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On today's episode of EMBody Radio, I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Nick Komodina. In a world full of people who aren't who they portray themselves to be online, Nick is the absolute opposite of that. I’ll allow Nick to introduce himself, but if there’s anything I can say about him, it’s that he’s not only who he portrays himself to be online, he’s a lot more than that as well. We get into a lot of deep shit on this episode, and I really feel like you’re going to walk away from today’s show feeling inspired, more aware of yourself and the boxes you place yourself in, and overall more equipped to live unabashedly as YOU, and nobody else.   What you'll hear today:  -Growing up with his mom in a trailer park -How nothing is certain -Getting screwed in his first business endeavor and starting over from scratch opening his own gym, NK Fitness -How he hurt his own business by developing a “God complex” -Trying and failing over and over and over again to succeed -Opporutnity and what to do wit

After a lonnnnng time away, EMBody Radio is back. And I'd go so far as to say that it is back with a big bang. Today on the show, Joseph Sheehey returns for his second podcast on EMBody Radio. Joe is a human on a journey - a journey that has led him to some very dark places, and now on a journey to truly experience the fullness of life, elevating himself and those around him, and working on creating products that truly help others live well. Joe is one of the founders of Cured Nutrition, one of the original leaders in the CBD industry and the CBD company I've aligned myself with over the last 2-ish years. Joe truly has an amazing story and this show re-ignited my fire behing why I love podcasting in the first place. This conversation left me feeling deeply, inspired, and with a newfound appreciate for my friend and for one of the men behind a company that I fully love and believe in. **TRIGGER WARNING** We do discuss mental illness/depression/suicide in this episode. Today we talk about: -What being a leader

It's that time of year... aka the New Year. Aka the time of year when the already rampant bad health/fitness nutrition advice is even MORE prevalent. In today's episode, I take some of the worst pieces of fitness "advice," diet programs, and general fallacies that YOU guys left on my Instagram and got into some of why those protocols/recommendations aren't going to necessarily get you where you want to be.  If you're ready to hear some bad fitness advice debunked, you'll love today's episode! --------------------------  Find me here:  Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Everyone talks about "metabolism." Slow metabolisms, fast metabolisms, metabolic adaptation, stubborn metabolisms, all that. But... what actually is "your metabolism?" Can you point to it?  Today's episode was inspired by a follower question essentially asking me to help her better understand what "metabolism" actually means. So lets talk allllll about -what "metabolism" actually is from a physical perspective (definition time) -what metabolism practically means -the different components of your metabolism -how those components change/adapt in various scenarios -what having a "slow" or "fast" metabolism actually means -a couple examples of why and how metabolisms adapt to periods of low energy -how metabolic rate is tested -lots more! ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic provides the best in adaptogenic/therapeutic mushroom products. You’ve seen me post about this stuff on Instagram and IG stories all the time, and I wanted to take a sec to tell y

I'm done with my undergrad, have a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, and am readaaaaayyyy to talk to you guys today about training and training intensity. In today's show, we talk about: -How muscle actually develops, -What "adaptation" truly means, -Maintaining, progressing, and regressing adaptations, -Newbie gains, -Where your starting point should be if you feel like you've plateaud in training, -The concept of progressive overload and why most people aren't achieving it, -Training intensity techniques for intermediate/advanced lifters to keep progress moving along, -Why it's not "10% training and 90% diet," -So much more! --------------------------  Find me here:  Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Sleep - it's something that we all love, but that most of us proooobably aren't getting enough of. And that's a HUGE detriment not just to our overall health, but to our performance and body composition. In today's show, we're talking sleep. More specifically, we're talking: -How poor sleep may negatively impact fat loss, -How poor sleep may potentially be catabolic (muscle-wasting), -How poor sleep may promote body fat gain, -Sleep hygiene, -Creating a nighttime routine that works for you and WHY you should have one, -Supplements that help with sleep quality/falling asleep, -The best environment for sleep, -Lots more! -------------------- Study referenced: Nedeltcheva, A. V., Kilkus, J. M., Imperial, J., Schoeller, D. A., & Penev, P. D. (2010, October 05). Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921542 ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic provides the best in adap

This episode serves as a capstone of sorts for the resources I've created surrounding breast implant associated health problems, more commonly known as "Breast Implant Illness." Today I had the pleasure of talking with board certified plastic surgeon and MY personal explant surgeon, Dr. Brian Lee, on all things breast implant issues. We talk about: -His journey into the profession, and how his own struggle with psoriatic arthritis led him down a path that blended his knowledge as a surgeon with more holistic/full-systems healing -How he got involved with the Breast Implant Illness community -What Breast Implant Illness is -Some potential causes of/triggers for health complications from breast implants -How he learned about BII in his own patients -The hot topic question of, "Will it happen to everyone with implants?" -Whether or not he feared the success of his practice if he began explanting women and acknowledging BII -Where the medical/surgical community and medical device community could use improvements

Steroids, particularly anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), are very popular in all sports, but particularly strength and physique sports (bodybuilding, Weightlifting, powerlifting, and Crossfit). There's a huge taboo around AAS, but an even bigger taboo surrounding women and androgen use. I'm so excited to bring you part 2 with Victoria Felkar, a researcher whose research is quite literally titled, "Women and Steroids." We're diving into that exact topic in this episode. Today we talk about: -Side effects of high levels of androgens in women (whether they have endogenous hyper-androgenism or they're supplementing with androgens) -Are the side effects of high androgens permanent? -Managing female anabolic androgenic steroid use -Coming off of AAS  -Hormonal and systemic changes when you take androgens/systems effected when you're on androgens -Things you need to do to regain normal health/function after using AAS -How long does it take to regain normal health after drug use -Is there an intelligent/"healthy" w

Do you take or have you taken hormonal birth control? Do you understand your own menstrual cycle? Have you ever tried to go off birth control and had an awful time trying to regain your natural cycle?  Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Victoria Felkar once again. She was in some of the first episodes of EMBody Radio (episodes 5 & 6 to be exact), and she is a wealth of knowledge. Victoria is a researcher and she studies the things that other people don't seem to want to touch - women and hormones, particularly exogenous ones like birth control and anabolic androgenic steroids.  As usual, we talked on and on, so this is part 1 of 2 episodes. In today's show, we talk about: -hormone history and where the gendering of hormones began ("male" hormones vs "female" hormones) -the back story of hormones -the back story of sports medicine/hormone manipulation -the development of synthetic hormones (estrogen, testosterone, progesterone) -how hormonal birth control pills and anabolic androgenic steroids are bo

What's up guys! Today we're back for a solo episode and we're digging a little deeper into fat loss... and more importantly, when it's NOT a good time to try and lose body fat and/or why your fat loss phase isn't going the way you'd like it to. Here's the link the the research review on metabolic adaptations I referenced in this show: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1550-2783-11-7 Today we talk about: -what needs to be in place before you start a cut -why previous dieting attempts could be thwarting your current one -why coming out of your diet poorly can set you up for future failures/struggles (including excess bodyfat gain) -taking the TIME out of a fat loss phase to get your metabolism and hormones back to normal levels -how long you need to spend out of a diet before starting another one -why consistency matters and the negative impacts of yo-yo dieting -what to look out for during your fat loss phase -changes to hunger hormones when you diet -potential reasons why your fat loss phase is

Do you struggle with anxiety and/or depression? SO many of us do. Did you know that what and how you eat could help heal that? On today's show, I had to pleasure of interviewing Ali Miller. Ali is an integrative functional medicine practitioner with a background in naturopathic medicine. She is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator, with a contagious passion for food as medicine developing clinical protocols and virtual programs using nutrients and food as the foundation of treatment. Her Food-As-Medicine philosophy is supported by up-to-date scientific research for a functional approach to healing the body. Ali is a renowned expert in the ketogenic diet with over a decade of clinical results using a unique whole foods approach to a high fat low carb protocol. In today's show, we covered: -How Ali toes the lines between allopathic (traditional western medicine) treatments and naturopathic/functional treatments -Dietary ties to mental illness -Stress and the imbalances it causes -HPA

I've been through a lot of weird health complications the last couple of years and tried a lot of different therapies. If you had told me a year ago that it was my breast implants that were causing the problem, I'd have thought you were crazy. My health continued to decline, and then I came to realize that my implants could very well be at the root of why. Today, I talk about: -Some of the symptoms I had -What I tried to fix them/heal -What made me believe my health problems were related to my implants and not some other disease -My explant journey, finding a surgeon, why I chose the surgeon I chose, etc -Why you NEED an en bloc total capsulectomy if you choose to explant -How I'm feeling now/improvements I've already seen since surgery 2 weeks ago -Lots more! ----------------------- My Blog Post Healing Breast Implant Illness Website Breast Implant Illness and Healing by Nicole FB Group ----------------------- ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmat

TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS EPISODE: We discuss eating disorders, physically/emotionally abusive relationships, PTSD, and mental illness in this episode, so please be aware of that before listening.  Today's guest is, to put it simply, a warrior. Mik Zazon has been through so much for such a young person, and she's all about owning her story and using it to help others. Today's episode covers so many topics, including: -Physical trauma from sports that left her without college scholarships and without an identity, -What happened when she first started dieting, particularly yo-yo dieting, -Going through an emotionally and physically abusive relationship -Identifying abusive/unhealthy relationships -Learning to depend entirely on herself as a form of healing -Dealing with eating disorders, mental health, PTSD, and so much more, -The root of your problems, -Her experience being caught photoshopping her Instagram pictures and the realization that happened afterward that prompted her to truly get the help she needed,

Blood flow restriction training, also known as occlusion training/BFR, has become increasingly popular in the fitness industry. Today's show features Kusha Karvandi, the man behind BFR Bands. Kusha has an extensive background as a trainer (over 10,000 hours with clients and over 20 nationally recognized certifications) and he also has a unique perspective given his knowledge of neurology. Today's episode is rich with knowledge from Kusha, including: -What does "functional neurology" even mean? -Why proprioception isn't the only signal we should be considering  when it comes to our training -The importance of your vestibular system and vision, and how those may help you upgrade your training to the next level -Easy exercises to start implementing into your training to improve your vestibular and visual acuity -What blood flow restriction training (BFR) is and how it came about -How to properly program BFR (band tightness, volume, load) -Who BFR is and isn't appropriate for  -...So much more! And as a thank you

The body positivity/#BOPO movement is becoming increasingly popular... One question that health professionals, myself included, have asked, is "Does promoting body positivity mean promoting obesity or unhealthy behaviors?" There's also a myriad of fitness influencers/personalities beginning to use body positivity hashtags and claim the movement as their own... which can be problematic. Today's guest, Victoria Myers of Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is a Registered Dietitian who also speaks extremely eloquently on body positivity. She specializes in disordered eating, female hormones, IBS/SIBO, and body positivity. In today's show, we talk about: -The Body Positivity movement and what it means/why it was created, -Defining diet culture and how it impacts our lives, -Internalized vs. externalized fat phobia,  -Thin privilege, -Body positivity and promoting health, -Why diets aren't the key to health, -Health at every size, -Recovering from amenorrhea -Coming off of hormonal birth control and getting normal hormone

Social media essentially runs our current world... And I don't really think it's going anywhere. To be honest, there are a TON of positives to social media! But, put it in the wrong hands, and it can go south reeeeeal quick. It gives anyone with a smartphone/computer/tablet the ability to speak freely, without filtration or regulation. That can be a breeding ground for misinformation, especially in the fitness industry. I don't know about you, but there have been many a time when I found myself scrolling, reading, listening, or watching, and I just got FRUSTRATED. Consuming content is a job in and of itself... You have to know HOW to consume it intelligently without letting it take over your entire brain space. In today's episode, I'm giving you 5 of my favorite ways to be a better content consumer so you can have a better overall social media experience! --------------------------  Find me here:  Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Do you struggle with your diet? Rather, do you struggle with STICKING to your diet? Today's guest is Dr. Kori Propst. Kori is a health psychologist at the Diet Doc and the Mental Edge program, where she works to uncover the motivation(s) behind and the mindset of eating. She helps clients work on what and HOW we think, tendencies we have, triggers we have, and developing emotional agility. In today's show, we had some amazing conversations about diet, the mindsets/tendencies we have surrounding diet, our triggers, and so much more. Here are some highlights of our conversation: -Emotional agility and learning to do backbends over barriers, -Becoming more aware and open minded of our dietary thoughts/behaviors, -Coaching from a strength-based perspective vs a shame-based perspective, -Being able to identify where our problems, issues, and triggers stem from, -Self control when it comes to eating and the "what the hell" effect, -Deep-rooted fears of rejection, lack of connection, and the desire to belong with ou

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Drew Canole, author of the book "You Be You" (available for preorder now) and founder of Organifi. This episode started as a talk on all the benefits of greens and took a turn for the spiritual. Get ready for this one, we went deep here! We talk about: -How Drew got into this whole situation through his own health transformation, where he discovered the power of green juice, -Defining yourself, -Focusing on not just identity, but WHYdentity, -"Waking up" to create your best life, -Practices to put into place to elevate your frequency in every day life, -Toxic relationships and how to move past them, -Realizing where the "leaks" are in your life and how to plug them, -Spiritual growth and cultivating true, powerful self love, -SOOOO much more! Organifi was also kind enough to offer a discount for EMBody Radio listeners! You can shop Organifi products here and use the code EMBODY for a 15% discount on your order! ------------------- Find Drew here: Pre-order Drew's new b

Today's episode features Sarah Clark, a fertility coach who has been through the ringer with her own reproductive health. Sarah was diagnosed with ovarian failure at 28 and had her two children via in vitro fertilization. It wasn't until later that she realized her infertility was actually caused by various food intolerances. She has now dedicated her life to coaching couples through infertility challenges and helps women conceive naturally. In today's show, we talk about:   -Sarah's journey through being diagnosed with ovarian failure and turning to IVF, -How she fell very ill after giving birth to her daughter and how that led her on the path that eventually brought her to alternative medicine therapies, -How she discovered that food sensitivities were at the root of her infertility problems, -The most common food sensitivities and how they play in overall health as well as reproductive well being, -Some steps for unearthing and healing food sensitivities, -Tips for helping to clear inflammation from the bo

Today's episode is a solo episode from yours truly! Adversity, struggle, sadness, hardship. Ubiquitous across the human experience. But what happens when tough times strike? Do you fall into the victim mentality? Is everything that happens to you "just bad luck," or make you feel stuck/like you're destined to live a crappy life? Or are you the protagonist? Do you KNOW there's a way, and do you find it? We're all one of those two people. Learn which script you're reading to flip it out of the victim mentality.  ------------------------ Giveaway details:  1. Leave a rating/review on the show (leave your IG handle in the review so I can find you!) 2.  Follow @embodyradio on Instagram 3. Comment one thing you loved about today's show on @embodyradio's most recent post and tag a friend!