Making Health Accessible with Zeke Khali the Healthy Hueman
With the right knowledge, we can shift the narrative of nutrition and organic eating, leading to sharper minds and more able bodies.
Today we’re joined by Zeke Khali, AKA ‘The Healthy Hueman’ to talk about his mission in making natural health and wellness accessible to all. We open our conversation by exploring Zeke’s passionate journey in health. A key theme in this episode, we then dive into the challenges that make health so inaccessible. From cutting through dull scientific language to the importance of educating the youth, Zeke unpacks how we can create a culture that values health. Later, Zeke discusses his solutions to these problems, touching on simple ways that we can exercise and eat healthily. Listeners will benefit from Zeke’s insights, as well as from his actionable ‘Stoplight’ approach to nutrition.
Join us to hear more about this method, and how easy it is to embrace holistic and organic living.
Key Points From This Episode:
Zeke’s mission to connect people to themselves, their health, and the world around them.
Exploring Zeke’s focus on communicating his health expertise across the generations.
Challenges that everyday people face in understanding the latest health science.
Where Zeke’s passion for health and wellness comes from.
Zeke unpacks his process in learning about the body.
How small upsets can profoundly impact our ‘pillars of success.’
Tips on restarting your health routine after experiencing offsets.
Why educating the youth is so important to long-term health.
Activities that form the foundations for good everyday health.
Learn about Zeke’s simple ‘Stoplight’ guide to nutrition and eating.
Strengthening our health by simplifying the choices that we make.
Zeke’s insights on making people care about organic farming practices.
Why Zeke is so excited to share knowledge about organic produce.
Advice on getting your brand out there and engaging with diversity.
Tweetables:
“Even though the Healthy Hueman is my career and livelihood, I call it my passion project because it’s where I wake up and apply my talents, skills, and craft — and in an area that I’m passionate about. It doesn’t feel like work.” — Zeke Khali [0:01:45]
“It’s very important that people understand how to see through health research. That the strategies that people use are more important than the data they come across.” — Zeke Khali [0:07:28]
“This is how you balance your diet, this is what to do when you get sick, these are the properties of the different foods that are around you — these are the important things that you would expect any child to be taught in a society where you want the child to be self-sufficient.” — Zeke Khali [0:12:42]
“Those small upsets can make those important pillars that structure our lives — the pillars that give us continuity and a sense of success — when small things occur, they can offset those major pillars in our life.” — Zeke Khali [0:17:17]
“When people haven’t experienced genuine pain related to their health or others, it’s difficult for them to accept that the practices that they’re engaging in are bad for them.” — Zeke Khali [0:22:54]
“Fitness is not only going out to run a marathon or doing an IronMan, obstacle course race, or benching 225 pounds. These are not the pinnacles of health but activity is.” — Zeke Khali [0:30:41]
“There are minerals and vitamins that help you stay in homeostasis in certain colored foods. That makes it easy to get all the nutrition that your body needs by eating all the different colors within the rainbow.” — Zeke Khali [0:35:36]
“We are from this Earth and we eat things from this Earth. If we make it as simple as that when we speak about food as the main principle to being a healthy human, then it would be easier for the world to shift towards organic.” — Zeke Khali [0:44:17]
“We can shift an entire narrative and the trajectory of humankind itself if we just had a bit more knowledge.” — Zeke Khali [0:47:20]
“The generations that come after us learn, accept, and reject things differently. Now people aren’t accepting everything that is shiny and thrown at them. People are seeing the flimsiness of products.” — Zeke Khali [0:53:08]
“You’re selling products to humans, not robots. And people are interacting with your product and you’re expecting them to come back. So provide them with something that will help them connect with your product.” — Zeke Khali [01:00:24]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
The Healthy Hueman
Zeke Khali on Instagram
The Blue Zones
The Organic Marketing Association
