Coach. Podcaster. COACHCASTER.

Craig Weller is Precision Nutrition’s exercise systems and program director and a PN Master Coach. His certifications include US Navy SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant Crewman), Department of State WPPS-2 (Worldwide Personal Protective Service), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, StrongFirst Girya Level 1, and Precision Nutrition Level 2. He’s also a US Department of State Worldwide Personal Protective Service Security Specialist and formerly a nationally-registered emergency medical technician. In this episode, Craig breaks down how he became the guy his Special Forces brothers in arms would go to for the best training protocols that reduced their chances of injury, increased strength and mobility, while also allowed them to complete their mission both on and off the battlefield. 

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Episode resources:

• Learn more about Craig and Precision Nutrition

• Listen to episode 389 with Precision Nutrition's head strength and sports psychology coach Adam Feit

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More about Craig:

In his role as a Precision Nutrition coach and the director for the PN High-Risk Occupations program, Weller has also provided guidance for the Canadian Special Forces command.

Before joining Precision Nutrition, Weller spent six years in Naval Special Operations as a Special Warfare Combat Crewman (SWCC) and nearly two years on the High-Threat Protection team for the U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad in Iraq. He’s held a variety of instructional and diplomatic security roles all over the world, including Kenya, the Philippines, Central America, South Sudan, and Iraq.

Outside of the military, Weller has founded multiple fitness businesses, co-authored a patent for a biomedical monitoring technology, acted as a consultant for the US clandestine community, and written for numerous publications and journals including the NSCA Tactical Strength and Conditioning Journal.

Your health is your choice, so why not learn how to make better, more informed choices when it comes to your medical care, nutrition, medications, supplements... all of the things? Everything you choose to do or not do, eat or not eat, think or not think plays a role in your overall wellness. Today's guest is Dr. Joe Nieusma and he is not only passionate about becoming a more informed consumer and health advocate but an incredibly well-educated health expert that helps others by reviewing their medical records and help them to eliminate unnecessary prescription drugs from their profile. Through a detailed history of symptoms as described by the client/patient or family members, combined with an analysis of the medical history, he recommends changes and ultimately eliminations to their current drug therapies to improve the quality of life of the patient by reducing or eliminating unnecessary drug side effects. 

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Episode resources:

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• Episode386 with Autumn Smith

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More about Dr. Joe:

Dr. Nieusma is our fearless CEO/Chief Toxicologist here at Superior Toxicology & Wellness, an international scientific consulting firm that he founded. Dr. Nieusma is also a co-founder for TwinOxide North America, a company working to improve water quality in all aspects of life from municipal treatment plants to livestock operations. TwinOxide removes all carcinogens from treated water and is the right thing to do.

Dr. Nieusma is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Vitro Biopharma, a firm that brings new stem-cell related products for diabetes research to scientific, pharmaceutical, and ultimately medical markets.  Dr. Nieusma is also on the editorial staff for the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, published by Informa Healthcare.

Dr. Nieusma was a Senior Toxicologist for Affygility Solutions from October 2005 to February 2018. Affygility is a company providing strategic environmental health and safety solutions to life science companies.  Dr. Nieusma left Affygility to focus on Superior Toxicology & Wellness, as well as TwinOxide-Colorado. Dr. Nieusma was an Industrial Toxicologist for Sandoz (formerly Geneva Pharmaceuticals) from May of 1998 to April of 2004. He left Sandoz to open Superior Toxicology & Wellness. Dr. Nieusma has participated as an editorial board member for Micromedex, Inc. since May of 2001 primarily to provide toxicological evaluation of potential new products and databases as needed.  Dr. Nieusma has participated in research for a human health risk assessment involving over 100 chemicals of interest from a US Naval incinerator in Osaka, Japan. Dr. Nieusma worked for Dow Chemical in the Biotransformation group from September 1989 until July 1991.  

Dr. Nieusma earned his B.S. from Central Michigan University with a major in pre-med biology and a minor in chemistry.  He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Colorado, School of Pharmacy and the Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences Program.  The title of his dissertation research is “Stereochemical aspects of 1,3-Butadiene Metabolism and Toxicity”. His research characterized the very different pattern of metabolism and toxicity mainly due to the orientation of various side chains around chiral carbons of a small molecule hydrocarbon with multiple double bonds. 

Dr. Nieusma has been actively involved in toxicology research for the past 30 years with six published manuscripts. The majority of his work, especially in the pharmaceutical industry and consulting, has been conducted in an industrial setting and published only within the company or to a client. These potent compound classification reports for pharmaceutical agents were written to assess occupational hazards that may exist during the manufacturing process for a drug. 

Dr. Nieusma has completed over 1500 drug monographs which highlighted potency, pharmacokinetics, acute adverse effects, chronic adverse effects, irritant properties, sensitizing properties, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, requirements for medical attention in an exposure, cumulative effects and developmental or reproductive effects of these pharmaceutical agents. Dr. Nieusma is involved in the determination of causation when there are reported effects possibly due to drug exposure in a worker population.  Through his experience, professional judgment and knowledge of the drug, he formulates an opinion as to whether a certain effect is possibly due to exposure to a pharmaceutical agent in question. These opinions have been utilized for deciding who was responsible for treatment of the injured worker, and whether a drug exposure was intentional by an employee or accidental in the course of work performed for the company.

Routinely in the pharmaceutical industry, preparations of various drugs will become contaminated with foreign debris or degradation products from the chemical ingredients and Dr. Nieusma writes a justification for the presence of these entities and provide the toxicological background to show that they would be harmless and pose little to no risk to the end user. Frequently, these justifications are based on a structure-activity relationship analysis comparison of similar chemicals. On a regular basis Dr. Nieusma is asked to review specific jobs in specific environments with multiple potential exposures to drugs, chemicals, and excipients for potential reproductive hazards of occupational exposure.

Dr. Nieusma is a member of the Society of Toxicology which requires nomination and membership is based on scientific expertise in the field.  Dr. Nieusma has served as a lecturer for the Toxicology and Occupational Health Course at the University of Colorado Graduate School, the American Industrial Hygiene Association and for the conference for “Environmental, Health and Safety for the Life Science Industry”. Dr. Nieusma’s qualifications are described in detail in his curriculum vitae which has been provided.  

Mimi Lindquist knows what it means to feel fully charged and have true wellness because she has been at rock bottom before; divorce, acne, hair loss, hypothryoidism, and so much more. Taking her health into her own hands she spent years studying the human body and experimenting with various modalities that began to solve nearly all of her health problems and provide an immense sense of fulfillment. In this episode, Mimi shares her emotional battle of how she healed her body from the inside out and how she now does that for so many others. Her expertise lies in HPV and more specifically the power of medicinal and funcitonal mushrooms.

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More about Mimi:

"I am a Registered Dental Hygienist by degree, and practiced clinically for 7 years. I loved it! But with many people in my family dealing with debilitating chronic disease…cancer, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Parkinson’s disease…I felt pulled to dive into more education. For myself. For me. For my future family. I was convinced that I could help in some way. Turns out, I could.

After my divorce in 2017, my health hit rock bottom. Tanked hormones, hypothyroidism, cystic acne, severe digestive issues, hair loss. Bursting into tears crumpled on my shower floor as clumps of hair fell out, I decided to make a change. I had to.

I BECAME MY OWN BEST HEALTH ADVOCATE. AND AFTER 2 YEARS OF DIGGING INTO EVERY HEALTH PODCAST, THYROID BOOKS, ELIMINATION DIET, ACNE EDUCATION, DIGESTIVE SUPPLEMENTS, + MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS, I FINALLY STARTED TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN.

I graduated from the Academy of Culinary Nutrition in 2018, and started educating others about the incredible benefits of AHCC®. My passion for AHCC, medicinal mushrooms and newfound education around ‘food as medicine’ launched me into the entrepreneurial world. I didn’t have any business background, no idea how to market myself, no idea how to build a website, but I knew the world needed to know about AHCC®, and I committed myself to being the link and figuring it out.

Another twist in the story: I reunited with my childhood sweetheart, Chase, who I had separated from and divorced 3 years earlier. Our souls wouldn’t have the separation. We now live on Coronado Island, CA, in this beautiful ‘Part 2’ of our relationship, as we call it.

TOGETHER WE HOST THE MEDICIN PODCAST, WHICH FOCUSES ON DISEASE PREVENTION FOR THE BODY, MIND + RELATIONSHIPS. WE KEEP IT VERY REAL, AND VERY UNIQUE. YOU WON’T HEAR THESE CONVERSATIONS ANYWHERE ELSE.

If you have HPV, or autoimmune disease, or cancer, I know what it’s like to feel alone, to have no one to help you, to want to cry every day because “I just can’t figure this out!” I’ve been there myself."

Coaching, particularly nutrition coaching, has seen tremendous awareness growth over the last few years thanks to social media. But not every coach with six pack abs or a deadlift of four times their bodyweight qualifies them to provide dietary advice to others. In this episode, guest Adam Feit breaks down exactly what to look for in a good coach, how the industry has shifted and how and the entire team at Precision Nutrition are making sure they help others safely and individually.

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More about Adam:

Adam Feit is Precision Nutrition’s head strength and sport psychology coach. Feit earned his master’s degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College. Currently, he’s a PhD Candidate in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Springfield College. 

In addition to Precision Nutrition Level 2 certification, he’s a Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), National Academy of Sports Medicine Performance Enhancement Specialist (NASM-PES), and Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coach and Mentor. 

Prior to his work at Precision Nutrition, Feit worked as a strength and conditioning coach and nutrition coordinator for athletes and sports teams. His clients included the Carolina Panthers, Eastern Michigan University, University of Louisville, and The Citadel. He also co-founded and directed a fitness facility for young athletes.

Known for his passion, drive and enthusiasm for excellence in coaching, Feit has presented around the world on the topics of nutrition, coaching, and strength and conditioning. 

In addition to contributing to a variety of publications, Feit has co-published training manuals and videos related to fitness training. Feit has also served on a number of advisory boards and committees including the National Strength and Conditioning Association, New Jersey State Chapter, and as a peer reviewer for the NSCA-Coach Strength and Conditioning Journal.

It takes more than just rank or position to be an effective and respected leader on the battlefield, in the boardroom or at home. Today's guest is former Royal Marines Officer Roderic Yapp, founder of Leadership Forces a revered consulting entity in the United Kingdom that is passionate about developing leadership capability to deliver high performance results. In this episode, Roderic discusses his journey from civilian to soldier to entrepreneur, the dangers of the military and the tactical skills he was able to walk away with, and ultimately how he helps others strengthen their mental fortitude and become the leader they need to be for their own pursuits and their team's.

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Fasting and electrolytes

1. Fasting depletes sodium levels. Fasting and the ketogenic diet provoke similar metabolic responses. Both regimens, because they minimize carbs, also minimize spikes in blood sugar. When blood sugar is minimized, insulin is minimized too. Insulin tells your kidneys whether to retain sodium. So when your insulin levels are low, you excrete sodium at a high rate (called natriuresis).

2. Supplementing sodium = less weight rebound. When you fast, your body breaks apart glycogen (stored sugar) to meet your brain’s ravenous glucose needs. This process, called glycogenolysis, releases torrents of water which you subsequently pee out. When we use glycogen we tend to shed the water associated with it,  and your body weight decreases accordingly. In general, when you start eating again, glycogen reforms and the weight comes back (particularly if in a calorie excess...and if we are nit-picky, glycogen resynthesis CAN happen before eating via the Cori cycle, but that’s getting out in the weeds!). Sodium supplementation dampens this effect.

3. Exercise performance and prevent hyponatremia. If you train or sweat in a fasted state, electrolytes are critical for performance. Many athletes feel dehydrated and drink more water - however this can dilute blood sodium levels even further. Drinking a salt solution has been shown to reverse hyponatremia.

Role of electrolytes:

1. Electrolytes conduct electrolyte charges in your body. Every message sent through your nervous system (including your brain) involves electrolyte transmissions - or nerve impulses - between cells. You need electrolytes, especially sodium and potassium, in order for nerve impulses to fire. 

2. Electrolytes also regulate fluid balance, help you produce energy, and strengthen bones. 

3. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium:

4. 1. Regulates fluid balance (blood flow)

   2. Regulates blood pressure

   3. Helps conduct nerve impulses

   4. Promotions the release of vasopressin (or antidiuretic hormone) which helps you sleep through the night

   5. Aid in energy (ATP) production

   6. Contributes to DNA synthesis

   7. Regulate blood sugar levels

   8. Help muscles contract (including your heart)

   9. Increases the absorption of certain nutrients through the gut.

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• Episode 240 with Robb Wolf

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• Learn more about Roderic and Leadership Forces

More about Roderic and Leadership Forces:

"Leadership training is usually delivered by professional trainers who have an understanding of the ‘theory of management’ but have never led a team. We are practitioners. We’ve been there, led people in challenging environments, made the mistakes and learnt from them. Using a deep understanding of the levers that drive performance, we apply a rigorous and scientifically backed approach to learning and the development of new skills."

They are based on 10 core prinicples:

1. Purpose: A Leader’s purpose is to make the world a better place by serving other people.

2. Example: Leaders ‘lead by example’ because they know that the lowest standards of behaviour they exhibit are the highest standards that they can expect from their people.

3. Values: Leaders are clear on their values and core beliefs – they know who they are and who they are not. Their values drive their behaviour.

4. Drive: They have a drive to constantly improve and although they are never satisfied with the status quo – take time to celebrate achievements.

5. Humility: Leaders know their strengths and weaknesses and develop both through self-reflection and feedback. They know that they’re not the ‘finished article’ accepting themselves as a ‘work in progress’.

6. Consistency: Leaders are transparent, consistent and accountable – they say what they’re going to do and they do it. They know that this builds trust which enables influence. They create consequences for action and inaction – both positive and negative.

7. Clarity: Leaders create clarity and focus telling people what they want them to achieve and giving them the space to work out how to achieve it. This gives them the ability to turn a vision into reality.

8. Know your People: Leaders make people feel safe by giving them confidence that they have their best interests at heart. They’re able to do this because they know their people. They spend time talking to them – not just about work – but about the important things in life.

9. Develop your People: Leaders create safe environments for people to learn – allowing them the space to fail and learn where required. They pass on successes but hold accountability for failures. They treat people with respect developing them through a combination of challenge and support.

10. Standards" Leaders create standards – they make it clear what a good performance looks like. They use standards to train and develop their people.

By popular demand, I am so excited to share with you this solo episode about my stance on cannabis. In this episode, I share how my religious and conservative upbringing deterred me from ever even considering trying marijuana, my years in the military and what would have happened to my career if I did use any recreational drugs, my horrible first experience ever getting high, and all the way to now and how through years of finally doing my own research and formulating my own belief system around cannabis why I now use it on a semi-regular basis. This episode is solely my own experience and insight and is in no way recommending anyone do anything illegal but also to encourage you to be a study of one, to trust but verify.

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Join your host Chase Chewning as he interviews Autumn Smith, Co-Founder of Paleovalley and Wild Pastures, wellness enthusiast and mom. Here she will touch on her journey to overcoming acne as well as debilitating digestive and mental health issues with using food as medicine. 

In this episode, Chase delves deep into Autumn’s evolving journey. They discuss mind/ body relationships, checking-in on yourself, overcoming obstacles and most importantly, setting and honoring your own boundaries daily. Stay tuned to learn Autumn’s secret to owning your body and how that enables you to own your life. A key system that you and everyone around you can benefit from. 

“I learned about kind of finding the root cause and with time, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. That like calm and peaceful girl I remember when I was a really small girl. She came back and so I became like kind of very very passionate about helping people figure out how to not just be fit, but to also be well….‘health is coming back to the self’ and I think in my definition of wellness, that’s essential” 

Key timestamps

[0:0 ] Autumn introduction: key talking points for episode

[0:35] Ad. Break- recommended Paleovalley products & savings 

[1:25 ] EverForward Radio introduction

[2:00] Intro to topic: audience self-reflection questions: pause & reflect

[3:10] Autumn Smith’s summarized Story by Chase

[4:41] Chase’s Paleovalley daily staples 

[6:33] Autumn Interview begins 

[7:04] Autumn 2020 adjustments- child schooling 

[8:26] Community, tribe shift

[10:48] Time blocking hacks 

[12:08] Honoring your personal time

[13:06] Breaking traditional expectations for women 

[15:00] Biggest Secret: Sunday Swap 

[16:07] Autumn’s wellness model beginning- present

[18:57] Intuition and body connection 

[19:33] Finding Identity inside and out 

[24:15] How to recognize intuition and act accordingly 

[29:16] L-theanine

[30:55] Where Paleovalley came from 

[32:37] Red meat affect 

[34:44] What makes Paleovalley different?

[36:00] Climate change with foods consumed

[37:45] Paleovalley Immune-health products 

[37:47] Apple cider vinegar complex

[41:01] Turmeric 

[42:38] Immune C complex 

[44:13] Camu camu 

[47:50] The organ complex 

[51:35] Where you can go to learn more about Autumn Smith and Paleovalley: sister company- Wild Pastures meat delivery service 

[52:36] How Autumn Smith lives a life EverForward 

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Internal, External Relationships with Autumn Smith 

Do you want to feel well inside and out? Are you having a difficult time developing a mind and body relationship but don’t know where you should begin? Finding the balance in life is hard enough as it is due to societal normalities and expectations for varying genders in a busy world. It often leaves us overly stimulated and feeling rundown. When it comes to health and wellness, we owe it to ourselves to honor our needs and establish a lifestyle that supports them. 

In this episode, Autumn Smith shares her personal battles and triumphs to finding the balance she implements in her life daily, today. She discusses the importance of foods we consume and how internal health connects our minds and bodies to be able to live our lives to the absolute fullest. Tune into the interview with her on EverForward radio to discover valuable insights about owning your life. 

Three Value Bombs: Why You Should Listen to the Full Episode

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3. Explains thoroughly what goes into her products, where she finds them and why they are so pure in form. 

Episode resources:

• Paleovalley Website

• EverForward Radio Website 

• Connect with Autumn on Instagram @autumnfladmosmith & @paleovalley 

• Connect with Chase on Instagram @chase_chewning &​ @everforwardradio  

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Episode Highlights

Autumn’s Routine

• Autumn time blocks.

• So in the morning she wakes up, it is her and her son Maverick until her husband gets up. They usually have an hour where she’s completely mindful and present with him to do whatever he wants. She just lets him take the lead each day during that time. Makes her feel good as a mom and allows her to transition into her work environment afterwards without any residual personal life worries.

• The teacher for Maverick then comes to the house and she had a solid six hours of work time ahead.

• When Autumn’s work is done, she goes right back into family mode which is then followed by a little time for herself at the end of the day

• Autumn likes to take that end of the day time to simply relax in her sauna she has downstairs in her home

• This same day is repeated daily 

• Overall, Autumn’s time blocking is summed as six hours of professional focus, at least two hours with her son, at least a half an hour with herself and an hour at the end of the day with her husband or whatever friends they might want to bring into the situation that day. She of course ensures she implements some sort of exercise in there as well. 

Insights on Life

• Time block and honor yourself by sticking to it 

• Establish an intuition and act accordingly from it 

• Investing in you, your health and wellness results in an overall internal, external relationship. Not only in how you look and feel but the people surrounding you as well. 

Why Autumn Smith Developed Paleovalley 

• Autumn suffered acute digestive issues since she was young

• Years of numerous experts had failed time and time again to identify and resolve the ongoing issue 

• Autumn’s husband, Chas, did research that resulted in his stumble across the paleo diet

• Together, the Smith’s implemented the paleo diet to trial it’s methods and landed on HUGE results. Autumn’s IBS was completely resolved. 

• This inspired her to quit her job as a personal trainer at the Tracy Anderson Method, and earned her degree in holistic nutrition. 

• Realizing that many foods currently on the market were not truly as healthy as they claim to be, they and Chas’ brother, Matthew, launched Paleovalley. 

• “Everything you eat and every added ingredient is an opportunity to either detract from your health or improve it.” Autumn chose to improve it within herself and is now determined to encourage and help others to do it too. 

Being The Brand, Staying True To It And Why It Matters

• Autumn was a traveling health and fitness entrepreneur and is currently a wellness enthusiast, a super mom and Co Founder of Paleovalley and wild pastures; a company that emphasizes “eating well and living vibrantly with nutrient-rich, organic Superfoods and dense paleo products.” 

• Her mission is to “create products that live up to her own strict standards and always prioritize health over profit. Paleovalley creates products with integrity that are free from problematic ingredients and teeming with ingredients that promote vibrant health.”

• Autumn strives to inspire people to “view every dietary choice for what it really is: a profound opportunity to love and care for oneself.”

• “Paleovalley products are a labor of love, and her only hope is that she help your family feel as vibrant as hers.”

• What inspired this? Autumn suffered acute digestive issues since she was young. Numerous experts failed time and time again and it took Autumn’s husband, Chas’, research to finally stumble across the paleo diet. They then, together, implemented the paleo diet to trial it’s methods and landed on HUGE results. Autumn’s IBS was completely resolved. This inspired her so much that she quit her job as a personal trainer at the Tracy Anderson Method, and earned her degree in holistic nutrition. Realizing that many foods currently on the market were not truly as healthy as they claim to be, they and Chas’ brother Matthew launched Paleovalley. 

• “Everything you eat and every added ingredient is an opportunity to either detract from your health or improve it.” Prior to this acknowledgement, Autumn has to trial and error varying lifestyles. But with this discovery Autumn was able to finally choose to improve it externally and within herself. Now that very journey and impact is the driving fuel that keeps her determined to encourage and help others to do it too. 

The Problem with Today’s Dynamic

•  Societal expectations and normalities implement a heavy standard that conflicts with our ability to establish a sense of identity. Identity is the very source of being able to have an intuition that we can, individually, can trust enough to act accordingly.

• Mass production food companies press quantity over quality and prioritize profit over the well-being of the people consuming their products.

• Traditional gender roles, if not redefined early on or actively demonstrated for the youth, places a false sense of what “should be”. Ultimately robbing women or men from the potential to honor themselves with time that’s necessary for their health, wellness, grounding, regrouping, decompressing, etc. 

Advice for Listeners 

• Exercise is the gateway for developing the urge to learn more about yourself. It propels you into the next phase of wellness, diet. Diet then opens the door to mindset: how to change, control and exercise it. Try challenging yourself to trying a new, structured approach to life, the odds are, you’ll come across positive outcomes in more ways than one

• Do your research, learn yourself and your body's needs. Actively get tests done to know what exactly you need nutritionally. Supplements, vitamins will vary depending on deficiencies and non-deficiencies. Under consumption is equally harmful as overconsumption 

• Budget out your time to achieve overall wellness and balance in each day 

Autumn's Vision for the food industry 

• Mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health by providing products that “prioritize nutrient density in an industry that prioritizes everything else.” Paleovalley’s belief is “that every dietary choice and every added ingredient is a powerful opportunity to love and care for oneself.” 

• Paleovalley aims to set a tone that leaves all hands involved feeling morally at peace by creating products that live up to their own strict standards. Ultimately setting them apart in the food production market for they prioritize health over profit. Their products are made with “integrity that are free from problematic ingredients and teeming with ingredients that promote vibrant health.” 

• Overall, all hands involved in Paleovalley genuinely strive to develop a platform where products provided to consumers are a result of a labor of care and more than anything, love. Thus pushing the notion to “help other families feel as vibrant as theirs.”

How Autumn Lives Ever Forward

• Autumn used to be someone trying to perfect and be something someone else wanted her to be. No she lives a life EverForward by focusing inward. Strictly comparing herself to who she was the day before and actively revising her actions for the days to come. She exercises the art of shielding from distraction to live a life that provides internal and external value. 

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

1. “Bring back traditional forgotten superfoods into my diet so that we can all live a life that we’re proud of and that we’re inspired by and that we feel capable of doing everything we’ve ever wanted to do.”

2. “I learned about kind of finding the root cause and with time, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. That like calm and peaceful girl I remember when I was a really small girl. She came back and so I became like kind of very very passionate about helping people figure out how to not just be fit, but to also be well….‘health is coming back to the self’ and I think in my definition of wellness, that’s essential” 

3. “Women feel selfish for taking care of themselves but they have to. We have to, I’m such a better, calmer, more peaceful and mindful mom when I’m actually just like taking care of myself too AND we want, we want to raise our children to believe that that’s okay and that that’s actually essential for us too…”

4. “Food is medicine. I just don’t think that we can replicate food and the benefits… nature provided us these foods that are really nutrient dense, like organ meats, they’re actually the most nutrient dense foods in the world, gram for gram, highest natural source of vitamin B12 and vitamin A and just the full range of B vitamins. And so I had to get them into my diet.” 

5. “My product was that, I can't stomach organs and so we put them into capsules so everyone can have all of these forgotten superfoods in a way that like- fit in with the pallet of, you know, Americans today.” 

More About the Guest:

Autumn is a former travel health and fitness entrepreneur and currently a wellness enthusiast, mom and Co Founder of Paleovalley and wild pastures. Paleovalley emphasizes “eating well and living vibrantly with nutrient-rich, organic Superfoods and dense paleo products,” inspired by her own digestive struggles. 

To see more of her content and products, visit ​Paleovalley Website .

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More than 70% of our immune system exists in our gut, so if we want to truly focus on our wellness and increase our body's ability to fight off disease and illness we must put more of a focus on improving our gut health. Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is the scientist who is now known as the leading microbiome researcher in the world and leading fungal community scientist. In fact, he named the mycobiome! In this episode, Dr. Ghannoum and his son, Afif, a corporate lawyer specializing in the biotechnology industry, discuss exactly why the gut is critical for our total wellness, cutting edge new research on gut bacteria and how to improve the microbiome and so much more!

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More about BIOHM and Dr. Ghannoum:

Over 40 years ago, a lone scientist began exploring this critical, but neglected, inhabitant of the human body. Born and raised in Lebanon, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University, one of the top 25 medical research universities in the United States (according to US News & World Report).

He began his scientific journey in England, studying Candida, a species of fungi that, when allowed to grow uncontrolled, can cause Candidiasis, an infection that afflicts millions of people worldwide.

This provoked his curiosity about the whole area of fungal microorganisms in the human body. Through the next four decades of research, he discovered that while there was a massive rise in studies of bacteria, fungus was largely ignored.  One reason is that fungal organisms tend to be highly unstable, making them extremely difficult to study.

For the longest time, Dr. Ghannoum’s work was known only to a minority within the scientific community. While many have heard of Candida, few people have any idea of the critical role that fungus plays in human health.

Through his research, Dr. Ghannoum established that fungal organisms constitute an essential part of the microbiome. In fact, in 2010, Dr. Ghannoum was the first scientist to identify over 100 native species of fungi in the oral cavity.

Like with bacteria, there are good fungi as well as bad fungi. And just as it was startling to discover that we need positive bacteria in our guts, most people today are shocked to learn that their health depends on flourishing colonies of helpful fungi.In fact, good fungi and good bacteria work in synergy to sustain a healthy microbiome. Unfortunately, the villains of the story also collaborate!

In 2016, Dr. Ghannoum discovered that harmful fungi and bacteria join forces to create digestive biofilm. This thin, gooey lining forms throughout our intestines, and very much like dental plaque, it serves to protect bad germs hiding beneath the biofilm’s protective shield.

This is why taking care of your whole microbiome—fungi and bacteria—is so critical.

Recognition of Dr. Ghannoum’s work came slowly—but it did come. Today, he is acclaimed as the international authority on fungus within the human body.

Afif, his son and coroporaet biotech lawyer, suggested that the two of them should join forces, combining their different talents to launch a company. BIOHM was the result, a company founded to bring Dr. Ghannoum’s science to the world creating products based on new understandings of the microbiome.

“Our mission is to help people,” Dr. Ghannoum explains.   “I just felt that we had to take my father’s expertise out of the ivory tower, and turn it into products that could really help people.”

Episode resources:

• Learn more about Biohm at https://www.biohmhealth.com

• Get Dr. Ghannoum's book Total Gut Balance

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences: A Critical Review on Health Promoting Benefits of Edible Mushrooms through Gut Microbiota

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Nearly seven months later the world is still enduring its first true global pandemic. Dr. David Minkoff, MD is a board-certified physician and lifetime athlete here to provide current scientific insight into COVID-19 and the protocols we integrate into our lives now that allow us to stay active while also keeping ourselves and our communities safe. Dr. Minkoff is an avid athlete himself and has completed 43 Ironman Triathlons. To keep his fitness maximal, he lives the lifestyle he teaches to others and tries to set an example for others, so they can enjoy a life free of pain and full of energy.

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More about Dr. Minkoff:

Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement.  He then completed both a Pediatric Residency and a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego.

He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine.

In 1992, Dr. Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr. Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr. Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr. Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the alternative field with a vengeance.

Based on this new knowledge Dr. Minkoff and his wife set up a small clinic in 1997 to help some friends with their medical problems. What began as an experiment blossomed into Lifeworks Wellness Center, one of the most successful clinics for complementary medicine in the United States.

In the process, he gained expertise in Biological medicine, integrative oncology, heavy metal detoxification, anti-aging medicine, hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, energy medicine, neural and prolotherapy, homeopathy, and optimum nutrition.

He studied under the masters in each of these disciplines until he became an expert in his own right.

Dr. Minkoff is one of the most in-demand speakers in the field and wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Search For The Perfect Protein.

The demand for the products and protocols he discovered became a catalyst for founding BodyHealth.Com, a nutrition company that now manufactures and distributes cutting-edge nutritional solutions for the many health problems of today.

Matthew Paetz helps purpose driven entrepreneurs and individuals  step into who they want to be the rest of their lives by learning how to use their story to connect with purpose. Purpose being the key word as that is exactly what he talks about in this episode. Matthew describes the scientific way we solidify and hold onto emotions and traumas and how we can learn to access them in a safe manner that leads us to long term healing and puts us on our path to purpose.

Both a model and a prominent dating and life coach, he attracted additional media attention when he began dating Glee star Lea Michele in the summer of 2014. Since that relationship ended in 2016 Matthew has devoted his life to personal development and helps others find fulfillment in their own lives, relationships and careers.

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Brendan Brazier is the formulator and co-founder of Vega, bestselling author of the Thrive book series, creator and host of the Thrive Forward web series, and editor in chief of Thrive magazine. He’s also a former professional Ironman triathlete and a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. Brendan is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on plant-based performance nutrition, and therefore works with several NHL, NFL, MLB, UFC, and Olympic athletes. Brendan now invests in and works with socially responsible food & tech companies whose mandate is to fix our food system and reduce the environmental strain of food production. In this episode, Brendan shares exactly what it takes to perform at the peak level of an ultra endurance athlete, his entrepreneur journey and how he has found the solution to how to safely enjoy alcohol as an athlete through the powerful and wonderful world of medicinal mushrooms.

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• Vega Sport

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Pain. It can be what stops us from moving forward or teaches how to move forward... quite literally! Jen Esquer, PT, DPT is a top-40 physical therapy influencer. With a Doctorate in physical therapy, she is ranked as one of the best fitness trainers on Instagram by Shape Magazine and has been featured in Self Magazine, Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness and many more. In today's episode, Doc Jen shares her origin story of why movement is so important for the human body (and mind), how pain can be our greatest teacher if we learn how to properly listen to it, building an optimal body and so much more!

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Episode resources:

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• Watch full-length video interviews at YoutTube.com/chasechewning

• Listen to Jen's podcast The Optimal Body

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More about Jen:

As a self-proclaimed “mover”, Jen has spent more than 2/3 of her life upside down. She graduated with a B.S. in Kinesiology, and received her DPT degree from Loma Linda University. After schooling, she went on to accept a job at VERT Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation in Santa Monica.

Through VERT and furthering her education, she was able to meet some amazing individuals who further fueled the expansion of her knowledge base. She studied the Myodetox methodology directly under co-founder, Vinh Pham, took a RockTape course with The Movement Maestro herself, and learned from so many other brilliant minds in the rehab game.

Nowadays, she offers private sports therapy, online programs, workshops and speaks at global engagements, attracting audiences from stay-at-home moms to Hollywood actors and Olympic athletes. Her mission is to help those who are willing to listen to their body, reverse aging, eliminate pain and establish sustainable health.