Overview
On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Dr. Stephen Cabral. A board certified naturopathic doctor and founder of the Cabral Wellness Institute, and stephencabral.com.
Topics Discussed:
- About Stephen Cabral:
- Diagnosed with a life-changing disease at a young age.
- Took him years to get better and came out on the other side as a happier, healthier human being.
- Made it his mission to rebalance his mind and body to recover from diseases.
- His mission is to help people understand that they can and will get well again.
- Diagnosed with a life-changing disease at a young age.
- Why one specific diet plan doesn’t work for every body type.
- People tend to believe that if something works for one person, it will work for everybody else.
- Every plan out there can work, but how long does it work for?
- Great example – the keto or low carb diet.
- Seems to work well for the endomorphic body type and for men.
- Going low-carb for the ectomorphic body type is detrimental.
- They do better with carbs or starch.
- 26% of the population that eats more fat has a greater risk of inflammation.
- Most people who say they’re on a keto diet, probably are not.
- If you take in too much protein on the keto diet, your body will turn it to sugar and won’t let you achieve your goals.
- It takes between 48 and 72 hours to get into ketosis.
- You can speed it up by doing resistance training.
- Ketosis is a good short-term or survival-based diet.
- This diet makes sense for those who are trying to starve out a cancerous tumor.
- What are ketones?
- Your body uses different fuel sources.
- Your body needs a fast fuel source when you’re exercising so it uses sugar because it can’t break down fat fast enough.
- The less you’re moving the more body fat you’re burning percentage-wise.
- When your body needs to burn fat it starts to create ketones in the liver to burn.
- You can’t go halfway with keto or you’ll break down your muscle tissue.
- The benefits and dangers of intermittent fasting.
- Cabral and his team have a lot of data to pull from as well as medicine over thousands of years.
- The body needs time to clean house.
- Your body creates waste from food and metabolic waste.
- 99% of people should be doing a 12 hour overnight fast.
- You have to stop eating right before bed
- Your body detoxes and cleans the blood.
- When you fast, your body is allowed to kill cancer cells on its own.
- Women do not do well with longer fasts.
- Their bodies need to be more balanced to carry on life.
- This is clinically-based.
- If you’re trying to bulk up, what’s a good plan for fasting?
- It’s different for each person.
- If you have a more sluggish body type, by fasting and not eating breakfast, you’re adding more stress.
- The body changes its cellular structure every 121 days.
- Do a great post-workout nutrition that includes carbohydrates.
- Cabral teaches bioindividuality.
- Their bodies need to be more balanced to carry on life.
- Cabral’s 7-Day Detox Plan
- Gets you at least 80% of the results you would get by coming straight to Dr. Cabral.
- Your bodyfat’s 300x more toxic than your blood, so you need to clean that up quick.
- 7, 14, and 21-day detox’s are available.
- If you’re dealing with an autoimmune disorder or something similar, this is extremely important.
- Why do you lose actual weight on the detox and not water weight?
- This is a functional medicine detox which balances things at a foundational level.
- Everything we come in contact with has toxins and causes inflammation in the body.
- This is not a juice cleanse, it contains nutrients you need.
- Helps balance blood sugar and hormones and improves cell-receptors.
- Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important and why?
- In the short term, who you know is important.
- In the end, improving yourself through what you know allows you to capitalize on relationships.
- In the beginning, he realized that he didn’t know everything and neither did the specialists he was working with.
- He learned from naturopaths and functional doctors and studying all over the world.
- Why do people neglect to network?
- It’s hard work and we’re taught through social media to take the easiest path.
- People say they’re an expert in things, but they’re not and their advice can be harmful.
- If you had to boil it down to one thing, how would you suggest building your inner circle?
- He reached out to people who could answer his questions.
- You will find a few people who will show you the way, not everyone.
- Cabral is naturally an introvert.
- What’s your advice to someone who is scared to reach out and network.
- If you truly want something, you have to go out and get after it.
- Think, “if I didn’t do this thing, would I regret it?”
- What’s the worst-case scenario? Someone doesn’t answer, or they say no.
- Tell us a story where a connection led to a big moment of success.
- It has to go back to his mentor, he couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t get well.
- When he met with his mentor, she combined ancient medicine with functional state-of-the-art medicine.
- She gave him the confidence to go back to school to become a naturopathic doctor.
- Who you know allows you to breed more of what you know.
- His mentor recommended everything he needed to become the doctor he is today.
- It only took one email to meet with his mentor.
- Who is the best networker that you know?
- John Lee Dumas.
- He seems like a natural extrovert and connector.
- Typically, in a really good mood.
- Has interviewed 2,000 people.
- John Lee Dumas.
- It has to go back to his mentor, he couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t get well.
- Women do not do well with longer fasts.
- Cabral and his team have a lot of data to pull from as well as medicine over thousands of years.
- Great example – the keto or low carb diet.
The Random Round:
- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
- Archaeologist
- If you could sit on a park bench for an hour with anyone past or present, who would it be?
- Leonardo DaVinci, rennaissance man with different interests, how did he do it?
- How do you like to learn best, books, blogs, podcasts or video?
- One of your favorite books?
- The Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murray
- Give us a glimpse of your morning routine?
- Wake up around 5:30 a.m.
- Some type of movement
- Breathing routine
- Watch YouTube video or listen to podcast while getting ready
- Make a smoothie every day
- What is your go-to pump up song:
- Drive it Like You Stole it by The Glitch Mob
- What are you not very good at?
- A micro-based level for things.
- Find him online on Facebook in groups and his profile.
- com/stephencabral
- Private Facebook Group: cabralsupportgroup.com
Tweetable Quotes:
- “Networking is hard work and we’re taught through social media to take the easiest path.”
- “In the end, improving yourself through what you know allows you to capitalize on relationships.”
Resources Mentioned:
Buildyournetwork.com– Podcast website
BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind – book by Dr. Joseph Murphy
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