Ben Azadi: How to Build Mental and Physical Health in Strange Times

Are you a little bit confused about exactly what is healthy and what isn’t?

In a sea of disinformation, marketing hype and rage bait, combined with aggressive censorship of researchers, doctors and health professionals, finding your way to the truth isn’t easy.

Over the past few years, the internet has been hijacked by cowardly, unelected overlords who shadowban, censor and silence us in a sad attempt to dumb us down and keep us in the dark.

But what if these tech platforms, instead of intentionally distracting and demoralizing us, were actually used as a force for good?

Returning to the show this week is our friend Ben Azadi, a bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, health coach and founder of Keto Kamp who went through a personal health transformation, shedding an incredible 80 pounds. Now he helps teach other people how to do exactly the same thing and live a healthier lifestyle.

On this show with Ben Azadi, we’re chatting about:

• What NOT to buy when shopping for “keto” products
• How to maintain mental and physical health in a sea of censorship, disinformation and rage bait
• Tips for reprogramming your own patterns to be more in sync with natural rhythms
• One simple daily practice with proven results to reduce inflammation 
• How to build intellectual freedom to create meaning in our lives
• And a whole lot more…

Let’s go hang out with Ben.

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Where To Find Ben Azadi

You can pick up Ben’s bestselling book Keto Flex by going to ketoflexbook.com.

Keto Flex is available as a paperback, on Kindle, as well as an Audiobook version.

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Abel James: I read your book “Keto Flex” a few times. It’s very good. There are so many bad diet and nutrition and fitness books out there, but the really good ones are the ones that you could come back to 10 or 15 or 25, 50 or 100 years later, and they would still have many of those principles in there that would help people. And it’s pretty easy to write books that are all flowery and have some principles wrinkled in there with saying the opposite and dancing around the topics and mentioning a couple of hype-y things or whatever, but putting those solid principles and that’s something that you’ve done, and it takes a lot of work to simplify things, right? It takes a lot of work to put that stuff in there in a way that’s relatively easy to absorb if you sit down with it for a few hours or if you just go to one page, it’s clearly laid out. So I encourage all of you listening to go out and check out Ben Azadi’s work, whether it’s the books or the various channels that you have out there, I really respect your work ethic.

For more from Ben Azadi, including the Keto Kamp podcast, courses, health coaching and tons more, head over to BenAzadi.com.

You can also click here to catch a recent interview where Ben Azadi interviews Abel James on the Keto Kamp podcast.

Be friends and follow what Ben is up to on Facebook, @thebenazadi on Instagram, LinkedIn, @thebenazadi on Twitter and YouTube.

And one more time, grab Ben’s bestselling book Keto Flex from ketoflexbook.com.

Before You Go

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