The Project Red Podcast is all about optimising our health, performance and recovery by aligning our lifestyles to our natural rhythms while having a little fun along the way. Hosted by James Strong and Bryan Gohl. Brought to you by Red Light Rising.
Siim Land is an author, content creator, holistic health practitioner and a high-performance coach.
Siim is recognised the world over as one of the leading authorities on biohacking or health optimisation and is also an extremely knowledgeable researcher on the high fat diet and fasting.
Quick Fire Answers
Best Advice - Don't pay attention to the opinion of others.
Best Book - Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Best Tech - Kotsu Bands and Oura Ring
Best Hack - Intermittent fasting and Sauna.
Find our more about Siim Land on his website. - > https://siimland.com/home/
In this episode James and Bryan were lucky enough to get to talk to Darryl Bosshardt, the grandson of the founders of Redmond Real Salt.
We discuss the history of Redmond and salt in general, the myths about consuming salt, the importance of including high quality salt in your and so many other interesting facts about this beautiful pink stuff Redmond REAL SALT!
Redmond Real Salt is now available in the UK and EU only at redlightrising.co.uk
Darryl’s -
Best advice he wish he could of given himself when he was young - Be more kind
Favourite book - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2122.The_Fountainhead
Favourite tech - https://www.strava.com/
Favourite habit - exercise
James Taylor is a former English cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.
A sporting phenomenon from an early age, he chose to forge a life in cricket, establishing himself as one of the country's leading batsmen and an England regular.
Having represented England at under-19 level and captained the England Lions, Taylor made his One Day International (ODI) debut for England in August 2011.
A serious heart condition, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), forced him to retire from all cricket in April 2016. Two years after his retirement he was appointed as a selector for the England team.
James is also an author, find his book here - > https://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Taylor-Cut-Short/dp/1526732378
Quick Fire Answers
Best Advice - Enjoy the highs of success, eventually they end!
Best Book - Engage : The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson
Best Tech - Red light therapy and mobile phone
Best Hack - Golf and pilates.
Kris is an internationally renowned businessman, celebrity trainer, and physique transformation specialist.
Kris is the CEO of Kaged Muscle Supplements, Co-founder Kris Gethin Gyms franchise, founder of Healthkik.com, author, educator, biohacker, and hybrid athlete.
His passion and determination for building a better, stronger, healthier body and mind pushes him to achieve great things for himself physically and mentally, thus enabling him to motivate and inspire his followers and fans across the world to achieve greatness for themselves. Kris has transformed millions of physiques through his immensely popular video series shown on bodybuilding.com, kagedmuscle.com, and now healthkik.com.
He is the author of many books including the #1 best seller Body by Design, The Adventures KAGED MUSCLE, The Transformer, and Man of Iron, which was released in April 2019. Kris's books and graphic novels have received global praise and have helped and inspired millions of readers.
Kris aspires to help as many people live a healthy, more fulfilling life by raising the bar on health and fitness education through his books, video trainers, blogs, Youtube videos, and show, The Knowledge and Mileage Podcast.
Kris’s favourite book - From Good To Great by Jim Collins
Kris’s favourite hack - Grounding/ earthing
Kris’s favorite tech - Infrared Sauna
https://krisgethin.com/
https://www.kagedmuscle.com/
International Honours:
Wales Rugby- 8 caps
Was a part of the grand-slam winning Wales squads of 2005 and 2008
Wales 7s team - represented multiple times, including the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Club Rugby:
Cardiff Blues 122 appearances including being club captain 2005 season
Dragons 10 appearances
Currently:
S&C for The Cardiff Blues
Owner at ION Fitness, Cardiff
The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick Mckeown
Breath by James Nestor
Robins favourite book - The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Robins Favourite Tech - Oura the sleep tracking ring.
Piece of advice Robin wishes he could give himself 10 years ago - “Control what is controllable”
Robins Favourite hack - the sauna
Reading from The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
James and Bryan sit down to go over exactly what is red light therapy, how does it work, why it works and how to optimally use Red Light Rising devices for different health protocols.
Michael Cordova is the co-founder of Floating Point Float Centre in Pangbourne, UK. He has
been floating since 2010 and racked up around 800hrs of floating in that time. In 2017 he
gave the world’s first TEDx Talk on Floatation Therapy and regularly appears on BBC Radio
Berkshire’s wellbeing panel. He has also given talks on the benefits of Floatation in the UK
and recently became the first UK Board Member of the Floatation Tank Association.
Michael has a great interest in optimisation including mental and physical performance and
how floating can play an important part in improving oneself, even tracking his full sleep
cycle during an 7hr overnight Float session using the Oura Ring and helping to co-ordinate
research studies. Michael has supported a number of elite athletes since 2011 through
floatation therapy including the current Associate Partners the British Rowing Team
supporting the Olympic Athletes with recovery and performance.
Michael’s favourite book - The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
Michael’s favourite hack - Infrared sauna with red light therapy
Michael’s favorite tech - Heart Math brain entrainment
Michael’s TedX Talk on Floating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfhafntHB40
James and Bryan take some time to share some of the scientifically researched benefits of red light therapy for performance and recovery, skin health, sleep, inflammation and best of all immunity!
In this episode Bryan and James discuss the differences and benefits of the BRAND NEW Advantage Series red light therapy devices from Red Light Rising.
They discuss key differences like -
...and so much more!
Ximena is a IICT Certified Nutritional Therapist, biohacker and proponent of the real food + intuitive low carb, carnivore and primal lifestyle, which she applied to reverse her 20 years of PCOS. Through her protocols she has helped hundreds of people optimise their DNA, metabolism, hormones, fertility, blood sugar and weight. Ximena adapts the Keto/Low Carb/Carnivore diets and intermittent fasting specifically catered to women using her Keto-Evolucionada®️ and PAIP protocols. She's an international public speaker and influencer and educator on the power of food as medicine.
"Bart has completed a Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy, and three Master's degrees in Clinical Health Science, Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science and Technology. After starting out as a blogger in 2018, Bart sold his business and has now moved on to functional medicine consulting."
NutrEval test: https://www.gdx.net/product/nutreval-nutritional-test-plasma (again, plainly following the outcome on that test won't give you the advice you need)
Noise pollution study from the WHO, that talks about the most important factors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5858354/
Decibel meter app: "Sound Meter" (it's a dutch one), but most apps if you search for "decibel" are great.
Study about indoor pollutants re-circulating: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30202344
Mouth and nasal breathing in sleep difference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3298509
Critique of Judgment book: https://www.amazon.com/Critique-Power-Judgment-Cambridge-Immanuel-ebook/dp/B00CF0JP9U/
www.BartWolbers.com
June 15, 2020 https://redlightrising.co.uk/
Instagram @redlightrising
Over the past decade, Robert has developed essential leadership skills and a wide range of motivational strategies, and has worked with a broad spectrum of clients on five continents. Fitness, personal training and bio hacking has played a pivotal role in his professional and personal development. Robert has developed a unique style of movement analysis and training for which he uses to train his team and his clients.
Born in Ireland, he has qualified under both the UK and US systems; he holds an NCEHS in advanced training, the gold standard of the American College of Sports Medicine, as well as a BSc, HND in physiology, sports science, exercise and health studies from the University of Bedfordshire.
Rob writes fitness articles for Buzz.ie and the founder of Ultimate Bodytec and the travel company Fitness Adventure Travel And recently the Founder of a new app Morph.fit
Follow on Instagram: @ultimatebodytec + @fitnessadventuretravel + @Morphapp
https://www.ultimatebodytec.com/
http://fitnessadventuretravel.com/
https://morph.fit/