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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 147 minutes
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In this episode, Shawn Wells discusses the widespread influence of caffeine, its physiological dependency, and why he believes Paraxanthine is a better alternative. He shares his personal health journey, how consciousness and psychedelics helped him heal, and the importance of spirituality, community, and nature in overall well-being. Learn how Paraxanthine works, why it doesn’t create dependency, and how his product, Update, provides energy without the downsides of caffeine.
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Website: shawnwells.com
Instagram: @ShawnWells
Product: Update Energy Drink (25% discount auto applied)
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0:00.0 | I'm |
0:02.0 | Oh, |
0:03.0 | Oh, |
0:04.0 | and |
0:05.0 | The Sean Wells is internationally recognized as the world's greatest formulator and the ingredient-tologist. |
0:45.2 | That's a word. |
0:46.3 | The ingredientologist, the scientist of ingredients. |
0:50.9 | With over a decade of clinical experience as a chief clinical dietitian and an |
0:54.8 | impressive track record of formulating over 1,100 products, including supplements, food, |
1:01.0 | beverages, and cosmaceuticals, Sean's expertise is well sought after in the biohacking, |
1:06.8 | anti-aging, and health optimization space. He has patented over 40 novel ingredients and has developed |
1:13.6 | a reputation as the world's leading nutritional biochemist. Today he's excited to share his |
1:19.2 | latest innovation update, which offers a cleaner, more effective alternative to traditional |
1:24.9 | caffeine. And we're going to get into that a lot today with respect to |
1:28.4 | caffeine. Do you think that there is such thing as big caffeine? We can say that for later. |
1:37.3 | That's a really interesting question. We have big pharma. We have big tech. I believe so to some degree. |
1:44.7 | I mean, it's not being levied in the same way. |
1:48.0 | But anything that is that large, you're talking about the, I believe, the most important ingredient to humanity. |
1:57.3 | Probably there's two ingredients, alcohol and caffeine over the last 150 years that have really reshaped humanity. Probably there's two ingredients, alcohol and caffeine over the last 150 years, that have |
2:03.0 | really reshaped humanity. We need caffeine to get going in the morning. There's caffeine, |
2:08.9 | you know, the Starbucks, of which there's tens of thousands of stores worldwide. 90% of the |
2:15.2 | population consumes caffeine in some form or another every single day. |
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