Sep 23, 2015
Welcome back to part two of my conversation with Luke Storey on setting up
a holistic strategy for lifestyle design! Luke has spent the past 18 years
developing and refining a robust way of life based on the principles of
nature and spirituality, while embracing technology and modern
convenience.
In this segment, we focus on our strategies for movement, sleep and
meditation! If you missed it, check out part one where we break down our
personal strategies and adaptations to modern life using a four elemental
structure: Earth, Air, Water, Fire.
Episode Breakdown:
* Integrating useful movement into your lifestyle
* Optimizing your sleep routine in urban environments
* Luke’s tactics for falling asleep when not tired
* Pillow-less sleeping
* The discipline of meditation
* Spiritual connection through meditation and entheogens
Sep 16, 2015
In this week's podcast, my good friend Luke Storey joins me for an
intimate, peer to peer conversation on setting up a holistic strategy for
lifestyle design. Luke has spent the past 18 years developing and refining
a robust way of life based on the principles of nature and
spirituality, while embracing technology and modern convenience.
Luke and I apply many of the same lifestyle principles to our very
different lives, and in this rap session, we have an awesome time
discussing our personal strategies and adaptations to modern life. We break
it all down for you using a four elemental structure: Earth, Air, Water,
Fire.
We cover a ton of valuable, actionable information here, and so we’ve split
up this episode into two parts. In part one, we get into our strategies on
diet, water, air and sunlight. Stay tuned for part two (coming out next
week) for our discussion on movement, sleep and meditation!
Episode Breakdown:
* Luke & Daniel’s history
* How Luke got started on his health journey
* Avoiding diet extremes — achieving a healthy relationship with your
food
* Luke’s home + travel spring water strategy
* Navigating through air pollution
* #NakedSunTime
Sep 9, 2015
Couples in the Paleolithic world would never have fantasized about
running off by themselves to their own little retreats in the
forest. No Stone Age lovers would have imagined in their wildest dreams
that they could or should be “everything” to each other. That way lay
death.
― Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy
Stephanie Coontz is a marriage historian and author of seven books on
marriage and family life. In this podcast, she takes us on a tour through
the evolution of marriage and intimacy throughout human history. We discuss
everything from egalitarianism to “the one” to polyamory vs. monogamy. This
show is enlightening and adds another piece to the puzzle as we continue to
dissect the mating styles of the human animal, here on the ReWild Yourself!
podcast.
Episode Breakdown:
* The way we never were
* Are we hardwired for egalitarianism?
* The quest for in-laws
* Marrying for love
* The soulmate fantasy
* Individual needs vs group needs
* Sex and marriage throughout history
* Monogamy vs non-monogamy
* The story of divorce over the ages
* Today’s marriage statistics
* The changing roles of men and women in a marriage
Sep 2, 2015
Most of us are exposed to an abundance of artificial blue light on a daily
basis, via our modern technology (lamps, cellphones, computers, TVs, etc).
Our bodies physiologically respond to light from the blue portion of the
spectrum with a state of wakefulness, via the suppression of melatonin
production. This constant stream of artificial blue light is wreaking havoc
on our circadian rhythms.
Today’s guest, a physicist, is one of the leading experts on this topic —
Dr. Edward Carome. In this episode, you’ll learn how blue light interacts
with our bodies by suppressing melatonin-production and some surprising,
and not often discussed, effects this can have on us. Dr Carome relays some
excellent strategies on how to minimize blue light exposure, particularly
in the evening hours. Whether you are using these blue-light-producing
modern devices on a daily basis or not, the information in this interview
is extremely important! Enjoy, and please share your thoughts in the ReWild
Yourself! Facebook group! I’d love to hear what strategies you are
utilizing to safeguard your circadian rhythm!
Episode Breakdown:
* Dr. Carome’s background in light
* The effects of blue light on the pineal gland
* Artificial light from our modern devices
* Dr. Carome’s experience with melatonin
* When to use blue-blockers to support your circadian rhythms
* The powerful effects of melatonin
* Amount of blue light in LEDs, Incandescents, Tungstens and other
bulbs
* Do short bursts of blue light at night cause melatonin production to
cease?
* The best blue-blocking products and how to use
* Crisper focus outdoors wearing blue-blocking glasses
* Concluding thoughts