Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook

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How did your body respond to the last carb heavy dinner you had? Does eating a high calorie meal affect you worse than a lower calorie, higher carb meal? Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary biologist, did a research study on a hunter gatherer community called Hazda in Tanzania, to learn about energy expenditure. What he's discovered flips everything you thought you knew about calories and carbs upside down. He's joining Tom to expose why the data shows that carbs in a calorie controlled environment do not matter. Meaning, it is possible to theoretically go on a Twinkie diet (please don't) and still lose weight when calories are adhered to. Herman is using data to push back on how calories are burned and how they signal your brain to control your weight.

Order Herman Pontzer's book, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy : https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Research-Really-Calories-Healthy/dp/0525541527

Also check out the Hazda Fund (https://www.hadzafund.org/about) to learn more about the Hazda culture

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Herman Pontzer

1:40 | The Calorie Debate

6:14 | How We Burn Energy

12:09 | Obesity Starts In The Brain

14:43 | Hypothalamus Function

19:25 | Brain Response to Calories

29:06 | Food Calorie Signaling

32:36 | Optimal Lifestyle

34:53 | Processed Food Brain Hack

38:31 | Why Sugar Is A Problem

42:22 | Hi Carb Diet Weight Loss

45:24 | Fantasy Diet Study

QUOTES:

"The problem is that when we begin to say, oh, that must have been something in the food that you ate, rather than, oh, it's something in your individual response to that extra energy." [21:33]

"It really does come down to the calories or what determines the weight change or maintenance, not the carb level." [24:13]

"The argument is, is this more in the weeds? Is it fat cells and pancreas? Or is it brain cells and sensing?" [32:29]

"It is my job to keep eyes open and look across cultures and look across human experiences and see that diversity and understand all of it is pretty normal. That the universe of normal for humans is pretty darn broad." [33:11]

"Sugar is a fructose molecule and a glucose molecule stuck together, and when it gets into your blood, that's what it is." [38:38]

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Sleep is not only an essential function that allows us to recharge mentally and physically, it's also deemed so important that going without sleep was banned by Guinness World Records. The record for going without sleep was officially given to Randy Gardner who managed to survive 11 days without sleep in 1964 while giving himself a form of dementia. Obviously this is not the path to take for increasing productivity and optimizing your quality of life, but many of us are short changing our sleep every night and have been doing so for years. Sleep is something that should be protected and guarded at all costs if you want to execute consistently at a high level and optimize for higher output and results. Here are Tom's 10 tips to help you prioritize your sleep even if you're burning the candle at both ends, there is no excuse and no way around prioritizing your sleep hygiene.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Sleep Routine

0:42 | Get Sun Exposure

1:53 | Move Your Body

2:38 | Stop Eating Crap

7:12 | Reduce Artificial Light

12:39 | Separate Your Blankets

14:45 | Keep The Bedroom Cool

16:07 | Tape Your Mouth Shut

17:55 | Fall Back Asleep

21:16 | Never Set an Alarm

22:33 | Bonus Tip

QUOTES:

"The second you wake up, get out, go outside and get that sun exposure" [1:26]

"For the last hour before bed, I'm doing fun things and doing things that give me energy that makes me feel light that are part of that passion that feel good." [8:56]

"I only have one job now that I'm going to bed and that job is to sleep." [9:38]

"Make sure that you don't have an alarm staring you in the face and that you get whatever amount of sleep you need." [22:02]

"Recognizing that you can shift your state and get into that much more pleasant place is really powerful. And to even do that, on your worst days, is incredibly beneficial." [23:40]

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Dopamine is not a new topic. People have been obsessing and hearing about dopamine and its role in human behavior for years. You may think of it as the feel-good happy hormone, or you may associate it with addiction, love, lust and sex. As our lives convert over to a totally digital experience that is with us everywhere we are in the form of a cell phone, dopamine detox has even started gaining in popularity. Dr. Andrew Huberman from the Huberman Lab is back again to unpack some of the more surprising discoveries and uses of dopamine. He cleverly relates dopamine to being a biological currency that has a role to play in human desire for more. Dopamine is the catalyst pushing humanity forward exploring things like cryptocurrency and pushing our limitations and what is possible, but is all of that for the sake of pleasure and feeling good? Dr. Huberman breaks down the eternal balance of pain and pleasure, arousal and relaxation and gives you the insight you need to start regulating your body's dopamine release. If you thought dopamine was all about feeling good, Dr. Huberman is about to reveal why it's more about what motivates you in the pursuit of something greater.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dr. Andrew Huberman

0:56 | Dopamine the Biological Currency

6:51 | Releasing Dopamine

10:38 | Hormonal Signaling

14:34 | Can We Spike Dopamine?

21:00 | Value the Pursuit & the Dips

25:40 | Balance of Pain and Pleasure

31:23 | Self Regulation of Dopamine

38:28 | Dopamine and Time Perception

44:31 | Dopamine and Overindulging

49:05 | Action Based Denial

52:42 | Using Rules & Dopamine

58:27 | Ways to Get Motivated

QUOTES:

"When I say dopamine is the universal currency of everything, what I mean is, it's driving the motivation to develop new currencies." [3:08]

"Celebrating the win more than the pursuit, it actually sets you up for failure in the future." [16:00]

"If you can start to register that craving, and that friction and that desire, that almost kind of low level of agitation, sometimes high level of agitation [...] that's dopamine..." [17:54]

"Your capacity to tap into dopamine as a motivator, not just seeking dopamine rewards, that is infinite." [19:34]

"It's the craving that makes me feel alive. So it's the state of wanting that is in and of itself, the pleasurable act." [22:37]

"It doesn't matter if it's Bitcoin or aetherium, it doesn't matter if it's putting rockets on other planets, it doesn't matter if it's building the first automobile, it's the same currency." [25:27]

"Dopamine itself is not the reward. It's the build up to the reward, and the reward has more of a kind of opioid bliss like property," [29:51]

"The more pain you experience, the more dopamine you can achieve. If you get back on the avenue of pursuit." [30:58]

"I would say addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure, and I don't like to comment too much on enlightenment, [...] but a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure, and even better is a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work. " [32:55]

"If you think about most of the growth in life comes from these rigidly externally imposed schedules and we hate them. But they are where we learn restraint" [52:42]

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Being open minded to new science, new research and medical breakthroughs is always a bonus. Too often it's thought that health is for the rich or privileged that can afford high quality care, but when researchers and physicians begin to share how easy and accessible better health is for everyone, it's time to really pay attention. Dr. William Li is an internal medicine doctor from the Harvard Medical School Faculty that studies angiogenesis, and is the author of the best-selling book, Eat To Beat Disease. Dr. Li is breaking down the 5 natural body defenses protecting you at all times, even right now, and exactly how powerful foods are that can prevent disease in your body. This interview feels like part of the missing chronicles of optimizing your health to a level you never knew existed, and there's nothing complicated about it.

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction William Li

0:53 | Defining Real Health

4:39 | 5 Health Defense Systems

11:00 | Hiding Cancer in the Body

18:00 | Cellular Profiling Cancer

23:07 | Microbiome & Immune System

33:03 | Medicinal Food Power

40:49 | Explaining Angiogenesis

45:15 | Eating to Beat Disease

QUOTES:

"In most people's minds, including mine, not being sick is kind of the default definition of being healthy. But that is very problematic" [2:40]

"Health is not just the absence of disease, it is the result of our body's own hardwired defense systems, health defense systems that we're born with." [3:09]

"Organic coffee has more bioactives than the pesticide treated coffee because the insects, the natural things in the environment cause it to create more natural health defenses." [39:36]

"Eating to beat disease is not just picking a particular disease and trying to figure out what the recipe is that the one size fits all. But it's really a journey that we have our whole lives." [46:24]

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You're living in a society that has normalized everything that should be far from normal. From the time you open your eyes, your brain is kicking in and most likely living in overdrive. The unfortunate truth is most likely you're not even aware of all the ways your brain is under attack. Social media is being consumed at an unhealthy rate in both your personal and business life. Even if you have a generally healthy diet, processed foods and chemicals that damage the brain are still sneaking into your body's system. Is there any wonder why anxiety, stress, and depression, trauma and PTSD are now considered to be the norm? Dr. Daniel Amen is a psychiatrist, brain scan expert and third time guest. In this episode, he's unleashing the truth about the emotional dragons you are likely dealing with. He gets into some of the most common dragons attacking your emotional brain today, anxious, wounded and inferior to name a few. If you're low-key feeling attacked on a daily basis, breathe deep and listen in on ways you can start changing your brain and changing your life for the better.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dr. Daniel Amen

1:10 | Dragons From the Past

4:18 | Balancing the Prefrontal Cortex

7:38 | Knowing Common Dragons

10:59 | Identify Accurate Thinking

14:18 | Strategies To Tame Your Dragons

16:35 | Techniques to Help with Trauma

20:35 | PTSD & Stimulating Trauma

29:57 | Rewriting 12 Steps for Bad Habits

32:00 | Tell Your Brain What You Want

39:09 | Unhealthy Weight to the Brain

45:01 | Brain Health, Anxiety & Diet Link

48:49 | Your Brain on Marijuana

QUOTES:

"When you take the emotion out, something's going to replace it, and if you have skill in managing your mind, you'll often look for what's right rather than what's wrong." [27:35]

"Negative thinking disrupts brain function, but at the same time [...] positive thinking by itself is harmful, we have to be thoughtful. [28:47]

"You have to tell your brain what you want, because it's always listening." [32:00]

"What do you want in a balanced way? Because if you know, then you're more likely to get it." [33:22]

"When you become more real, you become more relatable." [41:07]

"This is not about not having fun. It's about having fun with all of you intact." [52:42]

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When it comes to being healthy and improving your health, the overwhelm of information and advice can literally melt your brain. Whether you follow a keto diet, paleo, vegan, or carnivore, the goal for everyone is pretty similar. Get healthy and optimize productivity and energy. Dr. Dominic D'Agostino is back for round two and breaking down everything you need to know about why your biomarkers matter. Dr. D'Agostino reveals the truth behind whether or not carnivore or plant based diets are best for you, how to optimize your biomarkers with fasting, and what you need to know about what role exogenous ketones can play in your optimal health regimen. You'll want to pay close attention to understand why Covid can potentially become an ongoing problem for young healthy adults and how inflammation is impacting everything.

Don't miss Dr. D'Agostino's first episode on Health Theory: https://youtu.be/hu1mF8_QGJE

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dominic D'Agostino

2:10 | Metabolic Health and Covid

5:13 | Metabolic Biomarkers to Track

7:01 | Inflammation Biomarkers

12:01 | Why Fasting Boosts Immune System

14:14 | Benefits of Exogenous Ketones

18:48 | Ketone Biomarker For Burning Fat

23:20 | Hacking Biomarkers With Ketones

32:37 | Healthy vs. Unhealthy Immune Response

38:44 | Healthy People Post Covid Problems

41:28 | Optimize Metabolic Health Now

47:32 | Simplifying Diet, Carbs, Ketones

51:49 | 72 Hour Fasting Benefits

QUOTES:

"Having optimal metabolic health in terms of low insulin, low glycemic variability, low glucose overall, and optimizing your cardio metabolic biomarkers is the way to combat this disease." [3:15]

"In the context of many pathogens, whether it be viral, whether it be bacterial, or if you are dealing with an inflammatory issue, fasting, and a ketogenic diet, which mimics many aspects of fasting can be very beneficial." [10:42]

"We are omnivores, right. So we are basically hardwired and evolved to eat to be extremely adaptable in what we are eating." [42:52]

"If you're on a very limited amount of calories, and you want to get as much nutrition as possible, with the least amount of calories, a carnivore diet is the perfect approach." [45:18]

"What may even be more important than having a diversity of fiber is actually having fermented foods. [They] contribute to the population, can reverse gut dysbiosis and increase the diversity of the gut microbiome" [47:06]

"You can thrive off a carbohydrate based diet but your glycemic variability will correlate to food cravings. So, if you want to go throughout your day and have optimal productivity and feel optimal energy, I found [...] that a low carb approach is the way to go. " [48:27]

"There are benefits to being in a hyper ketone anemic state, so the ketones then act as an alternative energy source, anti-inflammatory molecule and a hormone which has many beneficial effects." [49:47]

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Youth has a way of making you feel near invincible. Your body handles long nights, limited sleep, and poor diets much easier. The problem is those choices have a cumulative effect. What you eat, how often you eat also impacts the health of your brain. There is a Chinese proverb that says, "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is now." It is easy to disregard neurodegenerative diseases as something for older people, but understanding how leaky brain and neurodegeneration begins to happen is better learned now, than waiting till later if you plan to age gracefully. Dr. Jay Lombard may be incognito but his depth of knowledge and expertise in degenerative neurological diseases is astonishing. He breaks down what misfolded proteins are, the relation of infection and immune system processes to neurodegenerative disease and reveals simple ways you can support your immune system on a cellular level. Get ready to break out the ice baths and discover a new reason to relax in the sauna.

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Also, check out Dr. Jay Lombard's book, The Mind of God: https://amzn.to/3iSyPFJ

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction

3:39 | Linking Infection & Neurological Injuries

6:12 | Blood Vessel Problems

9:21 | Managing Misfolded Proteins

12:36 | Breaking Down Pathological Proteins

16:56 | Immune System, Heat Shock Proteins

18:38 | Periodontal Disease Role in Alzheimer's

22:01 | Risk Factors & Prevention

24:43 | Regulating Epigenetics

28:56 | Benefit of Fasting for Prevention

32:38 | Ultimate Diet for Prevention

37:32 | Meaning in Hopeless ALS Cases

41:38 | Biology of Meaning & Purpose

QUOTES:

"Without perfusion of the brain, you can take any supplement you want. But if you don't have adequate perfusion, you're not going to have a healthy brain" [9:03]

"My goal as a clinician is to help you live with ALS, not die from the condition." [11:54]

"The closest proximity of infectious diseases to the blood brain barrier, is in periodontal diseases, and that's been strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease." [18:59]

"Leaky gut is a very important aspect of a functional medicine approach to any condition, but I think the first and foremost point of assessment would be assessing periodontal disease in those patients." [20:15]

"The same recommendations that we have for cardiovascular disease or equally warranted for prevention of neurological conditions." [22:40]

"The common thread of long term survivors has been a sense of purpose and faith in the ineffable" [39:20]

"Whatever problems that we have, are to learn from those problems to grow as individuals and

to deal with them without running away from the problem itself." [40:08]

"When we love, we increase our endorphins, which helps us to bear whatever pain that we're experiencing with whatever condition" [41:49]

"The idea that we can infuse medicine with a sense of purpose is, I think, of extraordinary value for everybody to appreciate." [42:57]

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If you have followed me for any amount of time, you have likely heard me say action cures all. Since starting Healthy Theory, I have interviewed over 90 specialists and experts about everything from brain cognition, to gut microbiome, to reverse aging. Information is meant to be put into action, so today I am sharing with you what my daily routine consists of at the moment. Goals are important and should always be considered when choosing what is best for you. This is not advice for anyone, just a look at how I've applied the plethora of expert advice I've received over the past few years. This episode is Health Theory In Action with my own routine:

Key Points to My Routine:

SHOW NOTES:

Morning Routine | Why the order you prioritize in the morning matters [0:40]

Workout Routine | Tom chooses push, pull, legs and abs for a weight lifting routine [2:01]

Injuries | Tom shares how he is prone to low back pain and safely exercises his back [2:24]

Back Pain | Tom reveals 2 reasons for low back pain, diet and not deadlifting [3:28]

Deadlift | Tom shares how and why he deadlifts 5 days a week [4:54]

Pull Day Routine | Why Tom opts for a 4 to 1 back to biceps ratio and it works for him [5:56]

Push Day Routine | Working on chest, triceps, and shoulders [6:44]

Meditation Routine | Tom shares his daily meditation practice he calls, Just Breathe [8:37]

4 Part Cycle | Tom explains the 4 part cycle breathing he uses from Mark Divine [11:06]

Diet Routine | Tom breaks down your diet's impact on emotions and cognitive function [13:46]

Fasting Routine | Tom reveals why intermittent fasting is a must for him 7 days a week [17:13]

Food Choices | Tom shares what his actually diet consists of: meat, eggs, vegetables [18:56]

Fruit Caution | Tom explains why fruit is a "cheat" snack on the weekends only [23:00]

Drinking Routine| Why Tom doesn't drink after 2 PM and his rules for caffeine intake [24:21]

QUOTES:

"If you haven't at least explored that getting strong is the answer to your pain, that working out even though it seems like the riskiest thing you can do is actually the thing that's going to solve your problem, then you haven't even begun to explore potential remedies." [3:02]

"The workout that you do, even if it's a little wonky, is better than the perfect workout that you don't do." [8:27]

"Literally at a cellular level you are made of the things that you consume. So every cell in your body is from something that you ate" [14:31]

"I have a gut instinct, that anxiety is probably 90% your diet, and then 10%, what you're thinking about" [16:21]

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When you think of fitness and training, it's easy to think of the physical effort it takes to get healthier, leaner, and stronger, but what about the mental effort? How much effort and time do you spend thinking about the mental work that goes into fitness and training? How often do you consider your diet failures and pitfalls as being part of the mental training that is possibly lacking? Dolvett Quince is a celebrity trainer, fitness expert that is known for being one of the trainers on The Biggest Loser. As a health and fitness expert, he speaks more to the mindset, mental demands, and inner struggles than most physical trainers. Getting after your health goals successfully is intertwined with how you approach all areas of your life. He shares the 5 pillars of health, how he stays hungry for more and the formula for success that will help you discover your own greatness.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dolvett Quince

1:41 | How To Love Yourself

2:34 | Know Your Excuses & Enablers

3:50 | The Ultimate Self-Love

5:30 | Relatable Pain, Fear & Doubt

6:12 | Dolvett's Adoption & Abuse

8:21 | Conquer Anything & Face Failures

12:06 | Balancing the Dark Side

13:00 | Root of Transformation

15:26 | Clinging to Excuses

16:57 | 5 Pillars of Health & Choices

18:53 | Change Up Your Diet, 3-1-2-1

22:35 | Recovering from Bad Diet Choices

25:15 | Facing Your Fears

27:53 | Dolvett's Fear of Heights

29:22 | Stay Humble Stay Hungry

31:21 | Dolvett's Definition of Succes

33:20 | Be Humble Stay Hungry

34:40 | Dolvett's Formula for Success

37:07 | Demand for Greatness

39:39 | Practice of Cultivating

QUOTES:

"Despite my flaws despite my shortcomings, my looks, my income, I like me, I love me. When you love your self you treat yourself as such." [4:13]

"That relentless, 'nothing's going to stop me,' when you use that power, that's just as beautiful as the smile" [12:50]

"I can't tell people to be fearless and look past their insecurities if I don't do the same." [28:35]

"If you practice honesty with yourself, that's who you are, and you'll naturally become that for everyone else." [29:45]

"We are always trying to get better, you never land on betterment. We're never always great." [31:23]

"Even though you may know, you may know a lot. But, there is something in the moment in which you know a lot, if you overpower that moment, you'll miss learning something. You can always add something to what you know." [33:26]

"Why are you limiting yourself because of what other people think. We hold so much weight on other's opinions that it becomes our opinion." [37:30]

"Then you don't want to be great. You want to be good, you want to be okay. You don't want to be great because great takes work. Great takes a level of discipline that is distraction-free." [38:40]

"Love what you're doing but challenge yourself every day" [40:55]

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The chaos that can get unleashed on your body from your diet is so important to understand. Having low energy and brain fog is not only frustrating but it feels debilitating as well. I've had my own recent experience with low energy that had me questioning if I had lost my drive. Starting with my diet and realizing pecans were causing my energy to feel so low was shocking for me. Dr. Steven Gundry's latest book, The Energy Paradox, reveals what's taking place on a cellular level that was affecting the body's energy. He joins me to unpack how significant gut health is to your immune system and brain. We get into the chaos leaky gut causes and how you can make better choices to restore your energy. Even if you have a healthy diet, Dr. Gundry, a cardiothoracic surgeon, will surprise you.

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QUOTES:

"believe it or not in the American diet 24 hours a day, we're causing leaky gut we're assaulting our immune system, [...] just from fat, we are just a giant ball of inflammation." [18:54]

"So if we look at energy production, as literally cars moving down through a freeway, it's no wonder that even though we're eating huge amounts of calories, we have no energy because we literally log jam the mitochondria." [38:29]

"You've got to eat for your gut microbiome first, and you have to choose foods that they want to eat. And if you do that, they will take care of you." [40:09]

"We die, we get diseases, by breaks in the wall of our gut that start this process" [41:05]

"If you begin to gradually restrict the time you eat down to about six to eight hours a day, you will develop much better functioning mitochondria, you'll actually have a better gut wall because you're not working on digestion. 24 hours a day. And you're gonna protect your brain." [41:57]

Guest Bio: Dr. Steven Gundry is an American doctor and author. He is a former cardiac surgeon and currently runs his own clinic, investigating the impact of diet on health. Gundry conducted cardiac surgery research in the 1990s and was a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery, and is a New York Times best-selling author of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain. He is best known for his disputed claims that lectins, a type of plant protein found in numerous foods, cause inflammation resulting in many modern diseases.

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