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Your Microbiome Is More Than What You Eat
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Your Microbiome Is More Than What You Eat
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It's Not Just Food — It's Who and Where You Are
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It’s Not Just Food — It’s Who and Where You Are
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Most people think the microbiome starts and ends with food. Eat clean, take a probiotic, done. But on Power Athlete Radio, we go deeper, and nastier, into what really shapes your gut. I am joined in this episode with Dr. Ben Skutnik and Dr. Hunter Waldman, who are in town for the 2025 Power Athlete Coach's Collective – a 3-day event at Power Athlete where our Block coaches come to learn, lift, and reconnect with the brand and other coaches.
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Most people think the microbiome starts and ends with food. Eat clean, take a probiotic, done. But on Power Athlete Radio, we go deeper, and nastier, into what really shapes your gut. I am joined in this episode with Dr. Ben Skutnik and Dr. Hunter Waldman, who are in town for the 2025 Power Athlete Coach’s Collective – a 3-day event at Power Athlete where our Block coaches come to learn, lift, and reconnect with the brand and other coaches.
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Now, back to the truth, your microbiome is a full-contact system. It's not just what you eat. It's who you touch, where you live, how you move, and even how your food is delivered.
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Now, back to the truth, your microbiome is a full-contact system. It’s not just what you eat. It’s who you touch, where you live, how you move, and even how your food is delivered.
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If you're in a hyper-sanitized, concrete jungle like New York City, constantly bathing in Purell, surrounded by stressed-out troglodytes eating lukewarm Uber Eats out of plastic trays – your microbiome is under attack.
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If you’re in a hyper-sanitized, concrete jungle like New York City, constantly bathing in Purell, surrounded by stressed-out troglodytes eating lukewarm Uber Eats out of plastic trays – your microbiome is under attack.
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And it's not subtle. It's chronic. It's compounding. And it's killing everyone slowly and hurting performance.
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And it’s not subtle. It’s chronic. It’s compounding. And it’s killing everyone slowly and hurting performance.
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Microbes, Movement, and the Mess You Live In
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Microbes, Movement, and the Mess You Live In
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Your body is supposed to interface with the world – dirt, bacteria, sunlight, fresh air, human contact. That's how the immune system calibrates. That's how the gut builds resilience.
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Your body is supposed to interface with the world – dirt, bacteria, sunlight, fresh air, human contact. That’s how the immune system calibrates. That’s how the gut builds resilience.
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Instead, most people live sterilized, boxed-up lives devoid of nature and disconnected from a life that echoes two plus million years of evolution.
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Instead, most people live sterilized, boxed-up lives devoid of nature and disconnected from a life that echoes two plus million years of evolution.
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Even food, once a living, nutrient-rich source, is now DOA, dead on arrival. You don't know how long your Uber Eats sat in a warming bag. You can't tell the microbial load on the driver's moped. You don't know what bacteria bloomed in the 30 minutes between prep and delivery.
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Even food, once a living, nutrient-rich source, is now DOA, dead on arrival. You don’t know how long your Uber Eats sat in a warming bag. You can’t tell the microbial load on the driver’s moped. You don’t know what bacteria bloomed in the 30 minutes between prep and delivery.
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And it matters.
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And it matters.
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Gut dysfunction isn't just bloating and digestive issues. It's systemic. It drives inflammation, mood shifts, hormonal crashes, immune suppression, and yes, it directly impacts your training capacity.
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Gut dysfunction isn’t just bloating and digestive issues. It’s systemic. It drives inflammation, mood shifts, hormonal crashes, immune suppression, and yes, it directly impacts your training capacity.
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Don't Outsource Your Gut Health
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Don’t Outsource Your Gut Health
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If you're serious about performance, longevity, and not feeling like trash, you've got to own your inputs.
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If you’re serious about performance, longevity, and not feeling like trash, you’ve got to own your inputs.
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That means cooking your own meals, getting outside, getting dirty, and being around real humans. Training in environments that challenge your body, not protect it from reality.
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That means cooking your own meals, getting outside, getting dirty, and being around real humans. Training in environments that challenge your body, not protect it from reality.
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Your microbiome isn't a supplement problem. It's a lifestyle problem.
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Your microbiome isn’t a supplement problem. It’s a lifestyle problem.
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And for athletes who think Uber Eats is a time-saver…think again. You're saving time but giving away resilience.
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And for athletes who think Uber Eats is a time-saver…think again. You’re saving time but giving away resilience.
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Move More. Cook More. Touch the Earth.
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Move More. Cook More. Touch the Earth.
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- Your gut is built in the dirt, not in delivery apps.
- Stop sanitizing your life to death.
- Gut health is earned by living, not ordering.
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- Your gut is built in the dirt, not in delivery apps.
- Stop sanitizing your life to death.
- Gut health is earned by living, not ordering.
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