The Stag Roar: Life Less Ordinary

Was a special time to catch up with Mason who is passionate about health and tonic herbalism, health and wellbeing and the founder of Superfeast Mushies. How mushrooms come about, link the world and can benefit us is extremely fascinating and it was such a pleasure to get Mason on to delve deep into the detail Instagram https://www.instagram.com/masonjtaylor/?hl=en Twitter https://twitter.com/Maso...

Gemma is a graduate of the University of Waikato with a BMS (Hons) majoring in Strategy. Originally from Brisbane, she moved to the Waikato in 2010. Gemma is a Youth Advisor to Philanthropy New Zealand, a 2017 awardee of Hamilton City Council’s 30 under 30, and a guest speaker for the University of Waikato. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gemmarosemajor/?hl=en Twitter https://twitter.com/gemma...

Cliff helps people to live healthier, happier lives, and to perform better since the late 1990s. He has assisted with many Olympic, professional, Commonwealth and other high performing athletes. Cliff also worked with many people to overcome the effects of chronic and debilitating health conditions. Not content with his role as a clinical nutritionist he has followed his passions and founded or co...

Ivor has taken his Chemical Engineering background and 30 years in complex problem solving to not only improve his own health with a Low Carbohydrate Healthy Fat diet, but through his extensive research been able to communicate optimal health and wellbeing to the broader population. Yet again an engineering mindset has flipped common paradigms and dogmas of health to give the true benefits of food...

MISSION: TO INSPIRE AND CREATE A MOVEMENT THAT REDEFINES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN. LUCAS KRUMP co-founder of Evryman. Born and raised in Kansas, “midwest values” and Jesuit education define his character. After college he spent 10 years living abroad, where he began his career as a successful technology executive and entrepreneur. He has led several high performing global teams, and now at Evryma...

Grilo means “cricket” in Portuguese. According to the dictionary, a cricket is a brown or black insect that makes short, loud noises by rubbing its wings together. Our love for exercising triggered the search for a clean, high protein source to boost everyday meals and smoothies after surfing, running and training. Disappointed with the social and environmental impact caused by most of the protein...

Witnessing many of my patients on statins and being able to visualise atherosclerosis in retinal photos, I decided to gain a greater understanding about what cholesterol is and when is it a disease and when is it an energy source. Exploring this topic lead me to finding the work of Dave Feldman, which has greatly enhanced my understanding of lipidology, especially when adopting a low carb approach...

This episode we check back in with the legend, Luke Taylor. We hear from Luke how he got on at the World Triathlon Champs in Rotterdam, hear how he attacked an Ironman with his Taylored Method and have a general good chat about full spectrum, strength and conditioning, wellbeing and health. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tayloredhealthnz/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/luke.taylor28 Websit...

This episode I put a time stamp on The Stag Roar and dive deep into where I'm at right now. Coincidently my final day of work before moving to Australia. SPONSOR: https://waiket0.pruvitnow.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stagvision/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stagryan/ Twitter https://twitter.com/stagryan Snapchat @stagryan Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WaiKeto/ Blog https://...

This Episode I have the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Eddie Rakanui. I came across Eddies blog, KeCussion through a tweet by the one and only Dom D’Agostino. Seeing Eddies experience and through my own experience with Traumatic brain injury and ketosis I just knew we had to connect. Its interesting to hear about Eddie’s ongoing journey with the ketogenic diet in particular the special int...

As someone who has just had a wee daughter, its awesome to see a fierce female role model, Ky didn’t let a car crash at 19 years old define her life, and she certainly didn’t let a Doctor tell her she’d never be active again, on the contrary, she became the worlds best female stunt woman. A super interesting conversation with the person behind the stunts of; Jaimie Alexander in Thor and Jennifer G...

Ben Warren’s latest seminar, 'Tired, Stressed and All the Rest?' is here to support you in understanding your unique body, why what works for you when it comes to diet and lifestyle is personal, and how to unlock your energy to live the life you really want. Simply enter THESTAGROAR to receive $10 off your tickets at checkout. Here's the link to the events: https://www.bepure.co.nz/blogs/events/ti...

When Adam Kavanagh was working shift work in a coal mine, he began to suffer badly with ill health, without too many answers he was diagnosed with Graves disease. Given the option of surgery or a lifetime of medication, Adam found alternative answers in the Paleo diet when he caught Pete Evans on TV. In the space of a few days Adam’s symptom’s alleviated and sparked an journey of deeper discovery...

Back at the cutting edge of the latest science, What the Fast! is a practical guide to get you started with intermittent fasting (IF) or Super-Fasting (SF) as we now call it. Plus it comes with all the science and the recipes too. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/carynzinndietitian Website https://www.carynzinn.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/CarynZinn Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Prof. Gra...

A man who needs no introduction, Pete Evans is a human who is exploring his life experience through contentment. His podcast, Recipes for Life; brings to you others who are on their own journey of human experience and what factors optimise it for them. I was Lucky enough to catch Pete from his apartment in Auckland whilst he was in New Zealand recently filming My Kitchen Rules. I hope you enjoy th...

Talman Madsen is a Kiwi adventurer, photographer, frother, lover of life! I have been a massive fan of Talman for a number of years and its no surprises he was the recipient of the New Zealand Geographic Young Photographer of the year 2016. Since then he featured strongly in the Discovery Channel Internship competition and has done many awesome and wonderful photo expeditions not to mentioned publ...

Mike Masini is a Biohacker Specialist with a background in Metabolic Analytics, Strength and Conditioning and Holistic Nutrition. He is a diversified entrepreneur and has laser focus on elevating others to entrepreneurship. Mike is the Founder of BioHacker University and talks to us about his aspirations for health and wellness as well as his vision to come to NZ to hunt and change the face of hun...

Modern Huntsman is a biannual publication, and online forum for like-minded conservationists, creatives, and outdoor enthusiasts. Born out of frustration with the way hunting is often misrepresented in our modern society, their objective is to shed light on a more honest side of the story from the perspective of hunting purists and philosophers, unaltered by the skews of mainstream media, misinfor...

Ryan Munsey runs the Better Human Project Podcast, which looks at different people and how they are making an impact. Through the podcast, BHP hopes to raise further support for these ventures. In Ryan’s consulting life he works to help Athletes and Entrepreneurs optimise; mind and body for greater Impact. Ryan himself has a degree in Dietetics, has been a former Fitness Model, owned a Performance...

Dr Shawn Baker is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who has been practicing the Carnivore diet for the last 14 months. Shawn talks us through his developments from Paleo, to Keto and on to having nothing but steaks and the remarkable benefits it’s had on his health, his strength and his concentration. We discuss his time in New Zealand, playing rugby for Hautapu, Weight lifting, and his world records in Ergo...

Megan Ramos is the director of Intensive Dietary Management and Features on the podcast “The Obesity Code hosted by Carl Franklin” with fellow Director, Dr Jason Fung. The Intensive Dietary Management Coaching Program provides the education, guidance, support and structure necessary for successful weight loss and type 2 diabetes reversal. It is an online coaching program to naturally treat weight...

Guy Lawrence is someone who we can all learn a hell of a lot from. Guy perfectly describes what this podcast is all about. Raising awareness of what you are doing, coming from a place of love, a place that aligns with who you are and striving along a journey that aligns with your values and purpose. We dive deep into what flicked the switch for Guy and how that led to the hugely successful 180 Nut...

This episode we speak with Alysha Brown. Alysha is an English teacher by day, public personality by night and weekends and writer and business women when the rest of us are asleep. Alysha’s latest venture, Eco Saint looks to not only address New Zealand’s current rate of churning through about one billion lightweight plastic bags each year which Statistics New Zealand says was worth $10.5 million...

Alex Pole is my better half and inspiration. In this episode we talk about the importance of quality of life and what we got out of seeing the amazing Dr Steve Joe who I wrote about in my latest blog https://stagryan.com/2018/01/14/whekau-gut-health/ Alex is such an incredible woman and inspires me every day as we count down until the birth of our first child (no we don’t know what we are having)....

Paddy McInnes is part of the engine room for the NZ Elite Mens Eight. Outside of his hectic life as a full time rower, Paddy keeps bees; along with his flatmate, Paddy is slowly building up a bee empire in the Waipa. In this discussion we talk over what its like to be on the starting blocks for the World Champs of the Men’s Eight, what it takes to be an Elite rower and the secret behind Paddy goin...