Better Health & Body Radio

Coach Matt and Gary sit down with Dr. Michael Breus-better known as The Sleep Doctor-to discuss how you can sleep like a baby for optimal health, more energy, better body composition, stress relief, a higher fitness level, and more.  Dr. Breus was named the top sleep specialist in California, one of the top 10 most influential people in sleep, and has appeared on Doctor Oz, Oprah, The Wall Street Journal, NY Times, spoken at TED Talks, and beyond.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How sleep may be THE cornerstone for optimizing health-even above nutrition.
• How poor sleep is linked to decreased immune function, predisposes us to disease, and more.
• Critical periods of the day you need to catch daylight in order to sleep well.
• Foods to avoid that may harm you getting to sleep and sleep quality.
• How to optimize your nutrition for deeper, more restful sleep.
• Electrolytes' impact on sleep.
• Ketones and sleep.
• Steps you can take to bulletproof your sleep

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Coach Coop sits down with Marine Corps veteran, podcast host, and trainer, Chris Albert.  Once a homeless veteran, Chris shares how he rebuilt his life and health to become a worldwide trainer & positive influence in the veteran community.

Together, they talk about nutrition, sleep, training, and issues affecting the veteran community.  Chris is one of the originals in the keto wave and talks about how his nutrition has evolved since.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How Chris went from a homeless, struggling veteran to a worldwide trainer and personality in the veteran community
• Nutrition that helped Chris with his autoimmune condition
• How a lack of quality nutrition affects the health and performance of those in the military
• How bad lifestyle habits when you're young stack up
• Chris's nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle advice for veterans
• Top Supplements for brain health
• Vitamin D & ketones as a neuroprotectant and recovering from traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Chris & Matt's top supplements for the brain, energy, mental & emotional health
• Supplements to reduce anxiety

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Join Coach Matt as he gets a chance to sit down with Registered Dietician, Simone Singery, and Holistic Health Practitioner, James Raaff from South Africa.  James is PhD candidate, health & performance researcher, and Biokineticist.  Simone heads up the nutritional counseling portion of the team. Together they help people around the world optimize their health, fitness, and performance at both the House of Holistic Health in Cape Town and through their virtual telehealth system.

In true integrative health fashion, James and Simone break down a whole host of topics you can put in action, from how to use ketones to fuel your training, focus & brain health, nutrition considerations for training, how to personalize your health & nutrition, how genetics play a role in individualizing your health & fitness, how small changes that add up is the secret to success when staying with a diet, as well as practical tips for getting started.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How and why it's important to personalize your nutrition and fitness approach.
• How to get started making small changes that add up to bigger ones.
• How small changes and 'good days' adding up is the secret to getting started with a new diet or nutritional approach.
• Nutrition considerations for exercise, training, and endurance sports.
• How ketones positively influence your brain & focus.
• How ketones can be used to fuel your exercise, activity, and training.

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Join Coach Matt as he sits down with Keto Chef and Health Author, Maria Emmerich, of Mind Body Health.  Maria is one of the most renowned health-oriented chefs in the world, specializing in low/zero sugar and low carb recipes.  Maria and her husband (and former guest) Craig run Mind Body Health-a complete coaching and information hub for all things keto, ancestral health, and natural living.  Maria has also co-authored ketogenic cookbooks along with actress, Hale Berry.

Maria sits down with us to share her journey of reversing her own chronic ailments and transforming her body through nutrition and lifestyle.  Maria touches on plenty of useful topics, including how our body & nutrition can influence our mental health, guiltless keto recipes, and how to take a longterm mentality when it comes to a ketogenic lifestyle.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Maria's body transformation and health restoration journey where she made a complete 180 in her autoimmune condition and lost a ton of weight to become trim and toned
• How we treat our physical body can positively or negatively influence our mental health
• How to take a long-term mindset and stay the course with your nutrition
• Resources for guilt-free keto desserts all the way to daily dishes you can enjoy with the whole family
• Maria's advice for getting started

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Nutrition & Fitness Pro, JJ Virgin, sits down with Coach Matt to discuss how to stay fit and healthy over 40 while still living a busy life.  JJ is a Certified Nutrition Specialist, Exercise Physiologist, Health Author, Actor & has been relied on as a health & fitness authority many times, including on the Dr. Phil show.

She and Coach Matt discuss her book, Warrior Mom, how mindset is critical in maintaining your health & fitness. We also get into how to start shifting your mindset for success.  JJ also dives into food intolerances and how they may be sabotaging your success before getting into how to deal with weight loss plateaus, sugar, the importance of electrolytes and more!

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How mindset is critical to your health and how to shift for the better.
• How food intolerances may be crushing your health and causing weight gain
• How to deal with a weight loss plateau
• Maintaining health & fitness over 40
• Why eating less may actually be harming you
• The benefits of ketones in your system
• How following a flexible approach to fat-adapting your system is better than a full-on strict ketogenic diet for most.
• The importance of electrolytes
• The differences in natural, fruit sugar vs most refined sugar products

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Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com sits down with Coach Coop to give you answers on how to make getting results simple, how managing your stress will help you get better results, the importance of nutrient density inc. electrolyte intake, why you need more sunlight, how your cosmetics may be harming your health, and more practical health tips the whole family can get started with.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How Katie's path of reclaiming her health and fitness from a chronic disease lead to her creating Wellness Mama, one of the leading sources of simple health and fitness information.
  
• How mindset, stress management, and healing from trauma is critical for improving your health and fitness.
  
• Why you need to be getting more sunlight.
  
• The importance of electrolytes for staying healthy, fit, and active.
  
• How to be appropriately flexible with your diet without sabotaging your progress
  
• Takes on ketogenic eating, ketones, and ancestral eating.
  
• Simple things we could all be doing to improve our environment and home to boost our progress.
  
• How your makeup and cosmetics may be harming your health
  

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How the ketogenic diet and ancestral eating has changed Todd's life
  
• How that lead to him trying to find a balance between being healthy and his love for wine-eventually culminating in Dry Farm Wines
  
• The hidden dangers of most alcoholic drinks
  
• How Dry Farm Wines differs with zero sugar, mitigated inflammation, less alcohol, organic production, and delicious taste
  
• How you can drink wine and still stay keto-friendly
  
• How ketosis and ketones are beneficial
  
• How the alcohol industry lies about the dangers of some of its products
  

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Snacking done right
  
• How to eat out at restaurants
  
• How to develop the right mindset about snacking and eating out at restaurants.
  
• Why Lauren doesn't recommend traditional "snacking."
  
• Types of restaurants Lauren recommends going to, as well as which ones to avoid.
  
• Ideas for meals to order at restaurants.
  
• How focusing on health and wellness makes us more fit.
  
• How often should we be eating.
  
• Lauren's Go-To Supplements
  

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• Best-selling nutrition author, Craig Emmerich dives into his journey into ancestral nutrition, ketosis, fasting, and more!
• Craig & his wife Maria's simple, delicious keto and low carb recipes and books they've created in conjunction with Halle Berry.
• How babies are born in a state of ketosis and their developing brains love ketones.
• Is the brain's favorite fuel source ketones?
• Can ketones relieve anxiety?
• What's up with the carnivore diet?  Who should do it?
• Nature's multivitamins: nutrient-dense foods like oysters and organ meats that everyone should include in their diet.
• Does the brain perform best on ketones?
• Sleep hacks that everyone can easily do to improve their sleep.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• The seven pillars of human health: the physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial, spiritual, and tribal pillars that contribute to your wellbeing.
  
• How to supplement your workouts for better performance and energy.
  
• The importance of salt in hydration and why you need more-not less-salt.
  
• How Keith went from working for Big Pharma to being a leader in the preventative health space.
  
• Why taking a primal approach to nutrition and your food groups builds health and fitness.
  
• How Keith uses exogenous ketones during periods of long fasting.
  
• How Keith uses exogenous ketones during his endurance training.
  
• Keith's book-Primal Uprising-and his pillars of building health, fitness, and claiming your vibrant life.
  

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