How To Simplify Your Health Journey Today! with Brett Hawes
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this eye-opening episode, Joe De Sena sits down with a holistic health practitioner Brett Hawes to explore the incredible capacity we all have to heal ourselves.
They tackle the rising concern of orthorexia and discuss how the obsession with "perfect" eating can actually harm our well-being. Brett emphasizes the importance of simplifying our health journeys, moving away from fad diets, and focusing on whole, nourishing foods that support our bodies.
You will learn practical strategies for combating lifestyle diseases, enhancing sleep quality, and fostering a balanced approach to nutrition. Brett's wealth of experience in functional medicine provides actionable insights that can easily be integrated into daily life.
Highlights:
00:44 Brett's experience in functional medicine
01:43 Balancing traditional and holistic medicine
05:47 Growing popularity of functional medicine
08:01 Challenges of competing with large food companies
09:11 Vision for a healthier future
10:23 Brett’s view on the healthcare system
12:02 Discussing food subsidies and taxes
13:47 Importance of exercise vs. healthy eating
15:42 Three key practices for preventing lifestyle diseases
20:20 Health practices shouldn’t be so complicated
22:21 Brett's current podcast and activism work1
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| 0:00.0 | We haven't really done such a great job on prolonging life, but the question is really what is the quality of that life? |
| 0:06.1 | If I'm living to be 82 or 83, all good and well, but if the last 30 years of my life |
| 0:10.8 | and crippled with arthritis and I'm on multiple medications |
| 0:13.7 | that's not really good quality of life so I think people are looking for |
| 0:17.4 | alternatives you know they're looking for non-invasive safer things to take you |
| 0:21.6 | know and to do welcome to the Hardway Podcast with Joe the Senna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races. |
| 0:28.5 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our |
| 0:32.4 | 10 million plus Spartans to overcome |
| 0:34.3 | obstacles on the course. With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts |
| 0:38.5 | from every corner of the world. Get ready to elevate your life today. |
| 0:44.0 | Joe Descentenna here, CEO and founder of Spartan and host to the Hardway podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | I got my buddy Brett Hawes on the line. |
| 0:52.0 | He is a holistic health practitioner this guy can get anybody |
| 0:56.8 | healthy thanks for joining us yeah thanks Joe good to meet you good to hang out |
| 1:00.6 | coming up on 21 years in functional medicine, clinical nutrition, a bunch of other |
| 1:07.1 | stuff under there. But it's been an interesting ride, watching what's been happening out |
| 1:11.7 | there in the space, watching people of a lot of new stuff health wise coming up these days as well |
| 1:17.1 | Which is being quite interesting so definitely a lot has changed in 20 years. I'll say that much |
| 1:22.0 | It's funny my mom was into health and wellness a lot has changed in 20 years, I'll say that much. |
| 1:22.5 | It's funny, my mom was into health and wellness |
| 1:25.2 | before it was cool back in the early 70s, |
| 1:27.2 | so it's come a long way. |
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