EP 54 - The Honest Vegetarian: Paul Chek & Matt Wallden

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Religion & Spirituality, Wellness, Society & Culture, Plant Medicine, Relationships, Alternative Health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Paul Chek, Spirituality, Sexuality, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Development

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Are you a vegetarian yet still experiencing a lot of health problems?

Maybe your attraction to a specific “ism” — in this case vegetarianism — is driven by something other than the needs of your body, like a deep desire for connection, or Tribe; without really understanding all of the ramifications built upon this one decision you’ve made, you may be trading your health for social connection…

Are you really paying close attention to what your body is telling you it needs for sustenance? If you don’t know how, we can help you!

Paul delves into the pros and cons of vegetarianism with Matt Wallden – Naturopath, Osteopath and the CHEK Institute’s Global Head of Education – in this early excerpt from their new six-part audio series, The Honest Vegetarian, debuting later this month

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Show Notes

Paul has been a vegetarian twice in his life. (7:33)
While Paul was a vegetarian the second time (at age 45) for a year, he had problems recovering from his workouts. (11:42)
Why it began not making sense for Matt to be a vegetarian when he was at university. (15:26)
“At some point, your physiology outweighs your philosophy.” (18:58)
Matt shares poetry he wrote in support of vegetarianism back in the day. (24:42)
Treating unique health problems like male impotence, fertility issues and insomnia with a non-vegetarian diet may be helpful. (27:09)
Eating the right foods based on your body’s individual and genetic needs developing an intimate relationship with yourself. (31:11)
A positive use for vegetarianism: Spiritual development. (35:33)
The Rudolf Steiner connection. (39:26)
Sound reasons why abstaining from meat from time to time can be healthy. (47:35)
People have a phobia about eating organ meats. (58:30)
How our psyche reminds us when we’re not paying attention to our body’s dietary needs. (1:07:04)

Resources

FC20 Podcast with Matthew Wallden
The Living 4D interview with athlete and former vegan Tim Shieff
The Game Changers trailer on YouTube
Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams
Now We Are Sixty (And a Bit) by Christopher Matthew and David Eccles
Missing Links with Gregg Braden on Gaia
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek.
0:02.8	Today, Paul talks with Czech faculty member Matthew Walden
0:06.5	about a controversial topic at the moment, vegetarianism.
0:10.8	Paul and why people become vegetarians and challenge some of the common health and religious
0:24.7	reasons that are presented by vegetarians for their decisions to avoid foods from animals.
0:31.3	Well welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek and Matthew Wall. Well, vegetarian with you. Thank you, Paul.
0:43.0	Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
0:44.0	I think it's going to be a fun discussion.
0:46.0	I'm very excited to do this with you, Matthew,
0:50.0	because your background as a naturopathic physician and an osteopathic
0:55.5	physician and your clinical experience and your own life experiences we will
1:00.6	discuss gives you the credibility of someone who's not only lived it but
1:07.2	looked into the research very deeply and spent a lot of time working with people that have a wide variety of health and performance issues including
1:15.7	vegans and vegetarians just as myself.
1:19.7	So it's fun for us to be able to share this podcast together because we can really do this not
1:30.6	from an academic perspective alone, but also draw on academic research and insights
1:38.9	and our own clinical experience to share with everybody so that it's a well-rounded approach.
1:47.0	Now, to begin, because this is a sensitive topic as anybody who has ever interacted with vegans and vegetarians knows.
1:56.7	Those groups are quite sensitized to anything that goes against their ideology.
2:06.3	But I'd like to share our mission statement for this program,
2:11.9	the Honest Vegetarian, and I'll begin by saying that I titled it the
2:15.5	honest vegetarian because I think there's times that all of us need to be vegetarians for various reasons which we'll get into.
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