Taylor Fakas is a health coach, Co-Owner of Zero Point Athletics, Founder of Divergent Therapeutics, Bodyworker, and Biomechanics Specialist. Taylor Fakas talks about being born with plagiocephaly, how he found yoga, weightlifting, and fitness training, starting Zero Point Athletics and Divergent Therapeutics, the importance of tongue posture and mewing, and proper breathing techniques.
Episode Highlights:
- Host Blake Bowman introduces Taylor Fakas and he explains his professional background.
- Taylor explains what plagiocephaly is and being born with it.
- At one point during Taylor's youth, his mother was in a coma and he dropped to 97 pounds.
- What was Taylor’s initial experience like doing yoga with his mom?
- How did Taylor get involved in fitness training and the entrepreneurial side of it?
- Taylor was able to run his own clinic inside of a PT clinic and branched out into his own therapy practice.
- Taylor runs a 14,000-square-foot therapy facility with bio-hacking equipment.
- He talks about tongue posture and mewing in relation to activating musculature in your neck.
- You can lower your immune system and raise stress in your body with a bad tongue position and not breathing through the nose.
- What is ‘the Bohr effect?’
- It is not a matter of getting more oxygen into the blood. It is a matter of getting the oxygen that is stuck in the blood out and into the tissues of the body.
- What is Taylor’s take on ‘wim hof breathing?’
- Most of us need to cry and laugh more.
- Get your body properly accessed.
- What is the proper tongue position for default breathing?
- What are the ways to optimize the quality of your sleep and being able to relax?
- Taylor talks about the impact of the industrialization of baby food.
- Think holistically about every area of your life.
- It is about collaboration and not competition.
3 Key Points:
- Plagiocephaly is a condition characterized by a flattening of one side of the skull. Taylor was born with the whole right side of his face and skull fused together as one bone.
- People generally know the basics of getting healthier (drink water, exercise, eat healthy foods). But people typically are much less aware of what they should or shouldn’t be doing when they are in pain.
- Just because you are a good personal trainer doesn’t mean you are going to be a good business owner.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “I was born with a pretty severe postural distortion called plagiocephaly. So, my skull didn’t form properly.” - Taylor Fakas
- “I decided that my number 1 focus would be to get myself and my mom in a healthier mental, physical, and emotional place, and that really kind of guided me into doing yoga.” - Taylor Fakas
- (Yoga) “It started kind of helping me relax, helped me with my anxiety, helped me get a little more grounded. I was bonding with my mom.” - Taylor Fakas
- (YMCA weight-lifting area) “I’m like, I don’t want to be this 97-pound skinny dude. I want to do bench pressing and curls every day so I can look like those guys. That’s what got me into lifting.” - Taylor Fakas
- “If I wasn’t one of the owners of this gym and I found it as a trainer or a therapist, I would have no problem working here because it is directly in alignment with my beliefs. There are opportunities to learn and grow.” - Taylor Fakas
- “If your body and your brain intuitively know that you’re going to be struggling to breathe, whether that is snoring, sleep apnea, mouth breathing at night, your brain will try to keep you awake longer.” - Taylor Fakas
Resources Mentioned:
