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The Model Health Show

Immune System Fitness, Microbial File Sharing, & The Antidote To Stress

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Wellness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Selfhelp

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

True health encompasses so much more than just diet and exercise. However, you don’t need complicated routines, a lot of money, or elaborate gadgets to make a positive impact on your health. Some of the most powerful things you can do to improve your longevity, boost your immune system, and lower your stress have to do with simple behaviors and habits you can create in your home.

 Today, you’re going to learn about the impactful role that community can have on your microbiome, your disease risk, and your overall health. On this episode of The Model Health Show, you’re going to hear my conversation with the incredible Dr. Amy Shah for her podcast, Save Yourself. In this conversation, we discussed the importance of shared family meals, how to prioritize eating real food, and why your relationships are a key determinant of your health.

 This episode is packed with the science behind how cultivating healthy relationships can influence your microbiome, your sleep, your immune system, and so much more. You’re also going to learn the top two most important things you can do to transform your health. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr. Amy Shah! 

In this episode you’ll discover: 

  • The most important part about being human. (09:48)
  • How eating with your family can impact your health. (12:22)
  • Why being part of a community can improve your microbiome. (14:47)
  • The health benefits of multi-generational living. (17:52)
  • An interesting fact about humans, evolution, and menopause. (23:13)
  • Why creating your own community can transform your life. (25:24)
  • How sharing meals with your children can reduce their risk of obesity and disordered eating. (28:04)
  • The connection between the time spent at a table and health outcomes. (33:45)
  • What the #1 factor is that influences longevity is. (38:04)
  • Which hormone is the antidote to stress. (39:27)
  • Why personalization is the key to health. (41:22)
  • The most powerful nutrition shift you can make. (41:44)
  • How American children’s diets have become inundated with ultra-processed food. (42:37)
  • The #1 way to minimize the ultra-processed food in your diet. (45:50)
  • What post-ingestive feedback is. (49:14)
  • What sleep nutrients are. (54:41)
  • How often you should aim to share a meal with others. (58:09) 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson.

0:04.8

For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com.

0:11.2

When it comes to real health and fitness, it's about far more than diet and exercise.

0:17.3

There was a time when I was obsessed with diet and exercise, and I thought it was the end-all-be-all.

0:25.2

But if you've been paying attention to the health and wellness space for any time, you've seen that this universe has expanded so much.

0:32.5

But here's the thing.

0:33.4

It is still based in simple principles.

0:36.4

It's still based in simplicity. But oftentimes, because of the way that our culture is currently constructed, we're not paying attention to these big movers, those big dominoes that knock over all these other wonderful benefits that bring forth the health and wellness that we truly want.

0:53.9

Diet and exercise are really a result of some of these bigger movers.

0:59.4

And today we're going to be talking about just that.

1:03.6

On this episode, we're going to be covering the shocking impact that being around other people

1:09.9

can have on your microbiome. We're going to be covering the

1:14.2

value of community and helping us through different stages of life. We're going to talk about how

1:19.3

sitting down and eating at a table impacts your health. We're going to cover which hormone

1:25.3

has been found to be an antidote for stress.

1:28.7

And we're also going to break down top two most important things for you to do right now to prioritize for truly great health.

1:39.5

This conversation took place right here at the Model Health Show Studios.

1:46.4

But it was a unique experience because it was a friend of mine who is a superstar in the health and wellness space who asked if she

1:53.5

could interview me for her amazing new show called Save Yourself with Dr. Amy Shaw.

2:02.0

Now, Dr. Shaw is a board certified medical doctor and nutrition expert with training from

2:07.4

Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard University.

2:11.2

And she truly knows her stuff.

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