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“It should be possible to maintain stable cognitive function into your eighth and ninth decades. But we don't really internalize that. We expect decline, and because we expect decline, we're less likely to engage in those things.”

Dr. Tommy Wood is a neuroscientist, Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and author of The Stimulated Mind. With degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, he has published more than 100 scientific papers and lectured worldwide on brain health, metabolism, and human performance. He also serves as a performance consultant to world-class athletes, including Olympians and Formula 1 drivers, and co-founded the British Society for Lifestyle Medicine.

00:00 - What we know about brain biomarkers

03:59 - Dementia risk is modifiable

06:29 - Why you should get your steps in

08:52 - The effect of exercise on the hippocampus

15:05 - Muscle is a brain organ

20:42 - Give your brain the fuel it needs

25:12 - Creatine & brain health

27:22 - The convenience crisis

29:54 - The importance of making mistakes

31:30 - How to stimulate your brain enough

33:31 - Social connection = medicine

35:45 - Tommy’s dream study

38:12 - The optimization trap

Referenced in the episode: 

Buy Tommy’s book here: https://a.co/d/0aUGHI9s 

Find Tommy on his website: https://www.drtommywood.com/ 

The Pointer Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837046

The Lancet Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01296-0/abstract 

London Cab Driver Study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.070039597

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In the 1960s, a small Pennsylvania town called Roseto had half the national rate of heart disease — and zero recorded heart attack deaths for men under 55. They smoked, ate pasta and sausages, and drank wine. Scientists were baffled.

What they found changed everything we thought we knew about health.

Link to the study: ⁠https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1636828/⁠ 

Chapters

00:00 Meet Roseto: the town that shouldn't have been healthy
01:49 The shocking discovery: heart disease stats that defied logic
02:11 What scientists found when they investigated
02:33 The real answer: it was culture all along
03:35 When the community unraveled, so did the health advantage
04:05 What the Roseto Effect means for us today

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“When we think about longevity for women, the ovary truly is the key.”

01:07 - A window into women’s health

05:00 - The ovarian lifespan

10:13 - Why puberty is starting earlier

13:29 - Endocrine disruptors & your child’s hormones

20:22 - The drivers behind early menopause

24:44 - Egg quality explained

28:30 - The MTHFR gene

32:32 - Why embryo grading is flawed

36:45 - The psychological aspect of IVF

41:45 - The future of fertility

Referenced in the episode: 

Find Natalie Crawford on her website: https://www.nataliecrawfordmd.com/

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"Trauma isn't just what happened to us. It's more so about the support we may or may not have had to navigate the emotional fallout of what happened."

Nicole LePera, Ph.D., is the creator of the worldwide @theholisticpsychologist movement, and the author of multiple bestselling books including How to Do the Work and her newest, Reparenting the Inner Child. She was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research and studied at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Her work has reached tens of millions of people on social media, who are waking up to the idea that healing doesn't happen in a therapist's office alone.

00:00 — How to recognize your inner child

04:05 — Redefining childhood trauma

06:09 — How parenting has shifted over time

10:00 — Safety as a foundation

14:30 — Why children internalize a parent’s anger 

18:10 — How ownership & awareness can lead to reparenting

20:21 — Epigenetics: when the trauma didn’t start with you

22:55 — Why insight alone doesn’t create change

24:19 — Embracing discomfort & developing resilience

26:01 — Navigating difficult relationships

29:53 — What acceptance actually looks like

37:03 –– Emotional dysregulation & numbness

40:16 — What you can do to start healing right now

Find Nicole LePera on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/the.holistic.psychologist/ 

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“Sweating is our superpower," explains Bill Gifford.

Gifford, a veteran science journalist and author of Spring Chicken, a New York Times bestseller on longevity. His latest book, Hotwired: How the Hidden Power of Heat Makes Us Stronger, dives deep into the emerging science of heat, sweating, and what happens when we stop running from discomfort.


​​00:00 — Sweating as an evolutionary superpower


03:00 — The science of ancient heat rituals


05:45 — How long & how hot?


07:55 — The dehydration trap


09:52 — All about Finnish sauna culture


12:50 — Heat acclimation training


16:41 — Elite athletes & what they can teach us


18:50 — The science on hot-cold contrast


21:49 — The case against cold plunging


29:08 — Sauna as a social ritual


33:20 — Heat as a mental health tool


36:34 — A beginner's guide to safe heat exposure

Referenced in the episode: 

Find Bill Gifford on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billgifford/ 

Get his book here: https://a.co/d/01osyyRH 

Learn more about The Culture of Bathing here: https://www.instagram.com/thehighlineguy/?hl=en

Mayo Clinic review of the effects of Finnish sauna bathing (2018): https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30275-1/fulltext 

Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness study on the effects of hot yoga (2011): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1728869X12600033 

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