#174 – Nate Palmer: Self Awareness & Optimizing Health by Maximizing Sleep

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Lawrence is joined by his friend Nate Palmer, a fitness and nutrition expert, jiujitsu enthusiast, devoted husband and father, and the host of the Low Carb Hustle Podcast.

Nate believes that being in optimal health gives a massive advantage in business, focus, and relationships.

“Reframe your sleep as a skill and try to get a little better at it every night”

0.00: Nates background and finding love for jiujitsu

6.30: Why you should eat carbs in the evening for fat loss

10.00: Intermittent fasting vs energy needs for training

13.00: Taking BCAAs during 24 hour fast’s and keep training to avoid losing muscle mass

16.00: How entrepreneurs can maximize their sleep (90 mins of REM & 90 mins of Deep Sleep)

23.00: Most people are lethargic from lack of restful sleep and don’t even know it

28.00: Parenting tips from Nate (include your kids)

Follow Nate on Instagram: @lowcarbhustle

Nate’s Website: milliondollarbodymethod.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Nate,
0:03.0	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:18.0	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lawrence Dunning.
0:22.1	Nate, I'm so glad we get to connect again. I love following your stuff. I love what you're doing.
0:26.8	I love your new passion with Jiu-Jitsu. It fires me up and I'm going to talk to you about that later
0:30.6	too. But I love all your tips on sleep and just diet and fitness for people like me who are in the mid-40s, and I'm not quite as lead as I want to be,
0:39.7	and I'm looking for little things to adjust in my routine to look a little bit better and feel a bit better.
0:44.9	So that's really what I want to dive into today.
0:47.4	Awesome. Let's do it.
0:48.6	So, bro, how did you discover Jetsu?
0:50.8	Well, I feel like I've been hearing about it for a while. Like a lot of people that I like and respect are doing it. I did a like a semester of it in college, but I kept hurting my neck.
1:01.2	I have a really long, skinny neck. And so I like, I would just kind of like, oh, maybe it's not for me then.
1:06.6	So fast forward to about like maybe two years ago, my buddy Joe, that I, so I work in a real estate office.
1:12.9	And he is like the office manager here. He runs his own business and everything.
1:16.0	So he was kept telling me to get how he liked Jiu-Jitsu and how he's getting into it and he's doing all these things.
1:21.2	So I was working with him to help him get ready for a world world masters.
1:24.9	So he got him down from like 238 to down to like two oh under 208 shredded.
1:29.7	And then I went to Vegas with him and supported him at the at the actual competition.
1:33.8	And so everyone was around was doing jiu-jitsu. And so he's like, come to a class, come to a class.
1:37.4	So I just eventually went to a class with him at his gym and was like, oh, this is horrible.
1:43.6	This is literally the worst thing I've ever done
1:46.3	because I've been training for almost 20 years.
	...

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