Life By Design Podcast

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Mon, 29 June 2020

#392 Posture Impacts Children's Self-Esteem

Do people with high self-esteem adopt an open (power) posture, or does an open posture produce high self-esteem?

In general, it's commonly believed that your feelings produce your outward appearance, but that concept is being challenged.

In the late 70's Richard Bandler and John Grinder founded a controversial psychological technique called NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming), which challenged many of the beliefs in modern psychology.

One of which was the idea that you could (through various methods, one of which being posture) change your own moods, emotions, and behaviours.

Of course, NLP was dismissed, and Bandler and Grinder labeled quacks, even though many people have studied NLP and noted that it had helped them in their lives.

On today's episode, we review an experiment involving posture (power posing) on 108 German 4th Graders.

What we cover

The general idea in psychology that feelings/emotional states produce physical posture and other physical traits.
The results of the study.
Our interpretation of the results and how we think that applies to children's self-esteem and health in general.
Can you leverage any of this information to produce a state of higher self-esteem in yourself or your children?

Direct download: 392.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:06am EDT

Tue, 23 June 2020

#391 Surviving vs Thriving With Supplements

How do you prolong healthy aging?

For us healthy aging is normal aging. We know that we are not getting any younger and that eventually, we will die.

In the meantime, since loving your life is essential to Life By Design's core beliefs, we want to do everything we can to ensure the quality and length of our lives.

Today we examine a study looking at the difference between surviving and thriving. What does that look like in terms of the body's nutritional requirements.

What we cover

The Triage Theory. How a modest deficiency of one of the nutrients/cofactors, triggers a built-in rationing mechanism that favors the proteins needed for immediate survival and reproduction (survival proteins) while sacrificing those needed to protect against future damage (longevity proteins).
How that plays out in real life.
The vast deficiencies that exist in society in terms of nutrient density. The authors note what vitamins and minerals are required for longevity and survival and just how deficient populations typically are.
The difference between thriving and merely surviving. Why that is a central concept for your success.
Ideas around supplementation, and do you really need to, or can you get all that's required with your natural diet?
What that diet should consist of and where should you start with your supplementation, if at all!

Direct download: 391.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:53pm EDT

Mon, 15 June 2020

#390 Do You Have A Degenerate Spine?

"Chronic low back pain (LBP) is the most common cause of disability worldwide. New ideas surrounding LBP are emerging that are based on interactions between mechanical, biological and chemical influences on the human inter-vertebral disc (IVD).

The degenerate IVD is proposed to be innervated by sensory nerve fibres and vascularised by blood vessels, and it is speculated to contribute to pain sensation.

However, the incidence of nerve and blood vessel ingrowth, as well as whether these features are always associated, is unknown."

In English, it means that the discs of your spine have both nerve and blood vessels going to them. The authors of this study wanted to see if there was a difference between healthy and unhealthy discs and how many nerve fibers and blood vessels they had.

The purpose of this podcast is to discuss this study, its possible applications and if it should change how you're taking care of your spine.

What I Cover:

The current models of spinal pain and spinal degeneration.
The difference between specific and nonspecific low back pain, which is most common, and the origin of the pain.
The findings of the study, including the seemingly contradictory finding that degenerated discs had more nerve and blood vessels.
The possible mechanism behind the fact that damaged tissue has more nerve and blood vessel innervation than healthy tissues.
What does this information mean clinically? Does it change what you should be doing for your health?
Does this change or alter anything you've been doing already?

Direct download: 390.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00pm EDT

Mon, 8 June 2020

#389 Best Diet Advice I Ever Got

Dr. K here...

My relationship with food used to suck. It's hard to admit that to you.

Growing up, food was the go-to for everything.

'Have a bad day? No problem, let me make you a pie'. 'You made the team? Awesome, let's celebrate, let me make you a pie.'

Let me be clear:

I used to think fat made you fat,
I used to think carbs made you fat,
I used to think anything that wasn't organic was poison,
I used to think sugar was the devil,
I used to think fructose was the devil,
I used to think fruit made you fat,
I used to think I had to eat small meals,
I used to think breakfast was the most vital meal of the day,
I used to think saturated fat and cholesterol would kill you,
I used to think skipping a meal was metabolic suicide,
I used to think eat all your meals was metabolic suicide,
I used to think too much protein was going to kill my kidneys,
I used to think grains were a food group,

And, I got most of this from well-meaning and smart people.

On this podcast, we discuss two big-ticket pieces of diet advice that made a massive impact on my diet and my health.

What We Cover:

What allowed me to take the depravity and stress out of eating.
What helped me keep on track during this stressful crises.
Two pieces of advice that really changed my outlook on nutrition and dieting.
How to apply this advice to your own life.
How to properly set goals around your nutrition.

Direct download: 389.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Mon, 1 June 2020

#388 Comparing Yourself to Others is Good

Anytime you deny your nature as a human being, you are hurting the most essential part of yourself, namely your mind and consciousness.

Such is the case with the common saying - don't compare yourself to other people.

Are we saying you should compare yourself to others?

Not really, more like you can't stop comparing and contrasting since it's literally how your mind learns. It's one of the traits that makes you a rational human being!

Our mind forms concepts and ideas by comparing. A child learns concepts like blue, red, fire truck, dog (literally all of human cognition) by comparing, so to label it 'bad,' is terrible for the human psyche.

"Isn't it harmful to compare yourself to others when you should be focusing on yourself?"