Nutrition Upgrade: How To Be Food Flexible and Wild – Teri Cochrane & Mareya Ibrahim : 951
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™...
…two food experts explain the many ways your food choices influence your body systems—and what you can do differently to improve your gut function, energy and performance. Here’s a look at how essential amino acids and the right proteins can keep inflammation at bay and keep your metabolism humming.
Teri Cochrane, CN, CCP, went down the research rabbit hole when both her son and daughter (at different ages and for different reasons) experienced severe health problems. She not only examined nutrition in-depth, but she also investigated epigenetics and nutrigenomics
“Disruptors such as pathogens, mycotoxins, stress, amyloids and inflammatory foods work together to impair body balance,” Teri says. “We have found a direct link between amyloids, mycotoxins and these health disruptors in the acceleration of disease.”
She’s developed her own methodology that integrates a multi-level nutritional approach—including biochemistry, nutrition, genetic tendencies, herbology, supplementation and counseling. As the author of the “The Wildatarian Diet: Living as Nature Intended,” Teri lays out how the malabsorption of protein, fat, and sulfur, tamper with gene expression.
Mareya Ibrahim believes in food flexibility while still focusing on a core system that works. She’s a holistic nutritionist, TV chef, podcast host, and award-winning entrepreneur and inventor with more than 25 years of experience in the food industry. She also founded Grow Green Industries and co-invented the patented eatCleaner line of products.
In her book, “Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive,” she explains the nuances of clean eating, how to reset your taste buds, and all the ways essential amino acids keep your body functioning.
“Essential amino acids are what fuel us and allow us to regulate our hormones, and flex our metabolisms, and build muscle, and all of the things that we need to be functioning human beings,” Mareya says.
If you liked this special episode with Teri and Mareya, you’ll learn even more from listening to their full podcasts,:
- What You Eat is Turning Your Genes On and Off – Teri Cochrane – #646
- Just Give a Fork: Eat the Freakin’ Pasta – Mareya Ibrahim – #661
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.4 | Today's guest, Terry Cochran. |
| 0:14.0 | She is an integrative practitioner and she has a methodology called the Cochran Method, |
| 0:21.0 | which looks at biochemistry, nutrition, genetic tendencies, herbs, and counseling to figure |
| 0:26.3 | out custom things that work when other people don't. |
| 0:30.2 | She's written a book called the wilditarian diet, living as nature intended. |
| 0:35.1 | We're going to talk today about how what you eat turns your genes on or off. |
| 0:41.0 | We're talking about epigenetics and nutrigenomics and how things that you might have heard |
| 0:45.2 | me refer to earlier. |
| 0:47.0 | Wild-cott, wild-fed proteins lead to better health, starting at your molecules, starting |
| 0:51.2 | your cells and moving on up. We're also going to go deep on some of the cool biochemical |
| 0:55.8 | reactions you don't know about in your body. |
| 0:58.0 | Terry, welcome to the show. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, David, it's so great to be with you and your audience. |
| 1:03.0 | What happens? What made you learn about this? |
| 1:06.3 | Well, the trajectory to a great discovery sometimes starts with a limiting belief system when |
| 1:13.0 | someone tells you that your child will never be normal, will not grow past five foot four |
| 1:19.2 | and will live with brain seizures most of his life. |
| 1:22.2 | When you hear that kind of information flood into your ears and then into your nervous |
| 1:28.0 | system, it's quite a shock, of course. |
| 1:30.5 | I made the determination that he would not be one of those statistics that I would be |
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