Abel James Show – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Why do fancy restaurants fill their meals with junk oils, sugars, chemical preservatives, and worse?

With rampant food inflation and razor thin margins, even the fanciest, most exclusive and expensive restaurants can’t resist the tendency to cut corners on ingredient quality.

That means that no matter how much you spend on eating out - with few exceptions - you’re still getting shockingly low-quality food.

So how do high profile celebrities and the rich and famous achieve such dramatic transformations?

And are regular joes and janes like us actually better off without private chefs and nutritionists?

Today we’re here with celebrity chef and entrepreneur, James Barry.

Chef James Barry’s 20 years in the field started as a private chef cooking for billionaires, musicians, and celebrities, including Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, and John Cusack, to name a few. But it was becoming a father that forced him to go deeper in his exploration of functional food.

As the Founder of Pluck, Chef James is the creator of a unique organ-based superfood seasoning that can be sprinkled on foods for a tasty kick that packs the nutritional punch of grass-fed liver, kidney, spleen, heart and pancreas along with organic spices.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why the food served at fancy, expensive restaurants is so often terrible for our health
• Simple cooking tips and techniques to make home-cooked meals more flavorful, satisfying, and nutritious
• How to encourage picky eaters to become more adventurous by expanding their palate 
• The unexpected challenges and downsides of relying on external experts like private chefs and nutritionists
• And much more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/chef-james-barry-why-eating-at-fancy-restaurants-is-terrible-for-your-health/

Go to EatPluck.com and enter the code ABELJAMES to save 20% off Chef James Barry's delicious blend of grass-fed organ meats and organic spices called PLUCK

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What’s the difference between education and indoctrination?

Is our education system broken, or is it operating as intended?

The public school conveyor belt is a relic of the Prussian military model, designed to produce compliant workers for factories rather than sovereign thinkers with upward mobility.

We’re left with a blindly obedient population that’s smart enough to follow orders, but not smart or courageous enough to question the status quo.  

The masses are conditioned to become habitually compliant conformists forever reliant on external authority.

As Seth Godin writes, “To efficiently run a school, amplify fear (and destroy passion).”

These days, educators have limited intellectual freedom to teach what they want to teach. 

In past decades, we had far less access to information or schooling, yet were far more educated. Now in the age of AI, we have access to unlimited information, but we don’t know if any of it is real or true. 

So what is the future of education?

Our guest today is Matt Beaudreau, a former public school educator and administrator who has dedicated his career to rethinking the very foundations of our education system. Matt shares: “When I saw this system for what it was, I could no longer be a part of perpetuating it.”

As founder of the Apogee Strong mentorship program, Matt has an unwavering commitment to empowering young people to become sovereign, self-directed learners - a radical departure from the compliance-driven model that dominates our schools.

True education should foster creativity and critical thinking, allowing individuals to pursue their unique passions. Matt’s belief, which I share, is that genius is common, and true learning is about unlocking the innate genius in every one of us.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How to unshackle your mind from the limits of traditional schooling and cultural conditioning 
• Why modern education systems are anti-entrepreneurial and train students to be employees rather than innovators
• How to utilize passion as a vehicle to learn how to learn
• How to cultivate courage, foster civil discourse and intellectual flexibility to counter the polarization and echo chambers in today's society
• The status games played by elite institutions
• And much more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/matt-beaudreau-how-to-nurture-genius-and-courage-in-a-habitually-compliant-population/ 

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Does it feel like a dollar isn't worth a dollar anymore? 
At first, inflation feels good for some of us. 
Homeowners see their houses rapidly increase in nominal price, the stock market appears to rise, even used cars and trucks sitting in the driveway growing older somehow appear to become more valuable. 
But when you fill up your cart at the grocery store, pay for skyrocketing insurance and tax bills, and account for rapid and permanent increases in housing, energy and all the other costs of living, you start to feel the sting of runaway inflation. 
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve, in the past three years groceries are up 20% across the board, gas is up 45%, Energy is up 38% and credit card debt is up 45%. 
This would all be well and good if our salaries doubled overnight. 
Has yours? 
Debasement of our currency has eroded our standard of living, degraded nutrients in our food supply, and left us poorer and sicker than any time in recent history. 
Fiat inflation is a hidden tax lobbied without your consent, eroding the spending power of every dollar you've ever earned. 
In a debt-based fiat system, saving is a losing strategy. Increasingly, we're incentivized to spend immediately, not save. Corporations are incentivized to borrow, not earn. 
With cheaper access to massive low interest debt, the ruling class is able to gleefully stripmine any remaining wealth from the middle and lower classes. 
Since 1900, our dollar has lost nearly 99% of its spending power. 
This is not an accident. 
In 1900, a single dollar could buy a pair of patent leather shoes, a woman's house dress or even be saved with confidence. The average American could afford to eat 175 pounds of meat a year, mostly beef, as well as plenty of eggs, bacon and sausage. 
Collectively, our heart health was also far better. 
By 1972, we ate 104 pounds of red meat a year, and as of 2019, our consumption was cut in half to just 56 pounds. 
Since then, obesity and disease has become widespread in adults and children alike as our quality of life has deteriorated. 
Using propaganda from fraudulent studies, monetary distortions and backward subsidies, the collusion of government, industry and special interests has intentionally shifted diets away from healthful whole foods and nutrient dense meats to industrial seed oils, GMO grains, and fake meats. 
Doritos, Lucky Charms and plant-based fake meats don't increase in price nearly as quickly as real food like beef and veggies. For corporations, selling highly processed industrial products is much more profitable than selling meat. 
As our guest this week quips, “You can print Doritos like you can print fiat dollars.” 
Real food, though, has become cost prohibitive for many of us, so we eat processed industrial junk instead. 
This hurts people, especially kids. 
Thanks to government manipulation of food prices and top-down dietary recommendations, our mass consumption of ultra processed foods understates the rate of inflation in our food system and makes us sicker, allowing Big Food and Big Pharma to profit on both sides. 
As it turns out, feeding people poison and managing their sickness is big business. 
But this story goes far deeper than just Big Food and Big Pharma. 
Unchecked inflation has not only undermined real purchasing power and destroyed our health, but the fiat dollar has also enabled endless war profiteering without the consent of the people. 
The most powerful weapon ever conceived by man is the fiat money printer. 
Today we're here with Matthew Lysiak, a nationally recognized investigative journalist, crime reporter and award-winning author of the brilliant new book “Fiat Food” which unravels the shocking history of how inflation destroyed our health, our food system, and our quality of life. 
In this episode, you will discover: 

• How a 100 year conspiracy and propaganda campaign by anti-meat religious groups, the medical industrial complex and politicians hijacked our food system for profit
• Why observational studies on diet and health are misleading and are often weaponized for political and financial gain
• How mainstream media and religious groups manipulate nutritional science to control public health
• Why the government masks the true cost of inflation resulting from severing ties to the gold standard
• Why the public school system deprives kids of proper nutrition
• And much more…

Read the show notes:  https://fatburningman.com/matthew-lysiak-how-money-printing-destroys-our-health-and-enables-endless-war/ 
Grab the excellent book "Fiat Food" by Matthew Lysiak at   https://www.amazon.com/Fiat-Food-Inflation-Destroyed-Bitcoin-ebook/dp/B0CKC4LD8L
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Does intermittent fasting actually work?

As many of you know, I’ve been practicing various forms of fasting for nearly a decade now, but does it really work for everyone? Does it work for no one? Does it work for women, men, and anyone in between?

There's so much information, disinformation, misinformation and content overload when it comes to fasting, when it comes to eating, diet, nutrition. It can be tough to make sense of it all.

But we do have the perfect guest for you here today⁠—the wonderful Cynthia Thurlow, a nurse practitioner for 20+ years, entrepreneur, functional nutritionist, Tedx speaker, host of the Everyday Wellness podcast, and the CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project.

On today's show, we're talking about…

• Intermittent fasting from a woman's perspective, as a practitioner and as someone who does it in her own daily practice
• Non-negotiable daily habits and intentionally setting up your environment to make success automatic
• 2 things Cynthia prioritizes every day to support energy levels and cognitive function
• The importance of protein
• Positive benefits of getting in 3 - 5 minutes of daily meditation
• Foods to prioritize when breaking your fast
• And tons more...

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/cynthia-thurlow-does-intermittent-fasting-actually-work/

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Should we be prohibited from asking questions?

If we lose the ability and right to speak, ask questions, to think for ourselves, to have sovereignty over our bodies and lives... we are on a precarious path indeed.

With more of us obese, overweight and diseased than ever before, it's the very governments and corporations silencing us and ordering us around that got us here in the first place.

As we're being told what to believe, many of us are being censored, shadowbanned, or even de-platformed - apparently just for thinking for ourselves.

How many times do governments, politicians and mega corporations have to exploit us before we get a clue?

If you look at history, you can see where this goes, and it's not pretty. So we have a spicy episode for you here today.

Returning to the show is our dear friend, Shawn Stevenson, speaker, host of the #1 ranked podcast The Model Health Show, and bestselling author of “Sleep Smarter” and the brand spanking new book “Eat Smarter”.

Shawn graduated from The University of Missouri–St. Louis with a background in biology and kinesiology, and founded the Advanced Integrative Health Alliance which provides wellness services to individuals and organizations worldwide.

You're going to like this one. Shawn definitely takes the gloves off a little bit. It’s a great conversation. I hope you dig it.

We're chatting about...

• Why it's worth it to have higher standards for what you're eating
• How subsidized foods are fattening America
• Why it's important that people don't skip over balance in the diet
• How to share love through home cooked meals
• Why we should prioritize prevention over medical intervention
• The importance of diversity in our gut microbiome
• And much more...

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/shawn-stevenson-how-subsidized-foods-are-fattening-america/

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How do you make ends meet when you're as poor as church mice?

Today, we have a very special show for you.

When I first started this show about 10 years ago now, I bought a cheap video camera and I decided to go to my grandmother Nan's house and interview her… she's just about my favorite person in the universe.

And as many of you know, Nan's wisdom runs throughout my work—this podcast, of course, my blog with all recipes that we have, and especially The Wild Diet—you'll find lots of Nan in The Wild Diet.

But who is Nan, anyway?

Well, Marion Bascom, affectionately known as Nan, was a nurse, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and a city girl who married my grandfather, Horace, a dairy farmer, and then took on the challenges of tending to an organic veggie garden, dairy farm and homestead while raising 7 children.

After living for almost a century, Nan passed away this year at 97 years old. I'm very happy, though, to be able to share her wisdom with you here today, especially now.

I didn't know exactly what I'd be doing with the interview with Nan all those years ago. She's technically going to be my first video interview on this show. It’s very cool, and I'm really happy to share it with you.

We could all benefit from listening to some wisdom from a grandmother right now, don't you think?

Get ready to smile, you're going to love this one.

So in this conversation with my grandmother, Marion Bascom, we're chatting about:

• Incredible stories from raising 7 children on a farm with almost no money
• The low cost of food when you grow it yourself
• Family meals, gardening, canning and foraging for wild edibles behind the house
• What Nan did when she thought one of the kids was on drugs
• How to make homemade bread, ice cream, yogurt, jellies and pickles… she even made her own root beer
• Nan’s secret to a good long life
• And tons more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/marion-nan-bascom-love-wisdom-straight-from-my-grandmother/

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How do you make a career out of doing what you love?

The path may be long and squiggly, but we now have living proof that you can get there, too.

Joining us on the show today is a dear friend, fellow musician and health entrepreneur, Justin Nault.

Justin is a certified nutritional therapist and health coach, host of The Clovis Culture podcast, and also a talented musician who's been entertaining crowds—including us—across the U.S. for over 15 years now.

Justin received his bachelor's degree from the Berkeley College of Music. Some of his original tunes have been featured in popular films and TV shows, and he even appeared as a contestant on the ABC reality TV show series, The Big Time.

And on today's show, we're chatting about:

• Why health is a survival skill
• Making a career out of doing what you love
• Positive forms of escapism
• The dark side of the music industry
• Reconnecting with our ancestral roots in music, song and dance
• Health benefits of singing with your spouse
• The craft of learning new things instead of Netflix binging—no judgment here
• And tons more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/justin-nault-how-to-make-a-career-doing-what-you-love/

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With more children being home schooled than ever before, it's a good time to look at the research.

And I'm happy to say that joining us on the show today is Patricia Wilkinson, a parenting coach teacher, mother of 2, and co-author of Brain Stages: How to Raise Smart, Confident Kids and Have Fun Doing It.

On today’s show, we're chatting about:

• How diet relates to behavior for kids and adults
• Gamified education and how to focus on the fun
• What brain research tells us about giving your kids feedback
• Helping kids and parents find balance with screen time
• How tech companies are using casino slots technology against us
• And tons more...

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/patricia-wilkinson-how-diet-and-technology-changes-our-behavior/

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What can Bruce Lee teach us about mental and physical transformation?

Sometimes you see people lose a lot of weight, but other times you see people completely transform our guest today is definitely the latter.

Joining us is Bryant Manning, an IT professional turned health and fitness coach, who dropped over 150 pounds.

On this show, we're talking about:

• How Bryant shed 150+ pounds and reversed his pre-diabetes
• Functional fitness and tips on getting started with training
• How exercise relates to longevity
• The similarities between achieving lifelong health and being an artist
• What Bruce Lee can teach us about finding joy in the process
• And tons more...

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/bryant-manning-shedding-150-pounds-longevity-the-bacon-of-music/

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How are your food prep and cooking skills looking?

When it comes to growing, preparing and storing our own food, life skills that our ancestors considered critical to survival are being lost to time.

But these survival skills are too important to lose.

So, if you're looking to save time and money in the kitchen by getting back to your roots, we have the show for you.

Today we're here with the wonderful Hilary Boynton, an author, certified holistic health counselor and multi-talented mother of 5. Hilary is also a Weston A. Price chapter leader, runs several local food co-ops, helped to open a farm-to-table restaurant in Massachusetts and teaches cooking classes out of her home in California.

You're gonna dig this show with Hilary, we're chatting about:

• The benefits of bone broth, fermented foods, raw foods, and using the whole animal nose-to-tail
• What to do if you're a kitchen newbie
• The gut-brain connection and the importance of diversity in our microbiomes
• Surprising results from putting a glucose monitor on a high schooler
• And tons more…

Read the show notes: https://fatburningman.com/hilary-boynton-how-to-feed-your-family-with-real-food/

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