S3E37: Food Environment, Empowered Eating & Deep Health w Dr. Krista-Scott Dixon, PhD

Season 3, Episode 37

Dr. Bubbs interviews Precision Nutrition Curriculum Director Dr. Krista-Scott Dixon, PhD, to talk about the challenges in the complex world of helping clients integrate nutritional changes. In this episode, Krista shares her insights into how modern food environment impacts food decisions and whether you should focus on your ‘strengths’ or ‘weaknesses’ when it comes to nutritional behaviour chance.

Summary of Episode:

3:30 – Krista’s academic background and the value of diverse knowledge

5:30 – The modern food environment and food decisions

8:30 – A weakness versus limiting factors

14:20 – The line between offering a presence to client’s suffering and when they need professional support

21:00 – Helping clients bring attention to ‘stress’ patterns

28:00 – The child brain, coaching kids and the neuroscience of childhood development

34:00 – Male coaches & female athletes – body composition discussion

38:30 – Solutions for navigating the hyper-caloric modern food environment

45:00 – Loneliness, sense of purpose and longevity

About Dr. Krista-Scott Dixon, PhD

Precision Nutrition Curriculum Director, Dr. Krista Scott Dixon began her career down the path of academia at York University where she taught and finished up her PhD before leaving it all together to go down the fitness and nutrition rabbit hole! Krista has since been advising and coaching both male and female athletes and is the curriculum director for Precision Nutrition. 

@Stumptuous – Krista on Twitter

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S3E29: Biofeedback, Mindfulness & How Emotions Drive Behaviour w/ Dr. Inna Khazan, PhD

Season 3, Episode 29

Dr. Bubbs interviews Dr. Inna Khazan, PhD, BCB a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a clinical psychologist specializing in health psychology and performance excellence training using biofeedback and mindfulness-based approaches. In this episodes, Dr. Khazan talks about how mindfulness enhances biofeedback and biofeedback enhances mindfulness. She shares research on HRV, and biofeedback and how to find your resonance frequency (RF) rate.

SUMMARY OF THE EPISODE

4:00 – Dr. Khazan’s background

8:00 – Mindfulness and the Parable of the Lute

10:00 – How biofeedback enhances mindfulness (and vice versa)

14:30 – The pitfalls of over-breathing

20:30 – HRV, biofeedback and resonance frequency (RF) rate

25:00 – Mindfulness meditation and how it changes the brain

30:30 – Common myths around mindfulness

33:00 – Shame & how emotions drive behaviour

34:30 – How guilt impacts behaviour in a group

37:30 – the Evolutionary perspective on the value of fear

About Dr. Inna Khazan

Dr. Inna Khazan, PhD, BCB is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a clinical psychologist specializing in health psychology and performance excellence training using biofeedback and mindfulness-based approaches. Dr. Khazan is recognized as a pioneer in the area of mindfulness-based biofeedback. She teaches nationally and internationally, including at institutions such as the US Navy Special Warfare, US Army Special Forces, and the Stuttgart Opera and Ballet Company.

Innakhazan.com

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