Performing random acts of kindness can calm your parasympathetic nervous system and improve overall longevity.

Full episode: https://outliyr.com/podcast/nervous-system-connection-longevity-framework-blair-lacorte

What if your brain fog, anxiety, and memory lapses all trace back to one thing: an inflamed brain?

Naturopathic physician Dr. Jaquel Patterson, ND, MBA joins Nick Urban to explain neuroinflammation in plain language and map the root causes behind it. With 16 years of clinical experience in Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, and integrative psychiatry, she connects the gut, hormones, chronic infections, and environmental toxins to the same inflammatory loop, and lays out how to calm it naturally.

Dr. Jaquel Patterson is an internationally recognized naturopathic physician, three-time Amazon bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Fairfield Family Health, a multidisciplinary practice in Connecticut with 9 doctors offering telemedicine nationwide. She has a TEDx talk on root-cause medicine coming soon.

01:09 The "brain on fire" explanation

02:30 Microglia as your brain's garbage men

11:51 Leaky gut, leaky brain

17:13 Sleep and sauna to lower inflammation

27:58 The iron test most doctors skip

48:31 Curcumin for mood and IL-6

57:02 The cheapest thing you can do for your brain

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Ultramarathon champion Anthony Kunkel gets candid about the performance aids he actually uses, and why he cycles them seasonally.

Full episode: https://outliyr.com/183

What if the condition you've been managing for years is actually a deficiency nobody tested you for?

Karen "Zuzu" Armes had her first seizure around age five. By 21 she was on three medications and carrying a bell to warn people when the next one was coming. Then she got pregnant, refused to expose her daughter to those drugs, and used food to taper off all three. She has been seizure-free for close to 40 years, and she now teaches what she learned to more than 45,000 people worldwide.

Karen "ZuZu" Ziemer Armes is a holistic health educator, author, and speaker who co-founded Holistic Health Educators and Lilly Fields Retreat Center. She reversed her own epilepsy, scoliosis, and arthritis through holistic strategies, has delivered more than 2,500 seminars, and written four health books. Her work focuses on gut and cellular healing, sustainable energy, and integrative longevity. She describes herself as a kitchen hacker rather than a biohacker.

02:21 The GABA discovery that ended 3 medications

05:53 The hand sanitizer problem nobody talks about

14:17 Your body's pharmaceutical factory

20:21 Why "fortified" on a label is a red flag

29:16 What biofeedback actually is

42:07 The 4 changes that cost nothing

59:04 The food and emotion frequency chart

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What if the reason you feel tired, foggy, and wired, despite eating clean and training hard, is the light you're sitting under right now?

Engineer and VivaRays founder Roudy Nassif explains why light is information, not just illumination, and how your light environment quietly controls energy, sleep, mood, and longevity. He shares the science of human photosynthesis, melatonin as the body's strongest antioxidant, why blue light isn't the villain, and the exact protocol he used to reverse his own ADHD, depression, and chronic fatigue.

Roudy Nassif is an engineer, light expert, and founder of VivaRays, the company behind the world's first circadian glasses. He has taught thousands of practitioners and doctors how light shapes health, on a mission to help more than one million people live in rhythm with nature's light and dark cycles. After clawing out of rock bottom by changing his light environment, he spent eight years studying the science of light and darkness.

01:48 Light is information, not illumination

06:07 One third food, one third sunlight

10:29 Roudy's rock bottom and the Quebec farm

24:17 Melanin, water splitting, and molecular hydrogen

39:34 The truth about chemical sunscreen

1:03:29 The blue-blocking glasses scam

1:11:37 Building the ideal evening light environment

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What if your "normal" blood test is hiding a real deficiency? In this solo episode, Nick Urban reveals how your body defends its blood first, so the reserves behind it can quietly drain while the number looks perfect.

Nick Urban, founder of Outliyr, bioharmonizer, and performance coach, breaks down the exact filters he uses to decide what earns a spot in his supplement stack: reading a label like a manufacturer, sorting every supplement by tier and job, and testing what actually works for you.

Nick is the founder of Outliyr and host of the High Performance Longevity podcast. A bioharmonizer and performance coach, he blends modern science with ancestral wisdom to decode what actually moves the needle on energy, healthspan, and performance.

02:01 Why "normal" bloodwork can mislead you

03:52 Magnesium: you measured a puddle, not the reservoir

06:53 Goodhart's Law for your health

08:36 The 3 tiers: essential, conditionally essential, non-essential

10:07 The 4 jobs every supplement does

14:25 Reading a label like a manufacturer

17:19 Proprietary blends & pixie dusting

22:25 The 7-question context lens

25:10 Build your stack for free with Outliyr

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What if the pills in your medicine cabinet are the problem, not the fix?

Dr. Robert Beltran was a triple board-certified surgeon and pharmacist for 30 years. Then a 2014 accident left him dependent on OxyContin. A five-herb blend from an Asian market cleared his brain fog in three weeks and got him off opioids, launching a decade of formulating plant-based supplements at recomnd Nutrition.

Dr. Robert Beltran (MD, PharmD, FACS) is a retired ENT and cosmetic surgeon and the CEO and Chief Formulator of recomnd Nutrition. At 73, he blends a pharmacist's rigor with a decade of clinical work on herbal formulas for cognition, stress, and sexual wellness.

01:53 The accident and the opioid trap

04:43 The five-herb blend that changed everything

07:01 What extract ratios really mean

18:31 The case against NAD

28:26 Herbs that raise testosterone naturally

30:55 The testosterone therapy risks clinics bury

49:15 The 60,000-death problem

53:26 Three desert-island ingredients

01:01:22 What to fix before any supplement

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Most men over 40 who feel tired, foggy, and flat get told the same thing: your testosterone is low, here's a prescription. Functional medicine practitioner Ollie Matthews makes the case for the opposite order of operations.

In this episode, men's hormone coach Ollie Matthews (OJ Health) explains why your hormones are a readout of how you live, why the gut quietly runs your hormones, and why he treats testosterone replacement as the last step, not the first. He shares his own story of crashing his hormones during a bodybuilding phase, rebuilding them as a new dad, and the framework he now uses with clients.

Ollie Matthews is a functional medicine practitioner and men's hormone coach, and one of the first UK practitioners accredited under Harvard-affiliated Dr. Datis Kharrazian. He's the creator of The ONE Method and works with dads who want their energy and confidence back. After losing his own father young and later rebuilding his health from a deep low, his mission is to help a million dads not die before seeing their children grow up.

00:00 Why "your testosterone is low" is usually the wrong starting point

01:48 What functional medicine actually means

02:54 The lifestyle factors that quietly suppress testosterone

05:54 Why blood work only tells part of the story

11:17 The marker most doctors skip (free testosterone vs total)

13:43 Ollie's story: losing his dad, burnout, and bodybuilding

19:11 Hitting rock bottom and the road back as a new dad

24:49 The ONE Method: Own it, Nourish it, Elevate it

27:50 The Mount Everest model of building health

33:19 Aesthetics vs health, and why psychology matters most

45:11 Why fixing your gut helps fix your hormones

50:23 Stress perception vs stress level

59:00 The question about men's health nobody asks

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How to get the nutrients modern food misses, even when you eat clean. In this episode Nick walks the full chain from seed to cell and shows the simple fix.

He makes the surprising, hopeful case that closing your nutrient gap is one of the easiest health upgrades in 2026.

Nick is the founder of Outliyr and host of the High Performance Longevity podcast. A bioharmonizer and performance coach, he blends modern science with ancestral wisdom to decode what actually moves the needle on energy, healthspan, and performance.

00:46 The "supplements are a waste" myth

02:24 Seeds & the varietal collapse

04:21 What 50 years did to the soil

06:32 How produce is grown today

10:01 What processing strips out

12:11 Glyphosate & farm chemicals

15:00 The foods that left the modern plate

16:46 Why your water lost its minerals

17:37 Why your body needs more now

24:28 How to close the gap

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Here's how the hardest reset on the planet actually works, and how to do it safely.

Theo Lucier has spent over a decade studying dry fasting through his project Forgotten Health and his guided program Dry Fast with Friends. He breaks down why a true dry fast is different from a water fast, how the body burns fat for its own water, the endogenous stem cell release on day 5 and 7, and why the way you exit matters more than the fast itself.

Theo Lucier is a natural health researcher and supplement formulator, founder of Forgotten Health, and co-creator of the Dry Fast with Friends community program with Sean McCormick. After overcoming severe chronic fatigue and 16 years of one-meal-a-day eating, he now focuses on dry fasting for stem cell release, cellular detox, and energy.

00:00 Important safety disclaimer

02:42 Introduction

04:21 What dry fasting is & what it feels like

06:06 Dry vs wet fasting (gluconeogenesis)

07:49 How 100g of fat becomes 115g of water

12:26 Endogenous stem cell release explained

16:48 The Russian "AK47" fat-loss method

22:44 Cortisol, stress & why day 3 is hardest

28:23 Changing your fat set point vs GLP-1s

40:02 How to pre-tox before a dry fast

47:19 Exiting safely: the most important part

58:32 Why dry fast "with friends"

1:02:16 Community results: mood, injuries, parasites

1:09:06 The program & how to join

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