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This week, Dominic D’Agostino, Ph. D., joins me to explain how the brain benefits from ketosis. Dr. Dom is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, where he teaches at The Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology and at The Morsani College of Medicine. He’s also a research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. His work focuses on developing ways t...

This week, Wade Lightheart, the co-founder of BiOptimizers, joins me for a second time on the show. In our previous conversation, we dove deep into the subjects of soil depletion and nutrient deficiency. Today, we tackle the crucial issues of metabolic health and blood sugar and discuss the benefits of hiring a coach to help you achieve and sustain your health and fitness goals. As the co-founder...

In this solo episode, I show you how to incorporate heavy kettlebells into your routine and describe how to do deadlifts, deadswings, and static holds with a 100 lb bell. As a big fan of heavy bells, I emphasize their ability to build strength, improve form, and help you achieve optimal results, as well as making the training you do with your standard weight bells feel so much easier. Since it’s F...

This week I’m joined by my fellow kettlebell and Bulgarian Bag enthusiast, Mike Salemi. Mike is a former Long Cycle Clean and Jerk World Champion who competed for over 15 years in powerlifting and kettlebell sport. As a specialist in optimizing human performance, Mike trains elite athletes in a variety of sports. He also offers a range of online courses designed to make you feel great and improve...

Today, I talk about my approach to parenting and share my three golden rules for raising happy, healthy paleo kids. I delve into developmental milestones, bedtime routines, and first foods, and I compare modern parenting methods with the more intuitive child-rearing choices of tribal societies. Plus, as a dad who wants to raise his son to be evolutionarily consistent yet able to thrive in the mode...

This week, I sit for a second time with breathwork pioneer and functional breathing expert Patrick McKeown. In our previous conversation, Patrick showed us how to use our breath to improve our health and boost our athletic performance. Today, he shares some breathing techniques to help us strengthen our focus and increase our attention span. In this episode, we talk about Patrick’s new book Atomic...

My guest this week is Garrett Salpeter, aka The Health Engineer. After studying engineering and neuroscience at university, Garrett created the Neubie, a direct current electrostimulation device that helps the body heal and restores movement by stimulating the nervous system. Garrett is also the founder of the NeuFit method, and he has recently written a book entitled The NeuFit Method: Unleash th...

Lately, I’ve been feeling a little triggered by those pro-vaccination ads that appear to deliberately insult the intelligence of well-informed, health-conscious individuals who’ve made the decision not to get vaccinated against Covid. As a coach, I don’t believe that demonizing a group of people who eat healthily and take care of their bodies is in anyone’s best interests. In my opinion, it only s...

Niraj Naik is a pharmacist turned natural healer, musician, and breathwork expert. After being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and stress-related depression, Niraj resolved to take his health into his own hands and use meditation, breathwork, and traditional Ayurvedic medicine to heal his condition. Today, Niraj is happy, healthy, and symptom-free and, through his powerful SOMA Breath system (wh...

In my first live solo video podcast, I feel it’s important to share my thoughts on nutrition and my ancestral approach to diet. I dive into how our diet has changed since we transitioned from hunter-gatherers to farmers and made the switch from mainly eating nutritionally rich animal products to consuming high-carb bread and grains. I also explain why our high-carb, high-fat, low-protein modern di...

Shanais Pelka is a nutritionist, herbalist, and the Research and Development Manager at Organifi, where she is responsible for sourcing high-quality ingredients for their organic, glyphosate-residue-free superfood blends. Shania is an expert in natural health and herbal remedies. She’s also a mom, an entrepreneur, and the owner of Seven Springs Farm, an 18-acre organic family farm in North Carolin...

 Today I talk about how I evolved from a hyperactive, pharmaceutically medicated kid into a breathwork loving, low-carb eating, holistically healthy guy. Plus, I explain why, at the age of 36, I feel happier, healthier, and fitter than ever. Above all, I stress the importance of questioning the perceived wisdom about what is conventionally considered good for us, and I encourage everyone to think...

Dr. Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen is a foraging instructor, a healer, and a modern-day medicine man. He has a master’s degree in medicinal chemistry, a Ph. D. in physical organic chemistry, and an encyclopedic knowledge of plant medicine. Due to his outdoor lifestyle and background as a hunter and a forager, Mark has been described as “the scientist raised by wolves,” and his Merriwether nickna...

This Friday, I want to share a talk I recently delivered to an audience in Switzerland. It’s entitled How to Prioritize Healthy Decisions for Maximal Sustainability, and it’s intended as a follow-up to my 2016 TEDx talk on breathing and heart rate variability. My new presentation sets out the principal practices to follow for vibrant health and longevity, and it stresses the importance of proper h...

Today’s guest is Howard Martin, the Executive Vice President of HeartMath, an organization that teaches people how to cultivate positive emotions, enhance their wellbeing, and perform to the best of their abilities. HeartMath’s techniques are used by Fortune 100 companies, military organizations, and government agencies to help their employees build resilience and cope with stress, and its unique...

Dr. David Dodick is a Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Headache Program and the Sports Neurology and Concussion Program at the Mayo Clinic. He’s also the Chair of the American Migraine Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Conference. Dr. Dodick has recently developed a supplement that provides nutritional support for the brain and is particularly benefic...

In my recent show with Graham Wardle, we talked about finding our why and following what we’ve been called to do. Today, I suggest adopting the same approach to our health and wellness. As a coach who wants to help people live longer, perform better and feel healthier, I believe we need to ask ourselves what we want to achieve from our fitness programs in order to adapt and tailor them to suit our...

Today, my guest Graham Wardle talks about mustering up the courage to move out of your comfort zone and create more personal and spiritual growth in your life. Graham has been acting since he was a child, and until recently, he played the part of Ty Borden in the long-running Canadian TV drama series Heartland. However, after years of inner work and self-inquiry, he made the decision to leave the...

Today, I explore the correlation between nasal breathing and maximum aerobic heart rate and set out the criteria I use to define heart rate zones. To keep things simple, I break the zones down into Easy, MAF, Grind, and Max, and I explain what happens when you move out of the aerobic MAF zone into the more intense anaerobic zone. Plus, I advise how to avoid fatigue and declining performance and de...

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In this solo episode, I dive into the subjects of coffee dependency, essential oils, and breathwork. Plus, I compare our hunter-gatherer ancestors’ physically challenging and communal lifestyles with our modern, isolated, primarily sedentary lives, which make us susceptible to chronic diseases and stress. Finally, as a father and a fitness coach, I express my concerns about how far we’ve deviated...

Today's guest is David Weck, the inventor of the BOSU Ball and creator of the Weck Method. David is a physical education specialist who focuses on developing products and training methods that challenge norms, optimize performance, and produce fast-acting results. His principal interest lies in providing training tools that help people move better and experience less pain and more joy in thei...

Thank you for tuning into the Friday show. Today, I talk about running and explain how to increase your mileage without getting injured. Since it’s estimated that 82% of people who take up running get hurt, it makes sense to train appropriately and avoid doing too much, too fast, too soon. In this episode, you’ll hear from me on: My Seven steps for Injury-Free Running Look after your feet. Roll th...

Today, I sit with Sameer Sontakey and Kevin Longoria, the CEO and Chief Science Officer of Biostrap, a pioneering digital health company that provides reliable health tracking using raw waveform data to produce a detailed analysis of health biometrics. Biostrap’s mission is to democratize data by making it more readily available and to improve global health by making it easier to tackle long-stand...

Welcome to my new shorter Friday show, where I answer a question about nasal breathing that I received following my recent episode on breathwork with Dan Brulé. The question was from a swimmer who wanted to know how to nose breathe while swimming. And, since it’s rather challenging for a swimmer to avoid mouth breathing, my advice was to concentrate on nasal breathing when they’re not swimming by...