If you're doing BJJ over 40 while working a full job and raising a family — and you're trying to figure out how to stay on the mats without burning out, burning bridges at home, or burning through your body — this is the episode you didn't know you needed.Professor Kevin Figueroa is a black belt at Gracie Barra Riverside, an industrial electrician managing water infrastructure for a city, a competition team coach, a father of two, and a grandfather at 44. He wakes at 4:30 AM, works nine-hour days, comes home and generates presence for his family, drives to the gym, teaches jiu-jitsu for ninety minutes, hangs out in the lobby answering questions — and does it all again tomorrow. In this episode you'll learn the VFD modulation principle that keeps him training at 44 without breaking down, why he cold plunges every morning (and what it has nothing to do with recovery), how he built a men's brotherhood inside his hobbyist Tuesday/Thursday class, and the one sentence his professor said that made him stop watching other people's glory and start chasing his own.For the BJJ over 40 and midlife jiu-jitsu community — this one hits different.Topics covered:→ Starting jiu-jitsu in 2000 in Riverside when the sport barely existed→ The oldest son of twelve: family obligation, the trades, and coming back to the mats→ The Kobe speech: "you're going to go watch another man get his glory while I'm watching you get yours"→ Getting humbled at white belt by a 120-pound 14-year-old→ Professor Tom Reusing: black belt in jiu-jitsu, judo, and karate — and a Marine→ Getting the black belt and immediately jumping into the black belt competition circuit→ Beginner again: what competing against 7-year black belts teaches a brand new one→ The seminar in Vegas where a professor explained the closed guard detail Tom had been teaching since white belt→ The Instagram strategy: condensing the best 10 minutes from a 2-hour podcast→ The library of Alexandria approach to content — find the signal, remove the noise→ Building a men's community at the gym: the Tuesday/Thursday hobbyist group→ Why men lost the place where they could talk — and what the gym can replace it with→ The post-class lobby, the WhatsApp group, and the check-in culture→ The tornado entry: how he generates family energy in the hour before training→ The VFD / modulation principle — running the motor only as hard as demand requires→ Cold plunge every morning: the mental reset that changed his day→ The nightly check-in: asking himself how he is doing in the shower before bed→ His wife as governor — the external signal that tells the motor to slow down→ Father vs. coach: the distinction that saved his relationship with his daughter Lola→ Competing in Masters at 44 — and why youth is a real advantage in this sport→ Coaching Kendall Reusing (Polaris London) and Saul Vieira (fastest sub in sub-only history)→ Targeting No-Gi Worlds in December→ Staying dangerous after 40: the grandkid, the resolve, and fighting father time→ The 47-year-old who thought he'd be bullied and became one of the team's most dangerous athletes→ One word: Relentless→ Breathe or Tap — breathwork for jiu-jitsu and midlife recovery:ThatJiujiteiro.com or YouTube @thatjiujiteiro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Kevin Figueroa:Instagram: @kevinfigueroabjjGracie Barra Riverside, California🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @IamJoshButton | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com👍 If this episode helped you, please like and subscribe — it helps more people find this content.

Kevin Figueroa, Gracie Barra Riverside, Tom Reusing, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife jiu-jitsu, midlife combat athlete, BJJ recovery over 40, training after 40, BJJ longevity, staying on the mats, discipline over motivation, cold plunge BJJ, modulation training

A purple belt physical therapist who started BJJ at 28 and a ten-year black belt who became a PT to fix himself walk into the same gym and build the resource that should exist for every midlife grappler who has ever watched a training partner disappear from the mats and never come back.Dr. Diana Wang and Dr. Kris Martin of Open Mat Physio join Josh Button to break down the real reason people quit jiu-jitsu in their 30s and 40s, the four recovery non-negotiables that actually move the needle, what the powerlifter problem looks like on the mats, and why intention and sleep are the two words that change everything.For BJJ over 40 athletes, midlife jiu-jitsu practitioners, and anyone who wants to still be training in their 60s — this is the episode.Topics covered:→ How a PT who found jiu-jitsu and a black belt who found PT through jiu-jitsu built Open Mat Physio→ Who they work with: from fresh post-surgery to strength and conditioning with a rehab flair→ Are midlife grapplers wrecked? The honest answer→ Injury history that daily life accommodates but the mats will not→ The powerlifter problem: bilateral dominance, neutral spine fixation, and rotational deficits→ The upper body dense problem: stuck scapulae and what the Americana reveals→ The desk worker problem: thoracic restriction, forward head posture, and where the lower back load goes→ Knee injuries in BJJ — forcing positions is always the mechanism→ You can only train as hard as you can recover→ The four non-negotiables: sleep, volume and intensity management, resistance training, nutrition→ Sleep quality vs. quantity — maximizing what you have when eight hours isn't available→ The high-low principle: one high day, one low day, applied consistently→ Two gym sessions, 45 minutes, full body — the minimum effective resistance training dose→ The Usain Bolt principle — when the PT's job is to fix pain, not fix technique→ The 80% rule: the framework that eliminates most BJJ injuries→ The cumulative time off the mats: one black belt calculated almost three years→ Why broken gym owners are the most credible messengers for younger grapplers→ Sleep apnea and jiu-jitsu snorers — get the sleep study→ Breathe or Tap — the missing recovery tool between sessions→ Two words: Intention and Sleep→ Breathe or Tap — breathwork for jiu-jitsu and midlife recovery:ThatJiujiteiro.com or search Breathe or Tap on YouTube @thatjiujiteiro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Open Mat Physio:Instagram: @openmatphysioWebsite: openmatphysio.comYouTube: Open Mat Physio🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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He has six herniated discs. No ACLs. Arthritic hands and fingers that are now permanently deformed. And he loves jiu-jitsu. Professor Jay Pages — founder of one of Arizona's premier no-gi academies and a black belt through the BGJ Revolution Carlson Gracie team — joins Josh Button to talk about the physical cost of training hard without training smart, what thirty years on the mats taught him about the gi vs. no-gi question, and why ecological dynamics is not the debate most people think it is.For midlife jiu-jitsu practitioners, BJJ over 40 athletes, and anyone who wants to still be on the mats in their 60s — this is the episode that changes how you think about every session.Topics covered:→ Brooklyn to Arizona: how three decades of jiu-jitsu built one of the state's best no-gi programs→ The real physical cost of gi training — arthritic hands, permanently deformed fingers, constant grip tension→ The Marcelo Garcia principle: minimize the gap between your gi and no-gi games→ Why constant gi tension is harder on midlife athletes than no-gi frames and wedges→ Direct vs. indirect control — what the gi teaches vs. what no-gi forces you to build→ Size and strength in gi vs. no-gi — the honest answer nobody wants to give→ Starting jiu-jitsu late in life: the structural advantage most people don't recognize→ What ecological dynamics actually means — and why the debate is mostly a misunderstanding→ The problem with conventional warm-ups and what small-sided games do instead→ The constraint spectrum: from non-representative games to situational sparring→ Dead drilling vs. live drilling — and why the Faris Zahabi argument is correct but incomplete→ Why zero-sum games build resistance without manufactured compliance→ Cherry-picking fights, refusing to tap, and the pride tax on an athletic career→ Roger Gracie's warning: if you don't tap, you'll be a cripple when you're older→ Competition advice for midlife grapplers: use the first event as a baseline, not a performance→ Build a game your body can actually do — on everyone→ The Breathe or Tap connection: why the adrenaline dump and the ego problem are the same nervous system issue→ One word: Fun→ Breathe or Tap — breathwork for jiu-jitsu and midlife recovery:Watch at ThatJiujiteiro.com or search Breathe or Tap on YouTube @thatjiujiteiro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Jay Pages:Instagram: @jayjpages🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com

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A pharmacist who spent his internship in the Blistex research lab instead of a pharmacy. A skin chemist who built a skincare company around transdermal nutrient delivery rather than oil and water. A cellular nutrition educator who has been talking about the Mighty 90 essential nutrients since 1998 and consults for free seven days a week.Benjamin Knight Fuchs RPh — founder of Truth Treatments and host of The Pharmacist Ben Show — joins Josh Button to break down why all disease begins at the cell, why your moisturizer is suppressing your skin's ability to moisturize itself, why staph and MRSA in grapplers trace back to the gut microbiome rather than mat hygiene, and why empowerment — not medicine — is the missing link in both skincare and healthcare.For anyone serious about ancestral nutrition, hard to kill in midlife living, BJJ over 40 skin health, or getting off the treadmill of skincare products that never actually work — this is the episode.Topics covered:→ From the Blistex research lab to Truth Treatments — 40 years of formulation science→ Why pharmacy school teaches disease as nutritional deficiency — and what that means→ The Mighty 90: vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids — God's drugs→ All disease is cell disease — why the medical model treats the organ and ignores the cell→ The missing link in both skincare and healthcare: cellular nutrition→ Why your moisturizer is suppressing your skin's ability to moisturize itself→ The dumbest thing you can put on dry skin — and what actually works→ Transdermal delivery: how Truth Treatments gets nutrients through the dead skin surface to living cells→ Skin as diagnostic: what your skin is telling you about your internal biochemistry→ Staph, MRSA, and fungal infections in BJJ — they start in the gut, not on the mat→ Why the microbiome is disrupted by chlorinated water, antibiotics in food, and processed food→ Fungus and why it laughs at pharmaceutical antifungals — and what microbiome balance actually does→ Psoriasis, eczema, acne — all reversible, none of them primarily skin diseases→ Biologics: what monoclonal antibodies actually do and why suppressing inflammation is biochemically bankrupt→ Drugs depleting nutrients — the zinc and copper deficiencies nobody connects to prescription side effects→ SMEP: spiritual, mental, emotional, physical — the four dimensions of healing→ The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and why healing only happens in one of them→ Excitotoxins, engineered palatability, and why you can't eat one chip→ Food diary as the first step toward dietary sovereignty→ The point of no return — and why theoretically it doesn't exist→ One word: Empowerment━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Benjamin Fuchs:Truth Treatments: truthtreatments.comYoungevity / Mighty 90: rootnotfruit.comWebsite: pharmacistben.comEmail: [email protected] (free consultation, 7 days a week)🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Benjamin Fuchs, Truth Treatments, pharmacist Ben, cellular nutrition, Mighty 90, Youngevity, skin health, gut skin axis, staph infection BJJ, MRSA jiu-jitsu, microbiome, transdermal nutrients, moisturizer myth, psoriasis natural, skin infections grapplers, biologics danger, vitamin C skin, zinc deficiency, essential fatty acids, hard to kill in midlife, hard to kill, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife jiu-jitsu, training after 40, stop killing the plants, that jiujiteiro, josh button podcast, ep101, empowerment health, ancestral nutrition, excitotoxins, Wallack Warriors, lineage provisions

Episode 100. Hard to Kill in Midlife. One hundred conversations in — and for this one, I wanted someone operating at the absolute frontier of what personalized health can look like.Dr. Anil Bajnath MD — author of The Longevity Equation, founder of the Institute for Human Optimization, and founder of the American Board of Precision Medicine — joins the show to break down why your standard blood panel is telling your doctor almost nothing, what deep molecular phenotyping actually reveals, and why the future of healthcare is an N of 1 protocol built from your specific genome, microbiome, metabolome, and environmental toxin load.For midlife athletes, biohackers, BJJ over 40 practitioners, and anyone serious about hard to kill in midlife longevity — this is the most technically advanced health conversation I have had in 100 episodes. And we still found time to talk about jiu-jitsu.Topics covered:→ How a 16-year-old at Whole Foods in Plantation, Florida started a precision medicine career→ Deep molecular phenotyping — what multiomics actually means and why it matters→ Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiome, exposomics — the full stack→ The digital twin: what your molecular portrait reveals that no symptom can→ Pharmacogenomics — why your prescribed medication might be wrong for your genome→ The homocysteine debate: why population meta-analyses cannot answer individual questions→ Why the microbiome is the innocent bystander to every other stressor in the system→ Exposomics — heavy metals, organophosphates, phthalates, mycotoxins, and what to do→ The grounding researcher with the highest naturally occurring testosterone over 60 ever measured→ The lymphatic system, Flowpresso, and why protein reduction matters more than compression→ Water — reverse osmosis, remineralization, deuterium, and what tap water actually contains→ Mold and mycotoxins — the hidden burden nobody's asking about→ Why insurance companies deny the tests that would prevent the conditions they pay to treat→ Function Health, direct-to-consumer testing, and the democratization of precision labs→ AI in medicine — why AI slop upstream causes deleterious downstream consequences→ The American Board of Precision Medicine and why this needs to be the standard of care→ Self-experimentation guardrails — where it's useful and where it gets dangerous→ George Pereira, American Top Team Davie, Vagner Rocha — the South Florida jiu-jitsu connection→ 14 months off the mats and counting — what brought him here and what he's building toward━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Dr. Anil Bajnath:Instagram: @dranilbajnathInstitute for Human Optimization: @instituteforhumanoptimization · ifho.orgAmerican Board of Precision Medicine: abopm.orgWebsite: anilbajnath.comThe Longevity Equation — available now🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com

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He has been a celiac since birth. Nearly didn't survive infancy. Was experimenting in his grandmothers' kitchens at five years old because there was nothing safe on the supermarket shelf. Now 56 — 13 Ironman triathlons completed, six kids, zero alcohol for four years, and a food company that makes real food in a market that resists it.Niklas Gustafson — co-founder of Natruly, host of Hungry for Change, and one of the clearest voices in the ancestral nutrition space — joins Josh Button on the Stop Killing the Plants episode that covers everything: why the spinach superfood myth is built on ignorance of oxalates, what plant milk actually contains and why it's the biggest food scam of the last decade, why raw dairy is treated as contraband while alcohol is freely sold, and what four years without alcohol actually changed.For anyone serious about ancestral nutrition, real food, and hard to kill in midlife living — this one is foundational.Topics covered:→ Celiac from birth in 1970s Sweden — and what that education produced→ The five pillars: nutrition, exercise, sleep, sun, and social connection→ Cutting refined sugar at 40 — the first domino that changed everything→ Paleo, keto, carnivore, animal-based — the full 16-year self-experiment→ Why spinach is not a superfood — the oxalate problem nobody teaches→ Plant milk: what emulsifiers, enzymatic sugar conversion, and the Oatly scam actually mean→ Seed oils in everything — including the Nutella you grew up eating→ The Natruly 43% hazelnut spread — what a real version of that product looks like→ Raw dairy as contraband — why you can buy unlimited alcohol but not unpasteurized milk→ Fake meat and pea protein companies — why they're crashing and why that's good news→ Baby formula: sugar and seed oils from month one→ Let the kid choose from whole foods — and trust what they choose→ Natural testosterone support — sun, lifting, sleep, no alcohol, no seed oils→ GLP-1 drugs: the industry that profits from your insecurity→ Borrowing happiness from tomorrow — four years without alcohol and what changed→ The dinner table conversation that drops in quality after the second bottle→ RFK Jr., MAHA, and why the mainstream media won't say anything good about him→ GMO crop labeling changes in the EU — what's being slipped through under the radar→ One word: Truth━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Niklas Gustafson:Instagram: @NiklasGustafsonNatruly: @Natruly_Int · natruly.comPodcast: Hungry for Change🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplants | @IamJoshButtonWebsite: joshbutton.com

If you're training BJJ over 40 and still treating weight as your primary measure of strength progress — this conversation will change how you think about every session.Dr. Lyneil Mitchell DPT returns for part two to break down why most strength training for midlife BJJ athletes and combat sports practitioners is building maladaptation instead of performance, why isokinetics represent the highest return on investment for BJJ after 40, and why the nervous system is silently patterning the wrong thing in almost every gym in the world.For midlife jiu-jitsu practitioners, midlife combat athletes, and anyone doing BJJ recovery over 40 — this is the episode that explains what the research actually says about training after 40.Topics covered:→ What happened when Josh applied the strong angle question in live training — it works in chaos→ Two guys in the strong angle at the same time — why high-level matches look like standoffs→ Why weight always overloads your weakest angle first — and what your connective tissue is paying→ Isokinetics vs. weightlifting for BJJ over 40 — when the transition has to happen→ Accommodating resistance — why it sounds soft and why it's not→ Diminishing returns on connective tissue — the timeline problem nobody explains→ The breathing test applied to the weight room — the simplest diagnostic you have→ The Hebbian principle — neurons that fire together wire together and you're patterning right now→ The pinky grip example — how a small mechanical habit silently destroys the chain above it→ Irradiation — the facilitation cascade that runs through your entire kinetic chain→ Isometric overuse — why training the stuck position makes you worse at reacting→ Why training your weak side is the most direct path to improving your strong side→ Integrity under demand — a new definition of fitness for midlife athletes→ The three rules Lyneil gives everyone from his son to professional athletes→ Professional sports, cortisone injections, and the dark side of return-to-play medicine→ OJ McDuffie, turf toe, and the legal battle over how it was managed→ The 49ers substation, the Nike shoe that ended careers, and what gets swept under the rug→ Efficiency — the one word that contains the entire framework━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Dr. Lyneil Mitchell:Instagram: @drlyneilWebsite & Free Assessment: thestrongangle.comThe Strong Angle Way — Amazon🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Lyneil Mitchell, The Strong Angle Way, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife jiu-jitsu, midlife combat athlete, BJJ recovery over 40, training after 40, midlife BJJ, midlife grappler, staying on the mats, isokinetics, accommodating resistance, Hebbian principle, neurological strength training, strong angle, weak angle, integrity under demand, maladaptation, non-contact injury prevention, midlife athlete, martial arts over 40, BJJ longevity, staying dangerous after 40, Josh Button podcast, that jiujiteiro, stop killing the plants, hard to kill, ep98, Quintin Torres, Marinovich Systems, Lineage Provisions

Most midlife athletes aren't getting hurt because they're training too hard. They're getting hurt because nobody taught them the one question that determines whether a training session builds you or slowly destroys you.Dr. Lyneil Mitchell — two-time Division II All-American wrestler, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Marinovich Systems practitioner, and author of The Strong Angle Way — joins Josh Button to break down why the dominant-side game you've been building for years is quietly capping your performance, what the University of Cincinnati ACL research group taught him about how every joint in the body actually works, and the single evaluative question that changes everything.Topics covered:→ The turf toe that didn't heal — nine cortisone injections, two competitive years on one foot, what finally worked→ What the strong angle actually is — and why it's a felt sense, not a position→ Why weight always overloads your weakest angle first — and what that does to your kinetic chain over time→ The crossover infection — how a foot injury reorganizes every joint above it for years→ Hines Ward as a non-surgical ACL coper — what his nervous system could do that most can't→ The bilateral coordination blind spot — why training your weak side improves your strong side→ Ambikinesis — the four-sided body awareness masters have that most athletes never develop→ The breathing diagnostic — the fastest way to know if you're in the strong angle right now→ How BJJ framing injuries are actually scapular failures nobody is catching→ The return-to-sport principle that should govern all training, not just rehab→ Self-control vs. self-mastery — and why your white belt brain can't see the black belt pattern→ The basics before the exotic — why innovation only works on top of mastery━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Dr. Lyneil Mitchell:Instagram: @drlyneilWebsite & Free Assessment: thestrongangleway.comThe Strong Angle Way — Amazon🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS0:00 — Intro: Who is Dr. Lyneil Mitchell?0:43 — Two-time All-American wrestler, turf toe, nine cortisone injections2:59 — From wrestling to physical therapy — the six-year path4:17 — ACL research at University of Cincinnati, non-surgical copers6:21 — Marinovich Systems — how Josh Rafferty and BJ Penn's barefoot training connected7:14 — Did Marinovich Systems fix the turf toe?9:05 — Traditional rehab vs. neuromuscular emphasis — the key difference9:45 — Non-surgical copers — Hines Ward and joint centration13:00 — Self-experimentation and the code behind the strong angle16:35 — The strong angle and weak angle defined19:45 — Why the blueprint nobody gives midlife jiu-jitsu athletes matters20:41 — The Strong Angle Way book — self-control vs. self-mastery22:30 — Mastery and leadership — how they develop whether you aim for them or not26:30 — Wrestling vs. jiu-jitsu — what each sport selects for28:44 — Biomechanics for grapplers — why it's the most neglected area30:00 — The dominant-side problem — one-sided jiu-jitsu and the hip it's building33:40 — The framing failure — when two identical-looking movements are completely different38:00 — Bilateral coordination, the crossover effect, and training the weak side40:00 — Stability training vs. proactive movement — where the crossover fails44:12 — Reactive vs. proactive stabilization — what the Wobbler trains51:30 — The SuperCAT, rate of force production, and Mike Maddox's isokinetic machine56:06 — Liability, the physical therapy profession, and self-efficacy01:04 — Part two teased — much more to cover01:04 — Three words: The Strong Angle

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He started jiu-jitsu in 2006 when a 120-pound woman in a Hawaiian shopping center handed him his wrestling credentials back. He went home and trained harder. Two decades later, he's a BJJ black belt under Gustavo Machado, a BJJ Globetrotters international coach, a Navy diver veteran, and one of the most interesting conversations I've had on this show.William Dorman — founder of Blue Ring Solutions, We Defy Foundation ambassador, and BJJ Fanatics instructional creator — joins Josh Button to talk top pressure passing, staying on the mats past 40 with a body that needs replacing in multiple places, building cold plunges in Afghanistan, playing didgeridoo for his garden, and why he believes jiu-jitsu is the best thing for humanity.Topics covered:→ How Steve Hordinski and a Kailua shopping center changed everything in 2006→ Getting destroyed as a wrestler and going all in — the split that determines who stays→ The over-under top pressure system that nobody escapes — and why it protects his feet→ Half guard both ways: Gustavo Machado, Roberto Gordo lineage, and the offensive half guard game→ Gi technique in no-gi: the lasso sweep that works better than anyone expects→ The funnel system: three options, all accounted for→ Cold plunges in Afghanistan — the chest freezer setup, chemical testing, wood stairs→ Yoga since 2007, breath work for Aconcagua, HRV training with Warrior Wellness Solutions→ Gardening as therapy: grounding, barefoot in dirt, didgeridoo for the plants→ Plant medicine: ayahuasca in Brazil, Rising Ridge retreat, integration practices→ Why suffering is the prerequisite for growth — and what jiu-jitsu does that the military couldn't→ We Defy Foundation: jiu-jitsu for combat-disabled veterans, $80K raised at Renzo's→ What keeps midlife men on the mats — and why culture beats technique every time→ The 76-year-old judo guy who shows up every morning and what he represents→ "When you rest, you rust" — the 90-year-old on the plane and how to live by it→ One word: Positivity — and the fighter pilot who said "it is what it is"━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find William Dorman:Instagram: @williamdormanbjjBJJ Fanatics (Pressure Passing instructional): bjjfanatics.comBJJ Globetrotters YouTube: youtube.com/bjjglobetrottersWe Defy Foundation: wedefyfoundation.org🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplants | @IamJoshButtonWebsite: joshbutton.com

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Sick care is not the same as healthcare. Kristin Oja, DNP — founder of STAT Wellness and the first person in the US to build a gym inside a functional medicine practice — joins Josh Button to break down what root cause medicine actually looks like for high-performing midlife men.Topics covered:→ Why the absence of disease is not health — and what the gap looks like→ The three master pillars of longevity: muscle mass, blood sugar, and inflammation→ Sarcopenia starts at 30 — what you're doing in your 40s determines your 70s→ Eating healthy vs. eating for blood sugar balance — the critical difference→ Why the gut microbiome governs immunity, serotonin, melatonin, and inflammation→ Terrain vs. germ theory — how she practices without using the terminology→ Fermented foods ranked: what works, what's marketing, what's sugar disguised as probiotics→ Glyphosate on both sides — plants AND animal products — and what to do about it→ Raw dairy, home fermentation, and sourcing principles→ The functional medicine panel every midlife man should actually run→ Continuous glucose monitoring for athletes who already eat well→ Testosterone, DHEA, cortisol, magnesium deficiency — what the labs reveal→ Manopause is real — and most men are normalizing symptoms they don't have to→ Peptides: the cherry on top when foundations are already solid→ VO2 max as a longevity biomarker→ The Harvard study that ran for 100 years — and what it says about the #1 predictor of long life→ One word: Happiness━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Kristin Oja:Instagram: @kristinojadnpWebsite: kristinoja.comSTAT Wellness: statwellness.com🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplants | @IamJoshButtonWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS0:00 — Intro: Who is Kristin Oja?0:34 — STAT Wellness: barbells inside a functional medicine practice2:55 — Membership vs. al-a-carte — $185/month, transparent pricing4:56 — Insurance coverage and HSA/FSA6:28 — Terrain theory vs. germ theory — the conversation they're both having8:16 — Gut microbiome: the foundation of everything9:40 — Children who've never taken an antibiotic — and why10:18 — The two patient types: the optimizer and the frustrated sick13:30 — The three pillars of longevity: muscle, blood sugar, inflammation16:05 — What the optimizer looks like — and what the cherry on top is18:00 — Wearables, objective data, and knowing your own body22:00 — Continuous glucose monitoring for performance athletes23:10 — How the STAT model works for midlife grapplers25:40 — Full functional medicine panel: what to run, why it matters28:00 — Ashwagandha, magnesium, and natural testosterone optimisation30:34 — Ancestral eating, plant tolerance, gut microbiome, and SIBO35:00 — Glyphosate in plants AND animal products — the full picture37:00 — Fermented foods: home fermentation vs. commercial products39:30 — Raw dairy, sourcing, and not being black-and-white44:30 — Sleep apnea in midlife men — the missed diagnosis47:00 — Manopause: normalizing what doesn't have to be normal50:00 — Sauna, cold plunge, and recovery non-negotiables54:00 — VO2 max, grip strength, breathwork as longevity markers55:28 — Supplements: creatine, glycine, magnesium, electrolytes57:00 — The Harvard longevity study and what 100 years of data says57:59 — One word: Happiness

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