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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 94 — Kris Buchanan: From Olympic Athlete to Serious Illness to Whole Food Restaurant

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Even athletes who achieve their greatest goal of competing in the Olympics can fall hard healthwise after their careers end due to a lifetime of unhealthy eating habits. Former Olympian Kris Buchanan shares her story from rise and fall to recovery and opening her GOODONYA Organic restaurant in Encinitas, Calif., in this foodie Living 4D conversation. Just for Living 4D listeners, try Kris’ HYDRATE, a certified organic electrolyte powder, and save 15 percent by using the promo code goodo...

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Organic's just a starting point. Okay, so at least you're starting there, but then you have to know your brand because there's there's just organic ingredients in bulk out of China, right?

0:12.6

Can you really trust that?

0:14.3

There's a lot of stuff out of Mexico.

0:15.9

Now, all the people, the companies that certify organic are not the government.

0:20.1

They're private companies like QAI and Oregon Tilf and they follow the NOP, the National Organic Program.

0:28.6

And those standards are set by the government and of course the government as you've touched on is lobby by corporations

0:35.3

so the standards are getting less and less right and bastardized and we can't trust them as much.

0:40.9

So there's new certifications coming out. What we're doing currently is

0:45.5

looking for as much biodynamic and regenerative agriculture that we can find.

0:52.0

Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek. find. Chris is a member of the CIF Hall of Fame and was part of the USA Field Hockey team that

1:06.3

competed in the 1996 Olympics.

1:09.8

But high intensity exercise plus processed food plus sugar created a dangerous

1:14.8

combination for her immune system and she experienced a severe wake-up call in

1:19.3

2007 when she was diagnosed with Celiac Disease and Hashimoto's.

1:25.0

Going back to school to study holistic nutrition,

1:28.0

Chris is now the founder of Good Onya,

1:30.0

an organic restaurant in Antonidas, California, and the creator of Good Ony a Hydrate, Electrolyte, and Mineral Drink Mix.

1:38.0

Have you ever wondered what Olympic athletes are taught to eat by the nutritionists that educate them for Olympic committees and what the cost of educating athletes that way is?

1:51.0

Or why we allow big corporations selling junk food like Coke and McDonald's to sponsor the Olympics?

1:58.0

What you are about to learn may both surprise you and help you realize the kind of corporate

2:02.4

manipulation that makes it in the Olympics and

2:04.8

our governments and points to many of the problems the pandemic is bringing light to today.

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