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Age Less / Live More

335: Mental Fitness for the Modern Mind with Kasper van der Meulen

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Most people know more about Game of Thrones than they do about their own digestive system. They know how many nuclear warheads are in North Korea, but they don't know their Vitamin D levels or their fasting blood glucose levels. This is a problem.

The term 'mindfulness' usually conjures up the image of a monk sitting in Lotus Pose in the middle of the forest, but everyday mindfulness is just as important and often overlooked. On this week's podcast, you'll meet a mental fitness biohacker, Kasper van der Meulen, who focuses on personal growth and transformation.

Listen & Learn:

  • Biohacking 101
  • The risks and rewards of the Wim Hof Method
  • How to transition to minimal footwear and even barefoot running
  • Crafting your personal health transformation

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Kasper van der Meulen is a Wim Hof instructor, biohacker, coach, author, and speaker. He wrote the book MindLift: Mental Fitness for the Modern Mind

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0:00.0

The word biohacking has been co-opted by lots of different groups.

0:04.0

On one extreme of the spectrum, you have people taking 300 different pills a day,

0:11.0

vitamins and minerals, prescription drugs bought from questionable labs in India or China,

0:16.0

and then on the more conservative side of the spectrum, you have people who are simply measuring things and observing their body, the quantified self movement,

0:23.0

their heart rate, their steps per day,

0:25.0

their heart rate variability, their blood glucose,

0:28.0

they understand how to read their blood panels,

0:30.0

they might be tracking their sleep,

0:32.0

and most people fall somewhere in the middle. they might my

0:33.0

be tracking their sleep and most people fall somewhere in the middle.

0:35.0

Where do you fall?

0:36.0

Well my suggestion for you is and for everybody

0:39.0

is to learn more about this amazing thing that is the human body in our mind and how all of it works.

0:44.8

We have so much great information. We have access to really cheap sensor technology

0:48.6

and relatively inexpensive blood work that it just makes sense to learn more about this vessel that we

0:54.0

inhabit and try to figure out how you can optimize for your personal goals. Your

0:58.7

goal might be to have greater concentration at work, your goal might be to live to 122 like my goal is, your goal might be to live to

1:02.5

to a hundred and twenty two like my goal is

1:04.4

your goal might be to lose that ten extra pounds

1:07.5

even carrying around since you hit forty

1:09.7

whatever it is if you understand your own biochemistry if you learn how to read your blood panels if you

1:15.0

understand your heart rate variability in your resting heart rate and you know some basic things

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