The FREE Webinar About Information Overload, Breaking Bad Habits, and a REAL Nutrition Course

by Sean Croxton

I wish I had a time machine.

If I did, one of the first years I would venture back in time to is the year 1999.

My destination?

Front row of my university Nutrition 101 class.

After reading many hundreds of diet and nutrition books since college, as well as interviewing the best of the best health experts on the planet, I imagine I would either have a really hard time sitting through an entire hour of dietary misinformation, or I’d be “that guy” constantly raising my hand to question every word coming out of the professor’s mouth.

It would go something like this…

Uh, professor, how does an old school food like beef cause a brand new disease?

Did you really just say that soy is a health food?

What do you mean genetically engineered foods are perfectly safe?

Low-fat milk. Really?

Wait, so you’re telling me to take the yolks OUT of my eggs?

I’d probably land myself in the Dean’s office pretty swiftly. How dare I openly question a tenured professor!

Maybe this time machine thing isn’t such a great idea after all.

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The Podcast About Balancing the Brain NATURALLY and Stuff…

by Sean Croxton

Dr. Kalish is the man.

If there is anyone who can appreciate the beauty of balancing the brain naturally, it’s me.

About 6 years ago, my own chronic anxiety and depression issues finally led me to the doctor’s office, where I literally begged for a prescription fix.

I had done some reading up on Paxil (an SSRI) and just knew that it would help me snap out of a funk.

Instead, the doc wrote me prescription for Prozac, a drug that, at the time, I had associated with “crazy folk” who were one step away from jumping off a bridge. (I know better now, of course.)

I didn’t want to be a member of Prozac Nation. I wanted my damn Paxil! It was cooler than Prozac — even the great NFL running back Ricky Williams took Paxil, and he led the league in rushing that year!

The following day, I took the leap and dropped my first Prozac down the hatch. I will NEVER forget that day.

I popped my first pill in the morning before heading to my personal training job. I didn’t really notice anything different, figuring that the effects would take a few days to kick in.

Then, during my final session of the day — fortunately my client Beth was a psychologist — I started feeling a little…weird. The colors in the room became brighter. My balance was suddenly off. And I started hyperventilating.

I couldn’t get enough air, it seemed.

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The Podcast About What to Do When a Vegan Diet Stops Working…

by Sean Croxton

There’s nothing wrong with changing your mind.

My gosh, if it weren’t okay to flip-flop in the event of new information, I would still be pushing the Food Guide Pyramid and watching my personal training clients get fatter!

In his book How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie writes, “…ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.”

In other words, human beings LOVE being right — the overwhelming majority of us will stick to our guns regardless of how conclusive the evidence to the contrary may be.

But not Susan Schenck.

Susan had fallen madly in love with her raw food vegan diet. So much so that she wrote a 700-page book about it!

Going vegan made Susan feel amazing. Her book, The Live Food Factor, even became a bestseller, making her a hero amongst the vegan community. She was on top of the world. That is, until…

Her diet stopped working for her.

Ouch!

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The Blog about Losing Fat by Making Shi(f)t Happen and Stuff…

by Sean Croxton

Dean Dwyer is a Professional Human Being.

And then some.

Anyone who can take books like Rework (about streamlining success and increasing productivity for entrepreneurs and small businesses), Good to Great (about how companies achieve enduring greatness), and Against All Odds (the autobiography of James Dyson, the inventor of the Dyson vacuum) and apply them to fat loss and personal transformation is my kind of guy.

Diet books will only take you so far, my friends.

So last night, I skipped the Lakers game and read Dean’s new book entitled Make Shi(f)t Happen: Change How You Look by Changing How You Think. Actually, I didn’t just read it. I inhaled all 268 pages of it cover-to-cover.

Was it good?

Heck yeah it was good! Rarely do I ever read a book straight through. But when Dean shared the epiphany he had after 25 years of eating “healthy” while still carrying around an extra 50 pounds of body fat, I was hooked.

In Dean’s words…

“There was no reason to believe that this time around would be different, and yet I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was onto something this time because my epiphany focused not on how to lose weight, but rather on how to think about weight-loss. Twenty-five years of doing “stuff” hadn’t worked. This time I needed to be different, and in order for me to be different, I needed to think different.”

Word up, Mr. Dean.

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The Podcast about How the Paleo Diet Reversed Multiple Sclerosis and Stuff…

by Sean Croxton

I used to love Richard Pryor.

Still do, in fact.

I imagine it was my father who turned me on to him. At the time, I didn’t really understand his stand-up comedy routine — jokes about sex, women, and cocaine kinda go over a 6-year-old’s head, ya know.

I just remember my Mom covering my miniature-sized ears while he cursed up a storm on stage.

But that just made him cooler, Mom.

Off-stage and on the silver screen there was a lighter side to the potty-mouthed comic. The Toy — co-starring the great Jackie Gleason — is still one of my favorite movies. And who can forget his roles in Brewster’s Millions with John Candy, Superman III with Christopher Reeve, and the hilarious Hear No Evil, See No Evil with sidekick Gene Wilder.

I may have been 9-years-old when I first heard the bad news of Pryor’s diagnosis with multiple sclerosis (MS), a condition he battled for 17 years.

Like his comedy act, I was then too young to fully understand the outlook and implications of an MS diagnosis. It was not until I watched the movie Harlem Nights that it finally clicked.

Right away I knew that something wasn’t right with Richard. His speech was slightly slurred. His coordination seemed a bit off. His facial expressions weren’t the same ones I was used to.

He was deteriorating.

Over the next decade I would watch his condition progress further as he struggled through television interviews. Eventually, his wife did most of the talking for him.

The man who once strutted back and forth on stage had been confined to a wheelchair.

The man who made a living with his BIG mouth was rendered nearly speechless.

In 2005, he was gone.

The laughter had ended. MS is no joke.