SuperAge: Live Better David Stewart

We are very excited to have sports and performance psychologist Dr. Lauren Loberg on the show this week to ruminate on the intersection of everyday life and this idea of a “performance mindset.” Everyone wants to do their best, and using insights from working with the world’s top athletes (think: NFL stars and pro skiers like Mikaela Shiffrin), Dr. Loberg shares her tips on how we can implement high performance mental strategies into our daily lives. Together, we discuss anxiety, flow state, and the value of mental preparedness.

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Key Moments
“If someone comes to you and says I want to be fit this summer, what does that mean? What exactly does that mean? Or ‘I want to be more present.’ Well, what does that mean for you? What does that look like? Like, what's the action? Because when people provide us with these really arbitrary things and sometimes they do, they can keep judging themselves on it because there's no measurement to it. Does that make sense?”

“I think that everyone can be mentally tough, but it's also a thing that takes time. Remember that some of the things you struggle with mentally, might stem from a pattern that you've had for 50 years. Putting this in the context of sports, if you tried to change your golf swing or basketball shot after 50 years of playing, would you be able to fix it in five tries? No. The same goes for mental toughness.”

“You can kind of learn how to embrace fear, the fear of when it becomes paralyzing. That's the part that you have to talk through.”

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Is it possible to build muscle without lifting weights? Can we tone our facial muscles? Is it possible to improve our cardiovascular system with almost no effort? Today, we sit down with former USA swim coach and Kaatsu CEO Steven Munatones. He tells us all about his decades-long journey of discovery and tutelage under Dr. Yoshiaki Sato in Tokyo, wherein he studied the myriad benefits of Japanese Kaatsu bands and developed a plan to introduce this technology to the world. Huge amounts of research out of Japan are showing that one can maintain strength and vitality as they age, improve overall vascular function, rehabilitate injuries all with zero risk of injury.
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Key Moments
“Why would someone [restrict blood flow]? They do it for a variety of reasons, and there's a lot of literature out there by researchers, scientists, physicians, and physical therapists, and you want to do this mostly to build muscle. Building muscle helps if you're injured, maybe you had a surgery on your knee, maybe you broke your arm. It helps reduce atrophy. And so part of the recovery process is rebuilding that muscle loss. When you use BFR, you actually reduce the amount of muscle atrophy that you get, so your body will heal itself and then you go through a shorter recovery period because you're not losing as much muscle mass.”


“Fundamentally, what's happening is a bit of hypoxia or lack of oxygen in the muscle. If you do movement as simple as bicep curls. It could be stretching, it can be walking, whatever you want to do that leads to that uncomfortable feeling you have when you work out. That lactate sends a signal through your central nervous system up to your brain. And then the brain thinks that you are doing something very vigorous, something very intense. And when the brain receives that signal again, the brain does not know if you're lifting heavy weight or you're just doing BFR. So it reacts as it naturally does and produces growth hormones amongst other metabolites, which flow through our vascular system and promote muscle growth”


“The Japanese found that when you engorged the limbs and blood and you do slight movement, this is the most effective way to trigger those signals up to the brain and then release a variety of hormones.”

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This week, we host Chris McDougall, runner, reporter, and author of Born to Run, on the show to discuss his wide-ranging life experience. His concept of the hero is that they are responsible for others, that we humans are designed to be cooperative, that we are at our best when we are thoughtful and caring. In it all, it is important that we seek out fun. From learning from Mexico’s Rarámuri ultrarunners, to training a mistreated donkey to join him in competing in the 29-mile Pack Burro race in the Rockies, Chris’ life has been anything but average. Now living on Oahu, Hawaii, the 61 year-old continues to push himself to uncover stories, pick up new hobbies, and reflect on how his past informs his present day outlook on health, wellness, and keys to longevity.

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Key Moments
“I think what bothers me the most–and this applies in every aspect of our lives–is this sad human arrogance that we can outthink two million years of evolution. Natural selection has created this unbelievably complex self-healing device.”

“I spent a lot of time on the Greek island of Crete looking at World War II resistance fighters. Crete was one place that had a sensational story about average citizens who rose up to resist the German occupation. Again, these are not trained soldiers, these are just citizens who overnight, literally from one week to the next, went from being citizens into being military operatives against the most formidable army on the planet. And so my question was well, how do you do that physically? How do you turn yourself into a super soldier? And one of the things I looked at was diet.”

“You know one thing when you look at the human animal, there are two things that we are really good at. We are extraordinarily adaptive–we're very creative and ingenious. But secondly, we're extraordinarily cooperative. What is the internet all about? It's about trading stuff, trading images, trading thoughts, trading ideas. We are probably the most cooperative animal on the planet and we tend to forget that sometimes because, particularly in America and particularly in this era in America, we've come across this very sad notion. You know you gotta be tough. You know you gotta close the borders, you gotta be strong, you gotta crush this guy, you gotta win, win, win. That's not who human animals are. You know human animals throughout history have coexisted and have shared and cooperated. And if you look at most ancestral cultures, they were not about accumulation and acquisition and conquering. They were about coexistence, cooperation and learning from each other.“


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What are the actions we can take to maintain our long-term brain health? This week, we discuss this and more with Dr. Marc Milstein, author of The Age-Proof Brain. It turns out that even small behavioral changes, such as eating less processed foods and regularly challenging yourself with activities like playing an instrument will support overall brain fitness and neuroplasticity. Furthermore, Dr. Marc also breaks down the surprising link between gut and brain health. 


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Key Moments:

“Anything that is processed is likely to feed bad bacteria. These bacteria have been around much longer than us, and so the things that they like to eat are the things that were around much longer than us, long before we got here, and the bad bacteria tend to feed on the things that we created.”

“There's definitely foods that are great for brain health, but it's really about variety and we really have evidence that it's a synergistic relationship. It's not one food item that is just like this brain-boosting magic food. It's how the foods work together and that's why we believe that supplements can be beneficial, but they're not in many cases as beneficial as dietary changes, because what's in the food works together with other nutrients.”

“So what we see is that it's not about this stress-free lifestyle. Our brain is like a car, I like to say, and if you don't drive it, it falls apart, and if you over drive it, it falls apart. Stress is a burst of cortisol. Say I want to get something done. There's a challenge, I want to tackle something. All those moments of stress are actually good for our brain because they release cortisol and there's a part of our brain called the hippocampus which is really important for memory, and a squirt of cortisol in a moment of stress actually helps the hippocampus stay strong.”

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This week, we chat with Dr. Rich Joseph, the Chief Medical Officer at Restore Hyper Wellness, founder of vim Medicine, and co-founder of Vital CxNs. David made ample use of the Restore facilities during his recovery from knee surgery, and we like how their business helps to make treatments like hyperbaric oxygen therapy, red light therapy, IV drips, and others accessible to the public. During our conversation, Rich shares his view on the literature supporting up-and-coming therapy treatments, the importance of challenging oneself at any age, biomarkers, and his nonprofit work with underserved populations in Boston. 
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“My whole background is walking this fine line between the traditional medical system and the wellness industry. I was a personal trainer for a long time and that was my first foray into health and wellness before becoming a doctor. Now I help bridge the gap between these two sides. I think we have to be humble, the more I learn, the less I know about this stuff. Human health and our biology is very complicated, and yet there’s unfortunately still this imperative to like, make claims and to be bold in order to get people's attention.”


“This stuff is nuanced and we hope that people who really take their health seriously also have the responsibility of helping to advance the data and dig into the science.”


“How do you push the body into stress right in a way that's adaptive for the body? And that's what cold therapy does, it's what heat therapy does. This is sort of “perturbing” our homeostasis so that the body becomes more adaptive over time, and is able to better regulate itself.”


“Entropy is working on us all the time and so you have to push back against that and that's uncomfortable. That means welcoming and inviting discomfort into your life and to your day and that, to your point, is sort of against everything that we're sold right now and what we're taught to believe is best.”


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Restore Hyper Wellness
vim Performance Medicine
Vital CxNs

This week, we are joined by Alan Reznik, MD.MBA FAAOS, an extremely accomplished orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine who literally wrote the book on knee and shoulder health. Pulling from his work: The Knee and Shoulder Handbook, Dr. Reznik shares his expertise surrounding joint surgery, treatment protocols, long-term care, and more with us– breaking complex concepts down to make them accessible for all of us. For David, this was a great opportunity to get more insight into a surgeon’s thought process and key tips to help speed up his recovery 


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Key Moments
“The knee is very smart. It does two things when it's mad, it makes fluid, or it hurts, or both. In fact, all of your joints are always making a little bit of fluid. When there’s a lot of fluid in the knee, something's typically wrong. That's a tip, if my knees are very swollen, something is off.”

“I could take a plug, a round plug of cartilage from someplace else in your knee that you need less and move it to a place where you need it more, just like a hair transplant."


“Once you put a metal plate and a plastic liner on the bone, it will wear at a certain rate. Now the newer materials are very, very good and they wear very slowly. The older materials wore much faster. If you don't have a super active lifestyle, you're not a marathon runner and you put it in, it could be good for 20 or 25 years.”


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The Knee and Shoulder Handbook
Connecticut Orthopedics Page
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