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What are the benefits of sauna? What are the dangers? What is the difference between an infrared sauna and traditional saunas? What should we wear in a sauna? Should we alternate between cold therapy and sauna? What about sauna blankets? 

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An astonishing study found that regular sauna use decreases our risk of cardiovascular incidences, dementia, and all cause mortality. David does a solo episode to explain everything we need to know about sauna from the numerous benefits to how one should dress and act in the sauna to the difference between infrared and traditional saunas and much more. 

“If you frequently use the sauna, you’re chance of all cause mortality which includes car crashes, falling off a ladder, among other things that could happen, goes down by 40%. There are very few things that you can do out there to reduce your all cause mortality by 40%.” 

“Regular sauna is a form of exercise. It is a cardiovascular exercise.” 

“One of the triggers for good sleep is the ramp down of your body’s temperature, that’s one of the signals to tell your body to go to sleep.” 

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:00:49 Today’s episode topic
00:03:32 Thank you to our sponsor Great Lakes Wellness. Use code AGEIST for 20% off
00:04:46 Astonishing study about the benefits of sauna
00:07:36 Difference between traditional sauna and infrared sauna
00:13:53 Sauna and the importance of hydration
00:15:25 When to sauna
00:17:19 What happens if you go from the sauna to cold?
00:19:44 What to wear and how to behave in the sauna
00:23:40 What if you don’t have access to a sauna?
00:23:54 Sauna blankets
00:24:56 The science of sauna
00:27:20 Summary of the episode
00:28:48 Call or text us at (801) 871-5291
00:28:53 Thank you for listening! 

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How should we be running? What are forefront, mid strike, and heel strike running? How did David transform his running form? What is the benefit of shortening our stride length? What is the importance of having a strong core for running? Why should we increase our cadence? What sort of shoes should we wear to run?

David Richman, 18 time Ironman athlete and marathon runner, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to discuss how we should be running. David didn’t start running until he was 38. He is now 58 and has no intention of slowing down. David shares why we might need to change the way we run, how to avoid injuries, why we need to increase our cadence, the importance of having the right shoes, and more. 

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Timestamps: 
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:00:40 About today’s episode
00:02:29 Call into the SuperAge podcast (801) 871-5291
00:04:50 Thank you to our sponsor InsideTracker
00:06:09 Welcome to our guest, David Richman
00:06:33 David Richman’s running history 
00:07:20 Different running styles
00:10:50 What it was like to learn a new running style
00:13:22 How David changed his running style
00:17:27 Running injuries
00:24:47 Finding the right running shoes
00:29:49 Our responsibility to investigate how to improve
00:31:24 The mental benefits of running
00:36:12 Thank you for listening 

“As we get older, we want to become more efficient and also lower our propensity for injuries.” 

“The impact of running is severe and if you’re overstriding and hitting with your heel, you are going to get some injuries quick. You’re not going to be able to run 6 or 8 or 10 miles because you’re going to be a complete wreck.” 

“Shoes are super, super, super important. But everybody’s feet are different and your feet handle things differently.” 

“I’m 58. I’m getting ready to do a half Ironman in a few weeks and just did a 24 hour bike ride and I’m going to still do some Ulta Marathons. I didn’t do my first run ever as an adult until I was 38 years old. At 58 I still feel like I’ve got plenty of miles ahead of me.” 

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Why should we add salt to our water? Is tap water okay to drink? What about plastic bottled water? What is red light therapy and what is the benefit? What does creatine do for us? Could nicotine be used to promote better cognitive health? Methylene blue as a supplement? What is PEMF? What are the benefits of short term cold exposure? What is the difference between traditional saunas and infrared saunas? Nicotine has a good side? 

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Dr. Scott Sherr, physician, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to share everything we need to know about hydration, red light therapy, nicotine, PEMF, sauna, cold exposure, and more. He is passionate about health optimization and longevity through these wellness modalities and shares his knowledge with David.

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:01:11 David's update
00:05:45 Call into the SuperAge podcast (801) 871-5291
00:07:05 Thank you to our sponsor, InsideTracker
00:08:42 Welcome to our guest, Dr. Scott Sherr
00:09:38 What does Dr. Sherr do for his clients that want to be healthier?
00:14:15 The importance of hydration
00:17:39 Red light therapy. Near Infrared & Far Infrared
00:26:52 Methylene blue
00:29:49 Creatine
00:32:48 Nicotine 
00:37:46 PEMF (Post Electromagnetic Field Technology)
00:39:52 Cold exposure
00:50:46 Sauna. The difference between traditional saunas & infrared saunas
00:57:29 Dr. Scott's final advice on getting healthy

“The bad news is that if you live now in the world, your gut is going to be screwed up in some way.” 

“Salt in water allows that water to get absorbed through your intestinal lumen, through your GI tract into your body. Without salt, some water gets absorbed but a lot of it doesn’t.” 

“Your brain takes up 20% of your oxygen at all times so it’s a hugely metabolic organ.” 

“If you’ve been cognitively on all day and then you go directly to workout at the gym, that’s a huge stress on your body.” 

“After you come out of the cold, you get this reflex vasodilation, you get all this new blood going to your periphery. As a result of that, you feel and get this blood flow to your tissues that you may not have been getting before, especially areas that had been inflamed, areas that have been injured, areas that have been hurting like joints.” 

“The fantastic thing about cold is that it’s a fantastic way to train your fear response because the first 30 seconds you feel like you’re going to die. Your body is doing everything it possibly can to tell you to get the F out of the water or out of the cold. But if you can go past that, and you can, that’s when your body gets to this blissful state of peace.” 

“For people who can’t exercise because they have arthritis or they have other joint or mobility issues, you can use a high heat sauna and see significant benefit in that capacity.” 

“High heat sauna is exercise, infrared is more recovery.”

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What are Mayo Clinic Cardiologist Dr. Hurst’s 10 factors that help promote health? What are the factors that prevent heart disease? What is the importance of our blood pressure, blood sugar, & cholesterol on our heart health? Statins? What is cardiometabolic disease and how do you know if you have it? How do you change your behavior to prevent cardiometabolic disease? How does community and purpose impact our health? 

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Robert Todd Hurst is a board-certified preventive cardiologist and founder of HealthspanMD. He spent 12 years as a Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic, where he was an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine & Founding Director of the Heart Health and Performance Program. 

Dr. Hurst and David discuss the factors that contribute to heart disease and cardiometabolic disease, the behaviors that are shown to prevent these diseases, the importance of creating a partnership with your doctor to work towards better health, and more. 

Timestamps: 
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:00:34 David’s update
00:02:18 Watch our Hot or Not? Instagram Lives. Monday’s at 3:15pm PT / 6:15pm ET
00:04:14 Call in to the SuperAge podcast
00:05:07 Thank you to our sponsor InsideTracker
00:06:25 Welcome to our guest, Dr. R. Todd Hurst
00:06:39 Dr. Hurst’s background
00:07:57 The 7 factors to prevent heart disease
00:20:57 Statins
00:31:20 Cardiometabolic disease 
00:36:22 Dr. Hurst’s “Healthspan 10”
00:37:26 The importance of our behaviors on our health outcomes
00:45:46 Team based approach to heath
00:51:44 The importance of connection, community, and purpose on our health
00:59:16 How to connect with Dr. Hurst

“Unfortunately, heart disease is still the number 1 cause of death and disability worldwide. That’s a terrible thing in and of itself but when we realize that most of that heart disease is preventable with pretty simple interventions, it makes it even more tragic.” 

“The biggest problem in healthcare is that about 60% of us have diseases that are preventable and oftentimes curable, we’re just not doing that.”

“87.8% of adults in the United States have at least one sign of cardiometabolic disease. And even more shocking, 78% of teenagers had at least one sign of cardiometabolic disease.” 

“People don’t resist change, they resist being changed.” 

“If your strategy as a doctor is to say ‘You need to exercise, lose weight, eat better, and quit smoking and I’ll see you in 3 months,’ we can’t be surprised that in 3 months, our patients haven’t changed.”

“If somebody is not losing the weight that they want to lose, they’re eating well, they’re being active, and they’re still not losing that weight, I almost universally will say it’s one of three things. 1. They’re not sleeping well. 2. Their stress levels are through the roof and they’re not managing that well. 3. Insulin resistance. They’re not handling glucose well.” 

“One benefit leads to another benefit. You start exercising so then you sleep better which makes your stress levels better.” 

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How did the pandemic impact how we connect with others? What are the three things we must keep in mind to have genuine connections? What is the difference between traditional social media and Leap? How is Leap working to create a more connected world?

Caroline Ingeborn, ​co-founder and CEO of Leap, is building a way for people to come together and connect — in real-time and with real heart and soul. Prior to Leap, she was an entrepreneur and has acted as CEO and COO at another company. Caroline and David discuss why we feel less connected to others, how we can feel more connected, and the solution that Leap is offering. 

Timestamps: 
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:00:43 David’s life update
00:03:44 Call into the SuperAge podcast at (801) 871-5291
00:06:36 This week’s healthy tip 
00:07:18 Thank you to our sponsor, InsideTracker
00:08:16 Introducing our guest, Caroline Ingeborn
00:08:37 What is Caroline doing with Leap Chats?
00:13:19 The different levels of how human connection is created 
00:18:53 The serendipity of Leap Chats
00:21:24 Caroline’s background
00:23:11 Age and connection
00:30:48 How the pandemic amplified social isolation
00:35:11 Human connection & our biases
00:41:44 How Leap Leaders are chosen
00:44:20 How to join Leap
00:15:36 Where does Caroline see Leap in 5 years?

“I think that we need a place where we can start to be truly seen, heard, and recognized by ourselves but I think more importantly by each other and I see Leap as a way to make this happen.” 

“As humans, we have much more in common than not.”

“I never saw age as a reason not to be friends.” 

“The pandemic amplified our social isolation. Sometimes things need to get a lot darker before they can be lighter. We were trending in this direction even without the pandemic. Maybe the pandemic has pushed us into a darker place faster but through that we can start to come together faster.” 

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In this information-dense episode, we learn several masterful points on how to relate better to all those around us. How can we become better listeners? Why do marriages end? What is the difference between feeling felt vs feeling understood? What are the gender differences when it comes to emotional intimacy? How do you properly respond to your partner’s emotions? Why don’t we understand how powerful disappointment can be in our lives? 

In this re-play episode, we are featuring one of the most popular podcasts we have done. Dr. Mark Goulston, psychiatrist and author, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to share his insights on these questions. Dr. Mark Goulston dropped out of medical school twice due to depression. After a school counselor believed in him and gave him another chance, he finished medical school and wanted to pay forward what that counselor gave him. That is exactly what he is doing with his current practice. Dr. Goulston uses his empathetic personality and ability to listen to navigate his patients' issues from marriages to eating disorders to strained parent-child relationships to suicide.

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What you will learn in this episode: 

• How empathy and the ability to listen can help strengthen our relationships
• Why some marriages end
• Why strong personalities may have a more difficult time with emotionally intimate relationships, and how to overcome that 
• The power of feeling felt vs feeling understood 
• How to respond to your partner’s emotions

“Marriages don’t end because we stop loving each other, but because we stop feeling liked by each other.” 

“Alpha energy is great for success. It’s not good for closeness. You know, it’s good to have alpha energy. You can build something, you can build a business, you can grow it, you can sell it, you can do whatever, but it’s not that good for emotional intimacy.” 

“One of the reasons women will say ‘Don’t give me advice or solutions’ is because when they’re sharing something, they want to just feel less alone in the feeling, they want to feel felt by you, because if they feel felt by you, their oxytocin goes up, their cortisol goes down, their blood flow goes up to their brain, and then they can give themselves the advice they need.” 

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Instagram - https://instagram.com/markgoulston?utm_medium=copy_link
Twitter - https://twitter.com/markgoulston?s=11
Read one of Dr. Goulston’s best-selling books - Just Listen
Listen to Dr. Goulston’s audio course Defeating Self-Defeat https://www.himalaya.com/courses/defeating-self-defeat-3129841?partner-from=15652260&utm_source=partner&utm_medium=mark_goulston

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Naveen Jain joins us on the podcast to discuss how he is disrupting the health and supplement industry by taking a highly personalized approach, the importance of our gut health on our genes, understanding our DNA and genes, what his vision of our future health is, and more. David also shares his experience using Naveen's company, Viome, to better understand the foods he should stay away from and the foods he should eat more of for better gut health.

How can we reframe the way we think of health and illness? What is the role of our gut microbiome in our health? How is Naveen Jain disrupting the health and medical field? What are upcoming projects that Naveen is working on with his company Viome? 

Timestamps: 
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:01:00 David life and wellness update
00:03:45 Call in to the podcast: (801) 871-5291
00:04:29 Thank you to our sponsor InsideTracker
00:05:45 Welcome to our guest, Naveen Jain
00:06:30 About Naveen’s company, Viome
00:08:07 The importance of our gut microbiome
00:16:00 DNA and gene expression
00:18:00 Biological age vs. chronological age
00:21:30 How Viome tests 
00:23:50 How does Viome recommend supplements
00:27:00 How Viome is detecting throat or oral cancer 
00:31:04 Why Naveen started Viome 
00:32:55 Upcoming Viome tests
00:46:15 Audience call in 

“Just like you tune your car once a year, you’ve got to tune your body at least a couple of times a year, or your body will give you the signal that something is not right.” 

“We have come to the belief that as we get old, there are certain diseases that just happen. There are whales that live to be 400-500 years old. They are mammals. There’s nothing in the mammalian architecture that says we must die at an endpoint.”

“My dad at 63? He thought that was old. Me at 63? I’m thinking ‘Holy shit, I’ve barely started!’”

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How do you keep your diet, fitness, and sleep good n track while traveling? What tools does David travel with to keep his health on track? What about jetlag hacks? 

This summer, many of us are going to be getting back into traveling. But, we’re out of practice and want to make sure we keep up our healthy habits. David shares his tips on how he maintains his diet, fitness, sleep, and de-stressing routine while traveling. If you have travel plans coming up, you do not want to miss this episode. 

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome to the podcast
00:00:57 About today’s episode
00:01:39 Thank you to our sponsor InsideTracker
00:03:09 The different types of travel
00:05:42 How to keep your diet on track while traveling
00:09:27 How to keep your movement on track while traveling
00:11:45 How to keep your sleep on track while traveling
00:15:35 How to keep your de-stressing routine on track while traveling
00:16:46 David’s additional travel tips
00:19:10 Listener call
00:22:36 Next week’s episode

“When taking a trip, I keep in mind the big rocks of health: sleep, what we’re eating, how we’re moving, and how we’re dealing with stress. Because wherever we go, we’re still ourselves. We still need to take care of ourselves.” 

“There’s dehydration, hydration, and this middle grey area that we’re often in called underhydration and that is going to exacerbate your jetlag, it’s going to affect your mental acuity when you land. So stay fully hydrated.” 

“Take advantage of whatever goes on in the location that you are in. Don’t let your body, your physicality go to 0 because you’re in a new place.” 

“I try and start my mornings with 15-20 minutes of meditation and I try and do that even when I’m traveling. I just schedule it so I have that time built in. Then, I try and put a down ramp at the end of the day.”

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How can you make a big life change when you’re over 50? How can you increase your curiosity? What is the importance of community in life changes? How should people look at life over 50 years old? What does the future hold for midlife and beyond? 

Michael Clinton, the author of “Roar into the second half of your life (before it’s too late)”, joins us to discuss how he is re-imagining life over 50. Michael and David talk about staying curious, building a community, the importance of smiling, what the future holds for life after 50, and more. 

Timestamps: 
00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:00:39 David update
00:02:11 Listener call 
00:08:47 About this week’s guest
00:09:41 Thank you to our sponsor InsideTracker
00:10:20 Welcome Michael Clinton to the show
00:10:58 About Michael’s book, “Roar”
00:13:47 Importance of curiosity and community
00:22:43 Our perception of our health 
00:32:26 Michael’s upcoming trip to Poland
00:37:46 Michael’s 70th birthday plan
00:44:30 The age social movement 

“Everything I was reading about being over 50 was talking about winding down as opposed to winding up.” 

“When you’re looking to make some kind of a change or evolve to the next place, it takes time and it takes introspection.” 

“You might discover something in midlife that you learned was something that excited you.” 

“We constrict ourselves and that takes away our courage to say ‘I can do that! I can run a marathon at 70. I can go back to school at 60. I can fall in love again at 80.’ Get rid of that cloak of ageism and your courage will be enhanced.”

“My plan for when I turn 70 is to hike to the Everest base camp and run a marathon down which is an annual event that happens every May… What I’m hoping to do from that experience is show that this is what you can do at 70.” 

“Today’s 5 year old in the U.S., if they’re healthy, had good prenatal, and early childhood development, 50% of them have the opportunity to live to 100. That’s astounding!” 

“There are about 90,000 people in the U.S. that are 100 right now. By the year 2100 the projection is there will be 3,000,000 in the U.S. and that there will be 19,000,000 around the world.”

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What is pickleball? Why are there so many injuries from pickleball? What can pickleball players do to not get hurt? How can beginners get started in pickleball? What is the proper way to warm up the body before athletic activity like pickleball? What should someone do after playing? What things boost recovery? What are the benefits of cold and heat therapy for our muscles? 

Tim Ringgold is a musician, athlete, and pickleball recovery expert. After years of playing soccer as a child and again in his 30s and 40s, Tim developed a traumatic brain injury from one too many concussions. In the last 18 months, he has discovered a life changing sport: pickleball. Through pickleball he has found a sense of community, gotten into athlete shape, and enhanced his joy. He’s also experienced injuries, like many pickleball players. Now, he is providing resources for other players to reduce their chance of getting hurt and spend more time enjoying the game.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcome to the SuperAge podcast
00:00:35 David's life update
00:01:29 SuperAge listener call
00:05:09 About today's guest, Tim Ringgold
00:05:22 Thank you to our sponsor, InsideTracker
00:06:35 Welcome Tim Ringgold
00:06:54 Tim's background
00:08:30 Tim's experience with concussions
00:10:07 How Tim found pickleball
00:10:51 The history of pickleball
00:13:14 Pickleball 101
00:16:40 Pickleball injuries
00:23:40 How to avoid injuries from playing pickleball
00:31:34 What to do after playing to promote muscle recovery 
00:52:40 How to start playing pickleball & resources 

“When you go out and play pickleball, you feel young at heart because it’s very social and it’s a lot of fun. People underestimate it because it’s so light, playful, and social, that there are actually physical demands on the body.”

“Adults don’t really organize their activity around the concept of play. We work, children play. But there is a playfulness in pickleball that is undeniable and inescapable. You’ll see senior citizens, Boomers, Gen X-ers, laughing and playing. They’re in touch with something that they haven’t had in quite a while.” 

“The number one thing to minimize injuries is core temperature of the body, so heating up the body before you play. Nobody does it.” 

“When you feel good, walk away. Don’t wait until you’re sore or tired because you increase the odds of having an injury.” 

“Every part of the body is going through maintenance mode during sleep and you just can’t screw with that. If you wear that system down, your immune system gets compromised and that’s when things take hold.” 

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Resources:
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Pickleball Kitchen
Tyson McGuffin 

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