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074: Healthiest Keto Nuts with Eat Pili Nuts and Jason Thomas

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 12 May 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Your Pili Nuts Healthy Entrepreneurial Co-Host:

Getting to know Jason Thomas who created the new rage around eating healthy, sprouted Pili Nuts. We get to know more about the healthy international journey he embarked on and the entrepreneurial birth of a Hunter Gatherer business.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”02:00″] Spicy Chili Pili Nuts plus a new release of the Tumeric and Black Pepper, Raw Cacao with a touch of coconut sugar options too.
[spp-timestamp time=”03:00″] Being honest and how there are different ways to balance and/or break the confines of the paleo and keto world of nutrition.
[spp-timestamp time=”03:55″] The Keto Paleo crowd pays the bills.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:45″] Jason gets honest on why he chose the Ketogenic targeted market. Why he doesn’t bullshit the consumers. His own explanations of the crap food that is pushed on us, the overly manufactured, poor nutrition being sold today.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:10″] Jason and the Hunter Gatherer team have actually sent some of their Pili Nuts down to scientists in Florida for studies.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:37″] The keto conference he attended in Florida, Epigenetics, to target the healthy studies they’re doing relating to Cancer and the Ketogenic diet.
[spp-timestamp time=”08:10″] Fat is fuel and energy.
[spp-timestamp time=”08:50″] Jason was born in Barrow, Alaska a big Eskimo village, with the most amazing diet in the world.
[spp-timestamp time=”09:30″] Healthy fats from wild fish vs farm raised seafood crap which is nutrient deficient.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] Venting about how we’ve spread the negative influence of low-quality, processed fast food to Alaska and all over the world.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:40″] What took Jason to the Philippines and his life as a mountain guide in Alaska.
[spp-timestamp time=”12:40″] Jason got really into CrossFit in California but due to lack of training from an injury, he ended up getting “Rhabdo” aka Rhabdomyolysis.
[spp-timestamp time=”13:30″] Defining the types of people with lack of conditioning who get Rhabdo.
[spp-timestamp time=”15:50″] From Kitesurfing to Asia and then finding Pili Nuts while surfing.
[spp-timestamp time=”15:50″] Entrepreneurship starting from bringing back 15-20 lbs of Pilinuts to the USA.
[spp-timestamp time=”17:50″] Trace minerals and the highest concentration of magnesium in a nut.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:13″] Relating magnesium to Pure Vitamin Club.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:19″] “I love your nuts!
[spp-timestamp time=”19:05″] Jason didn’t have a market for Pili Nuts at first.
[spp-timestamp time=”19:40″] What is “sprouting” of a nut vs the traditional roasting of nuts. Plus relating this to denature vs. undenatured processing of proteins. Making his nuts more bioactive and easier for the human body to digest.
[spp-timestamp time=”22:07″] How are we sourcing our food? Are you a hardcore, by the book, Paleo/Keto guy?
[spp-timestamp time=”23:09″] There is MSG on our nuts?!
[spp-timestamp time=”23:22″] Half the nuts in the grocery stores have MSG on them!

Half the nuts in the grocery stores have MSG! – Jason Thomas

[spp-timestamp time=”25:15″] Pump me full of Pili Nuts!
[spp-timestamp time=”27:10″] I was driving up and down the west coast, sleeping in my trucks, doing demo’s at stores.
[spp-timestamp time=”27:20″] They’re not pine nuts, they’re a tree nut. A lot of pine nuts are now imported from China and are low quality.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:00″] Jason employs local Phillipino labor, they go into the jungle and pick the nuts from the trees. They fill sacks and sell them at local traders.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] Showing what Pili Nuts looks like before they sprout it. It almost looks like a small avocado.
[spp-timestamp time=”33:12″] Showing the raw nut on our live YouTube feed for this episode.
[spp-timestamp time=”34:00″] Understanding the serving size.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:00″] Introducing the raw cacao option.
[spp-timestamp time=”39:35″] Jason does all packaging in the Philippines, giving back to the local community as a sustainable business. We’ve created so many jobs over there.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:15″] We care about freshness. Sometimes we’ll pay a premium to fly product back here to the USA vs a shipping container.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:55] 100-year-old trees in rich volcanic soil.
[spp-timestamp time=”42:18] They’re better than Organic.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:25] Some of the lives of the people in the Philippines are pretty rough.
[spp-timestamp time=”45:32] Please follow @eatpilinuts
[spp-timestamp time=”45:51] Jason didn’t even have a smartphone until 2016.
[spp-timestamp time=”46:45] Every box that comes out of Hunter Gatherer Foods is recycled and repurposed.
[spp-timestamp time=”48:00] For 10% off, use the code FUEL at eatpilinuts.com
[spp-timestamp time=”49:05″] Final Words

[spp-tweet tweet=”They’re not pine nuts, Pili Nuts are a tree nut from the Philippines. @eatpilinuts @LIVETHEFUEL “]

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People Mentioned

Final Words

Know where your food is coming from. Understand the people who are gathering your food. These people work hard and we really want to give back to them. Just think about where you are buying from and who it’s for. Support small businesses.

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010: NSNG & Eat Happy with Anna Vocino

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:00:00 +0000

Good day ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of the LIVETHEFUEL Show. Today’s co-host is from California, she is the voice of Thursday Nights on ABC, a stand up comic, and now a author of a new cookbook. Further accolades include the regular podcast co-host of “Fitness Confidential” with Vinnie Tortorich (One of my top favorite podcasts), a professional voice over artist (she’s the intro and outro voice of this show), a fellow lifestyle promoter of NSNG (No Sugars, No Grains), and now author of the “Eat Happy Cook Book” just to name a few. Welcome to the LIVETHEFUEL show, Anna Vocino!

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”1:18″] The voice behind LIVETHEFUEL intro/outro and the voice, Don Lefontaine
[spp-timestamp time=”2:36″] Keeping your intro copy short, long intro’s just turn off your listeners
[spp-timestamp time=”4:23″] Skipping through the AD’s
[spp-timestamp time=”8:18″] Eat Happy – the digital version and audio books
[spp-timestamp time=”11:22″] People think when you are super healthy you cannot do a lot with food, it is all about adding herbs, spices and seasons. The fat is the conduit for carrying that flavor.
[spp-timestamp time=”12:03″]Eggs being the perfect food, Villa Cappelli olive oil and taking a shot of olive oil every morning
[spp-timestamp time=”14:08″] NSNG – No Sugars Grains message
[spp-timestamp time=”18:37″] You got time to clip coupons? You got time to read labels of what you are buying
[spp-timestamp time=”20:07″] You can’t adopt all the children, meaning you cannot help everyone
[spp-timestamp time=”21:10″] The Four Hour vs. The Bulletproof
[spp-timestamp time=”22:58″]Bio-hacking and the “23 and me” test
[spp-timestamp time=”26:59″] Who’s going to eat well all the time?
[spp-timestamp time=”29:19″] Clear vs. brown alcohol, but whiskeys are distilled compared to other liqueur
[spp-timestamp time=”32:02″] Ciroc vodka made from grapes, blue ice vodka is made from potatoes, all the big brand names are made from grains
[spp-timestamp time=”32:47″] Popular snack for Vinny Tortorich, Olives and drinks olive oil while on endurance bike rides
[spp-timestamp time=”33:39″] Olive oil can go rancid very quickly, it is very sensitive to sunlight
[spp-timestamp time=”34:57″] Giving Olive oil as gifts.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:33″] A follow up book about pairings, the majority of all the recipes in the book are Anna Vocino originals
[spp-timestamp time=”37:56″] Hello Fresh vs Blue Apron
[spp-timestamp time=”40:27″] Chicken cauliflower “rice.”
[spp-timestamp time=”41:28″] Coconut oil and almond oil
[spp-timestamp time=”42:48″] Good and bad ways of processing food, undenatured vs denatured processing
[spp-timestamp time=”45:02″] The mystery of inflammation
[spp-timestamp time=”45:49″] I was on joint supplements for five years, I have not been on them for over a year because of cutting out grains from my life
[spp-timestamp time=”49:06″] The Ingredients honor the recipe
[spp-timestamp time=”50:00″] Making desserts for this lifestyle
[spp-timestamp time=”52:20″] Getting my mom to follow the recipe
[spp-timestamp time=”54:24″] Family and friend health issues, you’ve got to reprogram the body and lifestyle
[spp-timestamp time=”58:34″] The book is just one more tool in your health arsenal, this is for a joyful life
[spp-timestamp time=”59:44″] Where to find out more about Anna
[spp-timestamp time=”60:59″] Final Words

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People Mentioned

Final Words on NSNG

We make way to much of this. The weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and we are over thinking it. Cut out the Sugars and Grains (NSNG). Make that your foundation, just tweak everything else to suit your body. Then move a little and do some exercise.

This is all simple stuff. We all make far too much of it. Don’t over think things. Especially Women, because they are very hard on themselves if they “Cheat” or “Fall off the wagon.” We all get knocked off once in a while. You just got to get back on.

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