Part 201 - Brad Kearns on Finding the Holy Grail of Diet & Lifestyle
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Brian Sanders
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Brad Kearns, 58, is a New York Times bestselling author, Guinness World Record setting professional Speedgolfer, #1 USA-ranked Masters age 55-59 track & field high jumper in 2020, and former national champion and #3 world-ranked professional triathlete.
He has written twenty books on diet, health, peak performance, and ancestral living, and is a popular speaker, retreat host, and face of the Primal Blueprint online multimedia educational courses. In 2017, The Keto Reset Diet became a New York Times bestseller, and briefly ranked as the #1 overall bestselling book on amazon.com. Brad also hosts the B.rad podcast
SHOW NOTES:
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(09:56) We know what's possible. Now let's shoot for optimal.
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(21:22) Processed foods disrupt our appetite and satiety hormones, prompting us to overeat.
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(33:02) Injuries are a sign of overdoing it.
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(40:56) Homo sapiens are built for near-constant everyday movement.
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(47:38) Always ask "what's optimal" instead of just "what's possible".
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(59:54) Raw forms of high-toxin natural plant foods is a potentially problematic category of nutrition.
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(1:08:26) Our main nutritional challenge is energy toxicity.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right everyone we're back. |
| 0:14.7 | I guess you could call this a new season of Peak Human. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm recording a bunch of new episodes, |
| 0:19.5 | took a little break there. |
| 0:21.0 | Please go back, listen to all the old ones, work your way backwards, work your way forwards, whatever |
| 0:26.0 | you want. |
| 0:27.0 | See the whole journey. |
| 0:28.5 | This one's part of the journey too with my buddy Brad Kearns. |
| 0:32.2 | He's been in the Health and Fitness world forever, |
| 0:34.8 | has a long history as an athlete, |
| 0:37.1 | interviewed hundreds of people on his podcast, |
| 0:39.6 | written books, worked with some big names in the space, done a lot of good stuff over the years, and |
| 0:46.2 | has had a similar bath to me. |
| 0:48.4 | And now he's come to the light, I feel like we're really on the same page. |
| 0:52.4 | This diet stuff's a constant evolution of thinking. |
| 0:55.0 | I think we're figuring a lot of things out. |
| 0:57.0 | It's almost like it's the final boss. |
| 0:59.0 | Everything makes sense. |
| 1:01.0 | We've learned all the lessons. |
| 1:02.0 | Of course, we're still going to progress, but everything |
| 1:06.1 | with ancestral past kind of lines up with the research. And this way of eating feels great, |
| 1:11.7 | checks out, |
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