Biohacking Your Brain With Precision Medicine, Genomics, Psychedelics, Advanced Nutritional Strategies & Much More!
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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Dr. Matt Dawson and Dr. Mike Mallin are the head honcho docs at Wild Health, with locations in Versailles, KY and Bend, OR. I first interviewed these guys in the episode "How To Use Precision Medicine To Enhance Athletic Performance, Defy Aging, Balance Hormones, Fix The Heart & Much More." then again in "Why Your DNA Is Worthless (& What You Need To Focus On Instead)", and in this episode, they're back to talk all things brain optimization, brain biohacking and a medical-based precision genomics approach to upgrading the brain.
Dr. Matt Dawson is a precision medicine physician in Lexington, KY, co-host of the Wild Health Podcast, and has been obsessed with performance optimization as long as he can remember. He received scholarships to play two sports in college even with “minimal talent” because of his voracious reading and implementation of any fitness or nutritional techniques that would give him an edge. Dr. Dawson continued that obsession in medical school, and as a physician, he has won national awards for education, innovation, and leadership. He has lectured in over 20 countries and trained thousands of other physicians through live lectures, online education, two textbooks, and an educational app. Dr. Dawson combines his training in genomics and functional medicine to give personalized, precise medical guidance. His obsession with performance optimization has morphed from, initially athletic, to now mental performance and longevity. Whether it's a professional athlete or a grandparent optimizing their mental clarity and mobility to keep up with their grandkids, Dr. Dawson is passionate about helping everyone perform at their absolute peak.
Dr. Mike Mallin is a physician in Bend, OR who is obsessed with health performance and precision medicine and is co-founder of the Wild Health Podcast. He completed medical school in South Carolina and trained in Emergency Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT where he competed in several ultramarathons and found his love for the mountains and performance. Mike currently practices in Bend, OR and Lexington, KY in his precision medicine clinics. He is also co-founder of the Ultrasound Podcast, an educational podcast that has taught thousands of physicians all over the world how to use ultrasound.
In this podcast, we discuss the September brain biohacking event coming up in Lexington, KY, September 26-28 (use code BEN for a discount).
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-Matt and Mark's work on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic...10:30
-Tests that determine cognitive function...19:10
-The link between immune function and the brain...39:00
-Recommended brain optimization modalities and strategies...43:30
-How to and how not to use plant medicines for cognitive function and brain health...57:15
-Peptides, ketamine, synthetic substitutes for plant medicines...1:04:20
-About the event being held at the Kentucky Castle this September...1:06:00
-And much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, some of these plant medicines is more like getting an |
| 0:07.0 | erase car and getting there and while that may sound appealing if you imagine someone who is crawling to this |
| 0:11.9 | destination, they've never seen a race car and you try to put them behind the wheel of it, that's a very |
| 0:16.6 | dangerous situation. The benefits of some of these things that might be relied upon as a fast track to a certain goal |
| 0:25.0 | are certainly in some cases undeniable and yet there's something to be said about the journey itself. |
| 0:31.6 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. My name is Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's episode is on biohacking your brain using medicine. We kind of went into all sorts of little rabbit holes on this |
| 0:59.0 | podcast with the doctors from Wild Health. I honestly wish we'd add like four hours because we kind of |
| 1:04.6 | I exposed you guys to a lot of stuff on this show that I think is really going to get your |
| 1:11.6 | wheels turning in terms of ways that you can optimize cognitive function but because it's such a |
| 1:16.4 | such a vast deep area, you know, there like everything we talked about we could have spent hours more |
| 1:21.3 | just talking about that one thing, you know, whether it's neurotransmitters or red light therapy or anything else. |
| 1:26.4 | And so, A, I unpack a lot of this stuff that we talk about in my book, Boundless. So that would be a great |
| 1:32.8 | accompaniment, especially the first four chapters of Boundless to the podcast that you're about to hear. |
| 1:37.8 | They're also putting on a fantastic event down in Lexington, Kentucky on biohacking the brain that we |
| 1:43.6 | discuss in today's show. It'll be available both online as well as if you're like me because I'll be |
| 1:49.1 | there. You can attend in person. And so that's all going to be in the show notes at Ben Greenfield fitness.com slash |
| 1:55.6 | wild health brain. One thing we did not talk too much about on this show, but this is fantastic for your |
| 2:00.9 | vagal nerve function and for your brain. And that's cold therapy, cold thermogenesis. We are running a |
| 2:06.4 | huge cold thermo challenge if you didn't hear yet. If you've been living under a rock, we have |
| 2:11.1 | thousands of people around the globe right now signing up for our huge, if I can overuse that word anymore, |
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