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Why do diets have to be individualized? What are the myths around sodium? How much sodium do we need a day? Why do so many people fail at diets? Why does just drinking water not properly hydrate you? How does Covid impact sodium levels? How do altitude and cold weather impact our hydration? What is the connection between electrolytes and breast feeding? 

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Robb Wolf, former research biochemist, 2 time New York Times/Wall Street Journal Best-selling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired To Eat, and co-founder of LMNT Electrolytes, joins us on the podcast to discuss how diets must be individualized, the myths about sodium, how drinking just water won’t properly hydrate you, and more. 

“In a world where it’s difficult find meaning, attaching oneself to a dietary or fitness tribe, like Cross Fit, is powerful. It’s really, really powerful.” 

“If we don’t have enough sodium in circulation, we will mine sodium out of our body, out of our bones to supply the sodium that we need, at least for some period of time.” 

“Interestingly, there’s a really high linkage between low sodium intake and osteoporosis.”  

“Generally, when people shift to a mainly whole food type diet, their glycemic load drops which drops their insulin, drops their tendency to retain sodium.” 

“The literature is pretty clear that it’s far more dangerous from a health and a death perspective to have too low sodium than too high.” 

“I quoted these numbers in both of my books but 45 million Americans try a diet 3-4x a year and largely fail.” 

“If we just hammer water, what we end up doing is diluting those electrolytes and getting them further and further out of balance.” 

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What is the link between weight and cancer? What should we eat and not eat to prevent cancer risk? What do we need to know about cannabis? What about alcohol consumption? 

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Dr. Donald Abrams, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at UCSF, is an integrative oncologist with 39 years of experience. He works with people living with and beyond cancer and has a focus on nutrition, physical exercise, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. 

Dr. Abrams joins us to discuss the link between obesity and cancer, how sugar impacts cancer, the health risks of dairy and meat, what to know about alcohol consumption and cannabis, what to eat to reduce the risk of cancer, and more. 

“The number one cause of both morbidity and mortality are dietary issues which have surpassed high blood pressure and smoking and does not include high body mass index or obesity. What we eat is really critical.” 

“Somewhere between 10-40% of all cancer is related to overweight or obesity and, since ⅔ of the American public is now overweight or obese, it’s a big problem.” 

“We now believe that inflammation is a leading cause of many of the degenerative diseases of aging: dementia, heart disease, and cancer, particularly.” 

“Cancer needs sugar to grow.” 

“We believe that 6% of all cancer is now related to alcohol consumption and the leading cause of death from alcohol in people over the age of 50 is now cancer.” 

“I believe the diet should be organic, plant-based, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, real, and whole foods.” 

“If we’re going to let food be our medicine and medicine be our food, organic is more potent than conventional.” 

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How wrong was the Women’s Health Initiative study? What is hormone replacement therapy (HRT)? How can we be advocates for our own health? How can we build our confidence? How did Tamsen know that she was in menopause and what did she do? Why is it more important than ever to have the conversation about menopause? 

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Tamsen Fadal, storyteller, newscaster, entrepreneur, menopause advocate, and champion for women in their prime, joins us for the third time on the podcast to discuss her upcoming documentary It’s Not Me, It’s Menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), how to thrive during menopause, how menopause “categorized” her, and more. 

“I want to teach women how to ask questions. If they don’t feel comfortable with the answers, move on to somebody else and keep going after it because they’re not crazy and they need to feel like they’re heard.” 

“I do believe that if you’re doing things that feel right for you and make you feel good, then you have that confidence.” 

“For my first two years [of menopause], it was about just surviving, trying to feel normal again, healthy again, sexy again.” 

“There’s a lot of mental health things that come with menopause. It’s not just one of the symptoms; it really changes a lot about that part of your life.” 

“I had a lot of very dark moments but I didn’t know that was perimenopause; that wasn’t even a word that I was aware of.” 

“You’re never too old to have fun.” 

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How can we make goals for ourselves and achieve them? How specific do we have to make them? Goals vs resolutions? We need to create a specific game plan, or else we will just be floundering. But when do we know if a goal is too big? Focus on the community you hang out with.

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Greg Scheinman is the creator of The Midlife Male™, a newsletter and podcast designed to help men navigate and maximize middle age to achieve a better quality of life, and the author of the book The Midlife Male: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Living Better, Longer, Happier, Healthier, and Wealthier and Having More Fun in Your 40s and 50s. He is a former partner at Insgroup, the founder and former CEO of Team Baby Entertainment, founder and former CEO of ROW Studios, and an investor. 

Greg joins us for this motivating New Year episode to discuss how to set and actually achieve your goals, how to change your habits, how to maximize your life, the importance of your community, and more. 

“Whatever your goal is: purpose, process, payoff. There has to be something quantifiable to go towards or you’re going to struggle with actually achieving that goal because you don’t really know what is going to make that goal a reality.” 

“People are going to make a lot of resolutions like they always do and then they’re going to break them at some point because they haven’t really quantified what it looks like to maintain them.” 

“You develop these habits, we all develop these habits, good, bad, whatever they are, that becomes our default of how we operate. When we get outside of our personal operating system, it doesn’t feel great. Just like a computer or business, we can continue to update our operating system and we should.” 

“Mediocrity happens by default, maximization happens by design. None of this happens by accident; they’re conscious choices and decisions we make.” 

“Anything and everything that you want in life is absolutely available and happening out there. You’ve just got to put yourself out there and into it.” 

“You don’t have to think about completely reinventing yourself. What you can do is you can agree to release yourself to the process, to just start it, to taking that first step and then another one.” 

“Believe that you can make change. Whatever that is. Believe that whatever you want to do or have in your life is not only possible but highly probable if you are willing to commit to the process and do the work.” 

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How can psychedelics help us heal? Can psychedelics be used for brain health and neuroplasticity? What is the right setting for taking psychedelics? Who should you be with? What are the clinical applications of psychedelics? What is a “challenging psychedelic trip”? What is microdosing? What sort of person should not do psychedelics? 

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Lynn Marie Morski is a Mayo Clinic-trained physician, attorney, and former adjunct law professor. Dr. Morski spent nine years as a physician at the Veterans Administration. She now spreads the word about psychedelic science and healing and is the president of the Psychedelic Medicine Association. 

Lynn Marie Morski joins us to discuss psychedelics. She shares how psychedelics are being used for neuroplasticity, PTSD, trauma, depression, and more. She also shares the current legalization and decriminalization status for psychedelics. 

Disclaimer: This is not medical advice. If you are interested in psychedelics, go to a trained professional (not Burning Man). 

“Psychedelics generally amplify whatever emotion you’re having. So instead of being able to go in and do deep work, if you’re already anxious it might just make you more anxious.” 

“There’s a number of things that psychedelics do but increasing neuroplasticity definitely does help because you’re changing the way that your brain functions.” 

“Right now, mental health conditions with trauma at their core and physical conditions that have relation to neurology are probably the two most promising areas.” 

“Psychedelics increase connectivity and they reset the default mode network.” 

“Step one: don’t take drugs from strangers.” 

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Psychedelic Medical Association Website
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Psychedelic Medicine Podcast

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What is the most impactful thing that most people can do to improve their chances of living longer? How does stress impact longevity? Could too much exercise have negative effects on our aging? Is time-restricted eating / intermittent fasting beneficial to longevity? 

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Ryan Smith, co-founder and vice president of business development at TruDiagnostic, joins us to discuss how his company is improving longevity by understanding our biological age vs chronological age, the different factors that accelerate or slow the aging process, and more.

“This idea of epigenetics is the on or off switches to your genes, controlling what actually gets expressed and then how those cells ultimately behave.” 

“People who are fast agers are, on average, 65% more likely to die than those who are average or slow agers.” 

“From an epidemiological perspective, there are a lot of things that I would recommend across the board and that is: getting proper sleep, making sure that you’re eating a healthy diet, making sure that you’re staying insulin sensitive and not insulin resistant.” 

“Working over 40 hours a week has been correlated to at least 1.5 years of additional age increase. The impact of stress has been one of those things that’s surprising in its effect size. It’s something that most people would consider as the main intervention for longevity.”

“Reducing stress is incredibly impactful.” 

“We know physical activity is impactful but it’s not the same effect size as things like BMI or stress.” 

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How can we learn to move more joyfully? How does movement impact our joints? What is the importance of warming up before working out? How can movement impact our mental health? 

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Tom McCook, founder and director of Center of Balance, is an internationally recognized Pilates teacher and movement specialist. Tom's mission is to improve people's lives through movement to cultivate health and body wisdom. 

Tom joins us to discuss the importance of mobility and movement, how daily movement can transform our mental health, the importance of properly warming up our joints, and more. 

“As you age, one of the things that we don’t tend to think about very much is our joints. We don’t tend to think about our joints until they hurt.”

“If movement feels good, you look forward to it.” 

“You can change your health. You can improve your health. And it doesn’t have to be ridiculous. You can start with a half an hour a day. Start with a small amount.”

“You have to move on a regular basis to keep yourself mentally fit, present, optimistic in your life, and actually resourceful. It’s so important.” 

“If you’re in a slightly depressed, down mood, you can do 15-20 minutes of movement and totally shift your mood.” 

“If you want to age well, you need to learn how your body is designed.” 

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What can we learn from the team doctor for elite athletes who has helped on nearly 30 Tours de France and is now working with us mortals? Why are athletes taking Viagra for performance? What are the health benefits of exercise? How are exercise and diet personal to each person? Why do we need to re-evalute all medical and drug studies and go more with the individual?

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Dr. Max Testa is a sports medicine physician and coach whose methodology emphasizes the importance of a fine-tuned human engine to help athletes reach peak performance. He now works at the Park City Hospital in sports medicine seeing patients of every level of fitness, with and without medical conditions. Dr. Max Testa discusses nitric oxide, the benefits of exercise, how everyone’s diet and fitness is personal to them, heart rate, and more. 

“At the end of the day, you have to go back to basics. Your diet has to be mainly based on healthy food.” 

“If your blood pressure goes down, your heart has to spend less energy to pump the same amount of blood per minute.” 

“Often we hear the concept of exercise as a medicine or exercise is medicine and there is nothing more true than that. Exercise has some pharmacological-like effect on the body.” 

“Not everyone responds to the same training.” 

“I start with what the science shows, for sure, but then I tell my patient, ‘The result is not as good as I was expecting; maybe we should try this other thing.’ Sometimes you have to try more than once to find the right balance.” 

“Everything about exercise and nutrition is multifactorial. You have to find the key to open your own door.” 

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What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy? What is therapeutic plasma exchange? How does therapeutic plasma exchange help with age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s? What things should we eat and take for brain health? How does diet impact brain health? What about aerobic activity? How does stress impact brain health? What are the cumulative effects of concussions? What do we need to know about nitric oxide? 

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Dr. Joseph Maroon is a world-renowned neurosurgeon with extensive experience in neurosurgery. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery to speed recovery for his patients. He is a sports medicine expert and innovator in concussion management, personal fitness and nutrition. As an Ironman triathlete, he lives and breathes his own advice. 

Dr. Maroon joins us to discuss his own athletic journey, his experience doing hyperbaric oxygen therapy, how we can support our brain health, and more. 

“Adversity either kills us or it makes us stronger.” 

“What we ingest, we become to some extent.” 

“In terms of brain preservation, hundreds of studies now show that long term aerobic activity is the best booster.” 

“Sleep is absolutely critical to preserving brain function.” 

“I don’t know what works. All I know is that I’m still here at work having fun.” 

“I’ll leave you with the three most important things in life. Number 1: mental and physical health. Without that, forget it. Number 2: relationships with God, family, friends and colleagues. Number 3: carpe diem.” 

“If tomorrow I pick up the paper and I see my name in the obituary, I will have run the good race, fought the good fight, and kept the faith.” 

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What is the importance of strength and resistance training? Why do people fall more as they get older? How is Eric Levitan improving the quality of life of people as they age? What is sarcopenia? What are the benefits of working out in small groups?

Eric Levitan is passionate about improving lives, driving innovation and nurturing start-ups – the perfect combination for creating Vivo. From personal experience, he recognized that fitness videos and online streaming classes, while convenient, weren’t effective for inspiring behavioral change: They lacked individualized attention and didn’t inspire accountability. Vivo has reinvented the concept of virtual fitness with live, interactive small-group classes and ongoing live, one-on-one progress assessments.

Eric discusses how he came to start Vivo, the importance of strength and resistance training for anybody at any age, the benefit of working out in small groups, and more. 

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“Our muscle mass and our strength really act as that gatekeeper for so much of what happens to us as we age.” 

“If we can challenge our muscles on a regular basis, it doesn’t matter what age we are, we could be 25 we could be 95, it’s never too late to rebuild muscle mass, to regain strength and function and to maintain your quality of life, to maintain your independence.” 

“Everybody knows that exercise is good for you but I think the large narrative is around walking and cardiovascular health. We’re largely ignoring the importance of resistance training or strength training.” 

“A lot of falls happen not necessarily because we lose our balance but because we’re walking and something distracts us.” 

“It’s never too late. Know what’s possible. Aging does not need to equate to decline.”

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