503: Why You’re Not Healthy in Life & How to Fix It! Shawn Stevenson
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/503shawnstevenson
Shawn Stevenson (IG: @shawnmodel) is a bestselling author and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the number #1 health podcast in the U.S. with millions of listener downloads each year.
Today we’re discussing his book Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life.
If you’re looking to step up your diet, Shawn has some great ideas for you to start experimenting with!
In this episode, we discuss:
- The evolution of Shawn’s diet over the years
- Consuming resistant starch feeds your microbiome
- Don’t let fear dictate your diet
- What is circadian medicine?
- Sun exposure helps lower cortisol levels
- How much skin-to-sun exposure do you need?
- Exercise in the morning for better sleep quality at night
- The incredible benefits of intermittent fasting
- Understanding fasting-mimicking nutrients
- Why Shawn waits 2 hours to drink his coffee in the morning (sometimes)
- Whey protein is a fasting-mimicking food
- Make sure you get enough protein daily
- The vegan lifestyle is a new invention for humans
- Shawn’s thoughts about the controversy around fish oil
- It’s time to become more resilient
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Related links:
Shawn Stevenson - Eat Smarter (book)
Shawn Stevenson's website (The Model Health Show)
Follow Shawn Stevenson on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Listen to Shawn Stevenson previously on TUHP (episodes #027 and #052)
Shawn Stevenson - Sleep Smarter (book)
Listen to Dr. Bruce Lipton previously on TUHP (episodes #142 and #240)
Listen or watch Dr. Steven Gundry previously on TUHP (episodes #202, #287, #404, and #461)
Listen or watch Dr. Alan Christianson previously on TUHP (episodes #290 and #411)
Ori Hofmekler - The Warrior Diet (book)
Listen to Paul Saladino previously on TUHP (episode #400)
Paul Saladino - Carnivore Code (book)
Listen to Dr. Daniel Amen previously on TUHP (episodes #333 and #359)
Lisa Mosconi - Brain Food (book)
Related episodes:
Follow These Easy Steps to Optimize Health & Reduce Inflammation | Dr. Roger Seheult (#498)
Use Fasting as a Tool to Lose Weight & Prevent Disease | Mike Mutzel (#492)
Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Weight Loss | Dr. Jason Fung (#467)
How to Optimize Your Sleep, Practical Advice From an Ex-Insomniac | Diane Macedo (#460)
Dr. Amy Shah Shares a Proven Plan to Boost Your Energy Today! (#431)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast, there's a confirmation where in our society today, being unhealthy is normalized. |
| 0:08.0 | And so being adjusted to that to a profoundly sick society, that is not something that we need to strive for. |
| 0:16.0 | In fact, today, if you're healthy, you're weird. You're not normal. And so right now, we need to strive to be a little bit more weird. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast, episode 503. I'm Jesse Chapus, and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:38.0 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:42.0 | This week, Sean Stephenson's on the show for a third time. Sean is the best-selling author and creator of the model health show. |
| 0:49.0 | Featured as the number one health podcast in the US, with millions of listener downloads each year. |
| 0:54.0 | Today, we're discussing his book Eat Smarter. Use the power of food to reboot your metabolism, upgrade your brain, and transform your life. |
| 1:02.0 | If you're looking to step up your diet, Sean has some great ideas today that you can experiment with. |
| 1:08.0 | Highlights of our conversation include the evolution of Sean's diet over the years, what is circadian medicine, exercise in the morning for better sleep quality at night, |
| 1:18.0 | the incredible benefits of intermittent fasting, and understanding fasting mimicking nutrients. |
| 1:24.0 | As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full interview is available over on YouTube. |
| 1:30.0 | You can get there by going to Ultimate Health podcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there so you don't miss any of the action. |
| 1:37.0 | If when you get to the end of this conversation, you can think of somebody in your life that could use a little reboot when it comes to their diet, a little help in that realm, |
| 1:45.0 | please share this episode with them and help them along their health journey. I thank you ahead of time. |
| 1:50.0 | Without further ado, here we go with Sean Stevenson. |
| 1:54.0 | Sean, you share a story in your book Eat Smarter where you're going about your health journey, and given the foods you talk about here, which we're going to get to in a second, |
| 2:02.0 | you're eating healthy foods, and all of a sudden you notice that your digestive system starts tacked up. |
| 2:10.0 | These foods, like I said, healthy foods like kale and cashews that you've been eating and promoting your health start negatively impacting you. |
| 2:19.0 | How far back is this? What do you do? |
| 2:23.0 | I think that all of us who are operating at a significantly high level in the field of health and nutrition, all those things, we go through phases. |
| 2:34.0 | We go through our phase of dogma and believing that our way is the right way. |
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