182: Sports survival guide
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Why are sports injuries so common? How can we not only avoid injury, but maximize performance? Dr. Tommy John owns and runs the Dr. Tommy John Performance and Healing Center in San Diego and is the author of "Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance: A Sports Parent's Survival Guide."
Today, he shares insights on what children--and athletes of all ages--can do to not merely survive, but thrive in the activity of their choice. He reviews a list of essentials for optimal health and he reminds us of the power we have to shape our own health and athletic performance. He covers what to do about cravings, how to nourish young athletes on the go, and how to learn to listen to our own intuition about what our bodies need most.
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| 0:00.0 | You got kids that are overfed and malnourished and improperly hydrated. |
| 0:04.0 | They're not going outside and playing for four to six hours outside freely in an unorganized manner anymore. |
| 0:10.0 | Instead, they're sitting behind screens for a majority of their day. |
| 0:13.0 | This not only leaves them inactive with poor posture, |
| 0:16.0 | but they're over-stimulated and less aware |
| 0:19.0 | and they're disconnected from vital physiological and neurological |
| 0:22.0 | and neurological processes that promote healing to boost performance. |
| 0:24.8 | So you have this group of youth that are devolved in this state because of how we're raising them from |
| 0:31.0 | womb to 13. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for Wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:46.0 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. Hey everybody, I'm Helle Abrada Gore and this is episode 182. |
| 1:03.3 | Our guest today is Dr. Tommy John. |
| 1:05.8 | Tommy owns and runs the Dr. Tommy John |
| 1:08.8 | Performance and Healing Center in San Diego. |
| 1:11.5 | And he is the author of Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance, |
| 1:16.4 | a sports parent survival guide. |
| 1:18.9 | Does his name ring a bell? |
| 1:20.5 | I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Tommy is the son of baseball legend Tommy John who had the first Tommy John surgery. |
| 1:27.0 | On today's episode, Tommy tells us some of his father's story |
| 1:31.0 | and then he dives into his own. He talks to us frankly about the |
| 1:35.4 | youth sports injury epidemic. Did you know that up to 40% of emergency room |
| 1:41.1 | visits for children between the ages of 5 and 14, are for sports-related |
| 1:45.9 | injuries. He helps us discover what's behind this trend and what is driving the sports machine |
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