Developing Your Brain for a Longer, Healthier Life | Neuroscientist Dr. Tommy Wood
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Tommy Wood, a UK-trained MD with a PhD in physiology and neuroscience.
He received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge before attending medical school at the University of Oxford.
After working as a junior doctor in central London, he moved to Norway for his PhD work and then to the University of Washington as a postdoc, where he’s now an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.
Tommy's work and research interests include the physiological and metabolic responses to brain injury and how that impacts brain health across the lifespan, as well as developing easily-accessible methods with which to track health, performance, and longevity in both elite athletes and the general population.
So, this conversation is far more than just how to “live longer” - it’s about first principles to work from, for health – over time – and we also dive deep into best practices to enhance and optimize your brain functioning.
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| 0:00.0 | One thing that I'm really concerned about in the biohacking community, continuous |
| 0:07.0 | glucose monitors are part of this, sleep monitors are part of this, is this |
| 0:10.8 | kind of pathologization of things that should bring us joy. You know there's |
| 0:15.2 | interesting data, there's so you quantify something you start to lose the joy |
| 0:17.9 | in it, you start to objectify it and it's no longer a thing that can bring you joy |
| 0:21.1 | in the same way. |
| 0:30.1 | All right welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael |
| 0:35.6 | Jervet and by trade and training I am a sport and performance psychologist. I |
| 0:39.7 | love what I get to do and I am fortunate to work with some of the most |
| 0:43.4 | extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet and the whole idea behind |
| 0:47.9 | this podcast behind these conversations is to pull back the curtain to explore |
| 0:52.6 | how these extraordinary have committed to mastering both their craft and |
| 0:56.6 | their minds and our minds it's one of the great assets that we have in life. |
| 1:00.8 | It's amazing we are capable of so much and if you want to learn more about how |
| 1:06.3 | you can optimize the way you work with your mind this is just a quick little |
| 1:10.1 | reminder here to check out our online psychological training course where we |
| 1:14.1 | have pulled together the best practices to meet that unique intersection of |
| 1:18.2 | high-performance psychology and the psychology of well-being so we walk through |
| 1:22.4 | 16 essential principles and skills for you to develop the mind that works for |
| 1:27.2 | you what does that mean it's this ability for you to be at home with yourself |
| 1:32.7 | wherever you are and to be working towards your upper capabilities and when |
| 1:37.6 | you end up doing that you end up bringing other people along with you it's an |
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