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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Shawn Wells

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Elle Russ chats with Shawn Wells (MPH, RD, LDN, CISSN, FISSN) -  a Registered Dietitian, Certified Sports Nutritionist, Fellow in the international Society of Sports Nutrition, and practiced over a decade as a Chief Clinical Dietitian in acute (hospital) and skilled nursing settings.  

He has formulated for over 2 decades and speaks all over the world, and he is a weekly expert on a national radio show (One Life Radio weekly on iHeartMedia), and he will be in a documentary yet to be released internationally on dietary supplements.

Shawn has also been on the ketogenic diet for over 20 years. He was featured in the documentary, the Skinny on Fat that released in 2018 and was most recently on Fox News television talking about 2019 health trends. 

Overcoming and suppressing numerous conditions with keto, paleo, fasting, and supplements such as Epstein-Barr Virus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Insomnia, Obesity, and a pituitary tumor is part of Shawn’s passion and journey leading him to help others win these battles too.

Mr. Wells is a nutritional biochemist and has been dubbed in the supplement industry as "The World's Greatest Formulator" where he as formulated over 500 products, available around the world. 

 

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website: www.ShawnWells.com

IG: @zonehalo

Twitter: @zonehalo

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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

0:07.0

content to help you live awesome. Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social

0:13.8

media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.

0:21.7

Hey, everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcastcom. Hey, everyone.

0:22.7

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

0:24.6

Today we have Sean Wells of Sean Wells.com, S-H-A-W-N-W-E-L-L-S.

0:31.8

And he is, gosh, just a maverick in all sorts of things, registered dietitians, certified sports nutritionist,

0:39.2

and considered the world's greatest formulator. We're going to get into that one. And just I have

0:44.6

ran into him in a couple of events and heard him speak and was really curious and went to go talk to

0:48.8

him and looked him up and realized that, you know, like a lot of people, a substantial health journey led to some

0:55.3

expertise in the, you know, in the areas of keto and longevity and all sorts of things that

1:01.2

we talk about here. Welcome to the show, Sean.

1:03.2

Thank you so much for having me on. I'm very excited to be on.

1:06.9

You, you're such a great speaker and also great explaining things. But let's start with what led you here because, you know, like a lot of us, you get jacked in life by an infection or a disease or something and you pull yourself out of it and sort of go down that road. And I know you have had an onslaught. So let's talk about, you know, the origin story.

1:27.4

Yeah, so that definitely

1:28.4

led to my passion in this area of supplements and what's now called biohacking. I guess back when I was

1:34.8

doing it, it was more just trying to figure myself out. But yeah, I had obesity, depression. I ended up getting Epstein Barr from Mono, and I got fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome.

1:53.0

It was kind of a downward spiral.

1:56.0

And it was amazing that I was able to dig you know, dig into supplements and I started working out.

2:04.7

And then I got into keto.

2:07.3

And this was 20 years ago that I started doing keto.

2:10.6

And I found that it was amazing for reducing inflammation, improving my mitochondrial health, reducing my fatigue and fibromyalgia.

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