Robb Wolf: Why Grazing Animals are Good for Us (and the Planet, Too)

Have you ever heard that dramatically under-eating or chronically starving yourself will lead to increased longevity?

I’ve seen multiple media reports claiming that undereating by 20% or 30% of your daily caloric needs will add years to your lifespan.

Thankfully, it’s not true. In fact, starving yourself of food, especially protein, could actually reduce your lifespan.

So what are the lifestyle practices that actually drive longevity?

To help separate fact from fiction, I’m thrilled that returning to the show today is our good buddy Robb Wolf, a former research biochemist, powerlifting champion, and now a 2x New York Times best-selling author, co-host of Healthy Rebellion Radio, and the co-founder of DrinkLMNT Electrolytes.

In this interview with Robb, we’re chatting about:

Why fasting too much may negatively impact performance and longevity
Why cows and pasture-raised animals are good for us (and the planet)
What happened when Google’s algorithm skewed search results and put independent health authors like Robb and me on the naughty list
How our free speech and First Amendment rights were sacrificed when Big Tech invested in Biotech
Why decentralization and Web 3.0 will save the internet
And tons more…

Family Friendly Note: As usual, Robb uses some colorful language in this conversation, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of you have written in over the years and said that you really appreciate the podcast being family friendly, having that clean tag so that you can listen with your family around, kids around or anyone else, you can listen in the car, you don’t have to throw your earbuds in or put your headphones on in order to listen to it in a public place, that sort of thing.

Some other people have written in and said, “Why are you bleeping what people are actually saying?”

We don’t want censorship on the show, and we’ve never intended to censor anything in any of these conversations. So what we’ve decided to do is we’re going to keep the audio podcast with the clean tag with family-friendly language.

But if you’d like the full uncensored conversation, you can find the completely unbleeped video version here on our website, as well as on Rumble and YouTube.

And if you want the audio, then you can listen with your family around. I always appreciate listening to you folks and knowing where you’re coming from, so make sure that you subscribe on YouTube and Rumble, and anywhere that you listen to podcasts.

Where To Find Robb Wolf

Head over to RobbWolf.com for blogs, resources, podcasts and tons more from Robb and his lovely wife Nicki.

Robb is also co-founder at DrinkLMNT.com bringing you tasty zero-sugar electrolyte drink mixes perfectly suited for folks who follow a wild, keto, low-carb or paleo diet. Our favorite flavors are Grapefruit, Orange, Mango Chili, Chocolate Salt and Citrus Salt.

If you’d like a FREE sample pack of LMNT Electrolytes with your purchase, just click below.

Listen to The Healthy Rebellion Radio that Robb Wolf co-hosts with his wife Nicki wherever you listen to podcasts, including Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, iTunes, iHeartRadio and YouTube.

Robb is a 2X New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired To Eat. And along with Diana Rodgers, he co-authored the book, Sacred Cow, which explains why well-raised meat is good for us and good for the planet.

Robb Wolf: Regen Market is this outfit that aggregates food from eastern Washington, Idaho, all of Montana and plugs it into like the Greater Bozeman area. But they kind of exist beyond that. So like, CSA boxes in some cases… and they have a beautiful technology infrastructure that helps to just get producers plugged into consumers. And so I’ve been devoting a lot of time just like hanging out with those folks and kind of brainstorming around that. So RegenMarket.com is who those folks are. I’m only involved in like an advisory role, but I’m really, really passionate about that.

'I feel like cows and properly raised grazing animals are actually a climate change and food security solution, not a liability.' ― Robb Wolf @robbwolf Share on X

You can also keep in touch and follow Robb on social media, including on Facebook, on Twitter @robbwolf, on Instagram @dasrobbwolf, and YouTube.

Robb Wolf: I’m still duped into posting on Instagram every once in a while, but I think I’m going to do a really hard reset on that pretty soon because I feel like it’s just kind of pissing into the wind.

Once again, go to RobbWolf.com for more, and head to DrinkLMNT.com to claim your free sample pack of zero-sugar electrolytes with your purchase.

Before You Go…

Here’s a quick plug. If you’re looking to save a few bucks on your food budget and take your health into your own hands by whipping up delicious, clean, real food meals at home, take a gander at our Wild30 Fat Loss Program.

Here’s a bit of feedback that came in from Ellen, who recently purchased the program. She says:

I just wanted to let you know that the Wild30 meal plan is by far the best meal plan that I have ever tried! And I’ve tried a lot of different programs/cookbooks, etc.

I love everything about it! From the monthly lists at the beginning, the shopping lists and the food!! We ate the ‘Brussels and Bacon Hash’ last night and it’s now my favorite way to enjoy Brussels sprouts!

I must admit I was scared to look at the total at the grocery store, but it was actually cheaper than our usual orders since I didn’t buy any junk!! You have combined a truly healthy diet with a wonderful plan and I just can’t say enough good things and I’m so excited to get my whole family healthier!

Thank you so much for this plan!! I think we are finally going to make the lifestyle shift that we’ve been trying to make for so long…

Ellen, thank you so much for the kind words, and I’m really glad you enjoy the Wild meal plans.

Alyson and I have put so much work into them over the years, they’re time tested. Hundreds of thousands of people have tried our recipes, maybe even more than that at this point, over the decade plus of doing all of this, so we’re really happy when people put them into action.

So how about you?

If you’d like to get some of the best done-for-you meal plans out there with healthy wild recipes, shopping lists, real photos and time-saving tips on getting things done in advance for prep day, then be sure to check out the Wild30 Fat Loss Program.

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Right now, you can get the whole shebang for a steal and save an extra 20% off. All you have to do is just go to fatburningman.com/30days and enter the code WILD20 at check out to claim your listener discount of 20% off.

And just so you know in advance, we’re going to be taking a few weeks off from our normal podcast publishing schedule this fall to take a road trip back up north to the mountains of Colorado, meet up with a few friends, maybe see a few leaves, eat some good food, take a little time to rest and recover.

But never fear, we’ll be back with a kick butt lineup of new guests, especially as the New Year hits.

You can look forward to hearing from the one and only Tony Horton, Shawn Stevenson, Dr. Gundry and many, many more.

Along those lines, we’ve also been publishing to other platforms and putting out a lot of shorts from past episodes of the show.

So if you haven’t seen some of the shorts that we’ve created, make sure to follow the Fat-Burning Man channel on YouTube, you can also find us on Rumble.

And while I’m at it, I might as well mention that also, I’ve been putting out a lot of music recently, some of my past shows from decades ago, newer ones as well, I’ve got some cover songs there.

The best way to find that is by going to my Abel James music channel on YouTube, and hopefully you’ll find a lot of stuff that you enjoy.

What did you think of this interview with Robb Wolf? How do you support healthy aging? What are your favorite things about getting sunshine? What are your thoughts on creating a decentralized system? Drop a note in the comments below!

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