#350: How to Fix Your Digestion with Wade Lightheart
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
“We aren’t what we eat. We’re what we digest, absorb, and utilize.”
Wade Lightheart has built his career on helping people understand this philosophy and implement it in their lives.
He is the co-creator and President of biOptimizers, a company that delivers the best in health and nutrition supplements. A 3-time Natural Bodybuilding Champion, Wade is one of the world’s premier authorities on Natural Nutrition and Training Methods.
If you want to know how to improve your physique and optimize your health, we have ya covered in this episode.
Listen as we discuss:
- 3 major life events that led him to fitness. [3:35]
- The health crisis that opened the door to what he does today. [9:06]
- Why your past failures can be the seeds to your biggest success. [21:23]
- Is coaching the ONLY way to true mastery of your physical health? [26:32]
- Is there a “best” diet for everyone or should you find the best diet for YOU? [34:50]
- The 5 stages of digestion and how to know if your digestive health isn’t good. [39:26]
- Foods that destroy your gut health! [51:10]
- Does a healthy gut make cheat meals less harmful? [54:23]
- What should you do if you’ve crushed your metabolism? [59:41]
- His “Formula 1 Philosophy” for experimenting with diets and training. [59:41]
- Who needs to take probiotics, digestive enzymes, and HCL? [1:04:48]
- Great news for people who love cheat meals and high calorie days. [1:09:25]
- How has he avoided getting sick for 16 YEARS? [1:15:53]
- His daily routines and non-negotiables. [1:18:04]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's good my friends Renngate Radio Jay Ferrujia back in the house |
| 0:15.3 | here to help you unleash your strongest self with my friend Wade Lightheart today |
| 0:19.8 | Wade is a three-time all-natural national bodybuilding champion advisor to the American |
| 0:24.3 | Anti-cancer Institute, Director of Education and Bi-optimizers nutrition, founder of the |
| 0:30.1 | Prosperity and Health Alliance. He's also the author of several best-selling books and |
| 0:35.7 | just a great all-around dude. So I think you guys are really going to enjoy the conversation |
| 0:38.7 | we had with Wade today where we do get a lot into digestion and just optimizing gut health which is such an important topic |
| 0:44.6 | can't talk about it enough especially in this day and age when people want to |
| 0:48.0 | be optimized want to stay healthy I think you'll definitely get a lot out of this |
| 0:52.3 | episode now let's talk about I think you'll definitely get a lot out of this episode. |
| 0:53.2 | Now let's talk about the one phase of sleep that almost everyone fails to get enough of. |
| 0:59.1 | And this one phase of sleep is responsible for most of your body's daily rejuvenation, repair, controlling |
| 1:03.7 | hunger, and wheat loss hormones, boosting energy, and so much more. |
| 1:07.0 | Obviously I'm talking about deep sleep. And if you don't get enough, you'll probably always |
| 1:11.6 | struggle with cravings, slow metabolism, premature |
| 1:15.1 | aging, and even worse conditions. Now why don't most people get enough of this important |
| 1:21.4 | phase of sleep. |
| 1:22.5 | Big reason is magnesium deficiency, |
| 1:24.5 | because over 80% of the population |
| 1:26.1 | is deficient in magnesium. |
| 1:28.1 | Magnesium increases Gaba, which encourages relaxation |
| 1:31.7 | on a cellular level, which is critical for sleep. |
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