Every year, millions of people resolve to lose 10lbs in the new year. They starve themselves for two weeks, join a new gym, lose a few pounds—but then gain it all back in February when their motivation wanes. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we discuss how to make your goals a reality with counterintuitive methods that deliver results.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why to keep your goals a secret
• Why writing is the doing part of thinking
• Why you should draw pictures of your goals
• How to create a New Year's mantra
• Why you should rinse & repeat successes

 Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Sprouted breads: friend or foe?

 Links & References from the Show:

• YOGABODY 30-Day Sugar Detox

 Thanks to our sponsor:

When you’re trying to burn fat, get fit, increase your energy, improve your digestion and just plain feel better each day, it can be overwhelming with all the conflicting health information online. Do you start with organic food? Paleo? Raw vegan? Do you have to run marathons or is yoga a good solution? There’s just too many choices and too many opinions.

The truth is that there are as many paths to exceptional health as there are trees in the forest, so rather than argue about which path is best, let’s just focus on elephant in the room. Medical doctors, weight loss experts, yoga teachers, and weight lifters all agree that the single biggest trouble maker in our modern diet is excessive sugar in all its forms. It causes weight gain, diabetes, hormonal problems, premature again—and just about every other health problem you can think of. So if you want to get healthy, let’s start with the one change that will give you the biggest bang for your buck. Together, let’s kick the sugar habit and start a positive spiral towards health.

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The Yoga Talk Show is 3 years old, and I feel like we're just getting started. 2015 was an amazing year with over 50 guests with topics spanning from hormonal health to barefooted running. I've learned a ton, and I hope you've found this information valuable as a listener. In this week's show, I've decided to do a "year-in-review" episode to highlight some standout moments for me in the previous 12 months.

What You’ll Learn:

• Breathing
• HRV
• Barefoot Running
• Face-to-Wall Handstand
• Kombucha

 Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Aspartame: friend or foe?

 
Links & References from the Show:

• Thesis Beauty

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Your body is hard-wired for survival, but our modern world throws continuous health challenges our way. I wish things became easier with time and age, but for most people, the journey toward health becomes more and more challenging. To help you on the path to optimal health in the new year, please meet plant-based medical doctor, Michael Greger, MD.

Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine.

Currently Dr. Greger serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. Hundreds of his nutrition videos are freely available at NutritionFacts.org, with new videos and articles uploaded every day.

He is the author of a new book titled, How Not to Die: Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease just released this month and available on Amazon and all major booksellers.

Listen & Learn:

• Why anyone eating a plant-based diet should supplement b12 and might need vitamin D3
• The truth about lab-created meat products coming out in 2016
• Why most people fail at plant-based diets (and all diets for that matter)
• How plants can transform your health

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Is there such a thing as low glycemic holiday foods?

Links & References from the Show:

• Nutrition Facts

Got questions?

• Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com

Thanks to our sponsor:

SweatHouse

Patty Post, is a yogi from Minnesota and the creative mind behind Sweathouse. Aside from their colorful yoga towels, Patty created “the Saucha Spray”, a anti-funk spray because she was sick of her yoga clothes smelling just after a few months after purchasing them. She realized that her sweat, and habit of washing her yoga clothes hours; sometimes even days after practicing was causing the funk. The bacteria in our sweat sets into fabric just 2 hours after sweating and once it's in it's really hard to get out. So she created a formula that prevents the funk from setting in, spray on fabric after sweating to keep your clothes and gear smelling fresher, longer.

She realized that it can be used on anything even hockey equipment, dance costumes!

After you namaste, spray Saucha.

This week’s yoga talk show explores medicinal mushrooms; not the hallucinogenic kind, the type that boost your immune system! Tero Isokauppila, co-founder of Four Sigma Foods, a medicinal mushroom superfood and super drink company, shares with you the health benefits of Reishi, Chaga, Shiitake, Cordyceps and Maitake.

What You'll Learn:

• How mushrooms can boost your immune system
• How water soluble soluble polysaccharides act to modulate your immune system
• How fat soluble triterpenes can balance your hormones
• Why many supplements are made with mycelium - not the actual mushroom fruiting bodies
• Why China is leading the way for medicinal mushrooms both with cultivation and extraction

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Do healthy store-bought salad dressings exist?

Links & References from the Show:

• Four Sigma Foods

Got questions?

• Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com

Popular health advice around the holidays usually includes such nonsense as doing squats before you pig-out, taking charcoal capsules after you drink too much, and going to the gym twice per day in an attempt to balance out your gluttony. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but none of those things will undo the damage of overeating and overdrinking—but there are some simple strategies that can really make a difference.

Listen & learn:

• Why eating 1 gram/ 1lb of body weight is a simple way to keep you holiday food consumption in check
• Why desserts and alcohol are the most fat-inducing things to avoid
• How to make your holidays more active and naturally fitness-oriented
• Why mental health is an absolute must during the holidays, and some simple ideas for getting started

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Phytoestrogens and Xenoestrogens - how do they affect us?

Links & References from the Show:

• YOGABODY

Got questions?

• Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com