Clean eating can take time, money, and bore your tastebuds. Luckily, there’s a better way. In this chat with Asher Cowan, we discuss the art of food preparation; easy swaps to make junk food healthy and tasty; the discrepancy between science showing health benefits of seed oil and the actual results; and some ancestral food tips.
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About Asher
Asher grew up in New Hampshire, and played a lot of sports in his youth. He played basketball at Clark University where he studied Economics and Entrepreneurship. After college, he worked as a consultant and financial analyst but quickly became disillusioned with living the “corporate” life. He decided to combine two passions of his, health food and entrepreneurship, and co-found Dr. Cowan’s Garden. They started by launching a line of vegetable powders, before expanding into kitchen staples, like grains and legumes, sprouted nuts and nut butters, sprouted granolas, cold-pressed seed oils, packaged meat, and ghee.
Top things you’ll learn from Asher Cowan
- GOATA workout program
- Produce vs carnivore
- Best kinds of ghee
- How to use vegetable powders properly
- What is Dr. Cowan’s Garden
- Nutrition tips for kids, families, and picky eaters
- How to start eating healthy
- Hacks to make unhealthy food nutritious and delicious
- How to evaluate and buy healthy foods
- Properly processing grains, nuts, and seeds
- Dangers of raw kale
- Grocery shopping tips
- Glyphosate, roundup, and disease
- Save time and money by bulk meal prepping
- Link between gluten intolerance and glyphosate
- Food allergies vs intolerances
- Why food intolerances are so hard to identify
- What makes the seed oils from Dr. Cowan’s Garden healthy
- The dish many cultures around the world ate
- Asher Cowan’s top teachers and books
- How to avoid misinformation
Resources mentioned
- Healthy Kitchen Products: Dr. Cowan’s Garden (save with code URBAN)
- Book: Powered by GOATA
- Book: The Bible
- Teacher: Rudolph Steiner
- Book: Breaking The Spell
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Nick Urban is a Biohacker, Data Scientist, Athlete, Founder of Outliyr, and the Host of the Mind Body Peak Performance Podcast. He is a Certified CHEK Practitioner, a Personal Trainer, and a Performance Health Coach. Nick is driven by curiosity which has led him to study ancient medical systems (Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hermetic Principles, German New Medicine, etc), and modern science.
Music by Luke Hall
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