Apr 21, 2021
In this episode of Molina podcast, Elizabeth Molina talks with Shawn Wells. He is the world’s leading biochemist and expert on health optimization.
He has formulated over 500 supplements, food items, beverages, cosmeceuticals as well as patented 10 novel ingredients and now known as the ingredientologist - the science of ingredients. Formerly a chief dietician with over a decade of clinical experience. He has counseled thousands of people on how to health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting and supplements. He has overcome personal health issues such as Epstein-Barr virus, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, insomnia and obesity.
As a world renown thought leader on mitochondrial health, he has been paid to speak on 5 different continents, his insights have been predominantly in documentaries nationally, syndicated radio programs and regularly on morning television. His expertise can help any health-conscious individual to better manage stress, experience higher performance and energy through utilizing his practical research fact solutions.
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Conversation Highlights:
[00:02:39] Tell us more about yourself! How did you get started?
- Secret behind every successful person is their WHY
- My WHY is I was obese and then anorexic I was lacking in self-love and depressed and suicidal
- I had a brain tumour and so much health issues, I never thought I would make it
- Biohacking changed my life!
- Self-love helped me discovered so much more to life!
- Success doesn’t come from more fame, more money, feeling sexier; that’s just a state of being…
[00:08:50] What is a nutritional biochemist?
- Nutrition and supplementation and getting deep into the science of that with biochemistry
- A marriage of nutrition, supplements & biochemistry
[00:09:51] When you were going through this journey, where were you in this journey of nutritionist biochemist?
- During ALL of my health struggles
- I felt so broken, I just wanted a quick fix so bad!
- Grinding mentality is a LIE! That’s NOT how you get success.
- Success is a 4-hour work week! Leaving space for grace & selfcare.
- The amount of work you need to be productive is FAR different from the amount of work you do to keep busy.
- Distraction from our technology, you scroll more than the height of the empire state building
- We are denying ourselves from beautiful relationship with people, mentors and nature, for the sake of being busy & we don’t have “time”.
[00:13:12] Were you feeling all of that “grinding” while trying to reach your academic success?
- It was a tough struggle…
- I was trying to change myself aesthetically
- Then my auto-immune illness got me changing direction
- 8 years ago, my brain tumour changed my direction
- Now I’m getting into plant medicine for mental health and wellness
- As I evolve in life, so does my passions…
- We need to get into beauty and pills
[00:16:37] Let’s talk about your book! The energy formula
- I know what it’s like to live without energy
- Depression and suicidal thoughts it was a struggle to get out of bed
- My autoimmune illness caused me to be in bed for 6 months for 23 hours a day
[00:17:00] What did you do to get out of that state of low to no energy?
- It’s about the size of YOUR stress bucket that YOU can deal with
- We’re more fragile now a days
- We’re not getting all the things we used to years ago and it’s making us weaker
- To increase resilience we need to increase our capacity to deal with stress
- Working on your mental resiliency: dialled morning routine and reframing mindset
- Win or learn (not lose)
- Grant yourself grace, don’t be the inner critic all the time
[00:27:30] One thing you would of told yourself, before you healed yourself?
- No right or wrong way to heal or do anything…
- Don’t pressure yourself or try be perfect
- Just feel and experience…
- No one will be forever healed…
- Joy means feel sad, fearful & anger….
- Permission to feel it all
- You have to go through the bad to experience the good
- Make something of yourself from traumatic events and this is how…
[00:23:14] How do you balance and have the energy to show up fully?
- Learning to depend on yourself and love yourself
- Find who I am in this process
- Giving yourself grace to make mistakes
- I had to be okay with a lot of stuff going WRONG and there’s a beauty in that
- Everything doesn’t need to be perfect
- I can depend on other people
- I can depend on myself
- Don’t take everything so serious
[00:27:22] Metabolic Flexibility…Tell us more!
- Connects with resilience
- We rely on glucose fuel now and not other sources and not duel fuelled
- We become insulin reistant and that leads to all these illnesses and diseases
- 99% of all occurrence of metabolic diseases only 1% of diseases are genetic…
- Granting yourself grace
[00:29:50] Is it harder for women to gain access to the metabolic flexibility vs men
- com there’s a bonus on how it’s different for women
- It is different for women
- Women need carbs for proper hormones
- We are all bio-individuals…we need to go easy on ourselves, see what works for you
- Muscle mass and how active you are with the muscle mass is the key re keto, that’s why it works for some and not others…
[00:34:10] What 3 things you would say are the biggest takeaways?
- 1 – Wrote it 3 times and record it 2 times
- 2 – Granting myself grace in this process – it’s easier said than done it’s a real challenge
- 3 – Embracing the beauty of this whole process
[00:36:14] Can you tell me 3 of your favourite formulations.
- My first formula when I wasn’t even paid as a formulator
- Working with a big company and I was now paid as a formulator…a pre-workout
- When I walked into a GNC and I see rows of our products in this store, it amazed me
- I even won an award for my flavouring formula work from BodyBuilding.com
[00:42:30] What are the other ingredients you are working on?
- An ingredient that occurs in some mushrooms, beans and organ meat
[00:43:48] How much supplements do you take?
- 100?!
- Cycle through various supplements, not all at once
[00:44:38] As a man how do you view beauty?
- Beauty is resilience
- But it is also the glow from someone – you can be attractive and a jerk & not beautiful
- Beauty is someone’s vibrancy!
[00:46:08] From my Beauty Circle Tool – which category you say you’re crushing it & which do you think you can improve on?
- Hydration is covered!
- 20-40 collagen I get in a day for my skin
- Sleep has been a struggle for me, overactive brain and travelling a lot
- I have the hacks for better sleep, but it feels like work to get sleep in
- How can I make sleep easy for me? I see sleep as a challenge so it’s a challenge
[00:49:32] What are some advice you would have told your 16 year old self?
- Hypnotherapist went back to a childhood trauma – what does that child think about you?
- Level 47 vs 16
- Stay away from energy vampires…not people who drain you
- Stay away from the zombies that won’t change…time spent wasted time
- Fair energetic exchange
[00:53:08] What are some advice you would have told your 16 year old self?
- Hypnotherapist went back to a childhood trauma – what does that child think about you?
- Level 47 vs 16
- Stay away from energy vampires…not people who drain you
- Stay away from the zombies that won’t change…time spent wasted time
- Fair energetic exchange
[00:53:09] BRAG TIME!
- Creating the book “The Energy Formula”
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