Transforming Health and Wellness Through Blood-Based Nutrition and Pleasure Principles - Dawn Wells

Join us on Pleasure Principles as we embark on a fascinating journey into the world of blood-based nutrition and holistic wellness. Our special guest, Dawn Wells, a pioneer in medical fitness, shares his groundbreaking insights on personalizing your diet according to your blood type. Discover how this approach can optimize your health, reduce inflammation, and transform your life. Dawn Wells's analogy of freshwater and saltwater fish highlights the importance of creating the right dietary environment for thriving health. Plus, we address common concerns about potential restrictions, showing you how to enjoy the benefits of blood-based eating with flexibility and empowerment. Get ready to take control of your well-being and live vibrantly without feeling constrained.

In this episode, we redefine health with Dawn Wells, diving into the revolutionary concept of blood-based nutrition and its power to transform wellness. Discover how pleasure, mindset shifts, and personalized strategies can heal chronic conditions and inspire lasting change. Hear a remarkable success story and gain actionable insights to create your joyful path to health. Stay curious, open-minded, and embrace the principles of pleasure on your journey to well-being.

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Chapters

• 0:06 The Art of Blood-Based Nutrition
• 9:37 Healing Through Holistic Wellness Transformation
• 20:01 Embracing the Principles of Pleasure

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:06

Hey everyone, welcome to Pleasure Principles, the podcast where we dive deep into the art and science of living your most vibrant, fulfilled and authentic life. I'm your host, avik, and today we are embarking on a journey that is as fascinating as it is transformative. So imagine combining the cutting-edge science of blood-based nutrition with a holistic approach to fitness that's tailored to your unique psychology, right Integrate, right. Well, you should be, because our guest today is none other than don wells. So welcome to the show, don hey, avik, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1: 0:53

I'm so excited to be here today you are welcome, definitely so, so so, uh, dear listeners, before we start delving into today's topic, I'll quickly love to introduce you with dawn. So dawn is the whiz of wellness and the only only practicing medical fitness practitioner in the united states. So her journey from marine discipline to overcoming binge eating disorder, to becoming a trailblazer in medical fitness and blood-based eating, is nothing short of inspiring. And she's here today to recognize how we think about health, wellness and, yes, definitely pleasure, because, let's face it, feeling good in your body and your life is the ultimate pleasure principle. What do you say? So let's get started. Welcome to the show again, dawn yes, thank you.

Speaker 2: 1:54

That was awesome.

Speaker 1: 1:55

You're absolutely 1000 accurate so I mean you have definitely pioneered the concept of medical fitness, which is combined with blood-based eating so yes, I mean uh, if for for the listeners who are not much aware about it, what is blood-based nutrition and how does it differ from the popular diet? Brains?

Speaker 2: 2:22

right? Great question. So blood-based nutrition is basically understanding what your blood type is and then applying foods to your diet that are aligned with your blood. And I'll put it in really basic your blood type. And I'll put it in a really simple format.

Speaker 2: 2:42

While there's years and years of study done by Dr Peter D'Adamo he actually is the founder of the Eat Right for your Blood Type food regimen before him's research has shown that, based upon your blood type, certain things transpiring in your body that can either be helpful to you with your food or harmful to you because of something called agglutination in your blood, and it also deals with the lectins, which is an agent in food that causes your blood to clump.

Speaker 2: 3:22

So that's just a layman's terms, and so it's not to say that we all don't need all of the macronutrients, which are protein, carbs, fats and calories as a whole. We all need those, but what we've come to learn in this and with science is that certain foods, depending on your blood type, will create more inflammation, more clumping than is necessary, which leads to chronic conditions like diabetes, cancer, things like that, and so it's not actually related to like a paleo or you know, or doing keto or something like that it's. Actually you can do that stuff, but eating according to your blood type is really using your food more like medicine to help you heal. Avik, and that's the basic concept and how I like to my dawn is. A 101 in describing blood-based eating is if you think about a fish, right, there's freshwater fish and there's saltwater fish, right, they both need bodies of water to survive, would you say. That's true.

Speaker 1: 4:30

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 4:31

Okay, so now. But if you put them in each other's habitats, right, they won't thrive. In fact they'll end up dying. Right, it'll create sickness. They just cannot survive in each other's habitats.

Speaker 2: 4:44

So when you and that's just a common sense thought process so if you take out, right, that fish and you put in the human blood, all right, and you think about a type A blood as opposed to, like, a type B blood or a type O blood, which are polar opposites, while they can, you can eat each other's foods, which are polar opposites.

Speaker 2: 5:06

While they can, you can eat each other's foods, right. But if you think about what it's doing to your body, so if I'm an A and I should be doing a plant-based diet, right, and I'm an O and I should be doing a meat-based protein I'm sorry, I meant to say protein, not diet If I switch that and I give the A a diet that is, a meat proteins that are better for the O, it's not while it'll survive, it's not going to thrive. All right, because it causes too much the meat, for the type O is causing too, has too much lectins, which is going to cause too much agglutination, which is going to lead to the chronic conditions and in your context, that the pleasure of living is just going to be diminished, right?

Speaker 1: 5:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 5:54

So it's just, and that's just a Donism 101, but it's common sense. Yes, they both need bodies of water. The fish need bodies of water to live, but they thrive better in their own habitats. We all need protein, right, and I'm just using that as one of the examples, but where we get it is really going to be prevalent to your blood type. Does that make sense?

Speaker 1: 6:18

Exactly, definitely yeah and okay. And also one more thing is like when someone hears this blood-based eating, they might think like, oh, it's restrictive or maybe clinical something. So how do you help clients see the freedom and empowerment in it?

Speaker 2: 6:48

in it? Absolutely, it doesn't say so. It's like with any any wellness regimen If you subscribe to it, 80 to 85% of the time you will, you'll do well. 15 to 20%, okay, If I'm an oh, I'm just using that as an example I might do better. I might have plant-based proteins, or if I'm an A, I might, 15% of the time, I might do meat meats that are not best for me and I'll be okay.

Speaker 2: 7:11

So what I'm saying is, while the restriction is not to say the restriction is for health purposes, right, and you have some flexibility 15 to 20% of the time. So did that answer your question? Or did I answer your question with what you were asking me? Yes, there is some sort of restriction 80% of the time, but you do have some flexibility, which means you still can enjoy some of those things that are maybe not best for your blood type, but it's just how often that you do it. It's just applying some mild restriction on you again so that you can feel better, which is the whole point of living. We want to feel better because it impacts our quality of life.

Speaker 1: 8:03

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 8:04

And there's alternatives. So if you're a pork eater and pork is not good for you, there's other meats that are not exactly pork but still will give you that same sensation of pork. So that's just to put it in very lay terms and I hope I answered your question with that.

Speaker 1: 8:23

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 8:24

Explanation yeah.

Speaker 1: 8:27

And I definitely love this approach is rooted in individuality, like it really aligns with our theme of embracing what uniquely brings us joy. Definitely yes.

Speaker 2: 8:39

It's understanding what your pleasures are and maybe doing it in a different way that's going to be more beneficial to you. It's not to look at it. It's really about mindset, which is something else that you teach about right, it's all about mindset. What is the purpose of your food? Are we eating it to live or are we living to eat? Are we eating it to live or are we living to eat? And then understanding that, the pleasure, what's the purpose of me consuming this food? And if it's for pleasure, do I have to have this particularly or can I do this in a different way? So it's just retraining your thinking, so you don't feel like you're being restrictive.

Speaker 1: 9:22

Yeah, exactly so, amin, you are a big advocate for the medical fitness, so how do you define it? I mean, why is it so impactful for managing the chronic conditions?

Speaker 2: 9:34

Because hair. Let's start with prescription medications. They are a means to an end. Avik meaning, when a doctor gives you a drug, unfortunately most people tend to use that for the rest of their lives. They don't understand the mindset that this drug is not healing me. It's only treating the symptoms of my chronic condition With medicine and fitness excuse me, with fitness and nutrition being your medicine.

Speaker 2: 10:09

That is actually what was designed for us to use as our means to healing ourselves. In fact, a lot of the chronic conditions that we have we wouldn't have if we would be more conscientious of the food that we eat. And so when we think about fitness, in particularly the first thing, we think the doctor says we're overweight, so we want to go exercise. Right, but there's not all exercise programs are meant for all chronic conditions and in fact, avik, some fitness regimens can trigger and worsen your chronic condition. So we have to understand first and understand the root cause of our chronic condition number one, and then number two. Once we understand that, figure out utilizing the food and nutrition. That figure out utilizing the food and nutrition, how we excuse me, the fitness and nutrition, how do we use that to heal our bodies, to heal the root cause and get off of the medication or not get on it in the first place. Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 1: 11:18

Exactly, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:21

And so I'm so passionate about it. I don't mean to go on forever, but that's the thinking behind that. We want to change and understand that, if we do have cancer or diabetes or high blood pressure, understand what fitness programs are best for our blood type. And, as a medical fitness practitioner, that's what I do. Yes, true definitely, definitely.

Speaker 1: 11:49

So, uh, you, I mean, you are known for your holistic approaches of wellness mind, body, spirit so if you can share a success story that illustrates the integration in action, there's.

Speaker 2: 12:05

There's hundreds of them, but I'll share one in particular of a patient that came to me. She was at the time 45 years old and she was super morbid, obese. She she weighed 400, I think, 416 pounds, and that is not even the biggest issue. She had every sickness to her body, avik that you can imagine, and I mean everything diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic conditions. She had injuries. She had everything. She could not even walk across the room without being winded because her body was basically shutting down and she wanted to have weight loss surgery. But in order to do that which I'm not against for some people she wanted to have weight loss surgery. But she was too sick and the physician was requiring for her to lose weight, but not just weight. She had to get her fat down, which is really what that problem was, the fat in her body, and so she didn't know what to do, and obviously she could not just go out and join a boot camp because her body wouldn't sustain that.

Speaker 2: 13:21

So we started the a holistic approach. First I found out her blood type, we did a full analysis of her and then did a few fitness assessments on her mild fitness assessments to figure out what was going on with her. We also required a referral from her physician. She can't just come and be treated by me, you have to get, because I do work with your physician and other healthcare professionals to heal you. So anyway, we did all of that and fast forward six months later. Six months later, and I also required her to get that mindset together, so it cause you can't just come in right, you can do the work, but if your mindset has not been adjusted in order to understand why you're doing this, then it's not going to be successful. So we worked on all of those things and six months later she was down about 70 pounds. Um she no longer. Um was diabetic. She also was no longer um had high blood pressure.

Speaker 1: 14:31

Okay.

Speaker 2: 14:32

Uh, she still had some high cholesterol but we were working towards that Um and she still wanted to have a surgery, which she did. After the surgery she then came back to me once she was cleared from her doctor and we continued to work and by the end of that first year after she had had her surgery, she had six months. She came back and then, let's say, a year and a half into the program she was down well over 150 pounds program. She was down well over 150 pounds but her fat she lost I am not joking 30% body fat and gained 20% lean muscle, because it takes more effort to put on muscle than it does to just lose fat. It takes time for muscle to build and recognize really what you're doing. She was healed, no longer high cholesterol. She has fibromyalgia, but that was dormant. With fibromyalgia you're not supposed to exercise over 30% of your physical capacity.

Speaker 2: 15:44

She was working at 70 to 80. I have a video of her. She had done a hundred sit-ups, a hundred sit-ups and we don't normally do sit-ups, but with her she wanted to test the waters with that. She had done a hundred sit-ups. Never in her life had she done a sit-up, by the way, she had never. She was doing 50 push-ups 50.

Speaker 2: 16:09

Consecutively Wow, 50 push-ups. It's just amazing. I just I have a video of her yelling out. There's a movie called Amistad. She's yelling out Dawn, give us free Because she's been working so hard, but it was really funny. But she, I mean, and she sent me a photo of her in the bathtub once and she was covered with a towel, but she's like Dawn, I never could get in the tub without it running over. So now we're talking about regular lifestyle stuff Avik, and we didn't use. And no drugs, no drugs, no drugs.

Speaker 1: 16:57

So, like you, often speak about resilience and neuroplasticity, so how do these concepts play in creating lasting health transformations?

Speaker 2: 17:12

You said lasting. Say it one more time.

Speaker 1: 17:15

Health transformations.

Speaker 2: 17:17

Oh, yes, so so, and you asked one more time. Ask me the full question okay.

Speaker 1: 17:23

So uh, I was just saying like, um, you talk about the resilience and neuroplasticity, so uh, how both of these uh play uh into kind of creating lasting health transformation yeah, so you have to if you're in your meaning around mindset, correct?

Speaker 2: 17:43

Hmm, are you talking about around mindset?

Speaker 1: 17:50

You can say yes, you can say.

Speaker 2: 17:53

So the first thing is that you have the first thing with any health journey, be it spiritual, be it physical, be it internal, whatever, you have to have a mind transformation. You have to understand why I'm doing this right and hold on to your why and understand that it takes time, right. This was not done. I didn't get this way in one day and I won't get out of this.

Speaker 2: 18:24

This is not a. This is not a get rich. It's not like a get rich quick scheme. This is about investing in yourself and your life and your quality of life for the rest of your life, such that it is change your thought process so that it understands that it takes time, right, exactly. And you do it one step at a time, day by day, as opposed to looking at it over a long term. Oh, I need to lose weight by this amount of time. That's not the goal here. The goal is to heal, and you have to heal from inside first, and it always is going to start in your brain, exactly, it's always going to. You have to be aligned here first. This is the driver, right?

Speaker 1: 19:22

Very true, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 19:31

Spirituality, all of it. If this is the driver, whatever it is, I don't care if you believe in god or allah or whatever. You have to understand there is a higher power. First understand what your higher power is. Understand and then apply that to your mentality and what your higher power belief system is why you are here on this planet and understand your purpose. If you understand purpose, it won't be so hard to heal yourself because you know you have things to do.

Speaker 1: 20:01

Very true, yeah, exactly, lovely, great, great, great. So that's incredible conversation I hope I.

Speaker 2: 20:09

I hope that I answered your question, uh very true, very truly good I hope I answered it. It goes far beyond the, the food and the fitness. I was far beyond that exactly exactly, exactly.

Speaker 1: 20:23

I totally agree, and it's really an incredible conversation and the listeners of today's episode has resented with you. I challenge you to take one insight from Dawn and put it into an action, whether it's exploring the concept of blood-based eating, or maybe reframing how you think about fitness, or simply embracing the pleasure as a vital part of your health journey. And do not forget to follow us on your favorite podcast platforms and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it and always remember the path to a pleasure is is personal, transformative and entirely yours to create. So until next time, stay curious, stay joyful and keep embracing the principles of the pleasure. Thank you so much you.