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  • 02:32 About Dan O’Beirne
  • 05:00 Factors Contributing to Slow Metabolism
  • 07:40 Mental Tricks For Controlling Stress
  • 10:20 Increasing Metabolism
  • 13:51 Exercises for Maximizing Fat Loss
  • 17:10 High Intensity Interval Training
  • 21:29 Diet for Increasing Metabolism
  • 29:20 Boosting Metabolism with Water
  • 31:55 Specific Foods for Boosting Metabolism
  • 36:12 Supplements for Boosting Metabolism
  • 46:06 About Dan O’Beirne Health Coaching Program
  • 48:18 Mineral Power Program

Wendy Myers: Welcome to the Live To 110 Podcast. My name is Wendy Myers. You can find me on myersdetox.com.

I’m sorry about the drilling and really annoying noise in the background. I just want to welcome you to my home that’s also known as a construction site. We’re building a new deck. Our deck was completely rotten out. We had to completely replace all the decks on our home. Yehey, so much fun. So there had been lots of noise going on for the past two or three months. It’s been really hard to record a podcast with all this turmoil.

Today, we are having Dan O’Beirne on the podcast. He’s going to be talking to us about how to increase your metabolism. Everyone is trying to increase their metabolism. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been trying to do it for decades. I read all kinds of books on how to lose weight and increase your metabolism, so I thought that it would be a very good topic for a podcast to cover. You’re going to learn all about diet and supplements and exercise and lots of interesting tips and tricks on how to increase your metabolism and reduce your waistline.

This podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or health condition and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult your healthcare practitioner before engaging in any treatment that we suggest today on the show. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

Wendy Myers: I’m so excited to announce almost the launch of my program BodyBioRehab.com. This is an online health program that will help to increase your metabolism.
It’s a 30-day structured program. It’s going to have 30 days of recipes and meal plans. It will have all kinds of tips about exercise, supplementation, proper supplementation, all about detoxification, which is the key thing missing in most people’s health regimen. It will also have lots of tips about stress, how to reduce stress and improve your sleep quality. So it’s going to hit on all those five important pillars of health.

02:32 About Dan O’Beirne

Our guest today is Dan O’Beirne of MetabolicMotivation.com. He has worked as wellness coach for over 20 years, coaching NFL and NBA players in Miami, working in medical weight loss and on cruise lines. He has conducted seminars on fat loss and fitness training at hospital, these wellness centers in the US. He has also conducted food and wine industry consulting in South America and luxury active adventure travel in Europe. He’s a very busy guy, a word traveler.

Dan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Human Performance, post-graduate course work in Psychology and Exercise Science and a number of professional certifications. Dan launched his wellness site MetabolicMotivation.com to help people to live better, happier, healthier lives with both primal health strategies, positive psychology and modern bio hacks.
Dan, thank you so much for coming on the show.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Hey Wendy. Thank you for inviting me. I’m glad to be here to speak to you and to be your guest.

Wendy Myers: Why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your role as a metabolic expert?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. Well, I started doing wellness consulting way back in the early 90s. I was in the Memphis, Tennessee area. And then subsequently, I headed further south down to Miami. I’ve always loved the Hispanic culture for some reason and got pulled that way.

So what I kept seeing was people were saying, “Hey, how can I get my metabolism to go higher? How can I burn fat? How can I have more energy?” I was thinking of going to medical school then. And I thought wellness is going to be a little side thing for me for a couple of years and I’m going to then go to med school.

What happened was it’s actually become my full-time thing because I did some seminars on how to maximize your metabolism and that became how to motivate your metabolism. It became very popular and so here I am. Now it’s 2015 and I’m really ramping this up.

Wendy Myers: Yeah, I know what you mean. I ramped my website up too. It’s so much fun.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. Yes.
05:00 factors contributing to slow metabolism
Wendy Myers: So why don’t you tell everyone why is everyone’s metabolism so slow today?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Great question. There are many factors. I would limit it to a few. Let’s talk about hormones. It would be a big factor. And we could talk about things like insulin resistance. We could talk about estrogen or testosterone problems with women and men respectively.

We could talk about adiponectin, which is a hormone that a lot of times, we don’t have enough of it. It’s something that we need to help us optimize our metabolism and burn fat. The good news is it’s really easy to boost your adiponectin levels.

You could do things like getting enough green leafy vegetables, getting enough magnesium. You can also get that magnesium with pumpkin seeds. So that’s one thing.

I mentioned insulin resistance. What you can do there is very, very common because we’re getting so much sugar added to our processed foods that are so easy to get. That’s going to slowly wear out our pancreas and our bodies. Our cells become resistant to all the insulin, which means that we have all the sugar circulating around us inside our body and our bodies weren’t able to burn fat. We’re just running on sugar and it just creates a lot of problems for us.

So what you can do there is really limit the sugar intake, limit the carbs, eliminate processed foods as much as possible. And if you’ve really got an is¬sue with this, as many people do, you might want to look at eliminating gluten. You might want to really look at going higher in healthy fats, moderate proteins and really eliminating carbs. That something that’s helpful.

Another thing I’ve seen that is very common would be cortisol problems. Cortisol is one of the stress hormones. Today, we live in a 24/7 world of stress. I could do a whole seminar on stress and things, but basically controlling stress with getting enough sleep, exercise, working on some cognitive techniques like separating what you can control and what you can’t control. That’s my go-to strategies.

07:40 Mental Tricks for Controlling Stress

Wendy Myers: Yeah. Talk a little bit more about people’s locus of control and some of the mental tips and tricks people can do to help control stress.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Sure. I’ve gone deeper and deeper into the mental side with the last five years or so because I think a lot of times people know about what they should do nutrition-wise and exercise. But I think until you get the mental gain dialed in, it’s very hard to implement and execute whether it’s ramping up your business or ramping up your exercise or whatever.

So a couple of things about locus of control, I think the first simplest thing is I suggest to people to have a notebook. It’s something you can – I know we live in all this high tech digital world, but there are actually studies that show that the act of writing something down, for some reasons, seems to be more helpful than doing it digitally, doing it on your computer although that’s okay too.

But I would suggest is every morning – I do this with my coaching class. Take five minutes and write down. Just do a brain dump. Anything that’s bothering you, put it on paper.

Just take five minutes and make it unfiltered, uncensored. It doesn’t have to be [PC]. It’s not for anybody else. Just get it out of your head so that you can see. “Hey, this person is just bothering me for whatever reason or I got too many things to do at this certain time of day. Maybe I need to reschedule something.”

The idea is to take five minutes to write it down. And then come back and look at it later and you may see, “Hey, it wasn’t such a big deal.” So that’s my simplest thing.

Then the second step would be to decide what you can control, what you can alter and what you can’t. So for example, just yesterday my wife and I were looking forward to sleeping in a little bit, which was going to be wonderful. And we had a late night celebration with some friends.

So we really, really woke up at a really early hour about 6:15 because the neighbor’s new dog was just going crazy. Now what are we going to do? We couldn’t do anything about it. So finally, we decided, “Well, let’s just enjoy the morning anyway.” But that’s some simple tips for you there.

10:20 Increasing Metabolism

Wendy Myers: Yeah. So what is your best tip to help people increase their metabolism? What’s the number one thing that people can do?

DAN O’BEIRNE: I think the number one thing for most people is to figure out and get really clear on why you want to do this because having clarity, having a strong why is more important than the how to. So that’s what I would say. Get your why lined up.

Once again, go back to your notebook. Make a list of “This is why I want to do, why I want to motivate my metabolism. These are the benefits. Here’s what I want to go toward. Here’s what I want to avoid.”
Get clear on those. Get them down in black and white, in front of you. Put it on your wall at your – or put it on your computer or whatever it might be so you could see that everyday.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. I totally agree with you. I had periods of my life where I‘ve tried to lose weight after I had a baby.

You can really psych yourself up for a week. And then you start to forget why you’re losing weight. And then you have a little bite of a cookie or something and you just forget your goals.

Now I have a little goal sheet over that. I look at every single morning. I review it every single morning to keep it fresh in my mind as to why I want to avoid sugar and what it’s going to feel like when I lose 15 pounds or whatever my goal is.

It’s really a lot more helpful than just setting out and just starting to exercise and eat right. And then you just slowly start to forget why you’re doing it.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah, the why is so important. And then if I could add another thing, it would be some kind of tracking, what we track.

As Peter Drucker, a great management consultant, said, “What gets attention gets improved.” He said it better than I do. But it’s a tracking. And that can be as simple as having a calendar and you simply X out every day that you exercise.

Maybe you set a goal, “Okay. I want to exercise four times a week.” And you have a calendar visually available and you simply put an X through that day. That’s one really simple way.

A more complex way would be to keep a chart on your distances that you walk or run or the weights you lift or the classes you go to, what you’re spending or whatever it might be or doing some tech stuff, maybe a Fitbit, something like that. It’s nice and very easy way to motivate oneself to get 10,000 steps a day or something like that.

Wendy Myers: Yeah, I just put an article on the website yesterday about the apps that can help you burn fat because I think it’s important like MyFitnessPal and some other ones, MyFatnessPal.

DAN O’BEIRNE: That’s great.

Wendy Myers: They try to record what you’re doing and calculate the calories for you. It’s really, really neat.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. I’m going to look that up. I’m going to definitely look that up. So that’s on your website. That’s at myersdetox.com. Is that right?

Wendy Myers: Yeah. Apps That Help You Burn Fat.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah, I’m going to definitely look that up. It’s cool.

13:51 Exercises for Maximizing Fat Loss and Increasing Metabolism

Wendy Myers: Since we’re talking about exercise, why don’t you tell us the types of exercise that can maximize fat loss and increase your metabolism?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Sure.

Wendy Myers: I think a lot of people will go to the gym and just do their little work out that they’ve been doing for a while. But I think a lot of people just don’t know the best things that they can be doing to increase their metabolism.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah, sure. Great question.

One thing is it used to be thought – the thought was that the human metabolism was like a mathematical equation. So we were taught – and this is back in the early 90s, but it’s still very prevalent that people think it’s all about calorie balance, which meaning there was this 3500 calories a pound of fat. We’ve all heard that.

But what we now know – a lot of the research points toward the fact that it’s actually more complicated than that. A simpler or rather better analogy is the metabolism is not a mathematical equation as much. It’s more like a chemistry lab. So there are all these different factors.

Wendy, we want to look at – getting enough sleep, getting our nutrition dialed in, looking at our macro ratios between the protein and the fats and the carbs, once you got all that, it’s more important to eat right than it is to exercise.

I would say this. You can’t out-exercise a bad diet. That’s very, very important because I’ve had customers that have said, “I’m doing an hour a day of cardio and it’s just not working because I’m not losing any weights.”

“What about your eating? What are you eating?” “Well, I thought I could eat whatever.” It’s just not going to work that way. So I would say, step number one is before you worry about exercises, get your nutrition dialed in and get enough sleep.

Now people are going to say, “Hey. I don’t have time to do this or that.” But yet, most of the studies show we’re watching at least three hours of TV a day. Even people that aren’t watching three hours are probably watching one hour or two hours. So there is where you can find some time.

Once you do that, then you start to focus on the exercise. It’s more important intensity for a healthy person. It’s more important to have a higher intensity exercise. Perhaps intervals of some sort are shown to be better for the metabolism than long slow cardio. So that would be one of my tips. Just look at some interval training.

And then the other is to do some strength training, at least doing the major muscle groups. It doesn’t have to be hours and hours. A lot of times, I’m probably doing a 20 to 30 minute strength workout twice a week. And if I’m in a pinch or I’m traveling or something, I may do it once a week. That’s working the major muscle groups. I could go into some detail on that if you want.

17:10 High Intensity Interval Training

Wendy Myers: Yeah. Why don’t you talk a little bit more about HIIT, about the High Intensity Interval Training if someone doesn’t know what that is?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Sure. The High Intensity Interval Training, HIIT. If you want to Google that, for anyone who really wants to go into detail, there are tons and tons of studies on that.

I’m going to just try to simplify it for people who are really busy, who may be in their car, listening to this. They’re in rush hour or somewhere.

Here’s what you can do. First you get some kind of cardio equipment. This is simply because if you have – if you’re a little bit overweight, it’s better not to be running initially. This is just for injury prevention. There are people that can get away with it, but generally speaking, the safest way is to use a stationary bike or maybe an elliptical machine or maybe a rowing machine.

Do the first three to four minutes at a moderate pace gradually working the intensity up. That’s our warm up phase, phase one.

Then we want to go into our working phase. What we want to do is shoot for anywhere from 5 to 10 intervals. An interval might be 30 to 60 seconds where you’re going about as hard as you can without passing out or anything.

This is once again assuming – we’re talking about a healthy population, someone who is already fit and they want to ramp it up. If you are totally a couch potato, you don’t want to go quite as hard, but you can certainly still do the same sequence. Once again, three to five minutes as warm up. Then do 5 to 10 minutes.

Think of them sets. A set of 30 minutes for example on the bike or on the rower or on the elliptical machine. A set of 30 seconds to 60 seconds going fairly hard.

How do you know? Well, when you get out of breath. That’s a good indication. When you’re out of breath and you’re really feeling that lactic acid, then you want to drop your intensity down for anywhere from one and a half to three minutes. You could call that active rest. So what you are doing is letting your body recover, but not cooling off.

So after that, let’s just say two minute rest period, then you want to start doing another set of 30 to 60 seconds. And rinse and repeat for five. I would initially start off a beginner with five of those intervals and then finish off with a cool down, three to five minute to the moderate pace.

That would allow one to do good solid workout in less than a half hour.

Wendy Myers: I love that studies show that doing these short interval trainings – maybe you can do it for 15 or 20 minutes – burns a lot more fat and increases your metabolism long after you work out much more than say an hour of walking.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah and by all means. There are different theories on that, but it’s probably based on the hormonal response. The human body, when it’s – when we call on our body to exert a strong physical effort like that, we’re ramping up the output of some hormones we need like growth hormone that tends to decline with age.

We also get a boost in our testosterone levels. It’s a regulator and it helps our body optimize a lot of these hormones that we need.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. And also, when you’re exercising, it uses up a lot of the glucose.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yes.

Wendy Myers: It forces the glucose into your cells so that you have less insulin resistance and high blood sugar.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yes, a very good point. I actually do a full hour on this subject, so I’m trying to limit it a little bit and not go on and on. But yeah, there are so many great factors.

21:29 Diet for Increasing Metabolism

Wendy Myers: Yeah. And I love that you are talking about how you can’t work off a bad diet because I’ve tried that before way back in the day.

I actually used to eat a pint of Haagen Dazs everyday. I ate a pint of Haagen Dazs every single night. I had a screaming metabolism at that time. Not anymore, but at that time, I did.

And I was constantly battling. I was trying to lose some weight even though I was really, really thin. But it wasn’t happening. I just kept rocking my brains. “Why can’t I lose weight? I work out so much.”

DAN O’BEIRNE: Right, there you go. It’s a very common situation, totally.

Wendy Myers: And I’ve experimented with it. After I realized that I couldn’t do it, I still kept trying. I started increasing my exercise, trying to work off the sugar and whatnot.
But why don’t you talk a little bit about the diet that people need to be eating in order to increase their metabolism?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Sure. My views on diet are that – I try not to get into people asking me, “Should I go Paleo? Should I go vegan?” And what I would say is I don’t want t make it a religion. But I would say that there are some common sense things.

I have some friends that are vegan. I have friends that are Paleo and I have friends that are – what I find is there is a conversion in the middle.

I would say number one is to have a lot of vegetables. I don’t care if you’re Paleo, you’re vegan or whatever or if you just want to be healthy. I would say that the base of your diet of your day – if you could get 50% of your calories – maybe not calories because vegetables really don’t have that many calories, but 50% of the volume of what’s on your plate, that’s a simpler way to look at it.

And this may include obviously in the mornings. A lot of us were conditioned not to eat vegetables in the morning, which is cool. But there’s no reason we can’t. It may just not seem very appetizing.

You might do some green drink in the morning as a way to get some of your vegetables in. This morning, I had a green smoothie with a three-egg omelet with mushrooms. And it was wonderful. So I had that. And I alternate between green tea and – I don’t want to…

You want to limit your caffeine. Some people are very sensitive to caffeine where they have issues with cortisol, with stress then they may want to look at even eliminating caffeine for a time. But I find I can do okay with caffeine as long as it’s in the first half of the day.

So I had an Espresso with a little bit of butter, of grass-fed butter. So I’m getting some healthy fats in. And that keeps my glucose controlled. It’s low because there’s very little glucose released from that kind of breakfast and it’s a great way to start the day.

Actually, I’m forgetting the question.

Wendy Myers: No. I think it’s very important to eat vegetables for breakfast. That’s a rule that I have. For every breakfast, I have to eat vegetables.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah.

Wendy Myers: This morning, I had eggs and bacon and a gigantic thing of asparagus, with tons of salt-steamed asparagus and tons of salt on. It was delicious.

I tell all to my clients as well that you have to eat vegetables at every single meal in order to get enough in. You take five or six chops of vegetables in. Also, you have mentioned before that diet is – you have to have your diet on point to be able to lose weight and have a healthy metabolism.

My trainer – I started working out with a trainer around January 1st. I’m trying to lose some weight like all of us. I thought it was 60% to 70% diet in order to lose weight. He said it’s 80% diet. If you want to lose weight…

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah, I would agree. It does vary. It can vary with people. But for the average person, especially with my female clients, I do find that it is a little harder and a little slower. Life’s not fair.

But that’s simply because if we look at our bodies, generally females are going to have less muscle tissue, pound for pound. Female should have more body fat than males. We all know that, but sometimes we forget that. So it does make it to slower road usually for the female body.

26:18 Metabolizing Estrogen

Wendy Myers: Yeah. I tell a lot of my clients too that if the females are overweight, the problem is that fat actively produces estrogen. And estrogen holds more weight in your body.

So it’s this conundrum of women that are in the metabolic jail. The more fat you have on you, the harder it is to lose weight. And the thinner you are, the easier it is to stay thin. I think it’s part of that equation because the fat produces estrogen.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. That’s something – I think only in recent years, it’s just starting to become evident that hormones are so important. And that’s a great point.

Wendy Myers: Also, I recently learned this because I had my genes done. I did 23AndMe.com Genetic Test. And I ran it through Sterling’s App, which is at MTHFRSupport.com. It gives you this huge health printout about all your genetic SNPs and what they mean for your health.

And I had a consult with the practitioner with Sean Bean who told me all about what my genes meant. One of them was that I have a problem metabolizing estrogen. That puts me at risk for estrogen-dependent cancers, but weight gain as well because I’m going to have more estrogen in my body.

But another point he gave me was that if you drink too many cups of coffee or any caffeinated beverage, that caffeine prevents metabolizing estrogen. So a lot of people that are drinking Cokes all day or coffee all day long, that’s causing more estrogen to be in their body and preventing its metabolism and promoting weight gain. That’s interesting.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Wow, that’s interesting. I have not run across that. So what he was saying is the caffeine can prevent basically the body from metabolizing the estrogen.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. Yeah.

DAN O’BEIRNE: That’s surprising.

Wendy Myers: Also people have fatty liver disease or they have a congested liver, which most of us do because of the hundred thousand of chemicals in our environment. That’s why I propose people do coffee enemas to get that liver mechanically detoxed and get it running properly so it can metabolize that estrogen.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. It’s very key. One thing I try to suggest to people with regards to detox is not only thinking – not thinking about it as this is once a year or something like that. But think about doing something on a regular basis whenever that might be.

I think the simplest thing is getting enough vegetables, getting enough clean water that’s ideally filtered with the Reverse Osmosis System. And then you store your water into any stainless steel or glass itself and not in plastic bottles so that we’re avoiding the other chemicals and things like that.

29:20 Boosting Metabolism with Water

Wendy Myers: Yeah. Let’s talk about how water boost metabolism, how something that simple can boost your metabolism.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Here’s the thing. Many of us are slightly – here you go. You’re setting a good example for us.

In today’s modern world, what I find is most of my clients are under hydrated, at least the majority, not everybody. There are some that maybe are getting enough water, but even in that case, they’re usually drinking from plastic, out of plastic bottles. So then they’re getting other chemicals in.

So the reason this can be problematic is our human body – we talked about it – is more like a chemistry lab, not a mathematical equation. So for under hydrated, things just don’t work as well. Our digestion does not work as well, therefore we’re going to find that our bowel movements are not regular. A lot of times, it’s just based on being under hydrated.

When that happens, we got more toxicity because those waste products are sitting in our gut. And some of the chemicals might even be reabsorbed into our system again. There are some evidences of that. It’s also going to affect our energy levels because being under hydrated, we’re going to typically have less energy.

One of the symptoms that I see with a lot of my female clients is they complain of chronic headaches at times. And I tracked it and I have asked them. “Tell me when you have noticed this.” And I found a lot of them noticed it more in summer, which makes sense.

If you’re on the edge of being dehydrated chronically or just even slightly dehydrated, if you’re on the edge in the winter and then you go into the summer when it’s hotter and your body is naturally sweating or consuming more fluids and needing more fluids, then you’re going to notice. “Hey. This headache is a signal that something is not working. There are some problems, whatever it might be.”

So I find for a lot of them, just by getting enough water, they’re noticing, “Wow, my headaches are disappearing. I’m feeling more energy.” That allows them to have more willpower and more focus mentally to do the other things, the exercise and to go do the shopping at the farmers’ market, all these things that take time and focus. I could go on and on, but that’s a short version.

31:55 Specific Foods that Boost Metabolism

Wendy Myers: Okay. Let’s talk a little bit about specific foods that boost metabolism. There are certain foods that people can eat to increase their metabolism. Correct?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Well, there are. Yeah, there are things like – people may have heard some of these before, but things like the red peppers. Things like that have been shown to give you a short term boost.

You can also – another thing that’s helpful is to – there’s what’s called dietary induced thermogenesis, DIT. The way this works is there’s a metabolic digestive cost to digesting food. So it takes energy.

The thing is all food is not the same. So when we’re eating processed foods, it’s quite easy to – it goes in really fast. We can put a lot of calories in.

If I was to grab a McDonald’s Burger, I could take in a thousand calories in about three and a half minutes with very little fiber to digest. And so I’m not getting a boost. I’m not really boosting my metabolism at all. In fact, I’m probably slowing it down.

Whereas if I were to eat the same amount of calories with any type of food with fresh vegetables and with some lean protein or any protein – it can be fatty protein too as long as it’s healthy, as long as it’s grass-fed ideally – then I’m going to get a boost in the metabolism from the digestion, this Dietary Induced Thermogenesis.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. What about protein? I’ve read that protein burns a lot more calories to digest. So in that way, it helps your body to burn calories.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yes, by all means. Protein actually has been shown to – if you look at the three major macronutrients, your carbohydrates, fats and proteins, proteins have the highest metabolic cost. Your body burns calories to metabolize and break down the proteins.

So if I am eating – let’s say last night, we had some big beautiful huge shrimps that were wonderful. I cooked them with a little bit of olive oil, a little bit of garlic. It was fantastic. So as my body is digesting those I guess sometime last night, there’s a digestive cost to that. So the body has to ramp up and I don’t know the exact percentage of the calories that are involved. But there is certainly a higher digestive cost.

So to translate this – there are simple things – how does this work in real life? Well, number one, try to always eat – we talked about vegetables every meal. That’s wonderful. And also, have some protein with every meal. And then thirdly, have some fiber with every meal. That goes in with if you’re getting your veggies, you’re getting a lot of fiber.

But in case you may need to supplement the fiber that can be helpful, C-Lium or some other fiber supplements can be helpful for many cases.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. I also like Glucomannan. It’s a fiber that’s shown to slow digestive emptying. It also lowers blood sugar dramatically.

DAN O’BEIRNE: That’s cool.

Wendy Myers: Yeah, I recommend them for anyone that’s diabetic. My father used to take it. He told me about it 10 to 15 years ago. It’s amazing to help control blood sugar and it helps people lose weight.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. That’s Gluco…

Wendy Myers: Yeah, Glucomannon. It’s from the Konjac root. It’s a plant that grows in Japan. It’s something they use all over Asia for people that are trying to lose weight or add more fiber or who are diabetic. It’s really key for anyone who’s diabetic.

DAN O’BEIRNE: That’s great.

Wendy Myers: Yeah.

DAN O’BEIRNE: I think I may have run across that, but I did not have it on my radar. So that’s a great tip. Yeah, there are so many cool things from around the world.

36:12 Supplements to Boost Metabolism

Wendy Myers: Yeah, there are all kinds of things you can do. Why don’t you tell us some of the supplements that you’re familiar with that help to boost metabolism?

DAN O’BEIRNE: There are tons of things. I would probably start with looking at probably helping your body system to detox because if your liver is – many times, I find people are overburdened by all the toxic chemicals that we get in our air and our water and our food. That’s going to affect our hormonal system.

So I would oftentimes start with something like maybe – we talked about the fiber, supplemental fiber – maybe some N-Acetyl Cysteine, NAC is something that’s oftentimes helpful supplementing the B-vitamins, which can help with energy production. It also helps with detoxification, getting enough magnesium. I find this very helpful because most people are deficient in magnesium.

Ideally if I’m working with a customer, I suggest they do a full – we get a full analytical blood test done so we can look what they need to do. Something like the Spectrum Testing might be ideal. Obviously people maybe don’t have the money for that or they’re too busy or whatever. So that’s why some of the things I mentioned earlier are helpful.

Vitamin C, I find this very helpful. It’s water soluble and it’s helpful for many, many functions. So those would be some at the top of my head that I would use.

Wendy Myers: Are you into anything like green tea? I’ve read that green tea can help to boost metabolism. I’ve read all these studies that show that people can drink green tea or supplements with the green tea extract.

I think it’s the ECCGs or the ECEG, I forgot. That’s the active ingredients in green tea. And the studies show that people who drink green tea everyday or take green tea extract lose more weight than the control group that doesn’t.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. Green tea is very helpful especially for – I’m with you. You’re totally right. There are studies that show positive association with weight loss.

Also, it’s very helpful for prevention of cancer. That’s right in my wife’s family here in Spain. We’re trying to help a family member who has a problem with breast cancer. That’s one of the things we’ve been recommending a lot for her. It’s to drink a gallon or a couple of liters of green tea.

But she is a bit sensitive to the caffeine. So what we’ve been doing is just decaffeinating tea. So you’re still getting some of the benefits or you can also do the supplemental form, the extract so that you may not want all the stimulation in the afternoon.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. And then there are the supplements that people can take that really boost their metabolism on a temporary basis.

I actually used to take Phentermine when I was – I’ve taken it a long time ago, maybe in 2003. I was on this weight loss gig and my doctor said, “Why don’t I prescribe you some Phentermine?” So there are diet pills like that that people can take and they do work.

They do temporarily increase your metabolism. But what is the cost long term of taking pills like these or Dexatrim or any kind of over-the-counter stimulants?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. Here’s the thing with the stimulants. Using a stimulant, whether it’s an OTC or even the doctor prescribes stuff from the past, a lot of those are now illegal and with good reason because it’s not going to really cause fat loss.

It is going to jack up your system. It stimulates your central nervous system. It’s like whipping the horses. If you’ve got a horse and you take your horse out – I’m not great rider, but I do enjoy horses from time to time.

So if you’re out riding for hours in your favorite horse, your horse gets tired. And of course, you’ve got a whip and you could start to whip him and he’s going to run. But at some point, he’s going to totally fatigue and give out and he’s probably going get injured.

So that same thing can happen with our body if we are pushing our body too hard, too fast, either using artificial stimulants or the same thing similar to that, over-exercising or under-eating or under-sleeping. I would put all those together, Wendy.

I’ve seen that a lot of times from very motivated, dedicated people who are – I find myself – I have to control myself to the same thing with work. A lot of us in America, we tend to think more is better.
So we think, “Well, I’m just going to push a little harder with this stimulant. I’m going to work a little harder. I’m going to exercise a little harder.” The thing is the metabolism doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t respond to more is better.

It will actually stimulate the fight or flight mechanism, which means your body interprets all that as something is wrong, there’s an emergency situation. And so your body starts secreting cortisol.
So even if you’re taking these stimulants that we mentioned earlier, it’s true that you probably won’t have much of an appetite because you’re so jacked up on these stimulants. So you don’t eat and so you may get a little short¬-term pulp on the scale, but you’re going to then have a rebound effect.

That’s why diets and crash diets don’t work. That’s why studies show that 94% of people in America that lose weight regain it within one year. It’s the same thing because they haven’t actually changed their lifestyle and they’re not working. They’re working against their metabolism instead of working with it.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. When you take any kind of stimulants, be it caffeine or diet pills or what have you, you are fatiguing your adrenals and your adrenal-producer hormones. That’s going to cause this metabolic wrecking ball if you do anything that constantly attacks your adrenals like eating lots of sugar and processed grains and not sleeping enough and taking diet pills or drinking coffee all day long, any of those things.

And really everything attacks your adrenal glands. Those are very wimpy little glands. So I think it’s really important. People have to be consistent. They have to be consistent with working out three times a week and eating healthy in a consistent basis. You have to be consistent.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah, no question. The truth is we don’t really – it doesn’t sound sexy to tell people this. But when people say, “What’s the secret to maximizing metabolism?” And I would say the secret is there is no secret. It’s really about lifestyle.

43:41 Confusion and Misinformation on Health

Wendy Myers: Yeah. So I have a question I like to ask to all of my guests. What do you think is the most pressing health issue in the world today?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Wow, great question. I would say confusion. I think that there’s so much misinformation. Some of it – I don’t like to get into conspiracy theory or anything like that, but it’s very simple.

There’s just so much information we all are flooded with, with the internet and with hundreds of cable channels and all this. And there’s so much need for content that a lot of times, there’s not a good curation of that content.

A lot of people have learned to think that they already know what they need to eat, how to exercise and what they need to do to be healthy. They think they already know it. So they say, “Well, I already know that.” But the thing is they’re oftentimes confused and they’re usually oftentimes implementing information that’s wrong.

You and I both know that if you’re doing the wrong strategies, then you’re going to get bad results. And so the problem is people will do the wrong thing. People are thinking that weight loss is all about mathematics, which we know it’s not. It’s once again back to my analogy.

Weight loss and metabolism is more about your lifestyle. That affects your body chemistry and your hormones. So it’s a big circle.

So I would say that confusion is the biggest thing.

Wendy Myers: Yeah. There is a lot of confusion around nutrition and health. That’s why we started our websites.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah.

Wendy Myers: I had that same thing when I was starting to learn about nutrition. I was going, “What do I do? Do I go vegetarian or Paleo?” It’s just so confusing. So that’s why I started myersdetox.com to try to give listeners a little bit more clarity on how they can address their health issues.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah. I love what you’re doing. I love your website. And in fact, I’ve got to do some serious content creation and I’m going to come over and check out what you’re doing to see if I get some new ideas.

46:06 More about Dan O’Beirne and his Health Coaching Program

Wendy Myers: Why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit more about you and your health coaching program?

DAN O’BEIRNE: Yeah, sure. What I’m doing is helping people. I’ve got a ton of free information over at MetabolicMotivation.com, just basically going into these topics we’ve talked about today and much more.

Then of course, a lot of people out there are realizing they don’t have time read and study all of this stuff themselves. It’s maybe with your taxes. “I’ve got a new car and I could change the oil. I could learn how to do that or I could do my own taxes, but I don’t really know. It’s not my expertise. So I prefer to pay someone to do those things.”

So a lot of times people feel the same way. They may have a goal of wanting to lose some body fat, have more energy and have better mental focus. Those are the three big things that we’re doing a lot of work with.

And so they want someone to create a customized plan for them that actually fits their lifestyle and then also provide some accountability because we all need accountability at times especially when we’re doing a new thing. So that’s what we do with our health coaching program.

The way it starts off, if anybody’s interested in, is we do a free consult 10 to 15 minutes. So we set up a time and we do a talk on Skype and see if there’s a good fit. We answer people’s biggest questions about their health, their fitness, their wellness in that consult.

Then if they want to continue on, we offer various programs that are worth the minimum three month commitment. If you do less than that, you’re probably not going to get real lifestyle results.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. Well Dan, thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Thank you for having me. It’s been a pleasure. Let’s stay in touch.

Wendy Myers: Absolutely.

DAN O’BEIRNE: Okay. Thank you.

48:18 Mineral Power Program

Wendy Myers: I wanted to talk a little bit about something that Dan and I were not able to cover during our podcast. How do you increase your metabolism permanently?

It can be done with my Mineral Power Program, which you can learn more about at MineralPower.com.

When you do a hair mineral analysis upon which this program is based, you can determine whether you are a slow or fast metabolizer. How is this determined? It’s determined by your calcium to phosphorous ratio.

Many clients of mine who have a slow metabolism or insulin resistance or high blood sugar or diabetes even have really high calcium levels in their body. What this does is it reduces cell permeability. Imagine a cell.

If you have too much calcium around that cell, it reduces cell permeability. So nutrients can’t get in. Toxins can’t get out and glucose cannot get into the cells effectively. So it stays in your bloodstream. That effectively raises your blood sugar.

By reducing the calcium levels in your tissues by taking certain targeted supplements healing your body and by correcting your body chemistry, when this calcium is reduced, this solves a lot of metabolic problems of the body.

This is done by taking magnesium supplements. And many, many other tips and tricks are on my Mineral Power Program. That’s the construction going on.

So you can permanently correct your metabolism. It takes a lot of work. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it can be done. A lot of people don’t realize that you can change your metabolism. You can change your body chemistry.

So if you’re interested in learning more about that, you can always e-mail me on the website. Leave a comment or sign up for my Mineral Power Program. Leave a comment on the website. I can answer any questions that you have and I can help you to increase your metabolism.

I’ve done it for myself. I have improved my metabolism dramatically over the last three years that I’ve been on my program. And I can help you to do it too.

Thank you so much for listening to the Live To 110 Podcast. If you want to learn more about me, you can go to myersdetox.com. Check out my online health program, BodyBioRehab.com and you can check out MineralPower.com.

Thank you so much for listening to the Live To 110 Podcast.