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Mar 4, 2022 • 1h 31min

Part 151 - Dr. Nick Nwabuaze (The Fittest Doc) Practical Strategies to Improve your Health & Body

Dr. Nwabueze is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who focuses on helping his patients fix the root cause of their stress and poor health. He completed medical school at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and finished his  internship and residency at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital in Illinois. He currently uses a mix of resistance training, nutrition coaching, and lifestyle management to form long term relationships with his clients, improving their overall health and happiness through Steady MD, using the Direct Primary Care modality. Find him on Instagram and other social media platforms @thefittestdoc     GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDEhttp://sapien.org     SHOW NOTES [1:45] - Dr. Nick’s Background and Beginning [5:52] - Brian and Nick’s thoughts on “Movement is Medicine” [10:50] - How Movement plays into Fat Loss [19:45] - How everything that we put our body through (food, exercise, work) is all stress and how we hormetically get stronger and fitter long-term [23:30] - How and why you should measure Body Composition  [32:30] - Brian and Nick’s Workout Routines [43:25] - Nick’s Mindset on Diet and Nutrition [51:25] - How Dr. Nick works though obesity, obese clients, and mainstream views around obesity [1:21:00] - How Dr. Nick practices medicine with SteadyMD and why he loves it Reach Nick here on SteadyMD   GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDEhttp://sapien.org   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg http://youtube.com/c/foodlies
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Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 34min

Part 150 - Richard Perkins on the True Diet of Our Ancestors and Replicating this in Sweden

Richard Perkins is a worldwide leader in the regenerative agriculture space, an author, educator, and farmer. He lives in Sweden with his family on a holistically managed and integrated farm producing a variety of animal and plant foods for his family and community. His practices have taught him how humans must have provided food for themselves for the lion's share of history. From his decades of experience combined with the scientific literature and other accounts around the world, it's apparent they were eating locally & seasonally and relying on nose to tail animal nutrition for the majority of their calories. Please enjoy this episode! GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg
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Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 26min

Part 149 - Chris Masterjohn, PhD on Analyzing the Hidden Data You're Not Hearing About

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Dec 22, 2021 • 1h 20min

Part 148 - Dr. Chris Palmer on Incredible Cases of Diet & Lifestyle Reversing Depression, Bipolar, and Schizophrenia

In this episode, I had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Chris Palmer who uses diet and lifestyle changes to improve the lives of people suffering from mental and metabolic illness. As you'll learn in the show, there is a metabolic component of many mental health conditions.   Dr. Palmer has been exploring dietary changes, like the ketogenic diet, as treatment for conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. He shares some amazing and inspiring stories that need to be shared with the world if we want to see meaningful changes to our medical system!   Dr. Palmer has been involved in psychiatric research for over 23 years. He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. He did his internship and psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He is currently the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.   He has been pioneering the use of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for psychiatric disorders. This is an evidence-based treatment for epilepsy, and epilepsy treatments are commonly used in psychiatry. Additionally, the ketogenic diet has profound effects on brain metabolism that may correct some of the metabolic abnormalities often found in people with mental disorders. He is working with researchers from around the world to assess the effectiveness of this treatment in real people and better understand its mechanisms of action.   Check out his website! - https://www.chrispalmermd.com   DISCLAIMER: The opinions and information provided here by Dr. Chris Palmer and Brian Sanders are not to be taken as medical advice.     SHOW NOTES [3:30] The ketogenic diet and alcoholism [10:30] The ketogenic diet is an evidence-based treatment for epilepsy [13:40] Dr. Chris Palmer’s background and personal story [21:40] Why diet works when other treatments fail [26:40] Long-standing psychiatric symptoms resolving with Keto [33:10] Metabolic flexibility and mental health [37:00] Why there’s no one-size-fits-all diet [40:40] What happens when patients return to their old habits? [46:00] Treating epilepsy and bipolar disorder with keto [53:40] Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain [57:40] Regular exercise is important, but not enough [1:01:40] Why isn't exercise enough for some people? [1:07:40] Depression is skyrocketing – can diet sometimes help? [1:13:00] Depression and comfort foods [1:15:40] Dr. Chris Palmer is working on a book!   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org  Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   
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Dec 15, 2021 • 1h 10min

Part 147 - An Insider’s Look at Public Health Guidelines and the Medical System - Dr. Chris Dan and Dr. Gary Shlifer

In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Chris Dan and Dr. Gary Shlifer to talk about the shortcomings of the medical system and current public health guidelines. Both of them have experienced frustration with the modern medical system, especially as it relates to the pandemic and the prevention of chronic disease.   We discuss the chaotic and confusing public health guidelines over the past 2 years as well as the importance of metabolic health on our immune health. Dr. Chris Dan exposes some of the biggest problems with the healthcare system and explains why he left the hospital.   Dr. Chris Dan is currently a family medicine board certified physician who worked as a full time Hospitalist in Los Angeles County for the past four years. He completed his undergraduate degree at UCI and studied medicine at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona. During his time as an inpatient physician, he saw the shortcomings of the current medical system in prevention of chronic disease and will be moving on to work outpatient with a focus on returning people to metabolic health.   Dr. Gary Shlifer is a board-certified internal medicine physician specializing in preventative care, nutrition/metabolism and anti-aging medicine. Dr. Gary brings his robust experienced with hospital inpatient medicine to his outpatient primary care practice in order to help prevent and cure disease in his patients. He is the founder of Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles, a multi-specialty integrative medicine clinic focused on disease prevention and lifestyle optimization.     SHOW NOTES [7:20] Dr. Chris Dan’s background [10:50] The problems with inpatient medicine [17:10] Why the medical system is a numbers game [23:10] Chaotic & confusing pandemic guidelines [27:10] Why generic drugs are discouraged [32:40] How COVID affected healthcare workers [39:40] The corporate & bureaucratic structure of healthcare [44:10 Healthcare doesn’t make money on healthy people [49:40] The “diabetes diet” in hospitals [54:30] Why Dr. Chris Dan left the hospital [59:50] What’s the biggest problem in healthcare? [1:03:10] What you should do if you don’t want to burden the healthcare system   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org  Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg  
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Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 16min

Part 146 - How a Norwegian Farmer Changed the Mind of the World’s Most Powerful Anti-Meat Activist

Today's episode features a farmer from Norway named Raymund. Raymund is truly a hero because he hosted Dr. Gunhild A. Stordalen at his farm where he educated her on the benefits that animal agriculture can have on our ecosystem. Dr. Gunhild A. Stordalen is a very well known environmental activist and the founder of EAT which recommends a mere 14 grams of red meat per day as part of a "Planetary Health Diet."   As you’ll learn in this episode, Raymund convinced her that meat and animal agriculture are a sustainable and essential part of our food system. Throughout this episode, we discuss many of the problems with our modern food system. In fact, Raymund runs a decentralized food system in Norway called REKO which connects farmers directly to customers. We are hoping to bring something similar to Texas and eventually all over the United States.   Learn more at https://www.sovereignhumans.org     SHOW NOTES: [6:15] How Raymund knows Gunhild Stordalen of EAT Lancet [10:30] Meat is required for a healthy diet and planet [15:00] What Raymund told Gunhild Stordalen [20:35] Problems with the Planetary Diet [26:40] How consumerism is wasteful [30:20] Why big corporations hate a decentralized food system [37:00] Our changing food & spending habits [40:00] The industrial farming of salmon [43:50] Why raising pigs is so difficult [47:00] How Raymond built a sustainable farm [53:30] Why you should spend more on food and less elsewhere [56:30] Everyone needs their own farmer, not their own doctor [1:01:20] How cities destroyed our food system [1:06:30] Our modern food system is a failed experiment [1:12:45] Vote with your dollar by eating local   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org    Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   
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Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 8min

Part 145 - Dr. Bill Schindler on How to Eat Like a Human, How to Detoxify Plant Foods, and Why Eat Nose to Tail

Dr. Bill Schindler is back for another great episode! This is his third appearance on the podcast, so be sure to listen to our previous episodes. After 10 years of hard work, he is excited to announce the release of his new book: Eat Like A Human. He was trained as an anthropologist and more recently as a chef. His work focuses on extracting the most nutrition possible from food, so we cover a wide range of fascinating topics and stories. Dr. Bill Schindler is an internationally known archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef. He founded and directs the Eastern Shore Food Lab with a mission to preserve and revive ancestral dietary approaches to create a nourishing, ethical, and sustainable food system and is an adjunct associate professor of archaeology at University College Dublin. His work is currently the focus of Wired magazine’s YouTube series, Basic Instincts and Food Science, and he co‑starred in the National Geographic Channel series The Great Human Race, which aired in 2016 in 171 countries. Dr. Schindler has also been featured on CNN, Maryland Public Television, NPR’s Weekend Edition and Here and Now, as well as on such podcasts as Milk Street Radio, Peak Human, and The Academic Minute. Dr. Schindler’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the London Times, among other publications. Visit his website! - https://eatlikeahuman.com   SHOW NOTES [4:20] His background, travels, and new book: Eat Like A Human [9:00] How an animal-based diet made us human [12:30] Why humans are omnivores [19:40] The healthiest, most nourishing diet possible [22:40] Humans eat nose to tail, not just meat [26:00] How hunting fueled our massive body & brain growth [30:00] Why we should be wary of plant foods [36:30] Brian and Bill’s shocking oxalate stories [44:30] How do we detoxify different plant foods? [49:00] The most and least toxic parts of a plant [54:50] Modern convenience disregards tradition & detoxification [1:00:30] The most rewarding part of hunting [1:05:00] Learn more! - https://modernstoneagekitchen.com   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org    Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   
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Nov 23, 2021 • 1h 16min

Part 144 - Mark Schatzker on How to Conquer Your Cravings and What Makes Us Overeat

Today’s episode features Mark Schatzker who just released his new book: The End of Craving. Back on episode 69, we discussed another one of his amazing books: The Dorito Effect. While many people are arguing about the calories or macronutrients in diets, Mark focuses on the experience of eating – the enjoyment and flavor of food. This episode is packed with mind-blowing bits of information on obesity, cravings, weight loss, brain science, and the history of our food system.   Mark Schatzker is the author of three books: Steak, The Dorito Effect, and The End of Craving. A former feature writer for Conde Nast Traveler, his work has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Best American Travel Writing and Annual Review of Psychology. He is the writer in residence at the Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, which is based at Yale University. He lives in Toronto.   Visit his website! - https://www.markschatzker.com   SHOW NOTES [03:30] A recap of The Dorito Effect [6:50] Mark’s new book: The End of Craving [11:50] The pellagra epidemic [18:50] The brain’s starring role in weight loss [21:35] The science behind craving [24:50] The truth about dopamine & food [29:20] What causes us to WANT more food? [33:20] Is sweetness an arbitrary sensation? [36:10] How uncertainty affects our brain [40:50] Does food insecurity cause us to eat more? [43:50] How we’ve overlooked the experience of eating [44:30] Is arguing about macronutrients a waste of time? [51:50] Changing the conversation on diet [57:50] Deliciousness isn’t the enemy [1:00:20] What we can learn from animals & scurvy [1:02:50] Did enrichment & fortification make obesity worse? [1:06:50] How we can learn from fattening livestock [1:10:00] Why companies are incentivized to fortify food [1:12:50] The recipe for everlasting hunger – eating light   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org    Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   
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Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 10min

Part 143 - Dr. Gary Shlifer on Immune Health & Public Policy - A Doctor's Controversial Take

Today's guest is my good friend Dr. Gary Shlifer who has a clinic in Los Angeles and is not afraid to speak his mind on the current public policy on immune health and other controversial topics. He previously made an appearance on episode 48.   In this episode, we reflect on the mainstream narrative on immune health over the past 2 years. We primarily discuss how the media and government tend to ignore some of the most important factors for staying healthy and building a strong immune system – diet and lifestyle. Dr. Gary is a co-founder of Sapien where we promote a more ancestral diet and lifestyle and host the Sapien Podcast together.   DISCLAIMER: The opinions and information provided here by Dr. Gary Shlifer and Brian Sanders are not to be taken as medical advice.   Dr. Gary Shlifer is a board-certified internal medicine physician specializing in preventative care, nutrition/metabolism and anti-aging medicine. Dr. Gary brings his robust experienced with hospital inpatient medicine to his outpatient primary care practice in order to help prevent and cure disease in his patients.   He is the founder of Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles, a multi-specialty integrative medicine clinic focused on disease prevention and lifestyle optimization. After Immigrating to from Russia with his family at age 3, Dr. Gary grew up in the San Fernando Valley where he returned after his medical training to build his practice. Through his companies and community outreach, he works to promote his message of healthy living, eating and lifestyle practices while developing into a leader in his community.   Learn more about his practice! - https://evolvehealthcare.com   SHOW NOTES [6:55] How big industry destroys our health [12:55] Physicians and individuals need independence [17:55] Is science being treated as a religion? [21:55] Most risk factors are modifiable [25:25] Our new culture of fear [30:55] Does industry control mainstream health advice? [33:55] Brian’s pothole analogy [37:25] The political domination of our health [41:55] Why your vitamin D level is so important [44:55] Dr. Gary’s mandate story [50:55] Why are so many people quitting their jobs? [55:55] Dr. Gary’s parents’ generation [1:00:25] How the government and media overplayed their hand [1:04:25] Eating clean and feeling good go hand-in-hand   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org    Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   
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Oct 27, 2021 • 1h 59min

Part 142 - Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride on Healing Millions w/ Animal Based Diets, Reversing Mental Disorders, and the GAPS Diet

Today’s guest is Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, who is the creator of the GAPS diet. The GAPS diet aims to solve an array of health conditions and chronic diseases by healing the gut. She has helped millions of people through her GAPS nutritional protocols and she shares a lot of her wisdom with us in this jam-packed episode! We discuss the gut-brain connection, processed foods, glyphosate, children’s diets, modern dairy, and much more! Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride holds a degree in Medicine and Postgraduate degrees in both Neurology and Human Nutrition.  In her clinic in Cambridge she specialized in nutrition for children and adults with behavioral and learning disabilities, and adults with digestive and immune system disorders. Dr. Campbell-McBride set up The Cambridge Nutrition Clinic in 1998.  As a parent of a child diagnosed with learning disabilities, she was acutely aware of the difficulties facing other parents like her, and she has devoted much of her time to helping these families.  She realized that nutrition played a critical role in helping children and adults to overcome their disabilities, and has pioneered the use of probiotics in this field. She believes that the link between learning disabilities, the food and drink that we take, and the condition of our digestive system is absolute, and the results of her work have supported her position on this subject.  In her clinic, parents discuss all aspects of their child’s condition, confident in the knowledge that they are not only talking to a professional but to a parent who has lived their experience.  Her deep understanding of the challenges they face puts her advice in a class of its own. Learn more about her protocol! - https://www.gapsdiet.com/about/   SHOW NOTES [05:35] Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) [11:05] What happens when you have abnormal gut flora? [15:15] Every bite of food from the supermarket is full of glyphosate [19:45] Your health is rooted in your gut microbes [25:15] Our brain development hinges on our gut health [34:00] Do we overeat foods because of gut problems? [39:45] The main problem with processed foods [33:30] The deleterious effects of high insulin [47:15] The actual cause of heart disease [49:35] Why does everyone want treats? [53:15] How to fix a child’s diet [57:15] Why meat stock is beneficial for children [1:02:25]  Is meat stock better than bone broth? [1:07:45] Autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia & the GAPS diet [1:11:30] What is the GAPS protocol? [1:18:15] What foods are GAPS-approved? [1:25:45] Humans can’t live without animal products [1:31:35] Vegetables – a modern human invention? [1:38:15] What about fruit & honey? [1:44:45] Is modern dairy healthy? [1:49:15] The best type of dairy [1:52:35] How she was raised in the Soviet Union   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org  GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org    Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg  http://instagram.com/food.lies  http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   

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