Siim Land Podcast

What are the goals of intermittent fasting? Why do people do it and what's the reason? This episode of the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast will talk about these topics. It's the audio version from a recent YouTube live stream that includes some Q&A as well.   Here are the links to the podcast on all platforms Link to the Audio Podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Link to the podcast on Spotify Link to the...

How long does it take to trigger a beneficial hormetic response to cold exposure? What's the best weight loss macros on keto? How to stay motivated? All of these questions and much more in today's Body Mind Empowerment Q&A episode. I'm your host Siim Land and I'll be answering some of the questions I got asked on social media and Facebook. Timestamps: My Ideal Meal for Lunch and Late Night Snack 0...

"Eat as much fat as you want and don't count calories" Ever heard that sort of advice from a keto guru?  The ketogenic diet is becoming more popular than ever before. Unfortunately, there's a lot of false information and bad advice that gets spread around. Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land and our guest is Richard Nikoley. Richard is a blogger, entrepreneur, and...

If you've paid any attention to recent news, then you probably have seen a lot of headlines related to plant-based vegan diets and such.  A lot of people are going fully vegan in hopes to improve their health, fight environmental challenges, and save the animals. It's true that there are a lot of things wrong with animal husbandry, agriculture, large metropolitan cities, and eating other species....

Can't make it out of bed? Feeling tired during the day? Troubles falling asleep at night? Chances are you're suffering from a circadian rhythm mismatch. One of the most influential environmental factors for determining your physiological processes is light. It signals the body to release certain hormones and keep itself in sync with the day and night cycles of the planet. Welcome to the Body Mind...

How does shining red light on your skin affect your health? What's this thing called photobiomodulation? Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I’m your host Siim Land and our guest today is Bryan Gohl. Bryan is one of the co-founders of Red Light Rising which is a UK based brand that sells red light therapy devices. Timestamps:- What is Photobiomodulation 01:18- Benefits of Red Light Thera...

Can you build muscle and burn fat at the same time? Is it possible to get leaner and more muscular simultaneously? Sounds like either an unachievable dream or the perfect condition for an optimized lean body composition. As crazy as it might seem, it is possible to gain lean muscle tissue at a caloric deficit at the expense of excess body fat. Your body has the building blocks - it just needs the...

What about the Steak and Eggs Diet? Could you carb-load on cruciferous vegetables like broccoli?  How to enter flow states to quadruple your productivity? That's how I'm writing my next book... Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast I'm your host Siim Land and in this episode, I'm gonna answer some questions from my followers related to biohacking, nutrition, and general life. Timestamps: Wh...

What is the best time to eat according to the circadian rhythm? Circadian rhythms are biological rhythms in our body that control all metabolic and physiological processes. When to eat while intermittent fasting? Greg Potter will tell you an answer. Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast I'm your host Siim Land. Our guest today is Greg Potter from Human. OS. Greg has a PhD in the Leeds Unive...

Can you build muscle on the ketogenic diet? I think that question's been shown to be true by thousands and thousands of people by now The question remains - is it better or reasonable to do so? That's a whole nother topic and it depends on many variables Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast with Siim Land. Our guests today are Luis Villasenor and Tyler Cartwright from the Ketogains Bootcam...

What's the fastest way to lose fat and get off meds? It's prolonged fasting and low carb eating. There are thousands and thousands of people losing hundreds and hundreds of pounds of body fat while reversing diabetes, fixing skin issues, healing the gut, and even treating cancer on THE SNAKE DIET. The Snake Diet is a fasting focused lifestyle that incorporates extended periods of fasting followed...

Do you suffer from inflammation, stagnation, and apathy? Part of it has to do with the disconnection between you and the natural environment around you as so many people do. Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast I'm your host Siim Land and our guest today is Yarrow Willard aka The Herbal Jedi. Yarrow Willard the Herbal Jedi is a herbalist and entrepreneur from Canada who runs his business H...

Imagine being in the middle of freakin nowhere - cold, harsh wilderness Would you be able to survive? Will you die? Or can you become a stronger version of yourself? That's what every life form on this planet has had to deal with - early life on Earth was hazardous and it posed some severe adaptation mechanisms on all that was to survive. Charles Darwin said in On the Origin of the Species: It is...

They said: "Go to college, get good grades, work your ass off, and eventually you'll be happy!" By the time you're retiring due to adrenal fatigue and depression maybe... Nearly 70% of people today are dissatisfied with their job and they're suffering from chronic fatigue, lack of purpose, poor relationships, and a slow degradation. It seems the education system today is bullshit and it's setting...

Life consists of anabolic and catabolic processes that are governed through many fuel sensors inside your body. The main pathways that direct anabolism and catabolism are mTOR, autophagy, and AMPK. This is my speech about balancing anabolism and catabolism with mTOR and autophagy at the Biohacker Summit Tallinn 2018.  Here are the links to the podcast on all platforms Link to the Audio Podcast on...

You must've heard that eating protein, meat, and dairy gives you heart disease and gives you cancer.  Does elevating IGF-1 and mTOR accelerate aging or do low levels of IGF-1 actually make you more prone to neurodegeneration and shorter life?  Is it better to bulk up fast with carbs or do it slowly on keto? Does bulletproof coffee stop autophagy? How many carbs to eat on the targeted ketogenic die...

Is eating meat killing the environment and damaging your health? Should you avoid saturated fat and cholesterol?  Or could it be that you've been subject to some propagandist misconceptions about what's a healthy diet and how it affects the environment?  Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land and our guest today is Brian Sanders. Brian is a filmmaker and an entrepren...

Did you know that "boosting your immune system" may actually make you more vulnerable to getting sick? Taking a lot of antioxidants and drinking your superfood green smoothie isn't always the best thing for general health and immunity. The key to not getting sick and living longer is to have a robust immune system that's able to cope with environmental stressors without suffering from some sort of...

Did you know that the ketogenic diet was originally used to treat epilepsy in children? Being in ketosis provides an alternate fuel source to the brain in the form of ketones, which help the person maintain stable energy and experience fewer seizures. Epileptic patients who've gone keto have actually managed to cure themselves of the disease completely after being on the diet for a while. What's m...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to 3 American scientists for their discoveries about how internal clocks govern human biology These circadian rhythms are prevalent in all species and they're connected to the day and night cycles of the environment This episode of the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast is a workshop at my Biohacking Bootcamp in July this year. It covers what are...

"My chronological age is 37 and my biological age based on telomere measurements is 20" - Ben Greenfield Is there a way to reverse aging or at least age slower by promoting your longevity and youthfulness? Ben Greenfield is one of the world's leading biohackers who's done a lot of experiments in these areas and has shown this to be possible. That's the topic of today's Body Mind Empowerment Podcas...

Are you one of the 4 people who's going to die to a heart attack or stroke? Pardon such an intrusive question, but the situation is quite serious... They say that heart disease is the cause of 1 out of every 4 deaths in the United States and it’s one of the most common killers in western populations. A recent medical journal also stated that the rates of heart disease are rising beyond our ability...

How to control mobile usage and phone addiction? Is Bacon a vegetable? How does fasting and eating later in the day affect your circadian rhythms? What do you do if you get sick of repeating yourself? Do I believe in an afterlife? And what’s the best IF protocol for Women? These are the topics of today’s Body Mind Empowerment Podcast QANA episode. I’m you host Siim Land and you should put away you...

When it comes to health, are you more motivated by the fear of getting sick or by the benefit of being vigorous and health? That's the difference between health optimization medicine and disease treatment medicine. The traditional medicine focuses solely on how to treat the sicknesses people have already got instead of thinking about how they could be prevented in the first place. They also try to...

How does fasting affect your body in the long term? Are the health benefits of time restricted eating and fasting really true? Or is it just short-term rapid weight loss strategy? Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast, I'm your host Siim Land and I've been doing intermittent fasting in some shape or form for 7 years. I haven't eaten breakfast for 7 years and based on conventional wisdom, I...