Abel James Show

Jonathan Bailor: Why You Should Eat More & Exercise Less, On Being a Type 1 Diabetic and How Drinking a Chocolate Shake Can Give You Huge Muscles

Howdy folks! Plenty of exciting things still going on in the world of The Fat-Burning Man. We've still got The Fat-Burning Chef on sale ( $20 OFF! ), and so many of you have been sending in your recipes successes. It's been so fun to see all the creations you guys have made in the kitchen the past few weeks. If you'd like to send us your recipes, feel free to post them to the Facebook page , or you can message me on Twitter . You can always shoot us an email too! Just sign up over at Fatburningm...

Dr. Sara Gottfried: Why You Should Care About Cortisol, The Many Benefits of Orgasmic Yoga, And How to Be a Badass

Today's special guest is Dr. Sara Gottfried. It's an action-packed show, where we talk about lots of taboo subjects! Before we get to that though, The Fat-Burning Chef launched last week! Thousands of you have already gotten it and we've had awesome feedback so far. Some of you are sending pictures of all the amazing meals you've been creating, and we just want to thank you all so much for the positive support, we really appreciate it. For those of you who haven't heard about it yet: we took 20 ...

Christopher Walker: What Happens If You O.D. on Smart Drugs, Living Without Testosterone, and Why "The Fat-Burning Chef" is the Best Cookbook EVER.

Today's very special guest is Christopher Walker . He's a member of The Fat-Burning Man team and I've been meaning to get him on the show for a while now. He's also an elite tri-athlete, a brain geek (like me), a blogger over at NoGym.net , a male model and a hot wing eating champion, among many other things! Plus he's co-host of The Road To Ripped podcast , and I had the pleasure of being on their show last week. Before we get to the show, if you haven't already heard, we have a very special an...

Joel Salatin: Beyond-Organic Farming, American Food Policy and Why There is POOP in Your Chicken Nuggets

I am very blessed to be here today with a guest who has been requested from all over the world. It's a knowledge packed show, full of wisdom, and very entertaining as well! It's Mr Joel Salatin . A self-described Christian, libertarian, environmentalist, capitalist, lunatic farmer, who produces high quality, beyond-organic meats, which are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial and sustainable agriculture. Before we get to the show, I wanted to let you guys know about ...

Dr John Berardi: Precision Nutrition, Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss, and What It's Like Telling Georges St. Pierre What To Do

Today's episode is with one of the most knowledgable people in health and fitness, John Berardi of Precision Nutrition . Basically this guy knows what's up! Precision Nutrition takes people who are massively overweight, and turns them into super fit people. They understand how the body works; they understand physiology; they make it happen. They also teach some of the highest performing athletes how to perform even better through nutrition and fitness. I highly encourage you to check out their w...

Steve Kamb: Nerd Fitness, Getting Kids to "Level Up" in Real Life and Living Like James Bond in Monte Carlo

Today's show is a really fun one with Steve Kamb , the guy behind NerdFitness.com , a super popular blog and fitness community. He's helped thousands of regular people "level up their lives" as he says, all while exercising and exploring all over the world! Now before we get to our show today with Steve, I just want to tell you guys about what's been going on behind the scenes here, and why you may have had some trouble reaching us in the past few days. I actually wrote a whole blog post about i...

Scott Gryzbek: Zukay Live Foods, Making Fermented Foods at Home and Why a Beer May Be Good for You From Time to Time

Today's show is with Scott Gryzbek, the proud founder and CEO of Zukay Live Foods, the makers of vegetable kvass. This is ridiculously tasty stuff! After working in the food industry for a number of years for some big players in the game, Scott found it hard to sell foods he wouldn't feed to his own kids. So instead, he started Zukay to bring the health benefits of raw, fermented vegetables back into the American diet. Today we talk about: What it was like to live paleo before paleo was Paleo. A...

Darryl Edwards, The Fitness Explorer: The Importance of Play, "Primal Fitness," and Going from Skinny-Fat to Deadlifting Humans

Today's special episode of the show is with my buddy Darryl Edwards, The Fitness Explorer . Darryl is a natural movement therapist, and Paleo clinical nutritionist based in London. After nearly two decades working in investment banking as a computer scientist, Darryl abandoned the life of a desk jockey in favor of eating delicious steak and playing outside (my kind of dude!). Just a reminder that if you enter your best email below, you'll be able to hear about all of the cool stuff we have comin...

Bill & Haley of Food Lover's Primal Palate: Planning a 100% Gluten-Free Wedding, Their Book "Gather," and The Cutest Dog Ever

Today we're talking to Bill & Haley of "The Food Lover's Primal Palate." The author's of the hit cookbook "Make It Paleo" are back with a new book "Gather: The Art of Paleo Entertaining," set to be released on April 30, and it looks absolutely amazing! Shortly after that their next book "The 30 Day Guide to Paleo Cooking: Entire Month of Paleo Meals" will be released on June 11. Needless to say, these guys have been busy! Before we get to the show, I wanted to let you know we have a few of o...

Ori Hofmekler: Why Humans are Nocturnal Eats, the Critical Difference Between Grass-fed & Pastured Dairy, and What It's Like to be a Bonafide Renaissance Man

Ori Hofmekler is a fellow renaissance man. Not only is he a world renowned artist, but he is also the author of the ground breaking Warrior Diet and many other health and fitness books. With a tagline like “Not actively surviving... is passively dying!” this guy is no joke, and is a wealth of information and knowledge. In today's show we talk about: Why human are nocturnal eaters How not eating food can improve health and performance What it's like to be a bonafide renaissance man And the critic...

John Romaniello: Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha, the Problems with Being Skinny, and What Tucker Max Says About His Book

John Romaniello (better known as Roman) runs Roman Fitness Systems with a tongue-in-cheek approach to fitness. Equal parts narcissism and self-loathing, Roman writes with passion and humor, show-casing his belief that training doesn’t need to be serious, stern, science-laden monotony. It can be fun, too. Roman stopped by The Fat-Burning Man Show before going on other shows such as Dr Oz, The Colbert Show, and a few other stops in the mainstream media. This is a fun show, but let's put it this wa...

Yuri Elkaim: Raw Food Dieting, Where Vegans Go Wrong, and What Canadians Think of Canola

Today's show is with Yuri Elkaim , a former pro soccer player, holistic nutritionist, and strength and nutrition coach. A quick shout out to all those folks who I met at Paleo f(x) this past week. It was amazing to see you guys and appreciate all the support you guys have given me! Another quick announcement: we have hit #1 in health in Australia, Canada and the United States, and all of these in the past week! I really appreciate everything you guys have done to support the show. As a special t...

Mat Lalonde on Nutrient Density, Paleo Fails, and Being the Kraken

Mat Lalonde Ph.D (aka “The Kraken”) is a lecturer at Harvard University who specializes in chemical biology but studies human metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, health and athletic performance... for fun. Exciting news - as of today, The Fat-Burning Man Show has been dominating the iTunes charts latley, hitting top spots in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and more. As of today, our show is #2 in Health in Canada... Jillian Michaels is #10! Thanks for your support! Also, you may h...

Chris "The Kiwi" Ashenden: Life-Long Fat Loss in a Sentence, Pros and Cons of Supplements, and How to be Happy

Chris “The Kiwi” Ashenden is a native of New Zealand and an avid traveler. He’s been to over 60 countries and has a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and years of experience as a nutritionist and strength coach. Chris is a spokesperson for Athletic Greens and writes a newsletter entitled Kiwi Two Cents on fat loss, nutrition, and happiness through health. In today's content-packed show, we cover: Why humans who don’t exercise are BROKEN the pros and cons of supplements (and whether or not humans...

Michael Fishman: Sugar Addiction, The Difference Between "Can't" and "Don't," and How to Turn Down a Cookie

Today's special guest is Michael Fishman . For over 20 years, Michael has been the leading advisor on marketing, positioning and strategy setting in the health, wellness and personal development categories. He has been instrumental in growing to category leadership such businesses as Rodale, Inc., with the Prevention and Men's Health publishing brands, and has worked on products and/or collaborated with such admired personalities as Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Christi...

Melissa Joulwan of Well Fed

Melissa Joulwan, the author of Well-Fed , blogs at The Clothes Make The Girl about her triumphs and failures in the kitchen, the gym, and in life. In her own words she’s "on a mission to be a superfit, well-fed, dressed-to-kill, glossy-haired, rock-n-roll, tart-tongued detective." That's pretty sweet. Melissa lives in Austin, TX (holla) and is a former Roller Girl with Austin’s famous Texas Rollergirls, the original flat track roller derby that spread worldwide. She has appeared on the Today Sho...

Mira and Jayson Calton: Rich Food, Poor Food, Fat Free Fruit Juice, and Eating Green Worms

Mira and Jayson Calton are authors, rockstars, and some of the first guests ever on the show . During an unconventional honeymoon where they crossed the world visiting over 100 countries in search of knowledge regarding the relationship between micronutrient deficiencies and public health and disease, the explored how specific dietary patterns and lifestyle choices affect development of disease around the world. In their new book, Rich Food, Poor Food, the Caltons tackle the dangerous waters of ...

Craig Ballantyne: Turbulence Training, Why Willpower Crumbles, and How to be Your Own Science Experiment

Craig Ballantyne is a fat loss and fitness expert who specializes in helping people get incredibly lean and strong with short workouts. Craig holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Exercise Physiology from McMaster University and he's written for Men’s Health, Maximum Fitness, Oxygen, and Men’s Fitness. He’s also a fat-burning beast. Craig’s super-popular Turbulence Training system is a targeted program that helps clients shed stubborn body fat without spending hours on the treadmill ( sound fami...

Gary Taubes: Why We Get Fat, the Problem with Calories, and Why Eating Eggs Won't Kill You

Gary Taubes is an award-winning science writer and the bestselling author of the groundbreaking and controversial books Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat . Gary has been a contributing correspondent for the journal Science since 1993, and has contributed articles to The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Slate. Gary studied applied physics at Harvard University, aerospace engineering at Stanford, and journalism at Columbia University. But fortunately for all...

James Clear on Intermittent Fasting

Loren Cordain: The Paleo Diet, Young Robb Wolf, and Why Saturated Fat is the Bees Knees

In today's show I welcome Dr. Loren Cordain - considered by many to be the godfather of the Paleo Movement and the world's foremost scientific authority on the evolutionary basis of diet and disease. Loren is the author of the groundbreaking, The Paleo Diet , as well as The Paleo Answer , The Paleo Diet For Athletes , and the Paleo Diet Cookbook . In today's show we learn: The most compelling scientific evidence for The Paleo Diet A brief history of a young Robb Wolf Why Dr. Cordain doesn't cons...

Tim Ferriss: The 4-Hour Chef, Meditation, and Eating Crickets

Tim Ferriss is a man of many talents, as well as a 3 time new york times bestseller with The Four-Hour Workweek , The Four-Hour Body , and now the brand-spankin' new Four Hour Chef . We spent most of the show goofing off, but Tim drops a ton of truth bombs so listen-up. You guys will dig this one. Quick note: I just got back from speaking at Dave Asprey’s biohacking conference in San Francisco. Thanks so much to you folks who came up to say "hi." I couldn’t believe how many listeners made the tr...

Mark Sisson: Creator of Mark's Daily Apple on The Primal Connection

Todays' show is with the bestselling author of The Primal Blueprint, creator of Mark's Daily Apple , and the Grokmeister himself, Mark Sisson. Since he last appeared on the show , Mark has published his follow-up to The Primal Blueprint, an excellent read entitled The Primal Connection.

Leanne Ely: Saving Dinner, Part-Time Paleo, and How to Deal with Picky Children

Today’s show is with Leanne Ely, a New York Times bestselling author, certified nutritionist, and the creator of the Saving Dinner series. Leanne is also a bone fide expert in preparing and executing the perfect family dinner. …It’s always a pleasure talking to a fellow food lover about how much we love food. This hour just breezes by. And exciting news: Leanne and I will be presenting a FREE webinar on next Monday, January 14th. We’ll be talking about fat loss, how to prepare delicious food, se...

Todd Herman: The Mental Game, Visualization, and Fraggle Rock

Today's show is with Todd Herman, an expert of the mental game and coach to professional, olympic, and developing athletes all over the world. Todd's innovative approach focuses upon confidence-building to reduce stress, avoid game distractions, conquer negative thinking and address poor game-planning. Through The Peak Athlete and The Champions Challenge , Todd has helped over 12,383 athletes from 31 countries and 59 different sports earn scholarships, make professional teams, win gold medals an...

Dave Asprey: Bulletproof Diet, Smart Drugs, and Guacamole

Back again is the king of biohacking, Dave Asprey, the Bulletproof Executive . Since Dave was last on my show , Bulletproof coffee has blown up, Dave's churned out a few more books, and he's put together a biohacking conference in San Francisco. Not too shabby for a few month's work. I'll be presenting on how to improve mental performance with music (following-up on my first book, The Musical Brain ). If you'd like to come biohack with the coolest toys nerds like us have ever seen, check out the...

Paul Jaminet: Safe Starches, Fecal Transplants, and Good News for Wine Lovers

Today's show is with the brilliant Paul Jaminet, author of The Perfect Health Diet and perfecthealthdiet.com . After having Paul on the show a few months ago , I was happy to touch upon some of the cheekier topics this time around, including the health benefits of drinking, why eating white rice won't kill you, and, of course, fecal transplants. Now, if I had to recommend one book on optimizing your health, The Perfect Health Diet is it. In fact, my nutritional strategy ( The Wild Diet ) is actu...

How to Lose 165 Pounds and Keep Them Off with David

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Bill and Hayley on Paleo Parties, Eating Fish Heads, and Love at First Deadlift

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Alyson Rose: Gluten-Free Desserts, Weight Training for Women, and How to Eat Well on the Road

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