A no BS take on how to optimise your nutrition. Your diet doesn't need a name or a belief system, just enough nutrients.
We take an engineering approach and speak to the experts about their insights into weight loss, fasting, and nutrition as well as real-life people about their journey of nutritional optimisation.
Learning to Nourish (Rather than Deprive) Yourself | Debra Cleveland
I had a great time talking to fellow Optimiser Debra Cleveland about her journey through the Data-Driven Fasting Challenges (https://www.datadrivenfasting.com/optin) and Masterclasses (https://app.optimisingnutrition.com/data-driven-micros).
During our live Q&As, Debra was always full of enthusiasm, inspiration, and positive energy as she learned to nourish her body instead of depriving it.
This stuck out to me, and I wanted to chat with her to hear more about her ride through health and to see if she had any learnings and insights to share.
We discussed:
Why is taking care of your body and your health a priority for you?
How did you stumble across DDF and the Optimising Nutrition Masterclass?
What did you find unique about the process?
I see you had some significant changes in your blood glucose and made the DDF leader board. What did you learn from tracking your blood glucose?
What did you learn from tracking your macro and micronutrients in the masterclass?
What tips would you give for someone just starting out?
27 Jan 2022
Losing 20 kg (44 lbs) in 5 Months! | Sidi Riza
It’s been fascinating watching Sidi’s journey progress since initially taking part in our Data-Driven Fasting Challenge (https://www.datadrivenfasting.com/optin) and then hopping into the Nutritional Optimisation Masterclass (https://app.optimisingnutrition.com/data-driven-micros). Sidi has shed an incredible 20kg (44 lbs) in just five months. She has also lost 15% body fat and reduced her waist to height ratio from 0.61 to a very healthy 0.49!
After getting the ball rolling with Data-Driven Fasting (https://www.datadrivenfasting.com/optin), Sidi powered on to dial in her macronutrients and micronutrients with her local cuisine in Kenya and Cyprus, achieving an incredible 100% Optimal Nutrient Score (https://optimisingnutrition.com/oni/).
Sidi’s journey has developed quite a following amongst her friends, family, and workmates in Kenya. In fact, her progress has since inspired many people close to her to follow in her footsteps.
We love seeing people optimise their nutrition to suit their goals while applying different personal and cultural contexts to their food availability, selection, and preparation.
I’ve received numerous requests from community members to learn more about Sidi and her inspiring story and decided to invite her as a guest on the podcast. I had to have her on for a chat to learn more about her journey and any tips or tricks she had for others embarking on similar journeys towards nutritional optimisation.
20 Jan 2022
Troubleshoot Your Diet with a Single Blood Test | Chris Kelly
Chris Kelly is the founder of Nourish Balance Thrive (https://nourishbalancethrive.com/). Building on his experience as a programmer for hedge funds and large internet companies, he has done amazing things in the health space.
After experiencing his own health transformation, he launched Nourish Balance Thrive (https://nourishbalancethrive.com/) to help high-calibre athletes optimise their health and performance.
After regularly running expensive tests on his clients for years, he figured he could do things his way to save time and money. So he eventually developed BloodSmart.ai (https://bloodsmart.ai/), a software that uses inexpensive blood tests from doctor visits to highlight potential issues. Rather than performing thousands of dollars worth of extra tests to find an obscure issue, BloodSmart.ai (https://bloodsmart.ai/) says, ‘you look like someone with X’.
‘X’ can include various conditions, from heavy metal toxicity to hormone imbalances and nutrient deficiencies. The client can then order targeted tests or address their health situation as if they had ‘condition X’. While a condition might not be validated using the blood test, this can give users the hindsight to address their symptoms with early diet and lifestyle changes. BloodSmart.ai (https://bloodsmart.ai/) is an extremely impressive and intelligent application of Artificial Intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence) and Machine Learning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning) in health.
Chris was one of the early members of the Optimising Nutrition Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/optimisingnutrition/), a hive mind of learning. I’ve enjoyed following his learning journey on his Nourish Balance Thrive Podcast (https://nourishbalancethrive.com/podcasts/nourish-balance-thrive/) and being a part of his Keto Summit (https://ketosummit.com/) back when keto was all the rage.
During Chris’s time on the podcast, it was also interesting to discuss the Four Quadrant Model (http://jturk.net/quadrants/) view of health management. We often start with the most complex ‘hacks’ to manage our biology’s ‘source code’. Sometimes this is necessary. However, we often get the most significant benefits from simple things, like optimising nutrition, managing stress and relationships, and prioritising sunlight, movement, and sleep that align with our evolutionary biology.
I’m excited about the potential applications of BloodSmart.ai (https://bloodsmart.ai/). This program allows users to take their standard blood tests and use them to identify nutrient deficiencies. From there, you can manage them with real food rather than resorting to supplements and use Nutrient Optimiser (https://nutrientoptimiser.com/) to stay back in Quadrant 1.
I hope you love this chat with Chris, who I believe is one of the smartest and wisest people in this health space.
You can also listen to my chat with Chris on his Nourish Balance Thrive Podcast (https://nourishbalancethrive.com/podcasts/nourish-balance-thrive/how-optimise-nutrition/) discussing our latest research on nutrient density.
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