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#119 | Stress Resilience via HRV | Marco Altini, PhD, HRV4Training

For people like me who spent our adult lives learning how to stay up late and get up early and be alert despite poor sleep, relearning to have life balance is hard. I’ve been working on it for years, yet I am not getting better. But today, on episode 119, I am speaking with Marco Altini, PhD, the founder of HRV4Training about how to use HRV to more clearly see my stress level and how to use HRV biofeedback to retrain my mindbody to have emotional self-regulation and ability to cope with the stress of life AND athletics.

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#118 | One Antioxidant to Rule Them All — Glutathione | Ross Pelton

Today we have invited Ross Pelton the Natural Pharmacist to educate us about Glutathione, the master antioxidant and a key biomarker of aging. Glutathione is made by the body to act as the master regulator of other antioxidants….when you have enough glutathione, your body can make or recycle all the antioxidants it needs. What’s more, low glutathione is a marker for aging and a higher likelihood of disease. The older we get, the less glutathione our bodies make, and the more glutathione our bodies need.

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#117 | The Hunt for More Life | Mitchell Lee, PhD, CEO of Ora Biomedical

Today we are talking with Mitchell Lee, PhD about Ora Biomedical’s Million Molecule Challenge and its new citizen science fundraising approach that allows everyone to participate. In addition, Dr Lee and I discuss my question of how to be “bold but safe” regarding the high-wire act of using off-label pharmaceuticals and OTC nutritional supplements to get a fast start (i.e., start now) on the pursuit of extended human healthspan.

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#116 | Grow old–Get fast–Don’t die | Phil Cavell: The Midlife Cyclist

The Midlife Cyclist is a book by Phil Cavell, for cyclists over 40 who want to train hard, ride fast, and stay healthy. Join us to listen to Phil talk about finding cycling performance AND long health.

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#115 | Winning Athletic Longevity | Dr Rick Cohen & Daniel Tawfik of Healthspan

One of the major bummers for the older athlete, is that no one knows how to make people younger.  All we can do is slow down the rate of aging.  The healthier we are, the slower we age….meaning the more slowly we progress toward that visit to the pearly gates. 

How can we balance risk and reward, prioritize which interventions to pursue first, how to tell is we are getting a positive or negative result from our interventions including pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements. These are the questions answered by Daniel and Rick.

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#114 | Moringa — The Miracle Tree | Lisa Curtis & Dr Jed Fahey

Moringa is known as the miracle tree because of its many beneficial features, which include: it helps to increase the blood antioxidants and reduce the blood sugar as well as chronic inflammation

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#113 | Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field (PEMF) for Pain & Healing | Bob Dennis, PhD

Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field (PEMF) stimulation provides noninvasive anti-inflammatory effects and regulates ROS signaling pathways. 

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#112 | Simple Solutions for A.G.E.s…Advanced Glycation End-products | The Anti-A.G.E. Foundation

AGEs is now known to be a cause of cancer and many chronic diseases, including: type 2 diabetes, heart disease, painful joints, ED, cataracts, and even wrinkling of the skin. Our bodies make some AGEs as an unavoidable consequence of living, and we eat foods that contain a wide range of volumes of AGEs. Avoiding the AGEs in our food is the easiest way to control the accumulation of AGES.

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#110 | Mental “Fitness” for Sport (& Life) | Kate Allgood of Quantum Performance

ate delivers mental training solutions to overcome the demands faced by elite athletes and other high performers in the military and business.

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[re-release] Becoming Anti-Fragile w/Mike T Nelson PhD

I have a number of amazing episodes coming up (mental strength, CBD, avoiding glycation/AGEs, PEMF and more) but I haven’t been able to get any of them ready. It’s been too long since I published anything so I thought I’d share an great one from last year done with one of my favorite people, Dr…

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