190: Powerful Secrets to Living Longer, Plus How Fasting Can Improve Your Digestion | Mark Sisson

The Genius Life

190: Powerful Secrets to Living Longer, Plus How Fasting Can Improve Your Digestion | Mark Sisson

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere, Mark Sisson

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Nature has the best way to fix things ... Nature always has the best answer. It's not found in drugs, it's not found in some surgical intervention, it's not found in all of the magic potions and lotions and things that we figure we need. Literally, there's always a solution that will be found in nature that's probably the best solution.

Walking in the South of France Healed Mark Sisson's Hamstring Injury

As you develop metabolic flexibility over the years, your body doesn't want to be in ketosis. Ketosis is a term that describes an excess of ketones in the bloodstream. It's basically the 'osis' part of it that means it's not really desirable.

As the Body Develops Metabolic Flexibility, It Fine-Tunes Ketone Production

It's probably the single most overlooked aspect of good health across the board. No matter what field of expertise you're in, sleep is right up there with... If you don't have good sleep, you're not going to get the results you are seeking.

Mark Sisson's Pre-Bed Routine for Optimal Sleep: Jacuzzi, Sauna, & Cold Plunge

I think ketosis is more of a three-week program to embark on as a strategy to help develop metabolic flexibility. But once you develop the metabolic flexibility, then the benefits of being in ketosis all the time start to diminish.

Once You Develop Metabolic Flexibility, You Don't Need to Constantly Be in Ketosis

To live a genius life means feeling that I have made a contribution to other people, whether it was specific to one person or generic to a bunch of people. Just the sense of having been a positive impact on someone's life versus just going through life hedonistically.

What Does Living a Genius Life Mean to Mark Sisson?

The average person in this country is not well, unfortunately. 12% of people have good metabolic health.

'Normal' Blood Work Ranges Are Based on an Unhealthy Population

The longer you go without eating, the better it is for your body—the more good stuff happens in your body.

The Migrating Motor Complex Is Activated After 90 Minutes Without Food

Walking is still the greatest thing humans ever learned to do.

Walking in the South of France Healed Mark Sisson's Hamstring Injury

Literally, vitamin D might be the single most important factor in being able to handle a bout of COVID-19...

Max Lugavere's COVID-19 Supplement Regimen: Vitamin D, C, Zinc, & Fish Oil

In the last 5 or 10 years, I've really gotten down on seed oils. There's a lot of information about how devastating seed oils are.

Mark Sisson's 2021 Diet: Mostly Carnivore, Minimal Nuts & Seed Oils, & Intermittent Fasting

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