Drink all the Coke you want – just exercise more? http://ow.ly/Rs3aQ

Finished #Leadville100 trail run yesterday in 29:02 – next up is 2015 Fittest CEO on Sept 18-20 in Vermont – join me! http://ow.ly/RiuCO

Amazing media pickup of our press release earlier this week! Almost 100 media outlets reporting on my new role as Chief Science Officer at Metabolic Research Center and President at Metabolic Direct, including: Boston Globe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette San Jose Mercury News Los Angeles Daily News Miami Herald SiliconValley.com I am very excited to be bringing

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time – Leonard Bernstein

PRESS RELEASE – AUG 18, 2015 17:00 EDT Internationally Recognized Lifestyle Expert To Lead Product and Program Development Efforts. Green Cove Springs, FL, August 18, 2015 (Newswire) –??Metabolic Research Center (MRC), a company that has been helping people lose weight for more than 30 years, announced today that Shawn M. Talbott, Ph.D. has accepted the role of Chief Science

Chronic stress is an independent risk factor for obesity http://ow.ly/R1hdA

Higher stress associated with higher prevalence of overweight/obesity http://ow.ly/R1gWP

Gut-Brain Axis communicates via immune/inflammation pathways. Healthy gut = optimal brain function http://ow.ly/QxO0X

As busy and productive people with over-scheduled, stressful lifestyles (sometimes combined with little quality sleep and poor eating habits), it is no wonder so many of us feel drained. Saying that you feel tired usually describes a symptom of our body being out of biochemical balance. It could mean that we’re feeling emotionally burned out.

The Leadville 100 trail run is coming up in about 3 weeks (August 22) – so I’ve spent the last month training exclusively at my maximal aerobic heart rate (MAHR) to improve my fat-burning engine. After Leadville, I’ll need to make a quick change in training back to more high-intensity lactate threshold work so I