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.

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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

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.

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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