055: Tim Van Orden – Authentic Happiness | Battling Lyme Disease | Secrets To A Next Level Salad
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2015
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Tim Van Orden is back, and this time we have him for a full length episode. He is a sought after coach and public speaker with 10 U.S. trail running championships under his belt. Tim focuses on diet, exercise, and mental health in an attempt to see (and be) what's possible.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Tim's Achilles injury
- How Tim's identity has shifted since the injury
- Eating for performance vs. eating for fulfilment
- How to turn a salad into a large meal that will take up to an hour and a half to eat
- Secrets to a next level salad
- The bacteria in your gut change depending on what you eat
- Celebrating the process instead of the result
- Tim's experience with lyme disease and all about tics and lyme
- Positive Psychology vs. pathopsychology
- Positive emotions + engagement + relationships + meaning + accomplishment = authentic happiness
- Tim's happiness additions - physical activity and quality food
- Physical activity creates new brain cells
- How Tim has dramatically improved his depression, naturally
- We hide our identity from the world and often from ourselves
- A different way of looking at depression
- Your brain is not always right (no pun intended)
- Leaders are often sociopaths, not feeling their own feelings and the feelings of others
- Making sure every moment has riches
- Become brilliant at you, right here
- Tim's world famous green smoothie recipe
- To destem or not to destem, kale
- Happiness is a choice
Related links:
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Tim Van Orden's YouTube channel - Running Raw
Follow Tim Van Orden on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen to Tim Van Orden previously on TUHP (episode #042)
New York State Department of Health - Ticks & Lyme Disease
Martin Seligman - Authentic Happiness (book)
Kevin Kelly - 1000 True Fans (blog post)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 55th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast |
| 0:13.8 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:18.8 | Today we are coming to you for this intro from Phoenix Airport. |
| 0:25.0 | We're about to Borderplane in about half an hour flying back to Toronto after a week |
| 0:29.9 | vacation where we got some rest and relaxation in. |
| 0:33.7 | We spent the majority of the time in Scottsdale, Arizona, but we also took a couple days and |
| 0:39.4 | went to the beautiful Sedona and really had a great time doing some hiking there and just taking in all the beautiful |
| 0:46.8 | red rock and rock formations. |
| 0:49.8 | Today on the show we have a great guest, Tim Orden from runningrod.com. You may remember him |
| 0:56.4 | from our mini cast a while back where we did a fun impromptu short show with him outside of the Raw Vegan Festival in Toronto. |
| 1:08.0 | Today we have a full-length show, great interview before we get into the details of what we talk about and what Tim's all about. |
| 1:16.7 | We're going to talk about our sponsor. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah, so I'm going to give a little shout out to Sun Warrior, which is never too difficult. |
| 1:25.0 | So as Jesse mentioned, we are just coming back home from our vacation. |
| 1:30.0 | And what's amazing is that while we were traveling, we were able to have our Sun Warrior fix |
| 1:35.4 | no matter where we were. |
| 1:36.5 | But first of all, what I did bring with us, |
| 1:38.4 | of course I always bring some sample packs of Sun Warrior |
| 1:40.5 | with me, but I bought some of the Sun Warrior Ormus Super Greens so you can get |
| 1:46.1 | those in little to-go packets and no matter where you're going to, whether it's just on |
| 1:50.3 | the go during the day, whether you're communing or traveling they're really easy to |
| 1:53.5 | bring with you and just slide a packet right into your water or into your morning drink. |
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