Gaiakind Project

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“It’s not the genes that get passed down, it’s the trauma…the brain can change if you treat it right.”

These are the words of one of my favourite human beings on one of my other favourite human beings’ podcasts.

This is one of the most important podcasts you might listen to. Joe Rogan sat down with Dr Gabor Maté to discuss his new book, The Myth of Normal. I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy. Even more so, I will be having a conversation on my podcast/youtube channel with Gabor’s son, Daniel Maté, which will be released next month. Stay tuned.

Something I’ve Been Obsessing About

Any Beef Is Good Beef

You do not have to be the perfect keto/carnivore to heal and thrive. I posted this Reel on Instagram expressing my thoughts on the matter of influencers telling you that you need to buy their organ supplements or buy only grass-fed/finished beef to be part of their realm.

However, living in Europe the past two years has taught me how to eat mostly meat on a budget. That often means McDonald’s or Burger King patties with bacon and cheese as a meal when travelling. That often means eating mostly cheap ground beef and saving the ribeyes for the odd day here and there.

And as I’ve said before, and it’s always worth repeating: chances are, it’s not McDonald’s beef that is making you fat and sick. What is making you fat and sick is the other stuff: the processed bread, potato chips cooked in artery-clogging seed oils and the milkshakes and sodas that have illegal amounts of sugar. Eating less-than-perfect beef without all the added crap is almost always better than a pick-me-up snack filled with unnecessary sugar and seed oils.

Lastest Conversation

WE ARE ALREADY FREE | Nathan Maingard on Vegan -"ism", Psychedelics, Lessons from Loss & More.

I recently sat down with Mr Nathan Mainard. This was one of my favourite conversations I’ve had on my podcast/youtube channel. Give it the time it needs.

Quote I’m Re-Pondering

Fear Nothing

You are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made from stardust riding a rock floating through space. Fear nothing.

— Author Unknown

Book I’m (finally) Finishing

Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal

Our own “personal journey,” if unchecked, can lead to dangerous ego inflation and distortion. Any experience or insight that pulls us “up and away” from our relationships is probably half-baked. An experience that brings us “down and among” toward the least of our brothers (and sisters) is likely a more stable and trustworthy revelation.

If we deny the sacred, the mundane will crush us. If we deny the mundane, the sacred will burn us. But once we accept both, we die to our lives of separation.

Rather than yearning for transcendence and escape, we come to appreciate the preciousness of these brief mortal lives. Isn’t that why the gods and angels have always been jealous of us anyway? Humans are the existential mayflies of the universe. With life spans so brief that every moment matters to us, in a way that the immortals can never taste. We have prefrontal cortexes and opposable thumbs, and for a fleeting few decades we’re here to love and lose, to fight and fuck, to create and destroy, to yearn and grieve.

Get/Read Book: https://amzn.to/3ARgulF

Latest YouTube Episode (MEAT BASED PODCAST)

The Spiritual Side of GIVING BIRTH (& why you should get off birth control) | Meat-Based Podcast

The audio was a little messed up on my end during this episode of Nicole and myself's bi-weekly podcast, Meat Based; however, it doesn’t matter much as this episode was centred around Nicole’s soon-to-be natural birth coming up in a few months. I found this episode enlightening and interesting, to say the least!

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My guest today is Tyron Hatch. Ty is the head coach and co-owner of Motley Crew CrossFit in South Africa. With a number of different CrossFit gyms in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban; I consider Ty a close friend and mentor, so this episode was certainly special. We dived into a lot, including:

* Ty’s journey into the realm of CrossFit

* Being a “heavier” athlete and how he trains

* The science behind CrossFit

* Taking gap years

* Teaching and being a coach to coaches in CrossFit

* Why it’s important to have an aligned vision with the people you work with

* Skin in the Game of Health and Fitness in CrossFit

* Ty’s nutritional journey: from carbs to carnivore

* Body dysmorphia and being on Men’s Health

* The dangers and unsustainability of calorie restriction

* Problems with the average CrossFit member & the CrossFit Games

* Importance of protein

* Cancer in his family (and how it’s shaped him)

* His Recent Nose Surgery

MAIN POINT TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Intro

01:28 - How Ty Started CrossFit

07:03 - What Ty did before CrossFit

10:29 - Building a CrossFit Business in South Africa (having an aligned vision with people you work with)

23:33 - Ty’s Nutritional Journey (From Carbs to Carnivore-ish)

38:11 - Issues with the Crossfit Games

43:23 - The Importance of Protein

45:00 - Listening to Your Body and Sticking with what works

50:55 - Ty’s experience with Cancer in his family

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Your body has wisdom; it has the capacity to heal itself through an ancestrally aligned meat-based keto diet, daily movement and conscious mindful awareness. Each week I send out a short newsletter on thoughts on books I've read, a quote or two I'm contemplating and anything else I think you'd enjoy to prime your subconscious with a dose of dopamine for the week ahead.

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Your body has wisdom; it has the capacity to heal itself through an ancestrally aligned meat-based keto diet, daily movement and conscious mindful awareness. Each week I send out a short newsletter on thoughts on books I've read, a quote or two I'm contemplating and anything else I think you'd enjoy to prime your subconscious with a dose of dopamine for the week ahead.

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Where I buy local grass-fed meat in the Netherlands: https://www.sameneenkoekopen.nl/

Sacred Cow book by Dianna Rogers and Robb Wolf: https://www.sacredcow.info/book

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Are you training for performance or health?

If you are training for performance, I do not think it is entirely possible — at a high, Mat Fraser type level — to stick to a strict carnivore diet. However, if you are training for health (which most should be), then I do believe it is possible with a few things to keep in mind.

TRAINING FOR PERFORMANCE ON A MEAT-BASED CARNIVORE DIET

This is the part where I tell you that strategic carb use is beneficial. Specifically around workouts and at night. I’d suggest not falling for the typical CrossFit Games athlete post-workout carbs of pastries and ice cream. You are not them and they are not you. Your carbs should look something more along the lines of berries, avocado, white rice, sweet potato and honey.

Basically, fruit and resistant starch. But stay with me, because what I lay out in the training for health portion of this post still applies to you, the athlete that wants to perform well while still sticking to a carnivore-ish diet.

TRAINING FOR HEALTH ON A MEAT-BASED CARNIVORE DIET

Now is the part where I tell you it is entirely possible to train every day on a meat-based diet while doing CrossFit. There are a few things to keep in mind which can make all the difference:

1. CHICKEN IS A WEAK ANIMAL: EAT FATTY RED MEAT

This is a ketogenic diet after all. So most of your energy is going to be coming from saturated animal fat. This is the fat that will give your brain, muscles and hormones the energy it needs to train and recover.

The biggest mistake, which has been proliferated via the “fat is bad” era of the last 50 years, people make is not eating enough animal fat. If you eat too lean protein — like chicken -- you simply won’t have the energy needed from ketones (fat).

2. AVOID FASTING

Fasting and Intermittent Fasting have been a hot topic for a number of years. It works magic. But it also becomes chronic. It is easy to use Intermittent Fasting as an excuse to binge out on garbage. Unless you have a chronic illness or disease like cancer, you should avoid fasting; fasting is a stress on the body, and on top of your already stressful man existence, does not warrant much — and in fact, will promote muscle degeneration in most cases.

If you can, and if you do CrossFit in the mornings, try and have at least a few eggs or Bulletproof Coffee (butter coffee) before you workout. The protein/fat combo will be enough to sustain your workout.

On most days Bulletproof Coffee is my pre-workout. I have it with KerryGold Unsalted Butter, C8 MCT and Hydrolysed Collagen Powder. Sometimes I have a couple of eggs too. It all depends on what the workout is and how I am feeling. I am always listening to the wisdom of my body to guide me.

3. LOAD UP ON ELECTROLYTES: STAY SALTY

Salt (sodium) is going to be your best friend when going as low-carb as a carnivore diet. We tend to lose a lot of sodium when we exercise and go low-carb and the answer is not always as simple as “drink more water.” It is not about water so much as hydration. Drinking more water will just dilute your precious mineral stores in your cells and dehydrate you — this is when high-performing athletes suffer from hyponatremia: a dangerous and often fatal condition when the sodium in your blood is too low.

Salt has been wrongly vilified in the past (like saturated fat) for causing high blood pressure. They got the colour right but the substance wrong: it is sugar that is the enemy. Don’t fear salt.

I currently use LMNT Electrolytes from Robb Wolf’s company LMNT Labs.

4. DAIRY IS THE ULTIMATE SUPPLEMENT

If you can handle dairy and are not in the infant stages of your healing journey, by all means, use it. The calorie-dense nature of dairy can make a huge performance-enhancing boost to your CrossFit journey. Think of dairy as a supplement, not the main course. Use it sparingly.

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Your body has wisdom; it has the capacity to heal itself through an ancestrally aligned meat-based keto diet, daily movement and conscious mindful awareness. Each week I send out a short newsletter on thoughts on books I've read, a quote or two I'm contemplating and anything else I think you'd enjoy to prime your subconscious with a dose of dopamine for the week ahead.

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