Optimize Your Microbiome

Getting more energy will require a lifestyle change... if you don't have a strong enough reason why you want more energy, then what's likely to happen is that you'll make changes until you start to feel better... Once you start feeling better, you are likely to go back to your old lifestyle and struggle again... I myself was stuck in this cycle for the first seven years when I first st...

People who struggle with low energy and weight are usually told to cut out gluten, dairy, sugar or they live off caffeine... You may have the false belief that salt is bad for you... Or you may have heard that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" not realizing that it was a marketing campaign by Dr Kellog's looking to sell Corn Flakes... These false beliefs are the reaso...

One of the insights that changed the way I think of health was finding out yeast candida was the reason I would feel gassy, bloated, and constipated... What made this so impactful was realizing that the first time I'd seen the word yeast candida was in beer brewing book. This yeast strain was the same yeast strain that would spoil a batch of beer. When I understood that piece, gut health made...

When it comes to losing weight, it's not about what diet you are on... It's not about being vegan, carnivore, keto, paleo or any other diet out there... You can be in any of those diets, but if the quality of food you eat isn't good, then no diet will work... If the quality of food you eat is good, then you can make almost any diet work... In this podcast I walk you through my 4 princi...

Your body recharges its batteries when it sleeps... that is if you are able to get deep, restorative sleep... It's not about how many hours you sleep, it's about the quality of your sleep... if you have vivid, lucid dreams, then you will wake up feeling refreshed and full of energy... If you don't get deep REM sleep, then you may toss and turn through out the night... when that happens...

There was a point in my life when I simply could not figure out how to burn fat... I wanted to get lean & toned so that I could take off my shirt in public and feel confident... I didn't like the way I looked... nothing seemed to work and I was highly skeptical of anything out there that promised me it would help... When it came to health, I was dependent on doctors to tell me what was wro...

The key to lose weight is to detox your body... You'll often hear me say that "you're not fat, you're toxic"... that's because toxins are harmful to your body. Your body protects itself from toxins by stuffing toxins into your fat cells... The more toxic you are the bigger your fat cells get... Detoxing is not a matter of taking herbs, doing cleanses or fasting... You hav...

In this podcast we talk about our upcoming book "The Energy & Fat Loss Blueprint"... If our bodies had come with an owner's manual, this is what mine would look like... in this book I cover what I do to get more energy and lose weight... The book was written as a resource to help more people access this information even if I'm not around... This book captures the teachings I...

The most common advice people give to lose weight is to "eat less and exercise more"... ... but we don't think you need to eat less nor exercise more... Instead, we believe that if you eat the right foods, you can eat more and exercise less... That's what we cover in today's podcast. To learn more about how to get more energy and lose weight visit: https://beerdietproject.com

In this episode we share our experience on gaining weight during the holidays and why you shouldn't feel guilty about it... Our food supply is so bad, it's nearly impossible to avoid "bad food" when visiting relatives... Do we wish it were different and we didn't have to worry about eating bad food? Yes... That's why we put this Podcast together... It's going to take...

Food is supposed to give you energy... If you can't digest food, then you won't be able to produce energy... Your body's ability to burn fat and lose weight depends on your ability to get more energy... That's why improving digestion makes this easier... If you don't improve your digestion then over time you are likely to grow bad bacteria in your gut, which will then make it h...

Many people struggle to make sense of all the diets and weight loss strategies out there. Count calories, go keto, eat this not that, more protein, less carbs, etc. It's nauseating just to think about all the contradicting advice. It is much much easier to get more energy and lose weight when you understand that what matters most is quality of food. You can not out supplement a poor diet. The...

People who struggle to lose weight seem to be the ones that are always on a diet, trying everything and anything... Nothing seems to work for them... Then there's others who don't try nearly as hard and yet they seem to get results almost effortlessly... That's the power of rest... When you subject your body to constant anything without taking a break you become blind to mistakes becau...

A clean body is a lean body. Your body relies on deep, restorative sleep to clean itself out. Sleep is also a key player in hormone production, which is how your body produces energy. Losing weight when you have low energy is nearly impossible. Energy production makes it easier to lose weight. Those are just a couple of reasons on how sleep affects weight loss. To learn more visit: https://beerdie...

Life happens. Sometimes it's a birthday, a holiday, family get together, or some situation where you just can't stick to a good diet. It makes you feel like a failure and makes you doubt whether you'll ever be able to lose weight and fit into those skinny jeans. We've been there more times than we'd like to admit. We've had cheat meals. We've had cheat days. We've h...

A clean body is a lean body. A lean body is a clean body. The environment of your gut determines what type of gut flora you will cultivate and grow. If you gut is toxic, you will likely grow bad bacteria, wild yeast, mold, parasites and other unwanted stuff. You cannot grow healthy probiotics in a toxic environment. That's why you'll want to learn how to detox your body. Toxins are bad for...

In this episode we discuss changes to our diet that helped us recover from hiking the Manitou Incline stairs. This hike is a very intense hike where you gain over 2,000 ft elevation in just 0.88 of a mile at 45% grade at the steeper areas. To prepare for this hike we made changes to our diet that helped us get more energy and build muscle. This same approach also helped us to recover after the hik...

There was a time when I couldn't lose weight no matter what. I tried all kinds of diets, shakes, supplements and things that didn't work. My clothes didn't fit and I didn't like the way I looked. The more I tried to learn how to lose weight the more confused I got, until I learned simple tweaks I could make to my diet that changed it all for me. In this podcast we go over these pra...

Your metabolism depends on your body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels. When your body loses the ability to regulate blood sugar levels, you will start to see signs of inflammation which is a response to your body's inability to digest food properly. In this podcast we dive deeper into this topic to help you understand how blood sugar levels affect inflammation. To learn more visit:...

Inflammation seems to be a trending concern... In this episode we cover how blood sugar levels play a role and why it is important that you watch your blood sugar levels... Blood sugar levels affect your body's ability to digest food... If your body can't digest food, especially protein, then inflammation will show up... Blood sugar levels aren't affected only by sugar or carb consumpt...

The word "diet" can have different meanings to people. For some, diet means to be strict about what you eat. For others it means to restrict what you eat. Diet is really nothing more than your daily eating habits. Most people default to the same foods consistently. When people say "I struggle with consistency" with my diet, what they are saying is that they struggle with making...

The key to more energy and weight loss can be found in hormone production... Carbs and fasting are tools that can help you improve hormone production... Done wrong, carbs and fasting can lower your hormone production... Done right, carbs and fasting can boost your hormone production... Carbs and fasting are tools you must learn to optimize your microbiome... Optimizing your microbiome to grow heal...

When I say lose weight the easy way, it's not marketing. It truly is the easy way, and frankly the only healthy way to go about losing weight. In this episode I break down how body fat expands due to toxins and how bad gut flora is the biggest source of toxins that make you fat. Listen in to learn what you can do to stop gaining weight and how easy it can be to lose weight so that your clothes...

The key to more energy and weight loss can be found in hormone production... Carbs and fasting are tools that can help you improve hormone production... Done wrong, carbs and fasting can lower your hormone production... Done right, carbs and fasting can boost your hormone production... Carbs and fasting are tools you must learn to optimize your microbiome... Optimize your microbiome is the most ef...

There's a polarization of beliefs when it comes to healthy eating... On one hand you have vegans telling you that eating meat is bad for you and bad for the environment... On the opposite side of the spectrum you have the carnivore community telling you that vegetables are bad and full of oxalates, phytic acid, lectins and other anti-nutrients... In this episode we explore this topic and talk abou...