145: Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life | Shawn Stevenson
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Shawn Stevenson is the author of Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life and creator of the Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health podcast on iTunes with millions of listener downloads each year. Shawn has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, Men's Health magazine, ESPN, FOX News, and many other major media outlets. He is also a frequent keynote speaker for numerous organizations, universities, and conferences.
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| 0:00.0 | What's pop and genius life family? Welcome to episode 145 of the show. Glad to have you here. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome back to another episode of the Genius Life. First episode of 2021. Say what? |
| 0:24.8 | I'm your host Max Lugavira Filmmaker, health and science journalist in the author of The New York Times, |
| 0:28.0 | bestselling book Genius Foods and The Genius Life. Today we have an OG podcaster in the studio, |
| 0:33.8 | the one and only Sean Stevenson. Sean is a nutritionist, the host of the top rated health podcast, |
| 0:39.1 | the model health show, and the author of the international bestseller, Sleep Smarter. 21 essential |
| 0:44.3 | strategies to sleep your way to a better body, better health, and bigger success. And guess what, |
| 0:49.1 | guys? He has just launched his latest book and it is Epic. It's called Eat Smarter. Use the |
| 0:54.8 | power of food to reboot your metabolism, upgrade your brain, and transform your life. And it's out now. |
| 1:00.5 | Sean has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, Muscle and Fitness, |
| 1:04.2 | ABC News, ESPN, and many other major media outlets. Questions are curious about nutrition. |
| 1:09.3 | Sean is your guy and we're lucky to have him and his wisdom in today's episode. |
| 1:13.3 | In this episode, Sean shares why getting a handle on metabolism can be tricky because it varies |
| 1:17.6 | not only from person to person, but also within each of us from week to week. And what we often |
| 1:22.8 | do to sabotage ourselves in this department. We discuss how growing up in a family that exhibited |
| 1:27.7 | various metabolic disorders and chronic illnesses ranging from obesity to diabetes to asthma, |
| 1:32.6 | paved Sean's career path in nutritional science. Sean explains why the phrase you are what you eat |
| 1:37.6 | isn't just a folksy cliche your mom would say to entice you to eat more broccoli at the dinner |
| 1:41.4 | table, but a literal scientific fact. Additionally, we chat about the repercussions of being the sickest |
| 1:47.6 | nation in the history of the world and the numerous ways in which this tragedy is entirely self-inflicted. |
| 1:52.7 | Lastly, we discuss the ongoing calories versus food quality debate. And finally, fruit. |
| 1:58.4 | Is fruit perfectly okay to eat with abandon or a food group worth moderating? |
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