178: Mark Sisson - Ketosis Curbs Hunger • The Healthiest Oil • Reboot Your Metabolism
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Mark Sisson is a former elite endurance athlete who has made health and fitness his life’s work.
He’s written a series of bestselling health and fitness books and his blog MarksDailyApple.com is the world’s most popular ancestral health website.
Mark is also the creator of Primal Kitchen which makes high quality sauces and dressings and he just opened the second Primal Kitchen Restaurant.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Mark took his health to the next level by going keto
- Mark ditched his plans of going to medical school and decided to train for the US olympic team for the marathon
- Combining the keto diet with endurance sport
- Rebooting your metabolism so you can burn fat more efficiently for the rest of your life
- When you go keto... hunger no longer runs your life
- If you need to lose body fat, keto might be your answer
- Being in ketosis can help you build and spare muscle mass
- Your brain loves ketones and runs better on them vs. glucose
- How Mark's brain went from a 10 to an 11 when he went keto
- Ketones can help manage certain types of neurological disorders (epilepsy)
- The ketogenic diet has been shown to eliminate seizures
- When does Mark use exogenous ketones?
- Comparing ketosis to a cleanse
- How Mark doesn't eat until 1pm - he skips breakfast
- Pickles are "free food"
- Mark's big ass salad
- The healthiest of all oils
- Eating keto doesn't mean you give up veggies
- Are people abusing protein on a keto diet?
- Stop sweating to eat
- Women and the ketogenic diet... things to consider
- Make exercise fun
- Strategies for next level sleep
- How Mark manages stress while running four businesses
- Sometimes you just need to "enjoy life"
- The less sugar you eat in your lifetime, the healthier you'll be
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Related links:
Mark Sisson - The Keto Reset Diet (book)
Mark Sisson's website (Mark's Daily Apple)
Follow Mark's Daily Apple on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Mark Sisson - The New Primal Blueprint (book)
Primal Kitchen - Mark's sauces and dressings
Listen to Leanne Vogel previously on TUHP (episode #174)
Laird Superfood Turmeric Coffee Creamer
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311: Leanne Vogel – Keto For Women, Loving Your Body, Sailing Through Life
299: Drew Manning – Complete Keto, Embracing Vulnerability As A Strength, Learn To Love Yourself
229: Melissa Hartwig – The Whole30 Origin Story
291: Dr. Joseph Mercola – KetoFast • Near-Infrared Saunas • Stop Eating Before Bed
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If a reader could understand that the less sugar you eat in a lifetime, the healthier |
| 0:05.7 | you'll be, that would be probably a nice little starting guideline. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:23.0 | This week our featured guest is Mark Sisson. |
| 0:26.0 | He's a former elite endurance athlete who has made health and fitness his life's work. |
| 0:30.0 | He's written a series of best-selling health and fitness books and his blog |
| 0:34.2 | Mark's Daily Apple.com is the world's most popular ancestral health website. |
| 0:39.6 | He's also the creator of Primal Kitchen, They make high quality sauces and dressings and he just opened the second Primal Kitchen restaurant. |
| 0:48.0 | We recently had Leanne Vogel on the show talking about Kito Eating and Kito Living, and it was great to have Mark come on the show |
| 0:55.0 | on the show featuring his new book the Kito Reset Diet and we get into his perspective on |
| 1:00.0 | Kito Lifestyle and Kito Eating. |
| 1:02.0 | So the things that we get into specifically with Mark |
| 1:04.0 | are how Mark ditched his plans of going to medical school and how he decided to |
| 1:08.1 | train for the US Olympic team. We talk about what a compressed eating window looks like. |
| 1:13.0 | He shares with us how to cram more quality fats into your diet. |
| 1:17.0 | We talk about how keto eating helps with cognitive function. |
| 1:21.0 | And we also talk about Mark's big-ass salad and that's his typical |
| 1:25.1 | daily lunch. So much great information excited for you guys to listen so here we go |
| 1:29.6 | with Mark Sisson. Hi Mark how are you? Welcome to the show. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm great and thanks for having me. It's great to be here. |
| 1:36.0 | Mark, so great to have you on the show and you have a new book coming out, the Kito Reset Diet, we're super |
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