Supplements & Biohacking for entrepreneurs

“So intermittent hypoxia is the magic of breathwork. When you hold your breath for 60 to 90 seconds, you invoke a positive state, a positive stress on the body, and it creates an adaptive change to having less oxygen in the body.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 9:45· listen →

“When you hold your breath, right, for a long enough time, we create intermittent hypoxia and you reduce the oxygen supply to that mitochondria. You will make that mitochondria wake up and go, oh my God, I'm running out of oxygen. I need to do a spring clean.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 13:00· listen →

“When you hold it to as long as I was saying, intermittent hypoxia, you produce ADOSE. ADOSE standing for anandamide, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. So this makes you feel naturally high.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 30:37· listen →

“You'll notice that your resting heart rate— it's measurable— your resting heart rate will drop by about 10 points after doing 2, 3 minutes of this breathing, which is like amazing if you think about it. It's faster than taking a Xanax.”

Dr. Mao Shing Ni on Energy, Qi, and Longevity Secrets · 33:53· listen →

“A very easy scientific test you can do at home is put the powder on a plate and add some iodine to it. And if that powder turns black, purple-black, then that shows up for starch.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 8:16· listen →

“When you think you're buying a lion's mane capsule or powder, you're actually buying 68% of blended rice, blended grain. So that's almost criminal and it's really bad for the industry.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 22:52· listen →

“You can get rid of almost all your other supplements. Not all. But your multivitamin, you don't need that. Please stop taking fish oil. Where do you think the fish get the omega-3 from?”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 46:50· listen →

“It is the most nutrient-dense food in the world. NASA feeds it to the astronauts. We have a quote from them saying 1 gram of algae has the same nutrition as 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables. So 1 to 1,000.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 18:40· listen →

“If you have inflammation in your body, you are consuming so much energy. I look at inflammation like a car sitting at an intersection. You've got your foot pedal to the metal. And then so you're revving up to 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 RPMs, but you're not going anywhere. You're just burning fuel. That's what inflammation does.”

Dr. Mao Shing Ni on Energy, Qi, and Longevity Secrets · 17:22· listen →

“That inflammation, that baseline level inflammation, if you keep that at a minimum, at the end of the day, you end up remaining much more flexible... maintaining that flexibility, maintaining state and keeping that inflammation down at a reasonable level basically helps promote the ability to potentially live a lot longer and a lot more fruitful life.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 9:20· listen →

“Chronic inflammation is at the core of every degenerative condition that we can think of. You know, your autoimmune, your neurological, your cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, you know, all of them. What we're all dealing— and actually everybody every day deals with some runaway inflammatory component because of our environment and the food, our food choices.”

Sound Therapy & Cymatics for Entrepreneur Health · 38:07· listen →

“It's when stress and inflammation come that cell wall kind of clamps down and is hardened. And the cell gets so stressed out that it goes to sleep. So the sound, these sounds that are emitted, apparently massage the cell wall and wake it up, give it the kiss of life, and say, hey, come on back and do the rest of your life cycle.”

Sound Therapy & Cymatics for Entrepreneur Health · 42:34· listen →

“The 2 things I think are most foundational are blood work and DEXA scan... they're not expensive, it's like $50 to $100.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 38:55· listen →

“You have 2 women who have 26% body fat. One might have 1 pound of visceral fat, one might have 3 pounds. They're the same weight, the same percent body fat, but the amount of visceral fat they have is dramatically different.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 18:09· listen →

“I always look for what I call the 4 Horsemen of executive burnout. So the first one is sleep latency extending beyond 25 minutes... The second one is cortisol staying elevated after 10... There's also how your fasting glucose is going to vary during the day... The last thing is your heart rate variability when you sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 16:23· listen →

“Imagine you're driving down the road and your car check engine light comes on. That's an indication that something's broken, something's not right, but your car can still drive. It's still doing its job. But so your choice is take the fuse out so you don't see the check engine light anymore, or you take it to your mechanic to get evaluated. That's functional medicine. Functional medicine is looking for the check engine lights that are going on inside your body.”

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Functional Medicine Approach · 0:00· listen →

“The essential aspect of how sound works in reality, in nature, is that all audible sounds are spherical in their space form. So right now I'm talking and there's a bubble of sound coming out of my mouth and a little bit out of my nose as well.”

Cymatics & Sound Healing: John Stuart Reid Explains · 1:38· listen →

“All of the music we tested created a significant increase in the viability, this ratio of dead to living red blood cells, within 20 minutes.”

Cymatics & Sound Healing: John Stuart Reid Explains · 39:03· listen →

“Anything below 70 decibels is really not optimal for this effect... once you get between the range of 70 and 85 decibels, that's the optimal range that we've come to call the Goldilocks zone... at 110 decibels, it killed all of the red blood cells within 20 minutes. Every single red blood cell was dead.”

Cymatics & Sound Healing: John Stuart Reid Explains · 43:48· listen →

“Yet here was this woman who said, hey, can it help these people, a real specific market? When those— when that study was released, that data came in, the product flew off the shelves to private owners. I suddenly pivoted from knocking on the doors of integrative medicine to the general public.”

Sound Therapy & Cymatics for Entrepreneur Health · 21:02· listen →

“The number one thing I think that is maybe a misnomer in this space, I think personally, is that diet is 80%, 90%, the most important thing you can focus on... it's not to say diet isn't important because it is, but this sometimes becomes a limiting belief.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 24:45· listen →

“My fear with a biological clock is that you're doing things that may be making it look younger on the test that doesn't actually make you younger in reality.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 33:29· listen →

“TikTok makes me very nervous. There are people on there that are not qualified giving advice. It can be a starting point to say, wow, that sounds really interesting. Let me do some research on it. But it scares me. It's this big fad of putting castor oil on your belly button and everything's gonna be better.”

Integrative Medicine for Entrepreneurs with Carolyn McAuliffe · 40:22· listen →

“Why win one prize and then lose 3 others, whether it's your health, relationships, friendships? I'm more of a pro the balanced entrepreneur, not the extreme entrepreneur that burns other boats that are actually really valuable for a meaningful life.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 35:37· listen →

“It was in 2010 I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called ulcerative colitis, and that's what left me housebound for almost a year, shitting blood like 40 times a day. It was hell.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 2:20

“The responses were as profound or more profound than the kind of psychedelic insights you get, um, like oneness, connection, feeling like you've been channeled by God and all that stuff, as you would from a big dose of psychedelics.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 15:31

“It's the discipline for the morning routine is easy. The discipline for the evening routine is the one everyone needs to nail.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 13:46

“It never makes sense until you look backwards.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 28:18

“Business people is that they get a second chance or a third chance and you can reinvent yourself in your 40s and your 50s and your 60s. As an athlete, you have a finite window.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 38:54

“Provide the master chef with the ingredients and let the master chef do the cooking.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 43:06

“So we have the ability to envision the future so we could say, hey, I'm gonna meet you at 2:30 and we're gonna do a podcast. Right. And we did that, you know, a couple weeks ago. So we were able to envision the future. But the side effect is then we have to worry about it.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 2:15

“So in her case, she said, well, it's 100% chance I'm gonna get it. My mother and my sister both got it. And if I get it, I'm gonna die like they did.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 9:05

“Here's what I say. So humans like to feel like they're in control. And so when you're in a startup business, you don't really feel like you have a whole lot of control here, right? So where our control comes from is through our choices.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 22:55

“Well, that's, I was talking about this earlier, like when you have a fear reaction, it goes on. So fear was really designed to last only about 10 or 15 minutes. So like if we lived in a jungle, right? And I see a lion, ah, right? My fear reaction goes off.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 17:46

“So spiritual is an interesting concept, right? My religion is Christianity, right? So I come from that perspective, but I've read a lot about Buddhism and Islam and all the other different major religions, Hinduism and stuff. And they all have some of the same basic tenets, which is, where'd you come from? Where are you going?”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 27:45

“So the answer then is compartmentalization, and that's the shoeboxes. So the more compartmentalized these problems are, the less overwhelming they become. So I got this problem. That by itself is not overwhelming. And I got this problem. That by itself is not overwhelming. It's only when I let them all merge together that I get into trouble. So what I say to people that are overwhelmed, don't lump, compartmentalize, use your shoeboxes.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 34:04

“You the entrepreneur, you keep putting the pieces together all by yourself. Maybe you get a third of the way and now you say, hey, how about come and help me now? They still look at the mess. They can see a little bit but nope, they're too busy. Nope.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 15:13

“The way I describe it is it's like giving your body a shower from the inside. You take a shower on the outside every morning. Chlorella will pull all the garbage that you've interacted with in the air, your food, your cosmetics, and pull it out.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 25:21

“In a cancer cell or a senescent cell, the blue pigment, when it's absorbed into the mitochondria, sees that it's in a cancer cell and goes, I'm onto you. And instead of the Ferrari helping move that, move the electrons across, it ejects this thing called cytochrome c, which triggers something called caspases, which triggers something called apoptosis, which is healthy cell death.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 36:28

“If someone's stolen your parking spot anywhere, you can't get into your parking spot. It doesn't matter how many signs you put up, but they're there. You gotta get the tow truck or the police to get them out so that you can park in. So, chlorella is the tow truck.”

Spirulina & Chlorella: The Science of Algae Nutrition · 43:39

“I felt like I was just putting a bandaid on a cancer basically.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 2:14

“There was a study that showed that only 12% of Americans are actually metabolically healthy on all measures.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 20:22

“It's the Sleep Foundation that has a study that says that every single night of poor sleep can reduce cognitive performance the next day by 25%. And it's the equivalent of a blood alcohol level of 0.05%.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 34:38

“Alcohol is the worst... it's still a poison, you know. It's terrible for your liver. It's just a poison for your arteries as well. And more than that, you know, it also really messes up your sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 28:12