180 Nutrition -The Health Sessions.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Rory Bland to the podcast. Rory, from Rory's Kitchen website shares his journey around gut healing, biohacking, personal growth, animal-based eating, and so much more. In this conversation we discuss Rory's 30-day experiment on the carnivore diet as a tool to improve his gut health. He shares exactly what he ate and drank during this time, including the ups and downs and lessons he learned. Over to Rory.

Some questions asked during this episode:

• What do you think compromised your gut health in the first place?
• Where did the idea to try the carnivore diet come from?
• What exactly did you eat and drink during the 30-day diet?
  
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This week, I'm excited to welcome Dr Melissa McCreery to the podcast.  Dr. McCreery is a psychologist, emotional eating expert, author and host of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast. She's helped thousands of women break cycles with overwhelm, overload and overeating without feeling deprived and without depending on ridiculous amounts of willpower. In this conversation, we discuss the triggers, foods, and strategies to finally make peace with food and create freedom from emotional eating.

Questions asked in the episode:

Stu: This week, I'm excited to welcome Zach Schreirer to the podcast.  He is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business in high school, and then co-founded Quevos, a category leading company that pioneered the development of healthy chips made from egg whites. His true passions are health and philosophy, where he co-founded Lifestacks to bring his vision for healthy high-performance living to the market. In this conversation, we discuss how he maintains his personal health and fitness, while building and scaling his companies.

Some questions asked during this episode:

• How do you define good quality sleep?
• What are the quick-wins where sleep is concerned?
• If I wake up with a racing mind what should I do? 
  
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  This week, I'm excited to welcome Zach Schreier to the podcast. Zach is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business in high school, and then co-founded Quevos, a category leading company that pioneered the development of healthy chips made from egg whites. His true passions are health and philosophy, where he co-founded Lifestacks to bring his vision for healthy high-performance living to the market. In this conversation, we discuss how he maintains his personal health and fitness, while building and scaling his companies. Over to Zach.

  (01:27)
  
  Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Zach Schreier to the podcast. Zach, how are you?

  Zach

  (01:34)

  Doing great. Thanks for having me, Stuart.

  Stu

  (01:36)

  No, excellent. Looking forward to the conversation today. But first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

  Zach

  (01:45)

  Sure, yeah. I'm a food entrepreneur, and most recently we've gotten into the supplement space, and we're looking at creating delightful supplement medications that you look forward to, that make you feel better immediately, and that also support long-term health.
  
  To view full transcript and interview:
  https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/zack-schreier-interview/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Dr. Damon Ashworth to the podcast. Dr Damon Ashworth is a Clinical Psychologist who completed a Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Monash University, a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences, and a Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours at La Trobe University. Damon is considered an expert in the field of sleep and treatments for insomnia. His Doctoral research was a randomised clinical trial that significantly reduced insomnia and depression severity of participants across only four sessions of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). He takes a client-centred approach to treatment and aims to reduce distress and improve clients’ well-being while helping them achieve their goals.

He practices primarily from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy framework. However, he also utilises Existential, Psychodynamic, Schema, Interpersonal, Dialectical, Humanistic, and Positive Psychology principles where clients will benefit from such approaches. He is passionate about the field of Psychology and always aims to apply the latest empirical findings to best help individuals meet their psychological and emotional needs.

Some questions asked during this episode:

• How do you define good quality sleep?
• What are the quick-wins where sleep is concerned?
• If I wake up with a racing mind what should I do?

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This week. I'm excited to welcome Dr. Damon Ashworth to the podcast. Dr. Ashworth is a clinical psychologist and considered an expert in the field of sleep and treatments for insomnia. He recently completed his first book on the subject called Deliberately Better Sleep. In this conversation, we discuss strategies on getting to sleep, staying asleep, and improving the overall quality of our sleep, something that we should all pay close attention to. Over to Dr. Ashworth.

(01:16)

Hey, guys. This is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Dr. Damon Ashworth to the podcast. Dr. Ashworth, but I'm going to call you Damon for the purposes of this conversation, as we just discussed, thank you for joining us. How are you? And first up, before we get into the nitty-gritty of the conversation, I would love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

Damon

(01:41)

Sure. Yeah. I'm Damon. I'm a clinical psychologist. So I did my research at Monash University in Australia. It was a clinical trial where we saw people with insomnia and depression, and they'd been given antidepressants, and they weren't improving as much as they'd like to. So we gave them four sessions of CBTI or cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, and we found that it improved their sleep, but it also improved their mood and depression, their anxiety, their stress, and also their fatigue. So it had a huge impact.

For full transcript and interview:

 https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/dr-damon-ashworth-interview/

This week, I'm excited to welcome Mario Brainovic to the podcast. He is an entrepreneur, researcher, and CEO of Analemma, a company that enhances the properties and quality of drinking water by transforming it into a coherent liquid crystalline state. In this conversation, we discussed the finer details of structured water, the research behind it, and its impact on our health.

Some questions asked during this episode:

• What is structured and coherent water and how are they different?
• Explain how drinking structured water impacts our health?
• How much research exists on the topic of structured water?
  
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  This week I'm excited to welcome Mario Brainovic to the podcast. Mario is an entrepreneur, researcher, and CEO of Analemma, a company that enhances the properties and quality of drinking water by transforming it into a coherent liquid crystalline state. In this conversation, we discussed the finer details of structured water, the research behind it, and its impact on our health. Over to Mario.

  Stu

  (01:13)

  Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Mario Brainovic to the podcast. Mario, how are you?

  Mario

  (01:21)

  Doing good. Doing good. Thank you so much, Stu, for having me. Thank you so much.

  Stu

  (01:26)

  Look, thank you so much for sharing some of your time today. Now, you are based in Croatia. I'm in Australia. So, you are bright eyed and starry eyed, and I'm a little bit bleary-eyed because it's the end of my day. So, bear with me.

  Mario

  (01:35)

  It's morning here, and it's actually a beautiful morning. So, yeah.

  Stu

  (01:41)
  
  Oh, wonderful. Wonderful. So, first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself please.

  Mario

  (01:51)

  So, I was always very passionate about health and wellness. I always had this intuitive knowing that the body has the potential to heal basically anything, that we are created perfectly, so to speak. And I was always very, very interested in finding ways to assist that natural process in a powerful way. I opened a natural pharmaceutical company where I helped thousands of people with amazing, amazing products for many years, and it was a really gratifying experience. I really loved it. And after a decade of doing that, I sold the whole business to Walgreens.

  for full interview and transcript:
   https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/mario-brainovic-interview/
  

This week I'm excited to welcome Bela Castro to the podcast. She is a lifestyle and spirituality coach who is re-energizing common fitness and nutritional goals by revealing what is truly motivating them. In this episode, we discuss why so many of us know what we should be doing, but struggle to take the right path, how long new healthy habits take to become second nature and so much more.

Stu: This week, I'm excited to welcome Matt Maruca to the podcast. Matt Maruca is an entrepreneur, educator and founder of Ra Optics, a company at the forefront of blue light blocking eyewear solutions.  He joins us to unpack the science behind how light drives mitochondrial function and circadian rhythms.

Some questions asked during this episode:

•  What’s the big deal with blue light?
• Is there an optimal time to start blocking this out?
• What can we do to ensure that we stay asleep during the night?

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This week I'm excited to welcome Matt Maruca to the podcast. Matt is an entrepreneur, educator, and founder of Ra Optics, a company at the forefront of blue light blocking eyewear solutions that eliminate wavelengths of light that can ultimately compromise our health. In this conversation, we discuss the issues associated with blue light exposure and dig deep into how addressing this can lead to more quality restorative sleep. Over to Matt. Hey, guys, this is Stu from 180Nutrition and I am delighted to welcome Matt Maruca to the podcast. Matt, how are you, buddy?

Matthew

(01:05)

I'm doing really well. Thank you, Stu.

Stu

(01:07)

No, it's great. Very, very interested to talk to you on this topic today. And for our listeners, it's going to be very focused on blue light, so something that affects us all. But before we get into the conversation, and first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work or your company, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

Matthew

(01:28)

Yeah. Well my name's Matt Maruca. I'm from the United States, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And I got into the health and wellness world at a pretty young age. I'm 23 years old now, but I started when I was basically 13, basically a decade ago, researching health, because I had some challenges of my own. I spent my entire high school years in the classroom, but mentally not in the classroom, reading all the books I could about nutrition and health. And I got into the paleo diet and primal nutrition and all that stuff. Chris Kresser, Rob Wolf, Marxist, and Ben Greenfield in 2014 when it was still really paleo. There's no restaurant menus with paleo. Now I'm in Bali at the moment and every restaurant has a paleo menu or something like that, more or less. But back then you were kind of like, paleo, what's that like the Stone Age?

(02:27)

It was a different kind of thing. And so, I was just trying to improve my own symptoms, which were mostly just gut-ish, gut discomfort, headaches, allergies, and these types of things. And this whole journey led me to a really cool subject of light and how light affects our health. I came across a really niche group of people, doctors, neurosurgeons, bloggers, talking about light and mitochondria and how it affects everything in our body. And particularly, this idea that struck me was the idea that we're so much more complex than just calories in, calories out, than just our food making up who we are. The idea you are what you eat. Well, there's some truth to that. But at the end of the day, if our metabolism isn't working optimally, for example, for a number of reasons, we could be eating the most perfect diet, but it wouldn't necessarily lead to perfect health.

(03:32)

And the thing about light that interested me in this, in mitochondria, which are cellular engines, for those who don't know, and we could talk a little bit about them, but it was that the entire metabolism is primarily governed by light. So, for example, the metabolism's more active during the day. Well, why is that? Because that's when the sun is active and we have power for digestion. And the metabolism's basically turned off at night while we're sleeping. Well, why is that? Because there's no sun, there's no power. And so, we don't have the ability to break down things. And so, there's even studies showing out of variety of labs and researchers that when we eat a really, you could feed an animal in tests they've done a healthy meal at the wrong time of day and it's actually worse for their system than an unhealthy meal at the right time of day.

(04:25)

So, it's imagine, you put fuel or some kind of harmful substance into an engine that's barely running, it could clog it all up. But you put something that's saying substance into an engine that's cranking it full gear and it might be able to burn through it a little faster. That's a way people can kind of visualize it. So, it doesn't mean we should eat bad food. Obviously, nutrition's critical, but the way we're doing it is really important as well. And the timing and the light we're exposed to. So, this was the kind of stuff I was looking at when I was like 15, 16. And I knew this was big even then. So, when I graduated from school, I started a business making blue light protection eyewear, because I learned that blue light, this part of the manmade light spectrum can disrupt our body's rhythm, our circadian rhythm.

(05:16)

And it's a buzzword now, circadian rhythms, but back then it was pretty advanced science. And that's how I got into this. It was a bit of a progression and things have evolved quite a lot. That was over five years ago now that I started the business. And I'm grateful and honored that we've had a big impact on the space, because a lot of other companies followed suit. People thought in the beginning, no one's going to wear colored lenses. It's just weird. But we were the ones, I said, well, I know I need this from me and I know there's this niche community who needs this, so I'm going to make it. I don't care if the rest of the world wants it or not. And we're going to make them look good. Because in the beginning, people were wearing these ugly safety goggles. Maybe you remember that.

For full interview and transcript:
https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/matthew-maruca-interview/

Stu: This week I'm excited to welcome Kelly Tuttle to the podcast. Kelly is a brain-loving Neurology Nurse practitioner and a traumatic brain injury survivor. She strives to share her coping strategies and tools and helps other TBI patients continue to work and study while they heal.

Some questions asked during this episode:

• What is the definition of a traumatic brain injury?
• What are the most common symptoms of a head injury?
• What strategies could we utilise for healing a TBI

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This week, I'm excited to welcome Kelly Tuttle to the podcast. Kelly is a brain-loving neurology nurse practitioner and a traumatic brain injury survivor. She strives to share her coping strategies and tools, and helps other TBI patients continue to work and study while they heal. In this episode, we discuss the most common symptoms of a TBI, strategies we can use for healing, and explore nutrition, exercise, and sleep as recovery tools. Over to Kelly.

(01:15)

Hey, guys. This is Stu from 180 Nutrition. I am delighted to welcome Kelly Tuttle to the podcast. Kelly, good morning. How are you?

Kelly

(01:22)

Good morning. I am doing good, and I'm happy to be here with you, Stuart.

Stu

(01:26)

Oh, I really appreciate it. I think I said good morning for me, but it's probably not for you, is it? Because you're on the other side of the globe, and it's probably the afternoon or late afternoon. Thank you so much for sharing some of your time.

(01:39)

You've got an incredible story, and I'd love for you to share your story with our audience today. First up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

Kelly

(01:52)

Sure, definitely. Well, I'm a nurse practitioner, and I have specialized in neurology. I did that after surviving a traumatic brain injury. Since my car accident, I have loved helping people with brain injuries to continue to work, study, and live life to their fullest.

To view full transcript and interview:
https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/kelly-tuttle-interview/

This week I'm excited to welcome Bela Castro to the podcast. She is a lifestyle and spirituality coach who is re-energizing common fitness and nutritional goals by revealing what is truly motivating them. In this episode, we discuss why so many of us know what we should be doing, but struggle to take the right path, how long new healthy habits take to become second nature and so much more.

This week, I'm excited to welcome Elle Russ back to the podcast. She is the author of Confident As Fu*k and The Paleo Thyroid Solution – a book which has helped thousands of people around the world reclaim their health. She is also the screenwriter of the award-winning documentary film Headhunt Revisited. She has been seen in Entrepreneur, Success Magazine, Podcasting Magazine, Mind Body Green, Prevention, and more.

Some questions asked during this episode:

• What are the symptoms and most common causes of thyroid dysfunction?
• Does conventional medicine and functional medicine differ in treatment?
• What are the risks of undiagnosed or mistreated hypothyroidism?
  
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  This week I'm excited to welcome Elle Russ to the podcast. Elle is a writer, health coach and host of the Primal Blueprint podcast. She wrote the Paleo Thyroid solution and is quickly becoming the leading voice of thyroid health. In this episode, we discuss all things thyroid. It's role in the body, the most common causes of disfunction, and where to start when wanting to heal. Over to Elle.

  (01:12)
  
  Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Elle Russ to the podcast. Elle, how are you?

  Elle

  (01:17)

  I'm great. How are you?

  Stu

  (01:20)

  Very well, thank you. Very well. Thanks for sharing some of your time. And I know we're on different time... In time zones, so I'm a little bleary-eyed because it's early and I think you've just experienced an earthquake, which you said, so you're probably a little shaken yourself as well.

  Elle

  (01:36)

  I woke up to an earthquake this morning. So I'm thankfully... You're doing better than me right now.

  Stu

  (01:42)

  Okay. So first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

  Elle

  (01:49)

  Sure. I'm the number one bestselling author of the Paleo Thyroid Solution and also a book called Confident as FU*K, I'll keep it family friendly. So the two areas, I'm a thyroid expert, accidentally. I suffered for many years and we'll be talking about that. And then also one of my greatest strengths is confidence and self-esteem. So that's another thing that I teach on. So I have courses in both of the books that I write about and also free masterclasses and lots of free information. So if after this and you're listening to the thyroid discussion and you're like, "I don't totally get it, or I want more." Just go to freethyroidmasterclass.com. It's a two-hour video of me getting into the weeds on all of this, and it might shore up anything we might not mention here. So there's lots of free information on my website for everybody to get educated without having to take my course or buy my book.

  For full interview and transcript:
  https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/elle-russ-interview/