Pushing The Limits Lisa Tamati

This week on "Pushing the Limits" join me on this journey through cellular pathways and longevity as I delve into the inner workings of cells and their impact on your overall well-being.
We start by unraveling the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway, responsible for regulating metabolism and maintaining cellular balance. We explore how AMPK senses energy levels and its activation benefits for cellular health and energy conservation.
We then compare AMPK with another key player, mTOR, and discuss their roles in cellular health and highlight the differences between these pathways and their contributions to longevity.
We will look at Autophagy, the cellular cleansing process, emphasizing its significance and its connections to both AMPK and mTOR pathways.
The video concludes by discussing how balancing AMPK and mTOR pathways can lead to a longer and healthier life, touching on the secrets of healthy aging, autophagy-inducing supplements and the drug Rapamycin.
 
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Lisa offers solution focused coaching sessions to help you find the right answers to your challenges.
Topics Lisa can help with: 
Lisa is a Genetics Practitioner, Health Optimisation Coach, High Performance and Mindset Coach.
She is a qualified Ph360 Epigenetics coach and a clinician with The DNA Company and has done years of research into brain rehabilitation, neurodegenerative diseases and biohacking.
She has extensive knowledge on such therapies as hyperbaric oxygen,  intravenous vitamin C, sports performance, functional genomics, Thyroid, Hormones, Cancer and much more. She can assist with all functional medicine testing.
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Comprehensive Thyroid testing
DUTCH Hormone testing
Adrenal Testing
Organic Acid Testing
Microbiome Testing
Cell Blueprint Testing
Epigenetics Testing
DNA testing
Basic Blood Test analysis
Heavy Metals 
Nutristat
Omega 3 to 6 status
and more 



Lisa and her functional medicine colleagues in the practice can help you navigate the confusing world of health and medicine .
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In this very funny, warm and enlightening episode with the very funny and skilled teacher, strength and conditioning coach, Phd candidate, author and broadcaster Craig Harper is all about understanding what drives your behaviours and how to get your brain to behave.
We go deep into meta cognition
Metacognition refers to the awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, cognitive abilities, and the strategies used for learning or problem-solving. It involves thinking about one's thinking, reflecting on one's cognitive processes, and having the ability to monitor and control one's mental activities.
At the end of the day, we all generally know what is good for us and what isn't - why then don't we always do the 'right thing", eat the right food, sleep when we should, exercise appropriately
In this episode Craig shares in his very light hearted and funny way some very serious issues that we all face.
How to actually do what we want to do
How to stop our brain sabotaging our activities
How to create constructive habits
How to step outside your own thinking to evaluate what and why you are doing and feeling that way.
This is an episode that will empower you, that will help you look at the what's really going on in your mind without judgment or guilt.
You can find Craig at https://craigharper.net/
and make sure to check out his podcast "The You Project"
 
BIO
Craig Harper is one of Australia's leading presenters, writers and educators in the areas of health, high-performance, resilience, self-management, leadership, corporate change, communication, stress management, addiction and personal transformation. Craig has been an integral part of the Australian health and fitness industry since 1982 and in that time has worked as an Exercise Scientist, Corporate Speaker, Consultant, University Lecturer, AFL Conditioning Coach, Radio Host, TV Presenter, Writer and successful Business Owner. In 1990 Craig established Harper's Personal Training, which evolved into one of the most successful businesses of its kind and inhabited the Australian fitness landscape for almost a quarter of a century. Craig currently hosts a successful Podcast called 'The You Project', is partnering with the BrainPark Team at Monash University, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology.
Craig can be heard weekly on various radio stations around Australia and hosted his own weekly show on Melbourne radio called 'the Science of Sport' for a decade. For two years he was the host of Foxtel's Living Life Now and for three years Craig filled an on-air role on Network Ten's '9AM' morning show as their resident Fitness Expert and Performance Coach. Craig currently fills an on-air role as a presenter on a lifestyle show called 'Get a Life', airing on Foxtel. As well as having written for the Herald Sun newspaper, numerous magazines and authoring seven books, Craig was also the director of Health and Wellness for DayHab; one of Australia's leading addiction treatment facilities for three years.
As an Exercise Scientist, Craig has worked with many professional athletes and teams including St. Kilda F.C., Melbourne Vixens, Melbourne Phoenix, Port Melbourne F.C., Nissan Motorsport and a long list of Olympians and world-class athletes competing in a broad range of sports. While still working with teams and individuals on a regular basis, these days Craig delivers more than one hundred corporate presentations annually.
Topics
Craig can tailor a presentation, workshop or program to suit the needs of your organization, in terms of content, aims and duration. While he delivers everything from fifteen minute virtual ‘pep talks’ to two-day, life changing, live-in programs, the majority of his work comes in the form of thirty to ninety minute keynote corporate addresses. 
Here are some of the topics that Craig covers:
Creating a High Performance Life.
 Becoming Ungiveupable.
 Being the Calm in the Chaos.
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In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" I interview one of the world's leading phytochemical and nutrigenomics researchers who specializes in sulforaphane.  Todays episode is all about improving cellular health, the core of health, and how activating the Nrf2 pathway through such phytonutrients like Sulforaphane (the precursors of which Glucoraphanin and Myrosinase) are found in Broccoli sprouts and other cruciferous veggies. 
You will learn:
How sulforaphane upregulates the Nrf2 pathway 
How the Nrf2 pathway acts as a master switch, turning on over 250 genes and impacting thousands of enzymes in their function. 
How the Nrf2 pathway upregulates the cells own intelligent endogenous antioxidant systems 
Why just throwing a bunch of antioxidants into the body doesn't work in quenching oxidative stress
The impact of upregulating Nrf2 in relation to the gut 
How it has system wide implications 
Why probiotics don't colonize the gut like you think they do
How probiotics (or certain strains) can still be useful in immune modulation 
Why you should have a food first approach
The traps to watch out for when buying a 'sulforaphane' supplement and why most of the ones on the market are a waste of your time and money
How long you should take it, typical dosing regimens, combinations with other phytonutrients and supplements.
How to use this information to optimize your health 
Why it pays to work with one of Dr Christines trained G.E.M.M protocol trained clinicians 
Why some people have a reaction when they start, and why that means you need it most and how to adjust the dosing while not giving up 
 
BIO
Dr Christine Houghton has enjoyed a fulfilling and varied career in Nutritional Medicine spanning more than 30 years — and her influential work continues to stay at the forefront of this rapidly evolving profession. As a clinician, author and educator, she is dedicated to promoting a model of health care that closely reflects the diet and lifestyle choices Mother Nature would choose herself. An individual's unique biochemistry is a significant contributor to this model.
Christine's intense appreciation of the power of food as therapy began in the 1970s, an era when there were very few supplements available. With few other choices, she soon discovered the real power of food as a potent clinical intervention tool; to this day, she adopts a 'food first' philosophy.
A decade into practice, she established a thriving multi-disciplinary practice, the Centre for Integrated Medicine near Brisbane. There, she specialized in musculoskeletal conditions, glucose-regulating disorders including type 2 diabetes and other cardio metabolic conditions, digestive health and infant and child health, especially those associated with immune dysfunction.
Passionate about the relationship between nutrients, phytochemicals and cellular defenses, Christine subsequently engaged in research at the University of Queensland, earning her a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry-Nutrigenomics. Christine is highly-regarded internationally as an expert in the clinical application of the broccoli-derived phytochemical, Sulforaphane in human health. As founding director of Cell-Logic, she has formulated a number of nutrigenomically-active supplements which are underpinned by her doctoral research.
In addition to her scientific and other publications, Christine is the co-author of two evidence-based nutrigenomics courses: FOUNDATIONS IN NUTRIGENOMICS and ADVANCED TRANSLATIONAL NUTRIGENOMICS, both self-paced online courses for practicing clinicians and the only comprehensive courses of their kind available anywhere globally. A regular speaker at Australian and international conferences, Christine is an engaging speaker whose evidence-based presentations often challenge existing paradigms.
 
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This week on "Pushing the Limits" I talk Mindset, resilience, the life of an athlete with the indomitable Tiffanee Cook - boxer, sexual abuse survivor, business owner, podcaster and all round vulnerable/tough chick.
 
DING, DING, DING...
No turning back now, hands encased in leather, mouth guard in and the world and everyone else in it faded into the background. Sights, sounds, thoughts, stories... gone. Blows, danger, failure, truth... standing toe to toe, bearing a soul not yet seen.8pm October 27, 2012
 
ROUND 1
Was this the first time she had truly 'let go', 29 years in?
Over in both a heartbeat and yet an eternity rolled into one. Terror, adrenaline, fear, courage, isolation, trust, visibility and uncertainty. Yet ironically, a certainty she had never-before experienced.
 
'Letting go' wasn't what she'd dreamt it to be. Emerging with both hands now free to grab hold of a whole new reality. Perhaps she wasn't truly born in 1983, but rather in a ring in 2012. The referee clutched that now free left hand and raised it above her head. A stance that changed her forever. The underdog can come out on top... they don't even have to know the rules.
 
One crazy 'say-yes' moment accidentally and deliberately changed the course of this girl's life. Through the gloom and darkness, a crack of light showed a path, a doorway she could and would eventually walk right through. Boxing was the playground that allowed Tiffanee Cook to develop the courage, grit, resilience, curiosity, vulnerability and power that had lay dormant within her and bend and twist it to her favor. The fight wasn't over on October 27, 2012... It had just begun, and she was now a force to be reckoned with.
 
BIO
Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face". Tiffanee Cook has learned this as a businesswoman, performance coach and boxer; from the comfort, predictability and safety provided by the corporate world, to the lessons and let-downs in and out of the boxing ring. Coming to the realization that, in order to have one's hand raised in triumph, adversity, discomfort and combat must be navigated. In the face of the messiness of life, do we fight or do we flee? Tiffanee speaks openly of her own personal experiences (good and bad) and how those experiences have enabled her to develop self-awareness, resilience, courage, independence and the skill to be able to maximize passion, possibilities and potential. She talks about getting knocked down (literally and metaphorically) and what it is that makes some of us get back up and some, stay down. Working in business, sport, high performance and personal development, Tiffanee explores a range of ideas, tools, skills, resources, philosophies and strategies to empower individuals, teams and organizations to improve everything from productivity, efficiency, culture and communication to physical, mental, emotional and social health.
 
Health Optimisation and Life Coaching with Lisa Tamati
Lisa offers solution focused coaching sessions to help you find the right answers to your challenges.
Topics Lisa can help with: 
Lisa is a Genetics Practitioner, Health Optimisation Coach, High Performance and Mindset Coach.
She is a qualified Ph360 Epigenetics coach and a clinician with The DNA Company and has done years of research into brain rehabilitation, neurodegenerative diseases and biohacking.
She has extensive knowledge on such therapies as hyperbaric oxygen,  intravenous vitamin C, sports performance, functional genomics, Thyroid, Hormones, Cancer and much more. She can assist with all functional medicine testing.
Testing Options
Comprehensive Thyroid testing
DUTCH Hormone testing
Adrenal Testing
Organic Acid Testing
Microbiome Testing
Cell Blueprint Testing
Epigenetics Testing
DNA testing
Basic Blood Test analysis
Heavy Metals 
Nutristat
Omega 3 to 6 status
and more 



Lisa and her functional medicine colleagues in the practice can help you n

In this episode of "Pushing the Limits" I talk to Dr Rob Silverman, Chiropractor, clinical nutritionist, author, international speaker and functional medicine practitioner, founder of Westchester Integrated Health about the gut. Your microbiome is is the key to your immune system, over 80% of your immune system is in the gut. 

We do a deep dive into:
What is a healthy microbiome SIBO Leaky Gut and how to heal it Gall bladder health, pancreatic enzymes and the role of stomach acid. How the gut impacts your mental health How the gut impacts your neurotransmitter production. What short chain fatty acids are All about probiotics How to get rid of parasites, bacteria and viruses Foods to embrace and what to avoid We talk the latest on bioavailable peptides and 
cutting edge longevity insights and much more. If you are having gut issues, autoimmune issues, mood and behavior issues, hormonal issues, bloating, IBS, IBD, Crohns disease, autism, alzheimers or neurodegeneration then this is the 
episode for you!
Dr Rob Silvermans new book "Immune Reboot" is now available for sale at https://www.immunereboot.com/
Find out more about Dr Rob at https://drrobertsilverman.com/

BIO
Robert G. Silverman, DC, DACBN, DCBCN, MS, CCN, CNS, CSCS, CIISN, CKTP, CES, HKC, FAKTR
Dr. Robert Silverman is a chiropractic doctor, clinical nutritionist, national/international speaker, author of Amazon’s #1 bestseller 
“Inside-Out Health,” founder and CEO of Westchester Integrative Health Ctr. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic and has a Master of Science in human nutrition. The ACA Sports Council named Dr. Silverman “Sports Chiropractor of the Year” in 2015. Dr. Silverman is on the advisory board for the Functional Medicine University and is a seasoned health and wellness expert on both the speaking circuits and the media. Dr. Silverman is a thought leader in his field and practice, a frequently published author in peer-reviewed 
journals and other mainstream publications.
Dr. Silverman was the principal investigator on two Level 1 laser FDA studies. His new book, Amazon’s best seller, Immune Reboot, was released in December 2022.
Instagram- @drrobertsilverman
Facebook- @drrobertsilverman
Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrobertsilverman/
Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/c/DrRobertSilverman
 
Health Optimisation and Life Coaching with Lisa Tamati
Lisa offers solution focused coaching sessions to help you find the right answers to your challenges.
Topics Lisa can help with: 
Lisa is a Genetics Practitioner, Health Optimisation Coach, High Performance and Mindset Coach.
She is a qualified Ph360 Epigenetics coach and a clinician with The DNA Company and has done years of research into brain rehabilitation, neurodegenerative diseases and biohacking.
She has extensive knowledge on such therapies as hyperbaric oxygen,  intravenous vitamin C, sports performance, functional genomics, Thyroid, Hormones, Cancer and much more. She can assist with all functional medicine testing.
Testing Options
Comprehensive Thyroid testing
DUTCH Hormone testing
Adrenal Testing
Organic Acid Testing
Microbiome Testing
Cell Blueprint Testing
Epigenetics Testing
DNA testing
Basic Blood Test analysis
Heavy Metals 
Nutristat
Omega 3 to 6 status
and more 



Lisa and her functional medicine colleagues in the practice can help you navigate the confusing world of health and medicine .
She can also advise on the latest research and where to get help if mainstream medicine hasn't got the answers you are searching for whatever the  challenge you are facing from cancer to gut issues, from depression and anxiety, weight loss issues, from head injuries to burn out to hormone optimisation to the latest in longevity science. Book your consultation with Lisa 
 
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In this weeks episode I sit down with Dr Ben Weitz, a brilliant chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner and gut health expert.

Get ready for an enlightening one-off podcast episode that delves into the intricate world of gut health and its profound impact on your overall well-being. Join us as we sit down with Dr. Ben Weitz, an expert in Functional Medicine, to explore a wide range of fascinating topics that are essential for your health journey.
In this special podcast episode, we'll be covering:
 SIBO Demystified: Understand what Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is, how it affects your health, and the strategies to overcome it. The Power of Bile: Discover the crucial role of bile not only in digestion but also as an antimicrobial agent and how it can help combat SIBO. Microbiome & Mood: Uncover the profound connection between your gut microbiome and the neurotransmitters in your brain, shedding light on the influence of gut health on mood and behavior. Gut-Brain Axis: Learn about the fascinating relationship between the gut and your emotional well-being, exploring how the gut can impact mood and overall mental health. Leaky Gut & Autoimmunity: Understand the links between a leaky gut and autoimmune diseases, and how a healthy gut lining is vital for your immune system. The Enzyme Equation: Dive into the world of digestive enzymes and their role in optimizing your digestive health. Cholesterol & Brain Health: Explore the importance of cholesterol for brain function and hormonal balance, and why super low cholesterol levels may not be ideal. Endothelial Function: Discover the significance of endothelial function in cardiovascular health and explore the importance of comprehensive testing beyond standard cholesterol panels. Learn why functional medicine testing is crucial to understanding your health and the optimised and personalized approach you need to get well. This episode promises to be a treasure trove of knowledge on topics that impact your health from head to toe. From SIBO to the gut-brain axis, digestive enzymes, cholesterol, and cardiovascular health, Dr. Ben Weitz brings a wealth of expertise to the table.
You can find Dr Weitz at https://www.drweitz.com/
On instagram: Drbenweitz
Also subscribe to Dr Weitz's podcast "The Rational Wellness" Podcast on apple or spotify.
 
BIO
Dr. Ben Weitz is a Sports Chiropractor and Functional Medicine practitioner in Santa Monica, California. He has been in practice for over 35 years. Dr. Weitz is the host of the popular Rational Wellness podcast devoted to all things Functional Medicine for the last six years, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.  His website is http://www.drweitz.com and he posts regularly on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Ben Weitz, D.C., C.C.S.P., C.S.C.S.
Weitz Sports Chiropractic and Nutrition
1448 15th Street Suite 201
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-395-3111
weitzchiro@yahoo.com
www.drweitz.com
"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
- modified from : Edward Stanley (1826-1893) from The Conduct of Life
EDUCATION
Chiropractic College of Pasadena Doctor of Chiropractic- December 1987
Licensed 1988
University of Calif., L.A. B.A. Philosophy-1983 Magna Cum Laude
Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner–Feb. 1995
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist–Aug. 1996
Certified FirstLine Therapy Nutrition Healthcare Provider–April 2007
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
Diplomate of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
Member of the American Chiropractic Association Sports Council.
Member of American College of Sports Medicine.
Member National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Member American Society for Nutrition
PUBLICATIONS
"Minimizing Weight Training Injuries in Bodybuilders and Athletes". Topics in Clinical Chiropractic, 1997, 4(2): 46-56.
The Back Relief Book. Los Angeles, CA: Hea