Jöhg Ananda: Breaking the Monopoly of Opioids — The Bledsoe Show #118
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Jöhg Ananda has been described as a "Cultural Revolutionary" by Dr. Chris Ryan. Jöhg is a serial entrepreneur (Healthy Surprise, The Dirt Paleo Personal Care, Jambo Superfoods) and founder of Union Yoga. Jöhg has invented over 50 consumer products, including the subscription snack box category, several guided yoga kriyas and designed a factory.
In this episode, we talk with Jöhg about the monopoly of opioids, the structural realignment of who the experts are, the power of conditioning, how propaganda has made plant based medicine taboo, the power of planning tomorrow at the end of today, and much more.
Enjoy!
-Mike
Episode Breakdown:
⚡️0-10: Intro: What is CBD and the monopoly of opioids
⚡️11-20: The structural realignment of who the experts are and bullshit detectors
⚡️21-30: The new frontier of medicine and how propaganda has made plant based medicine taboo
⚡️31-40: Presenting products in holistic ways and why Johg got into the CBD industry
⚡️ 41-50: What gets people to change behavior and the power of conditioning
⚡️51-60: Building the capacity to choose and why people fail
⚡️61-70: Understanding struggle and why self care leads to productivity
⚡️71-83: The power of planning tomorrow at the end of today
How to build a successful mind, body, and company
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| 0:00.0 | You may have heard of the term down regulation, or you know about the differences between |
| 0:04.1 | the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. |
| 0:07.7 | This is a super important conversation because most of us are spending our days in an up-regulated |
| 0:12.9 | state and it's hurting our performance. |
| 0:15.7 | The down-regulated state, the parasympathetic system, that we seek outside of our workouts |
| 0:20.7 | is in charge of rest, digest, and breed. |
| 0:24.2 | It's necessary to recover fully. |
| 0:26.2 | The up-regulated, the sympathetic nervous system, when stimulated, causes you to enter |
| 0:30.7 | the state of fight, flight, and freeze. |
| 0:33.9 | It is stimulated in the presence of stress. |
| 0:36.8 | You'll recognize fight when you're in the heat of the moment at the gym, flight when |
| 0:40.9 | you're avoiding that person at work, and freeze when you realize that you haven't been breathing |
| 0:46.4 | or shallow breathing. |
| 0:48.3 | This is the state that most people are living in most of the day. |
| 0:51.2 | It's easy to spot if your shoulders move up and down when you take a deep breath. |
| 0:56.1 | The best performers, over time, on the planet are able to down-regulate quickly and stay |
| 1:01.0 | there when it's not necessary. |
| 1:03.4 | Their bodies spend the majority of the time in down-regulation. |
| 1:06.2 | That's rest, digest, and breed. |
| 1:09.3 | How do we get there? |
| 1:10.6 | Find out what's creating the stress in the first place and remove it. |
| 1:14.9 | Start with the breath. |
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