Boundless Life

I’m an introvert through and through.

A multitude of personality tests that I’ve taken, including the Quiet Revolution test and the Myers-Briggs analysis, have backed this up.

Perhaps it’s genetics or perhaps it’s because I was homeschooled K-12 in rural Idaho.

Whatever the case may be, I’m “that guy” at busy conferences who ducks away to my room to go recharge my batteries every few hours – something I can only accomplish by escaping the crowds and being entirely by myself. I thrive on long walks, multi-hour hikes and extended bike rides – usually alone.

I become exhausted at networking events and cocktail parties and often slip away early to sleep, to curl up with a good book, or simply to meditate and breathe.

Even at family events, I can often be found off in some quiet corner reading or strumming on my guitar or ukulele. As a matter of fact, when I was a child, my parents had to coax me, persuade me and yes, even  threaten me with punishment, to actually get my nose out of my book and be gracious enough to ever so briefly emerge from my bedroom to say a quick hello to any guests we had at the house, after which I would subsequently rush back to my room and curl up once again with my book (I’d often read until 3 or 4am and consume several books each day and night!). 

But at the same time, even though I’m completely happy being a loner, I now go out of my way to ensure that (as uncomfortable or unnatural as it was for me initially) I spend plenty of time carving out a couple hours each night for a family dinner and nighttime family rituals, for connecting with old and new friends, for attending networking events, for scheduling plenty of book signings and meet-and-greets, for traveling to crowded conferences and for actively engaging in local church, community and charity events.

In fact, if one didn't know better, they might honestly mistake me for a bit of a social butterfly.

So - aside from my desire to not be an arrogant, hard-to-approach, uncommunicative @$$hole - why have I begun to incorporate such a strong emphasis in my life on optimizing friends, charity, community relationships and love?

As it turns out, there is a fascinating link between love, family, social connectedness and relationships and a longer lifespan. I'm about to supply you with a host of practical love tips to include in your own life for a longer lifespan and better health.

After all, owning an amazing body and a sharp mind can all be for naught if loneliness, sadness, inflammation, high blood pressure and accelerated aging are all occurring due to a lack of friendships, social relationships, community, charity and love.

This podcast will teach you exactly why and how to include these important components into your own body, mind and spirit routine.

During this solosode, you'll discover: -How loneliness, or "social isolation" negatively affects your physical health...8:30

• Becoming more and more of a problem worldwide
• Correlated with the increased use of "social" media
• Physicians are simply not trained how to deal with it
• Can affect anyone, anywhere. Not limited to a particular demographic, i.e. introverts, socially awkward, depressed, etc.
• Affects a person physically as well as emotionally
• Ancestral roots of our social needs; "loneliness" meant the tribe had abandoned you.
• Dunbar's Number:
  • Total # of companions we can effectively socialize: 150
  • 12 people in an "inner circle"
• Social media is effective for facilitating community, but lacks the deep connections you get from face to face
• We don't know our neighbors by name and by face
• We're not experiencing relationships the way we're programmed to
  • Signals and "vibes" we give off in face to face

-The correlation between smartphone prevalence and loneliness...16:15

• Smartphone addiction and social anxiety
• Kids who spend more than 3 hours per day on a phone are at higher risk of suicide and depression
• "Not an exaggeration to say the iGen is on the brink of the worst social mental health crisis in decades..."
• Is it possible to develop personal relationships via an impersonal medium made up of algorithms?
  • Book: Reclaiming Conversations (link)
• Use of email depersonalizes social interactions
• Emotional intelligence suffers
• Book: I'd Like You More If You Were More Like Me (link)

-Practical things you can do to fight loneliness...24:12

• Book: Blue Zones "The power of love"
• It's more efficacious to give love than to receive love from others
• Expressing gratitude increases your empathy toward others
• Altruism: Helping others who are stressed helps with your own stress levels
• Don't be kind, help others etc. because you think it's going to improve your health; do it because you want to do it.
• Book: Never Eat Alone (Link)

-The chemistry behind face to face interactions...38:20

• Pacinian corpuscles; travels to the Vagus nerve
• Release of oxytocin (don't have sex before buying a used car)
• Seratonin (similar to anti-depressants)
• Pheromones

-6 ways to enhance your life and longevity with love...47:15

• Volunteer your time
  • Parents
  • Local schools
  • Churches
  • Nursing homes
  • Coach sports
  • Tutor
  • Deliver meals
• Throw dinner parties
• Find Meetups
  • meetup.com
  • Reddit
  • Apps: Scout, Excuses to Meet, etc.
• Church activities
• Renew forsaken family relationships
  • Family conflicts engender anger, bitterness, etc.
  • Direct eye contact significantly helps to communicate in difficult circumstances
  • Acknowledge your faults;
  • Book: The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Green (link)
• Reclaim real conversation
  • Louis C.K. with Conan: Digital conversations are less empathetic
  • Real conversation begins with solitude and self-reflection
  • Turn off notifications on your phone
  • Apps: App Detox, Flipped, Onward, Forest

-And Much More!!! Resources from this episode:

-The Christian Gratitude Journal

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Consider this...

Billions of people around the world don't know what or even when their next meal will be. Because of this uncertainty, they move as little as possible so as to conserve as much energy as they can.

Meanwhile, you and I have the luxury of actually choosing notto eat while food is in abundance. And then actually burningcalories while we are in a fasted state.

This podcast is the recording of a talk I gave on the topic of Fasted Exercise to the Live It to Lead It conference in Las Vegas, NV this past month.

In this episode, you'll learn... -How I got introduced to the concept of pre and post-workout fasting during my years as a body builder...7:05

• Conventional thought at the time:
  • Eat a lot right after workout, to get into the "recovery window"
  • Snack and graze
• Explored other options when I got into endurance training
• Discovered "ketosis" in 2013
  • Amino acids
  • Dominic D'Agostino

-Busting the myth of snacking and pre/post-workout meals...12:45

• Importance of the post-workout meal is vastly decreased if you haven't been fasting prior to the workout.
• Only benefit from a performance standpoint is if you workout again within 8 hours.
• After 24 hours, the body naturally replenishes its glycogen levels.
• If you've eaten prior to a workout, you don't need to replenish aminos, glycogen, etc.
• I bend the rules if I'm working with someone who needs to build body mass.

-What fasted exercise actually is...18:05

• Exercising in a state of glycogen depletion
• A light workout in a fasted state is preferable (in the morning)
• For evening workouts, you'll have not eaten since lunch, then you can eat after working out, but it's not essential to do so immediately.

-The 10 benefits of fasted exercise...25:10

1. Burning more fat
2. Anti-aging effect
3. Better brain function
4. Increased growth hormone levels
5. Improved insulin sensitivity
6. Increased testosterone
7. Enhanced fat loss
8. Better endurance
9. More stable gut during exercise
10. Hunger management

-Practical ways to do fasted workouts...41:15

• Exercise before breakfast
  • Need to include carbs in breakfast? Only if you're going to workout again within 8 hours.
• Don't eat dinner for an hour or two after late-afternoon or early-evening workout.
• Use supplements
  • Amino acids
  • Ketone salts
  • Potassium
  • Electrolytes

-A few cautions...47:10

• "Bonking"
• Decreased intensity (depending on the scenario)
• Post-workout hyper caloric compensation (stuffing your face)

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Jordan Harbinger is back!

In my first podcast episode with Jordan we talked about:

-What kind of body language mistakes that fit people with nice bodies make which hold them back socially…

-How to reprogram your brain to actually like and appreciate things like kale smoothies and ginger juice…

-A simple eye trick to get you to “fake it until you make it” with extreme social confidence…

-Why bars and clubs are not necessarily the places to go to to enhance your social intelligence and ability to build relationships…

-How I went from eating fast food, being ultra-shy and reading fantasy novels to being named as one of the world's top 100 most influential people in health and fitness…

Jordan has always had an affinity for Social Influence, Interpersonal Dynamics and Social Engineering, helping private companies test the security of their communications systems and working with law enforcement agencies before he was even old enough to drive. He has spent several years abroad in Europe and the developing world, including South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and speaks several languages. He has also worked for various governments and NGOs overseas, traveled through war-zones and been kidnapped -twice.

He’ll tell you - the only reason he’s still alive and kicking is because of his ability to talk his way into (and out of), just about any type of situation. On his podcast, he gets deep into the untapped wisdom of the world's top performers -- from legendary musicians to intelligence operatives, iconoclastic writers to visionary change-makers, deconstructing the playbooks of the most successful people on earth.

Among the many things Jordan and I discussed here in Round 2: -Various drug-related topics...2:42

• Hefty CBD doses enhance deep sleep
• Throw THC into the mix, sleep latency drops
• Does it affect your health negatively during the day?
  • You are rested, just a little bit groggy.
• Ultimate coffee mix to turn on the brain during the day
  • Ghee
  • Put in Four Sigmatic Lions Mane extract
  • Salt
  • Trace amount of Psilocybin
  • MiCacao
  • Stevia
• Jordan's adverse reaction to taking Modafinil and the reasons I use it
• yourbrainonporn.com
• Erectile dysfunction vs. brain dysfunction
• Jordan set the record on the Kegel Camp App

-About Robert Greene and his book, The Laws of Human Nature...24:40

• Non-verbal communication
  • Appearance is more important than words for first impressions
  • Much of what we believe is either flawed or just wrong
  • Jordan called out a former spy because of his NV communication
  • Codified a system of personality archetypes geared toward high performers
• Why do Athletes and high achievers come across as intimidating?
  • Shame for their own inactivity
  • The more we look at someone and think they're relatable to us, the more any change in them makes us more uncomfortable or resentful
  • Rather than congratulate them, people find excuses why achievers are snobby, arrogant, etc.
  • People don't like their shortcomings highlighted

-Non-verbal communication techniques Jordan teaches to be better received if you're an athlete or high achiever...43:40

• Hidden anxiety regarding sense of self
• Motivations change as you progress through life;
• Comparison can be efficacious to your self-development and also very unhealthy
• High achievers shirk others because they don't provide any motivation
• Soon you realize you have no close friends, it's affecting your emotional health.
• How to behave when you're "that guy" to allow others to be more comfortable around you.
  • Make yourself more relatable
  • Smile more; loosen the jaw

-Recreating "authentic" body language, even if it feels inauthentic...57:30

• What we think is "authentic" is often us manipulating our body language to give off a desired vibe.

-Jordan's observations on an annoying body language quirk that I have...1:03:40 -And much more! Resources from this episode:

-Jordan's website and podcast

-Jordan's interview with Robert Greene

-Jordan's interview with David Buss

-MiCacao

-FourSigmatic Lion's Mane

-The Kegel Camp app

-Ben's article on The Private Gym

-Book: The Laws Of Human Nature

-Dr. David Buss books

-Mini Post-It Notes

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Four months ago, my wife and I went through the most transformational process we have ever embarked upon.

It was called Lifebook

Although you can now go through the entire Lifebook process online, no matter where you live in the world, we did ours in Estonia - jam-packed into a room with over 20 other individuals who, like us, wanted to get ultimate clarity, direction and purpose for each aspect of their lives. I think of my Lifebook as me, in a book.

In other words, if I were to, God forbid, get hit by a bus tomorrow, someone would be able to hand my children my Lifebook and say, "Here. Here is your Dad, in a book. This is everything he stands for, believes in and values, and everything he would have wanted to teach to you about life.

My Lifebook now holds a precious place in the mantle above the fireplace in our home, and has also been integrated into our family trust. As you can imagine, I'm very proud and excited of this discovery, and I wanted to get the inventor of the Lifebook on the podcast: Jon Butcher - who Chicago Magazine dubbed as "the guy with the most perfect life".

Along with his wonderful wife Missy, Jon is a serial entrepreneur and the creators of Lifebook, an extraordinary system that has helped thousands transform their lives from ordinary to a living masterpiece. Jon and Missy have learned how to defy aging, experience long-lasting love, redefine education and build the perfect living environment (trust me, I've been to their home and it is a complete dream house).

Drawing from deeply personal experiences, Jon and Missy, along with their partner, Joe Polish, also founded the Artists For Addicts project. Its mission is to change the global conversation surrounding addiction from one of judgment to one of compassion.

During our discussion, you'll learn...  -Why Jon and his wife Missy are moving to Hawaii after 30 years living in Chicago...8:25

• Consistent with the purpose of the Lifebook: To find clarity in your "life vision".
• Hawaii has always been a special place for Jon and Missy, even after visiting nearly 100 countries.
• More leisure, less activity in day to day life.

-About Jon's unique philosophy on raising his children...11:45

• "Respectful disregard" for the status quo.
• Look at options, make a decision independent of what others may choose.
• Underwent a "vision quest" recently with his family.
  • Historical examples of boys becoming men via a rite of passage
  • Underwent Vision Quest with a Shaman in France.
  • Targeted specifically to Jon's 14 year old son, family did it in support
  • The son learned the hard way to remember to pack all your gear.
  • Was a profound experience for Jon personally and especially for his son.
  • The Earth can heal you.
  • Modern kids don't learn to deal with real hardship.
• Check out my recent podcast on Vision Quest's with Tim Corcoran 

-The story of how Lifebook came to be...27:40

• Living fast and furious in his 20's; caught up with him in early 30's.
  • Two panic attacks
  • Agoraphobia, nervous breakdown
  • Jon's dad ordered two self-development programs: Attacking Anxiety; Personal Power 2
  • 8 year process of healing
• Jon kept notes from all his self-development programs in a binder: Breakthroughs, Goals, etc.
• Eventually focused on 12 categories to create an extraordinary life
• Evolved over a period of 15 years; never showed it to anyone else.
• Introduced it to a health and fitness group; others expressed interest in creating one
  • Astounding results
  • Jon and Missy knew they had something special on their hands
• Didn't want to share; But it was something they couldn't NOT do.

-The 12 areas the Lifebook optimizes and why Jon chose them...40:10

• "Personal"
  • Health and fitness
  • Intellectual life
  • Emotional life
  • Personal Character
  • Spiritual life
• "Relationship"
  • Love and romance
  • Parenting (yours and your own parents)
  • Social life - friends and extended family
• "Professional"
  • Career
  • Financial life
• Quality of Life
• Overall Life Vision

-The overall strategy by which you accomplish your Lifebook experience...45:55

• Four steps to each category
  • Premise
• Purpose
• • Vision
  • Strategy
• Four questions for each category:
  • What do I believe about...?
  • What do I want in the realm of...?
  • Why do I want...?
  • What do I need to get...?
• The primary motivation for each category will probably change, i.e. health and fitness vs. money

-Ben reveals his weakest category in the Lifebook process and how his overall life purpose helped strengthen it...53:12 -How to undertake the Lifebook experience online for a fraction of the cost of an in-person event...1:03:00

• You can do it for free. The catch: You need to finish the program.
• Pay a $500 deposit. If you finish, you get it back or apply to another program.

-And much more! Resources from this episode:

-Click here to sign up for Lifebook today

-My Purpose Mountain podcast on Vision Quests with Tim Corcoran

-Manex Ibar, the shaman who did Jon and his son's Vision Quest

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The "Billion Dollar Meal"...

Take a look at the ingredients of just one of the culinary delights designed by my guest on today's podcast.

Young Thai Coconut Meat Spinach Raw Cashew Butter Goat Colostrum Chlorophyll Whole Leaf Aloe Buffered Vitamin C Crystals Collagen Vitamineral Greens Silica Grass-Fed Whey Protein Isolate E3-Live (Brain-On) MCT Oil Four Sigmatic 10 Mushroom Blend (Reishi, Chaga, Cordyceps, Enokitake, Maitake, Shiitake, Lion's Mane, Tremella, Agaricus Blazei, and Meshima) Rice Bran Solubles Hemp Milk

From the Billion Dollar Meal above, to the Million Dollar Smoothie, to my son's favorite - "The Dragon Bowl" - and beyond, Khalil Rafati features an amazing assortment of superfood creations at his "Sun Life Organics" juice and smoothie bar spread across California. But Khalil hasn't always been a health freak who creates very expensive smoothies.

He went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians. But it wasn't long before he found his way into the sordid underbelly of the City of Angels. At 33, Khalil hit rock bottom. He was addicted to heroin and cocaine, overtaken by paranoia and psychosis, and written off by his friends and family.

He was 109 pounds, a convicted felon, high school dropout, and homeless junkie living on the infamous Skid Row in downtown L.A. So how does someone with nothing, who feels like they deserve nothing, and who just wants to end it all turn their life around?

What's the best way out of a hole? Quit digging.

Khalil's book "I Forgot to Die" is an incredible true story of pain, suffering, addiction and redemption. How one man ultimately conquered his inner demons and wrote a new life story. Today, Khalil is the owner of Malibu Beach Yoga and SunLife Organics, a rapidly growing chain of popular juice and smoothie bars in California. He also founded Riviera Recovery, which is a transitional living facility for drug addicts and alcoholics.

Among the many things Khalil and I talked about: -How to guarantee a celebrity won't want you around them...7:30

• In most cases, Khalil's travel lifestyle is very upscale; he is hired for his culinary expertise.
• "You don't need to be special; you just need to be transparent."
• If you want to guarantee a celebrity will never be friends with you, ask for a selfie.
  • They just want to be normal.
  • Oftentimes isolated from the rest of the world.
• People are enamored with Khalil's transparent approach to telling his story.

-The story behind the "Billion Dollar Meal" and the "Million Dollar Smoothie"...15:10

• Khalil is a devoted Ben Greenfield disciple
• Most recipes at Sunlife Organics are Khalil's
• The recipes were just what he was eating, and people asked him what he was eating.
• Smoothie is vegan
• Eat for purpose, versus for pleasure
• Has become the best version of himself

-How I treated a problematic erection with fermented beet juice...21:30

• Recommended by Dr. Mercola
• The efficacy of the Gainswave treatment

-The story behind (or that led to) Khalil's book, "I Forgot to Die"...26:00

• Rough childhood
  • Abuse, neglect
  • Acted out; shame; desperate for attention
  • Arrested several times as a teenager; major legal trouble by age 21
  • Drove to CA with $800 to his name.
• Drove to CA with $800 to his name
  • Started detailing biz; net several A-list celebrities as clients
  • Began dealing drugs
  • Quickly lost everything; lived under a bridge; self-induced psychosis
•  33 years old, bottomed out.
  • Charity: Failed musician's assistance program
  • Did menial jobs; saved funds
  • Invested in precious metals
  • Opened Riviera Recovery (when gold maxed in price)
  • Opened Sunlife Organics, capital provided by Rick Solomon

-Why Khalil's menu is a good value, in spite of the high price...37:50

• Extraordinary quality of ingredients
  • "Royal jelly"
• Khalil can buy in bulk; can't buy on your own for less at a Whole Foods
• Coco Yo coconut milk yogurt (link needed)

-Does money buy happiness?...45:15

• Enables freedom
• Enables purchases that bring happiness (like $35 smoothies)
• $50,000 out of pocket costs for the book
• Attracts a desirable mate
• "I lived without money for decades and it sucked."
• Tells kids, "Being wealthy, giving, being a person of influence is a better high than shooting crack."

-Ben and Khalil's thoughts on modern methods (NAD, ketamine) of addiction recovery...53:30 -And MUCH more... Resources from this episode:

-Book: I Forgot To Die

-Khalil's Instagram page

-The fermented beet juice Ben drinks

-The erection peptide Ben mentioned called "Melanotan"

-The Gainswave treatment for acoustic sound wave therapy

-Four Sigmatic Mushrooms

-The coconut yogurt podcast

-What Tucker Max did with MDMA therapy

-The holotropic breathwork audio course by The Renegade Pharmacist Ben mentions

-The Clearlight infrared sauna that Ben and Khalil use

-Peak Brain Institute

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Dr. Matthew Cook of Bioreset Medical is one of the smartest, most cutting-edge physicians I've ever met.

In one single dinner in San Francisco with him, I learned...

...how he's using the nootropic methylene blue for solving a difficult medical case...

...how he's upgrading stem cells to make them far more potent...

...how he's treating depression effectively in as little as 20 minutes with a special brew that includes ketamine, NAD and vitamin IV's...

...how he's reversing musculoskeletal disorders using something called "hydrodissection"...

...and much, much more...

Dr. Cook founded BioReset Medical Corporation and as acting President, operates a Regenerative Medicine and Pain Medicine practice that offers leading edge non-surgical solutions in orthopedic medicine, sports medicine, regenerative pain medicine, and stem cell medicine. He is a board-certified anesthesiologist with over 20 years of experience in medical practice.

Currently Dr. Cook is President of California Anesthesia, Anesthesiologist, Interventional Pain management, and Regenerative Medicine and Medical Director of the National Surgery Center, Los Gatos, CA. In addition, he sits on the scientific advisory board of several high profile medical companies including BM DOC, FREMEDICA & VASPER SYSTEMS.

Dr. Cook’s early career as an anesthesiologist and medical director of an outpatient surgery center that specializes in sports medicine and orthopedic procedures provided invaluable training in the skills that are needed to become a leader in the emerging fields of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound imaging, nerve hydrodissection, and stem cell medicine.

During our discussion, you'll discover: -What Dr. Cook did with methylene blue, and how he activated it with light...8:55

• Met an expert who used it to treat interstitial cystitis, a condition that causes very painful bladder that is difficult to treat.
• Administered via IV, then uses blue LED light over it.
• There's a micro biome in the bladder.
  • Blue light causes methylene to absorb into the bladder.
  • Dislocates infections from the wall of the bladder.

-Hydrodissection: What it is, and how it differs from prolotherapy...14:35

• Sticking a needle under direct vision via ultrasound into a tissue plain in-between two muscles.
  • Operating in a fascial plain: arteries, veins, tendons.
• Previous procedures involving dissection would cause scarring, sometimes leaving patients in worse shape than when they started.
  • Pressure of fluid separating the tissue plain reduces scarring.
• How is it different from prolotherapy:
  • Prolotherapy treats ligamentous laxity (joints)
  • Hydrodissection treats the nerves and arteries that go into the joints.
  • Treatments are done in tandem.
• Combination of ultrasound and x-ray is called fusion.
• Dr. Cook used this therapy with the Washington Nationals baseball team.

-How to think of ground force going through the body...23:45

• You must have structural integrity in the nerves.
• As force (from punching a punching bag for example) moves through the body without structural integrity, you get torque leaking out.
  • Puts stress, wear and tear on the joint.
  • This "leakage" compounded over time causes permanent damage to joints, ligaments, etc.
• Focus of treatment is to relieve this stress, or leakage, and create high quality movement to create structural integrity and prevent recurrence of the problem.

- Dr. Cook's approach to stem cells, and why...28:10

• Assess the patient, then tailor an appropriate treatment for the specific problem.
• Joints, spine, IV treatments
• Terms to know re: stem cells:
  • Totipotent: capable of giving rise to any cell type or (of a blastomere) a complete embryo.
  • Pluripotent: capable of giving rise to several different cell types.
  • Multipotent: develop into more than one cell type, but are more limited than pluripotent cells.
  • Autologous: obtained from the same individual
  • Mesenchymal: An adult "professional" stem cell from a variety of ways.
  • Here's a handy reference on stem cell terms.
• Whether adult stem cells can retain their healing properties without repairing tissue.
  • No concrete answer yet.
  • Differing approaches, regulatory apparatus is affecting the ability to answer
• V Cells (very small embryonic stem cells)
  • Autologous
• Using umbilical cord blood and Wharton's jelly.
  • You can donate placenta and umbilical cord blood.
  • Wharton's jelly is the tissue that comes off the wall of the umbilical cord.
  • Wharton's jelly, UC blood and amniotic fluid is blended together to make "matrix" of the placenta.
  • Anti-infectious, anti-inflammatory
  • "Nature gives us a lot of clues..."
  • Not that many stem cells in the UC blood.
• PRP (platelet rich plasma)
  • PRP lysate 

-Why exosomes may be the most important treatment in the future...55:25

• Take stem cells and take to a lab, grow them in tissue culture; immortal cell line.
• Put stem cells on a ketogenic diet.
• Why do people still need to go overseas for treatment?
  • "More than Minimum Manipulation": a term created by the regulatory apparatus on stem cell therapy.
  • Must be done in Mexico; can't make there and bring across the border.
• Culture expanded Stem Cell
• Culture expanded Natural Killer Cell Therapy

- Dr. Cook's unique approach to treating depression and managing pain...1:05:15

• Ketamine therapy
  • Turns off a pathway in the brain; turns on receptors (think turning off and on your computer)
  • Makes people feel emotionally safe; gives hope.
  • Your mind leaves "bread crumbs" of this feeling of hope; you remember it the next day, and the next...
  • Creates a parasympathetic state

-And MUCH more... Resources from this episode:

-Bioreset Medical Clinic

-Methylene Blue  

-JOOVV infrared light full body panel

-Vielight infrared light helmet

-My podcast with Dr. Harry Adelson on stem cells

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The results are officially in.

Using 3 independent labs from around the globe, we have analyzed over 100 different coffees representing 46 different brands...

...and I'm revealing the official results here and delving into the nitty-gritty details on this podcast.

In this "solosode" podcast, you'll also discover: -The top recently researched benefits of coffee...5:45

• NYT reports that coffee drinkers may live longer
• JAMA article: Association of Coffee Drinking With Mortality by Genetic Variation in Caffeine Metabolism
  • Drinking coffee may contribute to a longer life span.
• 2017 study on the connection between coffee and a longer life span

-Reasons coffee may contribute to a longer life span...9:25

• Strong correlation between increased coffee consumption and reduced risk of cardio vascular disease.
• Regular coffee drinkers have 20% decreased risk of stroke.
• Coffee has polyphenols
• Over 1000 studies have linked coffee to cancer prevention
  • Caffeinated coffee profound decrease in risk of breast, prostate and liver cancer.
• Caffeinated coffee correlated to reduced risk of Parkinson's disease.
• Decreases risk of depression
• My podcast with Dr. Sanjiv Chopra on the health benefits of coffee

-When to be careful with your coffee intake...15:45

• Avoid addiction. Switch to tea from time to time
• If you're a slower caffeine metabolizer
• If you're pregnant

-How the health benefits of coffee are compromised through packaging and processing...18:15

• The vast majority of coffee companies do not package their product touting the health benefits of coffee
• 5 problems to watch out for:
  1. Most coffee cherries are doused with pesticides and chemicals
  2. Even organic coffees use substandard beans
  3. Coffee beans often develop mold in the production process
  4. Roasting process often chars the coffee beans. Burns away health benefits.
  5. It's stale; sits in the store for 6-12 months before being purchased.

-What we tested for in each of the coffees we tested...27:00

• Level of roasting (We used an Agtron spectrophotometer)
• Acidity
• Mold and yeast (fungi)
• Ochratoxin A (OTA)
• Bacillus cereus
• Pesticides (Only 3% of coffees are certified organic)
• Metals
• Acrylamide 
• Chlorogenic acids
• Caffeine
• "Cupping" score (quality)

-The results of our comprehensive coffee test...36:40 -How to do a coffee enema...40:47

• My article on coffee enema's
• What you'll need:
  • Coffee enema kit (not plastic)
  • Suppository (when traveling)
  • Stainless steel bucket w/ clamp and tube
  • Organic coffee
  • Wilfa Precision Coffee Maker (amazon link)
• I use around 30 oz. of coffee.
• Cool it. (Ideal is room temperature)

And much more! Resources mentioned in this episode:

-Kion Coffee

-Kion Coffee Lab Results

-Glytamins

-Stainless steel coffee enema kit

-A Quest To Find The Purest Coffee On The Planet (& The Shocking Truth About Popular “Organic” Coffee Beans) 

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F Diets (Part dos)

If you read last week's article "What Is The Perfect Human Diet? Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Meal Plans From Ben Greenfield That Tell You Exactly How To Eat For Your Unique Body.", then you are no doubt are already aware that I'm not a big fan of a myopic "one-size-fits-all" approach to diets.

And yet, despite the enormous amount of biochemical individuality that exists from person to person, there is still a plethora of diet books published each year (particularly close to swimsuit season or the New Year) that promise to be the de facto final solution for everything from fat loss to banishing acne to beating cravings and building muscle when, in fact, the same ketogenic diet that helped your neighbor shed twenty pounds can result in rampant inflammation, brain fog and oxidized cholesterol for you. The same could be said for a vegan diet, a carnivore diet or many of the other currently popular eating approaches.

In last week's podcast, Part 1 of a 2 part series on customizing your diet to you, you  discovered more about the concept of biochemical individuality, along with how to test your body to determine the perfect diet for you, and a range of dietary options to choose from that have been vetted by yours truly.

In this episode, Part 2, you're going to learn how to customize your diet even more if you are wanting to eat a plant-based diet, notorious mistakes made on a ketogenic diet and how to fix them, how to support and sustain the environment with your food choices, and my top books and resources for learning more.

Enjoy! During this solosode discussion, you'll discover: -The best way to go about a plant-based diet...6:25

• My own personal stance: While it's possible to live a healthy lifestyle minus eggs and meat, you must be very careful and knowledgeable about your diet.
  • It's easy to feel good in the short term, while doing lasting damage to your body in the long term.
  • You can build up deficits on any type of diet: ketogenic, carnivore, etc.
• 10 Strategies to keep in mind to avoid deficiencies:
  1. Eat real food. Avoid processed foods.
  2. Be cognizant of inflammatory Omega 6 vegetable oils. Get fats from Mediterranean sources.
  3. Vitamin K2 supplement
  4. Get adequate Vitamin A
  5. Properly prepare soy products (or ferment them yourself)
  6. Non heme-based iron
  7. Iodine intake
  8. Vitamin B12
  9. Taurine
  10. Creatine

-Best practices when doing a ketogenic diet...23:20

• If you want to go keto, consider including some things that are not purely plant-based (like eggs.)
• Consider adding dairy to your diet (if practicable)
• If the two above suggestions are not possible, take niacin and thiamin.
• High amounts of algal oil
• Book: Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation
• Beware of the following deficiencies:
  • Sodium
  • Glutamine
  • Amino acids
  • Taurine
  • Medium chain triglycerides
  • Prebiotics
  • Choline
  • Potassium

-How to support and sustain the environment with your food choices...36:00

• Identify your minimum effective dose of animal products. (Around 10%)
• Minimize food waste. 
• Support sustainability and efficiency. (Farmers markets)
• Incorporate a wide variety of foods. (Experiment, try new things.) 

-My top resources on how to turn yourself into a health and nutrition NINJA!...44:00

• Books:
  • Biochemical Individuality
  • Returning to an Ancestral Diet
  • The Jungle Effect
  • Wired to Eat
  • The Plant Paradox
  • Deep Nutrition
  • The Art of Fermentation
• Articles:
  • Can a Vegan Go Keto?
  • F Diets
  • How to Eat a Plant-Based Diet Without Destroying Your Body

-And much more... Resources mentioned in this episode:

Book: Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation

-The Zen Of Customizing Your Diet To Your Unique Body And Goals – For Vegans, Females, Seniors, Kids, Fasting, & Ketosis. 

-SeafoodWatch.org, which can help you make more sustainable seafood choices.

-WaterCalculator.org, which can help you learn more about how much water your household uses.

-The Cornucopia dairy scorecard, which ranks more sustainable dairy brands.

-The Cornucopia egg scorecard, which ranks more sustainable egg brands.

-Buying Poultry, which ranks more sustainable poultry brands.

-Eat Wild, which includes sustainable meat options.

-Local Harvest, which helps you find local food options.

-Better World Shoppers Guide, which helps locate companies that engage in more environmentally friendly practices.

-CarboTax, which gives you a series of questions to help you compare how your climate impact compares to that of the average American.

-The Footprint calculator, which gives you a series of questions to help you identify your environmental footprint.

-Greener Choices, which provides consumer reports for environmentally friendly products.

-Less Meat Less Heat: The Climatarian Challenge App, which provides education on the impact that meat consumption can have on the environment.

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In this episode, Part 2 of 2, you're going to learn how to customize your diet even more if you are wanting to eat a plant-based diet, notorious mistakes made on a ketogenic diet and how to fix them, how to support and sustain the environment with your food choices, and my top books and resources for learning more.

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The TED of Transformation

My friend Vishen Lakhiani’s exploration of peak human potential began in 2001, when he took meditation classes to remedy his crushing work stress in a New York technology company. This soon inspired him to launch Mindvalley: a company bringing transformational education to the world

Back then, shortly after he launched some of his first meditation apps, I actually hosted Vishen on the podcast  The World's Best Phone Apps For Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation , in which we geeked out on meditation, and the meditation apps that Vishen and his team began designing. After 15 years, 3 million students, and numerous accolades from the likes of Huffington Post, BBC, Inc. Magazine, and WorldBlu, Mindvalley became recognized as one of the world’s top workplaces, and a leading publisher in the personal growth industry.

But Vishen’s vision extended further. He believes many aspects of mainstream education remain dangerously stuck in obsolete industrial revolution-era paradigms. And that the evolution of humanity’s consciousness is lagging behind our innovations in technology. This makes the evolution of our education - or as he calls it, Transformational Education - one of our most pressing concerns.

Through Mindvalley, Vishen now works with governments, education institutions, technology innovators, artists, and the world’s best teachers to create deeply transformational learning experiences: the kind that elevate people of all ages and walks of life into empowered, cosmocentric, highly evolved human beings. Today, Vishen is a leading voice for transformational education and is the founder of annual events like A-Fest and Mindvalley U, both events which I've attended and spoken at. He also speaks on stages across the world on subjects such as personal growth, education technology, and workplace culture. He sits on the Innovation Board of the XPrize Foundation, an advocate of human-centric technological development.

And he’s also a bestselling author, including the incredibly popular book "Code Of The Extraordinary Mind". But Vishen’s latest mission is arguably his most audacious yet: within the next 20 years, he intends to completely evolve mankind’s approach to learning, by bringing Transformational Education to every country and Fortune 500 company on the planet. One of the ways he's doing that is via the innovative MindValley Quests, and in today's podcast, we talk about the new Beauty & Longevity Quest I've created with MindValley, and much, much more!

During our discussion, you'll discover: -When and why Vishen launched Mind Valley...14:32

• Wanted to start the next great social media platform in 2002.
• Lost everything; owed money; couldn't pay rent.
• Got a job selling tech info to lawyers.
• Ended up depressed. Hit rock bottom.
• Googled, "Why does life suck so bad?" Discovered class on meditation.
  • Was the only person who showed up to the class.
• Began applying meditation, empathy, intuition into his work. Sales improved exponentially in 4 months.
• Looking to tap into the subconscious for ideas.
• How Vishen incorporated meditation into his sales calls:
  • Gave his mind "instructions":
  • Only call lawyers that are a good fit for the tech.
  • Would benefit both sides from a sale.
  • Ran hand over names; listened for a "gut impulse." Yes, or no.
  • Doubled sales in one week listening to his gut.
• Quit sales job and became a meditation instructor.
  • Took the Silva Mind Control; adapted to his own practice. Has now integrated with Mind Valley.
  • "Mind Valley Intuition Program"
• How often do you do the Silva Mind Control?

-The 113 points that are measured in the Mind Valley program...30:20

• Based on an online assessment developed by Jon Butcher.
• Unifying different models of personal growth via merger, acquisition.
• Prices on programs are lowered, more available to people.

-Vishen's own personal habits and bio hacks...34:00

• Extremely structured life.
• Aspergers causes awkwardness in social situations, OCD behavior in work.
• Knowledge is data; focus on transformation to live a more fulfilling life.
• Focusing on transformation changed Vishen's outlook on life, physical appearance, mindset.
• Wants to have the biggest jump in consciousness in history by 2038.
• Vishen's Daily Routine:
  • 6 phase meditation "Transcendent practice"
    • Compassion
    • Gratitude
    • Forgiveness
    • Creative visualization (long term)
    • Visualize today
    • Prayer or a blessing
  • Intermittent fasting
  • Cold thermogenesis
  • Healthy morning shake
    • Coconut oil
    • Raw green powder
    • Acai
    • Protein powder
  • Super slow strength training
• Very regimented work program. 8 hours per day.
• Family, reading, study time.

-How Vishen fixed his eyesight...57:20

• Read his blog post about it here.
• Get your eyes checked from a doctor, not an optometrist.
• Get glasses one increment down from your actual vision.
• Install eye chart in your home.
• Get a vision coach, online vision course.
• Eyeglasses are a crutch!

-Vishen's sleep routine...1:03:35 -The diet that Vishen promotes which mimics that of our ancestors...1:08:15

• Wild Fit
• 80% of your body shape is what you eat.
• An "anti-diet" diet program.
• Rooted in behavioral psychology. 90 day program.
• Week 6-7, you go off sugar; that's when the fat starts to shed.
• You end up craving only what's good for you.

-About the Beauty and Longevity Quest that Mind Valley did with Ben...1:19:40 -And much more...

 

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