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237: Colorado Life, Chiro, Leaky Gut, and Inflammation

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Alternative Medicine, Colorado, Leaky Gut, Paleo, Vegan, Inflammation, and Athletic Performance:

Dr. Ann-Marie Barter is a chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner who serves Denver, Niwot, Longmont, Boulder, Lyons, Louisville, Lafayette and the surrounding communities in the Denver Metro Area.denver longmont chiropractor ann barter

Ann-Marie graduated from the University of Western States in Portland, Oregon, an accredited 4 year Doctoral program that is considered a leader in evidence-based medicine, and the first Chiropractic school to be awarded a federal research grant.

Dr. Barter underwent rigorous clinical training with some of the finest chiropractors. Ann has also undergone advanced training in Applied Kinesiology, completing over 400 extra classroom hours and is certified to practice Applied Kinesiology. She has also studied Functional Blood Chemistry under Dr. Kharrazian.

She has taken an interest in optimizing health by incorporating diet counseling, whole food supplementation, herbal therapy, wellness and lifestyle coaching, scar tissue work, deep tissue massage, and exercise programs.

Dr. Barter has completed the 18 hours required for certification by The Running Clinic for: New Trends in the Prevention of Running Injuries. This training course has been delivered more than a hundred times, on 5 continents! It has been developed using the most recent scientific evidence, it questions several current unjustified practices. The techniques learned in this class help Dr. Barter better assess her patients and aids in making recommendations for avoiding future running-related injuries.

Ann’s Bio Continued:

Medicine is a second career and passion for Dr. Barter. Initially, she worked at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas negotiating major systems for their fighter jet program. She excelled at difficult negotiations and was able to hit challenging company goals.

Ann is passionate about chiropractic, helping people get out of pain and reach their maximum potential. Chiropractic changed Dr. Barter’s life. When she was in initially introduced to chiropractic (in her early 20’s) she was skeptical. The more educated she became in the art of chiropractic, the more interested and intrigued she became, until she finally asked for an adjustment from a family friend who practices chiropractic. The treatment was like magic. He not only adjusted her spine but also her feet, hips, knees, wrists, and elbows. She felt new and light, like a better version of herself. He also took extra time to put her on a specific dietary protocol and nutritional regimen, from which she realized major positive changes. She excelled academically, experienced less gastrointestinal upset, reduced brain-fog, lost weight, and started to enjoy activities like hiking, because her foot mechanics had been changed.

Dr. Barter has been active in athletics her entire life. For 17 years Dr. Barter was a competitive dancer. These days she can be found dancing, skiing, running, performing yoga, biking, hiking, lifting weights or walking her Rhodesian Ridgeback, Ritz. She knows what it takes to be an athlete and she finds great satisfaction in helping athletes reach their maximum potential.

Ann uses chiropractic care to improve the health and wellness in all areas of patient’s lives, whether they are having problems with back or neck pain, or just want to start feeling better when they wake up in the morning. Dr. Barter takes a “whole person” approach to chiropractic care, which means looking for the underlying causes of disease, discomfort, and pain, as opposed to just treating the symptoms.

Many seemingly unrelated symptoms often arise from imbalances in the spinal column, extremities, biochemical disturbances, and stress and Dr. Barter will be able to determine the root of the problem and create a personalized chiropractic and wellness plan to suit each patient’s individual needs.

Dr. Ann-Marie Barter is passionate about helping you and your family. She has a broad range of diagnostic skills and enjoys working with women and men of all ages including pregnant women, kids, and geriatric patients. She is dedicated to appropriately assessing your condition, building an individualized treatment program, and optimizing your health.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”01:49″] What’s your fast protocol? Nutritional cleansing, fasting, detoxing, and more.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:48″] Water fast from time to time and being able to retrace injuries.
[spp-timestamp time=”07:08″] I love that retracing of your injury when you’re cleaning out and cleansing. I jumped on a nail when I was six years old. Wow, that bottom of my foot really hurts.
[spp-timestamp time=”09:13″] I wanted to move to Colorado because I fought the Four Mile Canyon complex fire in 2010 outside of Boulder. The first time I saw a molten engine block, it got so hot, it looked like the Terminator, the liquid robot.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:47″] The ptarmigan glacier up in Rocky Mountain National Park, so we parked at 8000 and then we hiked to 12-13,000’, and you just drop off of that cliff edge. That was my first backcountry experience into that bowl.
[spp-timestamp time=”13:25″] I go up there I decided that I’m going to wear new skis, by the way my friend and I are the only females in the parking lot. I’m wearing new powder skis because I’m set. If you’ve ever skied Silverton there are double blacks, they’re pretty intense. It’s also that time of year, it was kind of rocky, I mean the conditions were ice they closed a week later.
[spp-timestamp time=”14:36″] It really gave me a respect for the mountains and so now going out in that country just totally gives me a different respect for it. I guess you have to be humbled to really see what that’s all about.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:26″] So I definitely grew up athletic. I was a competitive dancer and a competitive runner but I did a lot of my growing up in Texas, which is pretty flat. So there’s none of the mountain experience that you can have. I actually didn’t like to hike as a kid I used to whine about it because my feet were really bad and so it hurt me to walk and hike.
[spp-timestamp time=”19:19″] I found chiropractic when I was in college because I had all kinds of gut and gastrointestinal problems and I found alternative health. So my story into alternative health is this, I remember having such bad period cramps I went to my MD, right? Well she actually just said you know, suck it up.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:59″] I get my appendix removed, told the whole time, I’m perfectly healthy as I just have an organ removed. Fast forward a few years I’m in college and I start breaking out into hives all over my body and an anaphylaxis reaction. Trip after trip to the emergency room, they give me Benadryl on top of Benadryl, nobody ever talked to me about diet, lifestyle, anything.
[spp-timestamp time=”27:25″] You can see if on basic lab panels like homocysteine will tell us if somebody has current information related to that MTHFR gene. Your body produces glutathione. In fact, it’s a major antioxidant. One of the most powerful antioxidants in the body.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

– Norman Vincent Peale

[spp-timestamp time=”30:41″] I had a patient I generally recommend a paleo whole 30 cleanse for 30 days for my patients. I have been doing this for like 20 years before Paleo was cool. I remember just one time trying to go vegan just to see if I could go vegan for 30 days to see if I could do it. I literally think I felt how frustrated people feel when they’re trying to change their diet for the first time because it was so hard. I couldn’t find any foods to eat because I don’t need a ton of grains. I don’t eat soy.
[spp-timestamp time=”34:00″] Aside from the vegan diet not being good for me, just based on how active my lifestyle is, etc. Plus really needing to do additional supplementation.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:34″] Dr. Anthony Jay’s launching right now the first Carnivore Study, he’s looking for people to participate in his study where for 90 days you’re 100% carnivore.
[spp-timestamp time=”39:46″] There are a lot of buzz words today: Keto, Ketogenic, Paleo, Paleolithic, LCHF, Low Carb High Fat, NSNG, No Sugar No Grains, etc.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:02″] You always have to check men’s estrogen to make sure that they’re not producing too much estrogen when you’re checking their testosterone. Same with women.
[spp-timestamp time=”42:46″] Ubiome, they’ll break down what bacteria you have in your gut and what you don’t have in your gut. It’s actually pretty cool testing to figure out what’s going on.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:51″] Ultimately, we have gap junctions in our GI system. What ends up happening is these gap junctions get some space in between them. Then that leaks out into our bloodstream.
[spp-timestamp time=”46:21″] You clean up the other diet, you clean up everything else.
[spp-timestamp time=”47:03″] I put people on an elimination diet initially, I don’t love grains for a lot of patients. I definitely don’t love sugar for a lot of patients. I think that they need to incorporate some more foods like nuts and seeds depending on how you look at paleo.
[spp-timestamp time=”50:45″] I get a lot of questions about Keto. I have women come in that have gained like 30 pounds on Keto. I don’t think keto is good and I don’t think keto is bad. Certain people, have livers that can’t process that much fat at once.
[spp-timestamp time=”52:38″] It is money, money, money, money, money, money, a lot of people are getting wealthy with people being sick. A lot of people are making money in the food industry that way.
[spp-timestamp time=”56:36″] I would overeat protein, I would blow my blood sugar and blow my ketones.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:04:46″] Final Words

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Being a practitioner, sometimes practitioners don’t connect because there’s this concern about scarcity and they don’t do what’s best for the patient. It can be working with our MD or working with a surgeon or whomever it is, to give them the best care when we integrate.

It is powerful medicine because multiple eyes looking at one thing is so much better than one set of eyes looking at one thing. I just think people really do need to take control of their health.

The people that I see coming in here, they are 20 years old, especially in my Denver location. They’re 20 years old, they’re struggling with crazy things that they cannot get to the bottom of. I mean we’re talking eczema, we’re talking about abscesses in their large intestines. You have to take these alternative methods seriously earlier, because, you know, you’re going to have a much better life, you’re going to have a much better quality of life. I don’t know why people don’t want to do that. I don’t know why people don’t want to embrace that. It’s just baffles me.

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183: Cancer & KETO aka Ketogenic Lifestyle with Brendan Prendergast

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Discussing Cancer and the KETO aka Ketogenic Lifestyle with returning co-host, Dr. Brendan Prendergast:

Brendan has returned for his second appearance on our podcast to dig deeper into the topic of Cancer and the KETO aka Ketogenic Lifestyle. He last appeared on episode 173 where we dug deeper into Primal and Paleo as a big influence on his healthy lifestyle. However, we failed to dig as deep into his truly passionate topic around Cancer and our healthy lifestyle influences.

Some quick background on him, he graduated medical school in 2008 and completed his radiation oncology residency training in 2013. He has lived on Florida’s Space Coast since 2013, where he works as a radiation oncologist at a busy cancer center. He has been practicing a primal/paleo lifestyle since 2011 and has become passionate about the connection between diet/lifestyle and health, particularly as it relates to cancer.

He and his wife, Rachel, started a blog OurHealthHabit.com to share their perspective and outlook on building healthy lifestyles as a family. Brendan has years of personal experience with different nutritional strategies–from paleo to intermittent fasting and ketosis–and his medical background brings a unique perspective to these concepts. He is enthusiastic about health, longevity, and cancer prevention and believes that the key to achieving these can be found by looking outside the mainstream medical and nutrition resources. When he’s not working or spending time with his family, Brendan enjoys working out and training for OCR races and has qualified for the North American Championships to be held in Vermont this summer. Brendan is an avid reader and consumer of podcasts, although this is his first experience on the other side of the microphone!

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”15:00″] Fasting, entering into ketosis.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:00″] There is a lot of inertia in medical education.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:02:30″] Glucose Ketone Index and Dr. Thomas Seyfried, reaching the point of cellular cleansing.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:14:00″] Final Words

“Be a disciple of experience” – Quote: Leonardo Da Vinci

[spp-tweet tweet=”Podcast About Experiencing Ketosis and Learning About Cancer, KETO Life, the Ketogenic Lifestyle, and More @OurHealthHabit “]

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Before you dive into major lifestyle changes, listen to something by Dom D’Agostino from KETO Nutrition. He’s got great episodes out there on podcast shows like Tim Ferris and Nourish Balance Thrive.

Listen and learn more about it and maybe find out more about why you may want to do it. A good enough reason is that you want to try it. You could find out that gosh, that was miserable, or gosh, I did it and I may feel better. You might be a cancer patient or you might have a family member who’s living with Cancer. There are other positive impacts here in relation to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a huge reason to consider this.

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173: Primal, Paleo, Our Health Habit with Dr. Brendan Prendergast MD

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0000

**Discussing Food, Fitness, Family and the Primal Paleo Lifestyle:**

Brendan is here to discuss Primal and Paleo as a big influence on his healthy lifestyle. Some quick background on him, he graduated medical school in 2008 and completed his radiation oncology residency training in 2013. He has lived on Florida’s Space Coast since 2013, where he works as a radiation oncologist at a busy cancer center. He has been practicing a primal/paleo lifestyle since 2011 and has become passionate about the connection between diet/lifestyle and health, particularly as it relates to cancer.

Primal / Paleo

Weight Loss
Body Composition
Energy Levels
Sleep
BioMarkers
Cholesterol: LDL vs HDL and LDLC

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”07:50″] OCR Racing aka Obstacle Course Races.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:40″] A lot of people are concerned about cholesterol.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:30″] Black beans, monitoring insulin spikes, talking chili.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:11:00″] Final Words

“Be a disciple of experience” – Quote: Leonardo Da Vinci

[spp-tweet tweet=”Primal, Paleo & Food, Fitness, Family from OurHealthHabit.com Dr. Brendan Prendergast! @LIVETHEFUEL “]

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Don’t just trust conventional wisdom. Look at what’s working for people, find out what they are doing, If it sounds unconventional but it’s working, it might be worth listening to.

Quick rewind, the Diabetes Epidemic as blown up in this country. Just think about how things were a 100 years ago, even 5000 years ago. We didn’t have the level of disease and illness we have today. Did we still get sick… yes. We are all going to get sick and die eventually. Unfortunately, as much as we are into longevity, it’s inevitable.

Brendan thinks we can improve, not just our lifespan, but our healthspan. He thinks that we are in control of that, maybe not 100%, but a lot more than people think. Now is the time to start!

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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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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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070: Wheat, Leaky Gut, Vaccines, The Paleo Cardiologist

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Your Paleo Cardiologist Co-Host:

We talk with a powerful new co-host today on wheat consumption issues, nutrition, leaky gut, the use of vaccines, and of course The Paleo Cardiologist book from Dr. Jack Wolfson.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”03:00″] Connecting on life and living in Arizona, sharing our joint experiences.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:50″] Jack and his wife met in 2004, he was working in a large Cardiology practice. His wife is a doctor of chiropractic and causation who opened up his eyes to other worlds of health. This led to him leaving the big medical group in 2012 for a bigger purpose, launching The Drs Wolfson and eventually him writing The Paleo Cardiologist book.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:35″] Standing Desks.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:10″] MD’s relating to DC’s. Mentioning how Vinnie Tortorich isn’t a supporter of Doctor’s of Chiropractic. Jack helps us clarify what “real doctors” can truly do in different situations.
[spp-timestamp time=”08:20″] Scott finds his trust of chiropractic care in 2008 training for the Marine Corp Marathon in Washington DC.
[spp-timestamp time=”11:15″] The average MD, a medical doctor is not taught anything about nutrition.
[spp-timestamp time=”12:50″] Taking issue with the 300 MD’s and Ph.D.’s that wrote the references he includes at the end of his book, The Paleo Cardiologist.
[spp-timestamp time=”15:45″] We’re talking about who lives the best, who lives the longest, who has the lowest risk of heart attack and stroke.
[spp-timestamp time=”19:20″] Referencing the NSNG lifestyle, Vinnie Tortorich and how he’s surviving Leukemia Cancer by reducing sugar consumption.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] Whatever the diet book, everyone is going to be anti-sugar these days. It’s hard to get people off the sugar, all we can do is give them the information. What people do with the information is their choice. They’re not hearing the truth in the typical medical establishment. Doctors are not spending the time to speak to people, they’re not educated to speak to people, they’re kind of down on the whole process of nutrition.
[spp-timestamp time=”23:10″] Sharing our mutual love of mountain biking. Even as a Cardiologist, all he can do is call 911 in the case of an emergency.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:00″] Get out of the gym, get outside, hike, bike, do squats with your bodyweight, lunges, pushups, etc.
[spp-timestamp time=”26:00″] Trail running, thin soled shoes, we both read the Born to Run book.
[spp-timestamp time=”27:45″] Jack doesn’t wear shoes in his office and sells healthy duck fat.
[spp-timestamp time=”28:08″] He first learned about Leaky Gut in 2005 and never heard of it during his 10 years in school.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:00″] Test kits for leaky gut and more for using the Wheat Zoomer. Also chatting on Wheat Belly and the Grain Brain books.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:45″] Are sprouted ancient grains healthier than wonder bread. Don’t guess, get tested.
[spp-timestamp time=”33:50″] The human body is an amazing and powerful machine.
[spp-timestamp time=”34:07″] Referencing Dr. Jack Kruse and mitochondrial health. Both Jack’s actually spoke together at an event in June 2016 in Vermont.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:00″] Jack Kruse brings heavy science to the Paleo lifestyle. Dr. Jack Wolfson tests people’s cellular levels of Omega 3′, Vegans are extremely deficient in Omega 3’s. Clearly, this is linked to all disease as well.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:20″] Follow the wisdom of our ancestors.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:37″] Mentioning Dr. Joe Dispenza and my recent event attendance learning about the quantum law.
[spp-timestamp time=”38:00″] The Quantlet device from Dr. Jack Kruse.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] Our bodies natural response to problems is inflammation. We need to put the fire out by finding what the caused the fire. It’s all about causation.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:00″] Kevin Cottrell and Jack Wolfson speaking at PALEOfx.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:00″] If you’re Mediterranean, just do it without the chemicals and you’ll make a huge difference.
[spp-timestamp time=”48:10″] People are not getting the answers from their average MD.
[spp-timestamp time=”48:20″] The use of statin drugs vs finding the 0% category. Jack shows all of the medical data on statins in The Paleo Cardiologist book.
[spp-timestamp time=”49:10″] Jack clarifies for me that his 300 References from medical professionals in his book, means that he has referenced their studies that support his studies and the book. If you’re insulting Jack and The Paleo Cardiologist, then you’re insulting the 300 other medical journals he has researched too.
[spp-timestamp time=”50:05″] Mentioning Nina Teicholz and The Big Fat Surprise book.
[spp-timestamp time=”53:00″] Give the gift of health and education.
[spp-timestamp time=”55:00″] Clarifying where to get started for accomplishing your own blood testing. Referencing the Wheat Zoomer, looking at Leaky Gut, where your inflammation is at, etc.
[spp-timestamp time=”57:20″] It’s nice to not have a family history, but genetic changes can happen, referencing epigenetics.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:00:30″] Jack’s high-level focal points to improve our health are the nutrition, sleep, the sunshine, and reducing stress.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:03:20″] Final Words

Unfortunately, Sugar is the most addictive thing in the world. – Dr. Jack Wolfson

[spp-tweet tweet=”On the treadmill watching CNN is not the pathway to health @thedrswolfson @LIVETHEFUEL “]

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I talk the talk and I walk the walk. If you know how to do it, teach others how to do it. Do not be afraid to speak your truth because you are going to save people’s lives. Continue to speak the truth.

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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.

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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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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.

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