HealthCast Now - The Intersection of Health, Wellness & Circadian Optimization

Sarah Fragoso - Best Practices in Nutrition & Wellness for your Family - Part 1

Sarah Fragoso is the founder of Everyday Paleo and has coached a lot of unhealthy clients into lean and mean fitness machines in the span of her career. In part 1 of our interview, she talked about how to slowly but surely make your family adopts the kind of healthy lifestyle you want them to have while maintaining a healthy and holistic relationship at the dinner table and outside of it.

In part 2 of our interview, she talks about the many reasons why many people fail to get stronger or healthier despite following the Paleo way as rigidly as possible.

"In order to achieve your goals, you actually have to have rest and recovery." Sarah Fragoso

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The importance of teaching yourself to ease into a healthy lifestyle than to follow a 30-day program.
• Why it's important to make more time for yourself and how being everything to everybody is bad for your health.
• How stress affects the way your body reacts to exercise and diet programs.
• Stressing yourself out to be healthy is not healthy.
• Why it's important to focus on other lifestyle factors before you start beating yourself up in the gym.
• Even a spotless diet won't mean anything if your lifestyle is a wreck.
• A few tips on how to reset your circadian rhythm.

Key Takeaways:

• You cannot exercise your way out of a bad lifestyle. If your sleep is a train wreck, the workout is not the area you need to focus on.
• Guard your sleep like a lion.
• Extreme exercising, the likes people see on TV, is not the only way to get fit.
• Investigate any underlying problems that may be contributing to why you're unhealthy instead of trying to "Paleo" better.

Connect with Sarah Fragoso:

• Sarah Fragoso
• Sarah Fragoso Facebook
• Sarah Fragoso Twitter
• Podcasts
• Books
• Recipes

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Robb Wolf - Part 2

Robb Wolf is the author of the New York Times Best Seller The Paleo Solution, the very book that has since made him a popular figure in the health and fitness world. When he's not writing new books, he's practicing mixed martial arts, coaches athletes, and conducts seminars in nutrition and strength to both small groups of people and large entities. Today, Robb gives us his thoughts on why the ketogenic diet – as effective as it is – is not the best diet out there, how his new book connects with his other books, and why people should always be critical on a way a diet is making them feel or perform.

"Inadequate social connection, love and intimacy is as impactful on our health as a pack a day smoking habit." Robb Wolf

In this episode, you'll learn:

The Paleo diet is the foundation of Robb's 30-day reset. The paleo lifestyle template changed medicine and nutrition forever. The ketogenic diet is effective and makes a lot of people feel great and perform better but it's just part of the many tools in a huge toolbox just like fasting. Ketogenic diets may not be as effective especially when it comes to athletes or bodybuilders due to its low-carb nature. A good diet should help improve your biomarkers. If they don't, then there's a different approach for you, there's something out there that will work. Sleep deprivation causes insulin resistance. If your job requires you to stay up at night until morning, something low carb or ketogenic in nature is your best bet. Type A people shouldn't do intermittent fasting because fasting stresses your system and being Type A means your system is most likely stressed. On the other hand, the laidback worker, could benefit from intermittent fasting.

Key Takeaways:

You can't not produce a book thru mainstream publishers and not have some sort of a weight loss element to it. A good diet should help improve your biomarkers. If they don't, then there's a different approach for you, there's something out there that will work.

Connect with Robb Wolf:

Robb Wolf official The Paleo Solution book by Robb Wolf Wired To Eat book by Robb Wolf

Resources Mentioned:

The KETOGAINS Facebook group

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In the health and wellness world, you either know Robb Wolf or you don't, and that's largely due to his books on the Paleo lifestyle. His books have helped a lot of people, but he didn't realize just how much until he got a call from a clinic in Reno. The clinic invited him over to have a look at a study they conducted which largely made use of his books as reference material.

As it turned out, the clinic was just wrapping up a 2-year pilot study that included volunteers with a high risk for Type 2 Diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases. The results showed that a paleo diet, together with proper modification of sleep and exercise, was able to improve the volunteers' bloodwork and health risk assessment. On a long term perspective, it means this pilot study alone saved the city of Reno $22 million over a 10-yer period with a conservative 33:1 return on investment. He would end up becoming part of the clinic's board of directors to help develop programs and bring it out to the masses.

Today, Robb share his thoughts about the Paleo and ketogenic diets, why he thinks the food manufacturers understand people more than medical establishments, and why having a healthy relationship with food is just one big cover up for something deeper and psychological.

""At the end of the day, these diseases, modern Western society mainly are an outgrowth of excessive food consumption." Robb Wolf

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The food manufacturers understand our evolutionary psychology way better than the medical establishment does. They produce food in such a way that people can't help but eat them even if they know it's not healthy. It's similar to how smart phone app makers study evolutionary psychology to make apps addictive.
• People have massively different responses to food. What's worked for you today may not work for you tomorrow.
• You can't cheat on food. You can cheat on taxes, you can cheat in a relationship, but food, there are consequences.
• Sometimes food or the act of eating is not the problem, but an underlying issue that made people saw eating food as an escape.
• The only thing considered disordered eating now is healthy eating.

Key Takeaways:

• You can't let health guidelines get etched in stone and become religious doctrine.

Connect with Robb Wolf:

• Robb Wolf official website
• The Paleo Solution book by Robb Wolf
• Wired To Eat book by Robb Wolf

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Yuri Elkaim is a popular name in the world of health and nutrition, but it wasn't like that before. In fact, Yuri was practically clueless when it came to nutrition, but he did love sports especially soccer/football. His life changing moment was when he realized his bouts of hair loss were brought about by an autoimmune issue called alopecia. Doctors couldn't explain why, so he thought he would live the rest of his life hairless.

It wasn't until he learned about holistic nutrition that he ended up curing himself. He has since strived to help those around him, to give them hope that there is still a way to treat whatever health issues they might have.

Today, Yuri tells us his story of how he became the Yuri we know now, his thoughts on the whole "Metabolism is like a fireplace" analogy, why he thinks fasting is good for you, the importance of sleep when it comes to making decisions, and why we should learn to decipher when we're hungry and when we're full without relying on an eating schedule.

"There's no law that says 'thou shall have to do cardio after my weight training.'" Yuri Elkaim

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The typical North American diet is not healthy at all.
• The fireplace analogy on metabolism is a myth. Eating all the time to "stoke the flames" won't help you lose weight. In fact, it might lead to more unnecessary weight gain and energy crashing.
• Metabolism is the sum of all the breakdown and buildup in your body; catabolism and anabolism.
• 70% of the calories you burn come from BMR or the calories burned at rest. This is heavily dependent on lean muscle mass.
• If you want to lose weight you have to pack on some muscle. It's a long-term approach to not just weight loss but overall wellness too.
• Fasting is not starving yourself. When done right, you can fast regularly aka intermittent fasting.
• People can be psychologically hungry or physiologically hungry. Psychologically hunger is triggered by environmental or emotional cues to make you feel comfortable in certain situations.
• Listening to your body can mean not eating at the usual time; breakfast at 1 PM is when you break your fast.
• Too much cardio crushes your thyroid and the problem is not the exercises themselves but the duration and frequency. Endurance cardio is not exactly the ideal form of exercise for long-term.
• Leptin and Ghrelin are hunger hormones sensitive to sleep. Leptin tells you to stop eating and Ghrelin tells you to keep eating. Less sleep produces more ghrelin and reduces leptin.

Key Takeaways:

• Eat when you're hungry and stop when your full. You have to be aware "when" you're hungry.
• Women shouldn't be worried about building muscle as they are not as naturally capable of bulking compared to men.
• When you sleep, try to make the room a lot like a dark, cold tomb. It'll boost the quality of your sleep more than sleeping in a warm room penetrated by light.

Connect with Cathe Friedrich:

• Yuri Elkaim
• Facebook
• Youtube
• THE ALL-DAY ENERGY DIET book by Yuri Elkaim
• THE ALL-DAY FAT BURNING DIET book by Yuri Elkaim

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Health, Wellness & Longevity via circadian based lifestyle choices - Part 2

Dr. Josh Lamaro is an osteopath, a therapist who treats patients in a non-invasive manner with a focus on a holistic approach to body health by means of strengthening the musculoskeletal framework. He's worked in Bendigo for over 9 years. He promotes the idea of treating the whole body as a unit and considers the lifestyles and various stressors of the individual before recommending a procedure.

In today's episode, Josh tells us what Osteopathy is, the importance of knowing stressors, the "trap" of overtraining, and why smartphones might be the underlying cause of chronic ailments.

"Put someone in a black box, there's no light, there's no movement, but there's perfect food, will they be healthy? I would wager probably not." Dr. Josh Lamaro

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Josh's own definition of Osteopathy and why it's an overlooked form of treatment.
• Why doctors like Josh treat patients on the basis of their lifestyles more than the symptoms they display.
• The dangers of treating the body on a divide and conquer basis.
• How even a perfect diet isn't healthy if everything else such as exposure to sunlight, proper sleep, and physical movement is lacking.
• Why stress is a recurring theme in osteopathy
• Overtraining is a common stressor in today's fitness enthusiasts. People break when they workout rigorously five days a week.
• Treating involves asking the person what they usually do that might cause them their injury or disease in the first place.
• People get into the trap of overtraining by thinking getting a rest day is "bad" for them.
• Excessive training results to more cortisol and contributes to more body fat.
• Society is geared towards seeing everything as needing to be additive and not subtractive. Not getting results? Add more.
• Why your favorite smartphone might actually be messing up your body's natural processes by simply looking at it first thing in the morning or by just keeping it in your front pocket every day.
• EM radiation is a health concern in today's gadget-driven society.

Key Takeaways:

• Treatment should be approached from a subtracting point of view. Take away things that maxes your system out and the additive can what restores you such as more rest.
• If you mess up the timing in your body, you're going to gain weight, not going to sleep right, and be generally unhealthy.

Connect with Dr. Josh Lamaro:

• Paleo Osteo
• Email: [email protected]

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Wi-Fried

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Go to healthcastnow.com for incredibly valuable show notes, links and resources for every episode in our archives. This podcast includes episodes covering longevity, diet, weight loss, healthy living, wellness, workout, exercise, muscle gain, fat loss, weight lifting, bodybuilding, Paleo, Primal, Crossfit, vegan, vegetarian, biohacking and circadian based health advice

Health, Wellness & Longevity via circadian based lifestyle choices - Part 1

Dr. Josh Lamaro is an osteopath, a therapist who treats patients in a non-invasive manner with a focus on a holistic approach to body health by means of strengthening the musculoskeletal framework. He's worked in Bendigo for over 9 years. He promotes the idea of treating the whole body as a unit and considers the lifestyles and various stressors of the individual before recommending a procedure.

In today's episode, Josh tells us what Osteopathy is, the importance of knowing stressors, the "trap" of overtraining, and why smartphones might be the underlying cause of chronic ailments.

"Put someone in a black box, there's no light, there's no movement, but there's perfect food, will they be healthy? I would wager probably not." Dr. Josh Lamaro

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Josh's own definition of Osteopathy and why it's an overlooked form of treatment.
• Why doctors like Josh treat patients on the basis of their lifestyles more than the symptoms they display.
• The dangers of treating the body on a divide and conquer basis.
• How even a perfect diet isn't healthy if everything else such as exposure to sunlight, proper sleep, and physical movement is lacking.
• Why stress is a recurring theme in osteopathy
• Overtraining is a common stressor in today's fitness enthusiasts. People break when they workout rigorously five days a week.
• Treating involves asking the person what they usually do that might cause them their injury or disease in the first place.
• People get into the trap of overtraining by thinking getting a rest day is "bad" for them.
• Excessive training results to more cortisol and contributes to more body fat.
• Society is geared towards seeing everything as needing to be additive and not subtractive. Not getting results? Add more.
• Why your favorite smartphone might actually be messing up your body's natural processes by simply looking at it first thing in the morning or by just keeping it in your front pocket every day.
• EM radiation is a health concern in today's gadget-driven society.

Key Takeaways:

• Treatment should be approached from a subtracting point of view. Take away things that maxes your system out and the additive can what restores you such as more rest.
• If you mess up the timing in your body, you're going to gain weight, not going to sleep right, and be generally unhealthy.

Connect with Dr. Josh Lamaro:

• Paleo Osteo
• Email: [email protected]

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Wi-Fried

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Free health, wellness and fitness tips, tricks and wellness advice from healthcastnow.com. Tune in to the latest health, wellness and fitness topics where we interview thought leaders and world class experts in exercise, health, medicine and wellness with a focus on demystifying and deconstructing overly complex topics in order to provide actionable health & fitness information that you can apply to your everyday lifestyle to move yourself closer to optimal health & wellness.

Go to healthcastnow.com for incredibly valuable show notes, links and resources for every episode in our archives. This podcast includes episodes covering longevity, diet, weight loss, healthy living, wellness, workout, exercise, muscle gain, fat loss, weight lifting, bodybuilding, Paleo, Primal, Crossfit, vegan, vegetarian, biohacking and circadian based health advice

Thaddeus Owen - Biohacking with Primal Hacker - Part 2

Thaddeus began his journey outdoors, camping and fishing as a boy in the Adirondacks and Central NY forests. After a decade spent developing pharmaceutical products, he just couldn't face another day adding terrible ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and numerous red dyes into children's medicine. He shifted gears and engineered a successful work from home assignment following Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Workweek. From there, he was able to find a way to incorporate more movement, nature and sunshine into his work environment. After learning about biohacking from the man who coined the term, Dave Asprey, Thaddeus healed his own anxiety, lowered his blood pressure and fixed his sleeplessness using biohacking, PrimalHacking and Qigong. He spends his free time experimenting on himself in hopes of helping others on their journey. He writes about his experiments on PrimalHacker.com. He also spends time with his two boys learning martial arts, shooting arrows at targets and hiking. Thaddeus is a certified Bulletproof Coach from the first ever class of coaches, holds a personal training certification, nutrition certification, Master's degree in Holistic Nutrition and studied Chemical Engineering a long time ago.

"The Truth is that you need to first address your disconnection with the natural world before you begin biohacking with devices, technology and supplements".– Thaddeus Owen

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Often, when we realize how disconnected we are from the natural world, and how much this is affecting our health, we decide to spend all sorts of money on supplements, technology and coaches
• To make up for our lack of connection to the natural world, and to right the wrongs we feel, we fill our lives with more distraction. We become burdened with material possessions that suck up our energy and finances
• The Truth is that you need to first address your disconnection with the natural world before you begin biohacking with devices, technology and supplements
• We don't say our way is the only way. We don't even think you need to spend any money on the absolute best biohacks – sunlight, good water, connection with the earth, and movement are totally Free

Key Takeaway:

Muscles only do what they're commanded to do by the neurological signals that feed them. You're retraining the brain over the muscles.

Connect with Thaddeus Owen:

• Primal Hacker Blog

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Thaddeus Owen - Biohacking with Primal Hacker - Part 1 of 2

Thaddeus began his journey outdoors, camping and fishing as a boy in the Adirondacks and Central NY forests. After a decade spent developing pharmaceutical products, he just couldn't face another day adding terrible ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and numerous red dyes into children's medicine. He shifted gears and engineered a successful work from home assignment following Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Workweek. From there, he was able to find a way to incorporate more movement, nature and sunshine into his work environment.After learning about biohacking from the man who coined the term, Dave Asprey, Thaddeus healed his own anxiety, lowered his blood pressure and fixed his sleeplessness using biohacking, PrimalHacking and Qigong. He spends his free time experimenting on himself in hopes of helping others on their journey. He writes about his experiments on PrimalHacker.com. He also spends time with his two boys learning martial arts, shooting arrows at targets and hiking. Thaddeus is a certified Bulletproof Coach from the first ever class of coaches, holds a personal training certification, nutrition certification, Master's degree in Holistic Nutrition and studied Chemical Engineering a long time ago.

"The Truth is that you need to first address your disconnection with the natural world before you begin biohacking with devices, technology and supplements".– Thaddeus Owen

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Often, when we realize how disconnected we are from the natural world, and how much this is affecting our health, we decide to spend all sorts of money on supplements, technology and coaches
• To make up for our lack of connection to the natural world, and to right the wrongs we feel, we fill our lives with more distraction. We become burdened with material possessions that suck up our energy and finances
• The Truth is that you need to first address your disconnection with the natural world before you begin biohacking with devices, technology and supplements
• We don't say our way is the only way. We don't even think you need to spend any money on the absolute best biohacks – sunlight, good water, connection with the earth, and movement are totally Free

Key Takeaway:

Muscles only do what they're commanded to do by the neurological signals that feed them. You're retraining the brain over the muscles.

Connect with Thaddeus Owen:

• Primal Hacker Blog

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Dr. Jason Fung - Deep Dive - Using Fasting / Intermittent Fasting for Optimal Health, Wellness and Longevity with Dr Jason Fung - Part 2

Jason Fung is a world leader when it comes to weight loss and fasting. He is a firm advocate of fasting as a means of not just weight loss, but also healing and detoxification. He is also the author of the popular diet books The Obesity Code and The Complete Guide To Fasting.

In part 2 of our episode, Jason shares his opinions on people who should and shouldn't fast, how hunger is just all in the mind, a few tips on how to get started with fasting, and why he thinks the food industry is promoting bad eating habits.

"Nothing bad happens when you don't eat for 24 hours." Jason Fung

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Blood sugar doesn't necessarily plummet when you fast.
• Fasting specifically targets the hormones that affect weight.
• Food companies promote more meals a day aka snacking because they sell snack foods.
• Those who are pregnant, malnourished, have eating disorders, and people with a BMI below 20 shouldn't fast. Everybody else can fast regardless of gender.
• Fasting is a stressor and increases cortisol the same way as exercise but fasting is a low-level stress compared to exercise. It might increase cortisol but not as much as you do when you train hard.
• Hunger is lowest at 8 am if your circadian rhythm is aligned properly. It's because your body has done its job in burning the extra fat and other junk protein to prevent you from getting hungry the moment you roll out of bed.
• The feeling of hunger gets lower during an extended fast and the body gets used to it. Day 2 is the worst day but the body will adjust accordingly as the fast progresses.
• Fasting keeps metabolic rate high and actually helps reduce hunger in the long term.
• Fasting saves you money and time, different compared to other diets that promote a "buy this, cook that" kind of technique.
• Fasting becomes easy once you do it on a regular basis.

Key Takeaways:

• Fat is merely stored food energy. You want to use it; you want to eat it.
• Fasting is infinitely flexible. You can choose to tweak your fast the way you find it easy or how your body responds.

Connect with Jason Fung:

• Twitter

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Obesity Code book by Jason Fung

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Dr. Jason Fung - Deep Dive - Using Fasting / Intermittent Fasting for Optimal Health, Wellness and Longevity with Dr Jason Fung - Part 1

Jason Fung is an author and nephrologist, a doctor who specializes in kidney health. He is considered one of the world's leading experts when it comes to weight loss and reversing diabetes by way of fasting. For the first few years of practice, Jason was like most doctors when it came to treating patients – conventionally oriented.

During this time, he had plenty of patients who had obesity as the primary cause of their kidney issues. He realized in order to treat their kidneys, he had to treat their diabetes and for that to happen, his patients had to lose weight. And so began his interest in fasting and its many benefits beyond weight loss.

Today, Jason gives us his expert opinion on what fasting is, why he thinks fasting should be something people naturally do, and why he suggests weight management is not just about calories.

"Fasting is really the oldest dietary intervention in the book." Jason Fung

In this episode, you'll learn:

• A diet focused on a "calories in, calories out" approach is bound to fail. Obesity has little to do with calories as it does with carbohydrates and insulin sensitivity.
• The body cannot sense calories as compared to how it can sense carbs and hormones and obesity is largely a hormonal issue.
• A kale salad will have a different effect on your hormones particularly insulin as a plate of cookies with the same calories. Eating a kale salad everyday will give you different results vs if you eat a plate of cookies every day.
• Insulin is the hormone that tells the body we're eating now. Insulin also tells liver to make glycogen, the storage form of sugar.
• Fasting won't make you lose muscle. The body burns "junk" protein and burns it away when you fast. This is why fasting is also considered a type of detox regimen.
• When you break your fast, the body starts to break down old nutrients and build new ones. You're basically giving your body a renovation.
• If there's a deficit in calories, the body reduces energy expenditure which makes calorie cutting ineffective.
• Fasting on a regular basis helps prevent diseases as it helps burn junk inside the body and turn them to fuel.
• If you keep insulin levels high all the time you're telling your body to keep the energy going in which is why the whole "eat 10 small meals a day" fad is only a short-term solution to weight loss.
• A lean person who fast will burn more protein than fat than an obese person for obvious reasons.

Key Takeaways:

• Fasting isn't going to make you tired. When you want more energy you should fast.
• Eating and fasting must be kept in balance.
• Fasting preserves lean body mass much better than caloric restriction.

Connect with Jason Fung:

• Twitter

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Complete Guide to Fasting book by Jason Fung

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