Feeding Your Brain, Building Your Body: 21st Century Health and Fitness with Mark Mattson Ph.D. & Gillian Goerzen

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Feeding Your Brain, Building Your Body: 21st Century Health and Fitness with Mark Mattson Ph.D. & Gillian Goerzen

Fitness programs, diet fads and meal plans come and go, but the tried and true, age-old, movement and eating patterns of our ancestors have kept humans healthy for generations. The relatively new fitness industry was designed to guide people to better eating habits and lifestyle management, but where did it go wrong? Has it become so market-driven that it fails to follow health science and instead leads with looks?

Host, Lisa Kamen speaks with two health professionals who recommend we get back to basics. Dr. Mark Mattson infers that intermittent fasting can affect our physical as well as our mental health and Gillian Goerzen hopes to redefine fitness goals to include a healthy mind, body, and spirit.

Original Air Date Wednesday, January 09, 2019.

In this week’s episode you will learn about:

What current research concludes about intermittent fasting
Why compassion and self-acceptance matter for true fitness
Tools to help yourself adapt to a lifestyle change
How exercise and IF can help resolve depression

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Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio · Feeding Your Brain, Building Your Body: 21st Century Health and Fitness

Meet Our Guests:

Mark Mattson is Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging, and a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. His research is aimed at understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain aging and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, and stroke. His work has elucidated how the brain responds adaptively to challenges such as fasting and exercise, and he has used that information to develop novel interventions to promote optimal brain function throughout life. Dr. Mattson is among the most highly cited neuroscientists in the world with an ‘h’ index of over 200.

Health and Fitness Coach Gillian Goerzen wants you to ditch your diet and quit doing workouts you dread. With a degree in Kinesiology and over 20 years of health coaching experience, Gillian’s personalized lifestyle strategies have helped hundreds of clients redefine what fitness means to them, and get lasting results they never dreamed possible. From hating her body at the age of 5, it took more than 20 years, an eating disorder, an Ironman, and becoming a mom to finally uncover the kinder, more compassionate approach to health and fitness that she teaches today.

Book: Elephant in the Gym: Your Body-Positive Guide to Writing Your Own Health and Fitness Story

Grab More Joy Below:

Are We Happy Yet? Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life — A boot camp manual for greater emotional fitness. Happiness waits for no one and sometimes we all need support.

H–Factor: Where is Your Heart? — Lisa’s documentary film explores the journey of human happiness. Emotions are contagious and happiness is a universally desired state. We tend to forget we all have the freedom to be happy or the liberty to be miserable each day.