How to Eat Smarter and Trigger Your Metabolic Switches – Shawn Stevenson : 983
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… you’ll learn how you can make smarter food choices to support your metabolic energy and upgrade your brain. You’ll also find out some new things about body fat. For example, did you know that it’s a complex organ that communicates throughout your entire body system? You’ll get tips on fat loss essentials and how to use them to your advantage.
Today’s guest, Shawn Stevenson, hosts a popular podcast called The Model Health Show. He’s a nutritionist, researcher and bestselling author with education and experience in business, biology, and nutritional science.
Shawn’s been in the health and wellness space and doing clinical work as a nutritionist for nearly two decades. He’s known for his ability to keep learning and evolving his approach with deep research into the science of human health.
He’s all about improving human performance and energy with science-backed basics like food in his “Eat Smarter” book and sleep in his “Sleep Smarter“ book.
This episode gets right into food choices you can make—and why they work—to stoke your metabolic energy. Topics like:
- How people can better understand the process of fat loss.
- How the misconstrued science of calories contributes to how much people struggle with their diets.
- What metabolic switches are, what do they do, and why it’s important for you to know how to turn them on and off.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.6 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.8 | And right before recording this, I just spent 10 minutes in a 50 degree cold plunge downstairs. |
| 0:24.2 | So I'm all in big graded full of endorphins. |
| 0:26.9 | And a little cold, but I don't think you're going to hear me shivering because I'm not going to shiver. |
| 0:33.0 | Our guest today has probably never been in a cold plunge just kidding. |
| 0:37.2 | He probably lives. |
| 0:38.9 | It is none other than Sean Stevenson, who runs a fantastic podcast, a very, very kind human being. |
| 0:52.2 | I was just on his show. |
| 0:54.2 | What we're going to focus on today and my listeners always know that I'm going to tell you what you get out of an episode. |
| 1:00.3 | At least what I think you're going to get because I prepared ahead of time, just a general thing. |
| 1:04.5 | And we're going to go wherever the conversation goes. |
| 1:06.7 | But we're going to talk about foods to make your metabolism work better so you make more energy. |
| 1:13.5 | You're going to learn about metabolic switches and what triggers them. |
| 1:18.0 | And it's a little bit different than what you've learned from me about just stimulating mitochondria. |
| 1:22.7 | So how do you get that control of your biology? |
| 1:26.0 | And you'll find that Sean has really done his research and he's gone deep on it. |
| 1:31.9 | We're going to talk about body fat and we're going to talk about how your fat communicates through your entire body. |
| 1:38.6 | And three different things you probably don't know about losing fats. |
| 1:43.4 | I do want to say though, Sean's nutritionist researcher, he's got that just peaceful thing. |
| 1:50.8 | If you've heard of the model health show, it's a podcast worth listening to. |
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