Nutrition & Gut Health for entrepreneurs

“Protein and fiber at every meal makes removing fat no big deal. Protein and fiber at every meal makes removing fat no big deal. And frankly, whether removing fat is your health goal or not, it makes health no big deal.”

Nutrition, Sleep & Pacing for Entrepreneurs | Jenn Trepeck · 11:38· listen →

“Blood sugar is the number one thing for quality sleep. Blood sugar balance is the number one thing that will affect quality sleep.”

Gut Health, Real Food & Detox Truths for Entrepreneurs · 26:51· listen →

“And I'm like, oh my gosh, butter. If I had just eaten butter, my body would have been so much more nourished and my blood sugar would have been more balanced. I would have been more satisfied. I wouldn't have experienced these extreme cravings and I just wouldn't have experienced what felt like a constant battle with my body. And now that I've changed my whole mindset and my approach to eating, it is so much simpler.”

Unlearning Diet Culture: Fats, Blood Sugar & Gut Health · 8:24· listen →

“The problem with high amounts of insulin into the bloodstream, it's like throwing too much water on a plant. What happens to the plant? Guys, when you throw too much insulin around an insulin receptor, so does the receptor, closes up and can't have the insulin enter. So what's that called? Insulin resistance.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 10:58· listen →

“It has been said for a long time ago, Hippocrates, all disease begins in the gut. Conversely, all wellness begins in the gut. So really, our gut health is so critical to the health of our brain, our energy, our vitality, the health of our skin.”

Gut Health, Real Food & Detox Truths for Entrepreneurs · 2:50· listen →

“Every bite we take in can become nutrition for your organs, your tissues, right down to the cell. Or if it's not going to become nutrition because it wasn't nutrient-dense, real food that was properly digested, it will become toxicity. So there isn't really a gray area there.”

Gut Health, Real Food & Detox Truths for Entrepreneurs · 11:16· listen →

“It's not just what you eat, but it's what your body can do with what you eat. So you could be eating this beautiful, by-the-book, whole foods, perfect diet, but if your body can't digest the food, then you're not able to take full advantage of all those nutrients and you might not be absorbing them.”

Unlearning Diet Culture: Fats, Blood Sugar & Gut Health · 0:00· listen →

“You should be pooping, first of all, 1 to 3 times a day. It should be medium brown in color. It should be soft and formed, not too hard, not too loose. On a Bristol stool chart, it should be a 3 to a 4.”

Unlearning Diet Culture: Fats, Blood Sugar & Gut Health · 24:17· listen →

“So our body is like a car in one sense that we've got to have the right fuel in our tank. And yet we don't come with instructions. Our car does, but we don't. We can get a new car, you can get a new engine, but we can't get a new one of these.”

Why Seed Oils Are Bad & What to Eat Instead | Cherie Calbom · 6:52· listen →

“And I'm like, oh my gosh, butter. If I had just eaten butter, my body would have been so much more nourished and my blood sugar would have been more balanced. I would have been more satisfied. I wouldn't have experienced these extreme cravings and I just wouldn't have experienced what felt like a constant battle with my body. And now that I've changed my whole mindset and my approach to eating, it is so much simpler.”

Unlearning Diet Culture: Fats, Blood Sugar & Gut Health · 8:24· listen →

“Pasture-raised eggs have 30% more vitamin A, They have double the vitamin E, 2.5 times the omega-3 fatty acids, and 3 to 6 times the vitamin D. And the reason that they're so much more nutrient dense is because they're exposed to sunlight.”

Unlearning Diet Culture: Fats, Blood Sugar & Gut Health · 31:07· listen →

“The way I describe it is it's like giving your body a shower from the inside. You take a shower on the outside every morning. Chlorella will pull all the garbage that you've interacted with in the air, your food, your cosmetics, and pull it out.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 25:21· listen →

“If someone's stolen your parking spot anywhere, you can't get into your parking spot. It doesn't matter how many signs you put up, but they're there. You gotta get the tow truck or the police to get them out so that you can park in. So, chlorella is the tow truck.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 43:39· listen →

“I do not encourage anyone to do any real detoxification without being guided by a professional who knows what they're doing. Because again, we all could have in heavy metals or other things, and if we're not properly set up to prepare for detoxification, we can actually be creating more harm for ourselves.”

Gut Health, Real Food & Detox Truths for Entrepreneurs · 17:24· listen →

“You can get rid of almost all your other supplements. Not all. But your multivitamin, you don't need that. Please stop taking fish oil. Where do you think the fish get the omega-3 from?”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 46:50· listen →

“Imagine you're driving down the road and your car check engine light comes on. That's an indication that something's broken, something's not right, but your car can still drive. It's still doing its job. But so your choice is take the fuse out so you don't see the check engine light anymore, or you take it to your mechanic to get evaluated. That's functional medicine. Functional medicine is looking for the check engine lights that are going on inside your body.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 0:00· listen →

“But the research is very clear. There's a lot of research in PubMed that you can identify reversing type 2 diabetes by doing the right steps. Because when we look at diabetes from a blood sugar perspective, yeah, you're right, you cannot reverse it. You'll rarely, if any, ever get the person off medications if you just focus on their sugars alone. But if you focus it from a cell perspective and the cell disease, now we're talking because now we're getting to the root issue that's going on.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 28:27· listen →

“I felt like I was just putting a bandaid on a cancer basically.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 2:14· listen →

“That's a great way to put it because sickness usually isn't one thing. Sickness is you're not sleeping well, you're not eating well, and then you're exposed to something. So if you eat well, you exercise, you can improve your sleep even gently, there is going to be a tipping point where it's really magnified. I'll say even, it's not even an additive effect, it's a multiplied effect.”

Integrative Medicine for Entrepreneurs with Carolyn McAuliffe · 22:22· listen →

“If our plan has this on-off, good-bad thing, it's not a plan, it's rules. And we need a plan that includes the fries, includes holidays, includes vacation and birthdays and all of the things that we want in our life.”

Nutrition, Sleep & Pacing for Entrepreneurs | Jenn Trepeck · 10:35· listen →

“The other thing that I was going to mention is the inverse relationship between consistency and intensity. The more intense something is, the more difficult it is to be consistent with it.”

Nutrition, Sleep & Pacing for Entrepreneurs | Jenn Trepeck · 23:20· listen →

“Environment drives behavior. And is the biggest influencer on behavior that people don't talk about more than anything else. Myself, people say, oh, you must be so disciplined. You must have high willpower. I have neither, nor do I want either.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 26:38· listen →

“What we saw was, as you'd expect, people who were more consistent saw improved results. But the group that had 29 to 50% consistency still saw statistically significant improvements.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 23:36· listen →

“You the entrepreneur, you keep putting the pieces together all by yourself. Maybe you get a third of the way and now you say, hey, how about come and help me now? They still look at the mess. They can see a little bit but nope, they're too busy. Nope.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 15:13

“It is the most nutrient-dense food in the world. NASA feeds it to the astronauts. We have a quote from them saying 1 gram of algae has the same nutrition as 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables. So 1 to 1,000.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 18:40

“In a cancer cell or a senescent cell, the blue pigment, when it's absorbed into the mitochondria, sees that it's in a cancer cell and goes, I'm onto you. And instead of the Ferrari helping move that, move the electrons across, it ejects this thing called cytochrome c, which triggers something called caspases, which triggers something called apoptosis, which is healthy cell death.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 36:28

“I always look for what I call the 4 Horsemen of executive burnout. So the first one is sleep latency extending beyond 25 minutes... The second one is cortisol staying elevated after 10... There's also how your fasting glucose is going to vary during the day... The last thing is your heart rate variability when you sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 16:23

“There was a study that showed that only 12% of Americans are actually metabolically healthy on all measures.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 20:22

“It's the Sleep Foundation that has a study that says that every single night of poor sleep can reduce cognitive performance the next day by 25%. And it's the equivalent of a blood alcohol level of 0.05%.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 34:38

“Alcohol is the worst... it's still a poison, you know. It's terrible for your liver. It's just a poison for your arteries as well. And more than that, you know, it also really messes up your sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 28:12

“70% of chronic diseases are lifestyle-related and therefore preventable today.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 42:50

“McKinsey conducted a study with leaders and they showed that the leaders who prioritize their own wellbeing inspired 90% higher employee satisfaction and 70% lower burnout rates in their teams.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 45:34

“Imagine how much more successful you could be if you were well-rested and you weren't suffering from decision fatigue and you actually ate lunch and fed yourself and had some energy.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 1:56

“You wouldn't expect your car to perform optimally if you put water in the gas tank or sugar in the gas tank, or you never change the oil... But you're asking the same things of your body, but you'll put anything in your body and expect it to work well.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 3:30

“Wellness shouldn't be a program, it should be the way that you do work.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 17:13

“There's just going to be days you can't. And you really just have to learn how to make it flow together and integrate your life and not try to separate it into these two very discrete things.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 24:25

“I've learned that no is a full sentence and it's okay. And the world still spins when I say no.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 29:08

“I decided years ago, my S was peeling holes in the cape. I can't do it anymore. Because I wasn't well. I wasn't healthy. And it looked really good on paper.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 39:12

“If I die tomorrow, they're going to be like, God, that Lanise, she was really great. Have we posted her position yet? And they're going to keep moving.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 39:12

“And literally, there were 6 months prior where the tests showed no issues. 6 months later, she was in basically 12 GFR and so the kidneys were basically done. And she was then going 3 times a week for 3 hours at a time for dialysis. 8 months later, she had a stroke and she passed.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 1:24

“100%. And this is one of the reasons why when someone's like, you go to these cancer treatment centers, they recommend like ketogenic diets or carnivore type diets because you're reducing that sugar, you're getting rid of sugars completely. It just feeds it because when you bring in sugar to a cancer cell, yeah, it just thrives and just grows and grows and grows and it starts proliferating to other cancer cells and you're basically just putting gasoline on a fire.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 23:55

“So I came back all excited and I was like, I got my good list and everything. And I go through my list and everything and he's like, this is a really good list. I'm really impressed. He's all, but just as a question, where do you fall on that list? And I wasn't even in the top 5.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 45:10

“My mom, who was a nurse, said that the advent of antibiotics was not great for humankind because we learned we could take a pill and keep running. Before that, you had to go to bed and rest and really let your body access the measures we have, the abilities within our own body to heal.”

Integrative Medicine for Entrepreneurs with Carolyn McAuliffe · 9:46