The Code: A Guide to Health and Human Performance Dr. Andrew Fix

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) plays a role in nine out of the ten deadliest diseases in the United States. “They make it so much easier to become the CEO of your own health,” says Dr. Torkil Færø MD, of wearables such as WHOOP, Garmin and Apple Watch which measure this vital health metric . HRV is the variation in time between heartbeats, and its measure lets us know how much stress our system is under. Measuring our HRV so closely and consistently, wearables help us learn how best to keep ourselves in a rested state, therefore helping us to stave off so many chronic stress-related diseases. On today’s episode of The Code, Dr. Færø discusses what each wearable is best at measuring, their specific benefit to women, and the top three (surprising!) stressors according to WHOOP.
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• “In ancient times, all the threats came from the outside… these days, what makes us sick is too much stress, and now we need the sense of our own system…the heart and the heart rate will reveal the state of the system. So, that’s why it’s so important.” (11:08 | Dr. Torkil Færø) 
• “So you just push a button and see the stress level in the moment, from zero to 100 in the moment. And that is quite important because you can feel, ‘How do I feel right now?’ And you can check, OK, so this is how it feels to have the stress of 40, for example. And you get to know your body better when you can get the measurement of the stress in the moment.” (17:20 | Dr. Torkil Færø) 
• “Everyone should just find their own level, and then see how they can get their HRV as good as possible, within reason. So, not to compare it too much to other people, is important.” (13:20 | Dr. Torkil Færø)
• “It’s also kind of a license to rest. A lot of people feel guilty if they don’t do something…it’s another thing that tells you, ‘Relax, you deserve to relax,’ you should relax because there’s been so much strain on you.” (40:22 | Dr. Torkil Færø)
• “Google almost any disease or symptom with heart rate variability and you will find a connection. It’s said that heart rate variability is connected to nine out of the 10 deadliest diseases in the States. One out of those ten is road accidents, but all the other big killers are related to HRV.”  (53:55 |Dr. Torkil Færø) 
 
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“Knowledge is power”—or is it? It’s a phrase we hear often, but never really question. On today’s episode of The Code, host Dr. Andrew Fix suggests that knowledge is not power, at least not unto itself. Knowledge becomes powerful only when we put it into action. 
 
Dr. Fix cites his own experience using a tracking device to illustrate. He collected so much body data— heart rate variability, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation—all of which was useless because he did nothing with it. He will explain the danger in reading too many self-improvement books and listening to self-improvement podcasts and whether list-making or time blocking is better for time management and goal setting. 
 
Join today’s episode to learn Dr. Fix’s advice about turning your own knowledge into power. That’s where the magic really happens. 
 
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• “Knowledge really isn’t power. A lot of people who are in powerful positions or a lot of people who do great things have a lot of knowledge, but knowledge by itself is useless. It’s just information. It’s just information until you are able to, or you choose to, do something with it.” (1:41 | Dr. Andrew Fix)
• “Just like that phrase “creativity without action is just imagination.” Or “goals without action are just dreams.” Unless you choose to do something with the information that you have, what good is that information?” (2:08 | Dr. Andrew Fix)
• “Gather as much information as you want and as you can. But at the end of the day, please make sure you do something with that information because it’s going to improve your life, it’s going to improve somebody else’s life and everyone’s going to be better off for it because we’re going to put that knowledge into action and that’s where the magic can really happen.” (6:29 | Dr. Andrew Fix) 
 
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It all starts in the nose. Today’s guest, allergist Dr. Shuba Iyengar, explains that by the time we exhibit common allergy symptoms such as headache, itchy eyes and post-nasal drip, we’ve already been silently suffering. On today’s episode of The Code, Dr. Iyengar will explain the myriad reasons why over-the-counter allergy medications fail to work, and how her company Allermi, which concocts bespoke nasal sprays for allergy sufferers, is working to address the root causes of this increasingly common issue. 
 
As in fitness, getting to the root cause is key. Join today’s discussion to hear Dr. Iyengar explain who is most likely to suffer from allergies, where they’re likely to live and what we can do about it. 
 
Quotes
• “To get that whole constellation of stuff better, you have to get that cute little nose better and you have to get that inflammation to go down. So, most treatments that are really effective will work on the nose.” (5:29 | Dr. Shuba Iyengar) 
• “With climate change, we’re having warmer years. We have pollen seasons that have increased over the past—every year, the pollen season gets longer and longer and longer—so you have a longer season of pollination. And then on top of that, the pollen counts are wacky: they go up really high and then all of a sudden it comes down really low. You were just talking about the weather in Denver being 65 and then all of a sudden it’s snowing two days later. That wacky temperature is not something that nature likes.”(10:41 | Dr. Shuba Iyengar) 
• “Because accumulation of all our inflammation is just higher, once that happens, once inflammation is at this baseline—you probably see this all the time—it’s not much to make it worse. It doesn’t take much to make inflammation worse. It takes a lot to create it, but once you get to that point where it’s already inflamed it doesn’t take much more to make it worse.” (12:12 | Dr. Shuba Iyengar)
 
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“Our medical system, here in the United States, is failing you, and failing me and failing us.” says Dr. Andrew Fix. Doctors’ appointments last less than ten minutes and patients leave feeling neglected and unheard. If specialists are able to offer any solutions to patients’ problems, they are often impractical and do not address root causes. Insurance companies do everything they can to deny coverage, leaving patients to seek alternative and preventative solutions. 
 
On today’s episode of The Code, Dr. Fix shares stories of two women in his life who each sought treatment from traditional doctors. Learn the baffling advice his mother received from doctors about a persistent ringing in her ear, and the unlikely route she took to discover the source of the issue. Hear the story of a woman who was told by numerous doctors that they were unable—or unwilling—to help her with digestive issues and what Dr. Fix and his colleagues at the Physio Room did to help.
 
With so many obstacles built into the healthcare system, clients need to be strong self-advocates. Dr. Fix reveals what approach they need to take to get the help they need, and what providers can do to make their interactions with clients more positive and productive. 
 
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• “If you have a real life threatening concern, condition, injury, this is probably the place you want to be. If you need to get rushed into surgery, if you have cancer, or a heart condition and require open-heart surgery— this is probably the place where you want to be because we have the ability to treat things really, really well when they’re present.”  (3:57 | Dr. Andrew Fix)
• “When you go see an orthopedic or a physical therapist and say, ‘It hurts when I reach up; it hurts when I do this with my shoulder,’ and their solution to you is, ‘Well, don’t do that thing,’ which we all know is not a solution. That’s just avoiding the issue.” (6:22 | Dr. Andrew Fix)
• “Unfortunately, our traditional medical system is just not set up to do that, to be able to have the providers have the amount of time necessary to listen and not be interrupted and just literally, truly listen to the clients, and have the amount of time necessary to do so, and really hear what they’re saying and digest it and respond with some helpful recommendations.” (13:17 | Dr. Andrew Fix)
• “There are so many restrictions placed on providers and on the medical facilities by the third party payers — AKA the health insurance companies — who are just trying to deny, deny deny.” (15:43 | Dr. Andrew Fix) 

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Discover how a simple mineral transformed Robb Wolf's health, performance, and career.  Host Dr. Andrew Fix sits down with Robb, the co-founder of Drink LMNT. A former research biochemist and a leading expert in Paleolithic nutrition, Robb shares his personal health journey, highlighting his long-standing interest in health and human performance. Now, he dedicates his work to assisting people who have found standard medical interventions insufficient, helping them improve their lifestyle and overall health.
 
Robb emphasizes the transformative impact of a paleo diet, underscored by proper hydration and electrolyte balance. He recounts his journey from initial skepticism to becoming an advocate of the essential roles that sodium and electrolytes play, particularly in ketogenic and low-carb diets. This experience inspired him to develop the electrolyte drink mix, LMNT, renowned for its pure ingredients and lack of unnecessary additives.
 
Challenging prevailing myths about sodium and blood pressure, Robb advocates for informed dietary choices over mere reductionist approaches. Listeners are encouraged to reevaluate their understanding of nutrition, electrolytes, and overall health optimization.
 
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• “My sweet spot is working with folks who have had really complex gut and autoimmune issues  and figuring out how to fix that.” (06:33 | Robb Wolf)
• “The person that is a perfect fit for me, they've kind of run the gauntlet of standard medical intervention, but they're still not where they want to be with health. And that is kind of the center of the bullseye for me, the folks that I seem to really bond with the best.” (06:57 | Robb Wolf)
• “It's fairly obvious at this point that the first signs of electrolyte imbalance are diminished fine motor skills, brain fog, and neurological fatigue.” (36:52 | Robb Wolf) 
• “You have the basic nutrient density, like how much vitamins, minerals, essential nutrients are in the food. But any given food, depending on how it's prepared and what things are in it, may be more or less accessible to our bodies.” (44:53 | Robb Wolf)
• “We must create space for people to push back against the dominant narrative. And sometimes, they're going to be wrong. But once we have decided we have it all figured out, we have died as a culture. That is the end of the development of exploring the truth.” (01:01:42 | Robb Wolf) 
 
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If overeating were simply an emotional issue, Dr. Glenn Livingston, a veteran psychologist, would have been best prepared to access those emotions to overcome his own overeating. Yet, despite making great strides to address his own issues, he still found himself binging. As a consultant for “Big Food”, he also understood that food manufacturers create and advertise their products in ways that are intended to hijack our reptilian brains. Willpower, he explains, is just the ability to make decisions. And in a society that demands we make an increasing amount of decisions big and small, we inevitably reach fatigue before the day is even through. 
 
To circumvent these challenges, we must learn to recognize our trouble areas and put space between the stimulus and the response. Dr. Glenn unpacks a series of self-regulatory behaviors which can be valuable even to those who don’t suffer from binging but who find themselves making decisions beyond their better judgment.
 
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• “I was consulting for “Big Food” and also “Big Pharma”, but I feel guiltier about Big Food because they were engineering these hyper-palatable concentrations of starch and sugar and excitotoxins and salt, all engineered to hit the bliss point in the reptilian brain without giving you the nutrition to feel satisfied, which created more and more craving.” (7:50 | Dr. Glenn Livingston)
• “We live in a society where we’re overburdened with inputs and we’re overburdened with decision-making. This tears down your willpower.” (19:20 | Dr. Glenn Livingston)
• “If the emotions are the fire, then it’s easier to build the fireplace so the ashes don’t get out than it is to put out the fire. Most of the people in our culture think that you have to fix the emotional problems before you can stop overeating, and that’s a very long journey.” (23:51 | Dr. Glenn Livingston)
• “Overeating or the desire to break these rules, it really comes from the reptilian brain wanting to push your rational brain out of the way because it perceives an emergency stint.” (31:27 | Dr. Glenn Livingston)
• “If you have strong cravings, stronger than other people, it’s not because you have a diseased or a sick mind, it’s because your mind is healthier than other people.” (50:07 | Dr. Glenn Livingston)
 
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