{"id":8144,"date":"2018-07-25T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:54:20","slug":"wren-got-energy-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/wren-got-energy-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab-Based Nutrition Case Study: Wren B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wren was having a hard time recovering from stress. He had very little energy or patience for his family.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So&nbsp;he decided to try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/lbn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lab-Based Nutrition<\/a>. See what Wren&#8217;s results were just from taking a simple blood test:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/281660380\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is Hut Allred with New Wave Fitness and I\u2019m here with Wren Baker from the University of North Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi, how are you, man? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m doing good, buddy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m the Vice President and Director of Athletics. I\u2019ve been here about a year. I\u2019m really excited to be leading the Mean Green athletic program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know a lot of you probably have already seen, I played ball here at North Texas. Doing with this video with Wren has been an honor. Coming back here and being a part of all of this has been great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re looking for eligibility. It still looks like you can play. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, just the last year or two really, I didn\u2019t feel nearly as energetic. Obviously, this is a fast-paced lifestyle. We travel a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of donor dinners, so you don\u2019t always eat the healthiest of meals. You don\u2019t always get the rest you should get. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certainly, there\u2019s a lot of stress that comes with the job. It wasn\u2019t necessarily that I realized, \u201cHey, I feel awful.\u201d I just realized I wasn\u2019t optimal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a three-year-old little girl and a six-year-old little girl and they expect dad to be ready to play when he gets home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019d be times I\u2019d sit in the car five to 10 minutes\u2014not a long time\u2014but just kind of gathering myself and giving myself a little pep talk. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last thing you want to do when you go in, when you don\u2019t see your kids a lot, is to not have the energy to engage with them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exactly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then if you had a couple of days off, it\u2019s almost like you\u2019re in recovery mode and you just want to spend that lounging and trying to gather yourself back up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you can\u2019t with young kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t, no.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you went through and we got your labs back and you had your call and your meeting with Dan to go over the results, what was that experience like? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It tied a lot of things together. Without me telling him anything, Dan said this is your body\u2019s natural anti-depressant. In fact, if you were put on anti-depressants, this is in it. With this being low, you may have noticed it takes you a bit to respond, rebound. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were probably three or four of those a-ha moments. It was like, \u201cYes, that\u2019s exactly the way I\u2019ve been feeling.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you got that information and you had that clarity, what were your biggest obstacles implementing them? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think, honestly, it was planning the meals. We just got to where my wife and I on the weekends, like Sunday, we\u2019ll grill chicken or pork, and we\u2019ll put it in containers and I carry them almost like a T.V. dinner for the week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What it\u2019s actually done is given me more time at work. I\u2019ve done less lunches and so I\u2019ll get home a little bit earlier, not a lot, maybe 30 or 45 minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or a lot of times I\u2019m able to get on the elliptical for a little bit or go through a workout with time I would have spent\u2014an hour or hour and a half\u2014normally going out to get some lunch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ve actually gained more quality time and you\u2019re more efficient now; would you say that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, because everybody else is gone from the office here at lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hut:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can bang some stuff out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wren:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nobody interrupts you. It\u2019s become a quiet, private time. You can count on nobody knocking at the door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Energy wise, just overall mood, patience with my kids and my wife and that kind of stuff, totally different. I\u2019m not somebody who over emphasizes something but it\u2019s almost euphoric with the energy that you have. Sleep wise, much better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father Time creeps up on all of us a little bit and as you get into the mid to late 30s and early 40s, your body is going through a lot of changes. My wife, who\u2019s always led a healthy life, she\u2019s going through the same thing as well. You just go through those changes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be able to reset that and feel like you\u2019ve turned back the clock a few years is really refreshing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m a couple months into it and I\u2019m down about 20 pounds, which is great. I\u2019ve lost a couple inches in the waist and that\u2019s great. Honestly, that\u2019s just a side effect for me. I feel so much better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, I could look in the mirror every day\u2014and still can by the way\u2014and say, \u201cHey, you need to get healthier.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m a logical person I need to be able to process and think through things so to be able to see this is how this fits together was important for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to have improved energy and patience like Wren? 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