Shawn Stevenson is a nutritionist, the host of the top-rated health podcast The Model Health Show, and the author of international bestseller Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success. His latest book, Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life, is out now.
What you'll learn from this episode:
How getting a handle on metabolism can be tricky because it varies not only from person to person, but within each of us from week to week—and what we often do to sabotage ourselves in this department.
How growing up in a family that exhibited various metabolic disorders and chronic illnesses ranging from obesity to diabetes to asthma paved Shawn's career path in nutritional science.
Why "You are what you eat" isn't just a folksy cliche your mom would say to entice you into eating more broccoli at the dinner table, but a literal scientific fact—and how even our best medical professionals are trained to treat the symptoms of nutritional imbalance while simultaneously neglecting its prevention.
The repercussions of being the sickest nation in the history of the world and the numerous ways in which this tragedy is entirely self-inflicted.
The silver lining of 2020's trials and tribulations.
And so much more!
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Resources from this episode:
The Model Health Show | Facebook
How to Optimize Sleep for Fat Loss and Better Health | Shawn Stevenson | The Genius Life 37
Deadly Fats vs. Healthy Fats with Max Lugavere | The Model Health Show
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
The Origin of the Phrase ‘You Are What You Eat’ | The Phrase Finder
Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps | CDC
The Top 10 Leading Causes of Death in the United States | Medical News Today
Johns Hopkins Study Suggests Medical Errors Are Third-Leading Cause of Death in US | Hub
9 Ways COVID-19 May Forever Upend the US Health Care Industry | Stat
Wilbur Olin Atwater | Wikipedia
Diet and Health with Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters | Project Gutenberg
Hunger Pangs (Pains): 7 Causes and How to Alleviate Them | Medical News Today
Leptin and Leptin Resistance: Everything You Need to Know | Healthline
The Gut Microbiome and Individual-Specific Responses to Diet | American Society for Microbiology
Could a Bacteria-Stuffed Pill Cure Autoimmune Diseases? | Nature
A Guide to Increasing Your Microbiome Diversity | News-Medical.Net
Resistant Starch 101 — Everything You Need to Know | Healthline
Brown Rice vs. White Rice: What 14 Studies Say Comparing Each | Legion Athletics
4 Ways to Get Firm and Cute by Lowering Firmicutes | Institute for Natural Medicine
What Foods Looked Like Before Genetic Modification | Business Insider
Plants That Most People Don’t Realize Are Psychoactive | Out Front
The 7 Best Plant Sources of Omega-3 Fatty Acids | Healthline
What Is the Blood-Brain Barrier? | Queensland Brain Institute
Foods High in Alpha Linolenic Acid (ALA) | My Food Data
Stave Off Cognitive Decline with Seafood | Rush System
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