Optimal Performance Podcast

Ancestral Health Radio's James Broderick shares his top 10 tips to build ancestral living into our lives for improved health & wellness. Humans are maladapted to modern living - here's how to re-evaluate our relationship with food, land, tech. & community

Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule joins us on the OPP for an in-depth look at our Pineal Gland, the part of the brain often called the Third Eye, it's regulation of melatonin, and it's link to DMT, spirituality and consciousness.

Team Natural Stacks is on the Hot Seat this week. Meet the team and get our favorite books of 2016, best advice, top new biohacks and more tools for Optimal Performance - like new coffee recipes, food logging tips, and mushroom teas with our Myco Stacks.

Sleep hacking with Michael Lares. We discuss the 5 stages of sleep, physical & mental recovery during sleep, the brain waves involved with each stage and how PEMF can help you get better sleep, heal tissue, migraines and more.

Flow States can increase productivity by 500-700%. Flow Grade founder Max Gotzler reveals the 3 neurological changes that occur in our brain during flow & tips for us to achieve flow in our everyday lives to increase purpose, productivity & happiness.

Dr. Cate Shanahan is the author of Deep Nutrition and the Director of the LA Laker's PRO Nutrition Program. Dr. Cate explains the 4 components that all healthy diets share, how the low-fat craze began, & why vegetable oil is ''liquid age''.

Katie Singer, author of An Electronic Silent Spring, educates us on legislative policy that has paved the way for cell phone and electronics usage that has been proven to uncouple DNA, linked to brain cancer, and most importantly - how we can limit exposure and damage to our health.

Biohacking legend Steve Fowkes talks nootropics, piracetam use, metabolism, reducing viral susceptibility, HIIT for brain function, dangers of cell phones and his favorite sleep hacks to improve sleep, increase energy, ad improve health.

Biohacking legend Steve Fowkes: We talk Alzheimer's prevention and reversal, including the role - and importance - of pH, redox reactions, grounding, glutathione and the ''browning out'' of our metabolisms. Plus the dangers of living ''wired to the max''.

''Learning is the only skill that matters'' If we can learn, there is no new skill, trait or ability that is out of our reach. Super Learner Jonathan Levi shares the secrets to acquire new skills at an accelerated rate, improve memory, and read faster.

On-site recordings from my LA trip to Peak Brain and the Biohacking Summit in Finland explain neurofeedback and give you tools (both ancient and space-age) to train short-term states and long-term traits of your brain for increased cognition & happiness.

Deuce Gym's Logan Gelbrich talks about the most common reasons we fail in our pursuits - including accountability, developing a growth mindset, becoming Anti-Fragile and how to hold yourself & others to higher standards.

NAMMEX founder Jeff Chilton has been growing mushrooms for over 30 years. On this episode, we reveal our new partnership with Jeff and discuss the dirty secrets of ''mushroom'' products - mycelium grown on grain is NOT mushroom & how to tell the difference.

The epic Ketone Episode with keto expert Dominic D'Agostino and metabolic flexibility champion Dr. Mike T. Nelson - we deep dive into ketosis, optimal fuel utilization, safety of exogenous ketones, applications for ketosis, and new research frontiers.

A behind the scenes look at The Vanguard. Takeaway: You are a platform, a blank slate to which you can add skills. Never be complacent. Lessons and interviews from the event so you can seek constant growth and evolution, and be an asset, not a liability.

James Swanwick is best known for his blue-light blocking sleep glasses. Yes, we talk about hacking light, sleep, and habits, but James also lays out the exact strategy he used to overcome his fears of mediocrity to create his dream life.

Peak Brain Institute founder and lead neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Hill on brain optimization. We talk about sugar & brain dysfunction, the link between insulin resistance & Alzheimer's (likely a lifestyle disease) and brain waves for focus & attention.

Part 1 of 2, I talk with Special Forces vets Jake Saenz and Tod Moore, creators of The Vanguard - a 3 day camp teaching survival skills, situational awareness, fear inoculation, and always growing, learning, evolving before attending the event in Part 2.

9 experts at The 2016 Bulletproof BioHacking Conference get 5 minutes each to bring you their best health, wellness, and fitness advice on this special ''Hot Seat'' episode of the OPP. We've got Mark Sisson, Joe DeFranco, Kelly Starrett, & more top experts.

The star of one of March Madness's greatest upsets, underdog Jakob Gollon shares his secrets for getting peak performance under pressure, overcoming adversity, and how to pull off the ultimate David vs. Goliath upset in the biggest spotlight of your life.