Paleo For Mortals, One Size Does Not Fit All – With Chris Kresser
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Chris Kresser is a leading voice in functional and integrative medicine and a New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Cure.
He maintains a wildly popular, research-driven website and a clinical practice in Berkeley, CA that has been largely closed to new clients for the last 3 years, because he just can't handle the demand.
He's also a bit of a raging introvert, a total science nerd, research fanatic and a humble guy. Chris loves to go deep down the science rabbit hole. And he loves to be with, and make a real difference in the lives of the people he serves.
Funny thing is, none of this was ever supposed to happen...
CChris' entire career was triggered by an intractable illness caught in a small surfing village in Indonesia, during what was supposed to be a year-long surf safari.
That led to a 10 year, brutal health odyssey, where he traveled the world to seek the help of more than 30 different doctors, tried every one-size-fits-all approach to diet, a mountain of meds, amassed what he now calls his supplement graveyard, all in vain. Until, finally, he decided to take matters into his own hands, start to listen to his own body, do his own research and learn to heal himself.
As he began to make progress, he decided to return to school to train in the field that has now become his vocation.
This week's episode takes us deeper into Chris' journey, his recovery and how it became his vocation. We also talk about his book and how, oddly enough, it may have been misnamed and have less to do with paleo than the title implies. And we talk about some incredibly exciting developments in the next wave of medicine.
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| 0:00.0 | I had days where I'd be basically just curled up in a ball and pain on the floor and not knowing |
| 0:10.8 | what to do or how to make it better. |
| 0:14.9 | I was within my 20s. |
| 0:17.6 | I was just supposed to be the time where you're stepping into your career and finding a partner |
| 0:27.4 | and all that stuff and I was just racked. |
| 0:29.5 | Today's episode features a front of my Chris Cresser, who's a leading voice in functional |
| 0:38.4 | medicine and nutrition as a source of vitality and fuel and reclaiming health and energy |
| 0:45.4 | and really exploring lifestyle as a powerful solution to much of what else is, which |
| 0:53.6 | is kind of ironic in that we actually recorded this conversation in his house in the Berkeley |
| 0:59.2 | Hills in Northern California. |
| 1:01.5 | And at the time of recording it, I could barely hear out of one ear, I had just flown in, |
| 1:07.7 | had major ear and throat problems actually. |
| 1:11.2 | And then we lost the microphone on my mic. |
| 1:15.6 | So you'll notice when you hear his voice sounds great but my voice actually had to be |
| 1:20.5 | pulled from his mic and sounds a little bit distorted. |
| 1:23.4 | I apologize for that. |
| 1:26.6 | We would actually have re-recorded all my sections and edit them in but as you can hear, I'm |
| 1:32.0 | still kind of struggling with this and I wanted to not wait and get this conversation |
| 1:37.4 | out to you. |
| 1:38.4 | It's wide-ranging. |
| 1:39.4 | It tracks Chris's extraordinary personal journey, a ten-year journey from extremely bad health |
| 1:45.8 | to exceptional health and how he became a provider and a leading voice in the field, how |
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