Food addiction hits the same part of your brain as cocaine, and according to Aaron Williamson, that's no accident. The Marine veteran and celebrity trainer to The Rock and Zac Efron believes craving is the business model, and that the food system is built to keep you hooked, inflamed and unable to think clearly. Aaron went from a broke kid with no direction to a Marine Body Bearer at Arlington National Cemetery to training some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and now he's building Mission Ready to help people break the cycle.
Brady and Aaron dig into the link between Big Tobacco and the food industry after Philip Morris bought Kraft in 1988, why everyone has a trigger food, and the one first step Aaron gives anyone trying to get free: eat single ingredient foods. They also cover how inflammation wrecks your sleep and your thinking, what boot camp at Parris Island taught him about handling chaos, and why discipline comes down to doing hard things. Then Aaron opens up about being homeless, never having a successful relationship, and the ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT experiences where he felt himself die and came back with complete forgiveness for everything.
Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction
(06:18) What It Feels Like to Bear the Dead
(09:24) Why a Young Man Should Enlist
(17:43) Day One on the Yellow Footprints
(24:07) Why This Generation Will Not Serve
(37:43) Discipline Is Just Doing Hard Things
(48:35) Your Craving Is the Business Model
(55:26) Philip Morris Bought Kraft in 1988
(01:00:14) Building Mission Ready
(01:11:22) Sleep Is How You Actually Grow
(01:27:43) What Does It Mean to Be a Man
(01:34:10) Finding Faith After Hollywood
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