The Health Sessions

This week, I'm excited to welcome Jo Bhakdi to the podcast. Jo is founder and CEO of Quantgene. He leads a team of 22 that is growing quickly. Quantgene's mission is to extend the healthy human lifespan by 10 years within the next 10 years, or more simply put: a decade within a decade. To achieve this vision, Quantgene is striving to fix what's broken in medicine, going well beyond a single pill or EMR update. The company is tackling conventional medicine from scratch and building a new system of Medical Intelligence™. They are innovating to effectively combine the full power of modern medical expertise, clinical-grade genetic and genomic intelligence and advanced data technology to prevent and detect diseases far earlier than is possible today.

Quantgene launched its first commercial offering, Serenity, earlier this year. The company has also acted quickly to stand-up next-day 99.9% accurate COVID-19 testing solutions for individuals and institutions.

He has raised $13 million to date and expects to end next year with more than 10,000 members. Jo's audience is engaged and numbers more than 20,000.

Questions asked during our conversation:

• How does your Medical Intelligence™ system differ from the usual principles & practices?
• What advice/protocols might the end user expect to receive after genetic testing?
• How do your testing services compare to the existing DNA testing services?

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Hey, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition. And welcome to another episode of the health sessions. It's here that we connect with the world's best experts in health, wellness, and human performance in an attempt to cut through the confusion around what it actually takes to achieve a long lasting health. Now I'm sure that's something that we all strive to have. I certainly do.

Before we get into the show today, you might not know that we make products, too. That's right. We're into whole food nutrition and have a range of super foods and natural supplements to help support your day. If you are curious, want to find out more, just jump over to our website. That is 180nutrition.com.au and take a look okay. Back to the show.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Jo, back to you to the podcast. Jo is the founder and CEO of Quantgene, a biotechnology company with a mission to extend the healthy human lifespan by 10 years, within the next 10 years. the company is tackling conventional medicine from scratch and building a new system of medical intelligence to prevent and detect diseases far earlier than is possible today. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental differences between conventional medicine versus Quantgene's innovative early detection technology as a tool to protect ourselves against most diseases. Over to Jo.

Hi guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Jo back to the podcast. Jo, how are you?

Jo

01:34

Good, wonderful. How are you?

Stu

01:36

Very well, thank you, very well. First up for all of those that aren't familiar with you or your work, I would love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

Jo

01:47

Sure. I'm the CEO and founder of Quantgene. We are company a biotechnology, AI and cloud company here in California in Santa Monica. Yeah. We started the company in 2015, that's five years ago, who can believe it? It's fast. Time's flying by fast. Yeah. What we found in 2015, we did some very specific things, mainly cancer detection at early stage in the blood. That was our first big endeavor. And now we are wrapping it up and launching a product this year. But on this very long journey, what we basically found, even very early on, is that there is this unique and powerful confluence of these different factors right now, which is biotechnology sequencing and genetics, AI, Artificial Intelligence, and cloud. And cloud just means the entire software cloud systems that you can bring into this space. And by bringing these three things together, we are opening up a gate into the future of medicine that fundamentally transforms what we think medicine is.

And it's not just talk, it is reflected in numbers... And ultimately in this new paradigm, that medicine is not just about curing disease, it is about keeping you healthy and alive. So it is about longevity. And through this confluence of factors, we are building superior medical intelligence. We know more about everything, create foresight, understand what's going on in your body and can prevent bad things from happening and ultimately get to this ultimate mission of Quantgene, which is to extend and protect lives.

And yeah, there's a lot in there because all the way from technology into business models, into what is healthcare, what is medicine, who practices this new medicine, right? Who are the experts on that and who pays for it? The entire system needs to be rethought. And that makes it even more exciting because where there are challenges, there are also even greater opportunities. So that makes the work very exciting.

For full transcript and interview:

https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/jo-bhakdi-interview/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dan Churchill to the podcast. Dan Churchill is one of the world's most exciting celebrity chefs. Now based in New York, Dan is regularly featured on Good Morning America, on ABC's The Chew and on The Food Network. As a result he has reached an audience in excess of 10 million people. He is the Chef and Co-Founder of Charley St, a fast casual restaurant in Nolita that serves healthy farm-to-table. The restaurant is also home to Dan's own production kitchen, where he films videos and content with thought leaders in food and wellness. Questions asked during our conversation: What does good health mean to you? - Are there any particular ingredients that you tend to avoid? - Where would we start if we wanted to 'clean-up' our diet? https://180nutrition.com.au/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dan Churchill to the podcast. Dan is an Australian born New York-based celebrity chef with a focus on good food as the foundation for a healthy lifestyle. With a master's in exercise science, he's also the co-founder of the restaurant Charley St, but it doesn't stop there. He's a TV host, best-selling author of multiple titles, and the host of The Epic Table podcast, where he connects with some of the world's most remarkable thought leaders. In this episode, we discuss the best way to start our clean eating journey, the ingredients that could derail you, and a whole lot more. Over to Dan.

Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Dan Churchill to the podcast. Dan, mate, how are you?

Dan

01:33 Mate, I'm very well. As we were touching on earlier, this is not the first time we've actually met.

Stu

01:39 No.

Dan

01:40 It's good to see you again [inaudible 00:01:41].

Stu

01:42 Exactly, right. It may be a decade or so, but we're still doing what we're doing, which is great, which is great.

For full transcript or interview: https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/dan-churchill-interview/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Joele Greene. He is the creator of the VEEP Nutrition System, the world's first commercially available program based on targeting gut communities to effect biomarkers. He is a featured author, speaker, and guest in top tier publications like Muscle and Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness Digital Magazine, CBS Online, Superhuman Radio, and beyond. His system has also been featured on the Dr. Phil Show, where it has delivered astounding life-changing results.

Questions asked during our conversation:

• You talk about the need to 'learn how to eat', please explain.
• Tell us about the VEEP nutrition system.
• How do you recommend we exercise with long-lasting health as our goal?

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This week, I'm excited to welcome Joel Greene to the podcast. Joel is the creator of the VEEP Nutrition System, the world's first commercially available program based upon targeting gut communities to affect biomarkers. He's a featured author, speaker, and guest across multiple top tier publications, and his latest book, the Immunity Code, will change everything you think you know about your body. In this episode, we discuss food timing, exercise hacks, and why we need to learn how to eat again. Over to Joel.

Hey, guys. This is Stu from 180 Nutrition and I am delighted to welcome Joel Greene to the podcast. Joel, thank you so much for sharing some of your time. How are you today?

Joel

01:28 I'm actually fantastic. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

Stu

01:34 No, certainly the honor is all mine, but first up, for all of our listeners that may be new to you, unfamiliar with you, and your work, and your message, I'd love it if you could just tell our listeners a little bit about yourself.

Joel

01:50 Yeah. So, the question I get a lot is, "Are you a doctor or where'd you get all this stuff?" And my answer is pretty much, I really think of myself as just a consumer. I mean, that's all that I've ever really thought of myself as. I'm just a consumer who, if you go down a certain rabbit hole, and the meta rabbit hole would be that thing we call fitness and body consciousness. If you go down that rabbit hole and listen to people, and then you continue down that rabbit hole, I'm just what you get at the end of 30, 40 years of that, which is at the midpoint, very disillusioned, then where I'm at now, which is just really after what really works in the real world over time for the vast majority of people. What got me to that was, I had done the whole fitness thing starting really in 1970 with Jack LaLanne.

I'm very, very old, so a billion years ago when there was just three channels, Jack LaLanne was like the only thing on, and I would just get up every morning and I would go. I had a onesie that had Tigger on it and Jack had a onesie so, as a kid, I thought that was kind of cool. He's got a onesie too. So, I would just go and I would just mimic whatever he did, and it kind of just became this thing that I got into and did my entire life. So, what happened was, I just was fortunate to grow up around a lot of Olympic athletes. I lived in San Jose, California, and at the time, you had Bruce Jenner, now Caitlin, and you had Mac Wilkins and you had Millard Hampton and Ben Plucknett and all these Olympic gold and silver medalists that were training there.

So, I was around that and I just got bitten by the athletic bug really early. So, in fifth grade, I was going and doing interval sprints at school, trying to get faster. In ninth grade, we had all these Olympic athletes that would train at my high school because my high school coach was an Olympic vaulting coach and he actually coached Jenner. So, I just was doing what they were doing, and they were doing clean and jerks and Olympic lifts. I was so skinny. I'm six, three, and I was 160 pounds, and I was humiliated when people saw my arms. I was doing everything I could do to just not be so skinny. So, I kind of got bitten by the bodybuilding bug when I was very young, 12, 13 years old. I kind of followed that path throughout going into my twenties, and I was never paid to be fit. I was never a fitness person. I was just a regular person, and I would just take whatever was new as soon as it came out and I would just wholeheartedly just digest it and do it militantly. So, in the late eighties, a company came out, Champion Nutrition, and they had a product called Metabolol II, and it was what was called a metabolic optimizer. The label said, "MCTs, the fatless fat." This was the era where fat was evil, and every product out there had a no fat, no fat on the label. So, here's this company saying on the label these fats can't be stored as fat. I was blown away by that. I was like, "Wow. How's this work?" So, I started really studying everything I could find on MCTs and nutrition.

About that time, 2000 or 91, 92, I think, Vince McMahon got into bodybuilding and put everybody on the keto diet. So, this was more of this fat thing. I started looking at this and how can it be that fats can make you lean. That was impossible back then. That led into when Met-Rx first came out in the early nineties. I was like one of the first hundred customers for that. They had it in two cans and it was amazing stuff. Like I got pealed. I was probably 5% body fat for a number of years on that stuff.

For interview and transcript:

https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/joel-greene-interview/ ‎

This week I'm excited to welcome Martin Silva back to the show. Martin is a transformation coach, award-winning fitness model, public speaker, podcaster, the list goes on. He's a rare breed in the fitness industry as his focus is geared towards a holistic approach, with longterm health as his main goal. In this episode we talk about the common misconceptions that he experiences time and time again in health and fitness space. We talk about eating more, not less in order to get the body you want, and also dig deeper into recovery, sleep and the importance of routines. Over to Martin…

Questions asked during our conversation:

• How are you getting results with your online clients during lockdown?
• What equipment have you found to be most beneficial for home workouts?
• Are there any popular exercises/movements that you don't recommend?

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This week, I'm excited to welcome Martin Silva back to the show. Martin is a transformation coach, award-winning fitness model, public speaker, podcaster. The list goes on. He's a rare breed in the fitness industry and his focus is geared towards a holistic approach with long-term health as his main goal. In this episode, we talk about how the pandemic has affected the health and fitness space and how he's managing to get amazing results with his online clients using minimum equipment. Over to Martin.

Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Martin Silva back to the podcast. Martin, good to see you, mate. How are you?

Martin

01:25

Good to see you too, Stu. I'm great. It's good to catch up. Last time we touched bases before lockdown, so great to see your face, man. Great to see you stack some size on there as well from some of the concepts of my program. You need to get a bigger t-shirt, Stu, for sure.

Stu

01:41

Like we were saying, it's either a washing machine problem.

Martin

01:44

Yeah, a bit of both. I reckon a bit of both, muscle gains and tumble dryer job, that is.

Stu

01:49

Fantastic. So before we get into the conversation, I've got so many great questions to throw at you as well, this time. For all of those people that are new to the podcast and may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself.

Martin

02:05

Sure. Yeah. So I'm a fitness professional, and I've been coaching people as a personal trainer for over 15 years now. I ventured into the online space as well. So I've been coaching people online for about five years and I literally live, breathe, and eat health and fitness and getting people in shape, that's my wheelhouse, if you like, just to simplify that one.

And also I've competed as a bodybuilder, so I've done it naturally. I've never taken the performance enhancing supplements and whatnot, but I have competed against some of the best athletes in the world in non tested federation. So, where a lot of people do take stuff or whatever, but I've competed in those federations and I've done it naturally. I always like to clear that one up, right. Because it's a fundamental difference, but no bodybuilding, I did that for about three, four years, competed nine times and got to the professional level there.

And yeah, I mean, like I said, lifting weights and health, I've had my own journey in terms of looking after myself and going from I talked about this on the last podcast, but being driven mainly by how I looked and maybe by aesthetics to focusing more on health, and being kind of forced in a sense to really hone in on taking care of myself and making my health a priority instead of being driven by how I looked. But yeah, I mean, I could go on all day. I don't want to give you my life story and bore you, Stu. But that's the main ones there, mate.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Ryland Engelhart. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kiss the Ground. He is also a co-creator of the award-winning, transformational documentary film, "May I Be Frank." He is an entrepreneur and activist, and works to inspire more "gratitude" into our culture. He speaks on sacred commerce, tools for building community, and regeneration and is the host of Kiss the Ground's "We Can Do This Podcast."

Questions asked during our conversation:

• How do you define regenerative vs degenerative agriculture?
• Is it too late to be considering sustainability?
• How important are animals in the soil health conversation?

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This week, I'm excited to welcome Ryland Engelhart. Ryland is an entrepreneur, a restaurateur and social activist who co-owns the super popular plant-based restaurants Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre. He's also co-founder of Kiss the Ground, a nonprofit increasing social awareness and educating millions of people about the extraordinary benefits of healthy soil. In this episode, we discuss the fundamentals of regenerative agriculture and discover what we can all do at a community level to cultivate global regeneration. Over to Ryland.

Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Ryland Engelhart to the podcast, Ryland, how are you?

Ryland

00:01:50

I'm feeling great. Thank you so much. It's been great to get to know you a little bit before we jumped in here. And yeah, grateful to share love and information. That was kind of my mom's declaration of what there was to do in life, was to share love and information. And so it's always a delight to be invited to speak on a podcast, to share with new audience about what I've learned over my life that could potentially be helpful for others.

Stu

00:02:23

That is awesome. Well, that is what we are super excited about diving into today. But first up, for all of our listeners that might not be familiar with you or your work, I would love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself and your background, please.

Ryland

00:02:35

Okay, beautiful. So professionally over the last 15 years, I've been working within a family business, a restaurant business on the West Coast of the United States called Love Serve Remember. It is a management company that oversees two different restaurant chains. One is called Gracias Madre, which is organic plant-based Mexican food. And one is called Cafe Gratitude, which I know many Australians who have come and visited California have come to Cafe Gratitude. You guys have been a big international group that has been big fans of Cafe Gratitude. And really, yeah, we've been a family of, I would say, entrepreneurs really driving health and wellness and plant-based lifestyle.

15 years ago when we started the Cafe Gratitude, there was no such thing in the general lexicon of understanding of what cold brewed coffee was. No one was eating kale. Quinoa was not pronounceable. And almond milk, there wasn't almond milk on the shelf. It was just a completely different time. And we had the amazing opportunity of understanding as a family. We had been vegetarian for most of our lives and really got into healthy, organic food, and wanted to provide that for people through our restaurants. But I would say the bigger mission of our restaurant company was about spreading the consciousness of gratitude and really, how do we create a public domain, a business, a commercial venture, where we invite people in to that space, and we not only nourish them with healthy food, but we actually also curate healthy or meaningful or purposeful or grateful conversations. And so really, the food was the kind of carrot to get people in the door, but really we were more after having people be centered in a grateful place.

What we saw was when you're grateful, you are more present and you're also more loving and kind. When you're full of great, you're not trying to get stuff from the world. You're not trying to be a consumer, more and more and more for me, me, me, because you're in gratefulness. You're in the spirit of gratitude. So that was a a long intro, but yeah, the Cafe Gratitude's been around for 15 years. We have restaurants in the Bay Area on San Diego and in Los Angeles. So that's kind of been my professional world for the last 15 years.

And then I ventured out about seven years ago actually to start my own nonprofit called Kiss the Ground, which is kind of my current passion and focus. And really, that's focused on education advocacy for healthy soil and regenerative agriculture as the basis of a healthy civilization. And that if we really trace back a lot of the problems that humanity faces, it comes back to a destruction of the ecology that serves all of life coming from that earth, and that if we could get our relationship to soil, right and if we could heal our soils, we could actually heal a lot of our human health challenges. We could heal a lot of our ecological degradation. The big kind of aha moment was, oh my God, there's actually a solution to how we can reverse and bring the carbon out of the atmosphere that's causing climate change. We can actually draw enough carbon down into the soil, such that it actually provides something of value in soil so it makes a problem into a solution when that carbon comes out of the air into the soil, and that everyone who eats could be potentially catalyzing that movement.

So I started a nonprofit called Kiss the Ground to really advocate and educate around regenerative agriculture so that we could scale that up to what the new norm in agriculture. Because looking long and hard at the future of humanity on planet earth, I didn't really see how the current sustainability framework or model could actually make a difference. It just seemed like kind of ideas that were less harmful that made us feel good in the now moment, but really weren't actually going to make the difference that makes the difference, and that we were just going to slowly drive off a cliff. Now I have a son who's two, and so it makes me even more passionate about how we can heal and regenerate this beautiful, precious one of a kind planet in the universe.

For full interview and transcript:

https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/ryland-engelhart-interviews/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Kristan Kirshaw to the show. She naturally has been supporting others around her to learn and find their way since a young age. She has developed that skill in connection over time and has added a lot of knowledge and experience to this via formal training. She has completed a BSc (Hons) in Animal Science, a Cert IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40110) as well as extensive training with Morley Robbins to be a Root Cause Protocol (RCP) Consultant in 2017 in the area of mineral dysfunction and metabolism in the body.

Questions we ask in this episode:

• What are the most common signs of nutrient deficiencies?
• Are high street supplements useful in this scenario?
• What's testing would you recommend for those feeling drained?

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Hey, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and welcome to another episode of The Health Sessions. It's here that we connect with the world's best experts in health, wellness, and human performance in an attempt to cut through the confusion around what it actually takes to achieve a long lasting health. Now I'm sure that's something that we all strive to have. I certainly do. Before we get into the show today, you might not know that we make products too. That's right. We're into whole food nutrition and have a range of superfoods and natural supplements to help support your day. If you are curious, want to find out more, just jump over to our website, that is 180nutrition.com.au and take a look. Okay, back to the show.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Kristan Kershaw. Kristan is a holistic health coach with a unique understanding of how minerals and vitamins run our bodies and how insufficient or imbalanced minerals will lead to a range of symptoms. She works closely with The Root Cause Protocol, which focuses on learning to feed your body the correct nutrients and supplements in order to repair cellular dysfunction. In this episode, we discuss the most common signs of nutrient deficiency and how high-strength supplements may not be the answer and also the recommended tests that we need to do today to start the healing journey. Over to Kristan.

Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition and I am delighted to welcome Kristan Kershaw to the podcast. Kristan, good afternoon. So we're kind of neighbors, I think, at the moment. You're in Queensland now in Byron Bay. Typically, I'm calling somebody over in the states or on the other side of the world somewhere, but how are you?

Kristan

02:03

I'm really good, actually. It's a sunny, amazing day outside and I'm like, "Oh, winter's in Queensland."

Stu

02:10

It's not too bad, is it? Thank you so much for sharing some of your time. I know we're going to dig deep into a couple of topics that I think will really interest our audience today. But first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I would love it. If you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

Kristan

02:28

Absolutely. So I'm a mom to three. And believe it or not, you won't have caught this, I could have warned you before and I'm sorry for it, but it's pronounced Kristan, just to throw people because you'll hear it pronounced different ways.

For full interview and transcript: https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/kristan-kershaw-interview/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dr Christiane Northrup back to the show. Christiane Northrup, M.D., is a New York Times best-selling author and visionary pioneer in women's health. After decades on the front lines of her profession as a practicing physician in obstetrics and gynecology, she is now dedicating her life to helping women truly flourish by learning how to enhance all that can go right with their bodies. Internationally known for her empowering approach to women's health and wellness, she teaches women (and many men) how to thrive at every stage of life and encourages them to create health on all levels by tuning in to their inner wisdom. As a business owner, physician, former surgeon, mother, writer, and speaker, Dr. Northrup acknowledges our individual and collective capacity for growth, freedom, joy, and balance. Dr. Northrup stays in touch with her worldwide community through her Internet radio show, Flourish!, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, her e-letter, and her website, drnorthrup.com.

Questions we ask in this episode:

• How do you define vibrant health?
• What products, habits or daily practises could be sabotaging our health?
• How important is a positive mindset for optimal health?

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dr Alberto Villoldo back to the show. He is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanistic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 30 years. He's the founder of The Four Winds Society, an organization dedicated to bridging ancient shamanistic traditions with modern medicine and psychology.

Questions we ask in this episode:

• What led you to explore shamanism?
• What did you learn during your time in the Amazon?
• How does a shamanistic philosophy view modern-day living?

Stu

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dr. Alberto Villoldo. Dr. Villoldo is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanistic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 30 years. He's the founder of The Four Winds Society, an organization dedicated to bridging ancient shamanistic traditions with modern medicine and psychology.

In this episode, he shares his experiences in the Amazon and discusses how he teaches people to grow new bodies that resist disease through modern day shamanistic rituals. Over to Dr. Villoldo.

Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Alberto Villoldo to the podcast. Dr. Villoldo, how are you?

Alberto

01:53 I'm well. Thank you.

Stu

01:55 Thank you so much for sharing your time. And I know that you've got a very unique story that we're going to dig into this morning, and it's going to take us on a little bit of a different journey. But before we get into that, I would love for any of our listeners that may not have heard about you or your work, just to tell us a little bit about where you started and why you do what you do, please.

Alberto

02:18 Just in a nut shell, I'm a medical anthropologist and I've spent the last 30 years traveling through the Amazon and the Andes mountains and throughout the jungles of the world to study the shamans, the medicine men and women that create health. They don't treat disease. Their practice has to do with creating the conditions for health, and then disease goes away or does not manifest.

In contrast with our Western medical practice, where we don't really have a healthcare system, we have a deceased care system. The shamans that I work with focused on creating health, psychosomatic health, health through your foods, your diet, nutrition, through your breathing practice, your sleep, and of course, through the luminous energy field that surrounds the physical body and organizes it.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dr Will Bulsiewicz back to the show. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz. Dr. Bulsiewicz is a board certified gastroenterologist and gut health expert. With 14 years as an MD using the latest in cutting edge medical research. He helps patients face their health goals and challenges head on and achieve incredible results. In this episode, we discussed the fundamentals of gut health and dig deep into his new book, Fiber Fueled. The book, amongst other things, outlines how we can lose weight, ditch the diet, and transform our health by optimizing our gut microbiome.

Questions we ask in this episode:

• What are the most obvious signs of an imbalanced gut?
• What are your thoughts on elimination diets… grains in particular?
• Is all fibre created equal?

Stu

This week I'm excited to welcome Dr. Will Bulsiewicz. Dr. Bulsiewicz is a board certified gastroenterologist and gut health expert. With 14 years as an MD using the latest in cutting edge medical research. He helps patients face their health goals and challenges head on and achieve incredible results. In this episode, we discussed the fundamentals of gut health and dig deep into his new book, Fiber Fueled. The book, amongst other things, outlines how we can lose weight, ditch the diet, and transform our health by optimizing our gut microbiome. Over to Dr. Bulsiewicz.

00:01:25 Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 nutrition and I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Will Bulsiewicz to the podcast. Dr. Bulsiewicz, how are you?

Will

00:01:35 I'm doing fantastic, Stu. It's a pleasure to connect with you from the other side of the world. We're all immersed in this COVID-19 crisis right now, but it turns out that now is a great time to double down on health. Now is a great time to double down on gut health.

Stu

00:01:54 Yes.

Will

00:01:54 I don't think it's ever been as important as it is right now.

Stu

00:01:57 I think so. I think so, and probably never been a better time to dial in and listen to some podcasts as well because you're likely going to be at home. You're going to have a little bit more free time and feeling that you want to empower yourself with the right thing. So, first up for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd just love it if you could tell everybody a little bit about yourself please.

Will

00:02:23 Oh, happy to. So, I am a board certified gastroenterologist in the United States, so that means that I'm practicing, seeing people with digestive issues. That's what I do for a living. That's my full time job. All this stuff that you find that about me, for example, I have an Instagram account called the gut health MD with a large following. I've written a book called Fiber Fueled, which by the way Stu, I just want to mention that somehow I managed to pick out two words that are spelled differently in Australia than in the United States.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Scott Carney to the show. Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. What Doesn't Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men's Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside and Fast Company. His work has been the subject of a variety of radio and television programs, including on NPR and National Geographic TV. In 2010, he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for his story "Meet the Parents," which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. Carney has spent extensive time in South Asia and speaks Hindi. He attended Kenyon College and has a masters degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in Denver, CO

Questions asked in the episode

• How do you define the phrase you refer to as 'The Wedge'?
• Which of the practices outlined in the book challenged you the most?
• What can we expect from the new book?