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Patreon.com is where we’re putting all our best protocols for health conditions, exclusive content, live monthly Q&As and more. 3 plans to choose from. Come join the community, you’ll be glad you did. Episode Summary Today we talked with Dr. Jeff Harris ND all about pain mostly alleviated using neural therapy. We also discussed scars, ozone, and more. Enjoy! Episode Sponsors: Show Page With Links Relax FAR Infrared Sauna Colostrum – Use code OPTIMIZE to save 20% until 3/15/23 Methylene Blue  – Use code EHR10 to save 10% Dissolve-It-All – Use code EHR15 to save 15% Support Our Work: Get My Patreon Health Protocols – New protocols added each month + a ton more. Visit our Store Support us on Amazon My Amazon Recommended Products Donate on Paypal Favorite Supps: Mitolfe – Use code EHR15 to save 15%! Life Blud – Use code EHR10 to save 10% Subscribe & Listen: iTunes Spotify Stitcher iHeart Radio Follow Us: Newsletter Instagram Facebook Twitter Youtube Alternative Platforms: Telegram Brighteon – My Favorite Bitchute Odysee Rumble Gab Guest Info: North American Academy of Neural Therapy Dr. Jeff Harris ND Health Disclaimer: For informational purposes only. The information contained herein is not medical advice and should not be construed as such. No mineral, vitamin, nutrient, treatment or anything listed or linked to below (other than drugs) can cure or alter physiology in any way. Always seek the advice of a licensed healthcare professional before starting any diet, treatment, supplement or protocol. The information below is not meant to treat, or cure any disease. The creator of this document assumes no risk for the consumption of any products contained in this document or from associated websites. ANNOUNCEMENT: SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP REPAIR MITOCHONDRIA TO REDUCE OXIDATION & MAKE ATP Dissolve-It-All – breaking down scar tissue, inflammation and calcification PUFA Protect – Eliminating a lifetime of a high PUFA diet Purely K – Reduce Calcification NAD Power – Allow Your Mitochondria To Create Energy! Probiotic Endotoxin Reducer – Lower Endotoxins! Oyster Extract – Bioavailable Copper, Selenium & Zinc Resilien-C – Whole Food Vitamin C Panacea – Pure Shilijit 84 Minerals + Chelate Iron Digest-it-All – Better assimilate & absorb your food Use discount code EHR15 🙂 In this show I shared some of my research on how to reverse gray hair naturally.On Last Thing!As always your support via your donations and bookmarking our Amazon link to use each time you purchase is how we keep our show going. Thank you for bookmarking our Amazon link even if you’re not buying anything right now! 🙂 Check Out Some of These Other Products: Dissolve It All Enzymes – Use Code EHR15 to Save Methylene blue (Use Code EHR10 to save) Creatrix Ozone Water Generator Ozone Generator Aqua Cure Molecular Hydrogen Castor Oil Packs GreenWave Dirty Electricity Filters Elk Antler Joovv Red Light Therapy Magnetico Sleep Pads Copper Sulfate Olive Leaf Just Thrive Ultimate IGG Beta Glucan Omron Nebulizer Nano Silver Iodine Rife Machine Lymphatic massage Show Bellicon Rebounders Sota Silver Pulser BARF World Raw Dog Food Qigong Course Stockton Aloe One Blue Blockers The Biomat Chemical Free Organic Skincare! Show Notes: N/A Please Support Us If You Are Able: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) The post Dr. Jeff Harris ND – Eliminating Pain By Treating Scars Using Neural Therapy appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

Check out my health protocols here >> [include file=get-in-itunes.html] What a privilege it was to have our good friend Ty Bollinger on our show again from CancerTruth.net. He graciously accepted our offer to be our very first guest and we had a great time with him again. In today’s show we talked a little bit about the politics of cancer and what’s going on behind the scenes with the “Run for the cure” and pink ribbon campaigns for breast cancer. He really lays it all out there. This kind of discussion about the politics of cancer is pretty eye opening to say the least. It’s not for the faint of heart. The resulting conclusion you must come to is that the cancer industry is just that, it’s an industry. It’s a “for profit” business and the products they want to sell the public are chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Their sales people are the doctors in white lab coats and the consumers (more accurately “victims”) are you and I. They don’t want to find a cure for cancer. Think about it. It’s a billion dollar per year revenue generating machine. Why stop it? Plus if all people were “cured” the population would live longer lives thus draining the social security accounts of the government. In fact it’s imperative that there be no cure for cancer. There’s just too much at stake. Knowing it’s a rigged game is half the battle. It’s what you do with that knowledge that is important. Do you choose to get upset and angry because it’s so unjust? Or do you make peace with it and do what you can to live as healthy as you know how in order to not get stuck in their web? The choice is yours… Let me warn you though that if you choose to get angry and upset about how their lying to and killing innocent people, then you might be next. If you listen to the show you’ll quickly understand how our energy and emotion plays a huge role in how our genes choose to express themselves. So please don’t get upset, do what you can to become healthier each day and try to pass the word on to others so they’ll wake up. I really believe that with the internet knowledge is spreading like wildfire. The more we can help spread the word about this kind of information, the more people will be able to avoid the trap that is the pharmaceutical and medical industry. Ty also talked about how the American Medical Association (AMA) started (hint the Rockefellers had their hand in it) and how the entire association that we think is so great was founded on fraud, political aggression and more. It’s really quite eye opening. Learning how the entire medical association started and how they are a for profit industry opens the door to understanding that there are very powerful herbs, protocols and other natural healing remedies for cancer they don’t want you to know about. What I like about Ty Bollinger is that he’s offering people hope. His tagline for his book is, “Cancer doesn’t have to be a death sentence!” I really like that because most of the time we think that their only options for treating cancer is the cut, poison and burn methodologies which are archaic and barbaric in my opinion. When you realize there are treatments that are much more effective that offer little to no side effects (unlike chemotherapy and radiation that destroy your immune system and beneficial bacteria and other cells) you start to have hope for a better world. But as you know the politics of cancer runs very deep so the name of the game is prevention. It’s easier to prevent just about anything than it is to attempt to regain your health after you’ve been diagnosed with such a condition. The disease of cancer is a billion dollar business and what I recommend is living an anti cancer lifestyle the prevents this horrible illness. Don’t get caught in the downward spiral of the health care (or as I like to call it, the sick care) system. Please pass this show on to the family and friends you love… We discuss the following and so much more: His groundbreaking book called Cancer Step Outside the Box The March Against Monsanto Ty participated in in Austin Texas The politics behind cancer Why there will never be a “cure” for cancer The history of how the AMA started The tie between the Georgia Guidestones and the depopulation (aka eugenics) of the earth What Ty and his family eats daily to stay healthy and cancer free What exercises Ty does to stay fit and in shape Why he loves the rebounder and Far Infrared Sauna for their anti cancer properties His favorite herbs for fighting and preventing cancer And so much more! “Conventional medicine will NEVER find a cure for cancer. Ty Bollinger explains.” – Click to tweet this! – Get Notified: [ois skin=”Show Page2″] – Commercials: – Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! – Other Shows: [include file=show-links.html] | All Shows With This Guest – Show Date: Wednesday 5/29/2013 – Show Guest: Ty Bollinger – Guest Info: Ty Bollinger is a happily married husband, the father of four wonderful children, devoted Christian, highly regarded book author, medical researcher, health freedom advocate, former competitive bodybuilder and also a certified public accountant. During the last 15 years, he lost 7 close family members due to cancer. He has devoted the last decade of his life to medical research to find alternative cancer treatments and cures so YOU and YOUR family don’t have to experience the same tragedy. He has summarized this voluminous amount of research on natural cancer treatments in his book, Cancer Step Outside the Box (Affiliate Link. Helps to support our work.). 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Podcast listeners: Click here for show page. I get the the question about infrared sauna benefits quite often. In this article I’d like to share a few studies about how regular sauna bathing may prevent disease, and even prolong your life. I suspect the 2 main reasons for this are the creation of 4th phase water in your mitochondria while also depleting deuterium and iron as the two main benefits of sweating. I don’t have any scientific studies about those two infrared sauna benefits but they’re just my best guess. I don’t even think they’ve done studies on deuterium, iron and 4th phase water in relation to hyperthermia. I’d really like to see them done in the future. Before I get into infrared sauna benefits I want to share how long I’ve been sweating, how often I do sauna therapy sessions and some of the health benefits I’ve noticed over the years. “Exercise warms the body, and where there is warmth there is movement of the fluids; where there is movement, wastes are expelled, and when these wastes go, the body comes to its own proper nature.” – Aristotle How I Use My Sauna I use mine Relax FAR Infrared sauna three to four times per week at the moment. I tend to use it more during the Fall and Winter seasons. We first got our Relax FAR Infrared Sauna back in 2011 right before we started our radio show. We didn’t have kids until 2018 so we had it for seven years before the twins came along. For those seven years if you averaged it out, Kate and I both used it about 5 days a week. I probably used it five to six days a week and Kate probably four to five times per week. Either way you slice it, we were in that sauna almost daily. When Will and Ben came along in 2018 the sauna usage dropped pretty significantly but not nearly all the way. Twins can do that to you! For the past six years since they’ve been born we might use it three times per week, each. We seem to be drawn to sweating more during the Fall and Winter months which makes sense as it’s colder during those seasons. If I go into our Relax Sauna during the Fall or Winter and I feel just frozen to my core, it might take me 20 minutes to start sweating. If I go for a sauna therapy session in the Summer when it’s already 85 or 90 degrees in my “wellness room” I’ll start sweating in less than 5 minutes. It’s pretty incredible how that happens. To listen to one of the radio shows we did on infrared sauna benefits check it out below. FAR Infrared vs NIR Infrared There are 3 basic types of infrared light which are near infrared (NIR), mid infrared (MIR) and far infrared (FAR). Most saunas are either NIR or FAR and that’s generally where the debate lies. Mid infrared is not really that popular as far as infrared saunas go but it’s a classification so I thought I’d at least add it in. For the clarifications below I’m going to compare NIR with FAR light. Keep in mind that the light spectrum and wavelength for FAR infrared is not detectible to the human eye, whereas NIR light you can see. In other words, FAR infrared light is something you feel, not necessarily see. Wavelengths and Penetration Depth: Near Infrared (NIR) operates in a shorter wavelength range of about 700 nm to 1400 nm. NIR light does not penetrate as deeply into the body; it primarily affects your skin’s surface and may only reach just below the skin’s surface layers. Far Infrared (FIR), on the other hand, operates at a wavelength range of 3000 nm to 1 mm. FIR penetrates more deeply, about 1.5 to 2 inches into the body. This deep penetration is one of the key reasons FIR is considered more beneficial for therapeutic purposes. Heat and Therapeutic Benefits: NIR is more superficial and often generates a more intense heat, which can feel uncomfortable on the skin and result in quicker dehydration. FIR provides a gentler, more evenly distributed heat that directly penetrates the tissues and cells. This results in more effective detoxification, improved circulation, and deeper relaxation​​. Health and Detoxification Benefits: FIR is superior for detoxification, as it stimulates a greater sweat response, helping the body eliminate toxins like heavy metals, environmental chemicals, and metabolic waste. Studies show that FIR can promote healing from within by supporting cell regeneration and enhancing blood flow​​. NIR has some benefits for skin treatments (e.g., collagen production), but it lacks the deep-tissue therapeutic effects that FIR offers. “The sweat of the brow is the best of all waters. It purifies the body and clears the mind, bringing vitality and strength.” – Pliny the Elder Energy Efficiency and Safety: FIR saunas like the Relax Sauna are designed to deliver a high concentration of pure FIR energy (up to 98%), whereas many other saunas (including some using NIR) may deliver less efficient, mixed wavelengths that don’t provide the same level of detoxification and health benefits​​. NIR energy may also produce more intense surface heating, which can be uncomfortable or unsuitable for some users, especially those with sensitive skin or conditions like rosacea. Conclusion: While NIR is useful for superficial skin benefits, FAR infrared saunas are better suited for deep tissue detoxification, relaxation, and overall health improvement. The longer wavelengths of FIR allow it to penetrate more deeply into your body, promoting enhanced detoxification, better circulation, and overall well-being. FIR’s ability to produce a more comfortable and deeply penetrating heat makes it the preferred choice for many seeking long-term health benefits​​​. We tackle this particular question below which you may find helpful. FAR Infrared Sauna Benefits There are so many infrared sauna benefits that I’m gong to break them up into two categories, personal benefits (why I love the Relax FAR Infrared Sauna in Particular) and overall health benefits of infrared saunas as a whole. My Motivation For Sweating Why do I sauna bathe regularly? Why do I sweat in one of these saunas as much as I do? That’s kind of a very deep philosophical question. I look at those in my family that are twenty to thirty years older than I am and I ask myself, “do I want what they have?“. Do I want to have health conditions as as a result of the bioacumulation of toxins, environmental poisons, xenoestrogens, heavy metals and other chemicals? When these things accumulate in your tissues like heavy metals for example, they prevent complex four of your mitochondria (cytochrome c oxidase) from effectively generating adenosine triphosphate (ATP…energy). You could say that disease, aging and dying is the result of inflammation and oxidation. Inflammation in the body requires energy so that the body can effectively donate electrons to “put out the fire of oxidation”. If you don’t have enough electrons (because you don’t ground your body, or don’t eat them) then you’re not going to be able to be able to lower your inflammation. Or you could have enough electrons from eating foods like oysters or antioxidants but not enough energy to be able to use them efficiently. And one of the reasons you don’t have enough energy is because you’ve been bioacumulating heavy metals your entire life and never had a way to detoxify them. Regular sauna therapy allows you to have more energy by detoxifying heavy metals. Going back to my motivations for sauna therapy….. I want to be healthy, vibrant, happy and energetic when I’m 80, 90 and beyond. We know that environmental chemicals are on the rise and one of the best ways to detox them is to literally sweat them out. More on that below. “Sweat is the fountain of youth, renewing the body through the pores, cleansing the deepest impurities.” – Hippocrates I want to be able to play with my grandkids and have robust health for as long as I can. If there are ways to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer that I can do, then it behooves me to do them. Personal Benefits Some people get enamored with the look and style of the wooden saunas (which many times use toxic glues or primer on the wood that off gas and there’s no reflective material on the inside like there is (silver thread) on the inside of the Relax FAR Infrared Sauna) more than their function. I will say that the Relax FAR Infrared sauna doesn’t “look as cool” as the big wood ones but if I were given a big wood sauna right now, I’d sell it on eBay and continue using my Relax FAR Infrared Sauna. I love it more today than when I got it 10+ years ago. Here are some reasons why… Durability (works just as good as it did 10 years ago!) Head sticks out (great for watching documentaries or reading a book) Easy to clean Very quiet Takes up very little space (no knocking down walls) Easy to store (can fit under your bed if you have a small apartment) Sets up in 5 minutes Portable (can loan to a friend easily or take it on the road) Very low EMFs inside Sturdy and comfortable chair Requires zero pre-heating Uses very little energy Start sweating in under 10 minutes No off gassing of primer or chemicals from glue Inside reflects the FAR light waves Drawbacks It doesn’t look as cool as the wood ones (To me I don’t care about that). “Sweating during physical labor, cleansing our system and strengthening our muscles, must not be underestimated in its capacity to promote good health.” – Mahatma Gandhi Thare are not many drawbacks to the Relax FAR Infrared sauna but to fill in any gaps you should listen to this show below all about infrared sauna benefits. It was a one of our best episodes! Health Benefits of Infrared Saunas Sweating and Cardiovascular Health A 20-year Finnish study found that men who used saunas 4-7 times per week had a 50% lower risk of cardiovascular-related deaths. Sauna bathing increased heart rates to 100-150 beats per minute, similar to moderate exercise, helping improve cardiovascular function. “Fatal cardiovascular disease was 27% lower for men who used the sauna 2 to 3 times a week and 50% lower for men who used the sauna 4 to 7 times a week.” – Link to study Far Infrared Sauna and Detoxification A Japanese study on far infrared therapy showed significant health improvements, such as detoxification of heavy metals and improved circulation. “FIR Sauna helps generate two or three times the sweat produced in a conventional sauna… this caloric burn can aid in detoxification and improve circulation, helping eliminate toxins.” – Link to study Sauna Use and Aging Studies on sauna use for aging found that frequent sauna bathing was associated with a 66% lower risk of dementia and 40% lower risk of all-cause mortality. “Sauna bathing exposes the body to extreme heat, eliciting a rapid, robust response. Cardiac output increases by 60-70%, redirecting blood flow to the skin to facilitate sweating.” – Link to study Heavy Metal Detoxification A case study demonstrated that the sauna therapy tripled arsenic and nickel levels in urine after sauna use, confirming the sauna’s effectiveness for heavy metal detoxification. “Urine samples showed that triple amounts of arsenic and nickel had been removed from the body through the sauna, supporting its role in detoxifying heavy metals.” – Link to study Calorie Burning and Weight Loss A report from the Journal of the American Medical Association highlighted that producing one gram of sweat burns 0.568 kcal. FIR sauna sessions can burn 600-800 calories in a single session, aiding in weight management. “A heat-conditioned person can sweat off 600-800 kcal, which is equivalent to running 10 kilometers.” – JAMA report Sauna Use and Cardiovascular Function “Regular sauna use improves cardiovascular mechanisms by lowering heart rate and increasing blood flow to skeletal muscles.” – Link to study Far Infrared Sauna and Heavy Metal Detoxification “Far infrared light stimulates the production of cell tissue and promotes detoxification, removing heavy metals like mercury and aluminum.” – Link to study Inflammation Reduction with Sauna Use “Heat acclimation reduces inflammatory markers, providing alternative therapy to physical exercise in managing inflammation.” – Link to study Enhanced Neurogenesis from Sauna “Regular sauna use enhances neurogenesis and boosts learning and memory by promoting the growth of new brain cells.” – Link to study Cellular Regeneration through FIR Sauna “Far infrared therapy promotes rapid regeneration of skin and blood tissue, supporting overall health and healing.” – Link to study Reduction of Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms “A clinical trial showed successful treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in 7 out of 7 cases with far infrared sauna therapy.” – Link to study Acne Treatment Using Far Infrared Sauna “Far infrared lamp therapy opens clogged pores and helps to heal acne without pain.” – Link to study Improved Insulin Sensitivity from Sauna Use “Regular sauna use improves insulin sensitivity and helps in glucose metabolism, reducing the risk of diabetes.” – Link to study Improved Cognitive Function “Frequent sauna use is associated with a 66% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.” – Link to study Prevention of Cell Damage and Epilepsy “Hyperthermia-induced responses protect against subsequent seizures and cell damage related to epilepsy.” – Link to study Enhanced Detoxification in the FIR Sauna “Far infrared waves are seven times more effective at detoxifying heavy metals like mercury than traditional saunas.” – Link to study Pneumonia Treatment with FIR Therapy “A clinical report indicated that far infrared therapy cleared pneumonia symptoms within 15 minutes of treatment.” – Link to study Cellulite Reduction with Sauna “Far infrared sauna helps eliminate cellulite through enhanced heat penetration and improved circulation in tissues.” – Link to study Improved Skin Health “Infrared light improves skin elasticity and assists in discharging toxins, contributing to a more youthful appearance.” – Link to study Hyperthermia and cancer therapy (1980) This review explored the historical and modern applications of hyperthermia in cancer therapy, dating back to 1866, focusing on its use in cancer treatment. “The study highlighted the potential of hyperthermia, including saunas, in reducing skin cancer incidence and enhancing cancer treatment efficacy.” – Link to study Nervous system, and immunity (2015) This study examined the effects of repetitive mild hyperthermia using a nanomist sauna (NMS) system on body temperature, the autonomic nervous system, and both innate and adaptive immunity. “Findings showed improvements in immunity, suggesting potential benefits of hyperthermia in cancer patients when combined with anticancer drugs.” – Link to study Infrared Sauna Contraindications Pregnancy Adrenal fatigue Sick Elderly You’ve been drinking alcohol If you’ve been fasting General Sauna Tips Start slow Do red light therapy or lymphatic massage before going in. Rinse off afterward Clean your sauna Hydrate after you’re done sweating “Sweating is the body’s safe and natural way to heal and stay healthy. It flushes the body of substances of potential concern and keeps the skin clean and pliable.” – Joan Vickers Common Questions We cover a lot of these questions about infrared sauna therapy benefits below that I’d encourage you to hear. What Should I Wear? Generally I would avoid wearing the same clothes each time. As a guy I just wear surf trunks. Some people will put a towel down and be naked. If you’re a woman, you might just wear a bikini bathing suit or simply a towel. Just make sure to wash the clothes you use each sauna session to make sure your skin doesn’t reabsorb toxins that you previously sweated out. What Do I Do During My Sauna Session? If you’re in a traditional sauna with four walls then you can bring a magazine in or just sit there quietly and meditate. I personally don’t like those types of infrared saunas. I like the kind where your head sticks out, like the Relax FAR Infrared sauna. From an Ayurveda perspective, it’s never a good idea to expose your head to heat like that. Since my head is out, I can put a fan on my head to keep it cool while I watch documentaries or movies while sitting in my infrared sauna. How Do I Hydrate? I generally make sure to take my minerals after I’m done sweating. I also make sure to make a green juice or eat really healthy foods and take my supplements after I’m done sweating. I drink 3 mason jars full of water each day with Vital Earth minerals, Trace Mineral drops and sea salt in them.  As an addition to the water that I drink daily with minerals in it, i also take a one ounce shot twicer per day of Intramax. I also supplement with Shilajit Tablets that contain 92 minerals so I’m not really concerned. How Often Should I Sweat? This depends on how healthy you are and many many factors. According to the studies reference above, it appears as though most of the infrared sauna benefits happen after the four times per week level. If you’re generally healthy (and you remineralize after your sauna session) then I would shoot for 4 infrared sauna sessions per week. If you can do five or six, even better. Conclusion The amount of infrared sauna benefits are staggering. I listed 21 in this article but if you search on PubMed they studies go on forever. Regular sauna bathing has changed my health and my life. I don’t regret one second I spent sweating in a parasympathetic way. Sometimes I think  about all the sweat that has come out of the pores in my skin and think how much it might be if I filled a glass with it. Maybe it could have filled 2 mason jars up? I figure over the course of 12 years I’ve done about 3 sauna sessions per week if you average them out. That comes to about 1872 individual sauna sessions. If each one is roughly 30 minutes that comes to about 936 total hours or about 39 days of sweating. That’s a lot of sweat! My only regret is that I wish I had done an average of 4 sauna sessions per week instead of 3. Questions: Do you sweat regularly? How does it make you feel? How often do you do it? Comment below.   The post New Show: 21 Infrared Sauna Benefits You Should Know! appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

Patreon.com is where we’re putting all our best protocols for health conditions, exclusive content, live monthly Q&As and more. 3 plans to choose from. Come join the community, you’ll be glad you did. Episode Summary Today we talked with Matt Roeske from CultivateElevate.com all about electroculture which is the idea of bringing copper into your garden to harness the “ether” and grow healthier foods! Episode Sponsors: Show Page With Links Relax FAR Infrared Sauna AquaCure – Use code EHR10 to save 10% Methylene Blue  – Use code EHR10 to save 10% BonCharge.com – Use code EHR15 to save 15% Support Our Work: Get My Patreon Health Protocols – New protocols added each month + a ton more. Visit our Store Support us on Amazon My Amazon Recommended Products Donate on Paypal Favorite Supps: Mitolfe – Use code EHR15 to save 15%! Life Blud – Use code EHR10 to save 10% Subscribe & Listen: iTunes Spotify Stitcher iHeart Radio Follow Us: Newsletter Instagram Facebook Twitter Youtube Alternative Platforms: Telegram Brighteon – My Favorite Bitchute Odysee Rumble Gab Guest Info: Instagram http://www.cultivateelevate.com Health Disclaimer: For informational purposes only. The information contained herein is not medical advice and should not be construed as such. No mineral, vitamin, nutrient, treatment or anything listed or linked to below (other than drugs) can cure or alter physiology in any way. Always seek the advice of a licensed healthcare professional before starting any diet, treatment, supplement or protocol. The information below is not meant to treat, or cure any disease. The creator of this document assumes no risk for the consumption of any products contained in this document or from associated websites. ANNOUNCEMENT: SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP REPAIR MITOCHONDRIA TO REDUCE OXIDATION & MAKE ATP Dissolve-It-All – breaking down scar tissue, inflammation and calcification PUFA Protect – Eliminating a lifetime of a high PUFA diet Purely K – Reduce Calcification NAD Power – Allow Your Mitochondria To Create Energy! Probiotic Endotoxin Reducer – Lower Endotoxins! Oyster Extract – Bioavailable Copper, Selenium & Zinc Resilien-C – Whole Food Vitamin C Panacea – Pure Shilijit 84 Minerals + Chelate Iron Digest-it-All – Better assimilate & absorb your food Use discount code EHR15 🙂 In this show I shared some of my research on how to reverse gray hair naturally.On Last Thing!As always your support via your donations and bookmarking our Amazon link to use each time you purchase is how we keep our show going. Thank you for bookmarking our Amazon link even if you’re not buying anything right now! 🙂 Check Out Some of These Other Products: Dissolve It All Enzymes – Use Code EHR15 to Save Methylene blue (Use Code EHR10 to save) Creatrix Ozone Water Generator Ozone Generator Aqua Cure Molecular Hydrogen Castor Oil Packs GreenWave Dirty Electricity Filters Elk Antler Joovv Red Light Therapy Magnetico Sleep Pads Copper Sulfate Olive Leaf Just Thrive Ultimate IGG Beta Glucan Omron Nebulizer Nano Silver Iodine Rife Machine Lymphatic massage Show Bellicon Rebounders Sota Silver Pulser BARF World Raw Dog Food Qigong Course Stockton Aloe One Blue Blockers The Biomat Chemical Free Organic Skincare! Show Notes: N/A Please Support Us If You Are Able: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) The post Matt Roeske – Supercharge Your Garden Using Electroculture appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

Dr. Christine Horner joined us today on this episode of the podcast. Dr. Horner is the author of Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner’s Program to Protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer as well as her most recent book which we talk about more on this show called, Radiant Health Ageless Beauty: Dr. Christine Horner’s 30-Day Program to Extraordinary Health, Beauty, and Longevity. I learned about her through doing some research into a device called The Life Vessel and found that she came up in the search results. Then the next day I was listening to another health podcast and she was mentioned in regards to her work with breast cancer. Synchronicity or?… So I figured there must be a reason why she came into my radar twice in the span of 24 hours. Usually I require “random” events like that to happen at least three times in order to act on them. But in this case I just knew. She was very highly regarded in the first podcast and when I looked her up after researching The Life Vessel, I knew she was a guest we had to have on. Dr. Christine Horner is a big proponent on using Ayurveda to help people realign with their bodies and ultimately find healing. Ayurveda is an ancient practice that has been around for thousands of years and can be applied to just about any area of our lives to help us lower inflammation and increase our health vitality. So Dr. Christine Horner uses principles from Ayurveda to tackle issues like energy medicine, sleep and even cancer. If you enjoy the episode, consider joining our email list so you never miss an episode or sharing it with your friend on social media. Thanks!! One Last Thing! As always your support via your donations and bookmarking our Amazon link to use each time you purchase is how we keep our show going. Thank you for bookmarking our Amazon link even if you’re not buying anything right now! 🙂 Sponsor For This Episode: Qigong Program Member’s Site (coming soon!) Shop on Amazon Shop Our Store Products Related To This Episode: We are now commercial free but only if you click here to support us to keep making commercial free shows! 🙂 Ozone Generator From Truly Heal – Watch The Ozone Webinar Bellicon Rebounder Rapid Release Pro 2 SOL CBD Oil Relax FAR Infrared Sauna Sacred Seed Oils Annmarie Gianni Skincare Berkey Water Filters Extrema Chemical Free Cookware BARF World Raw Dog Food Squatty Potty stools – see in store Surthrival products – see in store Thrive Market Find Extreme Health Radio On: [include file=showpage-itunes-soundcloud-stitcher.html] Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! Listen to other shows with this guest. Show Guest: Kelly Starrett Guest Info: Christine Horner, MD is a nationally known surgeon, author, and natural health expert residing in San Diego, CA. She holds two board certifications: the National Board of Surgery and the National Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Horner was recognized as a leader in her field shortly after starting her plastic and reconstructive surgery practice because she successfully ran a national campaign to pass laws requiring insurance companies to pay for breast reconstruction following mastectomy. Radiant Health, Ageless Beauty: Dr. Christine Horner’s 30-Day Program to Extraordinary Health, Beauty and Longevity. (Elgea Publishing 2016) Guest Website(s): http://www.drchristinehorner.com/ Guest Product(s): Please Support Us If You Are Able: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) Radio Show Transcript: [spp-transcript] The post Dr. Christine Horner – Energy Medicine, Sleep, Ayurveda, Sailing Through Chemo & Easy Principles To Radically Improve Your Health! appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

Dr. Ed Group joined us from Global Healing Center to talk about colon health, healing the body through detoxification and much more! Dr. Group is the author of such books as Health Begins in the Colon, The Green Body Cleanse: How to Live Green & Live Well! as well as his ever popular book entitled Complete Colon Cleanse: The At-Home Detox Program to Restore Good Health, Boost Vitality, and Ensure Longevity. We were honored to have him back on the show today. We did a show with Dr. Group about four years ago which you can listen to by clicking here. We have to have Dr. Group on more often, not only does he have amazing products but he’s a wealth of information. In today’s show with Dr. Ed Group we talked about colon health and how gut health really is the first place to clean up if you want to make big progress in your health. The gut controls everything. The old saying is true…”All disease begins in the gut” LISTENER QUESTIONS ———————— (LIPOMAS) Hi Justin, Can you please ask Dr. Group his opinion on the cause and then the treatment (if any) for multiple lipomas in men? I had my first lipoma when I was in my early teens and then developed more in my late 20s and now I have even more in my late 30s. I would love to know his thoughts. Most doctors just say these are hereditary and happen for an unknown reason. Some research has implicated a genetic defect in cell multiplication. But why does this defect happen later in life and what could be the trigger? Some other doctors think they have to do with toxins. That the body is sequestering toxins in the fat cells and the cells are multiplying to hold ever more toxins. I believe that many more people develop Lipomas than is acknowledged. They just have smaller and fewer ones and so don’t have an issue with them. Thanks for asking! Lawrence Baltimore, MD ———————— (HEART PALPITATIONS) I am 65 years old with Diabetes, which I take insulin for. That is the only medication I take, but I do take multiple supplements in Dr. Group’s Iodine. I was diagnosed several years ago with Ventricular Tachycardia and my heart kicks in to over 200 beats per minute heart rate and all different times of the day about every 6 weeks. The only options given were drugs, which I will not do or an ablation, which seems counter intuitive as I have researched, and found it only works a certain percentage of the time. That said, these episodes last anywhere from 1-10 hours and the only way I get them to stop is through vomiting and sometimes it has to be multiple times before my heart settles back in to normal rhythms. I believe I am missing something in my diet, have tried numerous things, but so far, no success. These episodes are getting increasingly hard to endure and I am concerned that this is putting enormous stress on my heart and blood vessels. I realize this is probably more of a complex situation than can be handled in a forum such as this, but I would be grateful for any help or direction you can give me. Sincerely, Tom P ————————– (NO THYROID) I do have a question for Dr. Group (who I love by the way!) I would like to know how iodine works and plays a part with someone who no longs has a thyroid. I also would like to know a good dose since I don’t have a thyroid. Thank you so much! I have wanted to ask him that for over a year!! #happyhealing Lisa W. ————————– (COLON HEALTH) Dr. Ed Group: Is the oxy powder good for a peristalsis problem? Half the time I eliminate only after two days which I know isn’t normal. I consume several cups of organic vegies/juices/day and stay off sugar and most grains. Thanks. Katie ———————— (BONE LOSS) My main health concerns right now are bone loss Especially Jaw Bones how to cure or increase bone mass. Frank —————– (PSORIASIS) Hi guys, Maybe Dr. Group can help me. I’m 37. I have had sever psoriasis (each kind) since I was 19. It was so sever it covered 80% of my body. My hair fell out and nails fell off. My dermatologist gave me shots of stelera 1 year ago on a monthly basis. It’s not completely gone but managed. For the last 6 months I have been juicing daily and feel great but on each of my Achilles tendons I have olive size knots that are extremely painful. I feel that they could be from the shots of stelara. Carrie —————– (CANCER CLEANSING) Hi Justin, Quick question for Dr. Group. I’m recovering from conventional cancer treatment. What would be the first step? My husbands concern- cirrhosis of the liver. Linda One Last Thing! As always your support via your donations and bookmarking our Amazon link to use each time you purchase is how we keep our show going. Thank you for bookmarking our Amazon link even if you’re not buying anything right now! 🙂 Sponsor For This Episode: Ozone Generator From Truly Heal – Watch The Ozone Webinar SOL CBD Oil Shop Our Store Perpetual Healing Members Site Products Related To This Episode: We are now commercial free but only if you click here to support us to keep making commercial free shows! 🙂 Relax FAR Infrared Sauna Rapid Release Pro 2 Sacred Seed Oils Qigong Program Annmarie Gianni Skincare Bookmark Our Amazon.com Link! Berkey Water Filters Extrema Chemical Free Cookware BARF World Raw Dog Food Squatty Potty stools – see in store Surthrival products – see in store Thrive Market Find Extreme Health Radio On: [include file=showpage-itunes-soundcloud-stitcher.html] Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! Listen to other shows with this guest. Show Guest: Dr. Ed Group Guest Info: Dr. Edward F. Group III founded Global Healing Center in 1998 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer While in Korea, he was honored to be accepted by one of the top Korean Tae Kwon Do masters for martial arts training. Naturopathic Physician (ND) degree from the Natural Healing Institute of Naturopathy Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN) from the Natural Healing Institute of Naturopathy Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) from the Natural Healing Institute of Naturopathy Guest Website(s): http://www.globalhealingcenter.com Guest Product(s): Please Support Us If You Are Able: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) Radio Show Transcript: [spp-transcript] The post Dr. Ed Group – “We Were Born With The Ability To Heal Ourselves!” Colon Health, Detoxification, Iodine, Listener Questions & Much More! appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

Today’s show was fun. It was a show we were supposed to have Dr. Frank Shallenberger on the show to talk about the benefits of Ozone therapy but we were unable to get Dr. Shallenberger on so Kate stepped in last minute and saved the show! We always have so much to talk about so this was fun. We talked about what really causes autism and it’s my belief that there are 3 things to take note of that I think are what’s *really* causing autism. It’s not just the vaccines friends there’s more to it! I also talked about Glyphosate, Round Up and Monsanto along with how powerful language is not just in our health but in our lives as well. Language is super powerful. How we talk to ourselves is key. Finally I talked about sunscreen and why you shouldn’t avoid the sun and the dangers of sunscreen! Thanks for listening! One Last Thing! As always your support via your donations and bookmarking our Amazon link to use each time you purchase is how we keep our show going. Thank you for bookmarking our Amazon link even if you’re not buying anything right now! 🙂 Sponsors For This Episode: Extreme Health Academy (Use Code: EHR14 for a free 14 day trial!) Rapid Release Therapy Bellicon Rebounder BARF World Raw Dog Food Stockton Aloe One Omica 12 Stage RO Water System Joovv Red Light Therapy Magnetico Sleep Pad Truth About Cancer Autoimmune Revolution EMF Home Assessment Show Notes Blublox Sunglasses Relax FAR Infrared Sauna Join The Extreme Health Academy http://www.bewildandfree.com Human Charger John Taylor Gatto Lecture Less EMF Please Support Us If You Are Able: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) The post Kate Joins Me! What Really Causes Autism, Dangers of Glyphosate, The Power Of Language, Don’t Block The Sun & More! appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

I first wanted to thank all of you amazing listeners. Without your support, encouragement, emails and constant love, we would not be able to create this radio show for you all and our lives would be much less rich. Every day Kate and I take walks or just talk about all of you amazing listeners. We talk about the emails you send, the comments you make, the iTunes reviews you leave, the donations you send and the support you show us by purchasing through our store. Seriously we are so indebted to you. THANK YOU! 🙂 Your support We’re so indebted to you that Kate has now finally been able to quit her salon hair styling career that has lasted for 15 years. The job is toxic. There are so many heavy metals, dyes and chemicals she’s exposed to that it’s becoming increasingly clear she needs to leave. On top of that her clients try to get her involved in their own drama which causes stress and fear. She’s done. She’s quitting and I’m so excited! She’s going to be working on other projects related to Extreme Health Radio. Please take a moment and click on the link below to share your opinion with us about something we’re working on that will be huge. During this time we’re working on (as Kate likes to call them) some “secret squirrel” projects behind the scenes in order to better serve you. During this #FFAF353 we talked about the power of fasting and why fasting can supercharge your immune system. We also talked about why I would never take chemotherapy even as a last resort. Also we discussed how frankincense has been used very effectively against cervical cancer in women. Lots of good fun in this show! 🙂 We hope you enjoyed this show! Please share this show with your friends if you can! Please leave us a review in iTunes if you can along with a rating. That will help tremendously! Show Notes For This Episode: Click here to download the show notes for THIS EPISODE. Commercials During This Episode: Commercial #1 – BARF World Raw Dog Food Commercial #2 – Morrocco Method Raw Hair Care Products Commercial #3 – Relax FAR Infrared Sauna Commercial #4 – Omron Personal Nebulizers Find Extreme Health Radio On: [include file=showpage-itunes-soundcloud-stitcher.html] Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! Other Shows: [include file=show-links.html] Listen to other shows in this category. Show Date: Friday 12/26/2014 Show Guest: Free For All Friday Show Topic: fasting, cleansing, Chemotherapy, Frankincense Please Support Us If You Are Able: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) Support & Share 🙂 Copy and paste the following HTML code into any web page. Or you can grab a badge! <a href=”https://www.extremehealthradio.com/ep-353-the-power-of-fasting-why-id-never-take-chemotherapy-why-frankincense-is-so-healing-2014-recap-listener-questions-more-12-26-2014″>Free For All Friday Show</a> Video Version: Full Youtube Interview (Opens in a new window) Youtube Time Share This Show Socially!: #FFAF353 – Why #fasting is key for building your #ImmuneSystem & Why #Frankincense helps w/ cancer. Listen here! http://t.co/3M64smezXu — Extreme Health Radio (@ehrshow) December 28, 2014 [spp-transcript] The post The Power of Fasting, Why I’d Never Take Chemotherapy, Why Frankincense Is So Healing, 2014 Recap, Listener Questions & More! appeared first on Extreme Health Radio.

Today was an interesting day. There was not only a lot to talk about in terms of our show, our recent guests, our own health journies, listener questions but a lot has been going on out there “in the news” with alternative health and in the natural living community. As always it makes it so much more fun when people are in the chat room. It does make it more challenging to hold a good conversation, remain reflective and keep a good flow in terms of audible dialogue but it’s also fun to help interact with all of you guys during the shows! It’s how we connect live with everybody and it really makes all of our hard work worth it! One of the first things we talked about was conspiracy theories. In the natural and alternative health world, just about everybody buys into the idea of conspiracy theories. Personally I love looking into them with no attachments. I have no dogs in the fight or skin in the game as they say. Do I believe some of them? Yes. Do I think other conspiracy theories are a load of poppycock? Totally. I’d like to bring a fresh perspective to this whole conspiracy theory landscape, especially with regards to how it plays out in the natural health communities. By the way, if you want access to our shows as soon as they become available, subscribe to our Youtube channel as they get released there before anywhere else! 🙂 We also talked about what it means to be normal. Are we abnormal for having these types of thoughts? Is normal correct? What if “normal” is harmful or damaging? Just because everybody does something or believes something and it’s labeled “normal” that doesn’t mean you should live like them or think like they do. I think people want cultural norms to be accepted as something that is the standard for our societies but there are many more questions we need to ask. Asking if something is normal isn’t the right question. We also talked about many books we recommend and have been reading lately. If you are interested in keeping up to date with the books we’re reading you can follow us on Instagram as we’ll always post the books we’re reading on there. I’m a big reader as you probably know. In the future I’ll be creating a single page on our website that has all the books I’ve read, am currently reading along with books I want to read. Stay tuned for that. Also if you enjoy our free shows (that are now also commercial free) please go to this page and learn about all the ways you can support our work. We want to thank you for your kind donations, your iTunes reviews, Facebook shares, Amazon purchases along with how many people have been buying great products from our store! You know who you are and we cannot thank you enough! We have MASSIVE plans for the show that we cannot accomplish without your support and donations. We love you! Show Notes For This Episode: Click here to download the show notes for THIS EPISODE. Chat Room Links Sacred Mushrooms and the Cross Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Myth Our Instagram account http://elektramagnesium.com.au/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnX3-qXV_ho Psychedelics DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible Dr. Axe Essential Oils Social Anxiety & Fermented Foods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbLslkIR2k Meditation & Essential Oils Amazon Products Mentioned PureLife Enema Coffee-1 Lb Organic Ultra Light “Gold” Air Roast – High Potency Blueberry Powder (whole fruit) 2.2 lbs (1 kg) Never Be Late Again, 7 Cures for the Punctually Challenged The Riddle of the Sphinx (Mysterious World: Treasures of Darkness Book 1) Books We Mentioned King, Warrior, Magician, Lover The Vision by Tom Brown Soulcraft The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life Pendulum Power DMT The Spirit Molecule DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible Chronic Fatigue, ME, and Fibromyalgia: The Natural Recovery Plan [/wpsharely]   Commercials During This Episode: We are now commercial free but only if you click here to support us to keep making commercial free shows! 🙂 Bellicon Rebounders The FAR Infrared Sauna Good Morning Good Evening Moving Meditations 100% Natural Skincare Line Find Extreme Health Radio On: [include file=showpage-itunes-soundcloud-stitcher.html] Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! 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[include file=get-in-itunes.html] Marty Gallagher who is the author of The Purposeful Primitive: Using the Primordial Laws of Fitness to Trigger Inevitable, Lasting and Dramatic Physical Change and Coan, The Man, The Myth, The Method talked about specific training methods to help increase lean muscle mass, decrease body fat and increase your energy and vitality. He’s a master at what he does and his workout principles have been utilized by hundreds of thousand of people world wide, no matter their age or fitness levels. We love Marty and want to support his work. He’s been into strength training and lifting weights for over 50 years. Please listen to this interview and pass it on to your friends! Please “Like” it on Facebook and do whatever you can to help spread the message of hope to people! I would be very grateful. 🙂 After you listen, comment below and tell us what you think! We discuss the following and so much more: The 4 pilars of his program, resistance, cardio, nutrition and psychology Why these are only 4 exercises you should be doing Why strength is different than muscle size Why you should avoid workout machines The importance of muscle confusion Why he’s not into Crossfit Completely change your body in 4 weeks only spending less than 3 hours per week in the gym with Marty Gallagher – Click to tweet this! – Get Notified: [ois skin=”Show Page2″] – Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! – Other Shows: [include file=show-links.html] | All Shows With This Guest – Show Date: 10/19/2012 – Show Guest: Marty Gallagher – Guest Info: Athlete: In 1967 Gallagher won the teenage Olympic weightlifting title and set two national records. Gallagher has won four world powerlifting titles and seven national titles in three different federations. Most recently he won the AAU national and world master title in 2003. In 1997 he set the national record in the squat (220 pound class) with a 722 pound lift in a drug-tested competition at age 47. He still actively competes at national and world level in his age and weight division. Read More… Coach: World team coach for the United States at the 1991 world powerlifting championships in Orebro, Sweden. Team USA captured the world team title over Russia, Finland and the Ukraine. Marty was team coach for Black’s Gym, winner of four team titles. Additionally Marty has served as competition coach for a who’s who of the world’s best powerlifters: Ed Coan, Doug Furnas, Lamar Gant and Dan Austin. He was instrumental in the careers of world champions Mark Chaillet and Kirk Karwoski. Mr. Gallagher has also been actively involved training Spec Ops Tier I operators for over a decade. Fitness writer: Since 1979 Marty has had over a thousand fitness articles published in a wide variety of magazines. He was the head writer for the training section of Muscle & Fitness magazine for nearly a decade. He went on to work for The Washington Post.com as a fitness columnist and published 230 + weekly and bi-weekly Post columns. His work has appeared worldwide and he continues to write for a wide range of heath, fitness and athletic publications. Fitness author: Joe Weider called Gallagher’s book, Coan, The Man, The Myth, The Method, “Simply the greatest book on powerlifting ever written.” Marty’s most recent literary effort, The Purposeful Primitive was widely and wildly praised by the athletic elite. Planet Muscle named his book, “Best of the Best” for 2008. Marty is currently working on two book projects, both due for publication in late 2011. – Topic: Fitness, Weightlifting – Guest Website(s): http://www.dragondoor.com (Guest Social Links Below. Please Follow Them!) – Guest Product(s): Click Below To Checkout The Products While Listening! 🙂 – Items Mentioned: The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It John Parrillo Christopher G Hardy, MD Dr. Stuart McGill Robert W. Smith – Connect: Discuss This Episode With Others – Duration/Size: 00:54:59 / 50.34 MB – Rate: Rate This Guest! – Rate This Show: [ratings] – Download: Right Click To Download – Donate: (Opens in a new window – Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!) – Support & Share 🙂 Copy and paste the following HTML code into any web page. Or you can grab a badge! Interview with Marty Gallagher on fitness – Video Version: Full Youtube Interview (Opens in a new window) Youtube Time – Follow Us!: Please consider ReTweeting the following update to share this episode… Learn the exact principles you need to lose body fat and gain strength with Marty Gallagherextremehealthradio.com/24 — Extreme Health Radio (@ehrshow) October 20, 2012 – Watch a very helpful video [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=kNTs_YgKivw width=640 height=480 anchor=tutorial] for this page. – Subscribe to iTunes or Leave a Review Subscribe to iTunes podcast Click Here to Subscribe via RSS (non-iTunes feed) Leave a review Thank you so much for your support, and if you have yet to leave a rating or review, please leave me an honest one on iTunes by clicking here. It will help the show and its ranking in iTunes immensely! I appreciate it! – Podcast Transcript: JUSTIN: Thank you so much everybody for joining us today on another edition of extremehealthradio. I hope you’re having a great day. Today is Friday, October 19, 2012 and thanks for tuning in and listening to us. Right now, we’re doing about three shows a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and we are broadcasting worldwide from Southern California. The last time I checked, we were in over 40 countries, which is just amazing. So, thank you for joining in. Today’s episode is Episode #24, so you can check that out on extremehealthradio.com/24. On that show page, you’ll be able to see the transcription of today’s interview’s show notes. with reference materials and websites the guest mentions. If you have any questions, email me, as I would love to hear from you. justin@extremehealthradio.com or you could call in on our voicemail line, which is (949) 391-7363 and I will play your message to our guest on the air. So, that will be fun. We’ve been promoting this product lately and it’s called the Vitamix Blender and this show is brought to you by that product. You will get free shipping if you buy it through us and you can check that out at extremehealthradio.com/vitamix. Before we introduce our guest, Marty Gallagher, who I’m really excited to have on today, I would like to talk about our upcoming show schedule. We have Magda Havas next week, talking about the dangers of electromagnetic radiation, so that should be fascinating. If you have a cell phone, you may want to listen to that one. We’ve Dr. Mark Sircus, who is a prolific author. He’s the director of IMBA out of Brazil. He’ll be talking about cancer and heart disease. We’ve got Dr. Jack Hipp on Friday, a week from today. We’ve got a lot of great interviews lined up, all the way through the end of the year, so make sure to tune in and check out our show schedule page for those. I’m really excited to have today’s guest, Marty Gallagher on. He’s quite a prolific guy. He’s an athlete and in 1967 he won the teenage Olympic weight lifting title and set two national records, and then in 1997 he set the world national record in squats, 220 lb squats with a 722 lb lift. That’s just amazing at the age of 47. He’s been actively involved in training special ops for over a decade. He’s a fitness author, and Joe Weider called Marty Gallagher’s book, Ed Coan; The Man, The Myth, The Method’ simply the greatest book on power lifting ever written, which is an amazing thing coming from Joe Weider. His most recent publication, The Purposeful Primitive, you can check out on dragondoor.com and it has been widely acclaimed. So, that you so much for joining us Marty. We really appreciate it. MARTY GALLAGHER: Good morning for me, and how’s everyone out there doing? JUSTIN: We’re going great. Where are you calling in from today? MARTY GALLAGHER: I’m right outside of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. JUSTIN: Great, so you started weightlifting as a teenager. MARTY GALLAGHER: Yes, I actually started as a pre-teen. I’ve been hoisting iron at a serious level for 51 years. JUSTIN: Wow, what got you started so early, even before you were a teenager? MARTY GALLAGHER: I came up in a sort of the weightlifting equivalent of the Gracie jujitsu clan. I was born and raised in a hot bed of olympic weightlifting activities, and from a very early age, I was really pushing big weights in a serious way, training with grown men, competing regionally and nationally. When I was still a teen, I got into the whole philosophy of physical transformation. As a result of lifting, I expanded my horizons. I worked for a Weider organization for ten years as a writer on body building and I got to know all the top body builders of the 80’s and 90’s and became very familar with their dietary provisons. So say what you want about body builders, they are the world’s dieters when it comes to low body fat percentiles. So between my lifting and my exposure to the body builders, I’ve always been a writer and have had over 1,000 articles published since 1978. You know, I’m all of a sudden 62 years old and a sort of senior citizen in the fitness world. JUSTIN: The question is, did you get your workout in today? MARTY GALLAGHER: As a matter of fact, I did. I get up every morning at dawn and run for an hour in the woods and I find that that’s the best way to start my day. Since I’m a full time professional writer, my time is my own, so I don’t have to work for the ‘man’. Short of rain, the usually how I start my day. I’ll get out, I wouldn’t call it a run, more of a jog trot type of thing, but it gets the metabolism kicking and clears the head. I think it’s a real advantage to suck in the super oxgenated outdoor air, as opposed to the stale recycled gym air. Who knows what exhalations the guy next to you on the treadmill is poluting the atmosphere with, you know. JUSTIN: Right. Is there truth to the idea, I’ve seen a lot of the USC fighters, they mention that they run early in the morning because it helps spike their metabolism for the day. You kind of just mentioned that. Does that help with the metabolism? MARTY GALLAGHER: Absolutely. The cardio has to be intense enough to spike the metabolism. That’s easy science. What most folks don’t realize is that the metabolism, once you engage in some sort of exercise activity that is intense enough to spike it, it will remain spiked for hours after the cessation of the session. With body builders, one tactile wrinkle that they use, that I’ve expropriated, they would, and I also, would engage in an intense cardio session first thing in the morning before eating. Coming of the sweet fast, the lysogen stores are at their lowest, and lysogen is the body’s favorite form of fuel. So, in the absence of lysogen, and when subjected to an intense exercise, the body will be forced to burn it’s second favorite source of fuel, which is body fat. So, by using this little technical wrinkle and by engaging in an intense exercise session before you eat the first meal of the day, you literally force the body to burn body fat. That’s why if you go into any big time body building gym, you will see them all lined up doing their cardio first thing in the morning. JUSTIN: By intense do you mean that you do it for a long period of time, or just short and intense cardio. MARTY GALLAGHER: Well, I think cardio should be alternated in the same way that we strategically alternate resistance training and also strategically alternate diets. The human body is a miraculous organism. If you subject it to any training or nutritional regimen long enough, it will neutralize the effects. It will…..7.52….homeostasis, so if you continue to do the same thing over and over, and in the same way, the body will neutraize the effects, and the reason you go into commercial gyms and you see the same guys at the same time, doing the same thing over and over, and the reason they never change is because their bodies have adapted to what they’re doing. We’ve continually got to, classical periodization, which is sort of the highest level of sports. Periodization, we generally look to switch dramatically training routines about every four weeks. After about four weeks, the body will neutralize whatever it is you’ve been doing. JUSTIN: Yes, I’ve heard three weeks and four weeks all throughout the time that I’ve been working out too. So, how do you couple that with, I know you’re a proponent of more of the compound exercises and things like that. There’s only a handful of those, so how do you couple that with changing out your workout if there’s only a handful of the compound exercises? MARTY GALLAGHER: That’s actually a very good question and the answer is that there is a universe of variations within each of the core four. We believe that the somatic basis of resistance training revolves around four specific movements, squats, deep knee bends, the bench press, dead lift and the overhead press. Now, if you take a squat for example, there are at least 20 variations that you can utilize just doing free weight squatting. We’re big believers in free weights. The problem with resistance machines, they eliminate what we call the third dimension of tension. There’s no need to control side to side movement with the machine, as the machine does that for you. You’re locked into a predetermined groove. You allowed to just push or pull. The free weight will requires that you also keep the payload within a specific motor pathway and that causes muscle stabilizers to fire. Machine makers lead you to believe that the machine that mimics a particular free weight movement, is good, when factually, that’s a huge myth. JUSTIN: Would you recommend machines for anyone, like say if they’re injured or if they’re old. MARTY GALLAGHER: Oh yes, obviously a resistance machine is better than no resistance training. We are crazed about technique and I basically use the same strategy all the way from the obese to the elite. And that strategy is, first of all, we introduce folks to techniques of the four core list that they have never been exposed to to begin with. We are big believers in full and complete range of motion. Everyone else in resistance training is looking for ways to make resistance training easier, which, if you think about it, is an irresolvable contradiction in terms. Why would you want to make resistance easier? We want to make resistance harder. So to that end, we’ll do things like ultra deep squats, that in addition to having an extreme range of motion, we’ll also pause them at the bottom. Generally speaking, in resistance training if it’s excruciating, you’re probably doing it right. JUSTIN: That’s good to know. Those exercises are the same ones that I do, squats, overhead press, deadlift bench press. Something I had a question about, those are typically considered compound exercises. MARTY GALLAGHER: Compound multi joint …11.39….movers, indeed. JUSTIN: I’ve always wondered why the bench press is included in that, because it seems like kind of an isolation exercise, but apparently it’s not. MARTY GALLAGHER: Again, keep in mind there are at least a dozen variations of bar bell benching and we haven’t even brought in dumb bells. Classically performed bench press will activate triceps, front deltoids, pec minor and pec major. It is the finest single upper body developer. Now, if you alter your grip, the wider the grip you have, the more pec-centric it becomes, the narrower the grip the more triceps-centric. In between, you have all these shades of grey, so when you get to a shoulder width grip it’s fairly evenly divided between chest, triceps and front deltoids. Most elite bench presses favor a wider grip, because they want to use the massive pec muscles. So, grip width has a tremendous variance in terms of technique, where the bar touches on the chest, whether or not you use a short pause, a long pause, whether or not you use a touch and go, whether or not you use dumb bells. Dumb bells are one strategy that we use for complete beginners. We’ll have them do paused dumb bell benches, where we will actually have them release their tension at the bottom an allow the dumb bells to create a pre-stretch and in doing this, it’s one of what my Navy Seals told me, it’s almost like yoga with weights. So, that’s how we engrain really, really core techniques. We have, typically, five sequential variations within each of the four techniques, and we don’t allow someone who is studying in our system to progress until they have mastered the initial technique, and then the secondary technique will be a variation of that somatic basic, and then on and on we go, until finally we’re at what most consider classic exercise techniques. The problem with most resistance training today is that they have people jump in on techniques that they really have no business messing with. A lot of trainers will actually have the people that they’re teaching squats to, to do, what we call, a low ball power squat, which is malpractise literally. We want to isolate, we want our squats to build ……14.23….we want our benches to build front torso or shoulder presses to build shoulders, traps, upper pecs and we want the deadlift to build backs. Between these four movements, you will hit all 600 plus muscles on the human body. Another interesting thing about our system is it is executed with the requisite intensity. We only have each lift work once a week, so you would squat once a week, bench once a week, overhead press once a week and deadlift once a week. Now this makes for a very time compressed efficient strength system, and this is why it is of particular interest to the military, because the special operators that I work with, time is their most important commodity. They approached me and said ‘can you devise for us, a no-compromised strength system that has a minimum time investment’? They’d been having a lot of these body builder types and these football strength coach types and they were all trying to jam the spec opps operators into their own system, when in fact, they needed a really, really different approach. The approach …….15.30….is perfect for anyone who is serious about resistance training but doesn’t care to spend 6 hours a week in the gym. For a beginner to an intermediate, you can do our system with one cumulative hour a week of resistance training. JUSTIN: Really, is that four different days of the week? MARTY GALLAGHER: No, typically we would, on day one, squat and bench, day two, deadlift and overhead press. Again, I’m speaking of someone with average strength, Obviously, if you’re super strong, it’s going to take you longer, but a relatively normal individual is going to be able to get through each of those workouts in probably 20 minutes. JUSTIN: It doesn’t really take much, if you really think about it. It doesn’t take a lot of time to really stretch those muscles, does it? MARTY GALLAGHER: Correct. In fact, you’ve hit on another important point. If anyone tells me they’ve spent two hours in the gym doing resistance training, I immediately know that they are completely devoid of any intensity. They’ve substituted duration for intensity. Our whole approach is that intensity trumps everything. If you’re working with me, I want to decimate whatever muscle we’re working on and be done with it. JUSTIN: Sometimes those are the people who really do intense workouts, but they spend the rest of the time talking and meeting people and stuff like that. MARTY GALLAGHER: Well, that’s a contradiction in terms. Nobody talks who is working with me. JUSTIN: That’s a good thing! We have to take a quick break. MARTY GALLAGHER: I can guarantee that! JUSTIN: They wouldn’t have enough breath to do that. MARTY GALLAGHER: They will hear my big mouth. JUSTIN: That’s great! We have to take a quick break. I want to talk to you about squats and why squats are so important for people to do. We’re with Marty Gallagher and his book called The Purposeful Primitive and we’re going to talk to him more about that as well, after the break. You can find that on dragondoor.com. We’re with Marty Gallagher and we’ll be right back. Hey, what’s up everybody? 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They talk about things like gluten sensitivities, how to curb food addictions and cut back on food cravings, how animal foods and things like cholesterol do not cause heart disease or degenerative diseases, as well as how to deal with things like bone loss, cancer, muscle pain, autoimmune diseases, how to burn fat and all that kind of stuff. If you’re looking to change your diet once and for all, definitely check that out. It’s at extremehealthradio.com/paleosummit. Alright, let’s get back to this interview. We are with Marty Gallagher, author of The Purposeful Primitive and I would definitely check out that book on dragondoor.com. Prior to the break, we were talking about squats. So Marty, a lot of people don’t realize that squats are one of the most important exercises people can do. Why are squats that critical for your workout routine? MARTY GALLAGHER: First off, squats are maligned. They are subject to a lot of haters. There’s a lot of people out there who desperately want to believe that, we’ve heard them all, squats are bad for the knees, squats are dangerous and it goes on and on and on. The second problem that we have when we approach the squat, is that 99.9% of the time, squats are taught incorrectly. Almost every personal trainer and every muscle expert teaches squats from the top down. Our approach is that we build squats from the bottom up. We want complete, complete range of motion. Everyone for their particular structure has an appropriate stance for squatting. You need to find that stance that allows you to squat all the way down, and like a Vietnamese rice farmer, repairing the fishing net, you just kind of sit down there and you lose your thigh tension and you become very comfortable with being in that bottomed out position. Once you’re able to determine, again through a combination of your stance width and your balance, where that point it, we spend hours talking about how to properly arise from the depth of the squat. Typically what happens is that the trainee will allow the tailbone to shoot up behind them and then they will have this sort of segmented arising, when we stress is that we want a vertical torso, vertical shins and the only thing that moves is the femurs. That makes the squat a leg exercise. What happens is that when you’re trying to come up from a heavy squat, the legs send a subconscious signal to the brain. This all happens in a manner that says ‘this payload, even if it’s just the torso, is really heavy, we need some help down here’. So, the brain will signal back to the leg and say, ‘here’s an idea, if you let your tailbone shot up behind you, what that will do is that you won’t have to lift the torso, as this will allow your thighs to assume a more advantageous telescope push position and you can raise up with greater ease’. Well, we don’t want to raise up with greater ease, we want to have the trainee rise up initially with the full weight of their payload and become very adept at that. Typically, we like to see someone be able to do 3 sets of 15 reps in the ….21.44…pause no-weight squat, before we allow them to graduate to a kettlebell squat. The kettle ball squat is actually called a goblet squat and you sort of hold the kettlebell at your chest. You do the same thing, you sink all the way down to the bottom and then you arise, keeping the torso vertical, keeping the shins vertical, nothing but femur moving, and then after you’re able to do 3 sets of 8-10 reps handling a modest kettlebell, then we’ll switch the trainee to front squats. We love the front squat, because the bar is positioned in a rack position at the collar bone and forces the trainee to descend and ascend with again, the all important vertical torso. If you forward and front squat, the bar is going to pop off your chest and fall to the floor. Only if you’ve mastered the no-weight squat, the goblet squat and the front squat do we let you go to the barbell back squat, and then we want the high barbell back squat. Everyone else in the world, initially they jump their people in on barbell back squats, and what happens is the squat becomes an invition to lean forward. So, what they do, rather than squatting down with the barbell behind the neck, they lean forward. You see this in every picture. Just pick up any fitness magazine and look at their examples of squatting. They lean so far forward that the bar is actually in front of the knees. This becomes a hip exercise and not a leg exercise. That gives you a little snapshot of how we do it and that would be the squat. We have equally stringent technical guidelines for the bench, for the overhead press and for the deadlift. JUSTIN: When you’re doing free weights, it’s ultra critical to have your form correct. MARTY GALLAGHER: Absolutely. You don’t get to use free weights until you can do the form without the free weights. How can you do proper form with free weights if you can’t do proper form without free weights, or any weight. JUSTIN: In your book, do you talk about the correct form of all of these exercises. MARTY GALLAGHER: Yes, there’s a big section on technique. Technique was drilled into me. My mentors were world champion lifters and, from the time I was 11 years old, I had technique, technique, technique drilled into my head. In turn, it’s my turn to give it back. Technique also keeps you safe. 90% of the resistance training injuries occur when the bar or the payload strays outside the precise technical parameters of a properly performed lift. JUSTIN: If someone wanted to do these types of exercises, the four that you’re mentioning, is there any limitations in terms of someone’s age or if someone’s pregnant? Obviously, pregnancy is going to be different!! Are there limitations there? MARTY GALLAGHER: I don’t know, I mean it’s hard to make a blanket generalization like that. I can tell you this. I’ve got 60 year old, out of shape, beginners who make fabulous progress. Our strategy is this for everyone. Initially, we want to make light weights heavy. Then we have an interim phase and only when we get to the advanced stage, do we make heavy weights light. Okay? So making light weights heavy, we get maximum resistance benefit from very small weights. Then again, this all leads back to extreme range of motion and technical perfection. We love pauses, like at the bottom of a squat and pauses at the bottom of a bench press. This makes it more difficult. Again, our philophesy is we’re seeking ways to make resistance training more difficult. Everyone else is seeking ways to make resistance training easier. I just think that this allegiance to technical perfection in lifting. I’ve won three world championships, six national championships and I’ve been in this game for 50 years and I’ve never had a back, leg, knee or ankle issue. I do work with Dr. Stuart McGill out of Canada, the worlds leading spine biomechanics, and he is convinced that because of my pristine lifting techniques, have actually strengthened, not only my spine but the muscles surrounding my spine. I have no knee problems and again, I’m a social security recipient. JUSTIN: And that’s after doing a 722 lb squat at one point? MARTY GALLAGHER: Yes, I did more than that. I handled 840 back when I was 33. JUSTIN: Wow, 840 lbs. I’ve heard a lot of people say that the squat, because it’s such a large muscle, your body releases more hormones. Is that true? MARTY GALLAGHER: Yes, we’re big believers in training with enough intensity, regardless of the lift, to trigger the release of endorphins. Endorphins are huge. Science is going to catch up. I’m actually doing a book with Dr. Chris Hardy, who is with the Everett Clinic. Chris and I are both looking into the relationship between intense physical training and endorphins. Adrenaline is sort of the superficial hormone, that’s sort of a ….27.12 …. thing, but if you take all of these hormonal releases, they are the precursor of the signal that you’ve actually engaged in a productive workout. Most people go through the motions in their resistance training, but they do not train hard enough to trigger hypertrophy. Hypertrophy is not a gradual process. Hypertrophy is like flipping a switch, it either is or it isn’t. Hypertrophy is sort of the ……27.42…..equivalent of a nuclear explosion. You can go into a gym and you can train submaximally and be very comfortable and talk to your neighbor while you’re doing your sets of bench presses and you know, it’s all very pleasant and nice, and nothing ever happens. The endorphins are sort of the signifier that you’re training hard enough to get actual results. Again, what do we look for resistance training for? To build muscle, strengthen the body and make us more injury resistant. Strong muscles, strong tendons and strong li`gaments, these are all injury reducers. We don’t look to weight training for any kind of cardio benefit, do you follow me? We do cardio for cardio benefit, we do resistance training to build muscle and if you want to lose fat, you’re going to have to factor in nutrition, combined with your cardio and you’re going to have to talk about energy balance equation and you’re going to have to get serious about micronutrient composition. These are all interrelated elements. The big problem with fitness is that everybody is segmented. Everybody wants to be an expert in one of four areas. They might be the cardio expert or they might be the lifting expert. They might be the nutritio expert, but in order to transform the human body, which really is what fitness is. When you say fitness, I think of transformatiom. If you really want to transform the human body, you have four elements, resistance training, cardio, nutrition and psychological. In my book, I have four sections on these four interrelated critical elements. JUSTIN: When you were talking a minute ago about hypertrophy. MARTY GALLAGHER: Hypertrophy, muscle growth. JUSTIN: When you were talking about that, does that mean that you’re actually, you know a lot of body builders are doing curls and really isolation exercises. When you’re really breaking down the muscle like you’re talking about, does that mean you’re actually digging deep all the way down to the bottom of the muscle and you’re tearing every single fiber of the muscle? MARTY GALLAGHER: I wouldn’t look at it like that. I think a better way to look at it is that the human body is not going to favorably reconfigure itself in response to ease and sameness. Would you agree? JUSTIN: Yes, exactly. MARTY GALLAGHER: So, if we go with that kind of directive, we say yes, there’s truth in that. We’ll get to examine this. So, if that’s the case, what do we have to do in order to force the body to transfigure? Well, we have to take it to the limit or past the limit. It’s not going to reconfigure itself in response to submaximal effort. So, if we have to hit a limit, or exceed the limit, then the question becomes ‘how do we define limit’? Limit can have a lot of different definitions and that’s where we tune into our periodization and that’s where we look at, well. you know we could exceed a high rep limit. That would be exceeding a limit. We could exceed a low rep limit. If we’re doing cardio, we could run the same distance faster. We could maintain our intensity, but increase the duration. There are different ways in which we can goose limits. First we have to be aware of our limits and then we have to have different strategies to exceed the limits. Now, the problem with exceeding limits, is you do it and do it consistently, then you really get into the issue of recovery. That’s part of the reason why we only have our trainees do each lift once a week, because it allows us six full days to recover. That muscle that has been decimated in some manner or fashion, needs to rest and recover and heal and grow. Again, it all fits together in this kind of giant crazed transformational matrix. JUSTIN: With what you’re talking about, let’s say the chest once a week, I think the problem would be for a lot of people would be if they listen to this and didn’t go through your training methods, would be to do a chest exercise, and not necessarily get the right form, but not really take themselves to a limit to where they actually need a full six days. In other words, I would imagine that a lot of people might just do a kind of easy chest exercise and feel like they’ve got six days to recover. MARTY GALLAGHER: They may as well go bowling or play golf! JUSTIN: So, you really need to do it correctly in order to have the advantage of having six days off, right? MARTY GALLAGHER: Of course. If you don’t equal or exceed the limit, what is there to rest from? JUSTIN: Yes, I can see how people would run into that problem. MARTY GALLAGHER: This is not particularly pleasant, but it’s factual. This is the true method of true champions. Do you really think that champion athletes who have successfully reconfigured their body, have done this by yawnig their way through their routines? No, you have to bleed a little bit. That’s the sad truth of fitness. Everyone wants to sell you an easy method, which will allow you to short cut, circumvent all the blood, sweat, tears and toil connected with fitness. Humans will always buy that, whether it’s a pill, whether it’s a magical method that we all fall prey to, as we don’t want to bleed all over the gym floor in order to get results. But, all that stuff is just myth. It’s ridiculous. JUSTIN: I want to ask you a couple of questions about something you said a minute ago about nutrition. But, I want to get this break out of the way so that we will have some time to talk. We’re with Marty Gallagher and his book The Purposeful Primitive. If this sounds interesting to you, you can check it out on dragondoor.com or Amazon. 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Again, you can find it at extremehealthradio.com/yeast. JUSTIN: Alright, thank you for joining us. We’re with Marty Gallagher from dragondoor. His book Purposeful Primitive is available on that website, or on Amazon.com. Marty, I wanted to ask you, you mentioned something a while back that kind of caught my ears and it’s something that I don’t hear at the gym that I go to, ever. You mentioned the word ‘phytonutrients’. When I overhear trainers talking to people, it’s always ‘macronutrients’, carbs and protein. MARTY GALLAGHER: Yes, and again I honestly don’t want to get too hung up on that, because the crux of our nutritional strategy is based upon our work with the lead athletes. What we have found is that optimally, there is no one diet that trumps all others. Taste preference is a huge thing. I have had athletes who have made phenominal progress. How do we define nutritional progress? I would define nutritional progress as follows: Obviously, health considerations, get your blood work done and all that. But, the ultimate bottom line, for me, is reduction in body fat percentile. I have had athletes who have had successfully reduced their body fat percentiles into single digits, below 10%, basically living on carbs. I’ve had other athletetes who have reduced their body fat percentiles to single digits, basically living on fat and protein. There is no one single dietary approach that trumps all others and there’s great logic to rotating diets in the same way that we might rotate training programs. Again, the body is always seeking that homeostasis. It’s always looking to neutralize the effects of whatever you’re subjecting it to. One thing that we do, with great success, is we might alter my friend, Ori Hofmekler’s, Warrior Diet approach, which is a meal timing strategy, with my friend John Carillo’s body building approach, which is another multiple meal, meal timing strategy, so you get your timing issues. You can approach it if your particular taste preference leans more toward carbs, then fine. You can base your diet around that. If your taste preference is more toward fat, we are not fat phobic. There’s a jihad against fat amongst the medical community. If you read the works of Gary Taubes and some of these other folks out there, you will see that the real enemy is not fat. The real enemy is refined carbs, these estrogenic producing foods that are everywhere, and these artificial beverages. Again, please have an open mind and don’t follow the mainstream propaganda ‘if you just elimiate fat everything will be fine’. It’s another myth. JUSTIN: In your book, the four ……37.58… that you talk about, what are some of the psychological aspects that you mention in your book. MARTY GALLAGHER: Well, we think the psychological aspect of fitness is easily the most overlooked critical aspect. And, just in a nutshell, we can start with this. Everybody thinks that fitness is some grand act of willpower. The problem with willpower, willpower is finite. Every act of will must come to an end. Willpower implies that you’re doing something that you would prefer not to do. We seek to develop enthusiasm, enthusiasm to the process, enthusiasm is self-regenerating. It’s like solar power and if you can become enthusiastic about the fitness process, then invariably you’re going to be successful, because you will have the longevity that’s necessary to see it through to success. Now, the problem with enthusiasm is how do you generate fitness enthusiasm? In our experience, it comes down to one word, ‘results’. You get tangible, mathmatically defineable physical results. You start seeing changes in your body fat percentile. You start picking up some muscle, you start feeling better. These are real results and that’s what generates enthusiasm for the process. The more results,the greater the enthusiasm. The greater the enthusiasm the more results. Round and round it goes. So, we look to get results for people new to our system quickly. Like, within 7 days, because we want to hook them on the fact that ‘no, if you do lock down all these interrelated aspects, first off you’re going to feel a hell of a lot better within the first 7 days. Within the first 14 days, you’re going to start seeing physical changes. Within the first month, you’re going to start seeing changes to the point that you’re going to be dropping pant sizes or dress sizes. By the end of two months, friends and neighbors are going to start noticing and, at the end of three months, you’re going to be a new person. This again, assumes that you lock down your resistance training element, your cardiovascular training element and your nutrition element. All of this is powered by the psychological. In addition to this enthusiasm, which is a long-term psychological element, you also have this, what we call, psyche. Top athletes use psyche in their workouts to improve performance. It’s a learned skill. The more that you try to apply psyche in your training, the better at it you become. Top lead athletes will be able to improve performance in a workout, anywhere from 5-10%, just by getting their psyche won. The opposite of psyche is casual distractedness that you see in gyms. People want to be distracted or watch TV while they’re pedaling on cardio, what’s up with that? Well, what they’re doing is so gruesome that they need distraction. This is exactly what we don’t want. This is why I go out in nature every day. I want to do my running outside. I want to have to pay attention to a degree that if I space out, I’m going to trip over a root. My cardio, done outdoors on mountain trails, actually forces me to amplify my concentration. I become one with the activity. This is the complete opposite of becoming somnolistic spaced out, sitting on a stationary bike in a commercial gym, pedaling while watching television. These are all different psychological tricks that we use to elicit progress. Everything is about progress. If you’re not making progress, get rid of the system that you’re working with. JUSTIN: Would you recommend someone, if they wanted to implement some of these principles, to pick up your book and want to get started. Would you recommend that they join a gym or buy some free weights to use in their garage? MARTY GALLAGHER: I guess all of the above. You know what I mean? I don’t belong to a gym and have my weights in my garage. I know what I’m doing, but there’s no blanket answer to that question. We can work with anybody’s circumstance. I do personal training at high-end level, and I work with individuals literally around the world, in every circumstance. In most cases, these are high powered business people, who can afford my expensive services, and they have all different types of circumstance. I’ve got clients in Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Austria and everywhere, and in each case, we’re able to elicit results for them, based upon what their situation is, based upon what tools they have available, based upon their available time. Our system is very pliable, it’s very malleable, but it’s founded on a couple of principals. Number one is, in resistance training, technique and intensity, number two, cardio, working to the point that you’re triggering endorphins, number three, nutrition, finding a diet plan that works for you. Generally speaking on nutrition, you either want to be carb centric or fat centric. We love protein for both, because protein builds and maintains muscles. So, regardless if you want to be primarily a carb eater or primarily a fat eater, you need ample amounts of protein. We suggest at least 1/2 gram a day for sort of a normal person. If you’re an athlete, you certainly a gram of protein per pound of body weight per day. The trick is, don’t mix protein and fat. If you mix them, you’re going to get bad results. You will not lose that body fat. Again, the natural carbs, obviously refined carbs, man-made stuff, chips, soda and alcohol, other than occasionally and periodically. This stuff has got to go because our insulin has gone crazy as a result of ingesting these man-made artificial foods, and we become insulin resistant because our receptor sites are continually clogged and we’re just not able to clear this stuff. The first thing we like to do is detoxify our people, get them off that stuff and I tell you, almost every case, just by eliminating the man-made refined foods, it’s miraculous. They feel better, they start losing body fat and they’re not even dieting. I don’t mean to cover so much ground! Every time you ask me a question, I give you five answers, but one always ties to the next, to the next, to the next. JUSTIN: A minute ago you were talking about mixing proteins and fats. MARTY GALLAGHER: No, protein and fat are fine. Protein and carbs are fine, but fat and carbs are not fine. JUSTIN: I see. Okay, so you want not to have a meal that contains those items in one sitting. MARTY GALLAGHER: Yes, and again, I love Italian food and that is my favorite. But Pasta and butter, you know what I mean, and cheese is exactly what we don’t want, because there you’ve got refined man-made carbs mixed with fat and the result is disastrous if you’re looking to lose body fat, which is what everyone in fitness wants to do. They want to lose body fat. JUSTIN: That’s a good tip. What do you make of, I hear a lot of people at gyms talking about this time under tension philosophy with working out. Can you explain what that is and whether or not it works well for people? MARTY GALLAGHER: I don’t know what the current bumper sticker sound bite is, but time under tension is classical resistance training strategy, because is if you’re lifting a weight, you’re inducing muscle tension, right? So, then the question becomes how long is the sum total of your time under tension. I think what they’re probably trying to get at is longer duration. When you prefer short intense sessions, for example, if a man is able to squat let’s say 200 lbs for 5 reps, he would come into the gym and he would probably handle, I don’t know, maybe 95 for 8-10, just to get some blood into the area. He would take a rest maybe for a couple of minutes. He’d jump to 135 and probably do 2-3 reps. We’d probably jump him to 165 for 1 rep and then we’d have him do his top set, his work set of 200 for 5 reps. If you mixed the 200 for 5, then the next week we’ll jump him to 205 for 5 and repeat the process. Now we have all different types of cycling and periodization strategies and we’ll also use multiple sets. But that’s sort of the basic resistance training strategy. In terms of time under tension, how do you define tension? Use a 95 lb set for 12, is that tension? Or is only the 200 lb for 5, tension? There’s tension and then there’s tension. JUSTIN: Now, when you do those types of exercises, do you pyramid back down? MARTY GALLAGHER: No, if anything we would do multiple top sets. For my military guys, my advanced military guys, we have a strategy. If a man is able to handle a particular poundage for 3 sets of 5 reps, regardless of the lift, it can be said that that man owns that poundage. Let’s take the 200 lb squat. If a man is able to do 3 sets of 5 reps with 200 lbs in the front squat, well he owns that 200. So then the question becomes what’s next? Let’s jump to 210. Now, how do we transition from being able to do 3 sets of 5 with 200 to handling the 210? One strategy that we’ll use is that we might start him off, and again this is work sets after he’s warmed up, with 4 sets of 3 with 210. A man who can do 3 sets of 5 with 200, certainly can do a triple with 210. So, we might have 4 sets of 3 with 210 and then the following week we might have 3 sets of 4 with 210. The week after that we might have 2 sets of 5 with 210, and then in the following weeks we’d have him do 3 sets of 5 with 210. Now he owns 210. This is periodization strategy at an elite level. JUSTIN: I know that a lot of people, especially a lot of paleo types of people, they love the cross fit. I’ve never done cross fit, but how does cross fit differ from some of the principals you’re talking about? MARTY GALLAGHER: I don’t know and don’t really care, as it doesn’t concern me. My friends call me a ‘fitness monk’. I am not one that is seen. I don’t pay attention to trends. I work with elite athletes and I work with elite military. I don’t care what’s going on in the wider fitness world. This …..49.34……..is a philosophy, it’s not a collection. JUSTIN: That’s so great. Do you do anything else for your fitness, things like tai chi, yoga or chi gong and stuff like that? MARTY GALLAGHER: Years ago I did seven years of tai chi, bogwashing me under Robert Smith. Anyone who knows anything about old school martial arts, knows that Bob Smith was a top flight guy, a CIA operative in Taiwan and probably one of the foremost early proponents of the Chinese internal martial arts. I did that for seven years. You know, I played ball at different levels, but was a class-B raquetball player club champion, but these are distractions, do you follow me? Not things that I do with complete intensity. JUSTIN: I do a little bit of yoga myself and I’ve been doing a lot of heavy weight training for a while too. I think I’m going to pick up your book. MARTY GALLAGHER: Good, and then invite me back on after you’ve absorbed it, and then you can ask me some good type quetions. Okay, I’ve got the book, now what do we do? Do you follow me? JUSTIN: Exactly. MARTY GALLAGHER: I’d love to work with you on that. JUSTIN: That would be great. People can pick up that book on dragondoor.com and on Amazon. You mentioned a while ago, we’re just going to close up and wrap here, but you mentioned a while ago about some other things you’re working on, I think another book? MARTY GALLAGHER: Oh yeah, I’ve got projects galore, coming out of my wise ears. I’ve got two books, I’m working on a book with Mark Rippetoe, it’s ‘Starting Strength’ that I’m very excited about, sort of old school lifters and their different strategies. I’ve got a book coming out with dragondoor that is tentatively called ‘The Soft Machine’. It’s a takeoff on William Burrows description of the human body. I do six articles a month for four different magazines. I’m a busy writer. JUSTIN: You said you are in your early 60s. How far do you think you can take your strength training in terms of your age? Can you keep going for as long as you like? MARTY GALLAGHER: My 45 year old wife thinks so. A former Miss Maryland and a fantastic athlete herself. I don’t pound the super heavy weights anymore, but relative to my age, that’s another good point. There’s no need for me to handle 700-800 lbs anymore. Do you follow me? I’m fine with handling 400-500 lbs and I don’t have a problem with that. Some guys my age do. They think ‘if I can’t handle 800 anymore, I quit’. And of course what happens is, they turn into fat guys, because they love the old eating habits. They don’t want to give those up, but they let the training go. JUSTIN: Well, thank you Marty for joining us. I’m so excited about your program and I love working out myself, and this would be great for me to pick up. Thanks for spending some time with us, I appreciate it. MARTY GALLAGHER: Sure man, have me back on again and we’ll get into it deeper. JUSTIN: I would love that. Thanks Marty. MARTY GALLAGHER: Bye my friend, thank you. JUSTIN: That was a really fun interview with Marty Gallagher and I hope you enjoyed it. I did. I love working out so that was kind of fun for me. 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