970: Dr. Jordan Shallow on Training, Travel & Vaccines (with Guest Ben Greenfield)
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam, and Justin talk to Dr. Jordan Shallow about his travels and his adventures with Ben Pakulski. Mid episode the boys call Ben Greenfield to find out what he was thinking when he posted his recent Twitter post on vaccines. This opened a can of worms and led to a lively debate between Jordan and Sal.
- Making the compelling argument why men and women SHOULD NOT be separated in sports at a young age. (5:17)
- Jordan opens up about his travels across the world and in particular his adventures with Ben Pakulski. The importance of healthy debate to learn and grow, lessons learned in the process & MORE. (11:30)
- Why he aims to ‘teach people to teach’. (51:20)
- Is he diving into how the mind plays a role in how he moves? How perception is open to interpretation. (56:28)
- The gnarly things he witnessed involving drugs in the gyms overseas. (1:06:46)
- Jordan gets personal on the current situation he is going through. (1:09:33)
- Live call in with Ben Greenfield where the guys address, what’s the deal with that vaccine tweet? (1:22:30)
- The Great Debate: Should the government have the authority to inject what they deem to be good into your children? Who owns your body and mind? (1:34:25)
- The CRAZY travel schedule for Jordan in 2019 and his push to get Mind Pump back on the road. (1:58:30)
Featured Guest/People Mentioned:
- Dr. Jordan Shallow D.C (@the_muscle_doc) Instagram
- RX'D RADIO
- The Muscle Doc – Dr. Jordan Shallow DC
- Ben Greenfield (@bengreenfieldfitness) Instagram
- John Brenkus (@johnbrenkus_) Twitter
- Ben Pakulski ® | Official (@bpakfitness) Instagram
- Kenny Santucci (@kennysantucci) Instagram
- Jordan Peters (@trainedbyjp) Instagram
- Sam Harris (@samharrisorg) Instagram
- Ryan Holiday (@ryanholiday) Instagram
- Paul Chek (@paul.chek) Instagram
Products Mentioned:
- February Promotion: MAPS Performance is ½ off!!
- **Code “GREEN50” at checkout**
- Mind Pump Episode 955: John Brenkus
- AAF.com: Alliance of American Football
- Brad Schoenfeld's 3 Evidence Based Guidelines of Hypertrophy Training
- Conservation of energy - Wikipedia
- MI40 Gym
- Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
- Dr. Jordan Shallow: Taking Ownership Of Your Healthcare And The 3 Pillars Of Evidence Based Research — Barbell Shrugged #376
- The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Book by Ryan Holiday
- Ben Greenfield Tweet on Vaccines
- AMID MEASLES OUTBREAK, WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATORS CONSIDER BILL TO REMOVE PERSONAL BELIEF AS REASON TO FORGO MMR VACCINE
- Living 4D Podcast Show Notes Episode 11 – Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
- Saying No to Vaccines: A Resource Guide for All Ages - Book by Sherri Tenpenny
- Ben’s resources on vaccines
- Nike's Results Put Kaepernick Gamble in Perspective
Transcript
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| 1:02.2 | This guy is, I've called him beast before, but I don't mean he's a beast because he's |
| 1:06.0 | a big dude, although he is. He is beast from X-Men. He's the blue monster guy who's really |
| 1:12.8 | strong, but then is super smart. So it's this weird, this weird combination. |
| 1:18.2 | To the point that we are going to have to write a guide for some people post show on how |
| 1:23.4 | to figure out what half the stuff he says sometimes is. I always tease him about every |
| 1:28.8 | time he comes in the show. But you know what? Well, we actually touched on this in the |
| 1:31.8 | podcast. His goal really is to educate the educators. So, yeah, right? Even though I'm teasing |
| 1:40.1 | him, that is the right vocabulary to use for the people that he's speaking to. He's not |
| 1:44.5 | trying. He's not admitting that I'm trying to breach the masses or the average Jener |
| 1:48.1 | Joe who's listening. I'm trying to school the people out there that are teachers. Right. |
| 1:52.6 | Yeah. And what do we talk about? And they said, well, we go into his travels. We talk |
| 1:56.8 | about him and Ben Pekolsky. Those are funny stories. They tell some funny stories there. |
| 2:00.2 | What they teach each other. Because of course, Pekolsky is this super smart, educated bodybuilder. |
| 2:05.3 | Right. George. They don't agree on everything. They don't. I thought is fantastic. They |
| 2:09.8 | don't. And so that was really cool. And then we talk about some of his personal stuff. |
| 2:15.5 | He's going through some difficult times right now. So it gets pretty deep there. And |
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