Optimal Performance

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255 Working In, Working Out, Movement As Medicine With Mike Salemi Apr 22, 2020

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Mike Salemi is a BEAST. Kettlebell Champion, Movement Specialist, Performance Coach and mentee of Paul Chek

His approaches to performance of the mind, body, emotions and spirit are next level. So it's no surprise he's a highly sought after speaker and teacher.

His Kettlebell Lifestyle program is ROBUST!

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He's offering 15% off the pre-sale to the course. If it's anything like the content he shares on Youtube it's awesome.

In this episode we cover:

•Why you need to move

•Specific exercises to re-start some movement during quarantine

•Processing emotions through simple movement

•The teachings of Paul Chek

•Trusting your gut, and committing to learn.

•Focusing on movement for clearing emotion and moving it through the body

•Inner work, and how to do more working in so you can have higher output working out

•Rituals around working out, going to the gym

•Movement as medicine

•How to specifically re-start some movement and exercise during quarantine

•Start small if need be

•How simply tracking your movement makes you connect to it and stay more consistent.

254 Covid Era Psychology With Erick Godsey Apr 13, 2020

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Erick Godsey is the thinker we all need.

As a trusted confidant and advisor to people like Onnit Founder Aubrey Marcus, Erick has an uncanny way of breaking down our thinking and deconstructing layers of symbolism.

Erick's Awesome Podcast - The Myths That Make Us

Erick's Website - Erickgodsey.com

In this podcast we cover:

•Taking a look at symbolic psychology, what's going on in the brains of people around the world

•What can we do to activate changes in behavior during this time of crisis

•Covid era dreams

•Using a dream journal to help you understand your self and your psyche during this crazy time

•Breaking down Positive Psychology's acronym H.E.R.O. for dealing with crisis

•Ways to become more Hopeful, Effective, Resilient and Optimistic

•Psychological thought experiments to improve your mental state

•Journaling exercises to assess your own psyche

•The heroes journey and the the global shift in consciousness

253 Fasting For Mental And Physical Resilience With Siim Land Apr 06, 2020

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Now is the best time in your life to experiment with how you eat and how you live.

Fasting, intermittent fasting, fat adaptation, metabolic autophagy and more are Siim Land's wheelhouse. A content creator, author and public speaker on all things fasting he knows his stuff.

Siim's Youtube channel

In this episode we cover:

•Insulin resistance and higher risk of Covid-19

•Building fat adaptation - usually takes about a month, start with a 3 day fast

•Microsoing gluten and sugar

•Targeted Intermittent Fasting - benefits of autophagy, but promotes muscle growth, timing fasting and fast breaking around exercise to get quick energy then quickly burning it off and slip back into ketosis

•Why eating carbs later in the day make is preferable to earlier in the day

•How long does is it typically take to reset your metabolism, and get into manageable ketotic state

•The difference between being in ketosis while you're eating, and fasting

•How to become keto adapted

•How to gain metabolic flexibility

•Choosing your food fuel, not combining carbs and fats. Insuling resistance and type 2 diabetes aka The Randal Cycle.

•Nature doesn't care about your salary, your home. WE ARE UNDER-ADAPTED to stressors in the world.

•What is hormesis

252 What is Shilajit With Pedro DoAmaral Apr 02, 2020

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Shilajit (shil-uh-jeet) is unlike any other substance on the planet. It's formed from shifting tectonic plates. This densely packed mineral resin contains nearly all the elements from the periodic table.

And your body thrives on it.

Pedro DoAmmaral is an Integrative Health Coach and BioMed research student who understands Shialjit better than most.

In this episode we cover:

• Biomass of microorganisms, metals, minerals, elements into a tar-like resin, Utah, Andes, Himalayas -

• 4 kinds - silver, copper, gold and iron

• Cellular explanation of how shilajit works in the body

• Enzymes absorbed intracellularly - fulvic acid for protein folding, copper, zinc, increase ATP

• Perfectly balanced material for bodily optimization.

• Why shilajit is more important than ever!

• Shilajit and the liver, the gallbladder

• Improves the bones through calcium transport as well as zinc

The Shilajit I take is from Pure Himalayan Shilajit

251 Sleep Above EVERYTHING Else With Dr. Param Dedhia Mar 28, 2020

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Dr. Param Dedhia is a specialist's specialist - working at Johns Hopkins, Canyon Ranch and focusing on Sleep, Geriatrics, Health and Vitality.

When you've studied as intensively as he has, you have a broad perspective about what it takes to have well rounded, robust health.

In this episode we cover:

•Sleep to reduce inflammation and boost immunity

•Why sleep is more important than diet

•Why stressing out about sleep hurts it

•My evening pre-sleep routine

•Preparing for sleep during the day, and at night by engaging your 5 senses

•Why it takes 7-10 days to recover from a night or two of bad sleep

•Why Monks think the best way to train your mind is to get good sleep

•Demystifying sleep, how it changes through our life, how it will change in the future

•How our production of melatonin reduces as we age, so it becomes harder to get to sleep, stay asleep and get quality sleep

•How we can better prepare for sleep during the day

•Thinking about splitting 8 hours of sleep into the first 4 and the second 4

•How sleep flushed lymphatic system, allowing your brain to stay sharper

•Why it's harder to get rid of negative thoughts when you have poor sleep

250 A Very Different Take On The Virus With Del Bigtree Mar 26, 2020

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Del Bigtree is a former producer of the award winning medical show The Doctors. He's the producer of "Vaxxed" a documentary about a CDC whistle-blower. And Del is a returning guest to The Optimal Performance Podcast.

In this episode we cover:

• Del Challenges scientists to show a single stat that shows that this is more deadly than the flu

• A thorough analysis of the limited data we have

• The vaccine development process and what is original antigenic sin - vaccines only attack part of a protein, but allows other viruses - which then causes people to have the virus, without symptoms.

• Pharma insiders, are now working/leading the regulatory agencies we're paying to help keep us safe.

• They're already admitting that they are going to rush it to market, without sufficient safety tests, no placebo groups, 45 people. Will be the most scrutinized safety test in history. Phase 1 trials are going to be very tricky to manage

• We may never go back to where we were a month ago.

250 How To Stop Negative Emotions With The Stop Method With Sean McCormick Mar 21, 2020

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THIS TECHNIQUE WORKS!!!

This short announcement is much different than what you're used to. I felt it important to share this technique with you, so that you could start using it right away.

The Stop Method is a proven Neurolinguistic Programming technique that I've been using on myself and with clients for years.

Go to https://www.stopmethod.com/ to learn more details.

248 Live Longer, With Less Fat On Your Body With Dr. Cate Shanahan Mar 16, 2020

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Dr. Cate Shanahan is one of the worlds experts in burning fat...and we should all get better at burning fat.

Less body fat is one of the more important indicators of longevity. But many of us are confused and frustrated by lack of effective techniques.

You are unique, and so should your approach to burning.

Customized Fat Burning Protocol
Fat Burn Factor Based on Questionnaire -
- Key to longevity, and custom to you
- Questions like: When you're active, do you get excessively hot? = toxic fat in body fat = body doesn't want to burn, only heat
- When you're hungry, do you get a headache? = Your brain isn't getting enough energy from your body fat
PUFA!
TOP offenders foods that are damaging us - seed oils, refined carbohydrates
What has Dr. Cate changed her mind on last year -
Fresh food, organ meat, meat on the bone, fermented food
Why Carnivore or Vegan work - getting away from toxic foods in the food supply
How standard care doctors know only enough about nutrition to be dangerous
Demystifying Statins - who should use them
What does Deep Nutrition mean
Fats that our bodies want

247 EMF Blocking Clothes Are The Future Now - With Arthur Menard Of Lambs Feb 26, 2020

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If I told you that silver mesh woven with a sustainable product called modal could create a protective garment that blocks 99.7-99.9 percent of radiation from your body, would you believe me?

Listen NOW.

Arthur Menard loves his cell phone like all of us. So he and some of his engineer friends created a practical solution to protecting us from our own tech addictions.

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In this episode we cover:

EMFs as class 3 carcinogen just like car exhaust
Safety standard dated: "healthy level of exposure 2 phone calls, 3 min each, at 3-6 inches from head done in the 80s.
Comparing the cell-phone companies to big tobacco
Lambs as a practical and effective solution for EMF protection.
How cell-phone cases claiming to protect from radiation actually enhance radiation coming from your cell phone.
How the Lambs technology works!
Cell Phones are ElectroMagnetic Frequencies
Mesh of silver creating a faraday cage that protects the area - so patches, stickers, "shields" don't work
Silver is also anti-odor and anti-bacterial
Combined will modal!
Anecdotal customer tests doubling sperm count in two months
Effect of emf on cells causing autonomic response, cause fight or flight.
How do skeptics try to pick lambs apart

246 The Highest Quality Coffee In The World With Andrew Salisbury Of Purity Coffee Feb 17, 2020

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We know the health benefits of coffee. But did you know that coffee is the number one source of anti-oxidants and polyphenols for most people?

So why are you drinking, moldy, nutrient depleted, non-organic coffee every morning?

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Andrew Salisbury, founder of Purity Coffee shares with us the process of testing, sourcing, harvesting and roasting the highest measured anti-oxidant rich coffee based on extensive testing.

In this episode we cover:

WHY COFFEE IS THE NUMBER ONE HEALTH FOOD IN THE WORLD
What to look for if you're shopping for coffee at the store
Coffee as a prebiotic
Health benefits of coffee:
- Number 1 source of antioxidants in people's diets (due to regularity of consumption
- Nurses study 1m190k tracked over 25 years show 3-5 cups of coffee/day 45% reduction in risk of type 2 diabetes 25M diabetics
- Best validation of health of coffee - 35 years of liver surgery never seen anyone who drinks 3-5 you don't have liver disease 20% reduction of liver cerosis if you drink 2-4
- If you're drinking alcohol, you should be drinking coffee
- Reduced risk of gout
The variability of antioxidants based on geography, processing, roasting
Coffees highest in cholorgenic acids are the best (polyphenols)
Organic Specialty Grade, roasted to medium range to sustain antioxidants
Coffee's natural habitat
Regenerative Farming Techniques - as far away from industrial as possible. Hand picked hand selected.
How coffee gets moldy
Why testing coffee for mold is not a high enough bar
Purity coffee and bowel movements

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