You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every

damn day. Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the

greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more. So whether your goal is to be the hammer,

destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've

come to the right place. Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin.

Hey, Power Thet Nation, if you follow this podcast for any length of time, you know I'm obsessed

in human performance and you know that I'm into improving brain function and more importantly

increasing neuroplasticity.

So we got a banger today with Dr. Eric Wan, who's president and chief medical officer of

wave neuroscience, a biotech company that's developing innovative solutions for mental disorders

and how to improve upon your brain function. Dr. Wan isn't just a pretty face.

He served as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon for the Marine Medium Helicopter Squad in 268 and

became chief technical officer of Medical at Boeing, which is a Fortune 500 company and

served as nearly a decade under that capacity before joining Wave Neuroscience.

He holds an MBA from USC and also an MPH from Harvard, and we have an interesting connection.

So 10 years ago, the company that Dr. Juan works for, wave neuroscience was doing some brain scans that I was associated with in 2013 for a DOD study.

Fast forward 10 years, I meet Dr. Juan through Nick Hardwick at a South by Southvest event and

end up getting re-scanned.

So we're going to go into these two scans and these two pieces of technology that are 10 years

apart.

And I'm going to get

into some of the strategies I used to effectively de-h my brain, make myself smarter, and make my

...