Decoding Superhuman

I was always kind of curious about myself and understanding what makes me tick so it kind of goes way back to those days and then as I got into my professional life and you get a little bit older, you start shifting from okay I’m trying to be an elite athlete to I want to optimise myself in this high pressure, high-stress world of business.

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About Bob Troia

Bob Troia is a technology entrepreneur and citizen scientist who has been at the forefront of digital innovation and emerging technologies for two decades. A leading voice of the Quantified Self and biohacking movements, “Quantified Bob” documents his personal efforts focused on the intersection of data-driven citizen science, health and wellness, human performance, longevity, and self-optimization at QuantifiedBob.com.

In addition to consulting and coaching, Bob is also working on building tools that make self-tracking easy and frictionless for busy people. He is the co-creator of Awesome an app for fast, simple photo-based meal tracking, and will soon be launching a “human optimization” facility in New York City.

What is Quantified Self?

Quantified self is increasing self knowledge through self tracking. You can track endless variables on yourself, but not all of these are impactful or worth tracking. "Quantified Self is really about finding a personal meaning for your data."

Key Highlights with Quantified Bob

• Where did the name Quantified Bob come from?
• How did Bob initially get into quantified self?
• Where does Bob get inspiration for these tests?
• How to begin performing self-experiments
• What data does Bob recommend gathering for someone performing their first self-experiments?
• The best apps and devices for tracking HRV, improving water quality, tracking sleep, and much more
• Top tips for optimizing your sleep environment
• How mouth taping may help you sleep better
• Why is it important to filter your shower water
• What is Deuterium? Why is this important in terms of water quality?
• Should you get a mold assessment for your home?

Additional Resources

• Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet OF Life, From Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365
• Heavy Water: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Drink Heavy Water
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Products Mentioned

• The Oura Ring - a self-tracking ring which is an excellent method for tracking sleep. Use the code "Boomer" to get 10% off. Oura will be on the podcast soon!
• Whoop - a self-tracking wristband aimed at optimizing recovery in elite athletes and teams.
• HRV4Training - a mobile application allowing you to measure your heart rate variability with your phone
• Elite HRV - an alternative mobile application to measure HRV using a chest strap
• Awesome - Food tracking mobile application to simplify your food tracking through pictures (created by Bob Troia)
• Push - armband to measure workout intensity
• ARX machine - a once a week, complete 15-minute workout
• Precision Xtra - ketone meter
• KETO-MOJO Blood Ketone and Glucose Testing Meter Kit, Monitor your ketogenic diet, 1 Lancet Device, 10 Lancets, 10 Ketone Test Strips, Carrying Case. Does NOT include Glucose Strips

What are Bob Troia's Resources to Enhance Cognition?

• Brain.Fm - This is also a recommendation of former podcast guest Teemu Arina.

What is Bob Troia's Favorite Book on Peak Performance?

• Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
• The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life
• The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman

 

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Through a low impact 21 minute protocol, the user is able to mimic the physiology when you do an intensive 2-hour workout, get the same response from their pituitary and endocrine system without the same wear and tear, time and effort normally involved in initiating that anabolic response from exercise.

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What is the Vasper?

Sebastian Wasowski is the Co-Founder of Vasper Systems. Vasper is a complete exercise system based on three scientifically proven principles – compression technology, cooling and interval training. By combining all of these principles, the results are extraordinary.

Vasper has a wide-range of use cases and users. The machine is used by medical professionals, people recovering from cardiac incidents, athletic teams, and the Special Forces.

In 21-minutes, the Vasper enables the user to get a complete workout. Utilizing the compression, cooling, and interval training, the user is able to concentrate lactic acid and enhance growth hormone production. The "cooldown" session, which involves laying on a cooling mat, enables you to workout again later in the day (should you like) or head straight into the office. 

 

Key Highlights on Vasper

• What is the Vasper?
• Why was the Vasper created?
• How Sebastian's father built the Vasper prototype with a friend from Costco
• Use cases for the Vasper
• Why everything cooled on the Vasper
• How Vasper is able to mimic 60 minutes of HIIT training in 21-minutes
• What is the significance of the 21-minute workout?

Additional Resources and Contact Information

• Find a place to try the Vasper
• Video: Introduction to Kaatsu training
• Vasper on Instagram
• Vasper on Twitter
• Vasper on Facebook

Sebastian's Top Tool for Peak Performance

• Vasper and a regular movement practice

Sebastian's Top Trick for Enhancing Cognition

• Meditation

Sebastian's Favorite Book on Peak Performance

• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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If you imagine, lets just say a fighter, like a boxer. In the beginning, let’s imagine that our boxer’s poised. Meaning that he’s standing well balanced. That his ability to shift what he’s doing is actually very high. He can read and respond. And when he responds, the action that he takes keeps him in a position of being able to respond. My movement increases my ability to make better choices in the next moment. That’s what response means. Every choice you make has the characteristics of increasing your ability to make good choices in the next moment.

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Who is Jordan Greenhall?

Jordan Greenhall is the CEO of Neurohacker Collective and is now in his seventeenth year of building disruptive technology companies.

Comics, science fiction, computers, too much TV and role-playing games led to a deep dive into contemporary philosophy (particularly the works of Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda), artificial intelligence and complex systems science in college. Jordan graduated from Texas A&M and  Harvard Law School where he spent time with Larry Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain and Cornel West examining the coevolution of human civilization and technology.

In 1998, Jordan put all this stuff to use combining disruptive technology, movement building and a taste for going up against obsolete oligopolies. First as an early employee crafting strategy and product for MP3.com, then at InterVU (acquired by Akamai) and then finally in 2000 launching and leading the online digital video revolution as founder and CEO of DivX.

After somewhat successfully navigating two financial crises and an IPO, he left the helm at DivX to return his attention to the big picture. Jordan participated in a number of think tanks and institutes; most notably, the Aspen Institute and the Santa Fe Institute where he served on the Board of Trustees for five sweet years.

This exposure led him to the conclusion that humanity is in the midst of a world-historical transition which will likely kill all of us (see Mad Max) but just might end in a truly amazing future (see Star Trek). Getting there is going to require many things of us – most notably a significant upgrade of our individual and collective capacity for thought and action.

After one week on an early Neurohacker Collective stack, he was convinced about the power and potential of this new technology and joined Daniel Schmachtenberger and James Schmachtenberger to bring it to the world.

What is Sovereignty?

Sovereignty is an individual's capacity to respond to the world. The three elements of sovereignty are perception, sense-making and meaning-making, and action.

Jordan defines sovereignty in his essay as, "It is the ability to be present to the world and to respond to the world — rather than to be overwhelmed or merely reactive. Sovereignty is to be a conscious agent."

For additional information, listen to the podcast episode and read Jordan's essay, "On Sovereignty."

Key Highlights on Sovereignty

• Why Jordan is excited about the election of Donald Trump
• What is sovereignty?
• The historical transition underway, the factors which could lead to an apocalyptic moment, and how it might end a utopian future
• Three key elements of sovereignty
• Where to start if you want build sovereignty
• How to scale from individual to collective sovereignty
• The role of blockchain in accomplishing global sovereignty

Additional Resources on Sovereignty

• On Sovereignty by Jordan Greenhall 
• On Thinking and Simulated Thinking by Jordan Greenhall
• Jordan's YouTube Channel
• Jordan's Medium page

Final Questions What are Jordan's top tricks to enhance cognition?

• Breathing
• Meditation
• Qualia

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But we’ll really start to see gain is when you’re not only focused on the heart but you actively think about and try to experience a positive emotion like gratefulness. That’s one of the most powerful. Being grateful and feeling grateful has a really high correlation with health, with performance and success.

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Who is Janet McGillicuddy?

Janet McGillicuddy has over 20 years of experience as a senior level Human Resources leader and Executive Coach for Fortune 100 financial services organizations and healthcare.

Janet's passion is to help people excel in all aspects of their lives. Janet is a certified Epigenetic Human Potential Coach and a Heart Math Institute Coach. With all this knowledge, she started her own coaching practice.

Janet combines genetic analysis and a customized lifestyle plan to enhance their energy, brainpower, and performance. She uses coaching to implement their plan and build Stress Resiliency.

Janet has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a graduate level certification in Executive Coaching from William James College. She is also a certified facilitator for the Personal Brand Company.

What is Coherence?

Coherence is the alignment of the heart, mind, and nervous system. An alignment of the brain and nervous system activity is correlated with higher performance, mental and emotional stability, and flow.

Is this state reachable? Yes. Can you train it? Absolutely.

The HeartMath Institute has been around since 1991. There are over 300 independent, peer-reviewed scientific studies testifying to the validity of their technology. It helps to reduce anxiety, increase focus, and achieve coherence.

Key Highlights on Coherence

• Janet's personal experience with stress and burnout
• How HeartMath brought Janet out of her rut
• What is stress vs. eustress
• How does stress relate to heart rate variability
• Training HRV and Coherence with the HeartMath Inner Balance
• What is coherence
• How to practice heart-focused breathing
• Using gratitude in your breathing to reach better coherence

Coherence Resources Mentioned

• Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership
• Heart-focused breathing
• Quick Coherence Technique

Janet's top tool or technology to enhance performance

• HeartMath Inner Balance 

Janet's top trick for enhancing cognition

• Heart-focused breathing

Janet's favorite book on peak performance

• Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

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About the Guest Matt Maruca

Matt Maruca is an 18-year wonder-kid. He believes our lives are exactly what we choose to make of them. Matt is a researcher, blogger, coach of optimal human health, and the Founder of Ra Optics.

Ra Optics is a company that creates products and shares information to help people protect themselves from the environmental factors responsible for today's worldwide chronic disease epidemic.

Matt has traveled the world and met with some of the leading researchers of quantum biology.

In this episode, Matt shares much of what he learned along the way.

What is Quantum Health?

Quantum health refers to the reconnection of our body's with nature. This includes having a functional circadian rhythm, getting sunlight during the day, reducing exposure to EMF, drinking high-quality water, and exposing yourself to cold temperatures.

For further details, listen to the full episode!

Key Highlights from Quantum Health

• How severe gut issues and some severe allergies helped Matt discover Jack Kruse
• Why Matt went from vegetarian to Paleo without success
• How tans correlate to health
• Why "you are what you eat" should be reframed to "you are what you absorb"
• The connection between the water you drink, the air you breathe, the use of electronics, and your health
• Why you need 2 hours of sun on your face to reach optimal health
• The positive impact of drinking mineral or glacial water
• Dr. Douglas Wallace and his research into Mitochondrial DNA
• Options to eliminate seeing blue light before bed
• The role alkaline hydrothermal vents in the development of life
• The role of Mitochondria in disease and optimal states of health

Resources Mentioned in the Podcast

This podcast is loaded with resources. Whether videos, books, or research papers, I captured them all below.

• Jack Kruse
• Understanding the Warburg Effect: The Metabolic Requirements of Cell Proliferation
• Ted Talk - How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life's Biggest Questions
• Skin, Light, and Beauty by Alexander Wunsch
• Photoendocrinology. How natural & artificial light is impacting human’s endocrine system & hormones by Alexander Wunsch
• The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor
• Health and Light: The extraordinary Study that Shows How light Affects Your Health and emotional well being
• The Healing Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century
• The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
• The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life
• Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
• What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto Classics)
• Dr. Douglas Wallace's Research
• Mitochondrial DNA variation in Human Origins and Disease by Douglas Wallace
• Going Somewhere: Truth about a Life in Science

Products Mentioned in the Podcast

• Ra Optics blue light blockers - use the code "Boomer" to get 15% off
• Aluminum Foil Blanket

The Final Three Questions: Matt Maruca What is the number one tool or technology Matt uses to become more superhuman?

• The Sun

What is Matt's best advice for boosting cognition?

• Oxygen, morning sunlight, really good water

What is the best book Matt has read on peak performance?

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
• (Video) Why the Sun is Necessary for Optimal Health 

Where to Find Out More about Matt Maruca

• Matt is the founder of Ra Optics. Use the code "Boomer" and get 15% off your next order
• Email: [email protected]

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The awareness that I gained when I started learning about the fact that my body naturally does different things best at different times of day was sort of very freeing in a sense that it let me become a little bit more self aware about when I felt best working and when I felt best resting

Azure Grant is an editor at Quantified Self and a researcher in the field of biological rhythms. Her goal is to combine Chronobiology with Participant-Led Research using wearable sensors and signal processing to map individuals’ biological rhythms in the real world.

Azure currently leads “Blood Testers,” a participatory Quantified Self project. The project created the highest temporal resolution lipid data set ever recorded in free-living humans. In addition, Azure researches the use of continuous body temperature data to investigate sleep, jet lag, and female cycling.

An Introduction to Biological Rhythms and Temporal Structures

Over the course of time, our cells organized to run more efficiently. There are time periods of activity. There are time periods of rest. Each of our cells has these instructions. When these cells organize in a fashion to perform a certain function (like keeping you awake), it becomes biological rhythms.

As Azure mentions, "these rhythms occur without us doing anything. If you put a human or anyone in a box, they would sort of keep going. The rhythms allow our bodies to predict when something about the environment is likely to change."

2018 is my year of rhythms. In this episode, Azure and I dig deep into biological rhythms. Biological rhythms are an obsession of mine after constant travel and stress lead to health issues in my own life over two years ago.

Key Highlights of Biological Rhythms:

• What are biological rhythms?
• How do biological rhythms differ from temporal structures
• Why cortisol and the HPA axis may not be your enemy
• How can you use biological rhythms to optimize your health
• What is known and not known in about biological rhythms
• Some stories I share about how altering towards my day changed my health
• Azure's research and how she became involved with Quantified Self
• How Azure has used continuous temperature monitoring in her own life to observe these rhythms

Key Resources Mentioned in the Podcast:

• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
• The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More
• PubMed Biological Rhythms
• Harvard Sleep Group
• Northwestern University Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine
• University of Chicago Sleep Research Center
• Sleep Center at the University of California San Diego

Products Mentioned in the Podcast:

• Thermochron iButton Starter Kit

The Final Three: Azure Grant What is your top tool or technology for peak performance?

• Headspace

Number one tip for enhancing cognition?

• Daily social interaction with someone with which you enjoy speaking

Top book on Peak Performance?

• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Where Can You Find More on Azure Grant?

• Quantified Self-website
• Quantified Self Cardiovascular Disease Symposium
• Azure's research on PubMed

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Think of a child. When a child knows there’s gonna be a routine, their body automatically kindof starts to go into that rest mode.

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About the Guest: Dr. Matthew Accurso

Dr. Matthew Accurso is a world-renowned high performance doctor.

At age 6, Dr. Accurso was an expert at reading lips due to a 75% hearing loss. At age 8, he almost flunked out of school due to his “disability”. At 10 years old, Dr. Accurso was called to be a doctor of cause while listening to his uncle speak. At that moment, he vowed to help people optimize their mind and bodies. Dr. Accurso never looked back.

Dr. Matthew Accurso is one of Americas top concierge wellness advisors for some of the countries most prolific healthpreneurs, CEOs and executives. He hosts Superhuman Entrepreneur, an INC. Magazine top ten podcast. Dr. Accurso teaches doctors across the world on the most cutting-edge strategies to optimize high performance and magnify their impact. He leads high-performance strategy retreats around the world in Sri Lanka, Ma, and Japan.

Habits of High Performance

One of my favorite quotes is Gustave Flaubert's, "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

What Flaubert hinted not-so-subtlely on are daily routines. By "automating" part of your day, you enable the best to come out when needed. This means better work; this means more creativity; this means high performance.

Dr. Accurso is a doctor to top high performers around the world. In this episode, I picked his brain about the commonalities of all these people. Daily routines and habits are at the top of the list.

Key Highlights from Habits of High Performance with Dr. Matthew Accurso

• Commonalities among high performers
• Why establishing your top priority each day is so important
• Living in 90-day sprints
• Earthing first thing in the morning
• Why "movement" is a common component of morning routines
• How to avoid disrupting your organs' resting processes
• Using lavender and Frankincense essential oils for relaxation
• Why you should cycle supplements and nootropics
• Do you actually need to eat right after working out or first thing in the morning?
• Why it is important for women to weight lift
• How to achieve more mobility through your daily routine

Resources Mentioned:

• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
• High-Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
• Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?
• Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success

Products Mentioned:

• Hyperice Vyper 2.0 High-Intensity Vibrating Fitness Roller - Black
• Accu Chek Performa Glucometer Kit with 110 Test Strips

The Final Three Questions: What is your number one tool or technology that you use to become more superhuman?

• Checking Blood Glucose twice a week with Accu Check

What is your top trick for enhancing cognition?

• Incorporating brain games into social interaction
• Huperzine A - acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (see research on PubMed)

What is your favorite book on peak performance?

• Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success

Where to find Dr. Matthew Accurso:

• Instagram: @mjaccurso
• Superhuman Entrepreneur
• Elevays

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Eating carbohydrates or releasing sugar into your body is gonna release the serotonin which is the feel-good hormone and that’s gonna allow you to sleep a lot deeper as well and waking up in the morning feeling refreshed and good to go. I think it’s a vital part of nutrition throughout the day.

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About the Guest: Dylan Goddard

Looking at Dylan Goddard, you quickly realize he is obsessed with health.

Dylan grew up in South Africa, playing both rugby and squash at a provincial level. After leaving school, Dylan competed in bodybuilding, mixed martial arts, and mountain biking for four years. Over the last six years, Dylan has lived in Singapore, competed in CrossFit and making it to regionals twice.

Dylan is part-owner and head coach at CrossFit Tanjong Pagar in Singapore. Dylan Goodard holds the Precision Nutrition level one certification, is a Qualified Personal Training from the National Federation of Professional Trainers in the United States, and is a CrossFit Level 2 instructor.

As an aside, Dylan was my coach when I lived Singapore. To this day, he is one of my top 10 go-to resources for training information.

Key Highlights from Myth Busters

• Dispelling 5 common nutrition myths
• Can you get fat from eating high fat?
• What cholesterol tests may be more useful than others
• Does eating carbohydrates after 5 pm make you fat?
• What is carb backloading?
• Can you eat too much protein (bro)?

Additional Resources:

• Framingham Heart Study 
• Lp(a) Particle Number

Products Mentioned

• Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock with Colored Sunrise Simulation and Sunset Fading Night Light, White (HF3520)
• The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
• Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

The Final Three Questions: Dylan Goddard What is the number one tool or technology Dylan uses to become more superhuman?

• Morning routine
• Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock with Colored Sunrise Simulation and Sunset Fading Night Light, White (HF3520)

What is Dylan's best advice for boosting cognition?

• Take a step away from the situation and evaluate it
• Having mentors and advisors to bounce ideas off

What is the best book Dylan has read on peak performance?

• The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

Where to Learn More about Dylan Goddard

• Instagram: @forged.by.dyl
• CrossFit Tanjong Pagar

 

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What we really have is a fundamental disequilibrium between the demand for health services by a population that’s growing in size, staying alive longer and accumulating illness and disease and a system that was designed not for that volume and scale and complexity and therefore it can’t meet the demands.

And so, when demand exceeds supply, it's the perfect breeding ground to do things differently

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About the Guest: Dr. Zayna Khayat

Zayna is the Future Strategist at Saint Elizabeth a health and social impact enterprise with a major focus on home care. In 2017, Zayna was on secondment from MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub in Toronto, Canada to the REshape Health Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen, Netherlands (January to December 2017). At the REshape Center, she was their “Innovation Sherpa in Chief”, working on several key initiatives to strengthen the Dutch health innovation ecosystem.

At MaRS, Zayna lead the Health System Innovation platform from 2014 to 2017, helping smooth the path to adoption of health innovation by health and care systems in Canada and around the world.

Zayna is adjunct faculty with the Rotman School of Management in the Health Sector Strategy stream.

Zayna completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Toronto (2001), followed by a long career in strategy consulting, including as a Principal in the healthcare practice of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Dr. Khayat has been on the Faculty of Singularity University (Exponential Medicine) since 2016. I met Dr. Khayat through Singularity University in the Netherlands.

Key Highlights from the Future of Healthcare Podcast:

• What is the current status of healthcare?
• Why is the postal code you grow up in the greatest determinant of your health
• What are the 3 big forces coming together to change healthcare
• Zayna's six pillars or shifts for the future of healthcare
• How data from your social media account is leading to the ability to predict disease
• The current status of wearable technology
• The future of technology and healthcare
• What are the current ethical discussions around AI and CRISPR?

Additional Resources for the Future of Healthcare:

• Singularity University - Exponential Medicine
• The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands by Eric Topol
• Unconventional Medicine: Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love by Chris Kresser
• Berci Meskó, MD, Ph.D. - on Twitter and The Medical Futurist
• Dr. Daniel Kraft - Chairman of Exponential Medicine at Singularity University
• PWC - Emerging Trends in Healthcare
• KPMG - Tech Trends Changing Healthcare
• Bain & Company - Healthcare Insights
• World Economic Forum - Future of Health and Healthcare

The Final Three Questions: Dr. Zayna Khayat

What is the number one tool or technology Zayna uses to become more superhuman?

• Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband - a meditation device which assists in learning meditation through gamification
• Precision Nutrition - a subscription-based nutrition and training service
• MyFitnessPal - to log food intake

What is Zayna's best advice for boosting cognition?

• Sleep
• The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
• Supersoul Sunday with Oprah and Ariana Huffington

What is the best book Zayna has read on peak performance?

•  Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't (for ecosystem wide performance)

How to Learn More About Dr. Zayna Khayat

• Twitter: @ZaynaKhayat
• LinkedIn
• Pinterest
• Flipboard
• St. Elizabeth's Website

 

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We’ve taken the complexity of the human system and try to make it complicated, which really doesn’t work when you’re looking at wellness, health optimization and really moving the body to a greater potential. So what we decided to do is instead of trying to shift or change the paradigm, we need to create a whole new paradigm. We call it human potential medicine but it’s essentially a systems based precision approach to health optimization.

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About the Guest: Dr. Daniel Stickler

Dr. Stickler is the visionary pioneer behind the human potential medicine movement, a shift away from the disease model to limitless peak performance in all aspects of life. Dr. Stickler is a physician to high-performing entrepreneurs who want to optimize their performance. He is also an author, speaker, blogger, and host of the Ironman Executive podcast.

Dr. Stickler is an expert in the use of genetics and epigenetics in clinical practice and trains healthcare clinicians from all over the world in the interpretation of genomic data for optimizing human potential. Dr. Stickler works with each client to develop personalized human potential optimization plans based on genetics, quality of life factors,  and the seven foundational aspects of health. Dr. Stickler also serves as the Medical Director of Neurohacker Collective.

Using Epigenetics to Optimize Performance

Epigenetics is the study of the changes in organisms caused by modifications in gene expression rather than changes to the underlying genetic code. Our introduction to epigenetics provides a basic overview of epigenetics, epigenetic mechanisms, and lifestyle modifications leading to epigenetic change.

The process of individualized health starts with a genetics test. The test provides a blueprint for lifestyle modifications leading to epigenetic change. 

Epigenetics is a science with 10,000+ peer-reviewed scientific studies released per year.

Lifestyle Modifications Leading to Epigenetic Change:

Your genetics are not your destiny. 

Through lifestyle modifications, you can change the expression of your genes. 

A few examples of lifestyle modification leading to epigenetic change: 

• Intake of Omega 3 fatty acids leads to a change in expression of several hundred genes
• Chronic exercise changes the expression of almost 7,000 genes
• Meditation decreases inflammation through a downregulation of pro-inflammatory genes.

Key Highlights from this Episode with Dr. Daniel Stickler:

• What is Human Potential Medicine?
• Why is epigenetics the systems approach to health?
• The anti-vegetarian gene: ABCG8 and ABCG5 and how plant sterols may lead to disease states
• What does Dr. Stickler think of the DIETFITS study and low-carb vs. low-fat?
• Epigenetics and Red Queen Theory
• An introduction to transhumanism

Epigenetics and Additional Research Mentioned:

• The associations of cholesterol metabolism and plasma plant sterols with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality
• Plasma sitosterol elevations are associated with an increased incidence of coronary events in men: Results of a nested case-control analysis of the Prospective Cardiovascular Munster (PROCAM) study
• DIETFITS Study (Diet Intervention Examining the Factors Interacting With Treatment Success) on low-carb versus low-fat.
• The A TO Z Weight Loss Study: A Randomized Trial - Dr. Christopher Gardner

Products Mentioned:

• Garmin Fenix 5
• Qualia by Neurohacker Collective - use code BOOMER for a 10% discount
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
• Ishmael: A Novel

The Final Three Questions: Dr. Daniel Stickler What is the number one tool or technology Dr. Stickler uses to become more superhuman?

• Garmin Fenix 5x

What is Dr. Dan's best advice for boosting cognition?

• Qualia
• Good meditation practice
• Consistent, high quality, sleep
• Good nutrition practice
• Good supplementation practice
• Optimizing your health through a systems approach

What is the best book Dr. Dan has read on Peak Performance?

• Peak by Eamon Dolan
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Want to learn more or potentially work with Dr. Daniel Stickler? 

• Apeiron Center Website
• Apeiron Academy Website

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