Creating sustainable health habits

Starting fresh this year? George and Keith from Restore Wellness talk with Brian Thomas and share a powerful approach that flips conventional resolution wisdom on its head. Instead of fixating on specific targets, like the number on your scale, they suggest focusing on identity-based goals - becoming someone who can walk five miles without fatigue or climb stairs with ease.  

They challenge the old food pyramid and applaud the recent revisions, arguing that the old model was inverted due to commercial interests rather than nutrition science. Their recommendation? A protein-rich diet mirroring our ancestral past, with 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight daily.

Listen to discover how taking personal responsibility for your health can transform your life.

#YouOwnYourHealth

Key Takeaways:

• Identity-based goals outperform numerical targets
  • Focusing on becoming "someone who walks five miles pain-free" creates lasting behavior change more effectively than tracking weight or calories.
• Continuous eating prevents healing
  • Constant snacking and eating perpetuates chronic inflammation, while periods without food allow the body to actually repair itself.
• Ancestral eating patterns trump modern diet trends
  • Protein-rich whole foods aligned with how humans traditionally ate deliver superior health outcomes compared to processed foods and conventional dietary guidelines.

>Bottom line:  You are the miracle cure your are looking for!
Diet, exercise, hydration, sleep and attitude bring wellness

This episode features George and Keith from Restore Wellness discussing a paradigm shift with Brian Thomas for the new year abandoning numerical goals in favor of identity-based objectives.

The Core Message: Stop chasing scale numbers. Start becoming someone who walks five miles without fatigue or climbs stairs effortlessly.

George and Keith challenge conventional wisdom across multiple dimensions:

• Nutrition Reality: The modern food pyramid is inverted due to commercial interests, not science. Protein, whole foods, and healthy fats outperform processed carbohydrates.
• Habit Over Motivation: Sugar elimination, intermittent fasting, and resistance training create lasting transformation—not temporary fixes.
• Deeper "Why": Exercise commitment requires meaningful reasons—being present for grandchildren, travel adventures—not fitting into clothes.
• Food Industry Truth: Shop the perimeter. Avoid processed alternatives. Choose grass-fed, quality ingredients as an investment in self-worth.
• Your Challenge: Define your compelling personal reason for health. Then list the substantial benefits of exercise across physical, spiritual, emotional, mental, and family dimensions.

The biggest mistake people make in January?  Setting goals based on numbers instead of identity.

Most of us start the year fixated on scale weight or clothing sizes. But here's what actually works: shifting focus to who you want to become.  Instead of "lose 20 pounds," ask yourself "what does someone who walks five miles without fatigue look like?" or "who do I need to be to climb stairs without getting winded?"  This identity-based approach creates lasting change because you're not chasing a number—you're becoming a different person.

The psychology is powerful. When your motivation runs deeper than appearance, you stay committed through the tough moments. Research consistently shows that people who exercise for meaningful reasons (being present for grandchildren, traveling adventures, better health) outperform those chasing shallow goals.

Here's what else matters: your habits compound over time. Poor dietary choices made at 25 create serious health consequences by 65. Quality decisions made today aren't just about this year—they're about decades of well being.

A practical exercise:
First, identify your compelling personal "why."
Then list the substantial benefits of your goal across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and family dimensions. Put minimal cons against that list.
The gap becomes undeniable.

What identity are you building this year?

Why Resolutions Fail—And What Actually Works

Here's the truth that might sting a little: if something really matters, you shouldn't be waiting until January 1st to start

Keith and Jimbo from RestoreWellness.org tackle the annual cycle of failed resolutions with a refreshingly different approach.  Instead of fighting your bad habits head-on, gradually build new positive ones that naturally crowd them out. Write down your goals, but here's the twist—focus less on *what* you want to accomplish and more on *who* you want to become. This identity-based thinking changes everything. (It's about being a person who exercises, not just someone trying to exercise.)

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Key Takeaways:

• Action precedes motivation
  
  • You don't need to feel motivated to start - taking action first generates the motivation to continue.
• Identity-based change beats goal-focused change
  
  • Asking "who do I want to become?" creates deeper, more sustainable transformation than simply chasing specific goals.
• Emotional wins matter as much as physical results
  
  • Celebrating small emotional victories builds momentum and consistency more effectively than focusing only on measurable outcomes.

 Forget the January 1st reset. In the latest RestoreWellness episode we challenge the myth that meaningful change requires a specific date.

The Real Talk
Traditional resolutions fail by March because they're built on willpower, not identity.
Instead, we advocate a different approach:
- **Start now** if something truly matters to you
- **Write down your goals** and examine past wins and failures
- **Build habits gradually**—let positive behaviors naturally crowd out negative ones
- **Ask yourself:** *Who do I want to become?* (Not just what do I want to accomplish)

Small, consistent wins build internal confidence. Action precedes motivation—you don't wait to feel ready; you start, then momentum follows.

Pay attention to the five fundamentals:

• Diet
• Exercise
• Hydration
• Sleep
• Relationships

Master these, and transformation follows.

What resonates with you:  Identity-based change or goal-based change?
Share your thoughts.

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Beyond the Body: Healing Through Authentic Living

From Hollywood Villain to Healing Guide: One Actor's Journey to Authenticity

David shares his profound journey from 20 years playing villains in Hollywood to becoming an authenticity advocate. Feeling empty despite external success, he discovered how we abandon our true selves to gain approval, creating distance from authenticity.  David explains how childhood experiences create nervous system dysregulation that follows us into adulthood. He explains that most people operate at only 20% lung capacity, keeping them constantly stressed and reactive—a state we've somehow accepted as normal. Through four years of conscious inner work, addressing deep feelings of unworthiness and fear, David transformed his relationship with himself and discovered something powerful: authenticity attracts more genuine connection than desperate striving ever could.

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Key Takeaways:

• Childhood emotional invalidation directly rewires the nervous system
  • Unprocessed childhood emotions don't just create psychological patterns; they literally dysregulate the nervous system, manifesting as adult neurosis that can be traced back to specific invalidation events.
• Social media amplifies an epidemic of inauthenticity
  • Modern platforms don't just encourage fake presentations; they create a cultural norm where fabricated self-images become the primary way people seek validation, perpetuating the same approval-seeking patterns rooted in childhood abandonment fears.
• Simple breathing meditation rewires reactive patterns into conscious choices
  • Gentle breathing practices can interrupt the automatic defensive reactions created by nervous system dysregulation, enabling people to respond consciously rather than react defensively from their trauma history.

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Winning the fight against cancer - Jim Collins story

When a routine medical check becomes a life-or-death wake-up call, one family's unconventional approach to pancreatic cancer challenges everything we think we know about treatment.

In May 2024, Jim Collins discovered more than just a kidney tumor during what should have been a simple bladder check. Surgery to remove the tumor led to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Jim refused chemotherapy and his son assembled a dedicated team including Keith Tenhundfeld and assistance from Professor Seyfried to tackle the metabolic approach to cancer. The focus? Starving cancer by reducing glucose, since cancer feeds on sugar. Eighteen months into this journey, the cancer is disappearing and even Jim's oncologist supports the non-conventional metabloic approach.

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Key Takeaways:

• Cancer feeds on glucose
  • Dr. Seyfried's research suggests cancer thrives in high-sugar, inflammatory environments rather than being an inevitable genetic fate, challenging the conventional oncology narrative.
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy showed measurable benefits
  • Installing hyperbaric chambers to force oxygen into the body reportedly helped starve cancer cells and dramatically improved breathing and overall vitality in these cases.
• Low-dose chemotherapy microdosing combined with holistic protocols produced better outcomes than full-dose chemo
  • Patients tolerated this integrated approach with minimal side effects while achieving cancer-free status or remission within just a few months.

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Discussion of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease

Cancer might not be the genetic death sentence we've been told it is. Keith Tenhundfeld, Jimbo Collins, and George Brunemann unpack Dr. Thomas Seyfried's research revealing cancer as a metabolic disease—one that thrives on sugar and inflammatory states but can be starved through strategic dietary changes.

The foundation lies in mitochondrial health. Our mitochondria evolved to burn ketones from fats and proteins, not the refined carbohydrates flooding modern diets. By reducing sugar intake, incorporating resistance training (especially for those crucial quadriceps), and utilizing simple therapies like heat exposure, people can restore cellular function and combat chronic diseases from diabetes to dementia to cancer itself.

The core message emphasizes personal responsibility: move regularly, reduce carbohydrates, hydrate. (No doctor's visit required to start.) This isn't about expensive interventions but discipline and education about how dietary choices directly impact health outcomes.

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Key Takeaways:

• Cancer may be primarily a metabolic disease, not a genetic one
  • Dr. Seyfried's research suggests cancer thrives in high-sugar, inflammatory environments rather than being an inevitable genetic fate, challenging the conventional oncology narrative.
• Human mitochondria are optimized for ketones, not carbohydrates.
  • Our cellular energy factories evolved to burn ketones, meaning modern refined carbohydrate diets represent a fundamental mismatch with our biology that fuels chronic disease.
• Lifestyle interventions (diet, fasting, heat exposure) may rival or exceed conventional medical treatments.
  • Personal discipline around metabolic health could prevent and potentially reverse cancer more effectively than expensive pharmaceutical interventions, according to this perspective.