What would you expect on your 1st meeting with someone who founded a scientific wellness company and celebrated as one of New Zealand’s most renowned clinical nutritionists and holistic health experts?
What struck me when I had lunch with Ben Warren, founder of BePure was his openness to new information and humility to even learn from someone like me.
Ben started as an elite golf coach and after personal health issues, retrained as a nutritionist to heal himself. He spent over 10 years learning from the best in his field and started BePure.
My mother-in-law, May attended one of his original courses, Ben Warren’s Pure Health Revolution course in 2009. She still follows his recommendation of drinking a warm glass of water with lemon juice to kick-start the gastric juices. When we reviewed her folder from the course, I was impressed how over 20 years ago, Ben had advocated healthy living through vitamin D supplementation, filling in nutritional gaps with bone broth and organ meat, mindful eating, gardening. I really wanted his take on the current health environment, hence my interview with him.
He shared how he maintains his health on a daily basis:
Ben starts the day meditating: his tip: keep your eyes closed and focus on love and gratitude. Think of a loved one and that emotion comes naturally
He then drinks water to keep hydrated.
Ben practices yoga for relaxation and finds that this practice increases his awareness of stress points that has accumulated in the body. This awareness allows him to manage stress better.
After that, he catches up with work and has breakfast around 10am. He finds restricting his diet to a narrow eating window works well for his metabolism.
He also commits to some form of movement daily whether chopping wood in his farm or playing tennis.
He eats according to his macronutrient type: for Ben, his best fuel source are proteins and vegetables. Find out your macronutrient type by clicking on the quiz developed by BePure nutritionists here.
Ben is a big advocate of individualising micronutrients to the individual. His clinic provides a range of these services. At the moment, he takes:
- 10x BePure One
- 4x BePure Three Fish oil
- B12 & B9
- Coenzyme Q-10
- Manganese
- Molybdenum
- Nattokinase
- NMN (Nicotinamide mononucleotide)
- Turmeric
He rotates his supplements according to his individual requirements
When I asked him for his top 3 micronutrients to support immunity, he recommended vitamin C, D and zinc, matching my top 3 supplements and The Pharmacist Edit’s Guide to Boosting Your Immune System (coming soon). The thinking is that to boost the immune system, one needs raw materials and micronutrients to enable these materials to be made into immune soldiers like antibodies etc.
You can connect with Ben here.
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