#208 In this episode, I welcome back clinical neuropsychologist and founder of Biocognitive science, Dr. Mario Martinez. Mario is the author of the best-selling book "The MindBody Code'' and lectures worldwide on how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity more than genetics. His research demonstrates how thoughts and their biological expression co-emerge within a cultural history, even as current science continues to divide mind and body, and ignore the influence cultural contexts have on the process of health, illness, and aging.

Mario has interviewed over 300 centenarians from around the world and who also live in 'Blue Zones'. People who are not only over 100 years old, but are mentally and physically healthy. Today we dive into what he learned from this and how our culture, people and environment affect our health and happiness long-term and what we can do to change it. Prepare to have your life changed. See you on the inside.

About Mario: Dr Mario Martinez is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in how cultural beliefs affect the interaction of productivity, health and longevity. He is the founder of Biocognitive Science and the Empowerment Code. He developed an organizational model that views productivity and wellness as inseparable components of sustainable profits. The Empowerment Code is the first organizational training program that brings combined principles of cultural psychoneuroimmunology, cultural neuroscience and cultural anthropology to the workplace.

Based on parameters that allow the immune system to make several hundred thousand decisions per minute, the Empowerment Code offers an organizational language that maximizes creativity, initiative and productivity, while diminishing conditions that contribute to chronic illnesses. Martinez holds a Masters degree in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University and a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Madrid.

He also has post-doctoral training in psychopharmacology from Farleigh Dickinson University. Because of his work in how cultural beliefs affect the immune system, Martinez has investigated alleged cases of stigmata for the Catholic Church, the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel. He lectures worldwide on his theory of Biocognition and teaches Empowerment Code principles to top US corporate executives and to global organizations in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Mario's Website: 
www.biocognitiveculture.com
Mario on LinkedIn
www.empowermentcode.org

Key points with time stamp:

• How To Reverse Your Biological Age (00:00)
• Working on reversing aging (00:30)
• Real anti-aging secret and how you can master it (01:53)
• Good News: You can avoid getting the disease that “runs in your genes” (06:09)
• How to deal with the world in a way that will enhance your immunity (10:12)
• The most fascinating thing about reversing biological age (15:38)
• Getting the antidote for shame, abandonment and betrayal to heal the physiological effects they have on us (21:40)
• The power of being time conscious (25:48)
• Why you have to become an outlier now (28:46)
• Believing in something greater than you and how it's better for you immunologically (33:00)
• Urgency vs Fate (38:05)
• Letting go of hatred and forgiving like the centenarians (43:33)
• Getting out of the helplessness of  reductionist science and seeing yourself as a bio-cultural being (49:42)

Mentioned in this episode:

• The MindBody Code By Dr. Mario Martinez

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