351: How to Eat Smarter and Optimize Your Health with Shawn Stevenson

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When I was younger, I made a decision about my diet that forever changed my life: I will value the impact that food has on my body above the taste. At first, nothing changed overnight, but that decision gradually became my guiding principle so much so that I rarely put anything in my body that doesn't add value to my health and energy.

When it comes to our health, and building our immunity to avoid viruses, disease, and illness, what we eat is arguably the single most important decision we can make. This year has made it more obvious than ever that the United States is the sickest nation in human history, and many people are being drastically affected by preventable illnesses.

However, with all this instability comes an incredible opportunity to change. Researcher and bestselling author, Shawn Stevenson—who joined me on the podcast previously to talk about his book Sleep Smarter—has just released his new book, Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life.

Today, Shawn joins me to talk about the astounding problems with our healthcare system, the importance of diet and exercise in illness prevention, and the major cultural changes that need to happen to help us become a healthier society.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The major underlying issues affecting the health of so many people right now that aren't being discussed - and what we can do about it.
How the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the effects of years of ignoring chronic illness.
How stress and uncertainty make us physically sicker by suppressing immune function.
How to improve and optimize your gut bacteria and the other microorganisms that inhabit your body.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready, here we go. Hello my friends. Welcome to today's podcast episode. This is a conversation with the
0:42.4	one and only Sean Stevenson and if you don't know Sean this is a second time on the show I had him back on almost 300 episodes ago back at episode 71 and now we're at 350-ish
0:54.4	351 I think.
0:55.6	Sean is the author of Sleep Smarter which is the book that we talked about last time he was
1:00.7	here and he's the creator of the model health show featured as the number one
1:05.7	get that number one health podcast in the United States with millions of listeners and
1:10.8	downloads each year. Sean is also a graduate of the University of Missouri of
1:13.2	listeners and downloads each year. Sean is also a graduate of the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
1:15.8	He studied business, biology, and nutritional science, and then he went on to found
1:20.3	Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, which is a company that provides wellness services
1:25.7	for individuals and organizations worldwide.
1:29.0	Now Sean has been featured in Forbes Fast Company, the New York Times and Muscle and Fitness.
1:34.0	He's also been on ABC News, ESPN, and many other major media outlets.
1:39.0	And Sean is a researcher.
1:41.0	Sean, because of his show, Model Health Show and being the number one health
1:46.2	podcast he has some of the most brilliant minds in health who have been on his show and befriended him and
1:52.4	now he has contact with him on a regular basis and Sean became a researcher
1:57.1	You know a decade ago or more but recently he dove into COVID-19. He has spent the last six, seven, eight months, really studying the data. He's read over a thousand pure read studies. I don't know if I said that right. You get the idea though. But today I brought him on to talk about his new book, Eat Smarter, use the power of food to reboot your metabolism, upgrade your brain and transform your life.
2:22.7	And Sean and I are on the same page
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