#69: Ted McDonald

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Elle chats with Ted McDonald, who is a yoga teacher, endurance athlete, fitness trainer and entrepreneur. With over a decade of experience teaching yoga, Ted founded a company called Adventures Yoga Retreats, which takes people on fitness excursions to transform their lives. In addition, Ted is also the designated yoga teacher for the Tour de France BMC racing team. In today's show, he discusses his journey to adopting a primal lifestyle after finding out, as a self-perceived fit individual, that he was insulin resistant. He hones in on the fundamentals of yoga practice, how many carbs to include in your diet, and the compatibility of endurance training with a primal diet.

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1:25.4	Welcome everyone to the podcast.
1:45.0	Today we have a guest who is one of my favorite Malibu locals, Ted McDonald. Ted is the owner of Five Point Yoga Studio in Malibu, one of the best places to take yoga. Hi, Ted. How are you? I'm great. Thanks, Al. How are you doing? Good to have you. I want to, we're going to start off as to why you're here. This is going to be sort of a part one of a two-part segment because you are very new
1:50.6	to the paleo-primal way of living. And we're going to get into what led you there because it was a
1:55.6	diagnosis that a lot of people are getting these days and a lot of athletes are getting.
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