On this episode we have Dr. Tim Gerstmar. We dig into the topic of obesogens, how we're exposed to them, where they come from, their effects on health, their effects on our microbiome, epigenetics and more geekery!

Obesogens are foreign chemical compounds that disrupt normal development and balance of lipid metabolism, which in some cases, can lead to obesity. (Wikipedia)

Guest: Dr. Tim Gerstmar

Website: http://aspirenaturalhealth.com/

This week we have guest Dawn Kernagis, a Research Scientist in the area of human performance optimization and risk mitigation for operators in extreme environments. We talk about diving, decompression and its effects, genetics, ketogenic diets, and more.

Guest: Dawn Kernagis

Dawn's IHMC page: http://www.ihmc.us/groups/dkernagis/

A little more background on Dawn: http://www.ihmc.us/news/20150526

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.

www.BradDavidson.com

This week's podcast with certified clinical nutritionist Beverly Meyer covered a lot of ground, including the interplay of Vitamins A, D, and K in a host of health issues. We also talked about the forgotten neurotransmitter, GABA, and it's role in depression, gut health, and autoimmunity.

Guest: Beverly Myer

Beverly Meyer, CCN
Certified Clinical Nutritionist
www.ondietandhealth.com
Podcast: Primal Diet - Modern Health
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverlymeyerondietandhealth/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ondietandhealth/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ondietandhealth
DVD: The Diet For Human Beings. https://www.ondietandhealth.com/diet-for-human-beings-dvd/

Beverly Meyer is a Natural Health patient, practitioner and podcaster. She is the host of "Primal Diet - Modern Health" podcast on Alternative Health and the Paleo Diet, available on iTunes or her website. The show reflects her 30 year’s experience as a naturopathic practitioner and Primal/Paleo Food lover.
Her DVD, "The Diet For Human Beings", teaches the how’s and why’s of the Paleo Diet, and is ideal for sharing with friends and family.  Her motto is FOOD FIRST, and new clients catch an ear-full on why changing their food is the fastest way to start to restore health and body composition.
After a successful but exhausting career in business, Beverly began practicing as a Certified Clinical Nutritionist in 1985.  Her personal goal was to restore her immune system, adrenals and celiac-damaged gut.
Her blog, newsletter, Twitter and Facebook pages offer up-to-date info on running your own lab work, creating a personalized Gluten Free Paleo diet, and restoring hormones and the immune system.
She holds an MBA in Finance, and has been written about in Glamour, Venture, Entrepreneur and Inc. She was honored for her Small Business by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in the 1980's.

This week on the podcast we have the incredibly interesting Mark Schatzker, author of Steak, and The Dorito Effect. We talk about the hyperpalatability of foods, neuroregulation of appetite, and how food engineering and flavoring has changed what we eat and how it all affects us.

Featuring guest: Mark Schatzker

http://www.markschatzker.com/

This week on the podcast we have Steph Gaudreau, popular food blogger of Stupid Easy Paleo, nutritionist, and coach. She joins us to talk about her history, nutrition, and proper nutrition with training.

Featuring guest: Steph Gaudreau

Food Website: http://stupideasypaleo.com/

Women's Strength Summit (goes live on Feb. 14th)

Coaching site: http://stephgaudreau.com/

Books: The Paleo Athlete, The Performance Paleo Cookbook, and How To Make Kombucha

This weeks guest is noted strength coach, powerlifter AND ultramarathoner, Alex Viada. Alex has posted remarkable number both in the gym and track with an over 700lb raw squat and a sub 4:30 mile. Alex and I talk about his Hybrid Athlete training system, optimal training for the CrosssFit athlete, the limitations of low-carb and paleo for elite athletes and much more.

Featuring guest: Alex Viada

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alex.viada
Website: http://www.completehumanperformance.com/

Book: The Hybrid Athlete

Featuring guest: Nicolette Hahn Niman

http://www.eatlikeitmatters.com/

Twitter: @DefendingBeef
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/defendingbeef/

Book: Defending Beef

On this episode of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have guest Nicolette Hahn Niman, an environmental lawyer and former vegetarian who became a cattle rancher, and author of Defending Beef. Nicolette is one of the most knowledgeable people in the sustainability scene. In this episode we geek out on sustainability, agriculture, row crops, the impact and management of grazing animals, the case for sustainable meat, and more.

Episode 304 of The Paleo Solution Podcast with Robb Wolf.

Featuring guest: Jason Seib

This week I talked with one of the podcasts most popular guests, Jason Seib. Jason is a strength coach with more than a decade of hands on experience working with clients from every walk of life. Jason has developed the Altshift program which is a marriage of his clinical experience and deep knowledge of evolutionary psychology and biology. We get pretty geeky! Talking about optimum foraging strategy, the dopamine reward pathways, but we also talk about the practical steps anyone can take to affect lifelong health and body composition (fat loss, muscle gain) changes.

The AltShift Program

Hey folks!

There's been a ton of buzz about the EPIC Bar acquisition by General Mills. If you missed my thoughts on it earlier this week, you can read those here.
This morning I got to chat with Taylor and Katie (the founders) about what the acquisition means for EPIC Bar and regenerative food production.