The Lucas Rockwood Show

By Lucas Rockwood

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This no-nonsense health and wellness show features best-selling authors and thought leaders in nutrition, mental health, relationships, and self-improvement. Each episode also includes listener Q&A. Hosted by yoga trainer, writer, and expert speaker, Lucas Rockwood, the founder of YOGABODY and The Yoga Teachers College.

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535: Menopause Bootcamp wit...

09.28.2022

The average life expectancy 100 years ago was around 53 or 54 years whereas the average life where I live today is over 80 - this is a radical change. When the average person is adding three decades to their ...

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09.28.2022 535: Menopause Bootcamp with Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD The average life expectancy 100 years ago was around 53 or 54 years whereas the average life where I live today is over 80 - this is a radical change. When the average person is adding three decades to their ...
09.21.2022 534: How to Fix Gas & Bloating with Dr. Megan Rossi Did you know your body contains just as many bacteria cells as human cells–about 30 trillion in total? Around 3 lbs of those little buggers live in your gastrointestinal tract, and just as our planet’s soils are productive yet depleted, ...
09.14.2022 533: How to Rehab Your Feet with Christopher Ioannou Christopher McDougal’s 2009 book, Born to Run, brought minimal footwear and the importance of healthy feet to the forefront of fitness conversations internationally. At the time, there were just a couple minimal-style shoe companies in existence, today there are dozens. ...
09.07.2022 532: Psychedelics as Medicine? with Matt Zemon Various psychedelic drugs have been used for thousands of years by people all over the world, primarily in spiritual ceremonies and for medicinal purposes. In 1938 Albert Hoffman discovered LSD, and it served as the Western world’s introduction to this ...
08.31.2022 531: Fix Your Feet with Tea Nguyen Bunions, hammertoes, and the wide array of foot ailments can be easy to hide inside shoes, but that doesn’t make them easy to live with. What might start as achy feet can quickly turn into a real health challenge with ...
08.24.2022 530: The Truth About Reverse Aging with Morgan Levine PhD How long do you want to live? How healthy do you want to be in your later years? For many podcast listeners, healthspan is more important than lifespan, but it’s difficult to figure out what–if anything⁠–can stack the deck in ...
08.17.2022 529: Living with Addiction with Dr. Cali Estes When you hear the word addict, it may conjure up images of alcoholics stumbling out of bars late at night, or of bleary eyed celebrities being admitted to rehab. But addiction comes in many forms and nowadays includes a whole ...
08.10.2022 528: How to Banish Productivity Guilt with Madeleine Dore I’m a productivity junkie in recovery. I’ve read just about every productivity and habit change book you can think of. From time blocking and “inbox zero”, to nootropics, I’ve tried almost everything. And while I’ve certainly learned many tactics, I’ve ...
08.03.2022 527: How to Set Boundaries with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt Overwork and overwhelm are huge problems in today’s society, yet they are highly revered in many cultures. From the story of Elon Musk sleeping in the Tesla factory, to the parents so committed to their children they haven’t had a ...
07.27.2022 526: Fascia, Pain & Recovery with Douglas Bertram Our own bodies are a source of infinite learning and mystery. Most of us are familiar with our skin, our hair, muscles, and teeth; but did you know that you have an internal latticework of connective tissues called fascia, that ...
07.20.2022 525: Can You Slow Down Skin Aging? with Dr. Shyamalar Gunatheesan If you walk into any pharmacy, the anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, anti-cellulite creams and potions are everywhere. But does any of this stuff actually work? Most products are simply marketing gimmicks, but there are simple lifestyle measures you can implement to improve ...
07.13.2022 524: A Pain-Free Future with Vinny Crispino We all experience aches and pains at times, sometimes even serious injuries. But what happens when your pain doesn’t go away for months, years, or even a decade or more? What happens when you’re dependent on painkillers to get through ...
07.06.2022 523: Finding Peak Performance with Wylie McGraw It’s hard enough to figure out what you really want to accomplish in a year, let alone in your lifetime, and once you do figure it out, how do you actually show up as the best version of yourself? Personal ...
06.29.2022 522: Women’s Hormonal Health with Dr. Anna Cabeca At what age should we consider hormone replacement therapy? Why is PCOS so common? Why is it that women often struggle with ketogenic diets more than men? Our hormones play such an important role in how we look and feel, ...
06.22.2022 521: Could a 12-hour walk change your life? with Colin O’Brady Ever felt stuck in a rut with your job, your relationship, or maybe even the city you’re living in? You know what you’re doing isn’t what you want, but you’re unsure how to break your current pattern? It’s fun to ...
06.15.2022 520: Finding Focus with Michael Balchan What does it mean to live your best life? What does it mean to self-actualize? It’s easy to fall into the trap of chasing status, titles, or physical property; but isn’t what really matters to you based more on your ...
06.08.2022 519: Middle Age Fitness & Beyond with Anthony Balduzzi Have you noticed many leading voices in the fitness industry are single and are able to spend 2-3 hours per day working out? No matter how organized you are, if you have kids and a career (that isn’t fitness-related), most ...
06.01.2022 518: If Your Mouth Could Talk with Dr Kami Hoss Periodontal disease is correlated with just about every type of illness and disease. Sometimes it’s a canary in the coal mine for something wrong, but sometimes, it can even be the source of the problem. While many people dismiss dental ...
05.25.2022 517: Finding Fitness Not Fanaticism with Mike Nelson Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and underestimate what we can accomplish in the next five years. With health and fitness, most of us focus so much on the short term that we don’t allow ...
05.18.2022 516: High Performance Life with Marc Bubbs When it comes to health and fitness, one of the biggest challenges in the digital age is information overload. Whether you’re excited about running or cycling, ketogenic diets or intermittent fasting, you can get so far lost down a rabbit ...
05.11.2022 515: How To Handle Diabetes with Dr. Mark Heyman You’ve no-doubt had a period of time in your life where your health was the first thing you thought of when you woke up, and the last thing on your mind before bed. Perhaps you had a virus, a severe ...
05.04.2022 514: Risks of Mental Health Misdiagnosis with Sarah Fay For an elementary school student with severe ADHD, who’s at risk of getting expelled for behavior problems, a proper mental health diagnosis can mean the difference between success or failure with traditional education. In situations like these, we can all ...
04.27.2022 513: Lasting Change: Eating & Exercise with Michelle Segar New habit formation is so challenging. Not only do most of us struggle to establish new routines, we often rebel against our own best interest and go in the other direction. When we fall off a new diet regime, we ...
04.20.2022 512: Special Episode: Questions Show with Lucas Rockwood Is yoga enough for real fitness? Is there such a thing as non-religious meditations? What do you do if your chiropractor tells you your spine is misaligned? Lucas Rockwood fields common questions from listeners on this week’s special podcast episode. ...
04.14.2022 511: Is Now the Best of Times? with Lucas Rockwood Haven you heard that environmental collapse is going to end life on earth in just 8 years? Do you think that World War III is looming? Are robots going to take over while we humans fight over NFTs in the ...
04.06.2022 510: Fitness After 40 with Mark Lewis Most anti-aging techniques are dubious at best. The hard truth is we’re all getting older, but at the same time, most people can quite literally get fitter every year for a decade or more. For non-athletes, the path toward fitness ...
03.30.2022 509: Your Brain on Food with Dr. Uma Naidoo You know that feeling when you order food that looks great but makes you feel like crap? Maybe it’s deep fried or sugar-ladden. It tastes great, but an hour later, you regret it. Now what if that happens once a ...
03.23.2022 508: The Science of Sleep with Devin Burke Most people get an average of six-and-a-half hours of sleep each night while needing seven to nine hours. This chronic, endemic sleep deprivation contributes to hormonal imbalances, car accidents, and increased susceptibility to chronic illnesses. Even knowing this, we watch ...
03.16.2022 507: Revive Your Hormones with Sonya Jensen Hormones affect your attention, libido, fertility, and lean muscle mass. So much of how we experience the world is determined by these complex chemicals sloshing around inside us–and they are under attack! High stress lifestyles, high carbohydrate diets, and endocrine ...
03.09.2022 506: Eat to Beat Depression with Dr. Drew Ramsey 280 million people have depression worldwide, and 700,000 people will die of suicide this year. The problem is getting worse, not better, and while mental health awareness is at an all time high, conversations about the role nutrition plays is ...
03.02.2022 505: Genius Foods with Max Lugavere How do you navigate the challenges of optimal nutrition while simultaneously considering budget, ethics, and the environment? Grass-fed beef might be a nutritional powerhouse, but how can we justify the environmental and ethical challenges of raising such large, inefficient ruminant ...
02.23.2022 504: Hyperbaric Medicine with Dr. Scott Sherr Hyperbaric chambers use pressure, and in some cases concentrated oxygen, to treat a wide variety of injuries and ailments. You’ve no doubt heard of high-level athletes using these treatments to speed up recovery, but you might not realize hyperbaric therapy ...
02.16.2022 503: No More Crash & Burn Diets with Susan Peirce Thompson PhD Food is so much more than energy. It’s culture, tradition, family, comfort, indulgence, guilt, and pleasure all in one. To add to the complexity, certain foods are even addicting. Today, food abundance is the norm and food costs have dropped ...
02.09.2022 502: Ideal Diet for Your Genetics with Dr. Yael Joffe What if your genetic code could tell you what form of exercise would be best for you, based on your ability to build muscle, endure physical stress, and recover? What if you knew which foods would be best-suited to your ...
02.02.2022 501: Harness the Voice in Your Head with Ethan Kross We speak an estimated 50,000 words to ourselves, in our head, every single day. That’s the same amount of information as you’d find in most paperback books. We have positive, negative, and instructive self talk; but for many of us, ...
01.26.2022 500: Can Meat Fix Your Heart with Dr. Philip Ovadia It’s hard enough to navigate our modern food system if your goal is general health, but what if you’re trying to prevent or reverse heart disease? What if you have early warning signs like elevated triglycerides or high blood pressure? ...
01.19.2022 499: The Truth about PTSD with Dr. Michael S. Scheeringa Post Traumatic Stress Disorder first appeared in the DSM-3 in 1980, and was clinically defined as exposure to an actual or threat of death, serious injury, or sexual violence. Today, clinicians and pop health proponents have expanded the definition broadly, ...
01.12.2022 498: Breaking Food Addiction with Dr. Vera Tarman People often say things like, “I'm addicted to chocolate” or “I can’t live without ice cream.” And sometimes it’s true. Modern food is processed, packaged and concentrated in ways that light up our dopamine and endorphin receptors just like drugs; ...
01.05.2022 497: Wearable Tech - Measure, Track, Improve with Rob ter Horst Expensive watches have been a status symbol for centuries, but now, weird-looking bands have replaced the bingy Rolexes. Instead of signaling wealth, these new gizmos signal a keen interest and commitment to health. Welcome to the world of wearable health ...
12.29.2021 496: Mindful Intimacy with Jessica Graham Mindfulness gets bundled with everything from golf to gardening these days, but one place it might make the most sense is often overlooked: intimacy. For meaning, connection, and even anatomical functioning, mindful practices can make a huge difference. On this ...
12.22.2021 495: Swole Planet with Ryan Andrews Imagine you are in charge of the weekly grocery shopping for a family of four, and each week, you get a new assignment. Week one, you’re asked to buy the healthiest possible food for your family. Week two, you’re asked ...
12.15.2021 494: Onions, Inflation & Family Farms with Shay Myers When most people think about a family farm, they think of a wooden house in the middle of a field with a few chickens, a couple of cows, and some corn and tomatoes growing. These days, that is more likely ...
12.07.2021 493: 2021 Holiday Food & Fitness Survival Guide with Lucas Rockwood Holiday season is here, and we’re entering a four week period where our behavior is often bipolar. The last two weeks of December are a food and drink debauchery, and the first two weeks of January are often a mad ...
12.01.2021 492: Life After Prison with Jesse Crosson There are 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States, and another four million on parole or probation. When you factor in families of inmates, prison employees, and infrastructure, we’re talking about billions of dollars annually and tens of millions ...
11.24.2021 491: Food to Fight Cancer with Chris Wark Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, but modern medicine has only made small improvements in healing protocols in the past thirty years. Here’s cancer treatment history at a glance: 1930s: chemotherapy pioneered for use in treating cancer ...
11.17.2021 490: Irrelationships A Way Out of Dysfunction with Grant H. Brenner Around 20% of people have reported a major breakdown in one or more relationships during the pandemic. This includes romantic couples, but also work, family, and friend relationships strained by distance, differing viewpoints, and lack of human connection. But at ...
11.10.2021 489: Core & Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation with Trista Zinn If you have a weak or damaged pelvic floor, it can cause incontinence, prolapse, and back pain. Did you assume this only affects postpartum women or the elderly? Nope, pelvic floor dysfunction is now common in younger men and women ...
11.03.2021 488: How to De-Escalate Conflicts with Doug Noll 1000s of air rage incidents have been logged just in the past year alone where people lose it mid-flight. They scream, become violent, and cause such a ruckus that they have to be duct taped to their chairs or arrested. ...
10.27.2021 487: How to Fight Bloated Belly with Edison de Mello, MD, PhD If you eat the wrong thing, do you get bloated? Constipated? Stomach pains often start off as a nuisance, but as the months and years go by, they can become chronic and even turn into serious physical and mental illnesses. ...
10.20.2021 486: High Libido Diet with Christine DeLozier We all know that a healthy, whole food diet can help with fat loss, energy, and digestions; but it can also increase your libido and sexual health. On this week’s podcast, we’ll talk about science-based foods that notably increase blood ...

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