Ethno-nutrition: the science of what humans eat.

• Understand the commonalities that all humans share in their diets, despite differences in environment and cultures.
• Identify what aspects of our modern society differ from traditional societies and their implications on health.
• Learn the origins of the human diet and how it applies to our current understanding of nutrition.
• Identify apparent health paradoxes in cultures who eat diets that are considered unhealthy by modern nutritionists.
• Learn how some cultures can thrive at the extremes of nutrition – from an all-meat diet to an all-plant diet.
• Implement the nutritional and lifestyle habits from traditional cultures to your own way of life.
• Learn to try new foods, or ancient foods that were once common to our species

Functional Nutrition & Ancestral Health

• Learn how your ancestry determines your particular nutritional and physical activity needs.
• Understand how moving to a different climate or latitude will affect your disease risk – based solely on your genetics.
• Learn of the wonders of human adaptability and how disease arises from our inability to adapt, based on a person’s origins.
• Learn about circadian rhythms and how our late-night habits are causing us to become stressed and sick.
• Discern the difference between the way our digestive system was designed to eat versus the way we’re actually eating.
• Implement a functional approach to health by using tricks and tips to live according to the way your body was designed.
• Learn how to prepare food, cook, and eat according to your unique heritage.

The Origins and Future of Stress

• Learn why stress is the number one silent killer in developed countries and how it has gotten out of control.
• Understand the regulation and metabolism of cortisol – the stress hormone – in human evolution and its crucial role in keeping us alive.
• Learn about the HPA-Axis and how dysfunction of this important stress-signalling pathway is at the root cause of all our worries.
• Understand the gender differences in how we perceive stress, whether it’s real or not.
• Learn the health complications of stress, including an increase in body fat, even despite a perfect diet and exercise plan.
• Learn about the tight association that stress has with sleep, your circadian rhythm, your immune system, and the foods that you eat.
• Implement my 13 tips and tricks to control anxiety, get better sleep, and reduce stress.
• Apply proven scientific-based strategies ranging from mindfulness meditation to eating more butter.

Gut Feelings: Digestive Health and the Source of Happiness

• Learn about the incredible advances in gut microbiology and how gut bacteria run our lives.
• Learn about the evolution of our gut bacteria relationship and how we could not have become human without them.
• Discover the growing popularity of stool implants (it’s exactly what you think it is) as a cure for obesity.
• Explore the very real possibility of consuming someone else’s stool as a future health remedy.
• Learn why gluten has become villainized and why it’s actually a health concern and not a fad.
• Discover what foods you thought were healthy are actually causing harm to your digestive tract and your gut flora.
• Learn how to minimize your risk of developing colon cancer, Crohn’s disease, Celiac and other diseases of your digestive tract.
• Implement my recommendations to optimize your gut health through proper nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle habits.

How to Lose Weight for People Who Can’t Lose Weight

• Discover how the current obesity epidemic arises from a mismatch between our genetics and our environment.
• Be able to answer the question “What is more important for fat loss – nutrition, exercise, or sleep?”
• Understand the hormones responsible for gaining weight and how we can manipulate them to reverse the process.