Keith Norris is the co-founder of Paleo F(x) and is a veteran entrepreneur in the wellness and fitness industry. Recently, Keith wrote an article titled "A Revolution in Healthcare: You are the Catalyst. In it, he sites the fact that the medical-pharmaceutical industry in this country is concerned with nothing more than managing disease and treating symptoms. They are not interested in the cure or in promoting better living that could prevent the disease in the first place.
As Keith sees it, the truth is that the only way to change things is to vote with our wallets by shunning the system in favor of healthier food and better living. Keith is promoting a revolution in the way we see healthcare, and we are right there with him.
This series chronicles Andrew Marr's journey from Special Forces Green Beret to brain injured veteran, and on to his current life.
You can Pre-Order Tales from the Blast Factory: A Brain Injured Special Forces Green Beret's Journey Back from the Brink from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Blast-Factory-Injured-Special/dp/1683504941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498365548&sr=8-1&keywords=tales+from+the+blast+factory
Les Stroud has been the world’s preeminent survival expert for almost 30 years. As the star of Survivorman, a musician, filmmaker, an author and activist Les has long wanted to create a home for all his passions, teaching and experiences, which he has recently done with his new online network SMTV.
SMTVnetwork.com, is an on demand streaming network where you can learn survival from Les by following him on his adventures through his films, music, environmentalism, educational projects, and, of course, Survivorman.
This was a fantastic conversation and we look forward to having Les on again in the near future!
This is the first episode in a series of installments chronicling Andrew Marr's journey from a Special Forces Green Beret to becoming a brain injured veteran. In this episode we cover Andrew's life as an operator and his injuries while serving in Afghanistan. We also get into the start of his civilian life as a brain injured veteran.
The shownotes for this episode are available at https://warriorsoulagoge.com/blogs/podcast/episode-44-tales-from-the-blast-factory-1
Adam La Reau is Co-Founder of O2X Human Performance, a company that trains and educates first responders and tactical organizations on Maximizing Human Performance. As a founder of O2X, Adam runs operations and curriculum development.
Prior to O2X, Adam was a former Lieutenant Commander (SEAL) in the United States Navy. Having left active duty in August 2013, Adam attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and received a Master of Public Administration. Following his passions, he created a non-profit called ‘One Summit’ to help build resilience in children with cancer that has spread to three major cities and being utilized in post-traumatic growth studies.
Gary Taubes is the author of The Case Against Sugar, Good Calories Bad Calories, Why We Get Fat, Bad Science, and Nobel Dreams. Gary's work in nutrition explores the many mistakes we've made in nutrition science including the idea that fat causes heart disease and diabetes. Gary's latest work, The Case Against Sugar, examines the role that sugar has played in the onset of death dealing disease and how many scientists worked to protect the sugar industry from the truth.
6:05 What drives Gary and what are his challenges?
21:00 How did we come to think fat is unhealthy?
27:05 The impact of sugar on public health
37:00 Does sugar enhance performance?
47:28 How did we get to this point?
54:15 Is sugar addictive?
57:45 Gary's research methods
1hr 5 minutes: The role of insulin
1hr 12 minutes: Are calories important?
1hr 20 minutes: Is there a paradigm shift coming?
1hr 22 minutes: The VA system
Dr. Martin Polanco, MD is ta physician at Crossroads Ibogaine Treatment Center. Dr. Dan Engle, MD is a board certified expert in Psychiatry and Neurology with a clinical practice in holistic medicine, orthomolecular psychiatry and integrative spirituality. Dr. Engle and Dr. Polanco have been interviewed on the Tim Ferriss Podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, and Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.
Dr. Engle also medically consults with Onnit Labs in Austin, Texas, a company leading the industry in peak performance methods and Total Human Optimization, as well the most visited and regarded ayahuasca healing center in the world – The Temple of the Way of Light Ayahuasca Healing Center in Peru.
Dr. Engle’s new book The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries is due out in October of 2017, you can pre-order it here.
You can find out more about Dr. Engle on his website http://www.fullspectrummedicine.com/
Dr. Martin Polanco is the founder and CEO of Crossroads Ibogaine Treatment Center. Dr. Polanco first witnessed the healing power of Ibogaine within his own family. After years of debilitating substance abuse and unsuccessful stints in rehab, it wasn’t until his relative underwent Ibogaine detox–then a very novel, underground treatment–that the addiction ended for good.
The transformation was so immediate and profound that Dr. Martin Polanco, a graduate of Universidad La Salle Medical School who was at the time was doing his residency in ophthalmology, decided to change course and focus entirely on Ibogaine. In 2001, he opened a clinic called the Ibogaine Association, where as medical director he personally supervised hundreds of Ibogaine treatments. A pioneer in the field, he also served as a consultant to Ibogaine clinics in Canada, Colombia, and Russia. In 2011, he founded Crossroads Treatment Center, and set out to provide the safest, most medically-sound Ibogaine detox available anywhere in the world. Dr. Polanco’s mission now is to have Crossroads’ model of best practices in clinical efficacy act as a guiding beacon in the efforts to legalize Ibogaine therapy in the United States.
The standard of care provided to veterans and active duty military members suffering from PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries is based on the idea of throwing pharmaceuticals at the issue. Many veterans who suffer from these ailments are on a dozen medications or more. Traditionally, Doctors look at PTSD and TBI as separate issues. PTSD is supposedly a reaction to traumatic events, and TBI is a result of concussion or a traumatic brain event.
Dr. Mark Gordon is an interventional endocrinologist who's dedicated much of his life to studying traumatic brain injury. Dr. Gordon has worked with thousands of cases of TBI, and through his work he's found that both PTSD and TBI may have a common source in chronic inflammation. The problem is that none of the current standard treatments for these issues actually treat inflammation.
Through the Warrior Angels Foundation, Doctor Gordon has helped hundreds of veterans eliminate the symptoms of TBI and PTSD altogether without standard pharmaceuticals by using nutrients and hormone replenishment. Doctor Gordon and Warrior Soul Podcast cohost Andrew Marr have made it their mission, through the Warrior Angels Foundation to make these treatments available to all veterans by bring them to the attention of the powers that be.
Shownotes available at: https://warriorsoulagoge.com/blogs/podcast/episode40veterantbi
Kevin Flike is a medically retired Green Beret and graduate of the Sloan School of Management at MIT and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Kevin enlisted in the US Army in 2006 and volunteered for Special Forces training. In September of 2011, Kevin was shot through the lower abdomen while on deployment in Afghanistan.
Kevin was medically separated from the Army, but did not rest. He immediately began working to get into graduate school at MIT and Harvard. Today, Kevin is a wealth manager for one of the top financial services firms in the world.
In his life, Kevin has been through hardship, near death experience, pain, and giant obstacles, and yet he persisted each time until he accomplished what he set out to do. This is one of the most inspiring episodes we've put out. Regardless of who you are or where you're at in life, you will get a lot out of this episode.
When we think about plagues, we normally think about diseases from viruses or bacteria. We don't think about these diseases coming from medicines. Someone in this country dies from an opiate overdose every 19 minutes. That's pretty startling, but here's something even more startling: 91% of those who survive an opiate overdose end up going right back on the drugs that nearly killed them.
Chris Bell is a documentary film maker who is tackling this issue head on through his work. Initially known for his film on performance enhancing drugs, Bigger, Stronger, Faster, Chris decided to tackle the prescription drug abuse epidemic with the movie Prescription Thugs after being affected by it personally. His brother Mike, who was featured in Bigger, Stronger, Faster, was an addict who died shortly after the film was released.
Chris also had a secret that made it even more personal - he was also an addict. Affected by years of pain from arthritis and hip surgeries, Chris was popping prescription pills like crazy.
Today, Chris is sober, largely because of a plant based product called Kratom. Kratom is a plant grown in Thailand that is used to aid in opiate withdrawal. It's also currently on the target list to be scheduled as a schedule 1 drug by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chris is also currently working to ensure that Kratom stays legal and we cover his current project: a documentary on the legal battle to keep the plant legal.
In this episode, Andrew and Chris sit down with biohacker and nutritionist, Matt Cooper of Bluprint Nutrition. Matt has dedicated his life to understanding and maximizing human performance. He specializes in making nutrition plans to help people to become better at everything they do and works with high level executives and professional athletes to increase their mental and physical performance. Matt is also a specialist in working with people who have autoimmune diseases.
This is a fantastic episode and we cover everything from nutrition for active duty service members, to wellness for those of us who may have lived hard in our youth with drinking and tobacco use.
Why we need to stop outsourcing our health to the medical system.
Why we need to stop outsourcing our health to the medical system.
Why we need to stop outsourcing our health to the medical system.
Blayne Smith, Executive Director Bio:
Blayne works closely with Team RWB’s board members, staff, and volunteer leaders
to develop and implement programs that serve veterans across the country. He
provides strategic and operational guidance to the organization while building and
managing key partnerships. Blayne is a West Point graduate and former Special
Forces officer with combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Upon leaving the
military, he worked at Quest Diagnostics while earning his MBA at the University of
Florida. Blayne currently resides in Tampa with his two boys and leads the Team
RWB Tampa chapter.
Team RWB Mission: Enrichment is defined as creating quality relationships and experiences that contribute to life satisfaction and overall wellbeing. The concept of enrichment consists of three core components—health, people, and purpose—that define a rich life.
Enrichment Equation: Enrichment = Health + People + Purpose
People: Creating authentic connections (defined as genuine, quality, supportive relationships that generate mutual trust and accountability), reflected in an increased number of close relationships and improvements in teammates’ sense of belonging, purpose, and community engagement.
Health: Creating frequent opportunities for team members to connect through fitness, sports, and recreation to improve physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Purpose: Engaging members in meaningful team and community-based experiences such as leadership and service that, beyond physical and social activities, renew self-identity and purpose in life.
We accomplish our mission via our two core programs: our Chapter and Community Program (CCP) and our Leadership Development Program (LDP).
Keith is one of those few lucky souls who has been able to completely transition out of corporate America and dive headlong into his passion for bettering lives by teaching the art and science of physical culture. He not only “walks the walk” on a day-to-day basis, but his economic well-being hinges on his precepts of “proper exercise, stellar diet and lifestyle, and intelligent “hacks” and supplementation” forming the bedrock foundation for a long, healthy and prosperous life.
Keith, together with partner Mark Alexander, have molded Austin-based Efficient Exercise into one of the most highly regarded fitness venues in the nation. Keith’s mix of intelligent and highly effective exercise programming, coupled with Mark’s business savvy and proprietary equipment genius have made Efficient Exercise the preeminent wellness authority.
The very essence of Paleo f(x)™ is rooted in the idea of putting theory to practice; an idea that Keith is heavily invested in, having been blogging about these issues since early 2007. And his “30-thousand-foot view” for the Paleo f(x)™ enterprise serves as the movement’s guiding, north star.
And with a belief that intelligent “hacks” can help bridge the gap between our elegant evolutionary programming and sub-par environmental surroundings, Keith is continually ferreting out and backing the most promising of technological enhancements. As a founding partner of ID Life, Keith is helping to usher-in 21st century, optimal supplement dosing.
It might be said that Keith lives by the credo written by the Greek poet and soldier, Archilochus, over 2,600 years ago – “We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training”. And his vision for Paleo f(x)™ is that of a battle-tested warrior, preserving the right of everyone to fully, actively and enthusiastically engage in the human experience.
Veteran Resource Podcast was created to introduce veterans to Veteran Service Organizations. There are literally thousands of VSO’s out there, each with a different mission. The one thing that they have in common is that they want to help veterans in their own way. Some might help financially, some might help emotionally, some might help with homelessness, and others might help by providing the opportunity for veterans to serve their community and help others in need. Each week Jeremy will interview a different VSO to find out what their mission is, what projects they have going on, what challenges they face, and the type of veteran that is in their wheelhouse. With thousands of VSO’s there has to be something out there for every veteran.
Jeremy Paris was born in Buffalo, NY and joined the US Army immediately after graduating from high school. After ten years as a Personnel Administration Sergeant he left the military to become a government contractor performing computer support to the Department of Defense. Although the initial plan was to be a contractor for two years and then split, he spent the next 16 years supporting the same customer within different rolls. Jeremy has been on the staff of Veteran Artist Program (VAP), a non-profit Veteran Service Organization since 2010. While at an event in Washington DC with VAP Jeremy shook hands with people representing so many veteran-focused organizations that he was blown away. It was the realization that most veterans had no idea that these organizations existed that prompted Jeremy to start this podcast. The new mission of the Veteran Resource Podcast is that every single one of the 20,000 veterans transitioning out of the military each month will have the opportunity to learn about the veteran organizations that are available to them.
http://veteranresourcepodcast.com
https://www.facebook.com/VeteranResourcePodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/jeremysparis/
http://veteranartistprogram.org
Veteran Resource Podcast was created to introduce veterans to Veteran Service Organizations. There are literally thousands of VSO’s out there, each with a different mission. The one thing that they have in common is that they want to help veterans in their own way. Some might help financially, some might help emotionally, some might help with homelessness, and others might help by providing the opportunity for veterans to serve their community and help others in need. Each week Jeremy will interview a different VSO to find out what their mission is, what projects they have going on, what challenges they face, and the type of veteran that is in their wheelhouse. With thousands of VSO’s there has to be something out there for every veteran.
Jeremy Paris was born in Buffalo, NY and joined the US Army immediately after graduating from high school. After ten years as a Personnel Administration Sergeant he left the military to become a government contractor performing computer support to the Department of Defense. Although the initial plan was to be a contractor for two years and then split, he spent the next 16 years supporting the same customer within different rolls. Jeremy has been on the staff of Veteran Artist Program (VAP), a non-profit Veteran Service Organization since 2010. While at an event in Washington DC with VAP Jeremy shook hands with people representing so many veteran-focused organizations that he was blown away. It was the realization that most veterans had no idea that these organizations existed that prompted Jeremy to start this podcast. The new mission of the Veteran Resource Podcast is that every single one of the 20,000 veterans transitioning out of the military each month will have the opportunity to learn about the veteran organizations that are available to them.
http://veteranresourcepodcast.com
https://www.facebook.com/VeteranResourcePodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/jeremysparis/
http://veteranartistprogram.org
The ketogenic diet has been growing in popularity lately both for its ability to induce fat loss and it's ability to increase mental and physical performance. With its rise, we also find many promising advancements in the supplement industry in the realm of support for those who want to try the ketogenic diet. We also find some false promises.
In this episode we discuss ketosis, ketones, and one of the more promising supplements with the founders of Kegenix. Kegenix makes a supplement called Prime that contains beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB). BHB is one of the two main ketones produced by the liver, and these salts were developed by Doctor Dominic D'Agostino, one of the premier researchers on ketosis. We discuss the value of ketosis and its application for fat loss, health, performance, and for active duty military members. To find out more of the details surrounding this product be sure to check out our show notes at
In this episode we discuss reasons why high fat diets may be more helpful to those who serve in combat MOS's, how best to get into ketosis, and advice for those who want to use ketosis to get to the next level.
Brant Cortright, Ph.D., is the author of The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life and a brain health coach. He is a Professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a licensed clinical psychologist he maintains a private practice in San Francisco that focuses on an integral/holistic and neuroscience-informed approach to brain health and depth psychotherapy. He specializes in depression, stress and anxiety, career and meaning, as well as relationship and intimacy issues.
He has authored two previous books, Integral Psychology and Psychotherapy and Spirit (both published by SUNY Press.) He speaks and gives workshops around the US, Europe and Asia.
In this episode we get into a lot of random stuff. Everything from fitness to consciousness to fecal fetishes. Not sure how we got to fecal fetishes, but it should be entertaining.
In this episode we get into a lot of random stuff. Everything from fitness to consciousness to fecal fetishes. Not sure how we got to fecal fetishes, but it should be entertaining.
Dr. Sherr believes that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is one of the most powerful ways to accelerate and optimize wound healing and decrease inflammation. He creates personalized treatment plans that integrate cutting edge & dynamic HBOT protocols, adjunctive technologies, and nutritional interventions that hyperdrive recovery and optimize (cognitive & physical) performance.
Dr. Sherr is a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, The Institute of Functional Medicine, and the Society of Hospitalist Medicine. He is one of the few medical doctors in the country using an integrative approach to hyperbaric treatment (with targeted lab work, diet, supplementation, and additional innovative technology) to accelerate wound healing and optimize physiology.
In addition to his virtual consulting and education practice, Dr. Sherr is the head of Innovation and Protocol Development at Hyperbaric Medical Solutions in New York. He also does consulting work with Bay Area Hyperbarics and Advanced Hyperbaric Recovery in Northern California
Andrew and Chris attempt to define and discuss Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD), the relations between brain injury and PTSD, along with measures to improve mood, depression, and fitness and nutrition.