063: Tana Amen – Supplements For Brain Health | Coffee & Wine Aren’t Health Foods | Is Your Autoimmune Issue Linked To Your Lifestyle?
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, we are speaking with Tana Amen, the New York Times Bestselling author of The Omni Diet. She is a highly respected health and fitness expert who shares her healthy eating tips on The Huffington Post blog. Tana is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a brown belt in Kenpo Karate.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Tana's health journey
- The Omni Diet... what is it?
- No one diet is right for everyone, ever
- You've gotta be a warrior
- Supplements that are great for brain health
- The best way to supplement with magnesium
- Vegan omega-3 supplementation
- Having a partner who supports your health goals
- Drinking wine is linked to breast cancer in women
- If you overdo caffeine is shuts down blood flow to your brain
- Captive gorillas get sick when they stray from their natural diet - an experiment
- How you live your life determines the health of your children and grandchildren
- Trans fat never leaves your body
- Exercising 30 minutes a day and live 11 years longer
- The research shows gluten is bad for the brain and gut
- Raising a health conscious child
- Is your autoimmune issue linked to your lifestyle?
Related links:
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Tana Amen - The Omni Diet (book)
Follow Tana Amen on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
BrainFitLife - includes brain type report
TUHP Episode 23: Smoothies, Juices, Elixirs & Everything In Between
brainMD Omega-3 Power - fish oil
Listen to Dave Asprey previously on TUHP (episode #061)
Related episodes:
273: Dr. David Perlmutter – Grain Brain • Cholesterol Is Your Friend • What Is Keto Cycling?
244: Dr. Will Cole – Plant-Based Keto Diet • Women & Ketosis • Fats For Brain Health
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the 63rd episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:16.3 | And we are here to take your health to the next level |
| 0:19.8 | Today we have a featured guest with us, Tana Amman. |
| 0:23.7 | Before we get into the details on her and what we talk about, |
| 0:27.3 | we're gonna talk a little bit about our weekend. |
| 0:30.2 | Right now it is the Canadian Thanksgiving. |
| 0:33.2 | Today is the Monday, Thanksgiving Monday. |
| 0:36.9 | And no, we've just had a great weekend, |
| 0:39.6 | beautiful dinner last night with family, |
| 0:42.0 | and Marnie's in town and we're just enjoying every moment. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, we had a nice weekend and we had a great day today but something I acknowledge |
| 0:50.5 | with Jesse this morning is how we need to spend more time not doing anything |
| 0:55.3 | because our quote-unquote holiday Monday comprised of doing a lot but we still had an amazing day. |
| 1:01.0 | We went to go see the movie The Martian. We recorded a |
| 1:03.8 | podcast. We made a couple of meals. We had dinner with family. So it was a |
| 1:07.8 | busy day, but it certainly didn't, it didn't require us staying at home all day. |
| 1:14.1 | We were out and about, but we had fun. |
| 1:15.8 | And you know, the weather was beautiful. |
| 1:17.8 | The fall weather here in Ontario was just amazing. |
| 1:20.4 | So we embraced that as well. One thing we're going to do after we're embraced that as well. |
| 1:23.0 | One thing we're going to do after we're done recording this show |
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