Mark Effinger | Nootropics Masterclass: How To Be Healthy, Fit + Wealthy With New Brain/Body Science (At Any Age)
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 593
What are the best tools to optimize your brain and body?
Mark Effinger, Biochemist and Founder of Nootopia, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom podcast, episode 593, to discuss the powerful positive effects nootropics have on the human brain and body, how to balance Acetylcholine levels, why you need dopamine and drive to obtain best possible results, and the benefits of taking GABA and glutamate supplements.
"The way that nootropics work is they affect neurochemicals that are available in your gut: serotonin, adrenaline, norepinephrine, and dopamine. They activate certain neurochemical processes in the brain and they also provide the raw products so that your brain can create the neurochemicals necessary. They also support neurogenesis which is the blooming and creation of new neurons." - Mark Effinger
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- (01:30) Allow Hardship to Empower You
- (10:10) The Power of Nootropics
- (13:35) How to Improve Your Cognition
- (16:10) Achieve Cognitive + Spiritual Surplus
- (22:30) Life-Changing Events + Decisions
- (29:00) Neurotransmitters
- (35:50) How to Balance Acetylcholine Levels
- (43:40) Dopamine + Drive for Achieving Good Results
- (51:00) Embrace The Pain of Getting to Your Goal
- (01:02:40) GABA + Glutamate Neurotransmitters
- (01:11:20) How to Avoid SSRI Mood Swings
- (01:16:15) Recover from Addiction with Nootropics
- (01:27:55) Biomarkers of Aging
- (01:39:55) The Essence of Nootopia
- (01:48:20) Zamner Juice: A Solution for Entrepreneurs
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Neutropics can be a bridge to going, oh, I have more cognitive bandwidth than I thought. |
| 0:05.7 | I have more opportunity to laterally think, to be creative. |
| 0:09.3 | How do we use this leverage for cognition to not just become emotionally resilient, |
| 0:15.7 | but to become spiritually resilient as well, like what happened for you with the death of your wife. |
| 0:21.7 | The way that neutropics work is they get into your bloodstream. They affect some of the neurochemicals that are available in your gut. |
| 0:27.5 | Often serotonin is the biggest one, 95% of it's made in the gut. And then you've got your adrenaline. You've got dopamine. |
| 0:33.4 | You've got the blood-brain barrier that protects you from toxins. And then they activate certain neurochemical processes in the brain. |
| 0:40.3 | And they also provide the raw products that your brain can actually create the neurochemicals necessary, |
| 0:44.3 | as well as doing this really, really important thing. |
| 0:47.3 | Neurogenesis, this is the blooming and creation of the neurons. |
| 0:50.3 | I had a bunch of opportunities when we became this company to get a big payoff and walk away. |
| 0:55.9 | And Matt said to me, do you want to sell your company? And I said, no, I want to go change the world. |
| 1:00.3 | He goes, you're one of us. I've got an infinite horizon on this technology. I just discovered a handful of new |
| 1:05.8 | molecules. I'm going to be incorporating ASAP. And our research continues to get deeper and deeper |
| 1:09.8 | because we want everyone in the |
| 1:12.5 | universe to have biological optimization as an option for them. |
| 1:29.4 | Thank you for being here, man. |
| 1:30.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:31.8 | We've been marining it on this for a minute. |
| 1:36.8 | Well, and yeah, and the thing is, we were just talking about this. |
| 1:39.1 | Like, heart chakras right now are just lit up. |
| 1:43.8 | So, and I think it's really important to be able to get to a point where, right, where that flow is happening. |
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