416: Lose Fat & Reverse Aging by Eating Two Meals a Day | Mark Sisson
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/marksisson416
Mark Sisson (IG: @marksissonprimal) is a health and fitness expert, entrepreneur, author and the founding father of the ancestral health movement.
He’s a former world-class endurance athlete with a 2:18 marathon and a fourth-place finish in the Hawaii Ironman World Triathlon Championships.
Mark's blog, MarksDailyApple.com and Primal Blueprint lifestyle program have paved the way for primal enthusiasts to break free from conventional wisdom's diet and exercise principles.
His latest book is Two Meals a Day: The Simple, Sustainable Strategy to Lose Fat, Reverse Aging, and Break Free from Diet Frustration.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The two meals a day concept
- Start by eliminating the big 3: sugar, processed grains & industrial seed oils
- How to become metabolically flexible
- Compressing your eating window triggers autophagy
- The cutting out the carbs strategy
- What’s the least amount of food I can eat?
- Carb dependent vs. fat adapted
- The concept of keto without building metabolic flexibility
- Focus on measuring how you feel
- Mark’s lifestyle transition after moving from Malibu to Miami
- Walking is an underestimated form of movement
- Treating piriformis syndrome
- Why Mark is a fan of the barefoot movement
- The running world is embracing minimalist shoes
- Becoming a grandfather
- Mark’s morning routine
- The benefits of fire & ice training
- How to activate brown fat
- Mark’s entire career as an endurance athlete was about managing discomfort
- Perseverance is one of your greatest assets in business
- Mark hitting his entrepreneurial home run at age 65
- You can only compare yourself to yourself
- Achieve your fitness goals by changing your diet
- The growth of Primal Kitchen
- Coffee helps you burn fat
- Metabolic flexibility includes mental flexibility
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Related links:
Mark Sisson & Brad Kearns - Two Meals A Day (book)
Mark Sisson's website (Mark's Daily Apple)
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Listen to Mark Sisson previously on TUHP (episode #178)
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Dr. Will Cole on Intuitive Fasting to Recharge Your Metabolism and Renew Your Health (#393)
Dave Asprey – Fast This Way to Burn Fat and Heal Inflammation (#389)
Gary Taubes – Are Carbs Making You Fat? (#387)
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353: Dr. Satchin Panda – Time-Restricted Eating (TRE) & Managing Your Light Exposure
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I've been a huge fan of people going barefoot, |
| 0:05.3 | and to this day, I just kind of roll my eyes |
| 0:08.3 | when people say, well, I couldn't go barefoot |
| 0:10.8 | or I couldn't wear a sort of minimalist shoes |
| 0:14.2 | because I have no arches. |
| 0:16.8 | Well, the reason you have no arches |
| 0:18.1 | is because you've been supporting your arch |
| 0:20.1 | with an artificial bridge, your whole life, |
| 0:23.2 | and so your arch has atrophy. |
| 0:25.2 | It's given up the ghost. |
| 0:26.2 | It said, I don't need to work anymore. |
| 0:28.1 | The only way to build arches, |
| 0:29.9 | not the only way, but the best way |
| 0:31.3 | is to walk barefoot as much as you can. |
| 0:34.7 | So one of the ways to do that is to walk, you know, |
| 0:37.7 | in the shallow water, you know, |
| 0:41.0 | if it's warm water, you know, on a coastal flat plane |
| 0:45.2 | or in deep sand is another way to do it. |
| 0:48.5 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast, episode 416. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:57.9 | Each week, I'll bring you in-depth conversations |
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