Empowerment means giving permission and gaining the knowledge and improving yourself to become the greatest version of yourself...if you combine all those things together, then it is this nonstop personal development and self growth in a nutshell. Affiliate Disclosure Who is Siim Land? Siim Land is an Estonian author, high performance coach, biohacker and a student of life. He has a bachelor's in socio-cultural anthropology, he has a blog, a YouTube channel, and a podcast about human optimizatio...
Jul 30, 2018•48 min•Ep. 30
...I'm not fine. I feel horrible. You know I have no energy, I don't sleep, the way my skin looks bad, you know on and on and on. So they know something's wrong. So what we run is called functional labs. We use saliva, urine, we use stool, we use some blood top but it's looking at things differently and looking at different things. And so these functional tests are the way to go. Affiliate Disclosure Who is Reed Davis? Reed is a Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT), Fitness Trainer and Environm...
Jul 24, 2018•42 min•Ep. 29
LifePrint really equips individuals, relationships, teams, businesses with a formula that really empowers self leadership. It really gives insight into what the highest driving needs that are necessary in order for a person to experience truth fulfilment within their life. And so it's really there to offer on numerous levels a different model or application of life experience. Who is Justin Furness? Justin is an integrative medicine expert. For the past 10 years, Justin has devoted himself to un...
Jul 17, 2018•53 min•Ep. 28
You can think of a music program almost contouring your expected heart rate. Starting at a low point, having a peak and then gradually coming down. If you're engaged in interval training such as HIIT - high intensity interval training - it might be that you have peaks and troughs in the energy of the music so as to reflect the physiological peaks and troughs in the workout. So I think the desired mental state and the underlying physiological state are drivers for the type of music that you would...
Jul 09, 2018•55 min•Ep. 27
Instead of [the traditional stimulation device] paradigm, what we're trying to do is send more of a sensory signal so rather than a motor signal taking over the muscles and causing them to do something, we're actually sending a signal as if movement is taking place and even if it isn't, as if movement is taking place and seeing how the brain responds to movement. Remember the body is capable of doing more than it's currently doing. And if we send a signal that movement is happening in a certain ...
Jul 02, 2018•54 min•Ep. 26
We should not forget that our body, the human body is made out of minimum 900,000 different proteins. Most of the proteins we have no clue about. We know something about 30,000 but more than 850,000 proteins we have no clue about what they are, what they do and where they perform but whenever one of those proteins is losing its function we will run into a problem. Some of these problems we know we call them chronic diseases, we call them fatigue, we would call them lost of performance. We can al...
Jun 25, 2018•39 min•Ep. 25
Most of the fitness wearables are on the wrist because people are used to wearing watches and one thing that became apparent right off is they work reasonably well, they’ve gotten better at it but that is one of the worst places you can actually measure anything. There are a bunch of reasons for that - your tattoos, skin color, hair, you get vibration no matter how tight it is, you get a lot of interference from the sun, it’s much stronger than the LEDs they use on the watches. But the bigger th...
Jun 18, 2018•41 min•Ep. 24
And I started investigating that fundamental idea is there something wrong with me? Or what are the things that I think are wrong with me and what’s the evidence that these things are wrong with me and the whole idea of something wrong with me did fall apart. I was no longer able to believe that. Affiliate Disclosure About Steven Sashen Steven Sashen, CEO of Xero Shoes , is a life-long athlete, a former All-American gymnast and current masters All-American sprinter. A serial entrepreneur and Emm...
Jun 11, 2018•49 min•Ep. 23
I was always kind of curious about myself and understanding what makes me tick so it kind of goes way back to those days and then as I got into my professional life and you get a little bit older, you start shifting from okay I’m trying to be an elite athlete to I want to optimise myself in this high pressure, high-stress world of business. Affiliate Disclosure About Bob Troia Bob Troia is a technology entrepreneur and citizen scientist who has been at the forefront of digital innovation and eme...
Jun 04, 2018•53 min•Ep. 21
Through a low impact 21 minute protocol, the user is able to mimic the physiology when you do an intensive 2-hour workout, get the same response from their pituitary and endocrine system without the same wear and tear, time and effort normally involved in initiating that anabolic response from exercise. Affiliate Disclosure What is the Vasper? Sebastian Wasowski is the Co-Founder of Vasper Systems . Vasper is a complete exercise system based on three scientifically proven principles – compressio...
May 28, 2018•31 min•Ep. 21
If you imagine, lets just say a fighter, like a boxer. In the beginning, let’s imagine that our boxer’s poised. Meaning that he’s standing well balanced. That his ability to shift what he’s doing is actually very high. He can read and respond. And when he responds, the action that he takes keeps him in a position of being able to respond. My movement increases my ability to make better choices in the next moment. That’s what response means. Every choice you make has the characteristics of increa...
May 21, 2018•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 20
Affiliate Disclosure About the Guest Matt Maruca Matt Maruca is an 18-year wonder-kid. He believes our lives are exactly what we choose to make of them. Matt is a researcher, blogger, coach of optimal human health, and the Founder of Ra Optics. Ra Optics is a company that creates products and shares information to help people protect themselves from the environmental factors responsible for today's worldwide chronic disease epidemic. Matt has traveled the world and met with some of the leading r...
Apr 30, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 18
The awareness that I gained when I started learning about the fact that my body naturally does different things best at different times of day was sort of very freeing in a sense that it let me become a little bit more self aware about when I felt best working and when I felt best resting Azure Grant is an editor at Quantified Self and a researcher in the field of biological rhythms. Her goal is to combine Chronobiology with Participant-Led Research using wearable sensors and signal processing t...
Apr 17, 2018•50 min•Ep. 17
Think of a child. When a child knows there’s gonna be a routine, their body automatically kindof starts to go into that rest mode. Affiliate Disclosure About the Guest: Dr. Matthew Accurso Dr. Matthew Accurso is a world-renowned high performance doctor. At age 6, Dr. Accurso was an expert at reading lips due to a 75% hearing loss. At age 8, he almost flunked out of school due to his “disability”. At 10 years old, Dr. Accurso was called to be a doctor of cause while listening to his uncle speak. ...
Apr 10, 2018•39 min•Ep. 16
Eating carbohydrates or releasing sugar into your body is gonna release the serotonin which is the feel-good hormone and that’s gonna allow you to sleep a lot deeper as well and waking up in the morning feeling refreshed and good to go. I think it’s a vital part of nutrition throughout the day. Affiliate Disclosure About the Guest: Dylan Goddard Looking at Dylan Goddard, you quickly realize he is obsessed with health. Dylan grew up in South Africa, playing both rugby and squash at a provincial l...
Apr 03, 2018•24 min•Ep. 15
What we really have is a fundamental disequilibrium between the demand for health services by a population that’s growing in size, staying alive longer and accumulating illness and disease and a system that was designed not for that volume and scale and complexity and therefore it can’t meet the demands. And so, when demand exceeds supply, it's the perfect breeding ground to do things differently Affiliate Disclosure About the Guest: Dr. Zayna Khayat Zayna is the Future Strategist at Saint Eliza...
Mar 26, 2018•51 min•Ep. 14
We’ve taken the complexity of the human system and try to make it complicated, which really doesn’t work when you’re looking at wellness, health optimization and really moving the body to a greater potential. So what we decided to do is instead of trying to shift or change the paradigm, we need to create a whole new paradigm. We call it human potential medicine but it’s essentially a systems based precision approach to health optimization. Affiliate Disclosure About the Guest: Dr. Daniel Stickle...
Mar 19, 2018•36 min•Ep. 13
I’ve been interested in optimal performance for quite some time but I was focusing very much into my tools, the way I use technologies, computers, methods and so on. Basically what’s outside of me and how I interact with that world, how I solve problems. I was optimizing the way I work and how I learn and all that. But doing that I discovered that health is also a key component and taking care of your temple - your body - is super important if you want to really perform, ultimately. Affiliate Di...
Mar 12, 2018•55 min•Ep. 12
Health is the optimal functioning of your body. Physically, chemically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally - all those things together. Health is not just “okay I’m not sick” or “I don’t have symptoms” or “I feel good” or “I look good”. It’s more than that. It’s a higher state of wellness and being. Affiliate Disclosure About the Guest: Dr. Ryan Wohlfert Dr. Ryan Wohlfert grew up in a small town outside of Lansing, Michigan. An acute interest in health and fitness led him to study at the Univers...
Mar 04, 2018•43 min•Ep. 11
The best approach for nootropics that I found and I try to impart on people is to think about them as tools where we can go from hopefully 95 to 100% in that range, just being totally optimized in ourselves to 105, 110% using nootropics. So hoping for some small increase above what we’re already capable of as opposed to what many people are drawn towards nootropics for, which is to go from 60, 70% because they got a bad night of sleep, bad diet, drinking alcohol in order to just simply get by or...
Feb 25, 2018•50 min•Ep. 10
Philip Morris when they were developing the tobacco industry 40 something years ago they knew that nicotine was very harmful for health. They also knew that it would take 20 plus years or more for the world to catch up to them. And actually you know take a stand. Even so people are still very active the working in the cigarette industry. Well I believe that these wireless devices, EMF, the health science behind EMF is sort of the same parallel. About the EMF Expert and Guest, Robby Besner Robby ...
Feb 19, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 9
“The flicker rate is really high that you can’t perceive it but your eyes start to synchronize with this. It’s like pumping in fitness, pumping your muscle. Every second this happens, hundreds of times per second. So we need this flicker rate to be the maximum amount to not feel eye pain.” Daniel Georgiev is the developer of Iris and a native of Bulgaria. Daniel, 22, developed this program after experiencing eye damage at a young age due to excessive amounts of programming. Think of Iris as Flux...
Feb 12, 2018•23 min•Ep. 8
What’s important to recognize is that the kind of blanket statement of either pot is good for you or it’s bad for you is really oversimplified and I hope we can break some of that down and really talk about the intricacy of that today. Disclosure: The purpose of this podcast is to dispel dogma, share scientific backed information, and talk about the health benefits of cannabis Any statement mentioned in this podcast is not a medical recommendation so please speak to your physician before doing a...
Feb 02, 2018•48 min•Ep. 7
Wolfgang Unsöld is currently one of the most successful Personal Trainers and Strength Coaches in the world. He is the Founder of the Your Personal Strength Institute (YPSI) in Stuttgart, Germany. YPSI offers Consulting and Personal Training, the YPSI Supplement-Line, as well as Seminars and the YPSI Trainer Certification. Wolfgang is known worldwide for the outstanding results he produces with his clients and athletes. Examples: Wolfgang published over 100 before-and-after transformations He wi...
Jan 28, 2018•54 min•Ep. 6
You’re back on that plane again the following week and the next and the next and the next. So you go from something that is acute immediately to something that’s stressful over a long period of time and it’s sort of like a constant issue that you deal with throughout your flying career. This is what I term as jet stress because it’s a stress on the body, it’s continual, and it has a pattern to it that if not dealt with will lead to a breakdown in health, and affect other areas of people’s lives....
Jan 19, 2018•34 min•Ep. 5
I block time in the morning from 8 till 1 o’clock in which I’m really doing deep work. No social media, no email. I sometimes feel I really have to be aware of my emails everyday, all the time, but he makes a compelling case of it’s not that necessary. Clients are not getting mad if you don’t answer their email in 10 minutes but a couple of hours later. Do you ever wonder why some people get more done in the day? Or why some people seem to be so calm despite having a lot on their plate? Peter Jo...
Jan 11, 2018•34 min•Ep. 4
“The whole thing, like, genes and genetics is like the cookbook you have -- all the recipes are in your DNA but the way it gets expressed is determined by the circumstances you live in, like what you eat, how you sleep, how much you exercise, and even the things you think about have impact on the expression of your genes.” Daan Gutter is an Operations Manager, Biohacker, Epigenetic Coach and a family-man (and all-around good guy). Daan works with Decoding Superhuman to assist clients unlocking n...
Jan 04, 2018•13 min•Ep. 3
“Your body is a network, when that network is disturbed it might not be able to tell exactly which node in the network is gonna go first. But I can definitely tell you that you’re at risk of breaking your network much more than somebody who is letting it line up nicely.” Right before presenting on sleep genetics at the 2017 Quantified Self Conference in Amsterdam, I met Dr. Benjamin Smarr. We exchanged words and Dr. Smarr mentioned he studied sleep at the University of California at Berkeley. It...
Jan 04, 2018•47 min•Ep. 1
