[Brain Health] How Exercise and Strength Training Impact Cognitive Function w/ Dr. Mike Zourdos, Anders Varner, Doug Larson and Coach Travis Mash #720
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Dr. Mike Zourdos is a Full Professor of Exercise Physiology at Florida Atlantic University.
He has contributed over 50 published research papers. He received his PHD in Exercise Physiology from Florida State University in 2012. He is a regular contributor at MASS (Monthly Applications in Strength Sport).
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| 0:20.0 | Truck family this week on barbed show Dr Mike Zortis is coming into the show which is super cool because he is a full professor down at Florida Atlantic and guess what he is going to be talking to us about brain health, how exercise nutrition is kind of living this healthy life affects not only short term brain health. We'll call that brain performance, but long termterm brain health, and we all kind of know that we have gotten |
| 0:26.1 | really, really good at understanding what are the right foods to be eating, what are the right |
| 0:29.6 | training programs, how do we build muscle so we have this idea of like longevity and not having |
| 0:34.4 | our bodies break down over time, but the brain is still a mystery. |
| 0:38.0 | We're going to shed some light on overall what you can do to have not just the performance side of cognitive function in the short term, |
| 0:46.5 | but what is the longevity side to brain health so we can stave off the scariest of brain diseases, dementia, things like that. |
| 0:55.0 | Seems like that is really the big conversation these days is how do we keep our brains healthy |
| 0:59.3 | so that our bodies are not just outlasting our brains almost impossible to say that without probably many many people listening to this right now going oh yeah I have somebody that deals with dot dot as they have aged many of our parents and grandparents specifically. |
| 1:14.3 | As always friends you can head over to rapidhealth report.com. |
| 1:17.7 | That is where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galvin are doing a free lab lifestyle and |
| 1:20.6 | performance analysis that everybody inside rapid health |
| 1:23.7 | optimization will receive you can access that over at rapid health report |
| 1:28.2 | dot com friends get to the show |
| 1:32.2 | all gonna barbed shrug I'm Anders Warner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash. |
| 1:35.0 | Thanks for hanging out, dude. |
| 1:37.0 | Mike Zordos on the show today. |
| 1:38.6 | He is a department chair down at Florida Atlantic and we're excited to have you here man and we were talking pre-show |
| 1:44.3 | this thing gets me fired up. |
| 1:46.1 | You're 38. |
| 1:47.1 | That brings you close to the big 4-0 number. |
| 1:51.0 | We've all exceeded that line in the sand. |
| 1:54.0 | But dude, we were joking, but it's a very real thing. |
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