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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

#246: Sydney Olson

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns welcomes professional Parkour athlete and Hollywood stuntwoman Sydney Olson to discuss her unusual career and her amazing experience healing a severe head injury quickly with keto.

Sydney, 25 and based in Los Angeles, has parlayed her penchant for the offbeat activity of Parkour into an actual career. For the uninformed, you have to visit Sydney’s YouTube channel to believe it! Parkour is like a gymnastics meet using real-world infrastructure as equipment. Participants flip, fly, and jump off, over and around buildings, walls, railings and anything else. Her demo reel is only 1:25 long and will blow your mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LGkG_oXR7Q

Parkour has actual professional competitions. At a major event in Greece, Sydney was severely injured by an unusual freak accident just before the competition. After successfully completing a trick, she lost her balance and fell several feet backward, landing on her head. She endured post-concussion syndrome pain such as recurring headaches, dizziness, and vomiting. In the months that followed, things weren’t right and her work production was compromised. After a friend suggested keto, she experienced a radical turnaround in her health in only a couple weeks, virtually eliminating the painful neurological symptoms. As Keto Reset enthusiasts understand, her improvement was likely due to the profound anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective benefits of keto. Her traumatized brain was getting more oxygen by burning the cleaner fuel source that is keto, while anti-inflammatory signaling was happening at the genetic level.

Enjoy as Sydney discusses her unusual career path, where she once was lit on fire and jumped into a swimming pool for the benefit of Hollywood cameras. Skeptics can dismiss keto as too extreme and too much bacon and butter, but when you can quickly enhance brain function and recover from a traumatic brain injury, it’s quite a profound endorsement for the ketogenic diet…

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Mark Sisson.

0:03.5

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

0:06.0

It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.

0:09.6

Check out KetorReset.com for details about my New York Times bestselling book

0:13.8

and send your questions to info at Ketorreset.com.

0:22.6

Hey, listeners, Brad Kearns here, joined by a very interesting athlete and keto enthusiast.

0:30.2

It's Sidney Olson.

0:31.3

How you doing, Sydney?

0:32.7

Good.

0:33.2

Thanks so much for having me, Brad.

0:35.0

Your resume stands out in the pile, any pile, I would say, and your story is so fascinating.

0:39.9

So I wanted to get you on the podcast.

0:41.6

I know you're a big fan, and that's how we first got connected, that you hit us up, you like

0:46.6

our stuff.

0:47.4

The keto diet has really helped your career and your health.

0:51.6

So we are going to go to town and find out this amazing,

0:55.7

fascinating career that you have and also the story of healing that involved ketogenic eating.

1:01.2

So I guess we're going to call you a professional parkour athlete and Hollywood stunt women.

1:07.4

Yes, that is what I am.

1:10.6

So basically, I'll just give you a little background story on how I got into that and everything.

1:16.6

When I was a kid, I did gymnastics, but I had quit doing that when I was about 14 and just couldn't really find anything else that I enjoyed as much.

1:24.0

And then as I was finishing up high school, I met some people that did parkour.

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