Podcast Episode #22: “Eight Ways to Instantly Increase Your Low Metabolic Rate.”

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Podcast episode number 22 from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Welcome to the bengreenfieldfitness.com podcast. Each week, we'll be bringing you cutting-edge content on holistic nutrition, medicine, weight loss, and sports performance, as well as a host of other exciting topics pertaining to fitness, diet, and lifestyle wellness. My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm a certified nutritionist and exercise physiologist. So whether you are an Ironman triathlete or you're just trying to shed a few pounds, we're going to keep you entertained and help you achieve success in all your personal goals. So enjoy this podcast and stay healthy!

Hey, podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield. And in today's podcast, we're going to be focusing on hypothyroidism and low metabolism. Some of the things that you can do to support your metabolism, a few of the topics included in this podcast is going to be how you can actually find out a very good, accurate home test to determine if you have a low metabolism or low thyroid. We're going to talk a little bit about exercise. Is there a way that you can actually hurt your metabolism when you're exercising? We're going to talk about thyroid medication. What thyroid medication might be your best bet and why some of the more popular thyroid medications may not actually be the ideal answer for your needs.

One of the oils that you have to be consuming to keep your metabolism elevated, whether you have a low metabolism or not, a very, very crucial oil for overall wellness.

There is a certain mineral that's crucial to your metabolic rate, compared to all the other minerals out there. I'm going to be going over that. A couple of compounds that really should be in your daily multivitamin. I've got a recipe for a special thyroid support juice. And then finally, eight foods that you really need to avoid if you have a low metabolism.

Also, in the episode today, I will be unveiling a way that you can actually win a free gym stick. And if you have no idea what the heck a gym stick is, I'll be telling you a little bit more about that. We'll also have a little bit of an interview today about your off-season triathlon training, a few triathletes out there, as well as the way that you might need to be getting through the holidays and some choices that you can make to help you get through the holidays just a little bit more successfully from a health and a nutrition perspective. I'm going to be talking to an expert on a couple of these things, Mark Cavallaro, who's a new personal trainer and triathlon coach over at Pacific Elite Fitness. This guy has 20 years of experience in the industry. He's done over 10 Ironman triathlons.

Really great interview with Mark. So obviously just a jam-packed episode. At the end of this episode, just in case you want to raid us in iTunes, I'm going to explain how you can do that. I'm also going to put a link in the show notes about how you can do that. If anything you hear mentioned in this episode, you can go to bengreenfieldfitness.com and find more about in the show notes for this podcast, episode number 22 from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Before we jump into today's packed content about metabolism, I want to mention a special offer that I'm giving to anybody that lives in the local Spokane, Coeur d'Alene area. Now you may be aware that one of my favorite devices for muscle toning and fitness, especially when you need a portable exercise tool, is something called the GymStick. And this is something that I discovered a few months ago at Health and Fitness Expo that's kind of big in Europe right now. It's straight out of Denmark, and it's used for group fitness classes. It's also used for individual, whether sports specific or muscle toning, workouts that can be used for core, for legs, for lower body, for full body combo workout. It's called a GymStick, and it's like a combination between training with free weights and training with an elastic band. There are a ton of different exercises that you can do with it. If you go to the bengreenfieldfitness.com videos page, I actually have an entire workout that I filmed using the GymStick. It's something that I implement with a lot of the clients that I train in Spokane, Washington. And you can actually read a little bit more about the GymStick itself if you go to bengreenfieldfitness.com/gymstick, or click on the link to the GymStick in the show notes for this episode. But basically, a very, very simple program that I'm offering is a free GymStick. That's right, you can win a free GymStick of your choice, a resistance of your choice, because they come in varying resistances. And all you need to do is refer someone into our program in downtown Spokane, Washington. And this is the personal training program that includes exercise, metabolic testing to determine your fat burning zones and caloric requirements. It includes body composition testing, range of motion, flexibility testing, fitness testing to identify your baselines. And then from there on out, a detailed workout and nutritional plan that is good for anybody that's going after general fitness. But specifically, one of the things that we're very, very good at down there is developing a fat burning enhancement program because the combination of metabolic testing, exercise and nutritional programming, and then access to some of the things that we offer at the medical clinic such as a comprehensive blood metabolic profile, thyroid screening, hormone analysis, biochemical evaluation. Basically, these are a lot of the things that will allow you to delve a little bit more deeply into your body than just, for example, a strict exercise program or something of that nature. We basically put all the pieces of the puzzle together for you. Now, if you know someone or you yourself are interested in this program, all you have to do is shoot me an email, ben at bengreenfieldfitness.com, and you can win a gym stick, a free gym stick. If you refer anyone into this program or if you yourself enter into the program, we'll provide you with a gym stick. We do that for a lot of the people down there anyways who are training and who need access to this portable exercise tool, one of my favorite ways for muscle toning and fat loss. So again, special referral program for people in the Spokane, Washington area. Refer to me, Ben, at bengreenfieldfitness.com and win a free gym stick.