Optimal Performance

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245 Become More Mentally Resilient Now With Dr. Kristen Race Feb 10, 2020

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Dr. Kristen race has advised large corporations and classrooms alike in the practices of mindfulness.

With experience in neuroscience - Dr. Race is keenly aware of the applications and implications of using mindful techniques to deal with stress and keep perspective in times of tension.

In this episode we cover:

How to manage stress
The importance of building resilience
Systemic Stress increasing with every generation
The importance of exposing your kids to challenges and failure
How Dr. Race learned the hard way - how important it is to mindfully practice what you preach
The difference between formal and informal mindfulness.
Techniques for dealing with stress and elevated states PBR
The neurochemical process of increasing resiliency
How little inputs and stresses tell our brains that our lives are in danger.
How saying "I'm excited" is scientifically proven to help process stress/fear
Focusing on growth instead of failure and worry.
The power of Gratitude
3 Good Things - as a way to stay positive with friends and fam (2 weeks, improved sleep, work-life balance, happiness, decreased depression and anxiety) 6 month follow up, trends better than prozac for increasing happiness and decreasing depression.

244 15 Best Light Hacks For Optimal Health With Andy Mant From BluBlox Jan 20, 2020

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Andy Mant is a one-man encyclopedia when it comes to light.

As the founder of BluBlox - his mission to educate the world on the importance of light management and optimization.

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In this episode we cover:

•Light hacking tips!

•The skin has receptors which also can disrupt sleep, hormones, etc. Recent studies show

•What does circadian rhythm really mean and how does it effect us?

•The neurotransmitters and near-peptides associated with circadian rhythm

•The invention of LED lights and the assault on our health

•Skipping the sunrise but exposing your eyes to LED lights creates a circadian mismatch.

•Melatonin as a detoxifier.

•Why President Trump did us a favor when it comes to light bulbs

•The difference between Incandescent and LED

•Spectral analysis report when buying blue blocking glasses 400-550 nm is what needs blocking.

•Andy's experiment with jet lag management with the Australian National Soccer Team, wrote a paper about to how to phase shifting for as many days as the amount of hours you're traveling to.

•Grounding on planes with bare feet directly on metal grounding through DC.

•How salt lamps near your computer help add a balance to your blue light beaming tech.

•Reaching out to the BluBlox community to help you optimize your light exposure.

243 Stop Eating Vegetables, Nose To Tail Carnivore With Paul Saladino Jan 11, 2020

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If you haven't heard of the Carnivore Diet, you're missing out on the most controversial dietary approach ever. Kind of.

No vegetables. Zero.

Dr. Paul Saladino has written a comprehensive opus on the subject coming out in February. "The Carnivore Code" Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet.

Carnivore Code LINK

In this episode we cover:

•Dr. Paul's breakfast! Steak, Suet and Brains for Lunch

•A clear justification for not eating plants

•What is nose to tail carnivore

•How can you practically eat nose to tail

•What is dirty carnivore

•Pooping on the Carnivore Diet

•How does big food influence our dietary options

•The processed food agenda

•The importance of regenerative farming techniques

•The worst mistake in human history

•Ishmael, The Story of B - how agriculture has screwed up humanity - the cult of the seed

•Why you shouldn't blame ruminant animals for green house gasses

•Sustainability and terraforming Mars

•The bad logic around woke veganism

•Dr. Paul's breakfast! Steak, Suet and Brains for Lunch

•A clear justification for not eating plants

•What is nose to tail carnivore

•How can you practically eat nose to tail

•What is dirty carnivore

•Pooping on the Carnivore Diet

•How does big food influence our dietary options

•The processed food agenda

•The importance of regenerative farming techniques

•The worst mistake in human history

•Ishmael, The Story of B - how agriculture has screwed up humanity - the cult of the seed

•Why you shouldn't blame ruminant animals for green house gasses

•Sustainability and terraforming Mars

•The bad logic around woke Veganism

242 Robb Wolf On Sane Nutrition And Cultural Shifts Jan 05, 2020

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This episode is an instant classic.

Robb Wolf needs no introduction.

The Paleo Solution changed the way we think about nutrition.

Wired To Eat helped us optimize our diets.

Robb's Podcast along side his wife Nicki The Healthy Rebellion Radio continues to answer our questions about how to live our best lives.

His courses, upcoming book and his contribution on the groundbreaking new film Sacred Cow continue to deliver critical information in a time of great division regarding how we grow our food.

In this episode we cover:

•The importance of looking at critical metabolic shifts as indicators to larger health issues.

•What is metabolic syndrome?

•The best resources to learn about health and wellness?

•Importance of knowing lipoprotein count beyond cholesterol counts

•Rob's shifts in podcast, book and film centered around meat eating, nutrition and global food production

•How sustainable animal husbandry actually may have a net climate benefit. An idea that many fringe folks struggle with.

•How did we get to this insanely extremist argument about food and climate change?

•Selling freedom under the guise of security

•The James Wilks v Chris Kresser debate, and why Robb refuses to participate in debates about nutrition and sustainability

•Spiritual virtue signaling by vegans and vegetarians. Native Tribes don't buy it.

•Access to animal products are major factor for success later in life.

241Best of 2019 Show - The Optimal of the Optimal Dec 30, 2019

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In this episode we take a look at some of the most vital information from this year's OPP episodes.

Just in case you missed any episodes this year, I review and share some powerful clips from high performance guests.

240 The Undeniable Power Of Neurofeedback With Ciarai Gude Dec 23, 2019

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Most of us have heard of neurofeedback, we know if could be good for us. But few of us have any idea how it works, or how it would improve our lives.

This is why you should listen.

Ciarai Gude - Founder of Seattle Neurofeedback - has been doing changing people's brains and lives for over a decade.

Seattle Neurofeedback LINK - HERE

In this episode we cover:

•Success stories, epilepsy medication turnarounds, TBI, behavioral issues in children,

•What an actual session of neurofeedback is like

•After sessions, most folks never need NF ever again, brain changed forever.

•How the Wavi provides critical brain data, how's it used, why we should care.

•How to combine Wavi data with Neurofeedback

•Infralow Neurofeedback versus other approaches.

•Good for PTSD, Soldiers, Addiction, Insomnia, Seizures, Emotional Volatility, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Fibromyalgia, MS

•Psoriasis cured from 1 session of NF

•Why packing a ton of NF sessions together may not be optimal. And the need to allow your body/brain to feel the effects.

•Alpha Theta moves trauma away from the operational part of the brain to the back file cabinet where it doesn't mess with you.

•Defining the synchrony is another approach

239 Muscle Building Hacks In 10 Min A Day With Dr. John Jaquish Dec 17, 2019

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It's not an over-statement to say that the X3 Bar is one of the most disruptive approaches to muscle building exercise in the last decade.

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I, along with many of you and friends and family members have experienced ridiculous results with the x3 Bar. It actually seems too good to be true, but all you need to do is check out the facebook users group to see people's before and after results to see for yourself.

You can also checkout my personal before and after pictures on my website - seanmccormick.com - mind you. I'm 36 and haven't run, jumped, crunched or lift a single weight since I started this experiment.

In this episode we cover:

•Science proving we're 7x stronger at the stronger range of motion than the weaker range of motion

•Dr. Jaquish's Falsehoods of Fitness

• X3 bar users group to see the before and after transformation

•Why there's no such thing as cardio, it's just ineffective strength training

•The difference between digestible and usable protein

•The process of creating the most effective muscle building amino acid product on the market: Fortagen

•Dr. Jaquish weighs in on The Game Changers Debate between Kris Kresser and John Wilkes

•His assertion about the quality of McDonalds meat

•Why sleep is so important to muscle growth, and consuming Fortagen at night is optimal.

•How Carnivore and OMAD compliment the x3 system

•How we need 1g of protein per 1b of body weight per day leading to muscle growth

• How being lean and strong are the two greatest indicators of longevity

238 Know Your Genes, Prevent Alzheimer's And Heart Disease With Seena Rezvani Dec 09, 2019

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Your genes are fixed. You can't change them, but you can work with them to be your best.

Seena Rezvani from Dr. Anythony Jay's ajconsultingcompany.com sits down with me to make a STRONG case for knowing you AND YOUR FAMILY'S genetic data to live longer with fewer diseases.

In this episode, which is divided into two sections, we cover the reasons why you should know your problematic genes, and take the proper steps toward preventing deleterious genetics.

In the second section of the podcast, we go through my actual 23andMe data, and you can follow along with my genes (which you and I may share) and what steps we can take to optimize the problem genes. Go ahead and follow along with the podcast by clicking through HERE to see my genetic data and compare that to your 23andMe data.

In this episode we cover categories of the genetic report and more:

Brain Optimization Genes

-Alzheimers etc, anxiety, impulsivity

Diet Optimization Genes

-Diabetes, Obesity, Heart disease, Gut, Skin

Vitamin, Hormone & Detox Genes

Iron, Testosterone, Estrogen, Thyroid, Histamines, B vitamins

Gym Genes

Muscle type, Bone, Pain sensitivity,

Sleep Genes

•Should we worry about organizations having our genetic information?

•The story of someone he worked with who learned about sex hormones and propensity for lower testosterone. Then confirmed in the bloodwork, then they made major changes

•How knowing your genetic predispositions are essential for optimal performance.

•Why should people give a shit about doing DNA testing and knowing their genetic markers

•Journey from curious about his own genetics to becoming a DNA consulting coach

•The importance of watching foods that increase histamines (allergic symptoms)

237 Prevent A Cold Immediately PLUS Cleaning Up Dirty Genes With Dr. Ben Lynch Dec 02, 2019

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Starting to get a cold? Fast, don't work out, don't even think, bundle up and megadose vitamin A.

Dr. Ben Lynch is a wealth of knowledge for cleaning up dirty genes and living a healthy, optimal life. Check out his book Dirty Genes

CLICK HERE - Dirty Genes Book - LINK

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In this episode we cover:

•How to stave off a cold before it starts

•Why you shouldn't drink liquid while eating to allow saliva and digestive enzymes

•Ways to influence and clean up our genes.

•How mindset influences gene expression

•Supplementation as a way to influence genes and clean up genes

•Why forced vaccinations are problematic for certain people with specific dirty genes

•Pro-inflammatory haplotypes and the implications of having them

•How to test your inflammation by scratching your own arm

•How eating fermented foods, probiotics or even leftovers can activate inflammation and histamines (which are neurotransmitters)

•Two week process of cleaning up dirty genes

•40% of our digestion is seeing and smelling food.

236 Peak Creativity and Productivity In Flow States WIth Rian Doris Nov 25, 2019

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Rian Doris, COO of Flow Research Collective works with elite performers - then helps them get 500% better.

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Rian and Steven Kotler at Flow Research Collective do important work on the study of flow states. Research, coaching and trainings like Zero To Dangerous.

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In this episode we cover:

•A clear, understandable definition of Flow

•Indicators of flow from neurophysiological level

•Proven, scientifically reported states of optimal performance

•Zero To Dangerous training course

•How flow is the future of performance

•Partnerships with Stanford, USC, Deloitte, Imperial college of London and Darpa

•Train executives with psychometric testing, with masterminds

•Take illusive, inconsistent experiences and turn them into repeatable and

•Using flow as a meta skill that improves all the areas of your life.