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93: The Best Grains Sep 25, 2021

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#93: Continuing on with our series on the most nutrient dense, life-giving foods, we now hit on grains. In the health and wellness world these have gotten much rap as the enemy. Carbs! I won’t hold you in suspense. Do we advise never eating grains? No. Are some types better than others? Yes. Are we best to minimize them in our diet. Yes. The greatest struggle with grains is simply the cultural norms and social friction we must deal with in a time when grains, and generally the least healthy, are still the primary food consumed in America. And being so countercultural is a bigger effort than merely managing our taste buds.

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92: The Most Beneficial Meats Sep 20, 2021

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#92: Eating meat or not is one issue, but if you choose to, are they all equal? Absolutely not. Again, we’re talking about food, the item we ingest every day that is intended to build, repair, heal, and help us flourish. So if the next meal has meat, does it contain the natural ingredients it was intended to? Ingredients that give us life? Or is it made up of synthetic hormones, antibiotics, waste products, and an overall soup of refuse and pharmaceuticals? It matters, hugely. The type of meat to a degree, but moreso, the life of the animal it came from. Dr James and I walk through meat to help you understand what will best support your...true life.

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91: The Most Nutrient Dense Veggies Sep 06, 2021

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#91: Not all vegetables are created equal. In a recent episode, Dr James quipped about his kids going for the most sugar-full veggies like carrots and snap peas and it sparked a listener to ask which veggies were in fact, “better”. We intended to discuss the “better” foods in five categories but found just getting through veggies was a complete episode. To give you some Cliff’s Notes, his “top tier” picks for the most nutrient dense veggies were broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, spinach, cabbage (especially purple) and kale. Tier two? Peas, corn, carrots and okra. Why? You’ll serve yourself to understand, so listen on to the episode.

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90: An Exhaustive Review Of Good Sleep Habits Aug 27, 2021

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#90: In this episode of the True Life podcast, an exhaustive review of good sleep habits. Pun intended. The point...for you to get insight into anything that can help you achieve a better, more restorative night’s sleep that fuels your life for the better. This was a listener request and though we’ve talked extensively about the power and necessity of quality sleep for our lives to be abundant, we realized we hadn’t specifically gone through tangible habits. As we unpacked them we were a bit surprised to realize just how many integers there are regarding our sleep. From food we eat prior to sleep, to our mattress, to light and sound and even the topic of our last waking thought. What we thought would be a quick run through of our list turned into our longest show yet, but resulted in even us realizing just how many things can influence our sleep quality

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89: Calories In vs Calories Burned Doesn’t Always Work Aug 16, 2021

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#89: Have you ever been in a place of feeling like you are eating clean, not eating that much, you are exercising well, but still not losing weight? Or not enough weight? Or even gaining weight? In this episode we hit the reality that a calorie isn’t a calorie, but even further, any certain calorie may be fine for one person and not so much for another. The weight loss industry wants to give answers everyone can simply follow, but they just don’t exist. Ultimately you must have some understanding of food and calories and your personal makeup in order to find a nutritional and exercise plan that gives you the results you desire. In this episode we strive to help you get a grasp on finding your ideal plan.

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88: Choice Pollution Is Giving You Anxiety Aug 11, 2021

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#88: Do you know what happens to you when you’re faced with too many choices? You are inclined to choose nothing. Why? Because figuring out the best decision causes stress and we are generally suffering from decision fatigue. Now think about the reality of life today that always has an infinite amount of choices for anything at any given moment. It produces a culture of anxiety. We’re calling it “choice pollution” and in this episode we talk about the problem, the solution and the anti anxiety drugs being prescribed for it.

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87: IBS, SIBO and Poop Jul 30, 2021

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#87: Irritable bowel syndrome affects nearly everyone to some degree, even those living a very clean, healthy and active lifestyle. Diarrhea, constipation, gas, bloating, abdominal aches and pains and general discomfort down there should not be “normal” and there is hope to address it. When you do a search in Google and type in, “How often should you…” the number one search is “wash your hair”, number two is “poop”. You are not alone. In this episode Dr James and I candidly talk about IBS, SIBO and...poop.

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86: High Blood Pressure Jul 22, 2021

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#86: Nearly 50% of American’s have high blood pressure...hypertension. Most just take a medication to control it. Is that good enough? There are little side effects to the medication itself, but what else is going on? Being overweight is the primary correlation but then you have seemingly fit people like actor Will Smith who is on them too. How does that happen? Join us.

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85: Healthspan vs Lifespan Jul 15, 2021

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The culture talks about “life span”, which is how long we live from the day we are born until the day our heart stops beating. Health span however, is how long you are well and able. Do you care more about living to be 100, in a nursing home, in a wheelchair, hooked up to oxygen, wearing diapers, and completely devoid of any conscious thought, or being active and able in body, mind, and spirit, well into your sixties, seventies, or eighties? Dr Randy James and I recorded this segment following our weekly, Friday guys gathering where we share our lives together. One of the guys had just spent time with his family and witnessing his elderly mother who could not get around much and was not able to join the family in much of any activity other than eating. While we want to be sensitive, he was just aware she has peers who are fully capable in body and mind and he’s aware of her lifestyle choices that have not helped the disability she finds herself in. Randy and I have a candid and I hope compassionate discussion on this and it brings to light what our goals are, and how our daily actions are supporting these goals.

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84: Think Yourself Healthy Jul 08, 2021

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Health comes from our controlled actions, right? Hopefully from good nutrition, exercise, and sleep. If it’s acute, maybe a medicine or surgery or treatment. “Thinking yourself healthy” is woo woo psycho babble and hardly tangible science. Or is it? Dr James and I have been studying the topic and thinking through it in our own lives. A book we are reading cites a study where people worked out their biceps, with dumbbells, just as we expect in order to grow a bigger bicep. But half of the test subjects were tasked with just thinking about growing their bicep. The first group using dumbbells, grew their biceps. They measured bigger. The second group who just thought about it, also, got bigger biceps. Not as much, but take the measuring tape, and sure enough...bigger. Yeah. So take that to your health. As you’ll hear in this show, I talk about an injury I have. The only mental input I give it is...negative. According to this study I could be helping heal it with my thoughts, but currently I’m making it worse.

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