High Performance Health

The High-Performance Health Podcast is all about optimising your body, mind and lifestyle for high performance. Packed full of actionable insights, strategies, bio hacks, lifestyle hacks, mindset strategies and expert performance advice, Angela Foster is on a mission to optimise your human potential. Featuring interviews with some of the top experts on the planet in the fields of health, performance and business, this show aims to inspire, educate and empower you to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.

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Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 2min

Women’s Biohacking & Unleashing the Beast in Women with Helen Guilluame, founder of Wild AI

Helene Guillaume founder and CEO of Wild AI talks with Angela about the development of technology that means women can optimise health, performance, vitality and creativity by utilising the power of AI to understand their female physiology Wild AI helps women to understand how to align with the menstrual cycle throughout its changing lifespan by giving them ways to learn about and respond to it. When you understand your physiology and are aligned with it you can work with it to achieve and optimise better health, performance, and vitality KEY TAKEAWAYS Women are changing all the time and often women are working against their own physiology All the diets and food combinations are based on research with males and men and women have very different metabolisms, you can’t follow protocols designed for men If you understand and give the body what it needs, when it needs it you are going with the body The belief that restricting carbohydrates is the key to becoming lean can lead to the body hanging onto body fat as a response The results are superior when you begin to fuel your body in the right way because it sends signs of safety to the body The App integrates with Oura and in the future will integrate with other Apps A woman in her sixties is really powerful and impressive but it’s a critical time and optimising sleep and getting the right exercise and nutrition require the right protocols The first thing you need to do if you want to make any changes is to gain insight by collecting data that means you can take the right action We are working towards there being the capacity for any girl or woman to understand where she is today, know what’s coming up and what her choices are All little girls from the time they start menstruating should understand what their options are Women not only have a circadian rhythm but also an infradian rhythm and when you can align with it you can achieve better fitness, health, and creativity BEST MOMENTS ‘We have variations all the time and we don’t understand our own physiology so are fighting against it’ ‘One thing you can be confident about is that as a woman there is continual change’ ‘We need to change the story for women and empower them to design their lives around their physiology’ VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website helene@wild.ai WILD.AI Helene Guillaume LinkedIn ABOUT THE GUEST Helene Guillaume Helene Guillaume is the founder and CEO of WILD.AI. She studied mathematics and financial risks, was a quant in a hedge fund and management consultant to Fortune500 companies in AI. She was a rugby player; she's an ultra-marathon runner, triathlete, surfer, skier, and ice swimmer. Her favourite combined skillset is vitality+brains. CONTACT DETAILS helene@wild.ai WILD.AI Helene Guillaume LinkedIn ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Sep 13, 2021 • 1h 20min

Empowering Beliefs, Behaviour Change & Creating a New Self-image with Colin Hiles

Colin Hiles is an expert in developing high-performance teams and is a specialist in the psychology of change In this fascinating episode, Angela and Colin discuss what it takes to step into your future self and the importance of your environment on the journey to change When it comes to setting and achieving goals you have to get the inside right but you also have to get the outside right and when you think you are stuck it could be that you need to understand and change the context of your environment Ultimately to become the person you want to be and change your behaviours you need to create and be in control of your environment or your environment will create and control you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Everything starts for anyone with future perfect thinking, setting a goal or intention that you want to be different For balance across your life set goals for health, wealth, love and lifestyle You must have a reason ‘why’ and your ‘why’ power needs to be strong enough to drive you forward We can become stuck in ‘the must be me’ paradigm because our perception is context-specific Context is the environment you are in when you are making a decision it can be either physical or physical and social When you associate with people who are part of your future focus you can make changes The strongest form of commitment is external When you set a goal you have to go outside of yourself and set a context that looks like the future when you get there Beliefs are evidence-based and self-signalling that you are becoming the person you want to be builds your belief When you begin to behave in the way your future self would, you begin to prove to yourself that you are that person Often something that causes us pain is what moves us to take action You can use both negative and positive consequences to force you into taking action Once you become the person and have the identity locked in place everything else follows Behaviour comes from identity and behaviour changes identity If your behaviours are the behaviours of the future person you want to be then you will become that person You have to understand what you need to keep doing and if you do it long enough it will become who you are BEST MOMENTS ‘Your social bubble is hugely influential and you are with either accomplices or allies’ ‘Set the environment up that supports you in making an easier choice’ ‘The ultimate aim is not the goal but becoming the person who can achieve that goal’ VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website ABOUT THE GUEST Colin Hiles Colin Hiles is an expert in improving Leadership Capability, developing High-Performance Teams, and Mindset Change. He specialises in helping his clients gain alignment and commitment between an organisation and its people, ensuring that organisations can continue to grow and develop in an ever-changing environment. As an experienced executive coach and specialist in the psychology of change, Colin supports senior executives across all industries, in the public, and private sectors, to achieve a change in mindset at the individual or organisational level. Over the last 23 years, Colin has coached hundreds of thousands of individuals globally on peak performance technologies, on how to get the best out of themselves, and on gaining mental toughness. He is a talented conference host and facilitator who has appeared before audiences of up to 1,500 people, as well as leading the design and the delivery of significant events which have involved multiple consultants, and full production teams. He believes to live a fulfilling life we need both roots and wings. His wife, his boys, his journal and his inner circle provide the roots. While making a difference in peoples' lives is what provides his wings. Colin is married and has three sons. He lives in Southern Spain and enjoys surfing, eating fajitas, and discussing the meaning of life (but not all at the same time!). ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Sep 6, 2021 • 49min

The Truth About Sugar, Food Addiction and How To Fix It with Danielle Daem

Sugar freedom coach and speaker Danielle Daem uses her personal experiences and extensive knowledge to help people to change their relationship with sugar forever to reclaim control over their energy and life and in this episode shares great content with Angela They discuss how sugar has become linked to every type of emotion and why you need to learn how to feel again and commit to the inner work if you want to change your relationship with sugar. Many people will resonant with Danielle’s content about always seeking sugar whatever the emotion and in this episode she shares great advice on how to move forward and fix it by understanding who you really are KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s not the sugar itself that’s the problem it’s that we are overdosing on it and eating so much that our bodies can’t handle it Sugar creates dopamine spikes that simulate addictive behaviours. The gut lining is damaged by sugar Sugar has been by society linked to every type of emotion We have also been raised to escape any uncomfortable emotion by eating sugar You have to learn to feel again, letting emotions run through you and experiencing them You have to become an investigator to work out what foods have hidden sugars Learn to look at the ingredients and understand what they are You have to become more mindful in your eating and reconnect with your emotions Before you put anything in your mouth you should stop and check-in about how you are feeling You have to identify and address the root cause of your cravings You have to commit to doing the inner work, understanding your emotional connections and beliefs Everything goes back to identity and learning to love yourself It’s a process that can take a long time and creating a new image of yourself is key Community is vital in the journey to quitting sugar, you need to know that you are not alone Many of us are stuck because we think it’s too painful to get out but there is a way out and you can change BEST MOMENTS ‘Sugar can be as addictive as cocaine’ ‘We can get on a dopamine craving rollercoaster that can alter the brain’ ‘There is nothing wrong with any of us and on your journey, you are not going to be perfect but it can be a beautiful ebb and flow if you let it’ VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website Danielle Daem website Danielle Daem Instagram ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Aug 30, 2021 • 1h 8min

The Truth About Calories, Weight Loss and Longevity with Dr Herman Pontzer

Angela talks with Dr Herman Pontzer about his work with the Hadza people in Tanzania who are distinct as a population extensively relying on hunting and gathering. He discusses the truth about calories and how the body adjusts to dealing with energy expenditure during non-exercise based on activity levels in exercise periods. Weight loss is ultimately a function of nutrition and weight maintenance is achieved through activity and in this in-depth interview is a great opportunity to understand more about why the hunter-gatherer strategy is so successful KEY TAKEAWAYS The more active you are the more calories you will burn than if you are sedentary Your body adjusts to how it deals with the non-exercise part of your energy expenditure depending on how active you are in your exercise Your energy at rest is the energy that you use for organ function Exercise has effects throughout your body and you need to think about it the profound impact it has across all areas of the body We are built for hunting and gathering and that’s what all humans were doing a few generations ago Exercising is a western world thing we have got so artificially lazy that we have to invent ways to exercise The entire point of hunting and gathering is you have the advantages of the carnivore and the plant-eater when you combine the advantages of both you have a very successful strategy which is why there are 10 million people on the planet Sharing the mixed portfolio approach to getting your food is what it’s all about and is what makes us unstoppable It’s easy to say you haven’t got the time to be outside and exercise There are those of us who are better off than we think but we have constant pressure in our own minds about working 50 to 60 hour weeks Once you have lost weight and got where you want to be staying there is easier with exercise but losing weight is a function of your nutrition Diet is a much better tool for weight loss, you need to create a metabolic deficit to achieve this Overeating and obesity seem to be a brain regulation issue. It’s about reward and responses to food BEST MOMENTS ‘If you asked the men and women that I work with, in Tanzania, about exercising for fun they would just laugh at you’ ‘Hunting and gathering is a fantastic strategy and that’s why we are so successful’ ‘You need to stay in-tune with yourself and family and friends’ VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism Hazda website Herman Pontzer Twitter ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Aug 23, 2021 • 52min

Fasting, Fat Loss & Health Optimisation with Matty Lansdown

Angela is with Matty Lansdown, scientist, nutritionist and health coach specialising in weight loss and self-confidence for women. Matty is also the host of the ‘How to NOT Get Sick and Die’ Podcast where he discusses how to develop healthy habits and make a positive impact on your nutrition In this episode, Matty explains how we have created a lack of predictability in our genes around nutrition and how consistency along with small changes is the best way to build back nutritional predictability and create the successful changes that impact positively on your health. He also shares great content about why fasting, offal and getting the basics right with hydration are the ways forward in creating a healthier version of yourself. KEY TAKEAWAYS The body is an adaption machine and it’s this that builds our biological resilience The longer the adaptation phase the more stable your stability of the diet - make one tweak a week The brain is wired for efficiency looking for shortcuts all the time because it wants to be more efficient with its energy We have created a lack of predictability in our genes around nutrition Every time we have started a new thing we have turned our preservation genetics on Build nutritional predictability into your genome through being consistent over a long period of time and making small changes Small steps taken over a period of time is what works We are permanently in a cycle of confirming what we believe about ourselves and everyone has a belief about who they are and rules for their existence The rules are what create your personality and define your identity When you change a behaviour you are acting outside of your rules for existence Changing your identity is the way you will stay accountable to a healthier version of yourself At any given moment you can get back on track It’s about doing all the things that redefine the paradigms for yourself The body has a number of detoxification pathways but they all need to be working efficiently as we are all living in a toxic world Including offal in your diet has a positive impact on your nutrition We are eating too much, too often and fasting gives your gut time to repair and recover Getting the basics right will get you 80% of where you want to go Increasing your water intake is vital and many people don’t drink enough to keep all their cells hydrated BEST MOMENTS ‘Build predictability into your biology to gain the trust of your system’ ‘It’s curiosity about venturing out to your new higher self’ ‘There is not much that compares with animal organs to eat for nutritional value VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website Matty Lansdown How to Not Get Sick and Die Podcast ABOUT THE GUEST Matty Lansdown Matty Lansdown is a scientist, nutritionist and health coach that specialises in weight loss and self-confidence for women and busy mothers. Starting out in the field of nutritional epigenetics and spending several years working in hospitals as part of a disease research team, Matty believes that most disease and illness is not due to bad luck but as a result of poor nutrition and lifestyle choices. Matty’s extensive experience allowed him to uncover the deeper challenge people have with health which isn’t about calories or kale, but in fact mindset and behaviour change. Having been on his own personal development journey, Matty is now super-passionate about showing people how to level up their health so that healthy habits and the best food choices are easy and natural. Likewise, Matty’s weekly podcast “How to NOT Get Sick and Die”, provides his followers and clients with a deep dive into nutrition and how to develop healthy habits that last. CONTACT DETAILS Matty Lansdown ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Aug 16, 2021 • 50min

Meditation: The Secret to Resilient and Emotionally Intelligent Kids with Emily Fletcher

Second time guest on the podcast Emily Fletcher, best-selling author of ‘Stress Less and Achieve More’ and Founder of Ziva Meditation talks with Angela about Ziva Kids and empowering a whole generation to feel their feelings. In a world where stress is a potential constant giving kids the tools to feel and process their emotions is about equipping them with a cure for stress that they can use throughout life This is an episode for anyone who wants to empower their children with the skills to access their own innate intelligence and consciously create a life they love KEY TAKEAWAYS Ziva is empowering a whole generation of kids to feel their feelings Having a third person there can make you feel safer and more prepared to open up about experiences Many of us are not trained to feel and process our emotions because we don’t feel safe enough Because as parents we haven’t been given the tools to feel our own feelings when our child is in pain or feels sadness or fear it’s like your feelings magnified Pain creates pain and in order to fix it we inadvertently repress and diminish the feelings of our children There are big feelings when we are trying to accomplish big things Uncertainty is one of the hardest things for humans, especially children, to handle both psychologically and emotionally There’s a cure for stress and it is meditation We have a responsibility to equip our children to move through the long-term impact of the pandemic with as much grace and elegance as possible because they have sacrificed a lot for us Manifesting is the art of consciously creating the life you love If you stay in a place of gratitude you are programming your brain to look for more of it If you are in a state of fight or flight then there isn’t any room for your dreams We always find evidence for what we believe so why not chose to believe you are lucky BEST MOMENTS ‘Ziva empowers an entire generation to feel their feelings and move through to a new now’ ‘You are moving beyond the realm of thinking and into the realm of being’ ‘When your body is guiding and healing itself and going on its own circadian rhythms you are tapping into your own innate intelligence, your body’s own human capacity’ VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website Ziva Kids Meditation Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher ABOUT THE GUEST Emily Fletcher Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for performance. She has taught over 25,000 people the skill of meditation. She is an international speaker and author. Her best-selling book, Stress Less, Accomplish More, debuted at #7 out of all books on Amazon and has been translated into 12 languages. The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Vogue and ABC have all featured Emily’s work. She’s been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch and has spoken at Apple, Google and Harvard Business School. Ziva graduates include Oscar, Grammy, & Emmy award winners, Navy SEALS & NBA players. The Ziva Technique is a powerful combination of mindfulness, meditation and manifesting designed to help you get better at life, not meditation. ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Aug 9, 2021 • 1h 8min

The Power of Collagen for Enhancing Skin Health, Joint Health & Immunity with Charlie Bailes

Charlie Bailes is the CEO & founder of CB Supplements, a company specializing in helping people thrive with multi-collagen protein products. He talks to Angela about the development of his collagen supplement and explains how and why collagen is such an important element of any human being. Charlie’s focus is on inspiring and helping others on their health journey and this is a great opportunity to hear about how he’s achieving it through the power of collagen in this fascinating episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS Collagen is the most abundant protein in our bodies. Most collagen in our bodies is type l, ll or lll Collagen is part of our internal organs, the connective tissues and joint material, type l and lll are our skin, hair and nails and type ll is our joint material, most collagen products are type l and lll Collagen supplements are sourced from both bovine and marine sources. In our products, we use all of the animal which increases the different types of collagens We are trying to be a resource for people who want to achieve health Collagen breaks down into amino acids and what makes it special is the peptides it is high in When you consume collagen, your body recognises the very specific peptide chain and knows it should use it to fix and repair connective tissue Collagen is vital for the repair of tissue and for longevity If you take collagen, you are giving your body what it needs to repair itself Our bodies are good at making collagen, but the production declines every year Our vision is to improve the health of anyone who wants it We started making diet and lifestyle changes and it was transformational for our health You are the driver of your own health, and you can make positive changes Collagen can help with digestion function because your intestine is constructed with collagen Our bodies are smart they just need the right input to be able to heal We have a lot of non-protein materials in our products that are magical in building health BEST MOMENTS ‘Essentially humans are made of water, gas and collagen’ ‘We are trying to meet people where they are in health journey’ ‘We try to find creative ways to get a scoop into the kids everyday’ ‘Health is a pile of 10 slices and collagen is one of those slices’ VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website https://cbsupplements.com/cc/does-collagen-break-fast/ CB Supplements ABOUT THE GUEST Charlie Bailes is the CEO & founder of CB Supplements, a company specializing in helping people thrive with multi-collagen protein products. As a collagen expert, he often talks about its nutrition benefits on different podcasts ( B2B Growth) to help people solve various health issues from joint recovery and productivity to even sleeping better at night. He’s also a husband, a dad of 3, a crossfitter, and a health nut (obviously). He loves meeting new people and having meaningful conversations. His main goal is to inspire others to act to help themselves. He can bring value to any audience that’s interested in health and biohacking topics, entrepreneurship, and, in general, living a higher-quality life." ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

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