Kundalini Yoga, Cannabidiol, Psilocybin Mushrooms & More With Dr. Somer Nicole & James Radina.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 7 May 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Last month, I had the pleasure of visiting Kauai, Hawaii and hanging out with a few of the coolest couples on the face of the planet. One such couple was big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton and his wife, volleyball Olympian and fitness celebrity Gabby Reece. You can listen to my podcast interview with them here.
Another couple was James Sol Radina and Dr. Somer Nicole, who you get to meet in this podcast episode. Dr. Somer Nicole is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and specializes in CranioSacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Release and is a Reiki Master/Teacher. She has teaches alignment-based Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga, has been teaching Yoga since 2002 and travels internationally for workshops and retreats. She also creates personalized Yoga videos for clients, lives in Kauai and has created an online platform for Yoga, Meditation and holistic living you can access at www.YogaDoctors.TV. James Sol Radina, has been a podcast guest before in a special episode on CBD. He is CEO of EAD Labs, a co-founder of “The Science of Weed,” a documentary releasing in late 2016 that features over 40 of the top doctors and scientists on the subject of using cannabis for healing, has built a Hemp CBD product company that is the gold standard in the industry.
My time with James and Somer in Hawaii included some groundbreaking personal discoveries into how to use kundalini yoga, experimentation with psilocybin, more insight into the science of CBD and much more.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-How Somer and James met...
-What Kundalini yoga actually is, and how it works from a scientific standpoint...
-The difference between Kundalini breathing and Wim Hof breathing...
-Why James does coconut oil pulling...
-How to decide what a custom yoga routine should look or feel like...
-Why James uses cannabidiol (CBD), and which forms he uses...
-The surprising use that Somer has discovered for CBD, specifically for women...
-Why James uses psilocybin micro-dosing...
-The proposed mechanism of action of psilocybin...
-What psilocybin can be "mixed" with to increase potency...
-And much more!
Resources from this episode: -Book "Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy " -The movie "Neurons to Nirvana" -Earthrunner sandals -Ben's SmartDrugSmarts podcast episode on CBD -NatureCBD -Somer's custom yoga routines -My podcast episode with Wim Hof
Do you have questions, comments, or feedback about anything that James, Somer and I discuss in this episode? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply. And remember to click here if you want to one of Somer's custom yoga routines at a $65 discount!
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm going to admit to you that today's podcast is a little bit weird. |
| 0:04.3 | It gets a little woo-woo. |
| 0:05.8 | And I figured we might as well just start things off by talking about weird things. |
| 0:11.0 | Eating bugs, bugs are in fact 20 times more sustainable than any other animal protein |
| 0:16.7 | crickets in particular. |
| 0:19.3 | And crickets have a lot of cool properties to them. |
| 0:22.4 | Not only are they delicious, if prepared properly, and the ones I'm about to tell you about |
| 0:26.9 | were designed by a three-star Michelin chef. |
| 0:30.2 | But if you compare the percentage of protein, crickets are at 65%. |
| 0:33.7 | Let me put that in context for you. |
| 0:35.6 | Eggs are 12%. |
| 0:37.4 | Fish is 20 to 25%. |
| 0:39.8 | B. Frank's the highest at 33, but it's still like half of what you get from crickets. |
| 0:44.6 | They've also got twice, actually more than twice, the iron of spinach. |
| 0:49.9 | Crickets, believe it or not, fart less than cows. |
| 0:52.3 | So you actually produce a lot fewer greenhouse gases. |
| 0:56.1 | And this company called Exo has figured out how to make a tasty, tasty cricket protein |
| 1:02.3 | that they then mix into a bar and feature in flavors like cocoa nut, apple cinnamon, blueberry |
| 1:08.2 | vanilla, and one of my personal favorites, banana bread. |
| 1:12.5 | That's right, banana bread, cricket protein bars. |
| 1:14.9 | If you haven't tried any of these yet, you need to, and you can try a big fat sampler |
| 1:21.3 | pack of them. |
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