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December 04, 2017 Questions For Carl
In this episode of BMR, I am on the other end of the interview! This is entirely dedicated to answering questions provided by listeners and I’m presented with more than a few controversial questions and subjects that I explore for the first time publicly! This may also be an opportunity to get a glimpse into Listen In
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1 hr 8 min
November 19, 2017Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny – With Dr Cameron McDonald
Many of us are aware that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ when it comes to nutrition and exercise. But how does this differ for everyone and what about the location of residents, social environment, sleep cycles, parenting, education, and even what job roles you are suited to? Yes, this is all coded in your genetics and you can find out all of the above and take steps to ensure you are operating in line with your genetics.
In this episode, I talk with Dr Cam McDonald about epigenetics and how you may switch on and off genes that allow you to become your best version of yourself! We discuss how you can activate genes that will allow you to function at your best in your life both mentally and physically. What food, movement and cognitive intensity is right for you as well as when to eat, move and create for your genetics. We discuss the future of wellness and that is the PH360 system, the science behind it and why you will want to get onto this ASAP!
Show Breakdown:
Dr Cam’s story – that led to specialising in epigenetics and individual nutritional and lifestyle prescription.
What is ‘Epigenetics’?
No, our DNA never changes! But your expression does.
What switches ‘on’ and ‘off’ genes?
Twins studies – how we respond to the environment.
How the size of your jaw, thickness of your neck or colour of your eyes tell a story about your genes and hormones.
The PH360 system and all of the sciences incorporated into it.
How to get the best out of your genes.
Embryology – the basis of who you are.
Ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph.
One man’s medicine is another man’s poison (No kale is NOT good for everyone).
Ph360’s vision.
How we may best learn – for me its during movement!
How to construct your life to make you as happy and healthy as you can be.
Listeners questions.
Spit test vs ph360
Training that doesn’t correlate with your biotype.
Cancer genes, how to avoid activating hereditary genes.
Absolute do’s and don’ts for everyone!
Dr Cam’s wisdom for the world!
Find Dr Cam here:
Website: http://drcammcdonald.com.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drcamshealthspot/
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Email: [email protected]
Todays show is brought to you by:
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1 hr 4 min
November 06, 2017Growth Through Pain – With Greig Rightford
Do you ever ask yourself “Why does this happen to me?!” or tell yourself “I’m so unlucky” and then use this internal dialogue to justify why you aren’t getting what you want in life?
In this episode, I talk to my good friend, work colleague and co-founder of HealthFit Collective Greig Rightford about his journey. It starts growing up in South Africa in a high discipline environment right the way through to running an Ultra Endurance marathon through the Sahara Desert weeks after breaking his neck! After listening to this you realise that success isn’t luck and that there are certain rules that you must follow if you want to achieve optimal health and happiness in your life.
Show breakdown:
Greig’s story – Growing up in S.A, home discipline & his fitness journey.
Competitive boxing and what Greig learned from getting TKO’d in his first fight.
Competition conditioning.
Broken neck a barrier or an opportunity?
An ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert with only weeks of preparation.
What effects that had on Greig – physically, mentally & emotionally.
Should we push through physical barriers like Greig?
Training smarter not harder.
How did these experiences translate to other aspects of life?
Controlling the controllables.
When to push hard and when to back off?
What should we absolutely do and not do to get what we want.
Listeners questions.
Greig’s wisdom for the world!
Find Greig here:
Website: www.healthfitcollective.co.nz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/www.healthfitcollective.co.nz/
Todays show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off orders above $30!
www.healthfitcollective.co.nz – Sign up for the free HealthFit Perform video series.
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1 hr 6 min
October 23, 2017 Upgrade Your Working Memory – Dr. Tracy Alloway
What do blueberries, barefoot movement, gratitude and social media have in common? They can all be beneficial for working memory!
In this episode I chat with researcher, psychologist (PhD), author and international speaker about working memory, what it is, why its more important than IQ and how to upregulate your memory through food, movement and lifestyle. You may also be a little scared when you find out what can inhibit working memory too!
Show breakdown:
•Tracy’s story – Josh, the autistic boy who changed her life.
•What is working memory?
•Why is it so important?
•What effects working memory.
•Food that benefit working memory.
•When is the bet time to learn?
•Why you want to run barefoot and climb a tree.
•Intermittent fasting’s effect on memory and head trauma.
•Stress – the good, the bad and the perception.
•Working memory and depression.
•What destroys working memory (the recommendations may shock you).
•Why gratitude is king.
•What your night time routine should be.
•Why working memory trumps IQ.
•Tracy’s unique take on social media (her TED talk).
•Spotlight brain vs floodlight brain.
•Why free play is the best thing you can do for your kids (including big kids)!
•Tracy’s top tool memory tools (the answer makes me very happy!).
•Listeners questions – pregnancy, diagnosis, behaviour, retrieval, essential oil & trauma.
•Tracy’s wisdom for the world!
Find Tracy here:
Website: www.tracyalloway.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TracyPackiamAlloway/
Todays show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off orders above $30!
www.healthfitcollective.co.nz – Sign up for the free HealthFit Perform video series.
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58 min
October 23, 2017 BMR 13: Upgrade Your Working Memory – Dr. Tracy Alloway
What do blueberries, barefoot movement, gratitude and social media have in common? They can all be beneficial for working memory! In this episode I chat with researcher, psychologist (PhD), author and international speaker about working memory, what it is, why its more important than IQ and how to upregulate your memory through food, movement and […]
58 min
October 09, 2017BMR 12: Emotional Hygiene – With Anna Thomson
Many people have great physical hygiene practice – but perhaps many don’t invest in emotional hygiene and this can lead to many issues including chronic pain, unhappiness, aggression, anxiety, depression, low resilience and much more. What can we do to ensure that we have the best emotional tools to navigate life? Its much simpler than you think!
In this episode I talk with, lawyer, craniosacral therapist, cat lover and founder or Roar Fierce Coaching Anna Thomson about all things emotion.
Show breakdown:
Anna’s journey through law, health and craniosacral therapy.
Tools for pain and emotion.
What is emotion?
How we construct emotion.
Feelings and emotion are different.
Environment is everything!
The body tells a story.
Embryology – how we are shaped before we are even born!
Pain, posture and emotion.
Emotional hygiene.
Grounding techniques.
What I can do when I’m overwhelmed.
Emotional first aid.
Emotional trauma.
3 things that happen under panic.
The pain experience.
Tools – Breathing to change your state.
What we can do to give our children the tools to ensure good emotional wellbeing.
Addressing fear.
What should we stop doing now?
What shall we apply now?
Anna’s wisdom for the world!
Find Anna here:
Websites: https://www.roarfierce.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roarfierce/?ref=br_rs
Todays show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off orders above $30!
www.healthfitcollective.co.nz – Sign up for their free HealthFit Perform video series.
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1 hr 13 min
September 24, 2017 BMR 11: The Well Balanced Movement Diet with Darryl Edwards
In this episode, you will learn that you should play like your life depends on it – because it actually does!
Darryl Edwards is a well-known speaker, author and known as The Fitness Explorer and the creator of Primal Play. In this episode, we hear Darryl talk about his interesting journey that took him from an unwell investment banker to a fit, playful and happy fitness motivator. We explore how we may need to re-think exercise and fitness to create a more fun and functional model that is sustainable for everyone and believe it or not it’s not that hard! This is filled with usable tools that you can inject into your life right now!
Show Breakdown:
•Why Darryl went from investment banking to Fitness Explorer.
•Primal play.
•Band-Aid treatment vs addressing the cause.
•Ancestral movement – what we actually know.
•What we needed to survive.
•3D movement.
•Feast on movement or become malnourished!
•Gyms good or bad?
•Why you what to fidget!
•How to play as an adult when fitness becomes a chore.
•Try deadlifting your mate!
•I don’t want to be the best at an exercise, I want to be well.
•Workout vs Playout.
•A simple approach – just move, in different ways, often and spontaneously.
•Bringing intention to gain benefit.
•A chore or a challenge? – The missing element of play.
•What to stop doing now and what to start doing right now.
•Ancestral birth rituals and postnatal care.
•What Darry eats for breakfast.
•Darryls wisdom for the world!
Find Darryl Edwards here:
Websites: https://www.primalplay.com/
http://www.thefitnessexplorer.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessexplorer/
Today’s show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off orders above $30!
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1 hr 21 min
September 10, 2017BMR 10: Body Image – Your Best-Self vs Your Perfect Self – with Dr Verena Raschke-Cheema
Did you know that just by changing your mindset around your food consumption you can feel better, look better and even rid yourself of pain?
In this episode I talk with Dr Verena about eating for aesthetics vs eating for wellness and we really dive into body image and how we can begin to make a positive shift. Dr Verena has conducted extensive research in nutritional science and published material on the ‘nutrition transition’ – a point in time where our food practices changed dramatically as well as our global wellness. More recently Dr Verena has studied Neuro-Training & Yogi, bhogi, rogi burp and behaviour change which is why this is such a powerful combination and an episode you don’t want to miss!
Show breakdown:
Verena’s journey.
Best me vs perfect me.
The outer perfect body image.
Dr Verena’s PHD study.
Transition through food – when our health turned.
Food diversity, cash crops, agriculture and indigenous food practices.
Community based food vs eating alone.
Taking the focus off getting in shape to get in shape!
Where exercise fits in.
How to sort the misinformation from fact.
Operating out of intelligence vs fear.
How fear causes pain and inflammation.
Why you need to be aware of your thoughts when exercising!
How to begin to address body image issues.
Imagination and self talk are insights.
Connect with yourself and love yourself.
Connect with what you love and avoid self punishment.
Connect with other people!
Remove the bad choices, inject nourishment.
Mindful eating – ‘earth to table’
Proper food preparation.
The whole food ceremony.
Dr Verenas favourite tools: including the Yogi-bogi-rollgi-burp technique.
Verena’s wisdom for the world!
Find Dr Verena here:
Website: doctorverena.com
Special Discount for BestMe Listeners – $50 off first consultation with Dr Verena (only available until October)
Click here: https://doctorverena.com/consultations/ – consultations-1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctorverena/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doctorverena/
Todays show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off!
www.healthfitcollective.co.nz – Guiding you dreams to reality – book a free consultation
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1 hr 6 min
August 27, 2017BMR 9: Your Best Skin – with Nadine Artemis
Do you want flawless skin? Did you know that your skin literally feeds on what its exposed to and that most popular skincare regimes are really damaging to your skin and system despite what we are told?
In this episode I talk with beauty philosopher, aromacologist, author, speaker, TV personality and creator of Living Libations – Nadine Artemis about what our skin is, what is represents and how our current beliefs can be not only ineffective but dangerous. Then we discuss what you need to do and need to stop doing instantly to create flawless skin. This goes beyond cosmetics and into every aspect of wellness in order to create great skin. Diving into your microbiome, food, stress and of course what regimes and products you should be applying.
Show breakdown:
Nadine’s journey.
How smell effects your state instantly.
History of cosmetics and toiletries.
Where are we at currently with our skincare regimes?
The terrifying effects of these chemicals on our system and skin!
The skins microbiome and what we can do to optimise this!
Feeding your skin what it needs to thrive.
Activating our microbiome by prebiotics in milk.
How we eradicate our bugs!
Stop, Seal and Seed protocol.
Quorum sensing – how your bugs change your gene expression!
Your gut and your skin.
What food to eliminate now!
What chemicals you need to avoid.
Is ‘natural’ always best?
Stress and skin link.
Controlling the controllable.
Seal the skin.
Should we be scrubbing and exfoliating?
Eliminate eczema, rosacea, and acne with probiotics.
Sun as a nutrient for the skin.
UVA vs UVB
Natural SPF in food (kinda!)
Nadines’s wisdom for the world!
Find Nadine here:
https://www.livinglibations.com
Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/livinglibations/?hl=en
Try Living Libations product and use the discount code: BESTME5 to receive 5% off your order.
Todays show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off!
www.healthfitcollective.co.nz – Guiding you dreams to reality – book a free consultation
Living Libations – Discount code: BESTME5 to receive 5% off
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1 hr 21 min
August 14, 2017BMR 8: Exploring The Perfect Diet – with Sally Fallon Morell
Dr Weston Price was a pioneer in the world of nutrition and longevity as he travelled the world researching isolated healthy communities. He discovered the key to longevity and health is related to the food that was consumed and when ‘western foods’ were introduced quite the opposite was observed.
In this episode I talk with, author, presenter and the president of the Weston A Price Foundation Sally Fallon Morell about Dr Price’s findings, healthy traditional diets, the modern diet and how to bridge the gap. We explore the science of fat, grains and the most nourishing foods you can consume.
Show breakdown:
Dr Price’s pioneering research
What did the healthiest populations in the world eat?
Physical degeneration of healthy populations
Pottinger’s Cats study
Infertility and restoration
Overweight = undernourished
Truth behind raw milk
Using the whole animal
Preparing grains and activating nutrients
How much fat did these healthy populations actually eat?
Preparation for child birth
Raising a healthy child
Big fat lies – what we are lead to believe
What to absolutely avoid for children
What you need to include in your child’s diet
How margarine is actually made (you will never go near it again!)
Types of fats and the effect they have on our body
Omega 3:6 ratio
Vitamin A:D ratio
Will fat make me fat?
Bridging the gap between the norms and the ideals
High protein low fat is dangerous!
A smart bodybuilders diet!
Sally’s wisdom for the world!
Links:
Weston A Price Foundation:
https://www.westonaprice.org
www.nourishingtraditions.com
Todays show is brought to you by:
www.richnutrients.co.nz – Coupon code BESTME to get 10% off!
www.healthfitcollective.co.nz – Guiding you dreams to reality – book a free consultation.
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1 hr 3 min