Podcast 447: Andreas Seed Oils

Andreas is a former German gymnast who had a long and successful career. He is a world and Olympic champion. After a shoulder injury, Andreas retired. He was put on several medications, and years later was diagnosed with Chron’s disease and became very ill. He knew he had three choices, keep following the doctors orders and be on medications for the rest of his life, die from Chron’s disease, or make some drastic lifestyle changes. Shortly after, Andreas launched the first ever Cold-Press technology. These oils are pressed at ultra-low temperatures to eliminate oxidation and maintain their molecular integrity.  They are high in essential fatty acids, and are entirely free of any metals, solvents, pesticides, or preservatives. In today’s podcast, Andreas joins Martin to take a deep dive into how his oils differ from other seed oil companies. As well as when and how to use them to the best advantage.

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MARTIN: Hello everybody. This is Martin Pytela, Life Enthusiast podcast, and today I have the distinct honor and pleasure to have Andreas Wecker or Vecker, as he would pronounce it. He’s actually a famous man! He made the Olympics not just a little bit, a medal in Olympics. That’s not a small feat you know, you have to be one of the top three people in your discipline in the world at that time. That’s not a little bit, that’s a lot. And now Andreas has had his experience with oils. Welcome aboard Andreas!

ANDREAS: Thank you Martin! To be with you, first time.

MARTIN: Indeed. Hope not last time. And so, I think that people should really understand the importance of plants and seeds and oils. Would you be so kind and just explain why we should care about these oils in our life?

ANDREAS: First, maybe a little bit, go a little bit back to understand how I got there. So I got sick in 2006, I had Crohn’s disease, was almost dying. And when I came out from the hospital, I was on 33 pills and literally all the side effects I had moon face from the prednisone. I was super fat, became super fat. First I lost 45 pounds, right. I was about 80 pounds when I came in the hospital. And then I got back, I was so hungry from the prednisone and then the moon face and everything. So they told me, I had side effects. And when I came home, I had a friend of mine we were on a different project with oils. Which was actually my first idea to diffuse oil and get it in the body by not using the digestion system.

ANDREAS: So then he told me he can help me with fresh pressed flaxseed oil, and we get the medication off because I literally was dying from all the side effects from those medications. And so my body is absolutely allergic to any chemical or pharmaceuticals. So that was the start literally. So he gave me later his small press, it was a little kitchen press, to press my own oil. So everything started pretty much with Flax Seed Oil. So most people, I was the same way, I was thinking in the beginning of course, oil makes a difference, right?

MARTIN: Well we hear essential fatty acids, right? So we need to have Omega three, Omega six, Omega nine. We need to have a conversation. More of this, less of that.

ANDREAS: Yeah. I started with the