Dr. Shawn's Blog

Here is an article that I recently wrote for an Alternative Medicine magazine – hope you like it! Restoring your mental and physical equilibrium will help you achieve the best version of yourself By Shawn Talbott, PhD, LDN, FACSM Americans are tired, depressed, and overweight. We spend more than $100 billion on energy drinks, antidepressants,

My 13th book, Best Future You, is out! Over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting excerpts from the book and blogging frequently about the main concept in the book – which is the idea of harnessing your body’s internal cellular biochemistry to achieve true balance in body, mind, and spirit – and in doing

61-year-old billionaire Oprah Winfrey bought a 10% stake in Weight Watchers International yesterday. Her $43M purchase of 6.4 million shares caused Weight Watchers stock price to double – netting her a tidy profit of about $75M (including shares and options). Her investment comes at a good time because even with the Oprah-induced doubling, WW stock

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.

As the reigning “World’s Fittest CEO,” (2nd place 2013, 1st place 2014) one of the most common questions I get asked is, “How do you stay in shape with all the travel you do?” (for LifeVantage, where I serve as Chief Science Officer). I travel hundreds of thousands of miles every year all around the

From January 24 to February 1 (9 days), I’ll be joining a bunch of nuts in riding the “Tour of Sufferlandria” (the greatest tour of a mythical nation) to raise money for the Davis Phinney Foundation – a fantastic charity that is improving the lives of people with  Parkinson’s Disease in the name of Davis Phinney,