The way you perceive and interact with your food affects your health. Counting calories, obsessing over macros, eating on impulse, and binge-eating as a "reward" all foster a harmful relationship with food that makes you miserable and unhealthy.  Today's guest, Chris Dufey, knows this first hand. Chris is an author, speaker, former personal trainer, weight loss expert, and entrepreneur who went from feeling sluggish and tired in his early 20s to healthy and fit after improving his relationship with food.  In this episode, he joins me to talk about why it's better to focus on the quality of your food instead of the quantity, why you don't need to track nutrients intensely, how cheat meals harm you, and other steps you can take to upgrade your relationship with your food.     

Movement is more than just your workout. It's the way you walk, how you sit, how you stand, and the facial expressions you make.  Everything around us affects our movement, and in turn, our movement has a ripple effect on our physical, emotional, and mental health.  In today's episode, movement coach, licensed massage therapist, podcast host, and founder of Align Therapy™, Aaron Alexander, breaks down why optimizing our movement is vital for optimal health. We look at how our modern environment encourages incorrect movements and postures that end up causing pain, inflammation, and disease, and exactly what we can do to prevent it. Listen in to find out how you can foster healthier movements and enjoy a dynamic pain-free life.

Did you know that over 40% of Alzheimer's disease cases have one main cause?  Today's guest will tell you what it is (hint: it has to do with nutrition). In today's episode, famous science journalist and brain food expert Max Lugavere joins me to talk about how we can protect our brains from dementia and boost our cognitive performance with proper nutrition. He also explains the truth behind the onset of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and how we can easily prevent them.  Max is a filmmaker, TV personality, and science journalist passionate about brain health. He's a contributor to major publications including Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, and the Daily Beast. His latest book, Genius Foods, breaks down all the research he's done over the years on brain health, cognition, diet, and lifestyle habits.  Listen in to find out how you can protect and supercharge your brain through your food choices.

The protective effects of the ketogenic diet, including weight loss and brain power, happen thanks to abundant fatty acids and a strict carb restriction of just 20g/day. But what would happen if the carbs went down from 20g to zero? That's exactly what the carnivore diet does.  In this episode, filmmaker and low carb veteran Chris Bell compares the health effects of both the ketogenic diet and the carnivore diet. He also explains what mainstream nutrition gets wrong about carbs and plants.  Chris Bell is a former powerlifter and filmmaker with many successful documentaries under his belt, including Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, Prescription Thugs, and Trophy Kids.  Listen in to learn what the carnivore diet really is, what it does different from keto, and how both can help you. 

The fuel your body runs on determines how you feel and perform.   Relying on carbs when you should be using fat, or vice-versa, can lower your workout performance, mental energy, and productivity.  Metabolic flexibility unlocks your ability to switch between fats and carbs easily so you can adapt to different situations. Dr. Mike T Nelson is an expert in metabolic flexibility and our guest today. He has a PhD in Exercise Physiology, a Masters’ in Biomechanics, he’s a professor and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a professor in human performance at Carrick Institute for Functional Neurology. He's dedicated his career to figuring out how to make the human body stronger, healthier, and more adaptable.  In this episode, he goes deep into what metabolic flexibility is, how you can achieve it, how to balance your carbs and fats for optimal performance, the health markers you should track, and a lot more. 

  What is more likely to lead to heart disease: cholesterol or insulin resistance?  According to one of today's guests, Dr. Brian Lenzkes, it's the latter.  Dr. Lenzkes is an internal medicine doctor with extensive knowledge in clinical nutrition. By working closely with his patients, he's discovered insulin resistance is central in many metabolic diseases, much more so that cholesterol or triglycerides.  Today he sits down with me to explain why we need to start paying attention to our insulin sensitivity and how we can keep it in check with a ketogenic diet.  Rachel Gregory also joins me in this episode to talk about optimizing exercise with a low carb diet.   Rachel published the first ever human trial about the effects of the ketogenic diet on CrossFit athletes, and the results will impress you.  She's a board-certified nutrition specialist, athletic trainer, and entrepreneur.  Listen in to learn how a ketogenic diet can improve one of the most important health markers and make your workouts more effective. 

Inflammation is one of the major culprits in virtually all diseases.  Today's guest, Dr. Will Cole, has devoted his entire career to helping people with autoimmune inflammatory conditions, so he's an expert at dealing with inflammation.  One of the tools he implements to reduce inflammation in his patients is nutritional ketosis. A ketogenic diet can dramatically cut down inflammatory reactions and improve metabolic function. The results he's seen on his patients are nothing short of impressive, and in this episode, he tells us all about it.  Dr. Will Cole is a leading functional medicine clinician, chiropractor, author, lecturer, and a firm believer in personalized health. His individualized ketosis approach has made his functional medicine practice famous.  Listen in as he explains how to treat inflammation with ketosis, how to optimize your ketogenic diet, and what functional medicine is all about.

To improve your health, all you have to do is pay attention to what you eat. That's what today's guest, Emily Schromm, learned while she was in the process of healing her chronic acne, digestive problems, and fatigue. She explains why a high fat, low carb approach is the best to eradicate these health problems.  Emily is a successful personal trainer, nutritional therapy practitioner, CrossFit coach, fitness star, and CEO of Evolved Motion and Herbal Element. She created the first and only functional workout pack called the EMPACK, and she helps thousands of people around the world with her Superhero Challenge and The Body Awareness Project.  Tune in to find out how Emily healed herself, how she eats now, and how you can listen to your own body to find balance and be at your best every single day.

Common nutrition advice champions eating more plants, more vegetables, and more natural foods. But what happens if you turn your back on that advice? What happens when you instead cut out all plants and only eat meat?  That's the Carnivore Diet, and today's guest Ryan Munsey experimented with this diet for 30 days.  Ryan is a former fitness model, with a Dietetics degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Clemson University. He's a writer for leading fitness publications (Men’s Fitness, T-Nation, EliteFTS) is a member of the Men’s Health Fitness Council, and the host of the Better Human Project Podcast. Listen in to hear his results, as well as find out why you should pay attention the quality of your food no matter what way of eating you follow and why strength is the most important factor of health.

Calories in vs calories out is a great place to start with weight loss, but where those calories come from does matter.  Carbs make you fat, and we're exploring topics such as carbing up, cheating on keto, and what that does to your body, your gut, and your progress.  We'll also discuss "realistic keto". Because let's face it: you're going to eat pizza again. It's a part of life. How can you incorporate "life" into your low carb diet?