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**Optimal Performance**

Optimal Performance is the podcast all about taking your mental and physical performance to the next level. Whether it’s through nootropics, cutting-edge biohacking techniques, or adjusting your approach to nutrition and fitness, we’ll have the best minds in the industry on to talk about how you can achieve optimal performance in all areas of your life.

Latest Episodes:

226 What You MUST Know About CBD Products With Roy Krebs Sep 16, 2019

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There's good reason why CBD products are so popular. THEY WORK.

But what we don't know about CBD products could hurt us.

There's SO MUCH confusion about CBD products and this episode tackles it thoroughly.

For some of the highest quality CBD products go to

OMEGA CBD & DREAM CBD - LINK - www.naturalstacksplus.com

In this episode we cover:

• Why CBD is suddenly so popular

• I share my love of Omega CBD and Dream CBD

• How most people are overdosing on melatonin, why a micro-dosing it is key to the better sleep - under 1mg

• The process of sourcing CBD from industrial hemp as well how it's processed

• What to look for in purchasing CBD Products - how to read test results of products to see about heavy metals, residual solvents, pesticides test, cannabinoid and terpene profile - 10 cannabinoids and 10 terpenes

• What's the difference between a full spectrum CBD and a CBD isolate

• The strains used in NS CBD products are berry blossom and cherry wine - why did they choose these?

• How some people over dose and are overwhelming their end cannabinoid system with an

• How the carrier oil is infused and added

• CBD brands that Roy likes

225 Treating Cancer With Chinese Herbs With Roger Drummer Sep 07, 2019

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This is a PACKED episode with a very fascinating guy.

Roger Drummer is Diplomat of Chinese Herbology and his company herbworks makes some really interesting products. The guy beat bladder cancer and has been helping others optimize their lives through the powers of herbs and adaptogens.

Herbworks LINK: http://herbworks.com/

USE Code: FREESHIP for free shipping.

In this episode we cover:

• Brain injuries and the need for certain nutrients.

• Roger's mystical experience drinking reishi mushroom tea

• Rogers bladder cancer diagnosis and how he disappeared his tumors naturally. Now he's cancer free for 3+ years.

• How we just flat out do not and cannot consume the right nutrients for optimal performance without herbs and adaptogens

• What is an adaptogen?

• How adaptogens are often mislabeled.

• How the HPA axis - hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal - effects your stress and everything in your body is regulated by the HPA.

• How to think about how you react to adaptogens. If you get tired, that may be important to pay attention to.

• The whole point of herbs and adaptogens is to empower the body

Roger's patented formula for growing mushrooms on a purple substrate (specific purple corn cob) to create novel compounds that are used for his mushroom complex

Psychedelics, Entheogens and plant medicines…

225 The Only Skill That Matters with Jonathan Levi of Superhuman Academy Sep 02, 2019

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This episode is one of my favorites.

Jonathan Levi knows how to know things. His recent book The Only Skill That Matters - teaches us all how.

Link - https://www.amazon.com/Only-Skill-that-Matters-SuperLearner-ebook/dp/B07WGR42TN

Our conversation is packed with useful information, techniques and approaches to learning things quickly and remembering more.

What makes this one of my most favorite episodes is our conversation about life. Jonathan tells his story about how he first started super-learning and personal growth.

We talk about what are the best things to learn when you become an efficient learner. Think about it, what would you learn if you could learn anything really fast, with incredible recall?

As a life and performance coach, I'm especially interested in how we can get better, faster.

For all the links to Jonathan:

Superhuman Academy http://superhumanacademy.com The book: https://superhumanacademy.com/book The subscription program: https://superhumanacademy.com/squad On Instagram: http://instagram.com/entreprenewer/ On YouTube: http://jle.vi/youtube On Twitter: http://instagram.com/entreprenewer/ On Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/jonathanleviofficial/

Pretty awesome stuff.

In this episode we cover:

How important it is - learning how to learn

How Jonathan hacked the learning process through accelerated learning, speed reading and memory.

If you want to get to X - doing the steps to get to X will not be sufficient. You have to be the type of person who

Saying people's name when talking to them, public speaking

What is pre-reading, and how to you prepare to understand content you're absorbing.

Using conversion methods and associations

How the Major Method works to memorize anything.

The importance of realizing our own personal biases (sort of like google's page rank) when we're learning something, reading, or absorbing any info. ]

Walk through a skill to use to hack language acquisition

How to remember your parking lot stall number

Ideas about hacking the neurochemistry around learning

Memory tricks that don't work

How can better decyfer what's important and what's not

224 Being Lazy Is Actually An Asset With Former Facebook CIO Tim Campos Aug 26, 2019

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Tim Campos helped make Facebook the most productive company in the world.

So how can it be that he calls himself LAZY?

The good news is, may people who think of themselves as lazy, are actually the most productive professionals. How? They don't want to do boring stuff - so they find hacks and optimize their time. Do less boring stuff - have more time for the stuff that matters.

Tim and his co-founding parter have created Woven, which aims to optimize the process of scheduling and calendar use, so that you can spend less time on logistics, and more time on things that really matter to you.

In this episode we cover:

• The importance of productivity, regardless of your life and lifestyle

• How Tim took the challenges he faced at facebook and made the perfect calendar app

• How lazy people are often times the most productive people

• In a future world with more remote workers, how the skill of productivity will help YOU

• Knowing thyself, if you know what you want, you'll figure out what's most important and prioritize for it.

• The usefulness of using a life coach to live the sort of life you want

223 Almost Dying Hundreds Of Times Each Night - Sleep Apnea With Dr Madan Kandula Aug 19, 2019

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Sleep Apnea is Serious.

Dr. Madan Kandula - an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor from Advent Health sees patients from all over the country who's sleep and breathing is drastically effecting their health.

You can't have optimal performance without optimal sleep, and you can't have optimal sleep without optimal breathing.

We all know someone who snores - and you may be a snorer yourself. What you don't know - without the proper testing and diagnosis - can really hurt you.

In this episode we cover:

If you have even mild sleep apnea, you're not getting sufficient sleep…ever.
Sleep apnea is directly related to your throat.
You may be dying mini deaths multiple times each night
ED, High Blood pressure, Headaches, all can be traced back to your airways
The massive dangers of mouth breathing in children.
Narrow airway, narrow faces which we're evolving into are not optimal nor how we're designed
NOW, you can do sleep studies at home to diagnose what's going on for you
Optimal performance requires optimal sleep, and optimal sleep can't happen without optimal breath

Enjoy!

222 Hacking Your Body Type With Celebrity Trainer Phil Catudal Aug 12, 2019

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When you're working with actors and political pundits who NEED to shape dramatically transform their body fast, you learn how to optimize for body type.

Paul Catudal's book "Just Your Type: The Ultimate Guide To Eating And Training For Your Body Type." Is a how-to guide for living your best life with the body you were born with.

But Phil is not just a wealth of knowledge for getting your body right, but his story is very inspiring. Phil is a childhood cancer survivor and lost his father to cancer when he was young. What's more, is that his brother also developed cancer which he later beat.

This life experience shaped his life and his purpose.

Now, Phil is a massive resource for hacking training and nutrition for the three body-types: Ectomorph, Mesomorph and Endomorph.

In this episode we cover:

•Three body types we're born into…goes even into our bone structure.

•How veganism, keto, paleo, IF, OMAD technically could work for all three, but it's going to be much much harder if your body type isn't aligned with it and your goals.

•The importance of finding the right dietary approach for you body type and lifestyle without becoming the friend that everyone hates because you're constantly talking about food.

•How doing anything, the right way, for 2-3 weeks should show results, especially when it comes to eating and exercising correctly for your body types.

•Spend 2 weeks to count macros to establish a better awareness of what balanced macros looks like

•Phil's prescription for resetting your metabolism BASED on your body type, 24 hour water fast, IF for 1 week then adjust your intake for goals….gain muscle, lose weight…etc.

Enjoy!

221 TRU NIAGEN, NAD & Longevity With Rob Fried From Chromadex Aug 05, 2019

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Rob Fried is the CEO of Chromadex which makes TRU NIAGEN. And when you hear why he's so excited for this game-changing product - it'll all make sense.

SERIOUSLY - YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT - LINK HERE

I've been taking it for just over a month and here are the benefits I've noticed.

• More muscle mass

• Increased energy, especially in the evening time

• Motivated to get work done so I can enjoy the day

• Stronger drive to to play with my kids

The science is strong, the results are consistent and the formula is proven effective - so I'm excited to be releasing this conversation to you.

Here's the boiled down science. Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) when consumed, converts to NAD in the body. NAD is required for ATP production (energy).

Between the ages of 20 and 40, our NAD levels decrease by 50%, and another 50% from 40-60. Without sufficient NAD levels we simply cannot function at a high level of energy. When you supplement with NR, your body converts it, uses it, and makes you more efficient and more resilient at the cellular level.

Fascinating shit.

In this episode we cover:

• Why taking NAD orally is not efficient

• Why IV NAD protocols are not optimal

• How and why our NAD levels decrease over time

• The scientific support of TRU NIAGEN

• Why other companies offering NAD supplements are inferior

Enjoy!

220 8 Systems For Optimal Health With Dr. Anthony G. Beck Jul 29, 2019

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Dr. Anthony G. Beck calls himself a sever up-streamist

What the hell does that mean? It means that the lapse in your health and mine has little to do with what you're experiencing. Our deficiencies in health and optimal performance are attributable to something more fundamental.

I like that logic.

Dr. Beck and I talk through the current paradigm of click-baity headlines, false promises and fad movements. I really enjoyed our conversation and I think you will too.

In this episode we cover:

• The 2-3-5-8 Balanced Protocol

• The most common issue people complain about - lack of energy

• The problem with "name it blame it claim it tame it" approach to health

• The problem with slick marketing and nitching… (anti-gluten, anti-lectin etc.)

• The issue with health experts speaking in absolutes (Sith)

• Nutrition is not just what you're eating but what your individual body can attune to

• Your mental state while you eat will determining how you use that food

Enjoy

219 Sleep Posture & The Perfect Pillow With Dr. Michael Pound Jul 19, 2019

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Dr. of Chiropractic Michael Pound from healbetterfast designed a pretty badass pillow

THE PERFECT FIT PILLOW

USE CODE: OPTIMAL50 for $50 off your pillow

The Perfect Fit Pillow checks a lot of boxes for me. My bedding is all organic latex, wool and cotton - but my old pillow was cheap memory foam that off-gassed for months.

Email the team at info@healbetterfast.com for more information.

It's adjustable - made without flame retardants or formaldehyde - low VOC

Our conversation was very interesting - focusing on pain and sleep:

Pain is in the mind - which is why opiates, pain pills are soooo overly prescribed and abused.
Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the US
Almost 100 of our pain is mis-attributed. We think it's one thing and it's almost always something else.
Sleeping and sitting postures are screwing everyone up.
Accelerated arthritis, break down etcetera with a kinked neck during sleep.
US Pure Certified, Low Chem, Bamboo fiber pillow case
Why you shouldn't spend a ton of money on a bed. Start with 4 lb high density memory foam topper - $200-300 - density and high quality is important
What makes a good pillow?

Enjoy!

218 Microdosing LSD and Google's Suppression of Alternative Health With Joe Cohen Jul 15, 2019

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Joe Cohen hacks.

Joe is the founder or Selfhacked a world-class resource for all things personal optimization including PhD reviewed articles on topics from mitochondria optimization to N-Acetylcisteine. At Selfdecode - The world's most comprehensive DNA-based health hacking tool to improve brain health, sleep, and reduce inflammation - Joe and his team take your 23andme data as well as your recent blood work to create custom protocols to help you live optimal.

In this episode however, we dig into a couple of fascinating topics very deeply. Microdosing LSD and how the new Google medic updates have made it very hard to find alternative (biohacking) information on the web.

For context, Google's latest updates have crushed alternative health companies through lumping alternative health resources together and ranking them lower - regardless of their scientific support, review or validity. It's a travesty.

In this episode we cover:

• The case for consuming nutritional yeast (brewers yeast)

• Microdosing LSD and various protocols

• Google's new search updates including a point-by-point plan to help you find the best biohacking information online HINT - Stop using google for health info

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did.

Enjoy

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