This week Dr. Dan and Kendall are joined by Jimmy Moore of Livin' La Vida Low Carb and author of the books, Cholesterol Clarity and Keto Clarity. Jimmy opens up about his long time struggle with obesity and the criticism he's received from the Paleo community. In this episode he talks about his health improving so much after he started a low carb diet that he was able to come off multiple medications. Check out this in depth conversation about the reality of obesity and the benefits of low carb diets. 

Every week Kendall and Dr. Dan answer your questions related to health, diet, sleep, wellness, functional medicine, age management, fitness, sexuality, hormones, balance, mindfulness, and much more. Send yours in to [email protected]. 

This week's questions:

1. My thyroid reports have been normal every time my doc checks them but I have all the symptoms of thyroid problems is there something I am missing?

2. I am confused about whether I should be taking probiotics or not, no gut issues, advice?

3. What is the best source of protein powder and is NNU (net nitrogen utilization) a valuable guide?

4. I have heard all the talk about methylation and MTHFR, should I just go ahead and take methyl-folate, SAMe, NAC, and methyl-B12 and not worry about getting tested for the MTHFR?

Join us as we speak with neurosurgeon Jack Kruse. Dr. Kruse epitomizes the medical biohacker and he talks to us about the health risks with EMF (cell towers, cell phones, environmental) along with steps you can take to optimize your health. You will also learn about the benefits of cold thermogenesis, DHA fat, and reversing aging effects. He also reveals his most current and challenging biohack which he has been doing since January and the results are astonishing.

Every week Kendall and Dr. Dan answer your questions related to health, diet, sleep, wellness, functional medicine, age management, fitness, sexuality, hormones, balance, mindfulness, and much more. Send yours in to [email protected]. 

This week Dr. Dan is joined by Dr. Warren Walsh to answer questions related to exercise and fitness.

Bestselling visionary author, futurist, philosopher, and transhumanist this is Zoltan Istvan. His work has been featured by The New York Times Syndicate, Outside, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC Radio, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel. He talks with Dr. Dan about the quest for human optimization and the drive for human or transhuman immortality. You do not want to miss this conversation.

Every week Kendall and Dr. Dan answer your questions related to health, diet, sleep, wellness, functional medicine, age management, fitness, sexuality, hormones, balance, mindfulness, and much more. Send yours in to [email protected]. 

This week's questions and topics-

"I’ve read some stuff on your website about the drawbacks and risks of oral estrogen, can you share more about this?" - Kim

"My MCV (mean corpuscular volume) of my red cells keeps going up and I have heard you mention that this could be a marker for some nutrient deficiencies, what should I be taking to correct this?" - Jim

Recent articles that we have posted on the Facebook page that are getting quite a bit of activity:

- Caffeine is bad for you, really?

- Marital satisfaction based on females happiness?

There was another fascinating discovery mentioned in the news this week that is huge and few understand the true impact this has regarding longevity.

This week Darryl Edwards, The Fitness Explorer, joins Living The Optimized Life to chat with Dr. Dan and Kendall. 

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Every week Kendall and Dr. Dan answer your questions related to health, diet, sleep, wellness, functional medicine, age management, fitness, sexuality, hormones, balance, mindfulness, and much more. Send yours in to [email protected]. 

This week Dr. Dan is live from Italy explaining his take away after a week long Nutrigenomics course. 

This week's guest is Sami Inkinen, co-founder of Trulia, rowed across the pacific with his wife Meredith to bring awareness to the benefits of a high fat diet and the perils of sugar. Sami was inspired by the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand to have an adventure in the name of awareness. Sami and Meredith created Fat Chance Row. They had no experience rowing yet rowed 2800 miles and broke a record to get to Hawaii in 45 days. Their experience was equal to running two marathons a day.  

Every week Kendall and Dr. Dan answer your questions related to health, diet, sleep, wellness, functional medicine, age management, fitness, sexuality, hormones, balance, mindfulness, and much more. Send yours in to [email protected]. 

This week's questions:

1. What are your recommendations for natural ways to improve my ability to fall asleep, I will lay in bed for an hour at night trying to fall asleep, any suggestions would be appreciated.  - Melissa

2. Kendall - Our son who will be 6 in November, has had chronic diarrhea since the end of February.  We started with IgG testing which showed he is allergic/sensitive to many foods, including dairy, soy, gluten, almost all nuts (except walnuts), potatoes, coconut, lentils and a host of other things. We've known he has had a dairy and soy issue/intolerance/allergy since he was an infant (to cow, not goat).  We removed all foods that showed up on his IgG testing and two months later things were still the same. We've since done 3, 3 day stool samples that have been sent for testing and all have come back negative for everything - fungus, bacteria, parasites.  We have done a proactive 14 day course of Flagyl just in case. We've been to see the pediatric GI and an infectious disease doctor.  We've been to acupuncture.  He still has diarrhea - or I should say it ebbs and flows between a week of diarrhea and then soft stools.  The next step is to do a scope but we're trying to avoid that. We are pescatarians - so not paleo by a long stretch.  However, our pediatrician feels strongly that this is related to food and nutrition.

3. We have a question wondering why we talk about directed supplementation but we sell multi-vitamins on the site. What's up with that?