One Life Radio

Thinking about opening up your home to an animal in need? If you want to temporarily provide a loving, caring home for an animal waiting to be adopted, you can apply to be a foster hero! Maura Davies of the SPCA encourages us to foster our furry friends, apply here!

Fish oils and omega 3's, are they beneficial to our health? Dr. Mike Fenster talks about the benefits and how to incorporate them into our lives.

Here are some of the health benefits of fish oil:

* Mental health benefits

* Multiple sclerosis

* Prostate cancer

* Heart and cardiovascular benefits

* Alzheimer's disease

* Epilepsy

* Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders

* Health fetal development

Read more about the benefits of omega 3's here.

Catching enough Zzz's? Shawn Wells talks about sleep deprivation and the risks of not getting a good night's rest.

"It is recommended that adults achieve at least 8 hours of sleep per night. However, it has recently been reported that most adults walk around in a sleep deprived state, which can be classified as sleeping for 6 hours or less per night. Emerging evidence is coming out which associates chronic sleep deprivation with negative impairments to the immune system, decreased cognitive function and may even lead to an earlier death. Thus, researchers are now trying to educate the masses on the importance of proper sleep habits and tips improve sleep quality."

Stephanie Toups gives us the Top 10 Products for Preppers!

 

Mastin Kipp, author of The Daily Love: Growing Into Grace, joins us to talk about his book Claim Your Power: A 40 Day Journey to Dissolve the Hidden Blocks That Keep You Stuck and Finally Thrive in Your Life's Unique Purpose. 

Mastin is a #1 best-selling author, speaker and life interventionist for people who are seeking rapid transformation in their lives. Mastin has built a highly successful international personal development company that helps people create rapid change, connect to who they really are and how to live their lives with passion and purpose.

"The people who live the life of their dreams know that it's not about how much money they have, but how much passion, willingness and dedication they have to make their dreams come true. And on top of that they know that no one defines what's true for them except them. And on top of that they know that Plan B is not an option, because it's a distraction from Plan A. And on top of that they just don't give up because that is who the hell they are!"

When was the last time you were astonished? Todd Sinelli brings the wonder of astonishment and gives us his best tips for Awakening Astonishment.

“Mediocrity is in the past, astonishment is an invitation to the future”

* When is the last time you were truly astonished?

* Who do you find truly astonishing?

* How do you enter astonishment?

3 Principles of Awakening Astonishment

* Appear – need to show up to experience, when you engage all 5 senses you are present and begin to awaken astonishment

* Appreciate/appreciation – most attractive magnetic attribute, appreciate who you are with, what you see, and who you are with, you awaken astonishment within yourself. “Silent gratitude is no gratitude”

* Anticipate – expect great things, expect to be astonished.

Ryan Lowery talks about intermittent fasting and how manipulating our mitochondrial networks may be the key to increasing our lifespan. 

"The study, published Oct. 26 online in Cell Metabolism, sheds light on the basic biology involved in cells’ declining ability to process energy over time, which leads to aging and age-related disease, and how interventions such as periods of fasting might promote healthy aging.

Mitochondria the energy-producing structures in cells exist in networks that dynamically change shape according to energy demand. Their capacity to do so declines with age, but the impact this has on metabolism and cellular function was previously unclear. In this study, the researchers showed a causal link between dynamic changes in the shapes of mitochondrial networks and longevity."

Read more about this study, here.

Daniel Tague talks about olympic weight lifting and the benefits of heavy lifting.

* What is Olympic weight lifting?

- Main lifts

- Snatch

- Power clean

* Should everyone do these to be healthy?

- Needs to be modified for each person unless you are going to do them in a competition then you have to meet the standards set forth.

* How do you modify these lifts to make them safe for the average person?

 

For many, the holidays are more filled with stress and anxiety than wonder and joy. People are stuck having to relive over and over again year after year, being in toxic environments out of obligation and end up miserable. Robin Perry Braun gives us some tips on how to get out of the routine holiday rut and begin creating the holidays.

* Start practicing mindfulness, make point this year of being an observer. Who triggers me and why? Why do I feel powerless to change this?

* Practice the power of quantum physics and learn to imagine what it would feel like to enjoy being with these people.

* Pick the points out about the holiday that you really enjoy. Focus on how those points make you feel.

* If losses are triggered to ruminate, we can be stuck in trauma. Focus on the way holidays felt before the loss

* How can you affect the plans to not feel helpless. Can you change the conversation so you do not have to do what others want you to do out of obligation.

Elisabeth White talks closet therapy and minimalism! Elisabeth gives us her best tips on how to maintain an organized lifestyle both in your closet and in your daily life.

Everyone feels a little lonely every now and then... Join us as Dr. Mike McFarland discusses the loneliness epidemic and ways to combat it.

* Recently the former Surgeon General declared loneliness an epidemic in the United States. What were his reasons for this conclusion?

* How does loneliness affect each of us throughout our lives?

* What can we do to combat loneliness in on a daily basis?

Andrea Lieberstein, author of Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship to Food, Feed Your Whole Self and End Overeating joins us to talk about her book and how to go about living/crafting a well-nourished life. Here are some key points Andrea gives us about mindful eating:

* Managing emotional eating and knowing your

eating triggers

* Managing stress-related eating

* How our life circumstances affect our eating habits

* Benefits of mindfulness meditation, self-

compassion, gratitude and appreciation

* Mindful Eating: What are you bringing to the table? What do you really need and why? What is your intention?

* Tuning in and slowing it down while you eat

Autumn Warren, creator of Ether Elixir, discusses the vegan diet and its "bad reputation" lately. Autumn says that it is likely because it is confused with people simply not eating meat, rather than people eating whole food plant based diets. Articles claiming that the diet is not good for you gives people who may be interested in the idea of not hurting animals a lame excuse to fall back on.

Fruit juice, is it good or bad for us? Dr. Mike Fenster talks about fruits and juices and how they can benefit our health.

* What is the history of fruit juice?

* Which should we avoid and which should we indulge in?

* How much is enough? How much is too much?

Psilocybin is the psychoactive compound found in "Magic Mushrooms”, can psilocybin actually be used to treat depression? Shawn Wells talks "Magic Mushrooms" and their medicinal benefits. Psilocybin has long been used for not only religious and spiritual but also health reasons.  Recent studies are now finding that psilocybin may be an effective method for treating those suffering from disorders such as depression and anxiety.

* What is Psilocybin?

* What are the health benefits of Psilocybin?

* Is there research out there on Psilocybin and depression?

* Do you think that treating depression with Psilocybin will become a common practice as more research comes out?

It is hard to say since it is still classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance in the United States.  If you are familiar with the famous neuroscientist Sam Harris, he talks about the war on drugs.  A mistake was made long ago when psychedelic drugs like psilocybin were termed "drugs" and put into the same category as drugs like cocaine and crystal meth.  This has given these compounds a negative association despite all of the health benefits that can be associated with them.  This is the same reason why not everyone has bought into the medical marijuana idea.  We will not be able to consider these substances as common therapeutic approaches until we can think intuitively about them and recognize their therapeutic potential and lower risk of developing addiction.

* There are some risks though, correct?

Correct.  Some people can have "bad trips", some people can take too much and get sick, and there's the concern of your source for it not being legitimate and getting something in your system that is not safe.  Overall though, the risks are not even close to the schedule 1 drugs like cocaine, meth, and heroine.  But steroids are put in that same category as well and the risks with those are not anywhere near as perilous either.  What you can see is that there's a business of enforcement around these "drugs" and there's pharmaceuticals from the medical industry that would be greatly threatened by them not being illegal.

Stephanie Toups gives us the top 10 products for our best survival kits!

Dr. Isaac Montgomery talks about gastro band

* Gary and his wife Lauren combined the family tradition of responsible land stewardship with their own convictions regarding health, nutrition, the environment, and animal welfare; the result being the protocol that produces All Pasture • All the Time Nitschke Natural Beef.

* Gary, Lauren and the Circle N team do ranching the new-old fashioned way.

* They employ sustainable agricultural practices, including the use of compost pellets and teas, cover crops and rotational grazing, while excluding chemical pest control and synthetic fertilizers.

* This allows essential soil biodiversity to flourish and their beef to remain pure and nutrient dense.

* It only makes sense that healthy soil produces high-quality pasture that in turn produces healthy, high-quality meat.

* Nitschke Natural Beef is certified by the American Grass-fed Association, and they are a producer for the Grass-fed Livestock Alliance.

* What is the difference between a ‘fixed mindset’ and a ‘growth mindset’?

* To give us a better sense of these two mindsets…you are going to read us a short scenario of a bad day and then… what do you want us to do?

* How does mindset impact accuracy?

* We learn messages---so how do we give constructive criticism now?

* How does the difference between ‘fixed’ and ‘growth’ impacting dating and relationships?

*

High fat, low carbs? Ryan Lowery, author of the Ketogenic Bible, gives us his best tips for managing and maintaining the KETO diet.

What is "Shear Force"? Daniel Tague gives us some insight of the truths and myths of this workout weakness.

* What is shear force?

* What are some of the myths of shear force?

* Are there some exercises that are more prone to shear force than others?

Racism, ageism, sexism, you name it, we're talking about it. Rosalie Robinson talks Ism's and how we can end them in modern society.

 

Heart Health

How healthy is your heart? Heart disease is something you can treat and prevent with diet alone. Dr. Jack Wolfson discusses his book The Paleo Cardiologist and gives us a step by step guide to heart health.

Biology of Belief

Is there science behind belief? Robin Perry Braun gives us the biology behind belief.

The function of the mind is to create coherence between your beliefs and reality. A stimulus hits the cell, the proteins reaction depends on the perception or interpretation.

The subconscious is 95% of the brain and the conscious is 5% The sub has a million times the impulses per minute than the conscious. So we are led and controlled by our subconscious. The 5% is our wishes and aspirations but it doesn’t really control the rest.. Our life is dictated by our sub beliefs.

The mind interprets the signals and the interpretation causes a variety of chemicals and hormones to be released in the body – this dictates what the body does even to a cellular level. The blood and all fluids in the body are controlled by the hormones and chemicals released – the subconscious mind controls this release.

These beliefs are formed by inheritance, absorption and what we experience. Energy medicine says the same thing.

 

 

Does exercise and nutrition trump DNA? Join us as we talk with Dr. Brad Dieter about "Nutrigenomics: What Can Your DNA Really Tell You About Your Nutrition And Training Needs?"

What exactly is nutrigenomics? Dr. Dieter simplifies it as a branch of nutrition genomics that takes your DNA and then doctors will then tell you what you can and cannot eat.

Here's what Dr. Dieter wants us to know...

It Isn’t All About the Genome

To fully understand how one’s genome can impact things like nutrition, performance, and recovery, one needs to be aware of the fact that the genome does not operate in isolation. For decades we have be given a crude analogy that the genome is a blueprint and conveys all the information needed and that one gene equals one protein.

We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the regulatory mechanisms and we are finding that the genome is one piece, albeit an important piece, in a multilayer system that turns underlying digital information (i.e. the genome) into the complex organism that is a human.

Jill Lane discusses if we should really be blaming sugar intake for all of our chronic health problems.

Here are a few questions we ask:

* We've had many guests on One Life over the years that talk about he negative effects of sugar on our health...are you saying they are wrong?

*  If we aren't obsessing about sugar as you mentioned, what should we do instead to get and stay well?

* Why is this approach better then tackling sugar intake head-on right out of the gate?

* (If it doesn't come up during the questions above) What about our kids and sugar?

Ever try to sprout your own grains? Autumn Warren, creator of Ether Elixir gives us the ingredients to sprouting grains, beans, and nuts.