Welcome to episode 77 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Overcoming Epilepsy & Disease through Holistic Health & Diet with Scott Sommer
Tired of reading all the contradictory perspectives on health and diet? Are you or do you know someone struggling to figure out their diet with a diagnosis, like epilepsy? This podcast is for you! This is your one stop shop to your questions regarding diet and optimizing your health for top performance. Scott Sommer provides you with simple answers to holistic health, using your diet, which we’ve complicated with the products and by-products of the industrial revolution. Through his unique approach that merges western and eastern science and understanding about the body, Scott uses the analogy of a battery to describe the body and how his expertise in 30 different treatment modalities provide a synergistic and personalised approach to his clients’ needs. Foundationally, he expresses the importance of consuming organic and nutrient-dense food through his upbringing and comparisons between modern-era life to life nowadays. Scott reveals the epidemiology surrounding nutritional deficiencies and common health risks, promoting the Nutritarian diet as a holistic approach to optimizing longevity and performance. Tune in to discover more!
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What You Will Learn In This Interview with Scott Sommer:
2:54 – What “fuels” Scott to do what he does.
3:40 – Scott’s story.
13:26 – Role-models and behavior change.
15:22 – Gardening for Longevity.
17:09 – The importance of eating organic.
19:20 – The electricity of the body.
22:51 – How Scott approaches Chronic Pain.
26:43 – Common Nutritional Deficiencies.
35:01 – The Nutritarian Diet.
38:20 – Learn more with Scott.
About Scott Sommer:
Scott Sommer LAc, started his health and healing journey at just 18 months old when he was diagnosed with Epilepsy. Scott made a commitment that if he could remove the disease from his own brain, he would spend the rest of his life helping others do the same. As organic farmers at heart, Scott’s parents were already strong on the subject of nutrition and provided their son with a diet including healthy fats, such as nuts and avocados, to help repair the brain and by 15 years old, Scott was declared healed and free from Epilepsy. Scott went on to pursue a degree in Chemical Engineering and then another degree in western medicine.
Scott became inspired by the power of Chinese medicine and he pursued a degree in Nutrition, along with a Master’s degree in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. Now, Scott is an award winning practitioner treating patients all around the world with his unique techniques combining his knowledge of both western and eastern medicine where he approaches 100% of the problem to find 100% of the solution. He is able to properly assess the problem and then get to the “why” of his patient’s health problems and ultimately resolve them. He likes to spend his free time traveling in his RV, hiking, working out, biking and enjoying his family.
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Items mentioned in this episode include:
Scott’s Website: https://www.sommersholistichealth.com/
Scott’s Podcast “Life Changing Health Tips”: https://podcasts.apple.com
Scott’s App “Sommer’s Holistic Health”: https://apps.apple.com
Scott’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com
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