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Barbell Shrugged

A Doctor’s Journey to Optimizing Health and Performance w/ Dr. Mark Farmer, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson #752

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mark Farmer, born in London, England, is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon specializing in knee and shoulder surgery.

After earning his undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, he completed his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed by a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.

Now in private practice in Fort Myers, FL, Dr. Farmer is also developing a functional health and optimization program.

An avid traveler, skier, and health enthusiast, he enjoys spending time with his wife Joann and their two sons, Oliver and Isaac.

Work with RAPID Health Optimization

Work With Dr. Mark Farmer

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shark Family this week on Barbell Shrugged, Dr. Mark Farmer.

0:05.0

He is one of our favorite human beings in the entire world.

0:08.0

Mark's wouldn't been with us at Rapid Health and Performance.

0:11.0

Rapid Health optimization for a Rapid Health Optimization for a

0:13.0

better part of a year now.

0:14.8

And every time I talk to this man,

0:17.5

as you are going to here in this podcast,

0:19.7

the man's life has changed enormously, and we have unlocked an amount of energy and

0:25.6

training and performance and health and vibrance and vitality and he's just one of those people every time you talk to him he makes your life better because you just go

0:36.2

how do I meet that guy on his level of excitement for life? What's very very cool about this is Mark has been a doctor.

0:42.3

He's an orthopedic surgeon he's

0:43.5

been in the medical world for his whole life and always wondered kind of like

0:49.1

where the next level was and not only has he had phenomenal results inside rapid health optimization but he is also

0:56.4

taking a lot of the lessons he's learned and things that we do here and we'll be integrating them

1:01.8

into his clinic in Florida kind of in the

1:05.7

brick and mortar setting which is beyond incredible to be able to not only just

1:10.0

come in and get the results for himself but also be able to pass the message on and

1:14.1

bring his entire practice into this new world that he has found so much value in and

1:19.1

in this show he's gonna tell his story because we we just love having him one and two. This is a

1:26.8

a testament more than a testimonial and is a testament to what it can be like

1:32.2

when you have your training and nutrition and

1:35.1

supplementation and your sleep and your stress and recovery all really cooked into a

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