Hypnosis is misunderstood. Felix Paries, CEO of Primed Mind, joins the show to discuss how hypnosis has helped the world top poker players win million plus dollar hands and how you can use it for increased performance. “Poker is a lot about having the right mindset and having that right mindset at the table. Two years later, he was number one in the world.” Felix Paries Who is Felix Paries? Felix Paries is the CEO of Primed Mind. Felix sees entrepreneurship as a spiritual path of self-developmen...
Mar 06, 2019•35 min•Ep. 62
Manuel Buitrago, PhD is the Co-Director of Ma Strength . This episode is a deep dive into weightlifting technique, the discipline of professional weightlifters, and the path to mastery. He just had his own philosophy about how to give you a perfect lift. And so he said that if you can follow the principles of close, fast, low timing, and stable, you can make a perfect lift. Manuel Buitrago Who is Manuel Buitrago? Coach Manuel received his honorary coaching credential in weightlifting from Chengd...
Mar 05, 2019•48 min•Ep. 61
Bestselling Author Darryl Edwards discusses the value of movement, why traditional exercise is not enough, and the value of play in life. "Just because you're in nature doesn't make it playful. Just because you're moving and being active doesn't make it playful. It's the attitude which makes something playful." Darryl Edwards Who is Darryl Edwards? Darryl Edwards is a best-selling author of Animal Moves, a movement coach, TEDx speaker and thought leader in the area of creativity and innovation i...
Feb 26, 2019•56 min•Ep. 60
Todd White did the impossible. At Dry Farm Wines, Todd built a company which emphasizes both health and the use of wine to enhance life. This episode is packed with his tips for consuming wine with an eye on health. “It's not about deprivation. It's about elevation.” Todd White Who is Todd White? Todd has been a serial entrepreneur and creator since he was age 17. Today, after 15 years in the wine business his life is dedicated to educating and helping people make better choices about food, nutr...
Feb 19, 2019•58 min•Ep. 59
Brian Richards is the Founder and CEO of SaunaSpace. This podcast episode is a deep dive into the performance benefits of photobiomodulation, heat shock proteins, near-infrared, and incandescent light therapy. Who is Brian Richards? Brian fully healed his toxin-related acne, brain fog, adrenal fatigue and more with the power of the incandescent sauna therapy: full-spectrum near-infrared light and heat therapy. His personal journey to optimal health inspired him to create SaunaSpace ’s Incandesce...
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 58
Justin Noppé once memorized a chapter in Moby Dick and Pi to 100 digits. The techniques Justin employed go far beyond the memory palace. He developed systems which are useful in tackling the feats of memory and applicable to learning any subject, including language. “Most people just want to have a conversation that's comfortable. How much time do you need to put in for that? I would say, yes, 30 minutes a day. Five, maybe six times a week for about six months. You'll get to a point, if you use ...
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 57
Former professional golfer, Thane Marcus Ringler, joins the podcast to discuss the path to the perfect swing. The system he developed on that path applies for mastery in any endeavor. It's super boring. It's super unsexy. It's not fun, but you do it. You do the work because you know it produces results. The best performers, the best of anything... they find beauty in the process. Enjoying the mundane and they're able to do it over and over and over again because of it. And that is what produces ...
Jan 29, 2019•50 min•Ep. 56
Andy Mant is the Founder and CEO of BluBlox, a company who produces high-quality blue light blocking glasses. Andy and Boomer discuss the role of melanopsin, how to regulate blue light, and the role of circadian rhythms for performance. "When the sun rises in the morning and as it actually sets in the evening, the intensity of light changes. During first sort of sunrise periods, you're going to have a very low lux light. It is probably about sort of 1800 Kelvin on the sunrise and the sunset. It'...
Jan 22, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 55
Fat Head and Fat Head Kids creator Tom Naughton discusses nutrition bias, the problems with observational studies, and the release of his new film "Fat Head Kids." “Yeah. I didn't bother to see it because when these vegan propaganda movies come out, it's always the same stuff. They seem to think it's their mission in life to track you down and try to convince you that meat and eggs are going to kill you. So I've gotten very used to the type of evidence. Please put evidence in air quotes that the...
Jan 14, 2019•50 min•Ep. 54
Dr. Benjamin Smarr returns for a deeper dive into sleep physiology, wearable technology, social jet lag, and the missed opportunities in health innovation. “If people have been doing rotating shift work, the longer that they've not been doing it, the more all these bad effects tend to go away...which is amazing and wonderful. That's for adults. That's not for developing kids. But even so, I think saying I'm pregnant so I can never fly is probably overblown. I think it's more an issue of the chro...
Jan 07, 2019•59 min•Ep. 53
Dr. Tom Stubbs joins the Decoding Superhuman podcast to speak about methylation testing, biological age, and how to use epigenetics for high performance. Epigenetics is the only measure of biological age that, independent of the tissue or the sample that you take... whether it be saliva, a liver sample, a urine sample, a blood sample, you get age prediction. Now, if you take telomere length, for instance, you only actually get a weak positive correlation with age in blood. Dr. Tom Stubbs Who is ...
Jan 03, 2019•40 min•Ep. 52
Dr. Glenn Livingston digs deep on the food industry, his background as an overweight person, and the techniques discussed in his book “Never Binge Again” to stop binge eating. Who is Dr. Glenn Livingston? Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. is a veteran psychologist and was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. Glenn has sold $30,000,000 of marketing consulting services over the course of his career. You may have seen...
Dec 27, 2018•47 min•Ep. 51
Dr. Doug McGuff is an expert in High Intensity Training, emergency room physician, and bestselling author of Body by Science. Dr. McGuff sheds light on the aerobic benefits of resistance training and how to get a complete workout in 20 minutes once a week. “You cannot go into this process with an idea of someone that you admire. Or a look that you would like to have or a capability that someone else has that you want to try to emulate or reproduce. That will fail every time. You have to go into ...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 50
Bestselling author Kasper van der Meulen discusses breathwork, scheduling, and different strategies to improve your overall focus in this podcast episode. "Focus is consciously directed attention. So you have attention. You have a finite amount of it. Actually, because attention is like a mental currency. It costs energy to spend it. Now attention that is spent on autopilot cost less energy, right? If you do something completely automatic, because you've done it so many times, it as simple and a...
Dec 11, 2018•51 min•Ep. 49
David Korsunsky comes on the Decoding Superhuman podcast to explain the value of dashboarding quantified self-data with his product, Heads Up Health. Well, I think the future is now starting to provide more automated insights for people. So without you even having to log in, the system should be smart enough to say we found an extremely strong correlation between your carbohydrate intake and your resting heart rate. David Korsunsky, CEO Heads Up Health Who is Dave Korsunsky? Dave is the CEO and ...
Dec 04, 2018•50 min•Ep. 48
James Maskell talks about systems thinking, patient/practitioner engagement, and root cause resolution as the future of medicine. His newest venture, KNEW Health, seeks to change the face of healthcare by adopting a functional medicine model and making healthcare more affordable. The reason why functional medicine appears expensive. I think it's actually an illusion, right? What what's actually expensive $10,000 per person in America per year is expensive. Humira, at $5,000 per month for a biolo...
Nov 20, 2018•55 min•Ep. 46
Dr. Will Cole joins the Decoding Superhuman podcast to discuss the problems with a vegetarian or vegan diet and how to get the benefits of a plant-based diet through being Ketotarian. I spent my mid to late teens to my mid to late 20s being a vegan. It was the conventional vegan diet. It was higher carbohydrates, lower fat.So sprouted grains and soaked you know beans and lentils and legumes. That is by and large where I got my calories. It was better than the standard American diet. But just bec...
Nov 12, 2018•43 min•Ep. 45
Dr. Mark Sircus explains the benefits of the first element on the periodic table, hydrogen, and its role in recovery and anti-aging. It's 10 years exactly where the first essay in Nature Magazine came out talking about hydrogen as a medicine. So it's only 10 years old. Most of the research has been done in Japan and China, both of these countries use hydrogen in medicine. And now it's coming to the west. Hydrogen water is something that's been back around the United States for a couple years. An...
Nov 06, 2018•50 min•Ep. 44
Sachin Patel discusses how the future of medicine and health lies with you. This requires a more proactive involvement in your health. This requires empowered responsibility. The interesting thing about our current culture is that we enjoy health, or we enjoy vitality for a certain part of our life. Then, we have this unwritten rule that it's our responsibility to then decay and not regenerate. Or, you know, recover and then rely on somebody else to take care of us. If we know how to take care o...
Oct 30, 2018•48 min•Ep. 43
Floating is a science-backed methodology for reducing anxiety, helping athletes recover, and provides numerous other benefits. Michael Cordova, founder of the Float Center in Berkshire, United Kingdom walks through the intricate benefits of Floating. And the interesting thing is for the guys in the US. The US teams since they started using the float tanks with during the first season of using that like tanks incorporated part of the recovery and training program, they've won the major leagues. M...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 42
Bestselling author Cristi Vlad comes on the Decoding Superhuman podcast for the second time to provide tips on the best and worst ways to get into ketosis. I guess there are many keto movements. Like for example, we have the keto carnivores. We have the vegan keto that you just mentioned. You have high protein keto you have people doing if I am you know which is If It Fits Your Macros and I guess that's not really a bad thing. I guess anyone can find their place within this keto space Cristi Vla...
Oct 16, 2018•42 min•Ep. 41
Breathing is something most of us every day. It's rare to think of breath structure. But if you could structure your breath to increase performance, would you? Dr. Mickra Hamilton brings her psychoacoustics expertise to talk about performance breathing. [Babies] are barely breathing. They are barely moving air. They are in their belly. It's diaphragmatic. It's smooth. It's amazing. And then we hit puberty and we get all stressed and we start breathing in our chests Dr. Mickra Hamilton About Dr. ...
Oct 09, 2018•59 min•Ep. 40
Photobiomodulation, or low-level light therapy uses visable light (measuing 400 – 700 nm) and near-infrared light (measuring 700 – 1100 nm). In this episode, Bryan Gohl, Co-Founder of Red Light Rising, discusses red light therapy and its vast benefits. When it comes to red and infrared light therapy, from minute 2 to minute 20....the benefits of going up and up, you getting maximum ends on release. You're getting maximum your energy turnover within the cells. But after 20 minutes, the benefits s...
Oct 02, 2018•53 min•Ep. 39
Having enriching, fulfilling relationships is critical when it comes to performance. But the time and attention we invest in our relationships pale in comparison to the focus we give to our work, our hobbies, or even entertainment. Guest Darya Haitoglou shares the strategic steps we can take to erase the early relationship programming we adopted from our parents and how we can repattern our relationship abilities with a relationship blueprint. Find the show notes here — DecodingSuperhuman . com ...
Sep 25, 2018•56 min•Ep. 38
When competitive fitness icon Marcus Filly says recovery is essential for health and longevity, I heed his message. As Creator of the Functional Bodybuilding program, he has changed the game by redefining what constitutes a healthy fitness routine. During this conversation, he shares his tips for achieving success in physical competitions and in business and how he maintains focus. Find the show notes here — DecodingSuperhuman . com / Marcus “ When people experience burnout, whether it’s in the ...
Sep 18, 2018•56 min•Ep. 37
Every electronic device you use is emitting harmful electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) into your body. And since escaping technology is not an option, Superhumans must protect themselves and their DNA. Telecom Industry Insider and Author, Daniel DeBaun describes how electromagnetic frequencies affect us, the health risk they pose, and how you can protect yourself. Find the show notes here — Decoding Superhuman . com / DefenderShield “ It's not just the near term 'it bothers me when I am exposed t...
Sep 11, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 36
Do dark days affect your energy levels? Is your best harder to achieve when winter comes? The CEO of Light Cognitive, Sami Salomaa reveals how his lights reduce the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder and optimize your life by synchronizing your days. Find the show notes here — Decoding Superhuman . com / LightCognitive “ In South Africa, I had a room facing into the Indian Ocean. I would wake up early in the morning, with the sunrise. It was excellent. They spoke about the green flash. So, ...
Sep 04, 2018•40 min•Ep. 35
"We make functional music to help people focus, relax and sleep better. It's all backed by science. That means that we create music will be idea of building a mental state in the beginning and then through pattern process with our AI and our composers were able to help induce mental states for people on-demand." - Daniel Clark Affiliate Disclosure What is Brain.Fm? Brain.fm is a music software program which helps users maintain focus on while they listen to Brain.fm music. As of the publish of t...
Aug 20, 2018•51 min•Ep. 33
So ketogenesis is the process of creating ketone bodies and mitochondria of liver cells. So that’s where the magic happens primarily. So we are in the mitochondria of liver cells and that’s where ketogenesis occurs… we have three main ketone bodies out of which one is technically not a ketone. So we have Beta hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone. Beta hydroxybutyrate is technically not a ketone. It’s a carboxylic acid. Cristi Vlad Who is Cristi Vlad? Cristi Vlad holds a master’s degree in c...
Aug 14, 2018•43 min•Ep. 32
They come into this line to pay a crap load of money when we know we can actually get the literal exact Starbucks coffee put it in a coffee machine at home and it actually turns on by itself so I'm just trying to ... Why are they in this line? Why are they spending money to be here in this line waiting, having to wake up early when they could just it at home for pennies, save that time and as complex and psychological as I try to figure it out, it all came down to the simplest reason why because...
Aug 06, 2018•59 min•Ep. 31
