Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 694

How can you increase your capacity for stress and build mental resilience?

Shawn Wells, the World's Greatest Formulator + Health Optimization Expert, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 694, to share about his journey to healing, self-love, and resilience, how vulnerability and balancing masculine and feminine energies have deepened his relationships and personal growth, and why paraxanthine is the caffeine 2.0. that is going to change the way society thinks, feels, and acts.

"When I finally believed that I could have love, that I'm worthy of love, that love isn't necessarily fleeting, and that I can feel whole internally, all of a sudden I went from suicide to having a purpose." - Shawn Wells

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In This Episode, Shawn Wells Uncovers: [01:30] Relationships Need Healing

• Shawn Wells
• 618 Shawn Wells + Daniel Solomons | Paraxanthine: UPDATE Your Energy + Vitality Without Caffeine
• 359 Shawn Wells: Ingredients For Healing, Self Love, & Mental Health
• How he's healing his inner child and relationships.
• What helped him get away from dating apps and start focusing on himself.
• Why the relationship with his fiancée started as friendship.
• How they're preventing distrust and disconnection as a couple.

[08:45] The Power of Vulnerability

• Why our intentions are important.
• How Josh inspires Shawn as a human being.
• Why leaders hold lanterns.
• How vulnerability establishes trust.
• Why even the most successful people suffer alone.
• How Shawn has been connecting to his feminine and masculine side.

[17:05] Learning to Love Yourself

• How the wound is where we serve from.
• Why Shawn became successful thanks to his struggles.
• How there is always more for us to chase.
• If we're not whole within ourselves, we can easily be destroyed.

[22:30] How Lack of Self-Love Shows Up in Life

• Why Shawn was extremely sick and suicidal.
• How he was gaslighting himself and his body through drugs and caffeine.
• Why he had no self-love because it wasn't modeled to him in his childhood.
• How being bullied at school ended up with Shawn bullying himself.
• Why he didn't have any peace in his life.

[27:50] You Can Only Blame Yourself for Your Problems

• 447 Josh Trent with Dr. Doug Brackmann | I am Driven: Embodying Higher Frequencies to Live Your Purpose
• Why we need to hit rock bottom in order to grow.
• How we can't blame anybody but ourselves for what we're going through.
• Why being nice is not the same as being kind.

[32:35] How to Take Care of Your Physical Wellness

• Why we're not broken, we need to be reminded that we're perfect.
• How physical wellness is essential for spiritual development.
• Why doctors don't know how different medications interact with each other.
• How medicating our physical symptoms is not the solution.
• Why we're no longer connected to God, nature, and each other.
• How biohacking was helping Shawn survive.

[43:05] Allow Yourself Grace

• Why we should express more love and appreciation.
• Everything has a purpose, even our mistakes.
• How hypnosis helped Shawn resolve a childhood trauma.
• Why he was trying to prove his worth to other people because he didn't believe he could be loved.

[54:00] Trusting The Divine Purpose

• 686 Mark Groves | Your Triggers Are Your Teachers: How To Answer The Call of Self-Mastery In Relationships + Life
• Steven Young
• We can be the parent to our inner child.
• Why Josh honors the pain that he's been through.
• There is a divine purpose behind our struggles.

[59:05] Science Is An Art

• Why true science and spirituality should be used together.
• How science has become a type of religion.
• Why Shawn is always open to learning a new way.
• How science has been weaponized.
• Why science is an art that's meant to be explored.

[01:05:25] How to Increase Your Capacity for Stress

• 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream
• 096 Emotional Resilience, Nootropics + Outsmarting The Modern World – Daniel Schmachtenberger
• Why there is no quick fix.
• The importance of taking care of our mental health to get out of the state of overwhelm.
• The ENERGY Formula by Shawn Wells
• Why challenges increase our capacity for stress.
• How understanding hormesis can help us manage our stress levels.

[01:14:50] Is Extreme Physical Training Bad for You?

• How To Eat, Move And Be Healthy! by Paul Chek
• How extreme physical training was causing health problems for Shawn.
• Why overtraining is under-recovery.
• How the best professional athletes often struggle mentally.
• A 70-Year-Old Billionaire’s Definition of Success
• Why being loved by our children is the best reward.

[01:21:35] Paraxanthine: The Catalyst of Creation

• How Shawn saw in a ceremony that paraxanthine would change people's lives.
• Why paraxanthine helps our brain stay young.
• How paraxanthine decreases oxidative stress levels.
• Why people are addicted to caffeine.
• How paraxanthine is changing how our society thinks and acts.

[01:31:20] Healing From Caffeine Addiction

• Why physiological and mental resilience are tied to each other.
• How Josh abused caffeine when he was younger.
• Why healing one wound gives us a capacity for more healing.
• How paraxanthine helps us get into a flow state.
• Why we're exhausted from not following our natural rhythm and not having a connection to God.

[01:39:25] Alcohol + Caffeine: Good or Bad?

• Why the effects of alcohol and caffeine provide a pseudo-relief.
• How caffeine and alcohol served humanity to evolve.
• When we're hurting, we need something to provide support.
• We're here to learn and evolve as souls.

[01:49:55] What Gives You Energy?

• Why we should keep track of the things that give us the energy to become successful.
• The importance of surrounding ourselves with the right people.
• Why being conscious of what we allow in creates a change in our lives.

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Power Quotes From The Show Paraxanthine Is Going to Change The World

"Paraxanthine is the caffeine 2.0. It's going to change the way society thinks, feels, and acts. It's going to be the replacement for caffeine where it's been an abusive relationship for millennia." - Shawn Wells

What Is Science?

"Science is meant to be empowering. Science is meant to be a journey. Science is meant to be open-ended. I believe that science is an art that's meant to be explored. We never truly get an answer. It's a journey with no definitive beginning or end. And we get to explore and find what makes sense for us, that's science." - Shawn Wells

The Benefits of Paraxanthine

"Paraxanthine doesn't only give you energy. It increases the nitric oxide to the brain, glutathione, catalase, BDNF neuroplasticity, cognitive flexibility, serotonin, acetylcholine, and dopamine. All the ways that your brain could be younger, it's doing. So it's no longer a come-at-a-cost ingredient like caffeine. It's the ingredient that is going to help us reshape our society, if we let it, in a very healthy way." - Shawn Wells

Links From Today's Show 

• Shawn Wells
• 618 Shawn Wells + Daniel Solomons | Paraxanthine: UPDATE Your Energy + Vitality Without Caffeine
• 359 Shawn Wells: Ingredients For Healing, Self Love, & Mental Health
• 447 Josh Trent with Dr. Doug Brackmann | I am Driven: Embodying Higher Frequencies to Live Your Purpose
• 686 Mark Groves | Your Triggers Are Your Teachers: How To Answer The Call of Self-Mastery In Relationships + Life
• Steven Young
• 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream
• 096 Emotional Resilience, Nootropics + Outsmarting The Modern World – Daniel Schmachtenberger
• The ENERGY Formula by Shawn Wells
• How To Eat, Move And Be Healthy! by Paul Chek
• A 70-Year-Old Billionaire’s Definition of Success

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About Shawn Wells

Shawn Wells, MPH, LDN, RD, CISSN, FISSN, is the Chief Scientist of UPDATE and the world’s leading nutritional biochemist and expert on health optimization.

He has formulated over 1,000 supplements, food, beverages, and cosmeceuticals, and patented 25 novel ingredients including Paraxanthine, Teacrine, Dynamine, and Dhydroberberine.

He is now known as the Ingredientologist - the scientist of ingredients. Formerly a chief clinical dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience.

His expertise can help any health-conscious individual to better manage stress and experience higher performance and more energy by utilizing his practical, holistic solutions.

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