And here's something shocking that probably most people don't know how damaging it is when you do not get the appropriate sleep you need one and you don't sleep on the rhythm you should two you live 30% shorter lives.

I am Mission La Chiani founder of Mind Valley the School for Human Transformation your listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for my body spirit and work.

Welcome back to the Mind Valley podcast today. We're going to talk about energy and supplements and we're going to be discussing some really fascinating topics from what supplements you should be taking.

To jack up your performance throughout the day, but as I was speaking to our guest speaker, we also realized that we have a common interests that is also what adding to this and that is what supplements should you take when you are post a plan.

And whether it's I or whether you're experimenting with peyote or shrooms. So if plant medicine is exciting to you, this is going to be a hot topic if supplements or boosting energy or metabolic performance or cognition states throughout the day fascinate you, this is important.

The supplement industry is a 36.2 billion dollar industry just in the United States yet no one knows who creates the ingredients that power the industry or how they work on top of that we all could use different ways to source energy like me I drink coffee is true out the day and take different supplements, but I'm sure that with a little bit of knowledge I could do things better.

So what if there was a formula to maximize your daily energy while overcoming exhaustion and and basically crushing it at work and at life. So I want to introduce you to someone he's got a peculiar name and is and that name is the ingredientologist.

And that is because he has formulated over 500 supplements food and beverages and cosmic articles and patented 10 normal ingredients.

Now his name is Sean Wells and I first met Sean because I was organizing an event in Sardinia and I was having dinner with Ben Greenfield the Ben Greenfield one of the fittest human beings alive and Ben Greenfield said vision if you ever want to understand supplements this is the man to talk to and he brought Sean to the event and Sean and I ended up having dinner that was probably in 2018.

So it's so interesting to reconnect and bring Sean back on the mind Valley podcast so Sean Wells is a leading nutritional biochemist and expert on health optimization he has counsel thousands of people and natural health solutions such as keto paleo fasting and supplements he has overcome several health issues including Epstein bar virus chronic fatigue syndrome fibromyalgia depression insomnia obesity pituitary tumor he has to internationally distributed documentaries.

20 plus scientific citations 30 plus patents filed on novel ingredients and 500 plus products formulated and if that's not enough he's appeared on 700 radio shows 300 podcasts and made over a thousand media appearances today we're going to learn about Sean's energy formula and I'm holding up Sean's book right now.

For those of you who are impatient and want to dive into his work the book is called the energy formula and you can get it from energy formula dot com and that's exactly how it's spelled energy formula dot com which by the way I was just telling Sean is the most beautiful author book site I have seen in the last two years at least so check out the energy formula the book is called the secret only a biochemist dietician and certified sports nutritionist could know by Sean Wells.

Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential so Sean welcome to the mind value podcast.

Oh thanks for having me on vision it's great to reconnect super excited to have you here Sean and today we're going to talk about some key ideas from the book specifically in the book the subtitle is called six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential and what I was hoping we could do is have us it's have you first in the first part of this give us an idea of what these six lives.

Like changing ingredients are and then in the second part of the spot counts we want to talk about supplementation in combination with plant medicine does that sound like a plan.

That sounds perfect but dive into it so right out of the gate experiment is the first chapter and experiment dives into bio individuality that we are all different and in this book I talk about the things that I do but I also mention what sciences.

I mentioned what it's important for you to do what your body tells you to do through genetics through blood work through testing of the different diets and your compliance like what is your lifestyle what will you be.

Compliant to for the rest of your life so we're looking at all of these tests I go through the three most important ones for anti aging.

Which I love to talk about because it's all about mitochondrial health which is about cellular energy and that's at the core of the energy formula so there's three tests that I really love that I go through in the book.

There's hemoglobin a1c which is a longer term indicator of blood sugar and locations of vehicle for aging blood sugar damage etc we know that most diseases are metabolic in nature right that they're not things that you're just born with like 99% of diseases are metabolic when we talk about cardiovascular disease cancer Parkinson's Alzheimer's all of these things are metabolic in nature.

And have a lot to do with insulin levels and location is blood sugar damage so hemoglobin a1c CRPC reactive protein and inflammatory marker again location inflammation and then the third thing that I like to look at is oxidation by oxidized LDL these three markers give you a really good snapshot of your biological age versus your chronological age.

Give you a snapshot of your disease potential and your health span versus lifespan. So it's a great chapter.

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