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The Jay Ferruggia Show

#367: The Wild Diet with Abel James

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Abel James is a best-selling author, Top 10 App Developer, musician, podcast host, entrepreneur and veritable health crusader.  But he hasn't always enjoyed the glowing health and lean physique he has today.  

In this awesome episode the author of The Wild Diet explains how he dramatically improved his health and effortlessly shed 20 pounds of fat in only 40 days by doing the opposite of what "experts" and even doctors told him to do.  Even better, he explains how you can do the same. 

Listen as we discuss:

  • Why he decided to do the opposite of what doctors told him.  [6:45]
  • How he simplifies nutrition and fitness.  [9:11]
  • Why you should honor nature and eat like your grandmother.  [11:20]
  • What are his thoughts on the carnivore diet?  [15:59]
  • Ways to eat out and still stay on track with your nutrition plan.  [19:23]
  • His approach to intermittent fasting.  [25:34]
  • His Top 5 Foods.  [30:48]
  • Why organ meats are "the seafood of animals".  [32:04]
  • How to follow the Wild Diet when you're just starting out.  [35:22]
  • Lifestyle tips for optimal health, low stress, recovery and sleep.  [37:12]
  • Why limiting use of his phone and being without the internet was awesome.  [44:31]
  • What's coming in 2021 from Abel?  [48:13]
  • Thoughts on his love for music.  [49:38]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody?

0:13.6

Renegade Radio, Jay Faroujia back in the house here to help you unleash your strongest

0:17.1

self.

0:18.1

Doing it with the help of my guest today, Abel James, he is the author of the wild diet.

0:23.6

He is the host of the Fat Burning Man podcast.

0:27.0

You've maybe seen him on TV shows.

0:28.9

He's everywhere.

0:29.9

He's going to share a lot of great information with you guys today.

0:32.6

I do have to apologize.

0:34.8

The beginning cut out, I don't know what I did, I screwed it up again, my bad.

0:40.0

I've only done that twice and all the years we've been recording, maybe three times, but

0:44.0

twice has come in the last month, so I don't know what to tell you about that.

0:49.1

But I apologize.

0:50.1

Anyway, we just missed the beginning a little bit where Abel kind of just talked about,

0:53.6

he struggles being kind of sickly and unhealthy as a kid and what he started to do to turn

0:58.0

it around, so that's where it'll pick up.

1:00.9

Hope you guys enjoy it.

1:02.1

I just want to mention a few things before we get into today's episode.

1:05.2

Firstly, I want to give away some stuff to Matthew Guastamachia.

1:11.9

Guastamachia.

1:13.9

He said, this is an iTunes review, he left.

1:15.9

He said, I've been on my fitness journey for two years, straight mom mentality, always

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