Episode · On Purpose with Jay Shetty · 2026-11-11
Jay Shetty, Matt Gallant & Wade Lightheart: books mentioned on On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Matt Gallant & Wade Lightheart: How to Hack Your Sleep and Digestion to Live an Optimized Life
Co-founders of the supplement brand BiOptimizers, Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart, join Jay to talk about why so many people feel worse in a world with more health information than ever.
Matt Gallant recommended Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, and discussed The Ultimate Nutrition Bible by Matt Gallant and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Ultimate Nutrition Bible
Discussed“Wade and I wrote basically a compendium, a book called The Ultimate Nutrition Bible.”
Where to get it
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Fast Food Nation
Recommended“My son's just turned two years old. He's never had any processed food. He's never had any chemicals, any additives, any sugar, anything like that. Because there's a great book by Eric Schlosser called Fast Food Nation.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Power Versus Force
“I got into orthomolecular nutrition and some of the founders was Dr. Abramhoff or Dr. David Hawkins, who wrote Power Versus Force, which is one of a fascinating book.”
Plugged The Ultimate Nutrition Bible
“And it's why we wrote the Ultimate Nutrition Bible is because we wanted to give people the closest unbiased look at all the different dietary strategies and how to select the right one, to approach it the right way.”
Plugged The Ultimate Nutrition Bible
“And you can see this from a group level, also individual levels. If a man lowers his body fat and enters a point where it'll invert when you get too shredded. But if a man, say, 35% body fat drops down to 15, usually their testosterone is going to go up quite a bit. We cover this, actually, in the”
Passing Power Versus Force
“That was Dr. David Hawkins, who we got to see before he left the body. He's the author of Power Versus Force. Probably made the biggest transformation for us, yeah.”