Using Fitness & Passion to Overcome Addiction

Founder and Owner of Key Nutrition, Brad Jensen is a successful nutritionist, fitness expert, and entrepreneur. Brad has a unique story as he had found himself addicted to heroin and other substances and used fitness and his fascination with nutrition as a builder to helping overcome his drug addiction. Listen to Brad's story as he goes into deep detail about his business, his solving of his drug addiction, and his active lifestyle.

 

Selected Links and People from the Episode:

• Key Nutrition

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Show Notes

• Introduction [1:34]

• From being a nutritionist for another company to starting his own [3:50]

• The feeling he had of not fitting in and his missing piece [5:03]

• Having his first sip of alcohol at age twelve [5:30]

• Self image was one of his main reasons for continued drinking [6:46]

• Fitness and nutrition was the first thing he ever felt passionate about [7:43]

• The fascination of how food and working out can change your entire physique [8:10]

•  The conflict of choosing fitness or drinking [8:44]

• Transition from drinking alcohol daily, to taking pain pills [10:18]

• Going from pain pills to heroin [11:34]

• How drugs took control of his entire life [13:06]

• Using drugs to numb him from finding out who he really is [14:33]

• The affected family relationships he had because of his addictiveness to drugs [19:06]

• His family cutting him off and not being around him turned into the best thing that ever happened to him [20:33]

•  Big "why" on keeping sober [26:13]

• Helping others kept him sober because that in itself was addictive [28:21]

• Overcoming the fear of starting your own business [32:18]

• Recovery means being spiritually fit [35:22]

• Advice on nutrition and how no meal plans are the same, it is based on your own body [39:08]

• Little things to know about nurtition as stepping stones [40:50]

• Eating enough of the right foods for your body [42:41]

• Mentally overcoming the cravings you will have [47:22]

• Getting addicted to the progress and seeing results yourself [48:13]

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