Sarah Wilson on Why You Should Quit Sugar, Appreciate Anxiety, and Experiment With Everything | Health Theory

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sarah Wilson is no stranger to staking out controversial positions. The bestselling author who started the “I Quit Sugar” movement is now taking on anxiety and mental health. In this episode of Health Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Sarah Wilson explains why you need to quit sugar immediately, how to deal with anxiety and depression, and why the best health tips for most people are simple and inexpensive. This episode is brought to you by Impact Theory University: Check out Impact Theory University at: http://bit.ly/ImpactTheoryUniversity2 SHOW NOTES: Sarah talks about anxiety and how to befriend it [2:10] Sarah describes her experience with hashimoto’s disease [5:44] Sarah explains how she found herself in a role that didn’t fit with her values [9:20] Sarah shares her story of becoming suicidal [12:09] Sarah describes how to frame mental issues as positive forces [14:20] Sarah and Tom discuss the sinister side of anxiety [18:22] Sarah explains that panic attacks only last 20 or 30 minutes [22:16] Sarah advocates meditation [25:03] Sarah describes somatic theory [28:44] Sarah describes the work people need to do to deal with anxiety [30:23] Sarah and Tom discuss gut health and its connection to brain health [34:30] Sarah shares inexpensive, practical tips for physical and mental health [36:19] Sarah and Tom discuss functional medicine and first principles [38:08] Sarah explains how to practice focus and resilience [41:38] Sarah advocates the one change people should make to impact their health [45:30] FOLLOW Sarah Wilson: WEBSITE: http://www.sarahwilson.com INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2oP77l2 FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/2oPRTfD TWITTER: https://bit.ly/2n8VBR8

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Sarah Wilson. She's a multiple
0:04.7	time New York Times best-selling author who was named one of the 200 most influential
0:10.0	authors in the world two years running. She also hosted the first season of MasterChef
0:15.4	Australia helping it to smash records and become one of the most watched seasons of any
0:20.6	show in Australian history. As a passionate philanthropist she donated all of the profits
0:25.4	from her thriving iQuit sugar initiative and now she has dedicated herself to the tireless
0:30.8	mission of helping to improve the health and mental health of people the world over, a commitment
0:36.3	that has earned her a passionate audience that measures in the millions. And so the thing that I
0:42.2	found most interesting about your journey is the sort of hard right from or what may seem like a
0:48.4	hard right from talking about sugar or all this sort of bodily health stuff and then getting into
0:54.3	anxiety with first we make must make the beast beautiful. A it's an amazing concept super fascinating
1:00.3	walk me through what is the beast and how do we make it beautiful and how to come out of sugar.
1:08.8	So the beast is essentially anxiety and we have grown up you know our generation
1:14.3	the various generations around us have grown up with this notion that anxiety is a disorder it's
1:18.8	a problem we've grown up with this idea that anxiety is something we should shut down we should
1:24.0	tame we should really eliminate and I've got bipolar when I say I've got bipolar I've been
1:32.6	diagnosed with bipolar through the general DSM kind of you know format and a possessive
1:38.8	compulsive disorder and have had general anxiety since the age of 11. So I've had to grapple with
1:45.2	this idea that you know I've got some kind of disease or disorder so I decided I was going to go
1:51.1	off and try to investigate if there was another lens that I can see it through and I'd been grappling
1:56.2	with on off medication different approaches and I went off on a seven year journey to see if I
2:01.2	could find a more beautiful way. Why was this? Oh gosh it was from my 35 onwards. Yeah and by then
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