You'll forget This Sweet and Sour Chicken is paleo when you put the first bite into your mouth, but you wont get any of the gluten, MSG or any of the bad polyunsaturated fats that you'll get from the Chinese restaurant!
warning some of the rich mouth-watering meals you see on screen now are part of a controversial new diet though it's actually millions of years old it's sending shockwaves through the diet and weight loss industry because most people simply don't believe you could eat foods like this on any healthy plan or ever dream of losing weight yet the diet you're about to discover really isn't a diet at all it's actually return to what works naturally and that's why it works it's based on how we humans evolved for literally millions of years its wisdom lies in the fact that it ignores met contradictions discovered by doctors and nutritionists in the lab and takes us back to our room a time when nobody got that when we were all strong lean and had boundless energy and when there are no degenerative diseases with the true Paleo diet virtually every health benefit under the Sun can now be yours as I'm sure you've heard countless individuals around the world have turned to the Paleo diet and way of living in order to regain their health energy vitality and power just a few the benefits users report are leaner stronger muscles increased energy significantly more stamina clear smoother skin weight loss results better performance and recovery stronger immune system enhanced libido greater mental clarity no more hunger or cravings thicker fuller hair clear eyes and so much more in fact when you toss all the false nutritional info out their side and finally get back to your roots there's really no part of your health and body that doesn't get better in some way and that's why the Paleo diet is by far the fastest growing eating trend on planet Earth because the results speak for themselves there's only one little problem why most people fail to stay on the Paleo diet now given the amazing results in all the about eating this way you think it would be a breeze to stay on it right well for some it is but not all because unfortunately most of the advice out there like eat like a caveman or just meat and vegetables if you know real instructions for how to do this diet properly so what happens you get forward eating the same thing every day frustration kicks in and then you quit but it doesn't have to be that way paleo hacks already provides the very best community for supporting and encouraging each other with cutting edge information and truths about the Paleo diet and now for the first time ever the world's biggest most active community of paleo enthusiasts bring you all its most delicious most savory recipes sure cookbooks from a top chef are nice but what if you had one from a respected chef and hundreds of living active healthy paleo experts well that's exactly what you get with a cameo hacks cookbook it's a beautiful full-color cookbook you can use on your computer tablet or print and take with you anywhere it's the ultimate guide for making the Paleo diet amazingly good tasting fun and full a variety that not only makes you healthier but also satisfies your taste buds and cravings it's everything you could ever want it a guide for how to eat properly the paleo way without compromising taste or convenience as you might guess each and every recipe contains no brains potatoes lentils dairy processed sugars preservatives or packaged foods eat rich juicy mouth-watering meals that make your friends jealous just imagine while all your friends are counting calories suffering through yet another miserable diet or worse they're ignorant and eating random process fees that's aging them at warp speed you will be dining on some of the tastiest dishes you've ever had like these yes it's hard to believe these are actually on any diet but again hey Leo is not really a diet at all and if eating foods like this on a daily basis wasn't enough you'll be getting slimmer more energized of better muscle definition be sick less often your mood will be better your skin brighter and so much more still wondering if this is for you the Paleo hacks cookbook is for anyone serious about thriving on the Paleo diet for life yes the recipes in this book are universally healthy and as such can be consumed daily whether you're a stay-at-home mom or world-class athlete remember when you consume foods we as human to the vaults to eat while simultaneously eliminating over processed sugar land in peace now linked to causing many diseases we are now faced with in society your body will be provided with pure complete nutrition and all these key nutrients from protein to essential fats to fibers vitamins and minerals all of it assists in normalizing your body weight this is just one of the reasons why so many athletes are turning to the Paleo diet because the improves athletic performance and recovery yes we are designed to eat and live off the land to eat fresh fruits and vegetables nuts fees and animals this is the ultimate secret to optimal health losing weight Stanley improving performance reducing risk of injury and faster recovery and healing and when you get your copy of paleo hacks cookbook today you'll be eating healthy meals that do not result in you eating bland boring or tasteless foods you will be quickly cooking with fresh ingredients that provide the ultimate range of delicious flavors and we'll have anyone rushing to the kitchen to eat your next meal and that's true whether you're a pro or a total novice in the kitchen it doesn't matter the food prep secrets we teach you are fast and simple designed by many in the community who have been doing this diet for many years and know how to make amazingly good meals with taking forever or breaking the bank this is the single best way to eat rich foods and yet get so many benefits and therefore richer in terms of your health you will even learn how to cook desserts that are overloaded with sugar and white flour which often leaves you bloated heavy feeling or fatigued after eating and you will feel one hundred percent confident cooking delicious recipes without pasta rice bread and dairy you'll get 8 recipe categories that ensure you'll never have to eat a boring meal ever again the Paleo hacks recipe book covers all categories with well over a hundred step-by-step recipes and every single recipe within the following categories will excite your taste buds and have you cooking an easy three-course meal snacks meat chicken fish and seafood soups salads omelets and desserts you'll also get special recipe categories recipes for the 21st century hunter-gatherer chocolate capsicum sandwiches noodle recipes paleo eating for modern people paleo breakfast recipes focaccia as you can see we've gone through great lengths so you have every possible dish and every possible way to make this diet delicious with plenty of variety each day the paleo hats cookbook is so simple even a 6th grader could use it from the onset we make everything as easy as possible and assume no prior cooking experience or talent nothing is left to chance we walk you through each and every recipe point by point until your dish tastes amazing and looks fantastic on the plate we show you simple easy amazingly yummy Paleo recipes with a wide variety of easy to make paleo friendly meals that will get rave reviews from friends and family every time clear directions with exact measurements no matter what metric system you use you will easily be able to make these paleo recipes without any hassle absolutely everything you need to follow the healthiest diet in the world and to start achieving the health energy vitality and weight loss results you want to further speed your success and results with the Paleo hacks cookbook we're also giving you bonus gifts worth $135 absolutely free as a special one-time offer for anyone who buys on this page now we're also going to throw in free of charge five powerful female manuals that take your results to the next level these manuals help combat the two biggest reasons why people don't get the start they need to stay on the diet one they don't have the 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okay final question for this week is from Mike on the Paleo diet mike says going back to your first book what are the main things you would revise or add if you ever did a revision well funny thing is we did do a revision there is a volume to reversing - it's a paperback version lately the Maine yeah I mean there wasn't a massive amount that we tweaked so I had some pretty aggressive fish oil recommendations in the first book which I modified over time thank you for the people that burn me at the stake about getting that one wrong I was largely following people like Barry Sears and other folks that the that information seemed credible at the time on that fatty acid omega-3 profile in grass-fed beef yeah so - - that fatty acid topic Diana Rodgers and I have been working on the sustainability book and movie called sacred cow and it's interesting because we've had pretty massive pushback from the vegan community that begins which is not surprising at all but I tell you one of the more surprising places that we get a shocking degree of pushback and very vigorous and very ill informed and unfortunately is kind of like the the really go go getter paleo ancestral health crowd that insists that grass-fed meat is the only grass-fed grass-finished is the only way to go and Diana and I tackle this in the book and we're also going to be doing a series of blog posts and other support material where I really dig into the literature on this but the reality is that so it as a baseline the bulk of ruminant animals whether it's cows sheeps sheep goats Kaimal whatever you know they're grass-fed for the most part there is some green finishing now the thing is is that I probably am suffering is what do they say like when you raise kids you know like you you get back when you were as a kid and so like I'm sure I sewed a lot of the seeds of my frustration on this now because early in this story there was a sense that the Fanning acid profiles of grass-fed meat were remarkably better with regards to the omega-3 omega-6 balance than grain finished me around 2009/2010 though mat well and really did a deep dive into this stuff and he was like nah man that's not the case at all there's very little difference when you get right down to it and I got into a pissing match on on the interwebs on social media shocker with a woman who is a master's degree in chemical engineering and she insisted that there was a difference in the protein and I grass-fed versus green finished um meat and I said show me one paper and she went through all of this light magic and mysticism and like flailing and all kinds of Appeal to odd authorities but could not produce one thing that suggested that the protein content nor really the fatty acid content was significantly different between grass-finished and green finished me now from a sustainability perspective there's a great argument for doing as much grass finishing as possible but even in that story there's a reality that like to the degree that we do continue to grow wheat or corn or or rice or whatever the the leftovers in that scenario is not technically grass but it is something that animals can be finished on and it is used that way and it's a very smart utilization of resources because otherwise that that is cellulosic material just builds up and it degrades very slowly it maybe oxidizes instead of compost and all that type of stuff so there's really compelling reasons to have a middle ground in this story and not be complete zealots about it there is no compelling case from a health perspective that the the fatty acid profiles are are different and so that's a big one from the book that I probably sewed a lot of erroneous info really advocating for grass-fed meat but the reason why been advocating for grass-fed meat even with the knowledge about there is not that big of a difference from a health perspective there is a significant story there from a resource management sustainability perspective so that's gonna be a fun one to unpack over the next 10 years in grass-fed versus green grass finish versus green finished beef anything else nah otherwise like why paleo solution was pretty on point you know making recommendations around sleep getting out in the Sun lifting some weights doing some sprinting not letting your your kind of internal dialogue you know kind of kind of eat you up that whole stret the the stress chapter like the finance piece and everything so that stuff's kind of stood the test of time and honestly it got recycled and updated significantly and wired to eat like it's still those those things are kind of I would argue Kenny universalities in this story yeah okay is that it I think that's our last question for this week yeah thank you guys again for your questions you can submit them at Robert calm on the contact page at dass Rob wolf for Instagram which is about the only place I'm hanging out these days these questions out there also on YouTube this episode is sponsored by drink 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Mike says: Going back to your first book - what are the main things you would revise or add - if you ever did a revisions?
hey guys clever paleo grubs and today we're going to be doing a five-minute ab workout routine with five exercises each of one minute and this work that's going to really help you tighten up your core and burn some calories so we're gonna get started in ten seconds let's just get a bit of a warm-up going get your heart rate up and I'm going to be starting with the spider plant in five four three two one alright guys start in a push-up position and reach your knees to your elbows just like this we're gonna be doing this for one minute you wanna make sure you keep your tongue tight and your bum down don't go doing this keep your bum down now we've got 40 seconds left keep squeezing that tummy really reach for your elbow alright guys a half way keep it up this is gonna work out your core as well as your obliques all right guys 15 seconds left keep it up all right five four three two what now we're going to go two side crunches lie down on the ground knees to one side and lift I'm going to do 30 seconds on this side and then 30 seconds on the other side really want to squeeze those oblique muscles ten seconds left five four three two one switch sides same thing hands by ears crunch upwards you tell me tight obliques tight ten seconds left keep going guys alright and we're gonna go into reverse crunch elbows to prop yourself up start with knees and chest and release out make sure you keeping your tummy tight and your quads pleased this is going to work your lower ab muscles as well as your upper abs keep it up guys 35 seconds left make sure your legs goes down as far as possible your knees all the way and you chest and come all the way down do not let your back arch this can really cause injuries just give you tummy time and your legs squeezed alright guys now we're going into toe reach gonna lay them flat on your back with your legs up feet flat and reach for your toes let's go this is a great exercise for the lower abs but you really hard to target all right guys a hot flag right jumps high as possible keep this leg straight it's hard to talk through this exercise 20 seconds to go all right guys now we're going into plank step out so I jump into plank I'll just tell me really tight and stop step out we've got one step one minute yup keep your bum down foot is straight squeeze those ABS so in five seconds left make sure you don't drop you back but keep it straight 20 seconds left 10 seconds left 5 4 3 2 1 all right guys oh well done so guys that's your 5 minutes up I hope you can feel like a whole coal burning just like me you know what if you do this at least three four times a week you're definitely gonna see a difference in your belly area all right guys sign you got four paragraphs .
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hi guys this is Kate from Kate updates I wanted to spend some time talking about how I eat which is paleo I get questions a lot about what exactly is the Paleo diet what's involved what isn't and what are the benefits so I wanted to address some of those questions all wrapped up into what is paleo so paleo is a way of eating that um it involves not eating refined foods foods that are highly processed and sticking to lean meats vegetables fruits and healthy oils so things like coconut fish oil some seeds olive oil things like that are all good you avoid gluten and dairy and things that are hard for your body to process so examples of things that are on the Paleo diet would be fruits vegetables lean meats seafood nuts and seeds and then healthy fats which I mentioned before things you avoid are of course dairy and gluten processed foods and uh beans of any kind starches and alcohol for the most part i will say that i do not really avoid alcohol i do have it sometimes but overall you're just trying to keep things out of your body that are hard for your body to process and that can lead to making yourself sick paleo is something that people pursue when they want to fix their it's got autoimmune benefits that have been proven which is the reason why I started looking into it some of the health benefits or just overall benefits you can get from paleo one stable blood sugar you can burn more stored fat its anti-inflammatory clears your skin and helps your teeth it reduces allergies for me I found that I was a little bit allergic to dairy before I started this and then once I completely cut dairy out now if I have dairy on occasions I found that I am really allergic to dairy some people it's more gluten for me it's Terry but it can reduce your allergies and eliminate those it can really aid in digestion I've benefited from that it can balance your energy throughout the day so you're not feeling those fluxes of it's 2pm and I'm dragging and I just want to take a nap when you're eating paleo you feel more energy throughout your entire day you sleep better it can help with your workouts I run better there's also a lot of things that are more technical that you could look into to find out about health benefits of diabetes and things like that a resource for that would be robb wolf calm he talks about on the benefits of eating paleo but basically that's what it is it's a way of eating it's a way of living you're just being more conscious of what you put into your body and voiding high-fructose corn syrup and additives things you look at the labels and there's like 20 ingredients in something and you can't pronounce half of them you want to avoid that kind of stuff so the reason I like the Paleo diet one it's helping my digestion digestion immensely energy overall I just feel so much better I don't have to count calories I don't have to worry about points I don't have to feel you know I have to debate over whether I eat that cookie or not because I just don't eat the cookie I eat healthy things in the cookie so like an example for me of replacing ingredients would be using honey instead of refined sugar or maple syrup things that are just easier on your body so that's paleo some cookbooks if you want to kind of look at that more this book practical paleo goes over a lot of digestive problems it has 30 day meal plan so that's something for you to look into also I mean you can just google what is paleo and find a bunch of resources but i'll be talking more about whole 30 in my next video and how you can benefit and really jumpstart your Paleo experience by doing the whole 30 but that's it for today I hope I gave you a better understanding of what paleo is and I'll talk to you soon thanks .
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so I this is a very impromptu thing for me I was not expecting to be speaking here today but I'm very grateful for the opportunity and I'm passionate about many of the objectives that that brings you all together here menu you many of you may have heard of Helen and John they I just met them for the first time a couple of days ago but we have a mutual friend in Australia who is working with an indigenous group of a community of people there in a remote area of the outback on North Queensland and and that mutual friend of ours sort of put us together and I know what their what are the odds but I'm actually leaving day after tomorrow to go to Australia and during my time there will be visiting our mutual friend and in this remote area and you know in the in this remote area that that I'm referring to and you might be a little patient with man I'm operating without my PowerPoint today so I'm feeling a little naked up here not even a loincloth anyway then I say that out loud yeah so there's a group of people there that you know mainstream Australians have the highest rate of obesity in the world right now in the industrialized world right now I guess you know that beer is like Mother's Milk to them I guess yet among Aboriginal Australians they have 80% more metabolic diseases than the average mainstream European Australians 3 out of 4 Aboriginal Australians are dead by the time they're 45 years old and for close to a hundred thousand years on that continent they lived as hunter-gatherers peoples and have only really begun to adopt the Western diet in the last well actually the last traditional Aboriginal Australians came off the land in about 1985 so we're not even talking about a hundred years yet of a you know westernized westernized diet and these people are dying in droves the obesity is U is completely rampant and they literally have no defense against a diet that is based in grains and sugar and processed foods and whatever have you and I would submit that you know they are you know the the Canaries in the coal mines so to speak I think that the that the fait accompli of manifest destiny per se among indigenous groups throughout the world hasn't been accomplished with guns it's been accomplished with food and we're next we're not immune from this just simply because we have eased our way into the modern Western diet as opposed to as opposed to these other cultures now you know 2.6 million years ago at the advent of the quaternary ice age the ice age we're still living in today by the way that's been followed by you know regular intervals of glacial advance and glacial retreat ever since usually roughly 11500 years apart we began evolving as a hominid species around 2 million years ago it's been recently verified through anthropologic and paleo anthropologic research we adopted a primarily hunting economy which means that we got our primary nourishment from animal source foods of all different types not just meat but you know fish and eggs and insects and all kinds of things and it wasn't until you know for a hundred thousand generations we existed and thrived and lived sustainably as hunter-gatherers until about ten thousand years ago when the strangest thing happened you know the Ice Age came to a very abrupt end the megafauna that we relied upon throughout the entirety of the Pleistocene period during the entirety of that quaternary Ice Age suddenly ceased to exist and we stumbled upon the idea that we could cultivate something called grains as a way of creating you know something that might be a little easier and we went from a nutrient dense diet that was roughly 90% animal source foods and fats and whatever supplemented with plant materials as available or as climatically you know allowable to suddenly a diet that was relying upon grains instead and you know a lot of people like to comment on the idea that somehow we you know yeah we only lived 30 or 40 years in those days so we didn't live long enough to develop the diseases of modern civilization well the fact is is that the primary cause of death in hunter-gatherer populations was really accident and infection and if we managed to outlive those things these average ages of mortality really took into account also infant mortality and as well which was also high and if you manage to circumvent all those things you got a chance to live as long as we do today but without the metabolic diseases identified in our modern society 10,000 years ago roughly and ancient Sumeria we adopted this thing called agriculture and immediately our life expectancy was cut in half we began developing metabolic diseases for the first time in our evolutionary history we began developing deficiency diseases we began we went from from a work day of maybe three hours you know you hunt together and you're done to eight hours of back-breaking labor in the fields and this also opened the door not just to to more modern-day diseases but to this little convenient thing called ruling class hierarchies it allowed for the concentration of large populations of people and rather than living you know in this sort of more cooperative environment of a tribal setting or hunter-gatherer family group or whatever suddenly we're living in the large societies where there's more class division and overtime you know this really we've only been using agriculture as a dominant food source now for less than five hundred generations or so more than 99.9% of all our genetic material was formed before the development of Agriculture and we are paying a price for that and now of course with the advent of the industrialization you know less than thirteen generations ago then we've taken and industrialized our food supply further but it's very very clear that they even the early in adoption of Agriculture cost us dearly in terms of our health in terms of you know diseases of of deficiency and skeletal abnormalities and dental occlusions and all kinds of things any paleoanthropologist can look at a skeleton and tell you whether that was a pre or post agricultural human based on the health of that skeleton that's just the way it is so and you know fast forward to where we are now and I'd say the great myth of the globalized you know multinational Corps world is that agriculture is going to somehow save us and I can tell you that that human populations didn't start exploding and the plant planet did not begin to deteriorate until we adopted agriculture and it's not moving in a better direction with you know with increased agricultural production of course monoculture agriculture is the major culprit for this and also the way in which monoculture agriculture is co-opted now the way we raise animals for food in a way that is completely corrupt and broken and isn't even natural for those animals you know the number one source of deforestation right now is in the Amazon is the clearing of land for the planting of soybean crops and of course with the advent of GMOs we're really rapidly careening toward the island of dr. Moreau here but what I can tell you is that as human beings we are designed to make use very well of animal sports foods as our primary source of nourishment now I'm not advocating the eating of slabs and slabs and slabs of meat as our ancestors may have done it turns out of course the subtitle of my book is beyond the Paleo diet for total health and a longer life because I've also taken a look at human longevity research and also taking into account the world that we live in today I think fibrous vegetables and greens are probably more important to us now than they ever used to be during our long evolutionary history because they can provide us with phytonutrients and antioxidants that can help protect us against the toxic environment we've created for ourselves but the kind of food and eating that I am talking about is really kind of going back to what our indigenous ancestors knew all along and what they understood all along and the kind of foods that they ate all along foods that were raised in their own natural environment sustainably that lived in their own natural environments sustainably and the harvesting of only what was needed off of you know off of the land for this for their own sustenance and everything at once upon a time was organic and free-range right and what I advocate for you know there we are ill-suited to a diet that is based on carbohydrates in in of the three major macronutrients proteins fats and carbohydrates the only macronutrient for which there is no established human dietary requirement in any medical textbook or textbook of human physiology anywhere is carbohydrate we can manufacture all the glucose we need from a combination of protein and fat and our diets and we can do this very very well and very very easily and we have no defense against this the tidal waves of insulin were generating with a consumption of a grain based diet and of course what is the US Department of Agriculture's admonition that we all need six to 11 servings of grains a day well good that's great for them but no human people group in the history of the human species has ever eaten a diet remotely resembling what the human what the US Department of Agriculture's you know no conflict of interest there right food pyramid suggests as optimal and we buy into this with the well-intentioned idea that well you know yes yes plant-based foods will save the world well plant-based foods have not saved the world they're they're operating in the opposite direction now mind you I think that I'm not I'm not bad-mouthing all agriculture I think what we need to be doing is exactly what our ancestors did we need to be getting our foods from from animals and plants that have been sustainably raised preferably locally eating the animals animal foods raised eating what is natural to them living out in fresh air and sunshine in humane and healthy environment and getting to know our local farmers and our ranchers and developing redeveloping that first hand knowing of where our food comes from and by minimizing the consumption of sugar and starch which are giving us the metabolic diseases we are struggling with and I can tell you two the number three cause of morbidity and mortality in the industrialized world right now is autoimmune disease right behind cancer and heart disease and we know that grains are either an initiating or exacerbating factor in all of those and by the way we're not becoming more adapted to these foods as time goes on we're becoming less adapted there's been a 400% increase in in celiac disease and just the last 50 years alone and all of this is cited I have citations for all of this and in my book but okay two minutes yikes hope somebody has a big hook so anyway that if what I'm advocating as as an approach to things which by the way is basically a form of modified caloric restriction is in a manner of speaking the minimization of the consumption of sugar and starch the moderation of our protein intake we don't need to consume more than we absolutely need and nobody needs more than six or seven ounces of complete protein a day we have a lot of rich requirements for many of the fat soluble nutrients that come in animal source foods and can only be gotten in animal source foods retinol vitamin A only comes in animal source foods beta carotene is not vitamin A vitamin k2 is only gotten in animal source foods can't get that from eating kale or whatever where vitamin k1 is found so so moderating the protein and then eating as much of natural healthy clean dietary fat as as you need to in order to satisfy and from a variety of sources so you're getting all the essential fatty acids in from as you need to in order to satisfy your appetite and this ends up actually being a moderately low caloric diet even though the majority of the calories are probably coming from from fat but this is also pretty natural to our to our makeup our brain and nervous system is made of fat we need that so you know by adopting this way of doing things from the most natural as possible sources I can tell you that the result is basically making multinational corporate interests Monsanto food industry whatever completely irrelevant and that I think is the best approach to this is rather than battling these people well we still need to battle them in courts we need to get GMO labeling for crying out loud we need to get this stuff out of our food supply completely we and we still need to fight for those ends but for our own health and well-being which none of us has the you know has the wiggle room to compromise by you know a carbohydrate based diet basically is there's barely a multinational corporation anywhere on earth that wouldn't be invested in every man woman and child everywhere in the world being dependent on a carbohydrate based diet as a primary source of food because it's incredibly cheap to produce it's highly profitable and it keeps you perpetually hungry you're living on kindling as opposed to logs on your metabolic fire and you know if you look at the animals that are designed to eat a carbohydrate based diet even though they're not getting their primary calories from carbohydrates they're getting them from fat you have to be eating pretty well constantly their faces are in the bushes they're in the trees they're in them whatever the grass and you might ask yourself who bent who benefits and profits from a whole world that's eating this way so in closing I thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to throw these ideas out there that I realize may be a little shocking to some of you I assure you I am passionate about the same objectives that many of you came here today with and hope you'll suspend disbelief long enough to take to take a closer look at what I've talked about so thank you you .
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Nora Gedgaudas is the author of Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and A Longer Life. This is her plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local Futures, a non-profit organization that has been promoting a shift from global to local for nearly 40 years.
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so I've been in this paleo space for a long time now and I see an important distinction that we need to make deep paleo versus shallow paleo shallow paleo says it's all about me I want to look good feel good be lean healthy strong if I eat paleo wear my blue blockers swing my kettlebells I am all set sustainability regenerative agriculture whatever I look awesome and I can lift a ton of weight so I'm not saying it's shallow to care about this stuff right it's healthy to want to look good and feel good it's just shallow to stop their deep paleo says it's not just about me in fact it's hardly about me at all we need D paleo right now we're at a low point in human history our physical and mental health are in bad shape the health of the planet is no better we're witnessing a massive extinction of species on the planet and of the wild human soul and we're totally disconnected as we stay our climate catastrophe in the face we are staring into our smartphones hoping for likes so I see a deep alien movement as a new ecological movement a successor to Deep Ecology but incorporating everything we know about ancestral health .
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So I have been in this Paleo space for a long time now.
And I’ve seen important distinction that we need to make, Deep Paleo vs. Shallow Paleo.
Shallow Paleo says it’s all about me, I wanna look good, feel good, be lean, healthy, strong, if I eat Paleo, wear my blue blockers, swing my kettlebells, I am all set.
Sustainability? Regenerative agriculture? Whatever, I look awesome and I can lift shit ton of weight.
So I am not saying it’s shallow to care about this stuff, right, it’s healthy you want to look good and feel good. It’s just shallow to stop there.
Deep paleo says it’s not just about me. In fact, it’s hardly about me at all.
We need Deep Paleo right now. We are a low point in human history.
Our physical and mental health are in bad shape. The health of the planet is no better.
We are witnessing a massive extinction, of species on the planet and of the wild human soul and we are totally disconnected.
As we stare climate catastrophe in the face, we are staring into our smartphones hoping for likes.
So I see a Deep Paleo movement is as a new ecological movement, a successor to deep ecology but incorporating everything we know about ancestral health.
brien Schwabe i'm a board-certified clinical specialist in sports physical therapy in today's paleo hacks video I'm going to talk about how to reset your sitting posture typical sitting posture these days is in a forward position of the shoulders forward head position and rounded back the problem with that is over time that causes shoulder stiffness and dysfunction neck stiffness and dysfunction and poor trunk control here's a really easy quick way to reset that to perform this go ahead and sit in a nice upright position pull your shoulder blades back perform a chin tuck and bring your shoulder blades out to the side hold this for 10 to 15 seconds and then go back to work .
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Posture. This is one of the most common buzzwords we hear in the health and wellness world today. However, very few know how to truly correct their posture.
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first sit down with your feet in front of your body making an L shape with your torso tall and leg stretched out in front of you then pull your feet in bending at your knees to give more support for your low back place your hands behind your hips making sure you aren't stretched out too far away from your armpits and make sure your fingertips are pointing towards your heels with your palms flat down on the ground and arms slightly bent raise your hips up off of the floor bend at your elbows and slowly let your hips drop back down to the floor bending your arms and putting pressure on your triceps deltoid and shoulders keep your chest open and squeeze your gluts and core to help maintain proper form locking out your elbows at the top of this movement with additional strain on the joints in your shoulders elbows and back be sure to always have a slightly soft elbow even at full lift type and remember your limits it's easy to start locking your elbows out towards the end of your set when your muscles are tired and more vulnerable be careful you don't put too much pressure behind your shoulders or lean too far forward if your neck resembles a turtle otherwise known as turtling then something isn't right keeping your back straight free of hunching over or arching will go a long way in strengthening the correct muscles and also improving balance without harming your rotator cuff always keep your neck straight shoulders away and free of looking like a turtle while bending at your elbows it's common to open out too wide so keep in mind elbows should be under shoulders be sure to keep your elbows bending straight back from your shoulders to avoid strain in your neck or injury to shoulders scaled tricep dips can be made a little easier by limiting the range of motion when performing this exercise just decrease the bend in your elbow and extend in a smaller amount advance looking to work additional muscles in your arms just flip your hands so fingertips are facing away from heels it's a lot more opportune to and requires more upper-body strength especially to perform without injury make sure to keep your shoulders away from ears and continue to have a straight back box variation using a box for leverage is a great way to make this move more intense place a box behind your arms and start with your hips lift it up make sure they're level then drop your elbows straight back behind you bending and going deeper on the dip thanks to the Box height lower and lift while maintaining an open chest and concentrate on keeping shoulders straight you .
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Tricep dips are a great compound push exercise design to target the backs of your arms, but also do a great job of engaging your forearms, shoulders, lower back, and chest. What's more, you can do tricep dips at home without any equipment at all, and they're great for both men and women alike.
Lean how to perform the perfect tricep dip with Los Angeles based personal trainer Katie Horning, then discover come common mistakes to avoid during the exercise. Finally, Katie offers some great variations, ranging from scaled to advanced, for those looking to adjust the difficulty.
Hi, welcome to my channel, I'm back with game and here Today we are going to talk about food if you want food, it was worth telling you which has many benefits although for Leo it is a style it is an approach of good nutrition because I restrict you for some people because in our cultures in our countries there are usually certain foods that are already are indoctrinated within and are part of the traditional cuisine and the They fulfill the elements of paleo, they do not do not fit with us Jolie to respect that you used a lot of meat is that a lot of meat exactly very because normally that married true those in political times who married any animal was fished but it is really from there the protein not from some other things for example milk did not exist if it existed at that time, but it was not consumed, it was not consumed as large as dairy how they are consumed now is very different from diets no it is a little different but they always have a similar approach what you have to eat are well ben saxton is not exact completely but there are always some guides, there are other positions where it is oriented and is in fact it is stimulated to consume much more protein so it depends a lot of your life of your lifestyle of if this is a lot of exercise if you have a lot burnout at work for example imagine the people who spend eight hours exposed to the sun doing manual work these people also need good fortune we return next week with successful gay that thanks for come thanks .
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En este episodio de Step-by-step with Silu, la escritora y life coach Silu Scheffer habla con Gabe Dela Garza sobre la dieta Paleo y cómo usarla para fortalecer el cuerpo.
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begin standing with your legs open past hip distance just about shoulder-width apart turn your feet out diagonally and place hands on hips for balance with your shoulders staying directly over your hips start to bend your knees keep your knees and toes in the same alignment as you lower down into a squat without letting your knees fall inward make sure your spine stays as flat as possible like you're pressed up against a wall and your chest is open and core is tight once you've lower down it's almost a 90 degree angle pause at the bottom then squeeze your gluts while slowly lifting back up into the first start position a wood injury to your back in these by keeping your hips aligned under your shoulders many squats require you to push your hips behind your shoulders but it's important to remember plie squats are different by having your hips and feet place at an angle it changes how your body responds to lowering and lifting through your legs you'll want to keep your entire spine long and lifted so try to maintain a strong back starting from the base of your neck all the way down to your tailbone this also allows you to use more of your core and strengthen your back muscles a very common mistake is let your knees sink inward during the squat motion be careful to keep your knees in the olders same alignment while you're lowering and lifting and to not let them fall in past your big toe be sure you don't let your knees fall forward past your big toe during the lowering into the squat keeping your knees back towards your heels will help maintain the focus of this exercise and also reduce potential mainstream failed plie spots can be made easier by limiting the range of motions and concentrating on form begin the correct position with heels in toes out in a diagonal and slowly start to lower hips down just a few inches pause at the bottom making sure your knees are still properly tracking over your heels then repeat advanced releve looking to increase the strength in your task and test your balance keep your heels lifted off the ground while holding the releve position during the entire squat by balancing your weight on the balls of your feet it will challenge more muscles in your calves inner thighs and core hand weight if you want to work additional muscles in your upper body while challenging your lower body just add a pair of hand weights start off with something small like a two or a three pound weight in each hand during the lowering of the plie squat extend arms out and around into a Treehugger move then open arms back out and wide upon the list back to start position .
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I believe every person has a right to basic knowledge of how to optimize their mind body and spirit here I bring to you influential individuals and ideas to help you live a more healthy fulfilling life I'm Julie Foucher and i'd like to welcome you to pursuing help welcome to episode 16 of pursuing health I'm really excited to share with you a new type of episode here on pursuing health today I'll be sitting down with someone who has dramatically changed the course of his own life and health by changing his lifestyle you'll have a chance to hear from Pete cats who after many years of ups and downs with different diets and exercise programs finally found lasting success with a paleo diet and CrossFit he was able to lose over 30 pounds and more importantly he heard several chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes sleep apnea hyperlipidaemia and anxiety he has an incredible story that I know has it inspired me and it's also inspired many of the people around him to make similar changes in their own lives I first met Pete as a medical student a couple of years ago in the office of one of my preceptor is dr. Isaacson dr. Isaacson is Pete's primary care physician he also serves as the assistant dean for clinical education at my medical school the cleveland clinic lerner college of medicine there he's well-known among medical students as a master of developing meaningful relationships with his patients and partnering with them to improve their health in this episode dr. Isaacson will also be joining us to share his perspective on Petes journey to improving his health for the past several years in the future I'd like to share more stories like this so if you or someone you know has used lifestyle to overcome serious health challenges please share your stories you can email me at info at Julie Foucher calm with your story and I'll choose some to share here on the podcast you never know who else might be out there in a similar situation looking for some hope or inspiration a couple of reminders before we get started today number one if you're enjoying the podcast don't forget to head over to iTunes to subscribe there and give it a rating you can also head to my website Julie Foucher calm and enter your email to stay in the loop with the podcast and everything else I'm up to with my newsletter every couple of weeks if you're interested in training with me check out my program through beyond the whiteboard this is the actual training I do now five days per week one hour per day schedule out for you minute by minute from warm up to cool down for more information or to try out the program yourself visit beyond the whiteboard calm / Julie Foucher or listen to podcast episode number 12 so with that let's get started here on pursuing health episode number 16 with Pete cats and his physician one of my mentors dr. Isaacson so welcome to episode number ten of pursuing health I am here with Peter cats and dr.
Isaacson who is his physician and also my preceptor here in medical school I'm really excited to sit down with both of you and talk about Peters journey here I've known you for about three years now and he has a very inspiring story and I'm excited to talk about it a little bit more today so maybe we could start off um Pete if you want to talk a little bit about your background regress flag background growing up okay sure so yeah I was I was a pretty chubby kid starting in probably about elementary school and I think that's a lot more common today but back when when I was the chubby kid Elmer's well there's like two or three kids you know in the class and there were chubby kids I I was probably pretty good athletically but I just like food a lot so so uh you know I was never the first kid picked than any teams or anything like that pretty free average joint various teams in middle school and that sort of thing a little bit in high school just just some average academic type sports but then when I got to college it's probably the first time in my life I actually got get physically in shape actually became a vegetarian in college did that probably for about little probably 25 years I was vegetarian got into triathlons lost a lot of weight was pretty successful with that until I I had a knee injury okay and then I had some stress from the type of work i was doing at the time and and you were what how old were you at nothing well i think i got into those triathlons probably about summer run 19 20 years old something like that so I was the first time I was actually in shape for a while but then you know the real world took hold hurt my knee got busy with work and pretty much stopped doing any sort of exercise at that point so was it wasn't until about three years ago that I I found CrossFit as well as made some big changes to my diet and kind of get back into the the realm of being an athlete again probably feels good right yeah I want to talk about that more in a moment but first maybe you could talk a little bit about your sort of your your journey as you decline from those triathlons and maybe as some of these health problems started to creep in things that you had tried in the past to try to change your lifestyle to fight those sure so not long after I had come dropped out of the triathlon thing gotten gotten into the the real world doing some stressful work that sort of first chink in the armor I was probably starting to gain weight again kind of go back to my old eating ways not exercising first chink in the armor was was uh I started having a lot of just sort of dizzy spells feeling like I was going to faint this is when I actually first met dr. Isaacson okay because I i was going from doctors dr. sure there was something terribly wrong with me and dr. Isaacson was one of the backers I think I first met him in an emergency room oh and uh he eventually i believe was the person who told me he thought I you want you I think you have an anxiety disorder to which I said you know that's impossible I you know I'm not anxious and of course I didn't understand what things I just sort of was that at that time and for those listeners you don't know it's just it's it's actually like physical symptoms like we're you having like panic attack yeah exactly it's not like you have butterflies in your stomach like before a speech or something it's actually like you feel like at least in my case you feel like you're gonna have a heart attack or you're gonna pass out you're scary long story short I eventually learned that yes that's exactly what I had and started going on some medication for that did some cognitive behavioral therapy and kind of back on got back on track but I look back at that now as sort of the first the first like I said chink in the armor where that I think it was directly attributable to diet and lack of exercise and how long ago how long have you been working with dr. Isaacson has it been uh over well just about or just a little over 20 years I would say I think going to the close to that yeah yeah going back to when that was in my head okay yeah so then just slowly over a period of years I got heavier I still didn't do much exercise a lot of spurts of starting and stopping I remember several conversations with dr.
Isaacson encouraging me to exercise and do something about my diet and of course I always left the the the office visits with the new resolve but I try different things they'd last certain amount of time and and was never really able to stick with it but so then that over the years over that 20 years a different new problems health problems would start coming up so over that time I developed high blood pressure I had elevated liver enzymes my cholesterol began to get high my blood sugar also began to get high to the point that eventually I had a high enough blood sugar that I was definitely a diabetic mm-hmm and started on metformin which is a medicine for I think it's one of the first medicines most most people get when they they have diabetes and I had I had pre-diabetes before that but eventually I got got to this certain level and it wasn't long after that initial diagnosis that I then got to the point where the my Foreman wasn't enough and so dr. Isaacson recommended an injectable medication called Byetta that started that started me really being concerned and thinking oh this is the last straw I can't be I can't have diabetes I can't be injecting myself with medication check my blood sugar all the time I mean I really felt horrible like how could I how could I let myself get to this this point so that's what's really started getting me thinking I gotta do something so so that that was that was the point that sort of led me up to discovering CrossFit okay and dr. Isaacson throughout this time what is your what was your general approach obviously it has you know Pete's blood sugar starts to creep up and you start the medications you have the discussions about style and exercise what's your perspective on that this is an extremely common situation actually as Julie knows and it's one that is really challenging for us as primary care physicians Pete was really in a common group someone who busy with life work former athlete and really we had discussions just about every time I saw you I know students medical school saw you and we really work together to try to say what was a plan that we could come up with that would set you on a path and I really felt you know frustrated that I wasn't really helping you that much that we weren't getting where we want it to be and so it's a common situation and as physicians we really can't necessarily tell the patient what's best for them we can try to give some guidance and tell them where we want to go which is to get healthier and to lose weight but the path to that is often difficult and there's probably not one path for each patient so you've gone down that path and eventually you found something that worked for you yes so tell us about that so yeah I I listen to podcast like this one occasionally and and when podcasts were first starting to get popular which was probably about three or four years ago I was I was mowing my lawn and that usually takes me close at two hours so oh wow that's when I listen to podcast I was mowing along and I I can't remember the packs was a podcast about paleo something I never had heard about and and someone was on the episode and explained how they had lost a ton of weight eating a paleo diet and so I just sparked my interest and I bought a few books about it and thought it sounded interesting and thought hey I'm gonna give this a try and for those listeners who don't know Palio's I would say it's a flavor of a low-carb diet then there's a lot of different low-carb diets out there but but this is the one I came across and decided to give it a try and as I was starting to read about it and I started doing it CrossFit kept coming up in two different books I was reading the differ articles online some of the podcasts it just seemed to be sort of a loose connection between the two things and so I thought I could check out what what this is what CrossFit is and went on the main CrossFit website look for an affiliate i found one not far from me called CrossFit pains well just happen to be relatively close to my house went in there and decided I'm going to check this out and it was a complete shock it was but but I did have sort of a background as as an athlete for a while it did fairly intense sports so I think my personality was was kind of well soon yeah suited for something like CrossFit and so yeah you know the first three months probably I maybe went twice a week you know the people were great didn't care how in shape out of shape you were everything was scaled so it didn't matter what the workout was I was able to do it in some form and you know I probably couldn't walk up and down the stairs like like a lot of people for literally three months at a time I would it would i'd finally start getting recovered and bam it would happen again but you know i quickly started seeing results and actually before i started the crossfit just the low-carb diet immediately my blood sugar started going down to the point where I just started weaning myself off the different medications at first I stopped by etta and then I was noticing well it's still going down so then I started cutting back on the metformin and I think I probably came into an appointment with dr. Isaacson at some point and said yeah I just I just kind of stopped and he probably didn't really like that idea but it was it was working I was the blood sugar still low it going down and I wasn't having to take the medicine so I mean anyone listening this who has the same who has diabetes I feel like the first thing that worked was was just cutting carbs out a low carb diet it really carved I would cause your your bloodsucker to go up me was that at all difficult for you to change from going from being a vegetarian to suddenly eating a lot more meat yeah it was was definitely a mindset change I but I was I think why part of the problem and one of the reasons I probably end up getting diabetes because I was a vegetarian probably like a lot of Americans who ate pasta bread crackers cookies I mean it wasn't you know based on vegetables and whole foods right well I like that idea it wasn't what i ate in practice and so I think that probably contributed to my getting diabetes is it I just I was just eating massive amounts of carbs which are vegetarian right it's a very good point you know beans are high carb they're vegetarian they're probably not going to be causing a lot of high blood sugar like pasta or bread or cookies but but yeah that was that was like the main part of my diet so when i switch to paleo you know i did start eating meat but i've never been a huge meat eater even on paleo i do try to focus more on vegetables mm-hmm but yeah now now i do eat meat it was a kind of a strange changeover mm-hmm but but when i started seeing the results i really felt that I at least my body maybe most humans were meant to eat like this just because everything started all my blood tests all the all the health problems I had started going away one by one fall away medications fall away and I think especially you talk about your body being especially susceptible dr. Isaacson and I have talked about this about how sensitive you are to the carbs and how dramatically your your blood sugar went down once you change your diet and I think at one point what what was your ate your a1c at its highest yeah so it was a XII remember you been remember what was it it was I think about 11.4 with a normal being about six and i would say you had one of the more dramatic probably the most dramatic improvement in that measure of diabetes in the shortest amount of time I would say I think for you the diabetes was a wake-up call yeah that fundamentally changed the way you thought about things and really got you motivated and I think the positive results you got reinforced that it's it was really it was you doing the work and actually I was thrilled when you were cutting back on medicine you know I maybe wanted you to check in with me a little bit more but yeah I i also think what i found was interesting is that as i started doing the crossfit i don't know if it's because i was losing weight gaining muscle eating low-carb but the more the longer i did the crossfit i found that if i cheated and like you know had had goat went back to some of my old ways and i had an occasional binge on bad food or had a cheat day i would of course check my blood sugar right away as i started doing the crossfit mm-hmm longer and longer they would have little or no effect on my blood sugar interest so it's like it's like I I think the muscle there could be lots of reasons of course I'm not a doctor scientist but maybe it's that the muscle is using the blood sugar it's like another another pathway for that blood sugar to get used up maybe it's somehow increasing my sensitivity to to the insulin i'm not sure but but now i find that i can eat almost anything i want without any significant change in my blood sugar from day to day and that's probably because you've lost weight and that yeah because your insulin works better when you're at a lower weight and so the composition of the diet has a role but also if you're able to have weight loss that can actually your diabetes has been cured with lifestyle regiments really mm-hmm how often do you see that in your practice doctor Isaacson you know it's a potential for almost a huge number of people with what we call type 2 diabetes which is more weight related but it's difficult to achieve and so you're not alone but you know you're the minority of people who are able to do that but it's out there for everyone really they can have an effect on this more than medications a lot of a lot of ways yeah I mean and and not only the diabetes went away but now I think of my very last visit with dr.
Isaacson my blood pressure was below normal I got rid of I used to have sleep apnea I got rid of that all probably within six months of starting CrossFit um no more diabetes medication no more I used to have high blood pressure medication don't have that anymore literally at everything that though the anxiety mm-hmm I probably took that anxiety medication for 15-20 years I I stopped that absolutely no issues whatsoever so I can only think a link that all those things all those things also to the diet and the CrossFit yeah absolutely so what are that some of the things the milestones are things that you're most proud of in this whole process or things you've achieved it can be CrossFit related or you know medication health-related yeah well really you know reversing what was a train wreck it is is the best thing I mean losing weight it's something that I struggle with my whole life isn't any way now I feel like I have sort of a formula that I'm in complete control of to keep that weight off it really be able to do anything I want to do I feel like I'm 10 years younger at least biologically than my my age and I see a lot of people my age who are experienced of things I was experiencing that they're just experiencing them a little later than I was I experienced much earlier probably because I was heavier much earlier and I just feel like you know I sort of have a new freedom or sure a secret to staying young and healthy and be able to do what i want to do so so those those were all great achievements and then then in CrossFit itself I mean it I look forward to every single day it's sort of a fun activity to go do almost like you're going out for recess or gym class yeah I love the camaraderie I love the feeling I get when I went after I do a hard workout I would consider myself a little bit of a junkie share that's because there because there is this this very real sort of high you get absolutely after doing it I'm sure I'm sure I think we can connect on that level and there's so many things that you learn and CrossFit that are challenging that you're you're always going to be working on getting better at right so there's always a challenge and you're always kind of achieving something you never thought you could do in your life and I think when we first met you had gotten your first pullup recently so what things are you chasing right now well I i struggle with double unders ok I can do Single Double I cannot string together though yeah it drives me crazy yeah pull ups i did my first Murph this year Wow oh uh pull ups and myself so dr. Isaacson that workout is I was named after lieutenant Michael Murphy who was died in combat and there's a lot of hero workouts that are that are named after you know fallen heroes and so the workout is run a mile do 100 pull-ups 200 push-ups 300 squats and then run a mile and prescribed you do it all with a weight vest on so it is a doozy of a workout I did not use the way but I was very happy yeah 104 yes now I can't string them together and Kip and all that stuff but I did the hundred-plus that is fantastic so yeah to even think I'd be capable of something like that for years ago would it well I would have thought you weren't sane right if told me I'd ever be doing that but yeah I mean I mean there's so many things in CrossFit that i would like to think one day I might be able to do like a muscle up or or something like that right chester bar pull-ups which which I can't do yet there's always something to chasing and to be working on it is and i found out i found that i'm really good at some things across it I'm horrible at others just like it seems like everything yeah exactly amazing amazing so I'm so glad that that you found something works for you I want to talk a little bit more about why you think this was what stuck for you and dr. Isaacson maybe from your perspective to why you know he had tried other types of lifestyle modifications in the past that hadn't really stuck or hadn't really lasted for a while so what is it about CrossFit and paleo that made you stick with it for three plus years well as far as the paleo I honestly do believe that it that even though we you know no one in modern world can eat like some money who existed in the Paleolithic era that's the basis of the diet that for those who don't know that you eat what someone is living in that period of history would be able to eat mm-hmm so yeah we can't duplicate exactly what that is but we can approximate what it is and just the way I feel and the way my health improved based on that diet mm-hmm it's impossible for me after experiencing that to really try to go you know to go want to go back to the way I was eating so that has helped me I'll stick with the diet as far as the exercise I think CrossFit is kind of unique in there is a community type of activity so when you join a CrossFit gym there's a lot of camaraderie you look forward to seeing that the people who work there as trainers or that you work out with so that helps a lot and then there's also the you're always working on achieving something it's different every time you go and and really there is that addictive nature to me sure I love the feeling I have at the end of the workout absolutely and it's it's the same like before maybe you were addicted to sugar carbohydrates there's I've heard of people who have been addicted to drugs or addictive different things that do CrossFit and that kind of replaces for them that addiction or that thing that they can always go back to to get that that high if you you know want to want to call it that that's exactly what it feels like I mean I really I can't wait to go back excited for your workout in you know the work at itself often times its size right in the middle of it you're going awful and sucks with the end you just feel so good yeah so yeah what do you think dr. Isaacson well I think that you know there's not one size that fits everyone and so as physicians and and Julie knows us and learns us what we want to do is partner with our patient and really tap in and help them along the way we usually don't have all the answers we have some medical knowledge we can guide them but it's actually trying to be open to what the patient wants to work on so from my standpoint affect you were found something you wanted to work on and it connected with you was fabulous and I think having some structure so you didn't have to sit each day and decide what am I going to do today you had some structure imposed I think probably the CrossFit did a lot of that where you're going to go you had a community that supported you and we tried to support you in the office but really it was mostly about you and having a structure to what your diet was going to look like what your exercise is going to look like and the fact you had positive results it just reinforce this and really sort of jump started the whole process so you know I've actually been thrilled i think you have done the work on this clearly and that's what's true most of the time is trying to help the patient but most of the work comes from them anything that's true i mean every person's going to be a likely to succeed at something in particular it's finding what them what that is right yeah I do think like I was never a big weight lifter I do feel that has some some benefits that that you don't get from other exercises at least I don't know if that's specific for diabetes or not but it seems like having more muscle mass as opposed to just doing a cardio cardio program I believe has a pretty strong impact on some of the results I've been seeing just just a totally a personal opinion absolutely so and you know we see that it is important for for people to do exercise it's going to make them strong or two and it'll help you know later in life as you start to deteriorate like physically it's going to slow that process like we talked about we talked about in the CrossFit in the level one about not wanting to be in a nursing home when you're older because you can't get out of bed or you can't sit down and go to the bathroom because you've built up the strength over the years that you know you can support yourself into your old age yeah absolutely I i I'm playing the D cross her till day I died nursing see what happens here I'll be right there with you probably we're thinking about to the cost savings if you think about health care costs now well that's the amount of medicine you're on and you know the cost of lifestyle interventions is really so minimal compared to all the medical care I mean you're saving yourself a lot of money you're saving a lot of resources having to be spent in terms of medicine medical care so it is really an untapped resource I think I know Julie's very interested in pursuing this and its really a great thing because it just has benefits not only for the person but for our whole society really in terms of resource utilization and making the whole society healthier that's very true actually just in the last year it's the first time I've ever been on a high deductible health plan which a lot of people are going to a lot of companies are going to that type of model so not only am i saving money by not coming to the doctor but because I have this high deductible health plan I have a health savings account so I'm putting in what I would have paid for a traditional health plan anyway into the savings account and it is growing okay basically because because I'm not going to the doctor every every other month and buying all these different drugs and yeah supplies yeah so I mean you know there there's a silver lining yes there's tapes about it that's right and the fective do you just seem so much happier and healthier all around like you said you feel maybe 10 years younger and it's I'm sure it's permeating into all the different aspects of your life as well yeah well it does I mean you you feel even in non exercise or diet related areas just in life doing something at work a project something you don't want to do it just the success I've seen in CrossFit mm-hmm kind of translates into that if I have a project I don't want to do it I treat it just like a watt right this second I can do the workout I can do this I can get exactly I'm gonna just do a page by page and it's gonna be done 1 repin is exactly awesome well well thank you guys both so much for taking the time to sit down and chat your story is very inspiring and I hope that there are other listeners who can connect with you and hopefully follow in your footsteps oh thank you very much and we'll catch you next time on pursuing health absolutely thank you for having me thank you thank you so much for tuning in to this episode I hope you were inspired by Pete as much as I was don't forget to share your own stories if you or someone you know has used lifestyle to overcome a serious health challenge please email me at info at Julie Foucher com I'll choose some of these stories to share here on the podcast you never know who else might be out there looking for some inspiration who's in similar situations to make sure you never miss an episode and to receive exclusive content from me head to my website Julie Foucher calm and subscribe to my email list and don't forget to subscribe on iTunes as well and give pursuing health or rating I always love hearing your feedback so please continue to leave comments under this post on my website at Julie Foucher calm and share your thoughts on social media you can use the hashtag jf health with any feedback or questions or ideas for future episodes thanks again so much for listening and i'll catch you next time on pursuing health you .
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In his 20's Pete Katz was an active, healthy guy - he competed in triathlons, was a vegetarian, and at one point even ran a health food store. A knee injury, a demanding job, and family life eventually took over and he found himself overweight and with a growing list of diagnoses and medications. The threat of having to take an injectable medication for his type 2 diabetes was the last straw, and Pete made dramatic lifestyle changes by starting a Paleo diet and joining a local CrossFit affiliate. I first met Pete in his primary care physician Dr. Isaacson's office as a second year medical student at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
In this episode of Pursuing Health, Pete, Dr. Isaacson, and I sit down to discuss Pete's journey back to health. We discuss his background and initial health decline, his frustration with various diet and exercise programs that were short lived, and why he has found Paleo and CrossFit to work so well for him. We also talk about the dramatic improvements in his health and quality of life that have resulted from these lifestyle changes.
Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE on iTunes, and share your feedback in the comments or using #JFHealth. If you or someone you know has an inspiring story about using lifestyle to overcome disease, please share by emailing info@juliefoucher.com. We will continue to feature stories like this in the future!
Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to share the experiences of various individuals. It does not provide medical advice, and it is not a substitute for advice from your physician or health care professional.
