, you and I being keto for a long
as we have strictly like that is our new Norm.
Like I don't even feel like I'm missing out on anything.
Like people just assume that we think were sacrificing so much
to eat this healthy, but the exact opposite is true.
I don't feel like I'm sacrificing anything.
I'm just eating what I know makes me feel better, makes me
function better and makes me, you know, the most optimal that
I can be. Oh, did I for sure?
I mean, yeah. I mean you give me the option of
steak eggs and asparagus. I mean, I'll choose that any day
over, you know, fat pasta. Yeah, hundred percent hundred
percent. Well, cool man.
Is this is, this is, this is sweet, man.
I really appreciate you sharing your story.
Like it's, I've watched you. I guess I met you at Kita akan
last year. This year was the first time I
met you. I guess this.
Yeah. Well, actually, I don't know if
you remember but it was not this year, but the year before I met
you at the keto con with goody beats and, you know, your
girlfriend was there too. And we kind of met and I think
that's kind of like the beginning.
That was more the beginning year of the keto diet.
In general, at least far as like, you know, the Social Media
stuff and then this year is kind of when we, you know, like, I
guess folks. Gleefully met.
That's right. Yeah, I do remember that now.
Yeah, man, it's I don't know. We're going to have to I'm not
to come to Austin and get some content with you there.
And you guys come up here. I'm, I'm building a gym here at
my location here in Arkansas. Have to get you up here and
we'll just we'll just show. Show people how to do with that,
making excuses, man. That's awesome.
Dude. I, uh, I've been watching your
stuff. I'm actually been a very
longtime subscriber of your channel.
It's awesome. Just seeing, you know, what, you
guys got going and, you know, the keto bricks and Y'all are
just going around, you know, in y'all's bus and like, you know,
the growth of it. It's really, I mean, it's it's
so awesome. And I actually, you know, I
always have my dinner. I'll do a little bit of a
livestream and I'll do it for a few minutes and then like the
remainder of my meal, you know, I got to finish I'll have my
YouTube on. I'm like, all right, you know
what subscribers posted today and yours is you're always, you
know, you're always posting. So your one I'm always watching
while I'm just having dinner and hanging out and it's just like,
it's so so cool to watch. Y'all watch your Channel and
stuff. I appreciate that man.
I really do like it honestly means the world to me and I like
that. I can relate so much with you in
so many ways and I really appreciate what you're doing.
And I appreciate how you just like, you know, cut the bullshit
and then stay with what, you know, to be true and real and
right. And I can appreciate that more
than you imagine, man. So, keep doing what you're
doing, brother. Appreciate a man.
Again. I look up to you in more ways
than one. So again means a lot.
Well Logan, where can people go to watch your store, man found
out more about you and be inspired.
Yeah, man. So my YouTube channel is just
Logan Sneed. They just type that in, you
know, it'll come up. My Instagram is Logan,
underscore, Fusion lean, and then my website is just Fusion
lean.com. So I'm all over the place.
Very cool. Very cool.
Well, I will link out all those man and like I said, we're going
to do like an actual meet up here in the very near future.
So let's let's plan. On that for sure.
Oh definitely man. I'm open whenever and it sounds
like a lot of fun, dude. Definitely, definitely below
gonna get man. Appreciate it.
Until next time, brother. Take care of him.
All right, man. We'll see you later.
You have a good one.