I’m joined again today by one of my good friends and mentors, Jeremy Hendon. Jeremy is an international speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur who has founded and grown several successful companies. I had the pleasure of working with Jeremy on the Keto Summit in 2016 and I can attest to his genius in business and marketing, particularly in the domain of health and wellness. Jeremy is with me today to talk about marketplace trends that impact health practitioners, and the strategies that cause som...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Jeff Kendall-Weed’s interest in cycling began at a young age when he got his first bike - a used girls’ cruiser from the local Goodwill. Growing up in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California he quickly moved on to BMX and mountain biking and hasn’t stopped since. During and after college Jeff raced in the US and Europe and went on to work for industry leaders Ibis and WTB. Today he is producing stunning cycling videos from the trails he visits around the world. On this podcast, Jeff and I talk a...
Oct 10, 2018•1 hr
Dr. Elizabeth Nance received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. She leads a research team in the study of nanoparticles that are capable of targeting disease in the brain. Elizabeth has received numerous awards for her groundbreaking work, and was named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Science in 2015, described as one of the “most disruptive, game-changing and innovating young personal...
Oct 02, 2018•1 hr 7 min
→ Join me on Patreon ← From 1992 to 2001 Alex O’Brien competed as an elite professional tennis player on the ATP World Tour . Career highlights include playing for the US Davis Cup team and the 2000 US Olympic Team in Sydney, Australia. Alex also won the US Open doubles championship in 1999 and ranked as the No. 1 world doubles player in May 2000. We’ve been working with Alex as a member of our own Elite Performance Program . He’s on the podcast with me today to talk about his journey to becomin...
Sep 26, 2018•58 min
Zach Moore is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with a true passion for helping people reach their fitness goals. Zach has been providing nutrition and strength coaching for years, both in-person and online, most recently through Precision Nutrition and Ketogains . Earlier this year Zach became the Head of Strength and Conditioning at Nourish Balance Thrive and is now playing a vital role on our coaching team. In this podcast with Dr. Tommy Wood, Zach shares his journey from a gra...
Sep 18, 2018•59 min
Dr. Nicky Keay, BA, MA (Cantab), MB BChir, MRCP is a physician and researcher with an extensive background in endocrinology and sports/exercise medicine. Her personal background as a ballet dancer and choreographer led to her long-standing interest in the effects of high-level training and inadequate nutrition on women’s health. Her current research focuses on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), examining the impact of similar factors on male cyclists. In this podcast with Dr. Tommy Woo...
Sep 12, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Performance psychologist Dr. Simon Marshall, PhD is with me on the podcast today to talk about one of my favourite topics: growth mindset. A year ago Simon introduced me to the book Mindset by Carol Dweck and reading it made me aware of some of my own limiting beliefs about human potential. It’s the idea that abilities are developed through dedication and hard work, with fixed factors like genes or talent being just a starting point. These concepts have significantly altered the way I talk to an...
Sep 08, 2018•1 hr 11 min
For today’s podcast, I’ve rounded up several of the NBT coaches to look more deeply at the single factor that is capable of improving athletic performance, mood, testosterone levels, blood glucose, fatigue, productivity, stress tolerance and gut health. We’re talking about sleep - the under-rated and often slighted backbone of a healthy lifestyle. In today’s busy world it’s easy to put sleep last on the list, but there are many reasons not to let that happen. Coaches Megan Roberts, Clay Higgins,...
Sep 03, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Last month the NBT team had a rare live meet-up at the Ancestral Health Symposium in Bozeman, Montana. While there, we had a chance to see many of our previous podcasts guests in person presenting their latest work. For this podcast, we passed the microphone around and shared our impressions of some of the talks we’d seen. Along the way, we covered all kind of topics, ranging from the performance benefits of caffeine to setting up an ice bath at home. Dr. Tommy Wood shared highlights from his AH...
Aug 29, 2018•1 hr 27 min
Dr. Satchin Panda, PhD. is a professor and researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and a founding executive member of the Center for Circadian Biology at the University of California, San Diego. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on circadian rhythms and has been publishing revolutionary research with a current focus on the benefits of time-restricted eating. He is also the author of The Circadian Code , a guide for optimizing health and reversing dise...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Alessandro (Alex) Ferretti has been practicing nutritional therapy for over 15 years. He formed Equilibria Health Ltd. in 2004, which is now recognized as one of the UK’s leading providers of nutrition education. He has lectured internationally on the subjects of nutrition and human performance, and his current focus is on research in the areas of heart rate variability (HRV) and blood glucose, nutrigenomics, and factors affecting metabolic flexibility. In this podcast, Alex describes the metric...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Performance isn’t as much as a priority as longevity is now, but I still love to compete . This dilemma, so well stated by one of our clients, got us thinking. It’s well documented that exercise extends both lifespan and healthspan, and the people we work with typically have no trouble meeting the widely recommended 150 minutes per week of moderate physical activity. But what happens when you’re a competitive athlete training significantly more than that? For this podcast, I met up with Dr. Tomm...
Aug 06, 2018•55 min
Indiegogo campaign: Medical Study on Hashimoto's Disease and AIP Dr. Joseph Mercola is a board-certified physician and best-selling author whose name has become synonymous with natural health. He’s long been a controversial figure in the public eye, thanks to his outspoken opposition to the norms of the medical establishment. He has maintained a popular website over the past 20 years, catering to the growing number of people seeking alternatives for the prevention and treatment of chronic illnes...
Jul 29, 2018•52 min
We launched the Blood Chemistry Calculator six months ago and have come to rely on it for our Elite Performance Program clients as an initial screening tool and measure of ongoing progress. With the input of 39 basic blood chemistry markers, the calculator uses a machine-learning algorithm to predict health status in 6 specific areas : immune balance, toxicity, metabolic health, nutrition, oxidative balance, and a general 5-year wellness score. On this podcast, Tommy and I are talking specifical...
Jul 24, 2018•51 min
Educator, coach, and exercise physiologist Dr. Mike T. Nelson is back on the podcast today. With a PhD in Exercise Physiology, Mike has made learning and teaching about the human body his life’s work. He has published research in physiology and engineering journals and speaks internationally on topics related to metabolic flexibility and movement. Today Mike is here to speak with Tommy from a coaching perspective about assessing athletes, specifically in the areas of physical performance, nutrit...
Jul 19, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Minnesota-raised biathlete Leif Nordgren started skiing when he was just three and shot his first rifle at 14. He won a bronze at the Youth World Championships in 2008 and went on to join the US biathlon team, participating in his first world championship in 2011. Leif has competed in both the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympic Games on the 5-man US Olympic Biathlon Team and continues to compete annually in the international Biathlon World Cup. It’s been a pleasure working with Leif over the past year...
Jul 10, 2018•1 hr 20 min
Greg Potter, PhD is the Content Director at humanOS.me , an online platform that uses a behaviour change model to help people lead more healthy lives. He creates online courses and other content to teach about the impact of lifestyle on health and recently spoke at the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden on cutting-edge strategies for improving sleep. Greg is talking today with Dr. Tommy Wood about his research in the areas of circadian biology and metabolic health. They discuss the vital role...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr
Functional medicine practitioner, clinical researcher, and international lecturer Dr. Michael Ruscio is back on the podcast today, talking with Dr. Tommy Wood about the work he’s doing to advance understanding of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and other disorders of the gut. In addition to seeing patients, maintaining a podcast and blog and conducting his own clinical research, he’s recently written Healthy Gut, Healthy You , a practical guide to intestinal health and overall well-...
Jun 27, 2018•43 min
Dr. Tommy Wood studied medicine at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2011. After two years as a junior doctor in the UK, he returned to academia to earn his PhD in physiology and neuroscience at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the current PAH President, as well as the Chief Scientific Officer of Nourish Balance Thrive, a company that specializes in optimizing health and performance in athletes using advanced biochemical testing and an online health-coaching paradigm. Tommy believes t...
Jun 20, 2018•47 min
Physician, podcaster, and poet, Rob Abbott, M.D. is a family medicine resident in Front Royal, Virginia and a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He practices what he calls “spiritually focused and evolutionarily informed functional medicine.” Rob recently launched the Charlottesville Center for Functional Medicine , making ancestral health and wellness principles available to the members of his own community. In this conversation with Dr. Tommy Wood, Rob describes the mom...
Jun 13, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Dr. Sunjya Schweig, M.D. is a board-certified physician who has been studying, teaching, and practicing integrative and Functional Medicine for over 20 years. In 2014 he joined forces with Chris Kresser to launch the California Center for Functional Medicine , offering patients an investigative approach to healthcare. He is also the founding Chair of the Integrative Medicine Committee for the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS) and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board fo...
Jun 06, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac., is an internationally recognized leader in the area of ancestral health and integrative medicine. He is the author of The Paleo Cure and the force behind ChrisKresser.com , one of the top 25 health websites in the world. Chris has been studying, teaching, and practicing Functional Medicine for over 15 years with a mission to disseminate evidence-based natural health solutions to as many people as possible. Today Chris is with us to discuss the growing need for health ...
May 30, 2018•49 min
Our own Scientific Director and coach Megan Roberts is back on the podcast today to discuss an important but often misunderstood aspect of health and longevity: oxidative stress. It’s a condition associated with numerous chronic health problems including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Today we cover everything you need to know about oxidative stress: what it is, what causes it, how to know if you’ve got it, and how to fix it. If you want an objective assessment of your own oxidativ...
May 22, 2018•1 hr
Brad Kearns has been a noted speaker, author and coach in the health and fitness world for over two decades. During his nine-year career as a triathlete, he was one of the world's top-ranked professionals, amassing 30 wins worldwide on the pro circuit. Brad currently works with Mark Sisson from Mark’s Daily Apple , and the two have co-authored several books including Primal Endurance (2016), and The Keto Reset Diet (2017). Brad is with us today to talk about his evolution as an athlete and the f...
May 15, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Stephen Anderson has been an Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine practitioner for nearly 20 years. He’s had over 2500 patients and upwards of 40,000 consultations (that would be over 3/4 million acupuncture needles, but who’s counting). In 2016, Steve went through the Kresser Institute’s Practitioner Training Program for Functional and Evolutionary Medicine, completing the ADAPT Level 1 Framework. Since then, his focus has shifted to working more with clients who are ready to make a deeper commit...
May 05, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee may be best known as the medical doctor who helped ordinary people turn their health around on the BBC’s Doctor in the House . He’s now a speaker and author and has compiled his best medical advice into a new book, How to Make Disease Disappear . It’s a guide to restoring health using simple techniques that are accessible to everyone, at any stage of health or illness, without a lot of expensive tests or supplements. In this podcast with Dr. Tommy Wood, Rangan breaks down h...
Apr 27, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a medical doctor, author, speaker, and sceptic living in Cheshire, England. His evidence-based arguments refute the lipid hypothesis and other ideas related to chronic illness that has resulted in a pervasive culture of fear and misinformation. His popular blog features an ongoing series of posts on the real causes of heart disease, pointing to endothelial damage as a causal factor and nitric oxide as vital for preserving health. Dr. Kendrick is with us to share not only ...
Apr 16, 2018•1 hr 59 min
Psychologist, researcher and author Gabriele Oettingen, PhD. has been studying human behaviour for over 30 years, with a focus on goal setting and turning positive fantasies into reality. She has written over 150 scientific articles and book chapters relating to social and personality psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and health and clinical psychology on the topics of thinking about the future and the control of cognition, emotion, and behaviour. During the course of her res...
Apr 10, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Don Moxley is an exercise physiologist and the Sports Scientist for the Ohio State University Wrestling Team. With a passion for teaching and coaching, he specializes in fitness and athletic assessment, training, and performance optimization. Under his guidance, the OSU team won their first-ever National Championship in 2015, and individuals on the team have gone on to win national titles and Olympic medals. His strategy involves analyzing Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and other biomarkers in ord...
Mar 30, 2018•56 min
Of all the things I’ve done to improve my own health, getting a dog has been one of the most important. Today’s podcast is really an informal conversation with my good friend, FDN practitioner and health coach, Toréa Rodriguez. Toréa has been on the podcast several times, and today we’re focusing on the many benefits of having a dog, which truly spans far beyond companionship. We discuss making the leap from contemplating dog ownership to actually making the commitment, as well as dog training, ...
Mar 24, 2018•56 min
