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Eric Cressey is a shoulder expert and an internationally-famous strength and conditioning coach. As the president and co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance, he is responsible for the arm care and injury prevention programs of hundreds of Major League baseball players and, earlier this year, he was appointed Director of Player Health and Performance for the New York Yankees. As well as being an anatomy guru, Eric is also a competitive powerlifter who holds several state, national, and world records.


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If there’s one mineral you should be worried about not getting enough of it’s magnesium. Magnesium is the body’s “master mineral” powerful over 300 critical reactions, including detoxification, fat metabolism, energy, even digestion is influenced by the presence of magnesium. There are two big problems here: 

Magnesium has been largely missing from US soil since the 1950s, which explains why it’s estimated that up to 80% of the population may be deficient. Most supplements contain only 1 or 2 forms of magnesium, when in reality there are at least 7 that your body needs and benefits from. 

The good news is that when you DO get all 7 critical forms of magnesium, pretty much every function in your body gets upgraded, from your brain, to your sleep, to your pain and inflammation, it all improves... and fast.  That’s why I’m so excited about what my friends over at BiOptimizers—makers of industry-leading digestive supplements—have just created. Their research team recently formulated what I believe is the ultimate magnesium supplement, with all 7 forms of this mineral. They even include trace amounts of something called “mono-atomic magnesium” which helps make all the other forms more bioavailable. This is by far the most complete magnesium product ever created, and until or unless someone comes out with a better one, I highly recommend you give it a try.  

BiOptimizers calls this product Magnesium Breakthrough and they’re running a special promotion for you at www.bioptimizers.com/stacked. You can get an additional 10% off from the normal package price with coupon code STACKED10. 

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In today’s AMA episode, I share my current supplement regime and reveal the products I use to optimize my overall health and well-being. Of course, everyone’s nutritional needs are unique so I suggest you take a blood test to check for any specific deficiencies before diving into a supplement regimen. That being said, these products work for me and some of them, such as the Quinton Iso & Hypertonic Solutions, I would recommend to anyone who wants to maintain a healthy hydration and mineral balance. Likewise, since studies show that a Vitamin D deficiency can make you more susceptible to Covid-19 infection and can affect your ability to recover from the illness, taking vitamin D supplements, (as well as vitamin C to help fight off colds and flu), seems like a good idea.


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One of the things I talk about often is the idea of cultivating a powerful, confident relationship inside of our own bodies. Apart from the training we do and the food we eat, a key way to develop that relationship is through cooking. Cooking is the practice of nourishing our minds, souls, and bodies. Nowadays, so many of us are cooking less and eating meals that don’t take a lot of time or patience to make, and I think there’s a big piece missing from our human experience when we remove cooking.

With 6-in-1 functionality, Traeger makes grills that enable you to create some of the most amazing meals you’ve ever had. Traeger Grills are second to none when it comes to gourmet-quality grilling. Like no other grill, they offer backyard chefs an incredible support system to guide your flavor journey and to ensure the perfection of your end result. Traeger’s WiFire technology paired with the Traeger App (which has over 1500 recipes!) syncs to your grill and built-in meat thermometer, coaching you through the entire process. If you are in the market and you want to buy a grill that you can cook on for years to come, look no further than Traeger Grills.

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Amelia Boone is a legend in the obstacle course racing world. Over the course of her phenomenally successful athletic career, she’s chalked up over thirty victories, been crowned a Spartan Race World Champion and won the World’s Toughest Mudder three times. Fiercely competitive, determined and willing to undergo intense physical suffering in order to achieve her goals, Amelia became known as the ‘Queen of Pain’ and was respected and revered by her many fans. She achieved all this whilst pursuing a full-time career as a corporate lawyer and her ability to combine competing at an elite level with the demands of a professional career made her seem almost superhuman. However, in 2019 Amelia decided to reveal the real person behind the public image and laid bare her twenty-year battle with anorexia and anxiety.

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Quicksilver Scientific NAD+ Platinum™
Created by 2-time podcast guest Dr Chris Shade, this product supplies all of the nutrients needed for maximal energy generation, DNA repair, cell signaling and - survival. This product contains all our genetic keys to longevity. 

Sadly, our bodies age continuously and our NAD+ levels naturally decline over a lifetime. In fact, well-documented research shows that by age 50 you’ll have less than half the NAD+ you had at 20. And if you are working a full-time job, running a million miles a week, and maybe not eating perfectly or recovering fully, it may drop even faster. 

Well, what if you could regenerate and sustain healthy, youthful levels of NAD+ well into your later years? Enter: NAD+ Platinum.

In NAD+ Platinum, Dr Shade has included highly stable master phytocompounds (quercetin and resveratrol) to help supercharge the longevity proteins called sirtuins & support a greater, more youthful level of production of NAD+, plus all the B vitamins you need to support balanced methylation — the biochemical process that keeps the NAD+ cycle turning — which is where a LOT of people’s genes fall short. In fact, Emilia and I both had genetic tests that showed major deficits in our body’s abilities to methylate and that’s why we take SO many darn B-vitamins. 

Anyway, I strongly, strongly advise anybody that wants to feel younger, more energetic, and generally healthier to give NAD Platinum a try. For many, this product is going to attack your fatigue at the SOURCE rather than band-aiding an aging problem with a quick fix that doesn’t address the underlying problem. And you can save 10% on NAD Platinum with code “coachjoe2020” 

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Colostrum is Mother Nature’s nutrient-rich “first food” that can support total body health and performance. It supplies gut-nourishing vitamins, minerals, proteins, and enzymes that help level up your immune system and microbiome.

Kion Colostrum fortifies your body with a small army of defenders plus growth factors that help build and maintain muscles! 

Whether you’re a high-performance athlete or just looking for an immune boost, rest assured you’re feeding your gut the good stuff with Kion Colostrum.

Save 20% on your first Kion order with code STACKED

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In this week’s show, I set out my step by step guide to cold immersion and explain why the practice is so beneficial for our physical and mental wellbeing. The trappings of modern life have made us weaker and less willing to expose ourselves to discomfort so the idea of cold-water immersion can seem daunting. However, it is important to consider that if we are not prepared to face challenges our comfort zones will shrink and we will become less able to cope with the difficult situations that will inevitably arise in our lives. It really is true that adversity makes us stronger, and the goal of cold water immersion is to conquer adversity, overcome discomfort and feel empowered at the end of it. Cold water immersion has played a part in many cultures and religions and its reported health benefits include enhanced immune function, reduced inflammation, lowered body fat and blood sugar, improved sexual performance and fertility, better sleep quality, and improved thyroid health.

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A comprehensive list of all my favorite supplements, nutrients, and biohacks all in one place complete with brand names, my why in recommending these products, plus discount codes and offers.

BiOptimizers
If there’s one mineral you should be worried about not getting enough of... it’s magnesium. Magnesium is the body’s “master mineral” powerful over 300 critical reactions, including detoxification... fat metabolism... energy... even digestion is influenced by the presence of magnesium. 

Sadly, Magnesium has been largely missing from US soil since the 1950s, which explains why it’s estimated that up to 80% of the population may be deficient. To make matters worse, most supplements contain only 1 or 2 forms of magnesium when in reality there are at least 7 that your body needs and benefits from.

Magnesium Breakthrough is the best Magnesium product that I am aware of and my good friends at Bioptimizers are running a special promotion for you at www.bioptimizers.com/stacked. Plus, you can get an additional 10% off from the normal package price with coupon code “STACKED10”.

And here’s the deal: the guys who make it are SO confident that you’re gonna like it that they’ll give you ALL your money back if you don’t!

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In this episode, I sit with Wade Lightheart, co-founder and president of BiOptimizers, a nutrition company whose mission is to bring you the best in health and nutritional supplements. Wade is an advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, the author of numerous books on health, exercise, and nutrition, and the host of The Awesome Health Podcast. As well as being one of the world’s leading authorities on natural nutrition, Wade is a former natural bodybuilding champion and he is proud to have taken part in the Mr Universe contest as a drug-free vegetarian competitor.

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BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough is by far the most complete magnesium product ever created, and I highly recommend you give it a try through our special promotion at www.bioptimizers.com/stacked. And now you can get an additional 10% off from the normal package price with coupon code “STACKED10”.

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In today’s ask-me-anything episode, I explain why mobility training doesn’t always work and set out what you need to know if you’re an athlete who is thinking of shifting to a keto diet.  I talk about the mind-body connection, tell you why you should adopt a full-body approach to fitness rather than focusing on stretching specific muscles, and explain why it is easy to fuel a sedentary lifestyle on keto but considerably more complex to fuel an active lifestyle that includes regular high-intensity activity.   

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It’s the first to take a Microbe-Systems Approach with strain-specific benefits beyond digestive health, including skin health, heart health, gut immune function, gut barrier integrity, and micronutrient synthesis. It’s also the first formulation to include strains that synthesize folate and increase production within the body.

Use code STACKED at seed.com for 20% off your first month of the Daily Synbiotic!

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Shaun T is best-known as the creator of high-intensity workouts such as Insanity, Focus T25 andTransform:20, but he is also a sexual abuse survivor who has had to conquer severe emotional trauma in order to become the successful fitness coach and entrepreneur that he is today. As a former track and field athlete, Shaun T knows all about how to build a strong committed mindset and achieve peak physical performance. He is a passionate and powerful communicator who is driven by his desire to share his knowledge and make a positive difference in the world. His mission is to inspire people to realize their full potential by promoting positivity and health. Through his social media platforms and his Trust and Believe podcast, Shaun empowers others to be the best that they can be by living physically active and emotionally fulfilling lives.

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BiOptimizers 
If there’s one mineral you should be worried about not getting enough of... it’s magnesium. Magnesium is the body’s “master mineral” powerful over 300 critical reactions, including detoxification... fat metabolism... energy... EVEN digestion is influenced by the presence of magnesium. There are two big problems here: 

• Magnesium has been largely missing from US soil since the 1950s... which explains why it’s estimated that up to 80% of the population may be deficient...
• Most supplements contain only 1 or 2 forms of magnesium... when in reality there are at least 7 that your body needs and benefits from.

The good news is that when you do get all 7 critical forms of magnesium, pretty much every function in your body gets upgraded, from your brain, to your sleep, to your pain and inflammation, it all improves... and fast.  That’s why I’m so excited about what my friends over at BiOptimizers—makers of industry-leading digestive supplements—have just created. Their research team recently formulated what I believe is the ultimate magnesium supplement, with all 7 forms of this mineral. They even include trace amounts of something called “mono-atomic magnesium” which helps make all the other forms more bioavailable.

BiOptimizers calls this product Magnesium Breakthrough and they’re running a special promotion for you at www.bioptimizers.com/stacked. You can get an additional 10% off from the normal package price with coupon code STACKED10.

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Dry Farm Wines are beyond organic and natural, toxin-free, sugar-free, and lower alcohol artisan wines. Dry Farm Wines' third-party testing and unusually high-quality standard has reached a point of exclusively offering natural wines made of non-irrigated grapes from small, sustainable family farms throughout Europe. They are the only wines we serve at RUNGA events and are the only wines I drink because it is near impossible to select a dry-farmed natural wine from the dozens of dangerously contaminated and unhealthy wines that make up nearly all of the wine on your local store shelves. Dry Farm Wines delivered to your door each month in cases of 6 bottles or more, you can pause or cancel your shipments at any time, and best of all, my listeners receive their first bottle for just ONE PENNY when you visit www.dryfarmwines.com/runga. Enjoy!

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In my first AMA episode, I offer some solutions to the questions I am most frequently asked about health and wellbeing and give some practical and easily achievable advice about how we can optimize our health and start Ieading more active and empowered lives. I also explore the role that supplements can play in our diet and consider how our exposure to electromagnetic radiation and environmental toxins is further contributing to our nutrient depletion. Finally, as an enthusiastic fan of free medicine, I share some natural and cost-free remedies which have been designed by Nature to promote our physical, mental, and emotional health.

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Colostrum is Mother Nature’s nutrient-rich “first food” that can support total body health and performance. It supplies gut-nourishing vitamins, minerals, proteins, and enzymes that help level up your immune system and microbiome.

Kion Colostrum fortifies your body with a small army of defenders plus growth factors that help build and maintain muscles! 

Whether you’re a high-performance athlete or just looking for an immune boost, rest assured you’re feeding your gut the good stuff with Kion Colostrum.

Save 20% on your first Kion order with code “STACKED”

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Dr. Perry Nickelston is a chiropractic physician, creator of the Body Aquarium, and founder of Stop Chasing Pain, a movement dedicated to optimizing health and helping people heal from chronic pain. He is also an expert on the lymphatic system, one of the most overlooked body systems, which plays an important part in maintaining health and helping to protect us from disease and infection. Ever since Dr. Perry discovered that the persistent health problems he was experiencing were caused by lymphatic congestion, he has made it his mission to learn everything he can about the lymphatic system and he is excited to share his extensive knowledge with listeners.

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The big problem with most “Detox” protocols are that for one, most so-called detoxes such as juice-fast detoxes —aren’t really detoxing anything — They are simply enabling the body to do it’s own detoxing by giving the system a BREAK from toxins in the form of inflammatory or allergenic foods we may be consuming. But the bigger issue with DETOXES that actually do “detox” us is that pushing toxins out of the liver and bodily tissues is only HALF the battle. And most of the time these “detoxes” do more recirculating than TRUE detoxifying.

That’s why I have used one product and one product only for myself and for my coaching clients — and that’s Quicksilver Scientific’s PUSH CATCH Liver Detox. PushCatch® is a versatile two-step cleansing protocol designed to safely and effectively detoxifies the body without REDISTRIBUTION or REABSORPTION.

Once in your body, powerful. antioxidants buttress a liposomal blend of digestive bitters to “push” toxins out of the liver and into the gut. There, natural binders “catch” the toxins so that they can be safely eliminated by the body. This is BY FAR the most effective and scientifically validated detox product you are going to find anywhere that I stand behind 110% and is something I think everybody needs to do on a regular basis.

To get your PUSH CATCH Liver detox head on over to my friends at Quicksilver Scientific and use code coachjoe2020 to save 10% on your DETOX.

Dry Farm Wines
Dry Farm Wines are beyond organic and natural, toxin-free, sugar-free, and lower alcohol artisan wines. Dry Farm Wines' third-party testing and unusually high-quality standard has reached a point of exclusively offering natural wines made of non-irrigated grapes from small, sustainable family farms throughout Europe. They are the only wines we serve at RUNGA events and are the only wines I drink because it is near impossible to select a dry-farmed natural wine from the dozens of dangerously contaminated and unhealthy wines that make up nearly all of the wine on your local store shelves. Dry Farm Wines delivered to your door each month in cases of 6 bottles or more, you can pause or cancel your shipments at any time, and best of all, my listeners receive their first bottle for just ONE PENNY when you visit www.dryfarmwines.com/runga. Enjoy!

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 In Part 2 of my series on endurance training, I’ll show you how to adopt a more intelligent, more ancestrally aligned, lower-risk approach to marathon running and I’ll describe how to maintain the endurance and durability needed to complete the race in a way that is safe, healthy, and leaves you with more energy than when you started. You’ll learn how to avoid burnout and discover how to bridge the gap between the levels of fitness required to sustain a modern, mostly sedentary, lifestyle and the stamina and strength needed to successfully complete an endurance run. I’ll talk about how walking is the cornerstone of my marathon training program and describe how to maximize your recovery by getting your body accustomed to spending time on its feet for the amount of time you expect your race to take. Above all, I’ll focus on an integrated approach that aims to build strength and stability and makes it easier for you to find creative ways to fit the training program into your life.

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BiOptimizers 
If there’s one mineral you should be worried about not getting enough of... it’s magnesium. Magnesium is the body’s “master mineral” powerful over 300 critical reactions, including detoxification... fat metabolism... energy... EVEN digestion is influenced by the presence of magnesium. There are two big problems here: 

• Magnesium has been largely missing from US soil since the 1950s... which explains why it’s estimated that up to 80% of the population may be deficient...
• Most supplements contain only 1 or 2 forms of magnesium... when in reality there are at least 7 that your body needs and benefits from.

The good news is that when you do get all 7 critical forms of magnesium, pretty much every function in your body gets upgraded, from your brain, to your sleep, to your pain and inflammation, it all improves... and fast.  That’s why I’m so excited about what my friends over at BiOptimizers—makers of industry-leading digestive supplements—have just created. Their research team recently formulated what I believe is the ultimate magnesium supplement, with all 7 forms of this mineral. They even include trace amounts of something called “mono-atomic magnesium” which helps make all the other forms more bioavailable.

BiOptimizers calls this product Magnesium Breakthrough and they’re running a special promotion for you at www.bioptimizers.com/stacked. You can get an additional 10% off from the normal package price with coupon code STACKED10.


Seed

After sitting down with Seed co-founders, Ara Katz and Raja Dhir on this show, I began to dig a little deeper into the traditional "probiotic" industry—only to be quite disappointed with the reality of the effectiveness of almost all probiotic products on the market. Seed, on the other hand, has 23 strain-specific clinical studies behind it that demonstrate its effectiveness. Their innovative 2-in-1 capsule also nests the probiotics inside a prebiotic (sourced from Indian pomegranate and organic wild-harvested Scandinavian chaga and pine bark) capsule for additional protection, ensuring the probiotics actually get where they need to be inside of you—your gut.

Use code STACKED at seed.com for 20% off your first month of the Daily Synbiotic!

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