The Paleo Solution - Episode 310 - Brad Davidson - Recovery and High Performance
Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution Podcast - Paleo diet, nutrition, fitness, and health
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🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This week I talk with Brad Davidson about coaching and working with high performance athletes, recovery, digging someone out of a hole, how to maximize performance and health, appropriate nutrition for athletes, and more.
Guest: Brad Davidson
Brad Davidson, Co-Founder, Author, & Performance Specialist at Stark, in Irvine, CA is a highly respected nutrition and fitness expert, a world renowned strength coach, and an international speaker on the topic of metabolism and performance enhancement. Brad grew up in McMinnville, a small town in Oregon and moved to California in 1998 to pursue his passion for health and fitness. He opened his first Southern California gym out of his garage in 2002 and today Stark has grown into a leading authority in helping high-achieving CEO’s, professional athletes, tactical athletes and highly driven individuals to offset and optimize their insatiable need to push themselves beyond physical limits. Brad is currently highly sought after as a speaker for organizations like Vistage International (serving more than 17,000 CEO’s around the world). He has trained with some of the world’s leading experts on such topics as stress resiliency, cellular physiology, performance nutrition, recovery methodology, behavioral sciences, brain optimization, and hormonal regulation leading to Stark’s cutting edge protocols. Brad has been featured on Dr Daniel Amen’s PBS special and bestselling book The Amen Solution as the programs fitness coach, and wrote the workouts for Tana Amen’s bestselling book The Omni Diet. Brad has consulted for over 200 CEO’s, athletes from 28 professional teams, 9 athletes from the Crossfit Games (Including the top 3 fittest women at the 2013 Games), and tactical members from SWAT, SEB, Navy Seals, PJ’s, the Police, and the Sheriff’s Department. His first book The Stark Naked 21 Day Metabolic Reset was released recently with Harper Collins Publishing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Payload Solution Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Before we get to the fun, here's a quick word from one of our sponsors. asleep but then wake up in the middle of the night and then stay awake. |
| 0:23.0 | All of the above. If it's related to sleep, I'm bad at it. |
| 0:28.0 | Bob is a former Navy SEAL who at one point went an entire week without sleep. |
| 0:35.1 | During my first one I could say I started developing insomnia and was completely |
| 0:40.6 | reliant on pharmaceuticals for sleep. |
| 0:43.2 | During that time, my sleep kept getting worse and worse. |
| 0:48.4 | And in that time period is when I went for that week without sleep. |
| 0:53.2 | I was having memory loss issues, energy issues, |
| 0:56.8 | a lot of PTSD symptoms. |
| 0:59.2 | Then Bob went to see Doc Parsley. |
| 1:02.1 | And then he got me on his regimen, his like sleep cocktail, and that's really the first thing aside from just, you know, really sedative pharmaceuticals that helped me sleep in a meaningful way. |
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| 1:39.0 | Hi folks Rob Wolf here another edition of the Paleosolution podcast super excited for |
| 1:44.0 | today's guest we tend to talk a lot about you know diabetes auto immunity |
| 1:49.7 | trying to stave off the Grim Reaper but today Brad Davidson who's one of the world's |
| 1:55.2 | leading experts in elite performance enhancement is with us he has a new book to |
| 2:00.1 | start naked 21 day metabolic reset. |
| 2:02.8 | Brad, how are you doing man? |
| 2:04.8 | I'm doing so good, so excited to be here, Rob. |
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