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257: A Healthy Poop In You with Dr. Terry Wahls

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Wahls Protocol, Wahls Diet, Paleo, Healthy Poops, Multiple Sclerosis, and Reducing Inflammation:

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day.

She is the author of:

Let’s create an epidemic of health. – Dr. Terry Wahls

You can learn more about her work from her website, TerryWahls.com. She conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems. She also teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens.

She hosts a Wahls Protocol Seminar every August where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol with ease and success. Follow her on Facebook (Terry Wahls MD), on Instagram @DrTerryWahls, and on Twitter at @TerryWahls. Learn more about her MS clinical trials by reaching out to her team: MSDietStudy@healthcare.uiowa.edu.

Top 3 Hot Points:

Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis and Reducing Inflammation
Balancing The Wahls Diet, Paleo Diet, and the Mediterranean Diet
The Clinical Trials with Wahls at Iowa University

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Final Words:

I’d like the listeners to go to TerryWahls.com/diet and get that one-page handout that is a really great summary of the key concepts of the Wahls Diet. You can put that on your refrigerator and they’ll help you restructure your approach to food and what this really is.

A goal of nine cups of vegetables/greens, sulfur-rich, color-rich, and some clean meat. A lot of great oil such as olive oil or flax oil hemp oil but this is a great pyramid to get you started in terms of how to think about food.

Resources:

TerryWahls.com
Links to our Nations MS Society-funded research
: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/About-the-Society/News/National-MS-Society-and-University-of-Iowa-Launch
Two studies in Bastyr University that are asking patients with MS or Parkinson’s disease about whether they are following the Wahls diet. These studies are based on surveys that are completed every 6 months and do not require visits to the study site.
Multiple sclerosis
http://bastyr.edu/research/studies/complementary-alternative-medicine-care-multiple-sclerosis-cam-care-ms
Parkinson’s study
http://bastyr.edu/research/studies/complementary-alternative-medicine-care-parkinsons-disease-cam-care-pd

Influencers Mentioned:

Vinnie Tortorich of Fitness Confidential
Dr. Anthony Jay Ph.D of AJ Consulting Company

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”05:00″] I have multiple sclerosis. diagnosed in 2000. Being an academic Doc, I sought out the best people got the best treatments and ended up converting into the progressive phase of the illness. By 2007. I couldn’t really sit up anymore. I was struggling to walk, had severe fatigue, brain fog and I had severe episodes of trigeminal neuralgia. That is terrible pain and that’s when I had started after four years, in my wheelchair, doing my own research on the basic science what I could do. I started with supplements to support my mitochondria, which helped reduce my fatigue a little bit, I adapted the Paleo Diet really soon after.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:00″] I discovered the Institute for functional medicine took their course under protection had a deeper understanding of what I could do more supplements. Then I had this really big aha moment. I should redesign my diet based on the supplements based on the ancestral health principles on functional medicine. So it’s still a paleo diet but much less meat, more vegetables, and it was dramatic the speed of which my pain resolved. My mental clarity resolved, my fatigue resolved, I began walking again. I would ultimately go back to biking and was able to do an 18.5-mile bike ride 12 months after getting up out of that wheelchair.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] There’s an excessive level of toxins which might be solvents, pesticides, or heavy metals. Then there’s a hormonal imbalance, so that’s true if you have depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, early cognitive decline dementia memory loss associated with diabetes. Also, memory loss associated with mercury poisoning or chronic fungal poisoning.
[spp-timestamp time=”15:15″] The best test is a test that can look at your species plus the genes plus all the metabolites plus your DNA to tell you can you run all the chemistry that needs to happen? A lot of detail, that’s a lot of detail commercially, those products aren’t yet readily available.
[spp-timestamp time=”21:00″] In 2020 we will be analyzing our data, comparing the impact of adopting the Wahl Diet or a highly structured Paleolithic diet. This looks like a little less meat, many more vegetables, sort of a hybrid between Paleo and Mediterranean.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] People are afraid to state that you can reverse disease. What is your position? So my position is the root cause of much of the chronic disease, whether it’s diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, mental health issues, this is this cellular dysfunction. So if I provide nutritional support at the cellular level, it can be hard to predict how much repair is possible.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] The internet is a wonderful tool. It helps us learn more rapidly, both the good, wonderful things and unfortunately, some very terrible, hateful things as well. It allows change to happen much, much more rapidly. It amplifies human nature, the wonderful parts of human nature and the less wonderful parts as well.
[spp-timestamp time=”50:00″] If your physician is not fired up about you eating more vegetables… get a new one. If they aren’t fired up about you wanting to move more… fire them.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:00:00″] Final Words

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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 “]

Links and Resources

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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044: Silicon Valley, Cancer, Paleo, Sleep with Kevin Cottrell

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Sleep focused, Paleo fed co-hosting:

The key to fitness, health and wellness are sleep. With poor sleep comes poor foundations. With poor foundations, we cannot build. Everything will come crashing down. People through time have worn a lack of sleep, due to hustle and getting stuff done, as a badge of honor. It’s time to put to bed that misconception with Episode 44 and our co-host Kevin Cottrell of fitfluentialradio.com and the HealthCast Now Podcast. Kevin found out the hard way. Through poor lifestyle and environmental choices, Kevin developed a Melanoma Cancer. Although he was a fit guy, his fitness was built upon a foundation of poor sleep. Kevin made critical lifestyle choices and is now healthier than ever. This episode is about the importance of sleep and lifestyle choices.

[spp-tweet tweet=”Light, Water, Magnetism, #Fat Kevin to #Fit Kevin #biohacker @kevincottrell @LIVETHEFUEL “]

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”01:22″] Kevin left College in the 80’s, he went back to where he grew up in the Palo Alto area. Kevin got involved in a number of startups in the 90’s, he was the typical Biz Dev Executive working 80-90 hours, traveling excessively, not getting enough sleep but he worked out every day. He thought he was on track. Then came the late 90’s into 2001 and the Dot Com crash. He had stock options on a startup that went public. The shares went from $100 a share to $1 a share in 60 days. An inner layer of stress started to form. Kevin was a guy, during that period of his life that thought sleep was overrated. As long as he kept working out things would be OK. Moving forward to the summer of 2006, Kevin had a mole removed, just a straight forward procedure. He gets a calling saying he needs an emergency procedure to remove some skin from his neck as he has a pretty serious Melanoma (Type of Skin Cancer).
[spp-timestamp time=”03:55″] One of the things Kevin got really good at as an Executive was when lots of drama and chaos comes up, Leadership and Executives fall into one of two camps, they are either a problem solver or you are part of the problem and chaos. Kevin had developed quite a good reputation as a problem solver so he began systematically asking questions at the Doctors office about the problem. He kept a level head despite the stress surging through his body.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:02″] At the point in time Kevin had the Cancer, he had the belief the Cancer was to do with family history but he came to find out since then it was much more to do with his lifestyle that put him at risk than it was any family history.
[spp-timestamp time=”07:33″] In 2009 Kevin was known as ‘Fat Kevin’. Now he wasn’t obese, but he looked obese. He was heavier and started to trend towards type 2 diabetes. This was from following the conventional advice from the Doctors. He was back to working out at four in the morning five times a week. He wasn’t getting enough sleep and was starting to move towards a different direction from a lifestyle stand point. He knew something was not right still. After listing to a Podcast about the Paleo Diet, Kevin knew he had to start looking into it. It wasn’t about the diet he was interested in, it was the lifestyle concept. A Doctor Friend, Dr. Jack Kruse, challenged him to go look at the incidents of melanoma and look at the further you are from the equator are the incidents. Kevin started to change his lifestyle. He began to focus on sleep and getting a healthy dose of sunlight. What happened was he got really healthy. His blood marker ratings went from a 6 to less than 1. He dramatically reduced the inflammation in his body. All by changing his environment and his lifestyle.

“Here’s a great before/after picture. First (left) was 2009. Right 2016. FYI, the weight difference is less than 10 lbs showing massive inflammation.” Do you sleep enough?!

[spp-timestamp time=”13:38″] Key Bio Markers, BUN to Creatinine Ratio, Blood Marker for Inflammation. Vitamin D levels. If you are in an environment where you have way too much blue light, you are indoors way too much, you can take Vitamin D Supplements or even Sun outside and remarkably our bodies do not react.
[spp-timestamp time=”16:28″] Kevin takes fewer supplements now. He concentrates on core lifestyle changes. Getting out and getting sunlight. Anchoring his Circadian rhythm.
[spp-timestamp time=”19:52″] Sleep is something we do have control over. The fastest way to wreck yourself is not to get enough sleep but also hormonally wack yourself by not sleeping correctly based on the light cycle.
[spp-timestamp time=”22:00″] Melatonin Production. Coincidences of low Melatonin and chronic diseases. Stop playing Russian Roulette with sleep. You can whack your Melatonin in a number of different ways. The first is not sleeping enough and not sleeping at the right times.
[spp-timestamp time=”24:50″] Your body needs to recover. Building a building or building a house. If your light/dark cycle and Circadian rhythm is out, you should be working our less, it is the quickest way to burnout. True health and wellness is built on the foundation of good sleep and good nutrition.
[spp-timestamp time=”33:12″] Focus on your foundation. Be clean. Eat real food that is nutrient dense. But if you are having problems focusing on the circadian alignment. Do some of the non-intuitive things, take a look at some of your lifestyle choices, are you poisoning yourself with blue light at night or are you falling asleep with the TV on in the bedroom or are your blood markers showing you have massive inflammation, focus on that then come back and look at your workouts. Workout less more is not better.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:41 “]Quality over quantity and less is more. Audit your light/dark cycle and sleep.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:39″] Inflammation is a fire going on in your body. FitFluential is re-framing the dialog so they can help people be their own health advocates.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:44″] Optimization and longevity
[spp-timestamp time=”42:41″] Don’t depend on healthcare, rebuild your foundations. Start surrounding yourself with knowledge.
[spp-timestamp time=”47:09″] Final Words @fitfluential on LIVETHEFUEL

Terms and Meanings

Circadian:
A circadian rhythm /sɜːrˈkeɪdiən/ is any biological process that displays an endogenous, entrainable oscillation of about 24 hours. These 24-hour rhythms are driven by a circadian clock, and they have been widely observed in plants, animals, fungi, and cyanobacteria.
Epigenetics:
The study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.
Melanoma:
A type of skin cancer that can spread to other organs in the body
Blood Marker for Inflammation:
If you have inflammation in a part of your body then extra protein is often released from the site of inflammation and circulates in the bloodstream. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP) and plasma viscosity (PV)blood tests are commonly used to detect this increase in protein
BUN Creatinine Ratio:
BUN/creatinine is the ratio between blood urea nitrogen (BUN), a waste product in the blood from protein metabolism, and creatinine. This ratio is used to help determine if kidney function is impaired due to a damaged or diseased kidneys or another factor outside of the kidneys.
Key Biomarkers:
Biomarkers are key molecular or cellular events that link a specific environmental exposure to a health outcome

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People Mentioned

Final Words

Effects on our lifestyle and our environment on the epigenetics side are the switches that you turn on or off. This is not only for health and wellness but also the dark side meaning, chronic diseases, and potentially early death. You should be focusing on optimizing our lifestyle and environment. In other words, we are not going to be optimized if we are inadvertently destroying our foundation.

Don’t fall prey to the argument of, I am going to just eat more healthy or exercise more because if the foundations are destroyed it is not going to work. Focus on sleep, focus on a circadian optimization plan, which is the light/dark cycle and eliminating the things that get you off track.

Action Steps

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