GuerrillaZen Podcast

Robert English is a highly experienced hair loss expert, medical editor, a researcher who specializes in hair loss disorders, has published two peer-reviewed papers on androgenic alopecia, runs the website PerfectHairHealth.com that showcases evidenced-based ways to improve hair loss with or without drugs, and he is on the editorial board of the scholarly journal Dermatology and Therapy.    Episode Highlights:  Robert English explains who he is and his involvement in hair loss research.  Robert English is able to convey information from a consumer’s perspective.  What is the mainstream conventional wisdom behind hair loss?  There has historically been extensive research linking the DHT hormone to hair loss.  What other factors besides DHT affect hair loss? What are some of the research aspects that went into Robert English’s hair loss study model?   DHT may not present full hair recovery because there is too much scar tissue in some hair follicle sites.  Scalp tension can set off a chain reaction that leads to hair follicle miniaturization.  What are some things that people can do at home to get positive hair loss results?  Robert discusses scalp massage exercises that he has developed that you can do at home to fight hair loss.  What are the challenges someone is going to face if they just start Googling random information?  Iron deficiency does contribute to women having hair loss between 24-40.    Robert has found that many unregulated supplements have been mislabeling their ingredients.    3 Key Points: In facial tissues, there is no expression of certain Signaling proteins called Transforming Growth Factor Beta are associated with a ton of inflammation, inflammatory processes and fibrosis scar tissue development.  Where there is scar tissue, hair cannot grow.   Chronic scalp tension over the muscles around the scalp upregulates inflammation in those tissues, which subsequently upregulates DHT and causes that to accumulate there, which then causes the area to scar, restricting the growth space leading to hair follicle miniaturization.    Tweetable Quotes: 03:08-03:22 - “What makes me a little bit unique relative to other people that do this type of academic research is that I actually don’t have a PhD. I’m not a technically-trained academic.” - Robert English 03:30-03:41 - “I was diagnosed with male pattern hair loss at a really young age, 16-years-old I started losing my hair, 17-years-old I actually went into a dermatologist and was diagnosed with androgenic alopecia.” - Robert English 07:44-07:53 - (Male pattern hair loss) “It is typically characterized as hairline recession. You will see thinning at the temples. You will see somebody with a bald spot emerging on the back of their heads or crown thinning.” - Robert English 26:40-26:54 - “If you expose a balding scalp tissue to DHT, the DHT induces this signing protein (Transforming Growth Factor Beta) and the end consequence seems to be that some scar tissues begin to develop around the hair follicles.” - Robert English 30:55-31:05 - “The patterning and the progression of hair loss perfectly align with the patterning and progression of tension that is created from the contraction of the muscles surrounding the scalp perimeter.” - Robert English 44:43--44:56 - “Massage techniques that were basically dedicated to kind of generating some acute inflammation with pinching, pressing, and stretching of certain scalp regions, and then pressing relatively hard along the scalp perimeter.” - Robert English   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Perfect Hair Health: PerfectHairHealth.com

Paul Chek is the founder of the CHEK Institute for holistic health with 36 years of health experience, a certified muscular therapist, a strength and conditioning coach, a medical exercise specialist, an author, and among other things, a licensed holistic health practitioner in the state of California that allows him to treat, coach, and guide with anything natural. Paul has also studied shamanism and has conducted over 400 healing ceremonies with plant medicines and has an extensive background in corrective exercise, manual therapy, worked in a physical therapy clinic for four years, a chiropractor for two years, and he has worked with an osteopath for two years.     Episode Highlights:  Paul Chek explains who he is and his extensive fitness accomplishments. Paul explains what the physiological stress load is, the factors that are involved, and why it is important to approach health with this involved.  What are the six key stressors to the body?   He tells a story of being contacted by the Canadian Olympic Committee.   All the systems in the body are interconnected.   Electromagnetic frequencies like 5G systems increase the heat in the body.   What is a cybernetic system?  The Western medical model is based on scientific materialism which is based on reductionism.   Most extremity problems are based on core dysfunctions.    Paul explains the differences between sympathetic and parasympathetic activations.    Everything that happens in your body are catabolic and anabolic responses.  What advice does Paul Chek for lifestyle modifications?  We have innate chi and acquired chi.     Be honest about the movement needs your body has.   We are the tip of the ‘evolutionary sword.’      3 Key Points: The six stressors that can become detrimental are physical, chemical, electromagnetic (like the sun), psychic (mental/emotional), nutrition, and thermal.  The area of the body that is symptomatic is oftentimes not the area that is at the causal level of the symptom.  Exposure to electromagnetic frequencies that are not healthy for the body, such as 5G systems, wireless systems, all have been shown to increase the heat in the body because the high vibration energy agitates the water cells and heats the body up like a microwave heats up water by agitating water molecules.    Tweetable Quotes: 09:01-09:15 - “We have distress, which is stress where our body is under too much load and it produces too much catabolic stress, which means tissue breakdown where anabolic means growth recovery repair and regeneration.” - Paul Chek 10:14-10:29 - “When we are under periods of distress, then we go into what’s called allostasis, which is a departure from homeostasis. So, if we go lift weights real heavy or do a circuit workout, we are putting an allostatic load on our body.” - Paul Chek 13:01-13:06 - “In the body, all systems talk to each other. There is no such thing as an isolated system.” - Paul Chek 18:29-18:44 - “85% of all orthopedic injuries are idiopathic, which means the patient has no idea where the pain is coming from. All of a sudden they have chronic low back pain, chronic neck pain, etc., but they don’t know how they got it” - Paul Chek 19:02-19:10 - “Thermal imbalances are often created by challenges in the above stressors because stress triggers inflammation.” - Paul Chek 21:31-21:45 - “All of these diet and lifestyle issues are the results of choices that people are making, and behind every action or choice is a belief. All behaviors are driven by beliefs, most of which are unconscious.” - Paul Chek   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Paul Chek Social Media: Linkedin YouTube Instagram Facebook CHEK Institute: chekinstitute.com Paul Chek’s Blog: paulcheksblog.com Book: How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy by Paul Chek Book: Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener

Episode Highlights:  Elliott Hulse introduces himself.  What is Elliott’s perspective on masculinity and how has it changed?   Most boys grow up with either a lack of fatherhood or fathers that have been taught that masculinity is toxic.   What are other important things to help boys to become men?    Elliott’s brother went through a four-day fast by sitting on a rock.   They talk about sexual energy and polarity.    You want your partner to want to have sex with you and not feel obligated to have sex with you.  How can men cultivate more masculine energy?  Saints come from rough lives.  What would he do differently in his life? Being a monk, being married, being a father, and creating something amazing to benefit others are ways to best use your energy instead of wasting on selfish self-gratification.  ‘Mortify’ yourself by letting weaker parts of yourself die.  Men protect and expand.     3 Key Points: Becoming a man is about suffering, sacrifice, tough love, a sense of dignity, and atonement. Men with no mission, dignity, or purpose may be pushed towards using their masculine energy to chase strictly sexual relationships with women, consuming porn, and playing video games. Ways to cultivate more masculine energy include: strength training, challenging yourself physically and mentally, having a life of focus and purpose, and embracing boredom and not needing novelty and excitement.     Tweetable Quotes: “I’m a strong man… I’m a father. I’m a father figure, to maybe millions of men worldwide. I’m a strength coach. I owe Strength Camp, and I make men strong again. That’s my mission in life.” - Elliott Hulse “The way boys become men has been completely erased from our society.” - Elliott Hulse “The fact is, that a boy only knows himself as a separate gender if he has something to mirror, something to look at, and someone to introduce him into the way of man.” - Elliott Hulse  “The only way a man becomes like his father is by mentorship, by watching, by seeing, by hearing, being in his presence. It is a teaching.” - Elliott Hulse “When she starts denying sex and you start begging. Now you know, polarity is gone, dude. You can’t make her want to have sex with you. You have to actually be someone she wants to have sex with.” - Elliott Hulse (Dangers of Isolation) “That’s when demon obsession can creep in. That’s when the demons can come in, when you are by yourself. ‘Oh, man life sucks.’ All the negative thinking starts to rise to the surface.” - Elliott Hulse   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Elliott Hulse: Linkedin Instagram Twitter YouTube Facebook Elliott Hulse: elliotthulse.co/home1 Strength Camp: strengthcamp.co/map-01 Book: The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

Dr. Ryan DeBell is the Founder of Movement Fix, Co-Founder of T Tool dedicated to helping people keep their bodies as healthy as possible. Dr. Ryan DeBell discusses the importance of knowing and pursuing your health goals, reasons why he currently doesn’t use CrossFit, analyzing his list of the four core functions of the human body, tracking your desired health goals into actionable steps, being self-reliant and modifying your exercises, and universal exercises and movement patterns that can benefit us all.    Episode Highlights:  Dr. Ryan DeBell introduces himself.  You can evolve mentally and spiritually by choice.  What does Dr. Ryan DeBell think of Crossfit as a whole?   Don’t take on a fitness methodology that won’t give you the results that you want.   Meet with a professional coach to consult you on reaching your desired goals.   Dr. Ryan DeBell shares his list of the four main uses of the human body.  The gym can be looked at as a lab to experiment with your body to improve it.  Which things that were omitted from CrossFit does Dr. Ryan DeBell think should be brought back in?  People live longer when they eat less calories.   What are Dr. Ryan DeBell’s 2020 health goals and how does he track them?  Be self-reliant and modify your exercises.  Diversify the healthy foods that you eat to avoid nutrient deficiencies.  Don’t be impatient with your body.  Long-term dedication and focused effort are needed to enjoy what the body can do.     Have clarity in your training needs while including general fundamentals.  What exercises can benefit us all?  Form dictates function.    Be sure not to mess up your joints.     3 Key Points: Know your goals and what you want before you take on any fitness routines.  Dr. Ryan DeBell’s four core uses of your body: rhythmic (dancing), combative (martial arts), calisthenics/gymnastics (control your body in space), and locomotion (moving your body in space).  You need your thoughts and your actions to line up.    Tweetable Quotes: “I see the human body, not through the lens of a profession, but through the lens where I try to learn from many things and see it sort of raw, in that sense.” - Dr. Ryan LaBell “Growth is a decision that you make consciously. You chose it. Human beings can evolve by choice, right? Because we can learn, and that is evolution.” - Dr. Ryan DeBell (CrossFit) “The focus got lost on the mastery of one's own body and instead it turned into the mastery of my body versus your body to see who can do it better.” - Dr. Ryan DeBell  “The things that give you a short-term positive result may not give you a long-term positive result that you want” - Dr. Ryan DeBell “If you know what your goals are, you can break them down into daily actions. Then you can take those daily actions with faith that they will manifest into what you want to accomplish.” - Dr. Ryan DeBell “A lot of times when things hurt it doesn’t mean that we’re having damage. It just means that maybe there is something going on that your body is trying to warn you about.” - Dr. Ryan DeBell   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Dr. Ryan DeBell’s Social Media: Linkedin The Movement Fix: themovementfix.com The Movement Fix Social Media: Facebook Twitter YouTube T Tool: shop.thettool.com

Taylor Fakas is a health coach, Co-Owner of Zero Point Athletics, Founder of Divergent Therapeutics, Bodyworker, and Biomechanics Specialist. Taylor Fakas talks about being born with plagiocephaly, how he found yoga, weightlifting, and fitness training, starting Zero Point Athletics and Divergent Therapeutics, the importance of tongue posture and mewing, and proper breathing techniques.    Episode Highlights:  Host Blake Bowman introduces Taylor Fakas and he explains his professional background.  Taylor explains what plagiocephaly is and being born with it.  At one point during Taylor's youth, his mother was in a coma and he dropped to 97 pounds.  What was Taylor’s initial experience like doing yoga with his mom?  How did Taylor get involved in fitness training and the entrepreneurial side of it?  Taylor was able to run his own clinic inside of a PT clinic and branched out into his own therapy practice.    Taylor runs a 14,000-square-foot therapy facility with bio-hacking equipment.  He talks about tongue posture and mewing in relation to activating musculature in your neck.    You can lower your immune system and raise stress in your body with a bad tongue position and not breathing through the nose.   What is ‘the Bohr effect?’ It is not a matter of getting more oxygen into the blood. It is a matter of getting the oxygen that is stuck in the blood out and into the tissues of the body.  What is Taylor’s take on ‘wim hof breathing?’  Most of us need to cry and laugh more.  Get your body properly accessed.   What is the proper tongue position for default breathing? What are the ways to optimize the quality of your sleep and being able to relax?  Taylor talks about the impact of the industrialization of baby food.   Think holistically about every area of your life.  It is about collaboration and not competition.      3 Key Points: Plagiocephaly is a condition characterized by a flattening of one side of the skull. Taylor was born with the whole right side of his face and skull fused together as one bone.  People generally know the basics of getting healthier (drink water, exercise, eat healthy foods). But people typically are much less aware of what they should or shouldn’t be doing when they are in pain. Just because you are a good personal trainer doesn’t mean you are going to be a good business owner.    Tweetable Quotes: “I was born with a pretty severe postural distortion called plagiocephaly. So, my skull didn’t form properly.” - Taylor Fakas  “I decided that my number 1 focus would be to get myself and my mom in a healthier mental, physical, and emotional place, and that really kind of guided me into doing yoga.” - Taylor Fakas   (Yoga) “It started kind of helping me relax, helped me with my anxiety, helped me get a little more grounded. I was bonding with my mom.” - Taylor Fakas   (YMCA weight-lifting area) “I’m like, I don’t want to be this 97-pound skinny dude. I want to do bench pressing and curls every day so I can look like those guys. That’s what got me into lifting.” - Taylor Fakas   “If I wasn’t one of the owners of this gym and I found it as a trainer or a therapist, I would have no problem working here because it is directly in alignment with my beliefs. There are opportunities to learn and grow.” - Taylor Fakas  “If your body and your brain intuitively know that you’re going to be struggling to breathe, whether that is snoring, sleep apnea, mouth breathing at night, your brain will try to keep you awake longer.” - Taylor Fakas     Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Taylor Fakas: Instagram Zero Point Athletics: zeropointathletics.com Divergent Therapeutics: Instagram Text Taylor Fakas: (909) 810-7973

Dr. Tyna Moore is a health coach, a Tai Chi instructor in Michigan who has been practicing tai-chi for 25 years. Tyna Moore talks about coping with low testosterone, the effects and solutions for low testosterone, the side effects of drugs in semen, testosterone's ability to enhance orthopedic healing, and testosterone having sex hormone-binding globulin.   Episode Highlights:  Host Blake Bowman introduces Tyna Moore and she explains her professional background.  What is prolotherapy?   How are people affected by the epidemic of low testosterone?  People with low testosterone often don’t notice the gradual dulling of their mood or their erections not being as solid.  Tyra Moore talks about her own low testosterone level experiences.  What were the benefits of Tyna supplementing testosterone?   Low testosterone affects both sexes.  How should we be getting dosed with testosterone?   Tyra Moore believes that all the pharmaceutical drugs that men are on are going through their semen. What is testosterone’s ability to enhance orthopedic healing?  The more testosterone you have the more strength and the more muscle fibers you are going to have.  What are Tyna Moore’s thoughts on testosterone having sex hormone-binding globulin?  GAINSWave is a treatment to improve erection through show waves.  Our environment is filled with toxins and toxins mimic estrogens, known as xenoestrogens.  Weed and alcohol destroy testosterone.  What can people do to optimize their testosterone?     3 Key Points: Prolotherapy is an injection-given treatment for chronic musculoskeletal ailments in the form of a dextrose and saline solution that works faster on people with good muscle mass and have good testosterone levels.  The issues typically associated with low testosterone are usually the inability to heal, lack of stamina during fitness workouts, mood shifts, lack of sexual appetite, and breaking down orthopedically.  There is a correlation between head trauma and low testosterone.    Tweetable Quotes: “I’m a naturopathic physician and a chiropractor and I have been in practice for over a decade, predominantly my background is in regenerative injection therapies.” - Tyna Moore  “I ended up taking over my mentor’s practice who passed away from cancer. He was a man. He was amazing.” - Tyna Moore  “It turns out that there is a lot of overlap between hormones and pain in regenerative medicine in particular.” - Tyna Moore  “Cortisol is catabolic so it chews up your tissues. So, with a lot of cortisol you’ll end up with a lot of ligament disc laxity, a lot of degeneration in your joints very quickly and a lot of belly fat.” - Tyna Moore  “I’m not trying to make my body into that of a 25-year-old. I just want to have a super healthy body of a 45-year-old, right? I want a good libido. I want good recovery in the gym. I want to be strong.” - Tyna Moore  “All hormones, full disclaimer, even estrogen, progesterone, I’m a firm believer in over the age of 40, most people I believe need some kind of physiologic dosing of bioidentical hormone replacement.” - Tyna Moore    Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Tyna Moore: drtyna.com Book: Pain-Free and Strong by  Dr. Tyna Moore Tyna Moore’s Social Media: Linkedin Instagram

Jennifer Silverston is a health coach, a Tai Chi instructor in Michigan who has been practicing tai-chi for 25 years. Jennifer Silverston talks about overcoming a severe spinal injury in 2001 after western medicine wasn’t working, how a Chinese kung-fu master has helped her accelerate her healing, teaching Tai Chi and Qi Gong, what Tai Chi is and its benefits and comparisons between Eastern and Western therapy practices.    Episode Highlights:  Host Blake Bowman introduces Jennifer Silverston. Jennifer talks about her background in Tai Chi and Qi Gong.  Jennifer Silverston taught tai-chi at Northern Michigan University for five years    Jennifer provides an overview of what Tai Chi is.  Yin is considered the closed Earth energy, or the water, and Yang is considered the open sky energy, or the sun.      Is vitality synonymous with chi? What is the list of benefits of Tai Chi from a western perspective?  Do traditional meditation and breathing techniques have similar benefits with Tai hi?  What are the benefits to Tai Chi that you don’t get from meditation?  Blake Bowman talks about a study that looked into how postures affect hormones.     Jennifer Silverston shares her story of the injury that propelled her toward Tai Chi for healing.  What was the trajectory for going from practicing Tai Chi to teaching it and the healing of her lumbar? The east is better than western medication for treating the body as a whole.  Jennifer talks about teaching Tai Chi to entrepreneurs called Quantum Calm.  Daniel     3 Key Points: Jennifer Silverston defines Tai Chi as a soft style martial art that is slow with fluid, graceful movement that is very circular and is considered an internal practice, coupled with meditation for health and wellness.  Tai Chi literally translates to ‘the supreme ultimate,’ which can apply to the supreme ultimate forms and movements and the world as the ancient people saw it as the supreme ultimate mystery of how life is happening.  The benefits of Tai Chi include: activating relaxation, it is the best exercise for balance, it reduces joint pain, increases mobility, and assists with Parkinson’s, PTSD, and anxiety.     Tweetable Quotes: “I taught at Northern Michigan University for five years, teaching Tai Chi and Qi Gong to undergraduates.” - Jennifer Silverston “In 2015, I moved back home to help take care of my mom who was very sick and started my own little side business called Tai Chi with Jennifer and that is what I have been doing ever since.” - Jennifer Silverston “When we can organize the whole body as one: the body, the breath, and the mind, then we become more powerful. It is like we become integrated.” - Jennifer Silverston “Harvard Medical School actually calls Tai Chi and Qi Gong ‘medication in motion’ because it provides so much benefit to so many different ailments.” - Jennifer Silverston “Meditation and breathing techniques are very hard for us to get into nowadays because the mind is so busy that when we ask somebody to sit down and concentrate on their breathing, they’re like, what do you mean?” - Jennifer Silverston “Eastern (therapy) is more like a whole-body tonic so it is like working with the shoulders, working with the legs, working with the postural alignment and then doing these sort of dynamic physical movements.” - Jennifer Silverston   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Jennifer Silverston: jennifersilverston.com Tai Chi with Jennifer: taichiwithjennifer.com Jennifer Silverston Social Media: YouTube Facebook

Daniel Vitalis is an entrepreneur, health lecturer with a focus on living a nature-integrated life, founder of SurThrival, a registered Maine guide, and the host of WildFed, a show, podcast, and lifestyle brand that integrates hunting, fishing, foraging, and ecology with nutrition, cooking, community, and outdoor adventure. Daniel talks about hunting, fishing, the often underrepresented world of forging, his work with SurThrival and WildFed, omnivore diets, the importance of knowing the story of your food, and the benefits of procuring wild food.   Episode Highlights:  Host Blake Bowman introduces Daniel Vitalis.  Daniel Vitalis talks about his motivations for his health and nutrition work.   How does the health diet world mirror the political divide?  He summarizes the different educational elements of outdoor segments.  Omnivore diets are anthropologically sound.  Why is procurement of wild meat, planets, herbs, mushrooms, and water important to Daniel Vitalis?     Daniel talks about hunting and serving a black bear.  What is the importance of knowing the origins of the food you eat?   What are the additional benefits of procuring wild food?  Bears have built their muscular bodies largely from forging.   Which light bulbs aren’t being made anymore?    Why is it important to spend more time outside?  What are the nutritional values between wild foods and commercially farmed foods?   Forging is an unregulated behavior in the United States and Canada compared to hunting and fishing.  Humans principal job in the environment is engineering habitat.   Daniel and Blake talk about harvesting leaves.    What are the benefits of having friends that hunt, fish, and forge?   Daniel shares stories about morels.  Does Daniel have any criticisms of the hunting and forging worlds?  Why does Daniel feel that Americans are addicted to ‘survival porn?’  We are interconnected and we need each other.      3 Key Points: Daniel Vitalis believes that in the same way, birds have a left-wing and a right-wing to fly, people should have the same balance of ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ beliefs.   We as human beings were never just meat-eaters.     The process of procuring wild food is therapeutic because doing it barefoot gives the grounding effect, in the woods you breathe in airmatic chemicals that trees release that modulate your immune system, you are getting Vitamin D from the sun, and inhaling fresh oxygen.   Tweetable Quotes: “How can we through hunting, fishing, and forging, forge a diet that replicates the one of our past, but also starts to heal a lot of imbalances that aren’t just nutritional?” - Daniel Vitalis “It’s just this weird time because people have never been more disconnected from their actual environment. But they’ve never professed to care about the environment more than they do right now.” - Daniel Vitalis “There is no hope of so-called saving the environment if people don’t start with the environment where they live. If it is always distant places, we’re doomed.” - Daniel Vitalis “We are the first people in history to live divorced from knowledge of the origin of our food and its story and I don’t think we even know yet the full implications of that.” - Daniel Vitalis (Indoors) “We are missing phenology, in other words, the movement and the changes of the season and all the things that come with it. So, in our house, it is always one temperature. In our house, it is always one light level.” - Daniel Vitalis “If you don’t have access to clean wild food, then the top of your hierarchy might be the organically-produced local produce from your farmer’s market.” - Daniel Vitalis Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Daniel Vitalis: danielvitalis.com Daniel Vitalis Social Media: Instagram YouTube Facebook WildFed: wild-fed.com

Dr. Garrett Kuhlman, DC, CCSP is a sports chiropractor that has a clinic called Elite Movement Chiropractic Clinic. Dr. Garrett Kuhlman talks to your host Blake Bowman about techniques for rehab, the body from a holistic standpoint, various exercises to improve movement, and common misconceptions about chiropractic procedures and the contributors to chronic pain.    Episode Highlights:  Dr. Garrett Kuhlman talks about his experience in strength, conditional, and as a sports chiropractor.  Garrett Kuhlman explains fascial lines to understand movements as documented by Thomas Myers.  Your body will compensate until it can’t.  What is the superficial backline?  What techniques does Kuhlman utilize for rehab?  Lymph follows a lot of the Chinese meridians and acupuncture points.    The body is a holistic system of systems.   What are the most common dysfunctions that Dr. Garrett Kuhlman comes across in people that are wrecking their movement patterns or contributing to their pain?  What is “The Bird Dog” exercise?  Just because you have a ripped six-pack doesn’t mean you have a strong core.    Keep variety in your exercises and movement patterns.   What are his thoughts on anti-rotation exercises?  Unfortunately, we tend to only focus on working out the muscles that we can see from a vanity perspective.   Running is powerful because we have these spiral lines and it takes some of the work off the muscle and places it on the fascial lines.  What is Garrett Kuhlman’s problem with traditional chiromatic manipulations?  More strength resilience education is needed in the medical field.  When you can no longer do the things that you love is when you truly become old.  Healthcare is a proactive process, not just a passive process.  The exit to treatment is strengthening.    3 Key Points: Fascial lines are lines of connective tissue that run throughout the body. They are found through dissection cadaver dissections. There are seven different lines that have been found to run through the body.   For knee pain look at the ankle and the hip. For lower back pain look at glutes and the thoracic spine. It is always the muscles and joints above and below the joint where the pain is.    The Spiral Line starts up in the shoulder on the backside and rotates down across your core down to the front side of your legs and the backside as well. Rotation is where we create power.   Tweetable Quotes: “I’m a sports chiropractor. I focus a lot on functional movement, rehab, basically, all things movement is what I try to work with my patients on. My original background was strength and conditioning.” - Garrett Kuhlman “I’m a chiropractor. But I do a lot of PT rehab and functional movement and corrective exercise. I just find that, that is really powerful when linked with the chiropractic side of things.” - Garrett Kuhlman “Where you feel the pain is not necessarily where you have the problem. And I think our medical system, and to a degree are rehab system, are focused on the area that hurts” - Garrett Kuhlman “Your brain will compensate, and so if there is an injury to the peck or there is chronic groin strains or something like that. Your brain will look further up or down that line to try and compensate for that.” - Garrett Kuhlman (Trauma pain) “It turns chronic because they have these dysfunctional patterns in place that won’t let the initial tissue heal.” - Garrett Kuhlman (The Bird Dog exercise) “You are on all-fours and you extend, say, the right leg and left arm at the same time. I will attach a band to the wall above your head.and you just pull at the same time you extend your leg.” - Garrett Kuhlman   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Dr. Garrett Kuhlman: Linkedin  Instagram  Elite Movement Chiropractic Clinic: petoskeymovementchiro.com Book: Anatomy Trains by Thomas W. Myers  Book: Advances in Functional Training by Mike Boyle Book: Movement Functional Movement Systems by Gray Cook

Jeff Chilton has a company called Nammex, established in 1989, that sells organically-certified medicinal mushrooms. His personal experience in the mushroom industry has been expanding since 1973 and he has also co-authored and published an authoritative book on mushroom growing called The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home. Jeff talks to your host Blake Bowman about how to spot low quality mushroom products, the difference between mushrooms and mycelium, how mushrooms are typically grown, and many important industry facts that he has learned during his lengthy journey.     Episode Highlights: Jeff Chilton talks about his experience in the mushroom industry since 1973.  What is Jeff’s opinion on the state of the mushroom industry in terms of quality?  Mushrooms have spores instead of seeds that form a network called mycelium.  Mushrooms in North America are grown indoors in large barns or concrete warehouse rooms.  Jeff explains why he can’t sell mushrooms as a supplement in North America.  China is growing 12 different mushroom species, about four times the amount as in the United State.  Mycelium in the United States is being grown onto the sterilized grain.  Jeff is selling fruiting body extracts.  What should you look for to verify a true mushroom product:  Read the supplement fact panel to see if there are grains in the product.   Does the company grow mushrooms?  Mushrooms have spore, mushroom, and mycelium.  Mycelium does not produce the same compounds that mushrooms do.  If your reishi product doesn’t taste bitter than something is wrong.  Why is the substrate that reishi grows on important?  Most medicinal mushrooms grow on wood.  Mushrooms are very dependent on what they are growing on for nutrients.  Jeff Chilton talks about a mushroom study that he performed in 2015.   In 1978, the FDA came out with a compliance document regarding mycelium.   Last year Nammex spent $150,000 on testing.   Jeff discusses why no company actually does the kind of analysis that they do.   Where are some great mushrooms growing in the United States?     3 Key Points:   Nammex is not only growing mushrooms organically but he is growing them on the proper substrate, akin to the soil, improving their medicinal quality.   Mushrooms need high humidity and a regulated temperature if you are growing them commercially.   China grows 85% of the world’s mushrooms.     Tweetable Quotes:   “In 1983 I published a book called The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home. Which, believe it or not, it’s still selling 5000 copies a year.” - Jeff Chilton   “I went to China with OCIA to have the very first organic certification webinar or basically organic certification workshop for mushrooms in China in 1997.” - Jeff Chilton   “Mushrooms and fungi are not plants. They are not animals. They actually have their own kingdom, which is right in between. So it is really a separate organism from what we are used to.” - Jeff Chilton   “I realized as a mushroom grower that I cannot grow mushrooms in North America and sell them as a supplement.” - Jeff Chilton   “Mushrooms, like most vegetables, are 90% water.” - Jeff Chilton   “No actual mushroom is commercially grown on grains. Grains are a very unnatural material to grow a mushroom on.” - Jeff Chilton     Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com   Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com   Nammex website: https://www.nammex.com/   Jeff Chilton’s Book: The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home

Ben Brown has a coaching business that helps highly driven men improve their energy and body composition and help them create a balance between work and home life. Ben is also the owner of Complete Essentials, an essential amino acid product which was born out of his own health issues. Ben talks to your host Blake Bowman about the connection between nutrition, lifestyle, and symptoms.   Episode Highlights: How Ben discovered what could heal his gastrointestinal inflammation naturally. The primary area of Ben’s business is nutrition coaching. H. Pilori is the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers and a high percentage of people have it. The lining of the gut can be deteriorated through stress, food quality, and more. The process Ben goes through to help people define their optimal diet. The most impactful thing coaches can do is to help people be more in tune with their body. Why eating ancestrally makes a lot of sense and is a good jumping off point. Eating seasonally and locally is another great way to start. Why certain diets give your gut time to regenerate and repair. There’s no one right way to eat, we have to understand biochemical individuality. If you’re serious about taking control of your health then you’ll have to consider big life changes. How to use things like hydrochloric acid effectively without becoming dependant on them. If you’re just starting out, you need digestive support. The natural things people can do to improve their digestive enzymes: Slow down and chew your food. Drink a lot of water, but not while you’re eating. There’s a reason our stomach is such an acidic environment and it should be that way. Ben’s thoughts on digestive bitters and bitter herbs. The role of ox bile in your health after having your gall bladder removed. About Ben’s product Complete Essentials and why it’s an all-in-one workout product. The body can function without carbohydrates but it cannot function for any period of time without essential amino acids. The best course of action is to be getting enough protein in throughout the day through real food. Many supplements are in pill form, but that’s not very conducive to workouts. When you take the Complete Essentials powder it’s instantly absorbed into the bloodstream. With essential amino acids, even people who have compromised digestion can benefit. Why it’s easier to gain fat as you get older. Essential amino acids provide mineral support without any caffeine or artificial sweeteners.   3 Key Points: Gut health and optimal digestion should be the primary focus when there is poor health. Eating ancestrally, seasonally, and locally can be the best way to start figuring out what diet works best with your body. Alkaline water is harmful to your production of hydrochloric acid, if you’re drinking it you need to stop.   Tweetable Quotes: “You aren’t what you eat, you are what you digest and assimilate.” -Blake “Most of the general population has compromised gut integrity.” -Ben “You have to go through trial and error to figure out what works best for you.” -Ben “Everything we do on a daily basis lends itself to screwing up our digestion.” -Ben “There’s a reason our stomach is such an acidic environment and it should be that way.” -Ben “The body can function without carbohydrates but it cannot function for any period of time without essential amino acids.” -Ben   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com

Victor Pierentoni owner of Zen Stoic Mastery helps people create mental wellness and vitality in their personal and professional life. Victor has worked in the personal development industry for the last several years and has coached thousands of people. Victor talks with your host Blake Bowman about stoicism and Zen philosophy.   Episode Highlights:   How Victor defines Zen Stoicism. How Victor defines Zen by itself and Stoicism by itself. Victor began studying the Stoics by reading The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday Stoicism was giving Victor’s clients better and more dramatic results. The type of coaching that Victor provides to his clients - mostly psychology and some strategy. The benefits of practicing the Zen Stoic program and what happens if you don’t. The opposite of stoicism is acting on impulse only. A lot of great leaders think of things logically instead of emotionally. Remember that nothing is personal. You can’t control what’s happening in the world around you, you can control how you respond. Stoicism is not just living in the moment it’s the acknowledgment of a potential future. How stress eating is a coping mechanism for some kind of pain. What are the tangible benefits of stoicism: A better sense of inner peace. Voluntary discomfort allows you to handle harder things. Being more considerate of others. You’ll be more resilient and more comfortable with unexpected or negative things. Extremism is blindly following a narrative for the sake of having that narrative. Some steps people can take toward stoicism: Cold showers. Ask yourself what is a fact, and what is an opinion - you only suffer from opinions, not facts. Put yourself into any other kind of voluntary discomfort. Journal and reflect on your day. Where people can connect with Victor: Zen Stoic Mastery Facebook Page The Zen Stoic Podcast The Zen Stoic Dojo Facebook Group   3 Key Points: You have to focus on what you can control and not be controlled by your emotions. Protecting yourself from your own emotions could contribute to your overall health in a radical way. Challenging yourself with voluntary discomfort can push you toward stoicism.   Tweetable Quotes: “In order to have full health, vitality, and longevity you have to have the mindset right.” -Blake “The Zen Stoic philosophy is better in action than in conversation” -Victor “It’s very difficult to be healthy when you’re constantly in an angry state.” -Victor   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Book Recommendation: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Join The Zen Stoic Dojo on Facebook Listen to The Zen Stoic Podcast Join the Zen Stoic Mastery Facebook Group

Dr. Lisa Fortin currently practices at a regenerative medicine clinic. She has a biotechnology degree for her undergrad where she learned about how cells functioned, she learned about more advanced technologies and medicine. Dr. Fortin went to Harvard and served as Chief of Radiology at a local hospital.   Episode Highlights:   What regenerative medicine is and why it’s important to your cellular health. Regenerative medicine concentrates the healing efforts of the body and amplifies them. The most popular types of regenerative medicine and how it could benefit you. What stem cells actually are, where they come from, and how they work. Who benefits from regenerative medicine and stem cell treatments. A more affordable technique Dr. Fortin offers as an alternative for stem cell treatment. Dr. Fortin’s take on prolotherapy and comparable treatments she offers. What cellular health is, what it means, and how it relates to aging, health, and longevity. Why you should pay attention to your cellular health. You don’t need to know everything about cellular health, you just need to find someone who does. Chronic inflammation underlies a lot of diseases. When inflammation disrupts the inside of the blood cell it leads to coronary artery disease. What the mitochondria do and what improves mitochondrial function. What Dr. Fortin thinks about people who try to exist on light only and not food. It’s easier to set and follow your circadian rhythm in the summer. Some things you can do to boost mitochondrial function. Our membranes are very fluid and trans fats make them more rigid. Sleep is an important part of your life and health. The difference between the chronological age and the biological age.   3 Key Points: Stem cells are important to regenerative medicine and do not come from ethically questionable sources. Cells are the building blocks of life and protecting them can expand our health. Mitochondria are the energy currency of the cell.   Tweetable Quotes: “Aging begins on the inside, on the cellular level, so it’s important to look at your cellular health.” -Dr. Fortin “You can’t use bandaid techniques on disease, you need a solution.” -Dr. Fortin “Mitochondria get their energy from food or the sun, you need to mind your light exposure.” -Dr. Fortin   Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Visit Dr. Fortin at ReYouVenate

Dr. Nasha Winters is a naturopathic doctor with a FABNO and a doctorate in oriental medicine and acupuncture. Dr. Winters studied ayurvedic medicine for 13 years and is a life learner who loves everything integrative medicine, natural wellness, epigenetics, and the esoteric aspects of healing that you can’t explain with science. Dr. Winters talks to your host Blake Bowman about managing chronic illness and cancer by understanding and improving your “terrain” and the role your mitochondria play in keeping you healthy. Episode Highlights:   Dr. Winters talks about her cancer diagnosis at a young age that led her on her natural wellness journey. Dr. Winter’s made the shifts from clinical practice to consulting to direct patient care. An overview of cancer and other chronic illness statistics. Dr. Winters looks at cancer more like a chronic illness that can be managed and less like a death sentence. Dr. Winters explains what she means by “terrain” and “optimal terrain” to mitigate risks when it comes to cancer. The ten major life events that impact your terrain: Your epigenetics - your blueprint with dynamic expression. Your glycemic status Your microbiome Your immune system Angiogenesis and blood circulation Hormone balance Stress Circadian rhythm Emotional Response Toxin exposure We’ve gotten comfortable with our bodies functioning at sub-par levels. Health is not the absence of disease, it’s vitality and protection that makes you resilient. How to avoid aging and embody the fountain of youth. The testing that’s possible to understand how your choices are affecting your biological expressions. How mitochondrial dysfunction is linked to every chronic illness. What Apoptosis is and what it means to our cells. Top five mitochondrial hacks: Find a way to intermittent fast and fast for 3-5 days. HIIT Training/Exercise. Get your eyes exposed to sunlight at the beginning and end of the day and avoid blue light exposure. Get outdoors and get into nature. Get in sync with your thoughts.   3 Key Points:    One in two men and one in 2.4 women will have cancer at some point and 1,600 people die each day of cancer - these rates are expected to increase. We don’t have control over our genetics, but we do have control over our terrain and how friendly it is toward cancer. Mitochondrial dysfunction is linked to every chronic illness. Tweetable Quotes: “We’re not doing enough to help prevent cancer or to help people who’ve had it from getting it again.” -Dr. Winters “There’s no way someone can be healthy and have cancer, that’s how I created the concept of the terrain.” -Dr. Winters “The only cure for cancer is prevention.” -Dr. Winters “The number one symptom of mitochondrial dysfunction is fatigue.” -Dr. Winters “A lot of things we take over the counter are extremely detrimental to our mitochondrial health.” -Dr. Winters Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Dr. Winters book: The Metabolic Approach to Cancer Connect with Dr. Winters and get resources at drnasha.com

Adam Haritan, owner of Learn Your Land takes people into the forest to teach them about plants and mushrooms and trees. Learn Your Land educates people about water, movement, diet, and nutrition and more. Adam also does indoor programs and online classes and events. Adam talks to your host Blake Bowman about what to look for when foraging for mushrooms, mushroom supplements, and learning more about your environment.

Bryan Hardy, an integrated health coach who does a mix of coaching, product development and sales, and content creation on his own podcast joins your host Blake Bowman to talk about the Keto diet and liver detoxification and health.

Chris Storey of Primal Alchemy UK joins your host Blake Bowman to talk about marrying your physical and spiritual sides. Find out how Chris built his brand and learn some practical ways to bio-hack and achieve deep meditative states.

Dr. Perry Nickelston of Stop Chasing Pain joins your host Blake Bowman to talk about the lymphatic system of the body. Dr. Nicholson knows that there is much more to pain than just treating the symptoms. He’s on a never-ending quest to discover why people are not as healthy as they could be.

How much do you know about red light therapy? Scott Nelson, co-founder of Juve, one of the first companies to manufacture full-body red light therapy devices talks about how it affects the body in a profound way. Learn about the robust amount of peer-reviewed literature about red-light therapy and how our bodies can benefit from this new treatment.

Biohacking is a way to optimize your unique, genotypic physical and mental health. Today, I sit down with Siim Land to dissect biohacking and how we can use it to optimize our lives.

Feeling a little sluggish lately? Dr. Tracy Gapin may have the answer you need. Today, Dr. Tracy joins us to talk about epigenetics and testosterone. Dr. Tracy, known for performing a vasectomy on himself, believes in a full system approach to health. We talk about the different ways you can increase your testosterone levels and improve your health, and it is as easy as avoiding certain items in your house.

GuerillaZen host Blake Bowman, Owner of GuerillaZen Fitness, sits with guest Jill Miller to talk about how breathing affects our bodies and our health. Jill discusses self-care, abdominal massage, and the critical intertwining of the nervous and respiratory systems.