Shawn Wells
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Elle Russ chats with Shawn Wells MPH, LDN, RD, CISSN, FISSN - the world’s leading nutritional biochemist! He has formulated over 500 supplements, food, beverages, and cosmeceuticals and patented 10 novel ingredients and is now known as the Ingredientologist - the scientist of ingredients. Formerly a Chief Clinical Dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience, he has counseled thousands of people on innovative health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting, and supplements. He has also personally overcome various health issues including Epstein-Barr Virus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, depression, insomnia, obesity, and a pituitary tumor. As a world-renowned thought-leader on mitochondrial health, he has been paid to speak on five different continents. His insights have been prominently featured in documentaries, nationally syndicated radio programs and regularly on morning television. His expertise can help any health-conscious individual to better manage stress and experience higher performance and more energy through utilizing his practical research-backed solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome. |
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| 0:21.9 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. We've got to the Primal Blueprint.com. Hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome back to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | We are here with Sean Wells. |
| 0:26.5 | And we're going to talk about his new book called The Energy Formula. |
| 0:29.5 | Six, life-changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential available on Amazon, |
| 0:35.1 | Kindle and Hardcover. |
| 0:36.7 | Sean is sort of the world's leading nutritional biochemist, which is a really interesting |
| 0:41.9 | place to be. |
| 0:42.8 | And he's really considered like the master formulator, a scientist of ingredients. |
| 0:47.4 | He's a good friend. |
| 0:48.4 | We have talked many times. |
| 0:50.5 | And one of the sweetest, most vulnerable open people you'll meet, who also is very open about |
| 0:55.2 | a lot of his health struggles that led to the sort of journey to get optimized on health. |
| 1:00.1 | So, Sean, you know, let's just start off with what led you into this? What even got you |
| 1:07.8 | stuff started to go wrong with you, I know, and tell us what started to go wrong in your life health-wise that made you, you know, perk up and go, this isn't right? Yeah. It's, it's been most of my life probably up until the last year and a half. There's all been like a, there's been a spectrum of like wake up calls and shifts and wake up calls and ships but I |
| 1:29.9 | started my life with you know a chaotic childhood and I grew up obese and the junk food junkie |
| 1:36.5 | eating all the Oreos and Coca-Cola and frosted flakes and all those things because of bullying |
| 1:43.2 | because of the chaos and the home and all that |
| 1:47.2 | kind of stuff. And I grew up depressed and often with suicidal thoughts and not exactly full of |
| 1:55.6 | energy and happiness and hope. I ended up going to business school at a school called Babson and started working out while I was |
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