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Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

EFR 766: Top Wellness Trends of 2024, Fitness Influencer Red Flags, The Truth About Fasting, and Why Prayer Will Make You Healthier with Sal Di Stefano

Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

Chase Chewning

Healthcoach, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Wellness, Fitness, Humanoptimization, Resiliency, Holistic, Highperformance, Coaching, Biohack, Health, Military, Entrepreneurship, Mindset, Health & Fitness

5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Legion Athletics and Strong Coffee Company.

Welcome to 2024! In this first episode of the New Year we welcome back Sal Di Stefano, health and fitness expert of over 20 years and co-host of one of the biggest fitness podcasts in the world, MindPump. We break down the half-truths and whole lies behind some of the most popular influencers, how to maximize cold plunging benefits for recovery and muscle growth, the fundamental truth of fasting and why it works, the surprising health benefits of prayer and adopting a spiritual life and so much more.

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In this episode, Sal discusses...

  • Cold plunging can boost immunity, reduce inflammation, and train temperature acclimation
  • Fitness authenticity is crucial; beware of influencers focused solely on aesthetics
  • Experience often trumps credentials in effectively communicating and applying fitness knowledge
  • The fitness industry is evolving to include holistic approaches like functional medicine
  • Consistent sleep patterns are vital for health and surpass other sleep aids
  • Training around injuries can involve techniques like occlusion training and unilateral exercises
  • Spiritual practices and religious wisdom can profoundly impact mental and emotional well-being

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0:00.0

The following is an operation podcast production.

0:03.2

If you do find something that diminishes the inflammatory response from exercise,

0:10.2

thus maybe slightly reducing its muscle building signal,

0:14.0

you can actually take advantage of that by increasing the amount of training that you do,

0:18.0

frequency and volume.

0:19.0

There was a lot of value in other modalities in health and fitness.

0:26.2

Fast Things Benefit is and always will be a spiritual practice of detachment.

0:30.6

That's the value.

0:32.1

What are maybe some a thing or some things you're doing now in your early 40s?

0:37.0

Yeah.

0:38.0

That maybe 20 years ago and past cell will never believe future cells doing this shit.

0:42.0

Prayer.

0:43.0

People who have a regular spiritual religious practice,

0:46.3

okay, who have a faith.

0:47.3

They're healthier, they live longer,

0:49.4

they're less likely to be on antidepressants,

0:51.1

less likely to get divorced, less likely to be on anti-anxiety

0:54.8

medication.

0:56.5

The trend that's happening now is real strength training.

1:00.8

I'm Sal de Stefano from Mind Pump. Welcome to Everford Radio.

1:04.0

This is your number one source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to

1:09.2

their passion and truly living a life Everford. I am your host Chase Chuning.

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