Optimal Performance

Scientists now specifically what causes acne and how to cure it.

One specific bacteria called Cutibacterium acnes causes acne.

By targeting the bad bacteria and keeping and feeding the good bacteria on your face, your acne acne, redness and inflammation goes away.

Learn more here: phylabiotics.com

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In this episode we cover:

•Where does acne come from specifically?

•Phages are your friends to keep skin healthy and vibrant

•Clinical trials show specifically how acne can be treated.

•Harmful acne treatments like Acutane can cause depression and damage skin long-term

•Controlling the growth of Cutibacteria acnes bacteria is how you eliminate acne

•How stress, hormones, diet and genetics can increase the appearance of that acne causing bacteria

There's no one quite like Zappy Zapolin.

He's a psychedelic concierge and a modern renaissance man. A futurist who is helping build the future of mental health.

Find Zappy here - https://zappyzapolin.com/

In this eye opening conversation we cover:

•Drastic up levels in awareness and performance via psychedelic medicines

•Predictions for our psychedelic future

•Frequency based psychedelics

•Unpacking the power of ketamine

•Psychedelics as a pathway to a better mind, better meditation, and greater mental wellness

•Psychedelics are here to help us through this global crisis

•Psychedelics and development of empathy

•Why we need to collectively stand up and demand legalization and rescheduling of psychedelics

•Mindarmy.org

•Ketaminefund.org for PTSD in veterans

•Breaking up your calcified pineal gland

•Untethering yourself

In this solo show I teach you a very simple, very effective technique to lower your stress. Stress that you're creating without knowing it. Plus...

•Boost your performance

•Enhance your productivity

•Activate faster

•Align with what matters most in your life

•Relieve yourself from unwanted obligations

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Measuring the age of your immune system.

Gordon Lauc is the Chief Science Officer of Glycanage and a professor of molecular biology.

GlycanAge is your key to healthy ageing. It is the only biological age test that accurately measures your unique response to lifestyle change.

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In this episode we cover:

•What is a glycan and why should we care?

•Glycans tell encapsulate genetics, epigenetic and environment

•Glycans are a dynamic biomarker that indicate disease risk in the future

•Comparing different biological age markers

•What is inflammaging?

•150 thousand people's glycans analyzed

•How overtraining effects your glycan age

•The performance of our Glycans can dictate which lifestyle factor is most important for our longevity: diet, stress management, sleep, which is more important

Leonard T. Perlmutter is the founder and director of The American Meditation Institute in Averill Park, New York, and the originator of National Conscience Month.

He's also the author of Your Conscience - The key to unlock unlimited wisdom and creativity and solve all of life's challenges

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In this fascinating episode we cover:

•The process of identifying faulty mental concepts that steal your joy and purpose

•What do with fear when you experience it

•How your ego, senses and unconscious mind keep us from living out our purpose

•The conscience is the only function of the mind that can make decisions

•How to tap into the superconscious mind through one's conscience

•The difference between the unconscious conscious and conscience

•How important it is to use careful language with yourself.

•Change "I have problems" to 'I have situations"

Dr. David Haase is doing the most innovative healthcare in the world at Maxwell Clinic.

His work with therapeutic blood plasma exchange is mind-blowing.

In this fascinating interview we cover:

•Removing plasma and re-injecting it to boost the systems of your body

•Starting regeneration processes earlier in life to extend longevity

•"You're as old as your oldest organ system."

•What happens when you remove massive amounts of blood plasma from your body.

•Focusing on how the systems of the body function = improvements

•Study of Over 500 people who did 18 plasma exchanges showed

-Slowing of Alzheimers in moderate Alzheimer's sufferers

-In mild Alzheimer's patients experienced actual improvements

•The wonderful world of aphaeresis - take out the blood, do something to it, and put it back in

•Neurodegeneration, body wide stem cell activity, reversing auto-immune disease

•3 buckets of individuals who qualify for therapeutic plasma exchange

1. Autoimmune disease
2. Neurodegeneration
3. Biohacking - treating longevity as a goal

Katie Silcox is the author of Healthy, Happy Sexy and she's absolute expert in integrated Ayurveda.

Before biohacking was a thing...the yogis were testing extracts and herbs on themselves. Blows the mind really.

You can find her podcast Spirit Sessions HERE.

In this light-hearted and fascinating podcast we cover:

•How does Ayurveda jive with biohacking

•Practical Ayurveda herbs for digestion, inflammation and more

•How can you start to explore an Ayurveda approach for yourself

•How do we apply extractive medicine

•Why is Ayurveda is such an effective model for optimal performance

•Ayurveda is the science of life and it's about connecting to divine animism

•The importance of being "situated in the self" and how you can do it

•Practical Ayurvedic practices for you

•What does optimal performance mean to Katie

•The importance of the divine feminine within performance and biohacking

•How Katie thinks about, and helps people work through fear

•Spirit sessions podcast and Shakti school

Year in Review Test

-Most consistent themes from 2021 in 59 episodes

-Prioritize sleep

-Experiment; nutrition, exercise, performance enhancement devices

-What have we learned about our own health this year?

-We need be in charge of our own health; health leaders have proven ineffective. Our government cannot keep us healthy, it's up to us.

-Stress and fear exacerbate our fight or flight response and depletes our immune system

-Fear and stress effects our decision making

-What can we do in order to establish a strong immune system?

-Basics; sleep, nutrition, exercise, supplementation,

-Extra efforts; boosting immune system through stress management, contract therapy, positive thought

-Can we/should we listen to the media?

-What benefit is there?

-How does the mainstream media make their money predominantly? Pharma. Btyb Pfizer

-2021 was a dozey, what can we expect about 2022.

Dr. William Pawluk is the world's leading expert in PEMF - Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy.

PEMF can treat over 80 conditions from cancer to broken bones - Find them here.

Dr. Pawluk has reserched, applied and authored books on PEMF with global recognition - pre-order his new book Supercharge Your Health With PEMFs - HERE

If you're interested in consulting with Dr. Pawluk GO HERE

In this fascinating episode you'll learn.

•The difference between PEMF and EMF

•How the acupuncture meridian system responds to magnetic field therapy

•FDA approved devices for healing bones

•Energy healing as a first course of action instead of turning to it when nothing else works

•PEMF for emotional issues like anxiety and depression

•Positive thought, enhances effectiveness of PEMF therapy

•Symptoms of intolerance to PEMF

•Supplement suggestions in tandem with PEMF treatment

•Electrical charges from walking barefoot outside. Teluric currents.

•500 references and the basic ideas around Magnetic Field Theory

•Distinguishing between inadequate PEMF devices and the best devices in the world

Michael Breus, Ph.D - The Sleep Doctor is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

His latest book explored the connection between your Chronotype (sleep type) with Body type. Get the book here - Energizemyself.com

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In this detailed and informative episode we cover:

•How Dr. Breus can predict body type based on Chronotype

•Hoe sleep effects every organ system and every disease state

•What is the connection between Sleep Type and Body Type

•5000 people from each chronotype to see the connections with body type

•Balance exercises before bed

•Consistency and discipline for sleep

•Dr Breus is the Chief Sleep Officer at Oura Ring

•Pairing exercise preference with chronotype

•Poewer profile = Body Type paired with Chronotype

•Hacking exercise based on your body type

•Dr. Breus on the proper way to mouth tape

•Nutrition plan based on when you eat, when you sleep based on Chronotype and movement program based on bod y type

•Why the wolf chronotype has such a hard time maintaining weight

•Sleep as the shock absorber of your life