On this episode of the Knowledge and Mileage podcast, we chat with former professional BMX athlete, motivational speaker, and certified holistic health coach Josh Perry. He got his first BMX bike at 14 years old and at 17 he turned pro. He's been on a wild ride ever since! His passion and motivation for living his best life stems from the discovery of a genetic predisposition to accumulating tumors - a realization that sparked his investigative journey into researching the health, performance, and longevity of the human brain. As a result, Josh follows a ketogenic diet - and since adopting this lifestyle paradigm, the growth of his tumors have ceased and he feels better and more fulfilled than ever before! Tune in to hear Josh's strategies on overcoming adversity and how facing his fears set him up for success. Time Stamps In order to succeed you have to fail [2:48] Fear is just a thought, thoughts can be changed [4:58] Most people these days are afraid of judgement [8:32] The fall that saved Josh’s life [12:40] The first time Josh learned about the Ketogenic diet [15:00] You can’t just live off one form of food, you need a variety to stay healthy [18:56] Benefits of Intermittent Fasting [21:00] Josh’s top health hacks [30:00] Josh’s career change and why he made the switch [38:00] You can prolong your career by taking care of your body and mind [43:00] Featured Guest: Josh Perry Website Instagram YouTube Facebook Related Links/Products Mentioned The Fasting Plan People Mentioned Dr. Sponaugle Shaun Palmer Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

Can you have muscle and participate in endurance events? Kris had heard many people say that you can't do cardio and build muscle at the same time. He decided to prove them wrong and set out to complete a full IRONMAN while still maintaining his muscle and physique. He documented his six month journey and training regiment in his Man of Iron Video Trainer, but he still had a lot of information to share. This is what inspired his new book, Man of Iron: A World-Class Bodybuilder's Journey to Become an Ironman.  In this episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast, Kris takes a minute to share his story about becoming a hybrid athlete and how increasing his cardio has changed his life.  Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

“Do more than the average MD is going to do to get a clear picture of your health.” - Ben Greenfield Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, IRONMAN triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker, author of the New York Times bestseller Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life and is the host of the Ben Greenfield Podcast. With nearly two decades of experience working as a strength and conditioning coach, exercise physiologist and biomechanist, Ben is also the man responsible for maximizing performance, recovery, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep and hormone optimization for CEO’s, ultra-endurance competitors, and a wide variety of professional athletes, including poker champions, tennis players, motocross competitors, the NFL, the NHL, the UFC and beyond. Tune in to hear Ben’s perspective on exercise, why he thinks you should be spending less time in the gym, and his DIY approach to optimizing your health. Time Stamps How Ben transitioned from being a bodybuilder to an Ironman competitor [10:00] Ben’s perspective on exercise [22:00] How to increase your longevity and lifespan while bodybuilding or exercising: start with taking care of your cellular health [27:00] Things athletes or exercise enthusiasts should be aware of that scratch the itch of making their body better without beating their body up [37:00] Ben’s travel hacks to beat jet lag [60:00] Featured Guest: Ben Greenfield Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Related Links/Products Mentioned Tests someone should get to personalize their training: Genova Diagnostics: Urinary Amino Acid Test TSH, T3, Thyroid Antibodies, Reverse T3 Complete Blood Panel Gut - Parasites, Gastric Inflammation Salivary Genetic Profile Food Allergy Panel Kion Coffee *Save 10% when you use the code KAGED10 at checkout Beyond Training The Triathlon Dominator NASA clean air study AquaTru Quicksilver Scientific “Sunlight Makes You Skinny, Blue Light Makes You Fat” The Body Electric by Robert Becker Ancestral Panel - 23 and Me Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

Dr. Darshan Shah’s first surgery was at 21 years old - he took out someone’s appendix. For the next 20 years Dr. Shah dedicated himself to the world of surgery. However, while he was helping others get better, his health was slowly getting worse and worse. He gained weight, was pre-diabetic, and hypertensive. One day he realized he had to make a change - how could he be a doctor and be so unhealthy? He started doing some introspection and realized there was a big gap in his knowledge. In this episode, Dr. Shah shares what he learned during this time and how that inspired him to start Next Health, the world's first health optimization and longevity center. Tune in to learn how you can take control of your health and how you can take advantage of a center like Next Health to help you do it. Featured Guest: Dr. Darshan Shah Website Instagram Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

Wine has become such a mass produced commodity, how do you know what is inside of a bottle? If you read carefully, some labels even say the wine may contain fish! As someone who considers your health, you will be happy to learn that there is a wine out there that thinks about health and fitness during the winemaking process. Mark Warren and Tom Beaton, the cofounders of FitVine, started this company because they were active people and they wanted to drink a healthy, low sugar wine.  Tune in to hear Kris talk to Tom about his company. Buy a bottle at FitVineWine.com and use GETHIN10 at check out for 10% off. Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

“Everything is better when we have a better brain.” Do you have trouble sleeping? Low energy? Do you have trouble staying focused? Do you find yourself depressed or anxious? Most of us can say ‘yes’ to at least one of these questions, and yet the mainstream solution is to take drugs. Whether it’s Adderall, Ambien, Xanax, or some other pill, that’s become the answer to our ailments. Dave Siever from Mind Alive thinks there is a better, drug-free way to improve our lives, and that’s with his high quality brain wave entrainment devices. These devices use flashes of light and pulses of tone to effectively guide users into specific brain wave patterns. Tune in to learn about you can hack your brain and enhance your focus, mood, sleep, and creativity. Featured Guest: David Siever YouTube Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

Many people who go to the doctor usually leave with pills and not much more. They are not given the adequate information to get better. This knowledge has motivated Shawn Wells, the guest in today’s episode, to educate as many people as possible about diet, nutrition, and supplementation. Shawn is CEO of Zone Halo Research, and a founding partner in both World's Greatest Ingredients, a novel ingredients discovery company and Kwired, supplement industry acquisition and investment firm. Tune to learn how you can start taking steps today to prevent the early onset of autoimmune diseases and start living your life to the fullest. Featured Guest: Shawn Wells Website Instagram Facebook Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

This week’s episode is a little different. This is an account of one of Kris’s biggest ventures into self experimentation. In between stem cell therapy procedures, Kris decided to sit down with the doctors from the Centro de Celulas Madre Y Biotecnologia in Pereira, Colombia to ask them about all about stem cells. Tune in to find out what is the best way to biohack your age, recover faster, why Kris went to Colombia to get stem cell therapy and didn’t opt for it in the US.  Time Stamps/Written Translations Differences between stem cells administered in Colombia and those administered in other places such as the US. [10:00] There are many different stem cell therapy treatments around the world. One is the stem cell treatment from bone marrow. This one has the least amount of stem cells. The second is from the the blood stream. This is not as effective because those stem cells would have the same age as the donor, so the cells won’t work as well. The third method, which they use here at Celulas Madre in Pereira, is from the umbilical cord tissue. These stem cells are coming from newborn babies, which means the stem cells are young, potent, and powerful and are able to regenerate to help prevent disease. How does the amount of stem cells harvested from adipose tissue or bone marrow compare to the amount of stem cells harvested from umbilical cord tissue? The amount of stem cells harvested from the umbilical cord tissue is much larger than the amounts harvested from the adipose tissue or bone marrow. Because the stem cells from the umbilical cord tissue are extracted at such a young age, these cells do not have an identity, they are universal and can multiply quickly. In the USA, the most amount of stem cells that you can extract and administer to someone is around 3 million stem cells. In Colombia, my first treatment was an Stem Cell IV Therapy which put 105 million stem cells into my body. I was getting 7 million stem cells per minute. I also got stem cells injected into my joints - both knees, both elbows, and the shoulder I had surgery on. Each area had between 30-50 million stem cells injected into them. Studies done here and in other places have shown us that this is the best amount to apply. What is the biggest benefit of having the intravenous stem cell therapy? [19:00] When the stem cells enter your body through an IV, they head to areas in your body that need repair. It’s call the Homing Effect. This type of treatment gets stem cells all throughout their body. Benefits of stem cells: Prevent some illnesses, such as lung diseases, organ diseases, muscles will recover faster, will help with the production of collagen and other anti-aging agents and increased vitality and energy. Many of their patients that use this therapy are older, and they have experienced many benefits. They expect that younger patients will experience the benefits from stem cells in the form of disease prevention. The second treatment was a mix of Kris’s own PRP (human growth factor) and stem cells that were injected into localized areas: both knees, both elbows, and the shoulder he had surgery on. How long until can one expect to feel benefits from the localized area stem cell treatment? [26:00] Studies from biopsies and X-rays show that the treatment starts growing tissue after 6-8 months. But in medical practices they can tell that about 2 months after the procedure the tissue starts to regenerating itself and it starts to feel better. You won’t feel the wear of the knees and elbows after 2 months. After 2 months is when the procedure starts to work. How did Kris learn about this stem cell center? [29:00] For active people like bodybuilders, marathon runners, triathletes, this has to be good for them. Athletes have plantar flexion problems, rotator cuff problems, knee problems. This treatment can give them more years of vitality and performance instead of stress and pain. There are two types of illnesses: one is the degenerative and it’s because of time, getting older, and the other is one is traumatic, some type of injury. Although they are different types of disease the stem cells work the same in repairing those areas. The agreement between the families of the babies who donate their babies stem cells. [32:00] Related Links/Products Mentioned Biohacks Kris is using to recover from the stem cell procedures and enhance stem cell production: Trusii Hydrogen Rich Water, coffee enemas, Clearlight Sauna and magnesium salt baths. Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

In this episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast, Kris sits down with Nick Holt. Nick is the Director of Digital Marketing at Kaged Muscle and a seasoned bodybuilder and fitness competitor with over 40 competitions under his belt in various divisions ranging from NGA and NPC. Nick has spent the last 23 years with an undeniable passion for nutrition, health and the overall practice of self improvement. His experience as an athlete has led him to employ countess dieting strategies during his quest to get lean and stay lean, even during the off season. For the last 3 years in particular, he has focused specifically on “Intermittent Fasting” and has formulated what he believes to be the ultimate “dieting” solution which can all be found in his new book, The Fasting Plan. Time Stamps How Nick got into Intermittent Fasting [10:00] The surprising thing about training fasted [16:00] Why Nick fasts [19:00] What surprised Kris about his experience with fasting [22:00] Nick’s definition of “controlled fasting” [23:00] Supplements to take when fasting [27:00] How to break your fast [37:00] Benefits of fasting [47:00] Best way to get lean and stay lean all year round [54:00] Featured Guest: Nick Holt Instagram Related Links/Products Mentioned The Fasting Plan The Warrior Diet Grove and Vine Kaged Muscle PreKaged (preworkout) Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin

“Every day things are a challenge. Fitting into clothes. I have two wardrobes, one for off-season and one for on-season. Going up the stairs is hard. It’s like walking around with a 40-50lb backpack all day long.” - Fouad Abiad Tune in to this week’s episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast to get a peek into the life of IFBB Pro Fouad Abiad. Nicknamed “Hoss,” Fouad Abiad is one of the biggest IFBB pros pound-per-pound on the circuit, weighing a powerful 290 lb on a 5’9” frame. A former Canadian National Champion (2006), the Toronto-based Abiad has a no-nonsense approach to the sport, summed up by his motto: “sacrifice without regret.” Time Stamps Biggest challenges to being so big [1:20] Is the bodybuilding lifestyle healthy or not? [3:08] Fouad’s life before bodybuilding [5:14] When Fouad decided he wanted to pursue bodybuilding full time [11:00] #dyingbreed: where that came from and what that means [19:00] How Fouad stays motivated [33:00] How Fouad’s social life has changed [48:00] The last time Fouad flew Economy [49:17] Fouad’s goals for 2019 [52:00] Featured Guest: Fouad Abiad Email Website Instagram Twitter Episode Sponsor BiOptimizers Nutrition: BiOptimizers help you improve your performance from the inside out. Use the coupon code KRIS20 upon checkout and get 20% off all of their products. Connect with Kris Instagram: @krisgethin