A few months ago, I was heading to a wedding in Malibu, driving with my friend Agapi. And once again, I had the pleasure of experiencing first-hand the “Agapi Magnetism,” which can only be explained as the ability to ignite a room with love and JOY the moment she walks in.
She lights up the space like pure sunshine.
Today, we're talking to Agapi about life, meditation, happiness... basically, a lot of stuff. So just tune in and stick around for a short, guided meditation.
Agapi Stassinopoulos is a bestselling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world. In her previous book, Unbinding the Heart, she shares her life’s adventures and experiences...which have been many...including her new venture of conducting workshops for Thrive Global, a company founded by her sister, Arianna Huffington, to help change the way we work and live. In her new book, Wake Up to the Joy of You, Agapi created 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life. Its focus is to help you let go of what doesn’t work and instead create a life that you really want.
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Kathy talks directly to you about her journey. Why did she start running? What benefits has she experienced? What has she learned along the way? And, most importantly, how can we all face our crazy, stressful lives and push forward with confidence?
Enjoy this personal look into Kathy's story and feel free to leave your thoughts on our Facebook page.
For more, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America. And yet, it’s one of the most preventable...through exercise!
Listen to this shocking fact: Treating a patient with heart disease costs more than $20,000 per year, per person. That means that the country could save almost $40 billion a year by just getting about 25% more Americans to exercise moderately. Those numbers are staggering!
Which is why I am thrilled to introduce you to a doctor who knows a lot about the heart. Dr. Aaron Baggish, M.D. He is the Director of the Cardiovascular Performance Program at the Mass General Hospital Heart Center in Boston. He’s also a doctor who knows a lot about the heart specifically as it relates to sports. Dr. Baggish is a medical director for the Boston Marathon and serves as team cardiologist for the New England Patriots, the Boston Bruins, the New England Revolution, the US Men's and Women's Soccer teams, and the US Rowing team. And if you have a favorite sports team that's not listed, don’t hold that against him! You’re still going to want to hear what he has to say about his ongoing research which focuses on heart function and heart disease in athletic individuals.
In this episode, you'll discover...
Approximately 1 in 8 women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. And with each mammogram, most women have a fleeting thought about the possibility of getting a positive diagnosis.
Over the years, there’s been continued controversy about the best ways to detect and treat breast cancer. Breasts represent much more than just a body part - they’re an important symbol of our femininity and sexuality. But, the possibility of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis ignites fears and questions in all of us.
On today’s show we have Dr. Susan Love. She's the author of the enormously popular Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book. Susan’s a distinguished surgeon and her life focus has always been to accelerate breast cancer research and eventually eradicate it. She talks about her experiences with chemotherapy, the current research for preventing and treating breast cancer, and the future.
Let's talk about something that's not often discussed...your hoo ha, cha cha, lady flower, va-jay-jay. Whatever you call it… it’s a fact, your vagina and its surrounding areas will undoubtedly change as time goes by. As you go through your 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, you’ll see that just like every other part of your body, your vagina is getting older.
Even though every woman, and every vagina, is different, there are some common transformations that happen with each decade. Because of the embarrassment or uncomfortable nature of discussing the topic, many times we’re typically uninformed and unprepared for the realities of our aging lady parts!
That’s about to change, because today’s podcast guest, Dr. Julie Reil is here to talk about how to keep everything “down there” healthy and active. Julie is an internationally recognized physician, women’s health and nutrition advocate, educational speaker, and Women’s Voice author.
For more information and complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
Today, I’m so excited to have on the show a man who needs no introduction...the one and only Dr. Oz. He has won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for “The Dr. Oz Show” and is Professor of Surgery at Columbia University.
On this extraordinary episode, you'll learn:
Recently, Dr. Oz was here in Park City, doing a little skiing, and helping launch the Blair Education Center and the new Park City LiVe Well Center…a beautiful new addition to the Park City Hospital. It really embodies the community’s commitment to preventing disease and promoting well-being.
He’s a true pioneer and champion in personal wellness, and his plan, The Regimen, is a daily checklist that shows you what to eat, what to take, and what to do to improve your health now!
The man has more vitality than the Energizer bunny, and when we spoke recently, he talked about his latest passion, and single most under-appreciated problem in America.
For more Kathy Smith, make sure to visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
If you've been thinking adding more beans and leafy greens to your daily meals, or even tapping into your inner herbivore and swapping out meat completely, then this podcast episode is for you. This week, I speak with John Lewis. You may know him as the Badass Vegan. He commands the attention of everybody in a room with his 6-foot physique, toned arms, and smile the size of the sun.
After experiencing some health issues in 2004, John’s doctor suggested that excessive animal protein consumption just might be to blame. So he took on a 30-day NO-MEAT challenge, which was an unlikely move for a gym rat who played college basketball. Even though his friends and family weren’t convinced at first, after his 30-day experiment he felt better than ever. The rest is history.
Beyond his Badass Vegan nickname, John is an in-demand public speaker, personal trainer, and entrepreneur with a mission to bust traditional vegan stereotypes and educate the world about plant-based nutrition and eating more consciously. He’s been featured everywhere from Muscle & Fitness to Men’s Fitness, to Maxim and even Sports Illustrated. In fact, you might have seen him highlighted with my friend Tony Horton in a P90X TV ad.
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We're talking about cellular toxicity. It’s not a topic you hear a lot about, and yet it can be the underlying cause of so many issues including gut problems, a sluggish metabolism, and even the inability to focus throughout the day.
Dr. Dan Pompa is considered to be one of the world’s leaders in healing your cells. His years of extensive research have enabled him to help others suffering from all kinds of health issues. Anything from inability to lose weight to fibromyalgia - from chronic fatigue syndrome to sensory integration disorders.
Dan’s passion is rooted in his own personal health struggle. He’s a walking testimony of the body’s amazing aptitude for healing itself. Dan’s 3-year battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome completely wiped him out. The debilitating effects included…anxiety, insomnia, brain fog, panic attacks...and the list goes on.
His journey of bottoming out and then coming back to be one of the most vital, vibrant people on the planet is a story you’re going to want to hear! It really is nothing short of a miracle.
In his book, Cellular Healing Diet, he lays out a plan that helps you heal your cells so you can revitalize your body, lose weight, and maximize your health.
For more, visit www.kathysmith.com.
Bone broth has hit the mainstream recently and it’s being touted from athletes to nutritionists as a superfood. Bone broth bars are actually showing up all over the country! While it might seem new, from the time man discovered fire, they’ve been drinking bone broth. In fact, when I was a kid, we used to take the turkey bones from Thanksgiving dinner and throw it in a pot with carrots, onions, and seasonings - and what we were left with a yummy broth.
Our guest, Dr. Kellyann Petrucci, has all of the details on how best to use bone broth in our own diets. It’s her go-to drink for healing, wellness, anti-aging, and weightloss! Dr. Petrucci is a board-certified naturopathic physician and a certified nutrition consultant. She’s the author of the New York TImes Best-Selling Book, Dr. Kellyann’s Bone Broth Diet. She’s a sought-after celebrity doctor all across the United States and she’s appeared on Dr. Oz, The Doctors, and countless other television programs.
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You can’t just wake up one day, snap your fingers, and then go pick up a gold medal - becoming an Olympic champion at anything takes real time, energy, and sacrifice. Very few people commit themselves to that pursuit and even fewer achieve their dreams. Well, today, we have a U.S. Olympian with us to talk about the ups and downs of being a world class athlete.
Kate Grace qualified for the 2016 Olympics by winning the Women’s 800-meters at this year’s U.S. Olympic Trials and then reached the final of the 800-meters at the Olympics. Oh yeah! And she’s also my first daughter and I was able to travel to Rio and see her compete in an Olympic Final!
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Remember when you were a kid and you'd drop some food on the ground and then you'd pick it up and eat it without a thought? Well, what if I told you that eating that "dirty" piece of food might have actually been good for you?
Today's guest is Dr. Josh Axe. He's the author of Eat Dirt, a book all about curing leaky gut. For more information on Dr. Axe, visit his wonderful website, www.draxe.com.
For complete show notes and other goodies, please visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
What do you think it takes to get fit? Most people think that it takes a lot of time and a lot of hard work. Today’s guest disagrees.
Martin Gibala is a professor and the chair of the kinesiology department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. In Martin’s new book, The One Minute Workout, he reveals the science and the history behind one of the most popular methods of working out: interval training.
Martin’s here to talk about how low can you go - meaning how little exercise you can do and still get results. Martin is being called a “guru” of interval training...even though it’s a label he’s a bit uncomfortable with. But once you read his book, you’ll be blown away with the science that’s showing how to get fit in a much smarter, faster and shorter way.
So if you’re one of the people who thinks they don’t have time to exercise, or you’re not getting results… then you’re going to want to listen up.
Make sure to visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast for complete show notes.
Today is all about toxins - what they are and and just how they’re derailing your health. The fact is that, at some point today, you’re going to be exposed to toxins. They’re in your personal care products, including cosmetics, they’re in your foods, including food coloring and artificial sweeteners, and they’re even in your common household items, like sealants in cookware and flame retardants in your clothes.
Lucky for us, today’s guest is the toxin guru - Dr. Joseph Pizzorno. He’s one of the world's leading authorities on science-based natural medicine and he’s the founder of Bastyr University...the first fully accredited, university of natural medicine. He has written and co-authored 12 books and publications, including his new book, The Toxin Solution, which is all about how hidden poisons in the air, water, food, and products we use are destroying our health. It also tells us what we can do to fix it.
For more Kathy Smith, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
With all of our modern comforts, it seems that we've lost the ability to experience DIScomfort. Well, Dr. Marc Schoen, author and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, has some tips and tricks to help us conquer discomfort and make us the master of whatever situation we find ourselves in.
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Today's 30-minute interview will have you driving down the weight loss road in no time... even if you find yourself sitting for most of the day! On the show today is Siphiwe Baleka, an Olympic hopeful-turned-trucker who started a revolution in the trucking industry. There’s 3.5 million truckers who are responsible for making this country work, but the price they pay is SITTING for hours on end. And, if he can help truckers with their health, then he can help people who are sitting at a desk all day, too.
Siphiwe Baleka is leading a revolution for taking one of the most unhealthy professions in America and putting it on the road to be one of the healthiest. In his new book, 4 Minute Fit: The Metabolism Accelerator for the Time Crunched, Deskbound, and Stressed-Out, Siphiwe details how to achieve better metabolism through only 4 minutes of exercise. As a Yale grad, Ironman triathlete, Masters swimming champion, and former trucker, Siphiwe is leading the charge for truckers and EVERYBODY who lives a sedentary lifestyle with his 13-week, metabolism spiking program. He’s been featured everywhere from Good Morning America to NPR to Sports Illustrated to Men’s Health.
In this episode, you'll discover...
• What to do if your HORMONES aren't telling your body when you're full
• How to spike your metabolism throughout the day
• Why is the mitochondria so important for weight loss?
• What's the difference between weight loss thinking and fat-loss thinking?
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I have to admit: I was a sugar addict. I loved treats. My after-school ritual as a kid was diving into my mom’s drawer of store-bought chocolate cupcakes and cream-filled snack cakes, which started me on the road to a daily treat. I’ve modified my sugar intake throughout the years, as science has revealed that sugar has many negative effects on the body and the brain. But nothing changed my relationship with sugar more than today’s guest, JJ Virgin.
JJ is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Virgin Diet, which topped the charts for over 30 weeks. Years ago, I caught an episode of a television show that JJ was hosting called Freaky Eaters, about people who ate bizarre things - a woman who smothered everything in maple syrup, for example - and as JJ explains, we all have a bit of a freaky eater within us.
For complete show notes and more great stuff, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
If you’re confused about which fats to eat or which fat makes you fat, then you’re not alone! It’s one big, fat, mess.
So, let’s separate fat from fiction.
Today guest, Dr. Alvin Berger has 30 years of research experience in nutritional and pharmaceutical sciences. And, the focus of his most current research is dietary fat. He’s here today to make sense of some of the confusing health recommendations about which are the good fats, and how much fat belongs in a healthy diet.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
About 20 years ago, I started writing about the 3 F’s of fitness: formal, fun, and functional. Formal is going to the gym or to a class. Fun is what it sounds like: running on the beach or doing a favorite activity, whether it’s going on a hike or swimming at the pool. And functional is fitting fitness into your everyday life.
When it comes to functional fitness, it’s all about the little itty bitty things you can do each day. I know, you’ve heard it hundreds of times - park further away from the store, catch up with your friends on a walk instead of sitting and chatting on the phone, and of course, take the stairs instead of the escalator!
So finding ways to move more throughout the day is the message and the mission of our next guest, Katy Bowman. She runs www.nutritiousmovement.com. You’re going to want to listen up because Katy has created a new movement vocabulary that is unique and original.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the lower front of the neck. It makes thyroid hormone which, in turn, goes into the bloodstream. This process creates energy and enhances the activity of just about every function in your body. It determines your mood, your skin and hair health, body temperature, blood sugar levels, hormonal function, and whether you're more likely to gain weight or lose weight. Today's guest is Dr. Izabella Wentz. She is an internationally-acclaimed thyroid specialist and licensed pharmacist. She's dedicated her career to addressing the root causes of why the thyroid can go haywire and just doesn't function properly.
Dr. Wentz is a New York Times Bestselling author. In her new book, Hashimoto's Protocols, she discusses the most common auto immune condition in the United States.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
Today, I’m so excited to have on the show a man who needs no introduction...the one and only Dr. Oz. He has won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for “The Dr. Oz Show” and is Professor of Surgery at Columbia University.
On this extraordinary episode, you'll learn:
Recently, Dr. Oz was here in Park City, doing a little skiing, and helping launch the Blair Education Center and the new Park City LiVe Well Center…a beautiful new addition to the Park City Hospital. It really embodies the community’s commitment to preventing disease and promoting well-being.
He’s a true pioneer and champion in personal wellness, and his plan, The Regimen, is a daily checklist that shows you what to eat, what to take, and what to do to improve your health now!
The man has more vitality than the Energizer bunny, and when we spoke recently, he talked about his latest passion, and single most under-appreciated problem in America.
For more Kathy Smith, make sure to visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
We've all heard over and over again that exercise is good for you. We’ve heard that eating vegetables is good for you. We’ve also heard that sleeping more is good for you. Despite all of us knowing these things, there are so many people who haven't shifted their patterns. You see, hearing a message doesn't necessarily inspire somebody to take action. What I’ve found through the years is that if you want to make a new habit, you have to bring a powerful reason for changing. Saying, “I want to lose 10 pounds to look better in my swimsuit” is just not a strong enough incentive or motivation to create long-term change.
Today, we’re speaking with Dr. Sara Gottfried and she’s going to share with us how you can reset your genes, reverse aging, and turn back the clock 10 years. Dr. Gottfried is a Harvard-educated physician. She's a speaker and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
In my 35 years of being in the health and wellness business, I’ve experienced a lot of strategies for staying healthy and living longer. But none more convincing that what we’re going to be talking about today.
Today’s guest, Professor Valter Longo, is going to talk to us about the latest findings related to FMD - Fasting Mimicking Diets.
It appears that by periodically adopting a diet that mimics the effects of fasting may yield a host of positive effects on aging, organ function, and weight management.
Professor Valter Longo is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on prolongation of lifespan and longevity. His work and discoveries are labelled as some of the greatest achievements in science. He directs a laboratory of twenty researchers at the Andrus Gerontology Center, one of the oldest and leading centers for research on aging and age-related diseases in the country.
For over 20 years, he's been studying the complex mechanisms which control aging. He’s an award-winning researcher, gerontology and biological sciences professor and director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California. You can find out more about Fasting Mimicking Diets at www.l-nutra.com.
It’s a fact, your skin changes as you age. If you’re like most of us, you’ve noticed more wrinkles, age spots, dryness, and sometimes even outbreaks of rashes or spots. According to experts, women are increasingly suffering from a phenomenon called 'sick skin,” which is caused by stressful modern lifestyles, diet, and overuse of cosmetics and skincare products that are packed with chemicals.
Today’s guest, Dr. Trevor Cates, says that your skin is a reflection of what’s happening inside your body. Or as she likes to describe it, “your skin is your magic mirror,” offering clues about your internal health. So if you had a weekend of splurging, perhaps a few too many glasses of wine or a sugar binge, believe me… it’s going to show up on your skin!
In her new book, Clean Skin From Within: A Two Week Program To Glowing, Naturally Youthful Skin, Dr. Cates provides a four-step process to reset your body and achieve radiant skin. She shares some of knowledge with Kathy in today's episode.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
Heart disease runs in Kathy’s family. Despite the fact that her father appeared to be in great health, he had a massive heart attack and passed away when Kathy was 17. This life-altering incident changed Kathy and redirected her life towards a keen interest in heart health.
Today’s guest is Dr. Kathy Magliato, one of the few female cardiothoracic surgeons in the world. She is author of the New York Times bestseller Heart Matters, the inspiration for the NBC show Heartbeat, and is a recipient of the Spirit of Humanitarianism award.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.
We've all heard over and over again that exercise is good for you. We’ve heard that eating vegetables is good for you. We’ve also heard that sleeping more is good for you. Despite all of us knowing these things, there are so many people who haven't shifted their patterns. You see, hearing a message doesn't necessarily inspire somebody to take action. What I’ve found through the years is that if you want to make a new habit, you have to bring a powerful reason for changing. Saying, “I want to lose 10 pounds to look better in my swimsuit” is just not a strong enough incentive or motivation to create long-term change.
Today, we’re speaking with Dr. Sara Gottfried and she’s going to share with us how you can reset your genes, reverse aging, and turn back the clock 10 years. Dr. Gottfried is a Harvard-educated physician. She's a speaker and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet.
For complete show notes, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.