Nourish Balance Thrive

After a rocky start to the season, NBT client Bob McRae turned everything around using our performance orientated functional medicine program for athletes . "I had the best race of my life yesterday, beyond my imagination." said 47-year old McRae, after his first age-group win (by 14-minutes) and 6th overall at IRONMAN Boulder. Bob is now the number one USAT ranked athlete in his age group.   List...

This year in the United States, over 22,000 people will be diagnosed with a primary brain or spinal tumor. Of these, more than 13,000, many of them younger than 21 years old, will die of their disease. New treatment modalities are critical in the battle against cancer. Adrienne Scheck, PhD , is an associate professor of neurobiology at Barrow Neurological Institute. Dr. Scheck's expertise includes...

Barry Murray is a sports nutritionist and member of the Irish Ultramarathon Team currently working with Pro Tour cyclists. Barry has won several ultra-distance (70-200 km) running races, The Mourne Mountain Way, The Abbots Way, The Giants Causeway, The Wicklow Way, The Kerry Way, all without eating anything for breakfast. How? In a word, fat-adaptation. In this interview, Barry describes his work...

Dr. Keith Runyan, MD is a retired physician previously in private practice in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Runyan specialised in internal medicine, nephrology, and obesity medicine. He practiced emergency medicine for ten years before starting his private practice in 2001. In February 2012, he began the diet for the treatment of is diabetes and learned that this diet was also effective for the tre...

Chris here, writing the show notes for this episode presented by my wife and food scientist Julia Kelly where she interviews Mickey Trescott, and Angie Alt. I've talked a lot about ketogenic diets on the podcast, but the truth is ketosis is a hack to improve my cognition and athletic performance. Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) is the diet that enabled me to recover my health, and since then, we've coached...

Dr. Tim Gerstmar practices Naturopathic Medicine at his Redmond, WA office, Aspire Natural Health . He specialises in working with people with digestive and autoimmune problems, and has worked with many of the most difficult to treat situations using a blend of natural and conventional medicine. He treats patients locally, throughout the US and as far away as the Qatar, Korea and Australia. In thi...

Dr. Dawn Kernagis is a Research Scientist in the area of human performance optimization and risk mitigation for operators in extreme environments, such as those working in undersea diving, high altitude aviation, and space. Dr. Kernagis came to IHMC from Duke University Medical Center, where her postdoctoral research was funded by the Office of Naval Research and the American Heart Association to...

A Whole Health Educator and Personal Trainer from Mountain View, California asked me some questions about the FDN certification and since we get so many questions like the ones below, Tommy and I did a webinar to answer those and more, live. The questions: What health services did you offer before studying with FDN?  How did you integrate your new training into your service offerings at the beginn...

Aaron Alexander is an accomplished manual therapist and movement coach with over a decade of experience. He is the founder of Align Therapy ™, an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care that has helped thousands including Olympic and professional level athletes. He is the creator of the ' Self-Care Kit ' and the host of a highly ridiculous and informative podcast . Here's the outl...

Lauren Petersen, PhD, is a postdoctoral associate working for Dr. George Weinstock and investigating the microbiome. Our knowledge of the 100 trillion microorganisms that inhabit the human body is still very limited, but the advent of next-generation sequencing technology has allowed researchers to start understanding what kind of microorganisms inhabit the human body and identifying the types of...

It's really tough to get science-based information about the ketogenic diet - there's so much new research happening all the time, it's hard to keep up! However, we've put together a free online Keto Summit with some world-class doctors, researchers, and athletes who share their latest and best knowledge - how to refine your keto diet, ketone supplements, health benefits of keto, weight loss benef...

Joshua Fields Millburn is one half of The Minimalists . At first glance, people might think the point of minimalism is only to get rid of material possessions: Eliminating. Jettisoning. Extracting. Detaching. Decluttering. Paring down. Letting go. But that's a mistake.  Minimalists don't focus on having less, less, less; rather, they focus on making room for more: more time, more passion, more exp...

Any discussion of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is fraught with difficulty, not least of which is the definition. The Non GMO Project describes them as "organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering," but there are others, see Leandra's AHS 16 poster for more details.           Leandra Brettner is a PhD candidate at the Unive...

This podcast is the second part of a series. In the first part, Dr. Shaw and I talked about how to measure metabolism using organic acids . My initial test showed two major problems: yeast and clostridia overgrowth. It's been about six months since I took probiotics and Raintree Formulas Amazon antifungals for two months and the retest shows some but not complete improvement. The primary focus of...

Tim JP Collins is a British entrepreneur and host of The Anxiety Podcast . In a former life as an executive, Tim reached a tipping point onstage during a big presentation and has since turned his life around to overcome his anxiety and is now helping other people do the same. Looking back Tim realised that he'd created the perfect storm: Lots of travel away from home and family. Drinking alcohol i...

I will send the first 100 people that leave me a 5-star review on iTunes ( video instructions ) a bar of Fruition 100% dark chocolate . Please send your US shipping address to support@nourishbalancethrive.com Chocolate is awesome! Everyone knows that. Less well known is cacao's (we use the terms chocolate, cocoa, and cacao synonymously in this podcast) blood pressure lowering and insulin signallin...

The overall prevalence of erectile dysfunction in men aged ≥20 years was 18.4% suggesting that erectile dysfunction affects 18 million men in the US alone. Among men with diabetes, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction was 51.3%. ED can have a neurogenic, psychogenic, or endocrinologic basis, but the most common cause is thought to be related to vascular abnormalities of the penile blood supply a...

Jeremy Powers is the current U.S. Cyclocross champion and top-ranked American rider in the world, and he listens to my podcast! I couldn't believe it when I found out. Jeremy emailed me to say hi, and of course, I immediately invited him on so that I could probe deep into the diet, lifestyle, training and racing strategy that has enabled him to be National Champion four times. Our contact was mini...

In January 2014, young and talented Romanian engineer Fabian Popa was feeling fine when pneumonia struck from nowhere. He remembers coming home from work and feeling a burning sensation in his chest. After a short time coping with the coughing, severe fatigue set in and Fabian found himself unable to work. Having heard about the potential for unwanted effects caused by antibiotics, Fabian held out...

Fast facts: The elimination diets that we've gotten great results with for our clients travel very well with a little planning. Our diet didn't vary from the norm on a recent three week road trip. I've been eating a very high fat and fibre, moderate protein, zero acellular carbohydrate (e.g. sugar) ketogenic diet. Just before we departed, my blood glucose was 77 mg/dL and blood beta-hydroxybutyrat...

Rory Heath is a columnist at Strength & Conditioning Research and a 4th-year medical student at King's College, London. Rory has a passion for sports medicine and attends many sports medicine conferences. Treatment for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, common in contact sports like rugby, are frequently the focus of these events. In this interview, Rory talks about how some simple dietary c...

Dan Pardi is a rare bird. Not only does Dan have a classical education in sports medicine and exercise physiology, he also spent time working with Dean Ornish at the Preventive Medicine Lifestyle Institute before spending a decade working in the pharmaceutical industry. Dan now collaborates with the Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford University and the Departments of Neurology and Endocrin...

Two brilliant scientists are racing to be the first to commercialise exogenous ketones. The applications include athletic performance and metabolic therapies for CNS oxygen toxicity, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases. In the red corner, Dr. Richard Veech, one of the greatest living minds in basic biochemistry. In the blue corner, the also brilliant renegade chemist Patrick Arnold . Stuck so...

In the past two weeks for the Keto Summit , I interviewed Dave Asprey, Mark Sisson and Professors Tim Noakes, Kieran Clarke and Tom Seyfried. These are just five of the 33 expert interview I have lined up. Each interview is around one hour or 10,000 words long. So much wisdom, sometimes decades in the making, is there anything I can do to help retain some of it in my long term memory? Quite possib...

"Gary Taubes is in the building!" exclaimed Foodloose host Dr. Maryanne Demasi. Gary was scheduled to arrive at Iceland's international airport the morning of the conference, and he'd already missed his keynote slot. British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra had assumed Gary's position, and I'd started to wonder if the rest of the speakers would be advanced in the same way. Fortunately, that was not...