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Discover how you can live without constant hunger and fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, and other low-energy symptoms. The Energy Balance Podcast will teach you how to maximize your cellular energy so you can take back your health and finally experience clear-headed focus, restful sleep, and all-day energy you didn’t think was possible.
Episodes

Monday Aug 03, 2020
Ep. 19: How to Transition From Carnivor or Primal to a Bioenergetic Approach
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
- Why many people are transitioning from carnivore and primal diets to a bioenergetic approach
- Why you may feel good on carnivore and primal diets in the short-term but this often doesn’t last
- Why carbs and sugars aren’t the devils they’re made out to be
- Common things to watch out for when transitioning from carnivore, primal, or any other low-carb diet to a bioenergetic approach
- Which carbs are best to start with when reintroducing carbs

Monday Jul 27, 2020
Ep. 18: How to Fix Your Sleep Part 2: Nutrition, Supplements, and Routines
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
- Why eating enough of the right nutrients is vital to improving sleep (and which of these nutrients are most important)
- Why avoiding carbs or fats is one of the worst things you can do for your sleep
- The best supplements to help you fall asleep and stay asleep (and which ones to watch out for)
- How eating the right foods before bed and in the morning can improve our sleep

Monday Jul 20, 2020
Ep. 17: How to Fix Your Sleep Part 1: Circadian Rhythm and Light
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
- Why optimizing our sleep is necessary to improve fatigue, brain fog, and other low-energy symptoms
- How different forms of light affect our sleep and how we can use this to our advantage
- Why when we sleep matters just as much as how much we sleep
- How to manage the excessive amount of blue light in our modern environment
- How we can mimic the sun cycle even if we aren’t outside all day

Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
- How dogmatism interferes with science and medicine
- Current treatments and medications that are dangerous and ineffective (including some of the most commonly prescribed drugs and surgeries)
- How an overemphasis on labs and screenings has led to harmful over- and under-treatment
- The fact that medical error is one of the leading causes of death
- How we can best advocate for ourselves and ensure proper healthcare

Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
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Why conventional medicine is effective for treating acute illness and injury but not chronic health conditions or illness prevention
- How the business side of healthcare often takes precedence over our health
- What’s missing in medical education
- Why we can’t always trust the research and need to consider it with a critical eye
- Recent instances where damaging and dangerous treatments have been supported by conventional medicine

Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
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Why listening to our bodies and experimenting is key if we want to improve our health
- The dangers of relying on gurus or authority figures for our health information (and what to do instead)
- Why open-mindedness is necessary for learning and progress
- The dangers of identifying with any eating paradigm or belief system
- Why it’s okay to be wrong

Monday Jun 22, 2020
Ep 13: Lowering Cholesterol and The Role of Carbs in Ancestral Diets (Q & A)
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
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How you can lower blood cholesterol levels without medication (and why you may not want to)
- Whether high cholesterol contributes to heart disease
- Why the idea that carbohydrates weren’t available in ancestral diets is a fallacy
- Whether we should shape our diets around ancestral or tribal diets
- The importance of carbohydrates for brain function and intelligence

Monday Jun 15, 2020
Ep. 12: Weight Loss Part 3: Exercise, Nutrition, and More
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
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Why exercising to “burn calories” isn’t ideal for fat loss (and what kind of exercise is)
- Which foods are ideal for fat loss and which ones to watch out for
- How much we should be eating for healthy fat loss (and why more is actually better)
- How to avoid putting our bodies into the stress-state that’s responsible for fat gain
- Which factors outside of nutrition and exercise make a huge difference for healthy fat loss

Monday Jun 08, 2020
Ep. 11: Weight Loss Part 2: The True Cause of Weight Gain
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
- Why we don’t want to cut carbs, fat, or calories to lose weight
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Why fat gain and low energy go hand-in-hand
- Why “hyperpalatability” is not the cause of overeating (and what is)
- Our personal experiences with “eating less and exercise more”
- Why carbs and insulin are not responsible for weight gain
- What causes dysregulated hunger signals, leaving you feeling full but starving

Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
In this episode we discuss:
- Why it makes more sense to focus on health than weight loss
- Why body fat is a symptom rather than the problem
- Why “eat less and exercise more” is one of the most harmful ideas regarding our health
- The dangerous recommendations that come out of the calories in/calories out model
- Why calories are not equal to energy in our bodies
- Why fat loss is not a matter of willpower