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Ben Azadi | Metabolic Freedom: The Root Cause of Slow Metabolism Is NOT The Food You Eat
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Quick takeaways
- Metabolic health is intertwined with purpose and mindset, not just food choices.
- Embracing fear can lead to personal growth and discovering one's purpose.
- Protecting oneself from negative influences is crucial for mental well-being and behavior.
Deep dives
The Influence of Thoughts on Health and Obesity
Our thoughts play a significant role in our health and weight. The podcast episode explores how our mental state affects obesity rates. It emphasizes that people are not obese because of what they eat but because of the thoughts consuming them. Understanding one's purpose and changing thoughts can lead to a healthier lifestyle and weight loss. The shift from negative to positive thoughts can trigger a transformation in behavior and overall well-being.
Embracing Fear and Personal Growth
Fear is discussed as an informant that can lead to personal growth. The episode delves into the concept of embracing fear and using it as a catalyst for positive change. It highlights the importance of facing fears to evolve and find one's purpose. The dialogue emphasizes that leaning into discomfort and overcoming fears can pave the way for self-discovery and achievement.
Environment and Self-Protection
The influence of our environment on thoughts and behaviors is explored, emphasizing the need to protect oneself from negative influences. The episode discusses the impact of AI and media on shaping beliefs and values. It underscores the importance of being mindful of the content consumed and maintaining a positive environment to support overall well-being and mental health.
Understanding Metabolism and Health
The podcast discusses how the portrayal of unhealthy products as healthy through commercials featuring elite athletes and celebrities, coupled with societal brainwashing through various platforms, influences people's health decisions. It emphasizes the importance of being aware of subconscious messaging, such as Google themes promoting vaccines, to make informed choices. By recognizing external influences and protecting one's environment and thoughts, individuals can improve their overall well-being and change their destiny.
Metabolism, Diet, and Personal Wellness
The episode delves into the significance of metabolism and dietary choices in achieving optimal health. It highlights the role of red meat and high-quality animal-based proteins in enhancing bodily functions and overall performance. The discussion also touches on metabolic flexibility, emphasizing the use of keto as a tool rather than a strict dietary regimen. By understanding metabolism as the transformation of various substrates into energy, individuals can identify and remove interferences to unlock their body's natural ability to burn fat and produce energy efficiently.
How is slow metabolism related to a lack of purpose and not genetics?
Ben Azadi, Metabolic Health Expert and Founder of Keto Kamp, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 656, to talk about the key factors that helped him lose weight, how you create a prison inside your head, why the environment you're in has the power to change your life, and what most people get wrong about slow metabolism.
"93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy because they're not living a life on purpose with their purpose. When you're clear on that and you start to change your thoughts and become aware of what's going on in your environment, everything else clicks." - Ben Azadi
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In This Episode, Ben Azadi Uncovers: [01:30] Addiction Can Be a Gift- Ben Azadi
- Keto Flex by Ben Azadi
- Why his parents left Iran.
- How getting clear on his purpose helped Ben lose weight.
- Why he shifted from video addiction to alcohol, drugs, and food.
- How he fought suicidal thoughts after breaking up with his girlfriend.
- Responsibility is the ability to respond to life.
- Why abundance is a birthright.
- How Ben liberated himself from a mental prison through God.
- What God means to him.
- We are here to find our purpose.
- The people who live the longest have a connection to a higher power.
- Why it's important to focus on our mental health in order to achieve optimal health.
- Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach by Larry Dossey
- Why most heart attacks happen on a Monday morning.
- Obesity is not a genetic issue.
- What we can learn from children.
- Why most people are lost in their 20s.
- The reason why people struggle to find their passion.
- How Ben faced his fear of public speaking and it's now what he does for a living.
- Fear provides us with information.
- Personal growth is a choice.
- The mind is not just the brain.
- Why most people live life on an autopilot.
- We have 60,000 thoughts every day.
- How traumatic events and repetition change how we think.
- How thoughts become things.
- 293 Dr. Jade Teta: How To Be A Next Level Human
- Our environment determines the thoughts we think.
- Why Ben didn't want to watch the series Euphoria.
- How the Big Pharma and fast foods brainwash people through the TV.
- The body holds our memories.
- Why Ben recommends eating animal-based protein.
- How a high amount of stress doesn't allow us to have space for flexibility.
- Improving your metabolism is not complicated.
- What it means to be metabolically free.
- Symptoms are not the problem, they're a gift from God.
- Why doctors should ask their patients about what they eat.
- How Ben's father struggled with diabetes.
- Why it was devastating to see his father in the hospital slowly dying.
- How Ben felt like he needed to give his dad permission to leave.
- Why the information he has now would have saved his dad's life.
- The sooner you can change, the sooner you can get different results.
- How we learn from our struggles.
- Why understanding we are children of God is a part of wellness.
- When we control our environment, we can achieve better wellness.
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Power Quotes From The Show Weight Problem? No! Weight Symptom"Nobody has a weight problem. They have a weight symptom. The body gets healthy to lose weight. It doesn't lose weight to get healthy. So once you understand that and identify the interference, then work on removing the interference and then your inner physician will go to work for you." - Ben Azadi
The Ability to Respond to Life"Responsibility is your ability to respond to life. When your ability to respond to life is poor, you get poor results. When your ability to respond to life is taking an ownership over your circumstances and doing whatever it takes to figure it out, then you become the victor of your destiny and you stop being the victim of your history." - Ben Azadi
How to Become a Master"When you do something you fear, it sucks at first. And it continues to suck in the beginning. But my formula is suck, suck, success. You embrace the suck. You become a master. You were once a disaster. You eventually become a master along the way." - Ben Azadi
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In 2008, Ben Azadi was an obese man who went through a personal health transformation of releasing 80 pounds of extra weight and getting metabolically healthy.
Ever since, Ben Azadi, FDN-P, has been on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle.
Ben has over 15 years of experience in the health industry, and he’s the author of four best-selling books, including his latest Keto Flex. Ben has been the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet since 2013.
He is known as ‘The Health Detective’ because he investigates dysfunction, and he educates, not medicates, to bring the body back to normal function.
Ben is also the founder of Keto Kamp; a global brand bringing awareness to ancient healing strategies such as the keto diet and fasting.
Ben is the host of a top 15 podcast, The Metabolic Freedom Podcast which won Keto Podcast of The Year (2022) by The Metabolic Health Summit.
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