586: The Healthiest Ways to Cook Your Food, Optimizing Cortisol, Sumo vs. Conventional Deadlifts & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Kimera-Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the difference between conventional and sumo deadlifts, cortisol, what it is, what affects it and what you can do to keep it at healthy levels, the effectiveness of nootropics for someone with ADHD and how the way you cook your food affects nutrition and health.

Guys talk old movie special effects and Adam talks The Defiant Ones (3:55)
Guys talk the business and monetary success (10:45)
- Millionaires
- Business can’t stay stagnant
Sal/Justin talk about money and their kids (16:50)
- Value of a dollar
- Work Ethic
- Value of investments
- Sal talked to his son about inflation
Kids getting older (more testosterone and language) (24:30)
- No computers/tablets allowed alone in bedroom or bathroom
- Starting to curse
Quah question #1 – What’s the difference between conventional and sumo deadlift? When should you use one or the other? (32:50)
- Work on both and build your mechanics
- Focus on one (phase) and do the other
- Encourage interchanging of exercises
Quah question #2 – Can you talk about cortisol? What is it? What effects it has? What can you do to keep at normal levels? (45:01)
- Helps regulate the immune system, blood sugar levels
- o Raises in response to stress
- Ashwagandha and Reishi
Quah question #3 – How effective are nootropics for someone with ADHD? (54:47)
- Address the root cause first
  - Sleep, exercise and nutrition key
  - Elimination Diet
- Dopamine increases
Quah question #4 – Does the way you cook you food matter nutritionally? (1:08:41)
- Food intolerances with raw vs. cooked foods
- Variety/rotation is important

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.0	MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	In this episode of Mind Pump, for the first 29 minutes, we have a nice time bullshitting like we normally do.
0:21.0	We talked about one of the greatest movies of all time, the never ending story.
0:28.0	Great movie.
0:30.0	And how we show our kids these old movies and how they usually crap on them.
0:34.0	Adam talks about is a great documentary series on HBO called The Defiant Ones.
0:40.0	He kind of identifies with it because of the title.
0:43.0	He's a Defiant One himself.
0:44.0	We also talk about being part of the 1% and teaching the value of money to our kids and kids and swearing.
0:53.0	We think our kids might be starting to say bad words.
0:56.0	And then we talk about the first time we got caught saying bad words.
1:00.0	And now we say them all the fucking time on Mind Pump.
1:03.0	Then we get into the questions.
1:04.0	The first question was, what is the difference between conventional and sumo deadlifts?
1:09.0	Are they the same? Are they interchangeable?
1:11.0	Or are they two separate exercises? Find out in this episode.
1:16.0	Then we talk about cortisol, the evil hormone that's also necessary for health.
1:21.0	How to keep it at healthy levels.
1:24.0	Adam mentions that he's been using the green juice from Organifi that contains some adaptogenic herbs like ashwaganda,
1:32.0	which has been shown to balance out cortisol levels in people who are in high stress and how he's noticing better energy.
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