20 great podcast to listen to for improved knowledge

My favorite include anything with Dr. Jack Kruse, Dr. Stephenie Seneff and comedy. It is important to relax and laugh so I included some comedy in my list of 20.

1. Chad Davis / primedforyourlife.com on the podcast with Mike Grogan – https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/best-of-you/e/43981242
2. Stephenie Seneff – https://www.ondietandhealth.com/roundup-linked-celiac-autism-stephanie-seneff/
3. Chad Davis / Primed for your Life on The Chief Life podcast – http://thechieflife.com/118-pcos/
4. Jack Kruse on The Chief Life – http://thechieflife.com/109-dr-jack/
5. Jack Kruse on podcast and youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_FD-ehf3Vs&app=desktop
6. Jack Kruse on podcast and youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUlMykF_68
7. Jack Kruse – https://clearimpact.io/podcast/ep-4-making-mitochondrial-connections-with-dr-jack-kruse/
8. Jack Kruse – http://ancestralhealthradio.com/podcast/mitohacker
9. Jack Kruse – http://www.extremehealthradio.com/ep-466-dr-jack-kruse-biohacking-modern-life-how-mitochondria-controls-genetic-expression-dangers-of-blue-light-the-importance-of-grounding-magnetism-more/
10. Jack Kruse – https://www.evanbrand.com/jack-kruse-podcast/
11. Jack Kruse – http://drannacabeca.com/why-indoors-living-and-cell-phones-can-both-be-bad-for-your-health/
12. Jack Kruse – http://www.ephysiologix.com/living-the-optimized-life-episode-33-jack-kruse-cold-thermogenesis/
13. Zach Bush – https://drpompa.com/additional-resources/health-tips/leaky-gut-interview-dr-zach-bush
14. Chad Davis / Primed for your Life – http://www.lowcarbconversations.com/?p=3485
15. Dietrich Klinghardt and Dr. Joseph Mercola – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr. AS1gQgnUf5A
16. Joel Gould – http://www.drweitz.com/2017/07/rational-wellness-podcast-episode-017-sleep-apnea-deuterium-and-vitamin-d/
17. Stasha Gominak – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74F22bjBmqE
18. Comedy podcast from TEAM Effort – https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/uy5cd-42b91/TEAM-effort-with-Ed-Kavalee-Podcast
19. Comedy podcast with Tony Martin – https://sizzletown.podbean.com/
20. Podcasts with comedian Stephen Fry – http://www.stephenfry.com/greatleapyears/

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20 Reasons we need an attitude of gratitude and positivity

Gratitude is the Mother of all virtues and a critical component of our overall wellbeing. If you are not grateful for what you have now why would you be grateful with more?

Gratitude is the powerful process of shifting your energy (increased energy once Primed) to bringing more of what you want in your life. Use your positive energy to attract positive outcomes and people.

It is also important to hold value in what is really important such as health and the ones you love as opposed to material things.

“Be grateful for the things you don’t have that you do not want.” Bob Dylan

I am so grateful to have had a job I love in Melbourne.

I am grateful for my boss and her family including 3 cool cats (Tiger, Minnie and Panda). So very grateful for my fabulous colleagues like Tony (Morong), Joyce, Ewa and Etelka (pictured above). I write them into my gratitude journal daily. I also show them my gratitude through my actions.

1. It makes you feel good. You can feel good by simply being grateful.
2. It helps give you a sense of abundance. Practice it daily.
3. You appreciate others more and shift your focus away from just your wellbeing to the wellbeing of others.
4. It improves your confidence by setting your inner compass towards helping others and not being selfish. This confidence booster helps you feel good about yourself.
5. Puts your life into perspective. Life is a big lesson from which to learn and improve yourself. There will always be people worse off than you who are happy and grateful. Why is that? Learn their lessons. Read their books. Make positive steps forward daily if you can. My motto is B.E.D. Better Every Day and emphasising the importance of sleep.
6. When you embrace gratitude and positivity you improve your self-esteem and feel better about yourself. Write down what you are grateful for and express it.
7. It makes you more patient and open to the good that will come your way. Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot by being too hasty.
8. Gratitude helps you forgive (no need to forget). Holding resentment eats you up and diminishes your energy. What is done is done. By all means act if aggrieved but do not allow these negative feelings to fester. Take power from your actions without allowing them to over-power you.
9. Gratitude helps you learn from your mistakes or the mistakes done onto you. These mistakes can be a burden or a lesson. It is up to you.
10. Helps you to embrace change. Be grateful for your past lessons and blessings as well as your current lessons and blessings. Do not forget your future lessons and blessings. Embrace change.
11. Gratitude is up to you. You are in control. Do not let other people steal your ability to feel grateful for all that has been good, is good and will be good. Sometimes not getting what we thought we wanted is a blessing because something better eventuated.
12. Express gratitude freely and often without expecting a return. Tell random people you appreciate their smile. Tell a loved one why you love them.
13. Gratitude allows you to enjoy life’s small pleasures and treasures. You do not need something big to happen to feel grateful. Be grateful for the sun, the blue sky, your friends, your health, your daily food, the cute dog, your best feature etc.
14. It is important to express your gratitude. Take note of how the person you express gratitude to responds. Take note of how you feel. Both are important.
15. Book end your gratitude. This means to wake with gratitude and reflect on all your blessings. I write it down in my gratitude journal whilst getting grounded in the sun each morning. Then, before bed, revisit your gratitude journal. Add to it if you wish. The important part is to reflect on the positive people and events so you smile and feel good. Let go of the negative as these emotions deplete you and will affect your sleep.
16. Remember, it is not happiness that brings us gratitude. It is gratitude that brings us happiness.
17. Gratitude improves overall health both physically and psychologically.
18. An attitide of gratitude helps give you peace-of-mind and helps you to become more optimistic and likeable.
19. Gratitude deepens your relationships and helps you make even more friends.
20. Gratitude also helps you to become more alert, alive, vibrant and energized. It is a positive feedback loop where the more gratitude you cultivate in your life the more you will find to be grateful for. As mentioned above, your positive attitude and grateful demeanor will attract more good to your life.

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Your New Year’s Eve resolutions will be made but can you stick to them? How big is your desire for improvement?

My motto for 2020 is BED. This motto rocks for 2 reasons.

1. Sleep is the key to health. Sleep better and you will live better.

2. BED is an acronym for Better Every Day.

Without good sleep you are more likely to make poor decisions. By being better every day your Primed habits will help you sleep better.

My other motto is Grateful ALWAYS and Positive ALWAYS.

By starting now you can make the rest of your life the best of your life. It is up to you.

You will be healthier and happier this coming year. You will get younger and fitter in mind and body!

Follow these key ingredients to ensure your 2020 is the best ever.

(1) Write out your work, life, fitness etc. goals and ensure they are somewhere prominent;

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We will be in Boracay this January 2020 to rest, recharge and prime ourselves for a great year ahead. We have written our 2020 goals already and have started on the necessary actions already.

Boracay Island is in the Philippines is easily accessible from Melbourne and other Australian cities. There are direct flights from Melbourne to Manila via Cebu Pacific.

Then you just fly to Caticlan airport before hoping on a short boat ride to Boracay.

1. Beautiful beaches with crystal clear waters.

There is “white beach” (the main beach).

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I recently ran the Melbourne marathon with:

• No shoes for the last 10km
• No breakfast beforehand and just 1.5 bananas at the 30km mark
• No long runs as part of my training (just 10km twice in the 6 months before the race)
• Not much run training with an average running per week of around 14km ( just running to work sometimes)

My main “training” consisted of the following:

• Building my vitamin D (is actually a hormone) whenever I could
• Doing lots of cold thermogenesis all winter and even an hour in 7 degree water at St. Kilda beach
• Long barefoot walks in the sun
• Eating lots of eggs, seafood, green vegetables and healthy fats like grass fed butter, coconut oil and olive oil
• Drinking quality water like San Pellegrino and Evian
• Prioritising a great sleep with wi-fi always turned off

In 2014 I ran my marathon in 3:28 after a 180km bike 🚲 ride.

In 2015 it was 3:55 after the 180km bike.

In 2019 my 3rd marathon in Melbourne was 4:12 but more satisfying. It was done with no long run training (max of 10km), not much running training (maybe 14km per week), in a fasted state (no breakfast) and no shoes for last 10km.

All marathons done whilst Primed. I recovered easily from all of them. #melbournemarathon #fastedrunning #onceyouknowbetteryoudobetter #theprimedlife

The longest run I did was 10km along the Yarra River with my great mate Bill Brummitt.

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The Final Words

My story:

I have been 40 and unhealthy despite doing all I could to lead a healthy lifestyle.

I am now almost 51 and have never been healtheir or happier. I am so happy that I have learned some valuable lessons that I have imparted here for those wishing to improve their health.

Analogy:

Where there is life there is hope.

If you believe there is no hope then you are probably right.

Have hope. Follow some of the Primed protocols and ideas here to optimize your energy and hopefully you too can enjoy some positive health outcomes. Your loved ones too.

Food for thought?:

Diseases are more wide spread in the big cities and people leading unnatural lives tend to not thrive.

All cause mortality is increased with people who avoid sun light / are vitamin D deficient.

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20 Reasons cold thermogenesis is great for you and how to start

If you are going to improve your energy inflows once Primed wouldn’t it be great to have this improved energy flow faster?

It is definitely beneficial to become cold adapted and allow your body to heat itself. When you practice cold thermogenesis you generate heat. Your shivering (a good thing) increases body heat production so you remain at homeostasis. Your mitochondria actually release infra-red light  (heat) to warm your body.

Cold Thermogenesis (CT) helps balance your hormones, improves your skin, aids fat loss, aids mental well-being, is great for sporting / life performance and recovery, reduces hunger, less inflammation, improves your sleep and is as simple as a cold shower or jumping in the lake.

From CT champ Dr. Jack Kruse:

“CT increases your magnetic sense, it makes you thermodynamically better, it make you much better able to sense the magnetic field where you live and it increases the amount of tissue oxygenation and improves your breathing.”

1. CT improves your sleep which improves your life (sleep = life = sleep). CT improves autophagy during sleep which is where you replace bad mitochondria in the cells.
2. CT can improve your strength and stamina (I ran a 42 minute 10km race in the hot Manila sun after doing CT on my back, neck and legs. I had also run a combined 80km in the 5 days prior to that race). In addition, my personal best marathon time is 3:28:26 after biking 180 kilometres on a chilly day in Melbourne.
3. CT increases the dopamine (feel good hormone) levels in your brain the same way sunlight can. Hence, cold climate people are meant to be exposed to the cold and get their dopamine hit this way. Hot climate people are meant to be exposed to the sun’s heat and light and get their dopamine there. Dopamine is critical as it helps your brain function optimally and aids better decision making.
4. CT speeds wound healing by improving your immune system.
5. CT helps with quicker recovery from exercise aches and pains.
6. CT improves thyroid function.
7. CT can help reverse Type 2 Diabetes due to helping reduce blood sugar levels in your body. CT also helps to cut food cravings which aids in regular intelligent fasting.
8. CT can reduce chronic pain.
9. CT improves sexual performance and fertility.
10. CT leads to activation of your sympathetic nervous system.
11. CT feels good as it increases blood level of beta-endorphin.
12. CT increases the powerful anti-oxidant glutathione.
13. CT electrically stimulates peripheral nerve endings to the brain which could result in an anti-depressive effect.
14. CT allows you to produce greater energy in your mitochondria due to better protein tunneling due to less distance traveled.
15. Cold ( and the sun ) are used to improve electrical current in your body. CT also improves your magnetic current in your body.
16. Cold can turn white fat into brown fat. Your body fat is fuel that can be burned when you expose yourself to cold.
17. CT is easy to do but please start slowly. By eating high energy food, getting grounding and sun energy and drinking cold water you will have more energy and find CT more enjoyable.
18. CT is as simple as a cold shower or embracing a chilly day with less clothing than you would usually wear. Eventually you can try face dunking into icy water and then putting your feet in the cold water. You can start slowly with how cold you make the water and how long you put parts of your body in the water.
19. CT is ideal in a cold lake with temperatures between 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Ocean waters are great as you also get the grounding effect too. Cold water immersion is the best way to CT as it can improve your metabolic rate by up to 350% and dopamine by 250%.
20. CT is great at any time of the day and even 10 minutes is of benefit.

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20 Reasons to get your bare feet on Mother Earth

Grounding / Earthing is another free way to get electrons / energy into your body without eating. It is as simple as walking bare foot on the beach as the water splashes your feet. Or on grass or sitting in a park with your palms of your hands on the ground. Or even touching / hugging a tree, patting a dog that is grounded or walking barefoot whilst shopping at your local Farmer’s Market like I do.

Grounding has a scientific name called the the inverse Hall magnetic spin effect. When we are grounded we augment our bodies electric charge in our cell membraines with the Earth’s negative charge. Cold thermogenesis augments magnetism (improves our magnetic effect) and we will see that in a later chapter.

“Walking barefoot and connecting with nature is one way of creating a “chemistry of blissfulness” , which is similar to what happens when you are smelling a flower or gazing at the sunlight or just listening to the sound of nature.” Doc Romy from the book of Author Sha Nacino called Mission Happiness.

1. Improves your overall electrons / negative charge in your body which means you will have improved energy (for free).
2. Improves sleep / circadian rhythms.
3. Relieves muscle tensions,
4. Reduces inflammation and pain.
5. Reduces stress levels.
6. Normalizes bodies natural rhythms.
7. Reduces impact of jet lag.
8. Improves blood pressure.
9. Less cortisol.
10. Helps fight oxidative stress which speeds healing.
11. Improved feeling of well-being /mood enhancer.
12. Optimizes hormones.
13. Protects body against harmful nnEMF ( non-native Electro Magnetic Field ).
14. Free reflexology session with toe stretching.
15. Strengthens and stretches the muscles, tendons and ligaments in your feet, ankles and calves.
16. Grounding is done outdoors so the green scapes you see (hopefully) raises serotonin levels ( feel great ).
17. Greater scensory stimulation relaxes you and reduces anxiety.
18. Pushes off the body’s dirty electricity absorbed from electronics.
19. Can also be grounded through leather soled shoes.
20. Best grounding is at the waters edge at the beach.

My story:

I go to the market every Sunday without shoes on. I actually feel the energy and really enjoy it. The more I do of this the tougher my feet become and it becomes even easier to withstand pebbles and the heat. I have built up my ability to walk barefoot and to be in the sun.

I even ran the last 10km of my 2019 Melbourne marathon (42.2km) barefooted. I also ran it fasted (no food for breakfast and just a banana at 32km mark) and virtually no running training. Mainly kept healthy through being in the sun and doing cold thermogenesis.

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