Abel James Show

What do you think of censorship? 
It's a bizarre and uncomfortable feeling when some unelected, self-appointed anonymous party behind the curtain decides what you're not allowed to say or learn. 
We live in a world where little people like us are legally responsible for every word we put online. But when our overlords in Big Tech censor potentially life-saving information, should they be held to the same standard?
And who exactly decides what's true and what's not? 
After I was censored and shadowbanned by multiple platforms during the pandemic, a wise friend reminded me that “the closer you are to the truth, the more likely you are to be censored.” 
When incentives are upside down, big tech and the government don't censor lies, they censor the truth… and attack the reputation and livelihoods of those who dare speak it. 
So if we’re responsible for every word we say online, Big Tech should be held legally accountable for every word they’ve ever censored. Especially when it’s clear that they have been intentionally suppressing honest conversations and critical, true, and timely information that could save lives.
The downfalls of our current system are becoming obvious to even those with the most stubborn case of Stockholm Syndrome. 
So who will hold the big tech censors, medical tyrants, half-alive politicians, and pot-bellied, turtlenecked billionaires accountable? 
And how can we take back responsibility for our own health, well-being and survival? 
The truth is that it’s on us to build parallel systems as the current medical-industrial complex based on profit, exploitation and upside-down incentives falls apart.
There are many reasons to be optimistic for the future. Our guest this week is a visionary building solutions to help reclaim our digital lives from the grip of Big Tech, prioritizing sovereignty, privacy, and freedom for individuals.
Today we’re here with Govinda Tidball, a former United Nations Senior Advisor with the World Food Programme and Director of the Ministry of Health in America, an organization committed to re-establishing individual health sovereignty. Govinda served as a team member of the Disrupt Hunger Global Challenge in Germany, he co-founded Sri Lanka’s national Emergency Medical Service and call center, and has been involved in global counter human trafficking efforts for over fifteen years. 
A man of many talents, Govinda is also a former world-class athlete, television host, radio personality, public speaker, and was even involved in the fashion industry for a time.
In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why America's medical system is an underperforming outlier with poor outcomes and low life expectancy despite astronomical costs
• The promise of Web5 technology, which incorporates decentralization and privacy to combat top-down control, censorship and weaponized algorithms
• How to incentivize actual health, rather than the current system of running bodies through the medical system for profit
• Simple steps to plan ahead for economic and environmental disasters
• How to take back responsibility for our own health and well-being, instead of blindly following authority figures
• And much more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/govinda-tidball-health-sovereignty-medical-privacy-web5-technology/ 
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We're here with Matthew Lysiak, a nationally recognized investigative journalist, crime reporter and award-winning author of the brilliant new book “Fiat Food” which unravels the shocking history of how inflation destroyed our health, our food system, and our quality of life.

Does it feel like a dollar isn't worth a dollar anymore? 
At first, inflation feels good for some of us. 
Homeowners see their houses rapidly increase in nominal price, the stock market appears to rise, even used cars and trucks sitting in the driveway growing older somehow appear to become more valuable. 
But when you fill up your cart at the grocery store, pay for skyrocketing insurance and tax bills, and account for rapid and permanent increases in housing, energy and all the other costs of living, you start to feel the sting of runaway inflation. 
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve, in the past three years groceries are up 20% across the board, gas is up 45%, Energy is up 38% and credit card debt is up 45%. 
This would all be well and good if our salaries doubled overnight. 
Has yours? 
Debasement of our currency has eroded our standard of living, degraded nutrients in our food supply, and left us poorer and sicker than any time in recent history. 
Fiat inflation is a hidden tax lobbied without your consent, eroding the spending power of every dollar you've ever earned. 
In a debt-based fiat system, saving is a losing strategy. Increasingly, we're incentivized to spend immediately, not save. Corporations are incentivized to borrow, not earn. 
With cheaper access to massive low interest debt, the ruling class is able to gleefully stripmine any remaining wealth from the middle and lower classes. 
Since 1900, our dollar has lost nearly 99% of its spending power. 
This is not an accident. 
In 1900, a single dollar could buy a pair of patent leather shoes, a woman's house dress or even be saved with confidence. The average American could afford to eat 175 pounds of meat a year, mostly beef, as well as plenty of eggs, bacon and sausage. 
Collectively, our heart health was also far better. 
By 1972, we ate 104 pounds of red meat a year, and as of 2019, our consumption was cut in half to just 56 pounds. 
Since then, obesity and disease has become widespread in adults and children alike as our quality of life has deteriorated. 
Using propaganda from fraudulent studies, monetary distortions and backward subsidies, the collusion of government, industry and special interests has intentionally shifted diets away from healthful whole foods and nutrient dense meats to industrial seed oils, GMO grains, and fake meats. 
Doritos, Lucky Charms and plant-based fake meats don't increase in price nearly as quickly as real food like beef and veggies. For corporations, selling highly processed industrial products is much more profitable than selling meat. 
As our guest this week quips, “You can print Doritos like you can print fiat dollars.” 
Real food, though, has become cost prohibitive for many of us, so we eat processed industrial junk instead. 
This hurts people, especially kids. 
Thanks to government manipulation of food prices and top-down dietary recommendations, our mass consumption of ultra processed foods understates the rate of inflation in our food system and makes us sicker, allowing Big Food and Big Pharma to profit on both sides. 
As it turns out, feeding people poison and managing their sickness is big business. 
But this story goes far deeper than just Big Food and Big Pharma. 
Unchecked inflation has not only undermined real purchasing power and destroyed our health, but the fiat dollar has also enabled endless war profiteering without the consent of the people. 
The most powerful weapon ever conceived by man is the fiat money printer. 
Today we're here with Matthew Lysiak, a nationally recognized investigative journalist, crime reporter and award-winning author of the brilliant new book “Fiat Food” which unravels the shocking history of how inflation destroyed our health, our food system, and our quality of life. 
In this episode, you will discover: 

• How a 100 year conspiracy and propaganda campaign by anti-meat religious groups, the medical industrial complex and politicians hijacked our food system for profit
• Why observational studies on diet and health are misleading and are often weaponized for political and financial gain
• How mainstream media and religious groups manipulate nutritional science to control public health
• Why the government masks the true cost of inflation resulting from severing ties to the gold standard
• Why the public school system deprives kids of proper nutrition
• And much more…

Read the show notes:  https://fatburningman.com/matthew-lysiak-how-money-printing-destroys-our-health-and-enables-endless-war/ 
Grab the excellent book "Fiat Food" by Matthew Lysiak at   https://www.amazon.com/Fiat-Food-Inflation-Destroyed-Bitcoin-ebook/dp/B0CKC4LD8L
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In the face of creeping medical tyranny, a rapidly devaluing dollar, rampant tech addiction and an epidemic of chronic disease, what can we do to reclaim our health, wealth and freedom? 
We're back today with our friend Dr. Jack Kruse, a respected neurosurgeon, author, mitochondriac and pioneer of medical freedom. 
Dr. Kruse was one of the very first guests on this podcast all the way back in 2012 when we first launched, and this is probably our most expansive, spicy and eyebrow raising public conversation to date. 
If you haven't already, I encourage you to go back and listen to  Dr. Jack's prior episodes as these conversations are largely cumulative. 
In this episode with Dr. Jack Kruse, we explore: 

• How mind control research led to modern surveillance capitalism
• How light and electricity is used to control human and animal behavior
• How technology and algorithms are weaponized for social engineering
• The dangers of exposure to blue light and non-native electromagnetic frequencies
• The startling risks of using virtual reality headsets, bluetooth earbuds, smartphones and brain implants
• How to decentralize your health and your wealth
• The sordid untold history of government corruption that enabled creeping medical tyranny, financial manipulation and forever wars
• How medical freedom laws and constitutional amendments can shape the future of healthcare
• And much more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/dr-jack-kruse-reclaim-your-health-wealth-freedom-in-the-face-of-medical-tyranny/ 
Get more from Dr. Jack Kruse at https://jackkruse.com. And if you want to heal yourself with cutting-edge Quantum Biologic materials from Dr. Kruse, it costs $5 bucks a month—the cost of a cup of coffee—when you join his Optimal Klub on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DrJackKruse
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What if technology actually made our lives better instead of worse?
When you're scrolling non-stop on your phone, do you ever feel like you're at the casino?
If you've ever opened 200 tabs on your browser, stared blankly into a screen, or doomscrolled the day away, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Modern computers and smartphones are evolutionarily mismatched to our biology.
Algorithms have been weaponized against us, using our attention as a currency for advertisers and top-down social agendas.
As a result, our use of modern phones, tablets, computers and social media have led to increasing depression, anxiety and social isolation.
So why would you create a new tablet computer that's heavier, thicker, lacks color and has no camera or microphone?
Because it's actually better for you.
We're here today with Anjan Katta, visionary founder and inventor of Daylight Computer, a groundbreaking hardware technology company that has created the world's very first blue light-free, high-refresh rate computer that respects our health, attention and freedom, challenging tech giants like Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. 
By prioritizing simplicity, honesty and ethics, the next generation of founders is creating devices that are less likely to be addictive or harmful.
In this episode, we explore:

• Why modern blue-lit devices and screens are so addictive
• How artificial blue light alters our production of dopamine and disrupts our circadian rhythm
• Why surveillance resistant devices are the way of the future
• The potential for innovative technology to enhance rather than detract from our wellbeing 
• And much more…
  
  

Read the show notes:  https://fatburningman.com/anjan-katta-creating-a-computer-thats-actually-good-for-us/ 
Go to DaylightComputer.com to order your very own Daylight Computer tablet.
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Have you ever ignored your doctor's advice? 
Most doctors enter the medical field with noble intentions, but are unaware of the systemic corruption and profit driven nature of the industry. 
The hard economic truth is that nearly every institution that impacts your health makes more money by managing chronic disease than by curing patients. 
The pharmaceutical industry has influenced medical research and treatment, leading to a focus on recurring revenue through chronic medication and intervention over prevention. As a result, many doctors feel trapped inside a broken system. 
Modern healthcare isn't working because it focuses on treating symptoms, rather than addressing the root cause of metabolic dysfunction, which can be caused by three physiological processes, mitochondrial dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and oxidative stress. 
To explore these subjects and more, we're here today with Casey Means, MD, a Stanford trained physician, co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world's metabolic health crisis, and the bestselling author of the new book on metabolic health called “Good Energy.” 
In this episode, we chat about: 

• How metabolic dysfunction affects various cell types in the body, leading to diverse symptoms and diseases
• Why it's a problem that nutrition science is funded largely by food manufacturers, and healthcare research is funded by pharmaceutical companies
• How the complexity and confusion surrounding health and wellness is intentional as it creates a need for external experts and products
• Why the profit-driven healthcare system prioritizes managing chronic diseases over curing them leading to widespread metabolic dysfunction and premature mortality
• How to optimize your metabolic function with simple and inexpensive lifestyle strategies
• And much more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/dr-casey-means-solving-for-the-root-cause-of-the-metabolic-health-crisis/
Learn more and grab your very own copy the new book "Good Energy" by Dr. Casey Means at https://www.caseymeans.com/goodenergy
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Did you know that doctors were treating diabetic patients with high-fat low-carb diets all the way back in the 1700s? 
Though high-fat ketogenic diets were found to effectively treat diabetes for over a century, they were largely abandoned due to the rapid adoption of insulin in the 1920s, which was considered then to be a miracle cure. 
Prioritizing drugs over lifestyle with insulin therapy, however, led to unexpected long term complications in patients, including damage to large and small blood vessels that results in heart disease, strokes, kidney damage, neuropathy, amputations, blindness, dementia, and a decrease in life expectancy. 
Once a rare condition, diabetes is now so common that drugstores dedicate entire aisles to it. One in every $4 spent in American healthcare goes to diabetic patients, with over $300 billion in direct costs every year. 
The Diabetes story is a metaphor of the rapid adoption of a wonder drug without knowing the long term consequences. 
And in an age when Hollywood influencers in the media are touting the seemingly miraculous benefits of our latest weight loss wonder drugs GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic, it's worth examining the long term risks and consequences of heavy handed pharmaceutical interventions. 
Today, we're back with our friend Gary Taubes, an award-winning investigative science and health journalist and bestselling author of “Why We Get Fat” and “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” as well as his new book “Rethinking Diabetes.” Gary has dedicated his work to dismantling conventional nutritional theory with his research lectures and books. And at this point, Gary is better versed in diabetes literature than pretty much anyone alive. 
In this episode, we’re chatting about: 

• Why lifestyle interventions that effectively treated diabetes for over a century were abandoned by the medical establishment
• How flawed dietary guidelines in the 1970s recommended high-carb diets for heart health without evidence
• Why the modern push for plant-based diets is based on bad science and misconceived journalism
• Why the wide adoption of diabetes and weight loss wonder drugs like GLP-1 agonists should raise long term safety and side effect concerns 
• And much, much more…

Read the show notes:  https://fatburningman.com/gary-taubes-unintended-consequences-of-weight-loss-wonder-drugs/ 
Check out and support Gary Taubes at unsettledscience.substack.com
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Have you ever noticed that your cravings seem to change throughout the seasons? 
Our nutritional needs are affected by the time of year, climate and even our geographical location.
The practice of Chinese Medicine, attuning ourselves to our environment and living in harmony with nature is fundamental to achieving optimal health. 
Today, we're here with Ellen Goldsmith, a licensed and board certified acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and author of the book “Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine.”
On this episode, we’re chatting about: 

• How to identify food sensitivities and improve digestion with ancient principles from Chinese Medicine
• The concept of qi or vitality in foods and emphasizing locally grown seasonal whole foods with a diverse flavor profile
• Physical techniques and exercises to build and maintain vigor and vitality
• How to include all five flavors in every meal to feel more satisfied 
• Why eating dinner for breakfast can help avoid cravings for unhealthy snacks later in the day
• And much more…

Read the show notes:  https://fatburningman.com/ellen-goldsmith-how-to-maximize-chi-and-vitality-with-chinese-medicine/  
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Are your training methods preventing injury or causing them?

Why do some athletic pursuits lead to disordered eating, orthorexia, and body image issues? 

As the years tick by, how can we move the goalposts to make sure we’re training for the right reasons?

One of my favorite things about hosting this podcast for the past 12 years is the chance to revisit with guests in different stages of their lives. 

Long time listeners first met my friend Chaz a little more than a decade ago. 

Chaz Branham is a venture capitalist, athlete and lifelong health nut, who you may remember back in 2013 entered in the Texas Shredder Classic, his first bodybuilding competition, on a dare—and did ridiculously well and even earned a spot on the podium by using a fat-based approach (quite unique at the time).

This dude is a life-long athlete and beast. Back then in his mid-twenties, Chaz was fresh off his first bodybuilding competition, where he achieved an astonishing 3.5% body fat naturally and earned his place on the podium. Now in his late 30’s, it’s fascinating to examine how our lives and goals have changed. 

On this episode with Chaz, you’ll discover:

• How Chaz navigated body image issues and disordered eating patterns following a successful bodybuilding competition

• How to adjust your training and goals in the face of serious injury

• Why some ultra-marathoners show no signs of degeneration or injury after a lifetime of running

• What it’s like to experiment in the Wild West world of peptides

• And much more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/chaz-branham-how-to-overcome-catastrophic-injury-with-the-eldoa-method/ 

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Are you a nose-breather or a mouth-breather?

I sat down for lunch recently with a few old friends, and one of them asked: “Abel, what is the most underrated performance hack in health and fitness?”

I said without hesitation, “nasal breathing.”

When you learn to harness the power of the breath, you can rewire your entire nervous system, which has vast implications for your health, performance, and even your personality. The state of our nervous system directly impacts our quality of life and ability to enjoy life's challenges.

Today we’re here with one of the OG’s of alternative health and natural movement, the creator of MovNat and Breathholdwork, our friend Erwan Le Corre. Erwan is known as the "Godfather of Natural Movement" and is author of "The Practice of Natural Movement." 

No slouch, Erwan holds a US National Record in static breath-holding with a 7 minutes 29 seconds performance. His personal best breath hold currently sits at 8 minutes 03 seconds! 

This episode is both practical and deeply existential, with questions like: “Are we spiritual beings having a human experience, or humans having a spiritual experience?” I hope you dig this one.

On this episode, you’ll discover:

• How Erwan developed and practiced the ability to hold his breath for 8 minutes (!!!)

• Why hyperventilation leads to sympathetic dominance, which can be detrimental to well-being

• Why developing physical capability is a moral responsibility

• How to manage your mindset to become more resilient and thrive under stress 

• The physical, emotional, and mental consequences of breathwork

• How to achieve a state of peace, trust, and love through regulating your nervous system.

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/erwan-le-corre-rewire-your-brain-with-breathwork-and-natural-movement/ 

Check out and support Erwan Le Corre at breathholdwork.com 

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