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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com! On today's Episode: When you are unhappy, you may find yourself constantly seeking approval from others, scared to take risks, and hyper focused on the things you don’t have or lack in life. You may unconsciously have habits that are keeping you from being happy, and after this episode you know what you can do to start living with more happiness and intention. Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a physician that focuses on successfully treating illness with progressive medicine while taking a 360 approach to health. He’s written multiple books on how to feel better, lose weight, better manage stress and live a happy life. In this episode he’s sharing practical things you can do right now to stop living an unhappy life. Happiness is a skill we can improve and get better at. It doesn’t have to be overly complicated, and it is super critical to your outlook on life, your relationships, and the state of your overall health. Struggling with health and happiness and not seeing the connection between the two is a mistake we’ve all made for too long. Let’s get practical and answer these simple questions and thought exercises today: What are 3 things you could do this week that would truly make you happy and content? What are 3 things you would wish you have done on your deathbed and regret not doing? Think about the values that encompass who you are and write them down. Deciding to live with intention and making the conscious decisions you need to make in order to live a better, happier, and healthier life is free, and it’s the most valuable thing you can do right now for you and the people you love. Check out Dr. Chatterjee’s latest book, Happy Mind, Happy Life: https://amzn.to/39ytbbu SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction Dr Rangan Chatterjee 0:23 | Why You’re Not Happy 7:55 | How To Live In Alignment 26:35 | Gain Perspective Today 41:52 | Take Control of Your Life 48:14 | Will You Regret Your Choices 55:41 | Create Happy Habits QUOTES: “A lot of us don’t know who we are anymore. A Lot of us don’t know what life we’re wanting to live. A lot of us are living unintentional lives where we’re essentially asleep.” [4:30] “Us not acting in alignment with who we really are is a huge stress on the body.” [9:04] “Your dreams won’t make you happy, [...] unless you’re intentional about them.” [11:43] “You can be happier than you currently are, [...] I think you can have success and happiness. I don’t think you have to choose between the two.” [24:02] “Even if you’re consuming killer, uplifting, inspirational content all the time, even that’s problematic. You have to be able to sit with your own thoughts.” [32:23] ‘We’re so disconnected from our bodies and our innermost thoughts, we’re so up here in our head, moving forward, learning new things, consuming more and more and more that actually, we’re not listening to the signals that our body is sending us.”...

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com! The fountain of youth is a mythical spring that has been the basis of many Hollywood movies and cosmetic marketing campaigns! Our obsession with youth and being young forever has been the source of cosmetic surgery and endless stories of ‘back in my day’. David Sinclair is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School. As a professor, scientific investigator and co-founder of multiple biotech companies, his knowledge with epigenetics and reverse aging is highly regarded among professional colleagues in the industry. He’s appeared on dozens of podcasts, written books, and hosts his own podcast, Lifespan. As a guest on Health Theory the conversations around reverse aging and biological clocks are more than enlightening. Finding the root cause to aging and understanding how diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices impact our aging process puts the power of perspective and knowledge within your control. You don’t have to guess or hope for a mythical spring of magical water that holds the secret of youth. You can make a decision everyday to turn back the clock, slow the aging process, and reset your age. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to David Sinclair 0:12 | Daily Hacks to Slow Aging 28:50 | How to Reset Your Age 58:43 | This Causes Aging 1:32:23 | How to Understand Aging QUOTES: “80% of your longevity and health in old age is controllable and only 20% is dictated by your genes, the genome. The rest is your epigenome that responds to how we live [7:36] “Our livers are much smarter than our eyes and our mouths…” [24:35] “Anything that stresses your body, puts it into a state of shock is good in the long run.” [38:16] “When I boiled it down to its essence I realized aging was a loss of information.” [1:01:58] “That’s part of the problem with aging, which is genes getting turned on when they should be kept off for decades, and then cells start to get confused.” [1:14:17] Follow David Sinclair: Website: https://sinclair.hms.harvard.edu/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidsinclairpodcast Podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifespan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidsinclairphd/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidasinclair Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidsinclairphd

Permeable blood brain barrier and gut barrier connected to inflammation and autoimmunity diseases is enough to make anyone’s head spin. Dealing with these health conditions can be frightening and endless. Your body’s reaction to proteins and your immune response can be highly frustrating when you’re being instructed to follow “protocols” and standards of treatment. If you or someone you love has felt betrayed living a standard healthy lifestyle only to fall prey to gut issues, autoimmune disease and declining cognition, you’re not alone. Dr. Datis Kharrazian is a world-renowned functional medicine health care provider. He specializes in managing chronic diseases, autoimmunity and neurological problems. He treats his patients with non-pharmaceuticals, and is in extremely high demand from patients and other healthcare professionals wanting to learn his clinical models. In this episode, Dr. Kharrazian is addressing the flaw with medical treatments that over standardize what people are experiencing and the causes. He’s explaining why giving blanket treatments and protocols can cause patients far worse health conditions than where they started. Check out Dr. Kharrazian’s book, Why Isn’t My Brain Working: https://amzn.to/3wvDplt SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Datis Kharrazian 0:37 | Do You Have Leaky Brain? 4:15 | The Problem with Gluten 16:48 | How Autoimmune Disease Happens 25:37 | Avoid These Foods 32:22 | Prevent Brain Disease 39:57 | Do This To Stay Healthy 51:10 | Push Neurological Limits QUOTES: “The same inflammatory oxidative stress mechanisms that break down the gut barrier can also break down the blood brain barrier.” [2:20] “We’re all at risk for developing autoimmune disease, and the rates of autoimmune disease now exceed cancer and cardiovascular disease combined.” [20:33] “The more diverse your gut bacteria microbiome is, the more immune regulation you have, the greater tolerance you have, and things like exercise improves gut microbiome diversity.” [32:00] “I do not have a protocol. I think protocols are inefficient.” [42:09] “Stress when it’s controlled and it’s past a person’s abilities, can be devastating to the brain.” [46:35] “Whatever you can’t do, you do! That’s a simple concept of neurological rehab.” [52:24] “The brain needs stimulation, the brain needs glucose, the brain needs oxygen, that’s what it has to have to thrive.” [57:10] Follow Datis Kharazian: Website: https://drknews.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTTDpIy3DrhmKiP22BOEyQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drkharrazian Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datiskharrazian/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datiskharrazianpage/ Podcast: https://drknews.com/podcasts/

Check out our sponsors: TextExpander: Go to textexpander.com/podcast and get 20% off your first year! So how many Instagram posts and YouTube videos have influenced your vision of fitness, overall health, and proper diet? How many have you tried that left you frustrated and pissed off? Probably too many to count or recall. We’re bombarded with misinformation about fitness, exercise, and diet at nauseum. It’s not getting you or anyone closer to the results you really desire, and it almost makes the results you want a bit unclear and confusing. Sal DiStefano is no newcomer to the fitness scene. By the age of 19 he was already general manager at a local gym. Unfortunately for him, but lucky for you and all of his clients since, he had a health scare of his own from an autoimmune disorder which resulted in him losing 15 pounds of muscle! Sal refocused and started learning more about gut health, hormone health and how to prioritize health over appearance. His book, The Resistance Training Revolution, breaks down fitness misconceptions that social media and bad diet fads are flooding you with. In this episode, break through the idea of relying on cardio to burn those extra calories and start realizing the amazing benefits strength training offers your body. Stop training just to lose weight fast and look good, and make the mindset shift to start approaching diet and exercise for the right reasons, so it becomes lifelong and sustainable. Check out Sal DiStefano’s book, The Resistance Training Revolution: https://amzn.to/3OvyaJC SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Sal DiStefano 0:43 | How to Burn Belly Fat 6:36 | Train Your Body to Burn More Calories 13:06 | Benefits of Strength Training 21:54 | The Problem with Running 28:48 | Find the Right Exercise for Your 43:24 | Watch Your Hormones 52:33 | How to Eat Intuitively QUOTES: “The average person has been told to value exercise, mainly by its calorie burn, and that's so wrong because the amount of calories you burn while you exercise is actually the least important thing.” [3:54] “Strength training is the most consistent way to raise testosterone, [...] in men” [14:30] “Strength training has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to stop or halt the progression of the beta amyloid plaques that are so associated with Alzheimer's” [15:31] “Because we can't just pop the exercise pill, people leave the most obvious solution on the table.” [17:09] “When it comes to improving all health metrics, mental, psychological, and physical, as you follow along, as you continue the process, it gets better and better. There's no medication that does that at all.” [18:46] “Don't go to the gym and workout, go to the gym and practice these exercises and try to get good at these exercises.” [24:33] “If we judge exercise by the people that perform it at the highest level, we're also looking at people who genetically were born to also perform at very high levels.” [25:52] “The extreme bodies are not healthy. Those are extreme performers, like a top NBA player or football player or athlete is not optimally healthy. They're just incredible at performance.” [29:00] “Good, full range of motion, appropriate and balanced strength is what prevents pain. It's what makes your joints move optimally…” [32:26] “Properly, applying strength training, and appropriate strength training, makes you bulletproof to pain you move better…” [33:06] “Moving the body and train the muscles In a way that is appropriately strenuous in different planes of motion, it trains the brain and keeps your brain's ability to do those types of things, youthful and effective.” [41:05] “Most people in modern societies have never...

My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential! Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist who continues educating audiences about brain development, brain plasticity and the inner workings of dopamine. He’s showing people how to hack their behaviors and rewire their thinking for optimal performance and outcomes. Consider this episode a masterclass on all things dopamine. Dr. Huberman takes the complication out of neuroscience and simplifies how dopamine is tied to motivation, craving, and even perception of time. One of the many takeaways in the episode is that idea that small incremental steps towards a bigger outcome and purpose is worth celebrating if you want to get the benefit of dopamine rewards. Dopamine isn’t necessarily about huge wins and achieving big goals. It’s about the pursuit and craving of those goals. It’s about enjoying the journey and not just focusing on the destination or result. The information Dr. Huberman is unpacking here is going to be significant to anyone in pursuit of a highly successful and meaningful life. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Andrew Huberman 0:28 | Spike Dopamine for Motivation 25:09 | Break Addiction to Negative Thoughts 44:06 | Master Focus, Reduce Overindulging 1:10:46 | Pursue Challenge, Reward Small Wins 1:36:37 | The Power of Dopamine QUOTES: “Celebrating the win more than the pursuit, it actually sets you up for failure in the future.” [1:48] “Dopamine itself is not the reward, it's the build up to the reward. And the reward has more of a kind of opioid bliss like property” [15:41] “Pursue rewards, but understand that the pursuit is actually the reward. If you want to have repeated wins.” [16:13] “Pleasure experienced without prior requirements for pursuit is terrible for us.” [17:22] “Agitation and stress were designed to get us up and move us, and when we try and fight that too much, and we try and quiet that stress, that actually can be problematic.” [37:11] “If you have negative thoughts, just remember, I can also introduce positive thoughts the same way I can control running around the block. Positive thoughts are the equivalent of forward physical action.” [42:16] “All the segments of your life are noted by peaks in dopamine, or the way that you happen to conceptualize dopamine.” [45:33] “When people's dopamine is low, they tend to overestimate, okay, okay. And when people's dopamine is high, they tend to underestimate time.” [47:47] “Dopamine is a very misunderstood molecule, it's often talked about only in the context of reward, [...] what's often not discussed is that dopamine is secreted in route to rewards...” [1:22:25] “The molecule dopamine when secreted in the brain, makes us pursue things, build things, create things, makes us want new things that we don't currently already have.” [1:42:45] Follow Andrew Huberman: Website: https://hubermanlab.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhubermanlab Twitter: https://twitter.com/hubermanlab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hubermanlab Podcast: a...

Check out our sponsors: ButcherBox: Sign up at ButcherBox.com/impact When you consider the amount of stress and global crises going on, there’s no wonder why people are stressed, overly anxious and struggling with confidence. Whether the pain you experience in physical or mental and emotional in nature, you’re looking for relief and a way to find peace and mental equilibrium while crushing your goals in life. Self -hypnosis is a drug-free, highly effective, “style of concentration not a therapy” says Dr. David Spiegel. It’s about cognitive flexibility that allows you to solve problems in a way that helps you gain control and maximize your focus and concentration. Dr. Spiegel is the Director of the Center on Stress and Health who specializes in hypnotherapy. He’s joining Tom and discussing cognitive restructuring through the lens of hypnotherapy. Still not sure about hypnosis? Witness Tom get hypnotized and describe his experience. “If you can measure it it’s science, everything else is poetry” -Dr. David Spiegel SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction Dr. David Spiegel 1:03 | What is Hypnosis? 6:50 | The Hypnotized Brain 11:32 | Physical Control in Hypnosis 18:44 | How the Hypnotic State Works 23:06 | Narrow Your Focus 27:33 | How Hypnosis Helps You 39:30 | Are You Hypnotizable? 51:00 | Tom Gets Hypnotized QUOTES: “Where people make a big mistake about hypnosis is they think it’s about losing control. It’s actually a powerful means to gain control.” [3:00] “You’re worrying less about what else you might be thinking about, and you’re allowing your executive control network to more strongly connect with your body. So, it’s a state of highly focused attention…” [8:11] “You may not be able to control what’s making you anxious, but you can control how your body’s feeling, you can control how your body is reacting to the stressor.” [18:11] “We don't see medication as necessarily being bad in the same way that we have with hypnosis [...] but it's still around because there's something powerful and helpful about.” [22:51] “Being open and accepting [and] concentrating very intently is a good learning strategy.” [26:44] “Providing intense emotional support can help people help their bodies cope with even a very serious illness.” [50:51] Follow Dr. David Spiegel: Website: https://www.reveri.com/hypnosis Twitter: https://twitter.com/dspiegeldavid

Check out our sponsors: Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/impacttheory Research in the fields of neuroscience and pharmacology over the past several decades have resulted in countless positive benefits for humanity. But until very recently, certain classes of drugs had been rigorously excluded from clinical trials - namely, the class of drugs commonly known as psychedelics. Fortunately, a handful of organizations around the world have been making breakthroughs in psychedelic drug research, working in cooperation with government regulators to answer this question: what are these drugs doing to our brains and bodies? One such researcher is today’s guest - Dr. David Nutt. He and his team at Drug Science have brought together leading drug experts from many different clinical backgrounds, with the goal of providing clear, evidence-based information about how a wide range of drugs - from CBD to PCP - impact the human system. In his latest book, Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health, Dr. Nutt gives an in-depth look into one of the most commonly used recreational psychedelics on the planet: cannabis. In today’s episode, we discuss David’s findings on how cannabis affects different systems in the brain, how it differs from other classes of drugs, what the future of drug research looks like, and much much more! SHOW NOTES: 00:00 | How Cannabis Works 03:54 | How Will I Respond to Cannabis? 09:21 | Benefits of Cannabis 22:09 | Psychedelics & Your Brain 32:27 | Are Drugs Safe? 38:51 | The Future of Cannabis QUOTES: “You've got to remember - cannabis can affect pretty much every other neurotransmitter system in the brain.” [09:13] “Medical cannabis is going to be the big revolution over the next 20 years, if we use it properly.” [13:45] “Normally, the visual system is just embedded in the visual system. But under psychedelics, because you break down the default mode network, the visual system can then connect everywhere in the brain.” [28:10] “It needs to be tested. We need to be doing lots of studies, but we're not because it's a plant product and doesn't fit into the current model of pharmaceutical drug development.” [41:24] Follow Dr. David Nutt: Website: https://www.drugscience.org.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidnutt Order your copy of Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): https://amzn.to/3O9sc0P

Check out our sponsor: ButcherBox: Sign up at ButcherBox.com/impact For most of us, when we think of melatonin, the first thing we think of is “a chemical to make you feel sleepy”. And while it’s true that melatonin plays a critical role in governing our circadian rhythm, it turns out that melatonin is also one of the most powerful antioxidants produced in the body. This is a huge deal when it comes to disease prevention, as oxidative stress and inflammation are primary causes of some of the deadliest and most common diseases known to man. In today’s episode of Health Theory, Dr. Roger Seheult breaks down the science of melatonin, vitamin D, circadian rhythm, and much more. So whether you’ve been having trouble sleeping, are worried about inflammation and disease prevention, or just want to brush up on your biochemistry, then I promise you’ll get something beneficial out of today’s episode. SHOW NOTES: 00:00 | Introduction 00:52 | Get More Sunshine 16:03 | What Is Oxidative Stress? 27:46 | The Physiology of Covid 33:03 | Optimize Your Circadian Rhythm 44:30 | The Double Slit Experiment 49:09 | Meat vs Plants QUOTES: “One of the things that we've discovered as scientists is that the mind and the body are a lot more connected than we thought they were.” [09:30] “I think it would be a mistake to say that while I'm taking my vitamin D supplementation, I don't need to go out into the sun.” [11:18] “We see diabetes associated with obesity, obesity with inflammation, diabetes with oxidative stress. So we do see them correlate - it's hard to tease them out.” [15:45] “I can't stress this enough: Alzheimer's disease, autism, diabetes - a lot of these diseases that we see in society have been tied to mitochondrial damage from reactive oxygen species. It's really important.” [20:50] “We have technology today, that allows us to eat 24 hours a day. We have technology today that we can turn night into day if we want, we can work 24/7. There's gamers that do that, they go straight for 48 hours and they die. And so what we're finding out is that technology, even though it allows us to do certain things, they may not be optimal.” [37:43] Follow Dr. Roger Seheult and MedCram: Website: https://www.medcram.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/medcramvideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medcram/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3Dl291B YouTube: https://bit.ly/3JJGX7M

Check out our sponsors: Future makes one on one training available to our audience for just $19 Go to https://tryfuture.co/impact Sign up to crush your fitness goals! It’s no secret, sugar has been labeled the bad guy in the standard American diet for years now. As new diet fads circulate around the internet and the latest trends and research seems to change every other day, finally some pieces of the “what’s making me fat” puzzle are starting to fit together. Even more so, with today’s health concerns, obesity is no longer the only indicator for poor health and metabolic disease. Dr. Richard Johnson is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and kidney disease and is known as the Fructose Expert. In this episode he’s breaking down the orchestrated events taking place in our bodies between sugar, salt, and how your foods are triggering you to gain weight. Check out Dr. Richard Johnson’s latest book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: https://amzn.to/3u1Amih SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Dr Richard Johnson 0:42 | Why We Get Fat 6:18 | Fructose Signaling 17:47 | Is Fructose the Problem 26:34 | The Dehydration Trigger 34:59 | Watch Your Salt Intake 41:00 | The Role of Uric Acid 47:34 | Get Your Vitamin C 51:36 | Avoid These Foods QUOTES: “There is a switch that animals use to go from being us normal weight to overweight, that switch, you can activate it by certain types of foods.” [1:53] “The fat is like the firewood, and the sugar is like the fire. So if you take away the fire, and you go on a low carb diet, and you are in high fat now, well, there's no stimulus to gain weight because because you've taken away the fructose” [17:18] “One of the classic means for stimulating fructose turns out to be from a high glucose level in the blood.” [23:02] “When you eat, if your glucose goes up in your blood, it triggers the production of fructose.” [37:59] “So it's either the fructose you eat, or the fructose you make if you eat a lot of fructose, you're going to activate the switch.” [38:58] “We have a higher uric acid, and this makes us more sensitive to the effects of fructose because fructose is working through uric acid. [...] and when that happens, we become very sensitive to sugar” [40:14] “In the potency sugars, number one, high glycemic carbs are probably number two. salty foods are distant three, and umami is maybe even a four.” [44:36] “Exercise turns out to be a great way not to lose weight, cause it doesn't burn many calories, but it stimulates the mitochondria, you won't notice the benefit except the benefit’s going to be happening.” [55:46] Follow Richard Johnson: Website: https://drrichardjohnson.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drrichardjjohnson/

Check out our sponsor: Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! The ketogenic diet is so popular that it was searched over 25 million times in one year. Some experts support its effectiveness to help people lose weight, while others claim that it’s the worst diet to try. Research and data have advanced and proven that everyone has it wrong. Dr. Steven Gundry is with Tom explaining why he and the rest of the medical community got ketosis all wrong. He shares why mitochondrial uncoupling is really the star and this is what you need to know to make your dieting experience easier and more effortless. No need to live completely devoid of carbohydrates on a keto diet any longer. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Dr. Steven Gundry 0:55 | What You Got Wrong About Keto 8:05 | Why Mitochondria Is Key to Keto 12:22 | Metabolic Flexibility & Fat Burning 18:53 | What Ketones Are Signaling 23:05 | Mitochondrial Uncoupling 34:53 | The Miracle Weight Loss Drug 39:38 | Benefit of Polyphenols 46:35 | Mitochondria DNA is Female 50:01 | Restricted Eating & Feeding Times 56:40 | Blue Zone Diets & Goat Milk QUOTES: “50 percent of normal weight individuals have no metabolic flexibility.” [13:03] “At full ketosis, human beings can only meet 30% of their calorie needs by burning ketones. The rest have to come from free fatty acids and glucose.” [19:09] “Ketones are not a super fuel, they are actually a signaling molecule that tells mitochondria to protect themselves at all cost from damage” [20:15] “In a ketogenic diet, if you do it right and uncouple your mitochondria, you waste fuel. You feed six dogs instead of one, and that's where the benefit of ketosis comes from.” [30:21] “You want to cycle in and out of ketosis on a 24 hour basis.” [49:37] “It's the cycling in and out of getting the benefits of ketosis. Without full ketosis, that makes all the difference.” [56:29] Follow Dr. Steven Gundry Website: https://gundrymd.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gundrymd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GundryMD/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxo0nTZjzlKJq5-vJq6s6g

Check out our sponsors: Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a 1 month FREE trial of Premium Membership. BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/impacttheory Aging seems to be all fun and games until you pass legal drinking age. Some people begin to age much sooner than others, while others seem to have golden genetics of youth on their side. What if you found out that scientific research is now able to reverse your biological clock up to 3 years? You may be skeptical, you may be curious, or you may be excited for what this means to your future. Dr. Kara Fitzgerald is a functional medicine physician and clinical director that just published a new book for the non-medical people trying to improve their health and age more gracefully called Younger You. She’s joining Tom and revealing everything you don’t know about methylation and epigenetics, why it matters to you and the simple things you can do to gain back 3 years of your biological clock in roughly 8 weeks. Check out Dr. Kara Fitzgerld’s Younger You: https://amzn.to/3vsez5T SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction Dr. Kara Fitzgerald 1:43 | How DNA is Packaged &Expressed 4:44 | Understanding DNA Methylation 9:22 | Methylation Cycle Explained 14:14 | Lifestyle Effects on Methylation 18:30 | Passing Stress Through DNA 24:41 | Inheriting Trauma and Resilience 27:28 | Unintended Generational Influence 37:35 | Methylation Diet Strategy 47:29 | Stress, Sleep, and Exercise QUOTES: “If we're going to turn back the hands of time by decades, are we going to, by extension, remove the molecules of wisdom that have embedded in our DNA?” [0:41] “If we're not sleeping, we're aging.[...] sleep is an essential component of good epigenetic expression. Insomnia ages people and that's been demonstrated…” [49:11] “Stress is one of the most pro aging experiences that we can have, and that we need to be paying attention to turning it off and not allowing it to drag us by the hair.” [51:04] “People who meditate regularly are biologically younger, but just one meditation experience can still have a favorable influence.” [52:28] “Exercise will turn back on those previously inhibited tumor suppressor genes [...] exercise is like eating a vegetable.” [53:28] Follow Dr. Kara Fitzgerald: Website: https://www.drkarafitzgerald.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Drkarafitzgerald Twitter: https://twitter.com/kfitzgeraldnd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drkarafitzgerald/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrKaraFitzgerald/

Check out our sponsors: ButcherBox: Sign up at ButcherBox.com/impact Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory When people hear about uric acid, it’s almost always in the context of it being a causal factor for gout. But if more people knew the full extent of how it affects our metabolism, cardiovascular health, and risk for Alzheimer’s and dementia, we might pay more attention to it. In this episode of Health Theory, Dr. David Perlmutter returns with the latest research on how uric acid is about much more than just gout. He explains the relationship between uric acid, insulin, and fructose, why it doesn’t mean that all fruits are bad for you, and how our modern problem with uric acid is actually the result of a disconnect between evolution and environment. If you want to dive deeper into the latest knowledge bomb from Dr. Perlmutter, you’ll definitely want to check out his new book, Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid - The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar and Achieving Extraordinary Health Click here to pre-order: https://amzn.to/3HQykY5 SHOW NOTES: 00:00 | Introduction 00:43 | Uric Acid and Metabolism 06:42 | The Problem With Fructose 12:22 | What Does Uric Acid Do? 23:58 | Eat to Lower Uric Acid 33:43 | The Cause of Type 2 Diabetes 41:48 | The Ideal Diet & Lifestyle QUOTES: “A lot of roads lead to the Rome of inflammation, and set the stage for things like Alzheimer's and coronary artery disease. And because of that, it's the reason that a monotherapy or a one drug approach to Alzheimer's, for example, is beyond myopic. It's never going to work.” [03:02] “Our metabolic health globally is in a terrible place. I mean, a third of American adults have hypertension, and 10% of kids aged 12 to 18 have hypertension. That's crazy. 50% of adult Americans will be obese by the year 2030. Not just overweight, but obese.” [04:16] “Elevation of uric acid is associated with an 80% increased risk of dementia, a 55% increase risk of Alzheimer's specifically, and a 165% increased risk of vascular dementia.” [13:53] “What would be the upside of having uric acid create insulin resistance, and therefore cause blood sugar to go up? Why? Because when you're starving, it'll help power your brain.” [16:50] “What we're seeing now are these metabolic derangements that underlie these diseases that represent a disconnect between evolution and environment.” [22:06] “If it has a barcode, and it's in the grocery store, it has added sweetener - 70% do. And by and large that comes from high fructose, there's the villain corn syrup that we subsidize to the tune of $500 billion a year.” [25:01] “Uric acid levels are climbing in lockstep with fructose consumption. In the 1920s, average uric acid level in Americans was about 3.5 - it's now six.” [46:50] Follow Dr. David Perlmutter: Website: https://www.drperlmutter.com Twitter: https://bit.ly/3GRK37j Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Bkb8yZ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3swlmYY Order Dr. Perlmutter’s new book, Drop Acid: https://amzn.to/3HQykY5