Mark Effinger | The Science of Nootropics: Achieve The Perfect Chemical Balance in Your Brain + Body (special r/p)

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Emotionalintelligence, Behaviorchange, Mindfulness, Religion & Spirituality, Mindset, Neuroscience, Self-improvement, Habits, Wellness, Consciousness, Anxiety, Fitness, Behavioralpsychology, Education, Health, Breathwork, Nutrition, Meditation, Organic, Strength, Mentalhealth, Depression, Spirituality, Psychedelics, Personalgrowth, Selfhelp, Supplements, Selfdevelopment, Physical

4.6 • 895 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 660

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, special replay of 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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In This Episode, Mark Effinger Uncovers:

[01:30] Allow Hardship to Empower You

Mark Effinger
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497 Mark Effinger | Brain + Mood Optimization: Become Unstoppable With Nootropics
The benefits of nootropic supplements.
The story of Mark‘s wife committing suicide.
How seeing the depth of addiction changes your perspective on life.
What motivated Mark to start creating prototypes for supplements.

[10:10] The Power of Nootropics

Mark‘s journey of developing the first supplement.
How the first prototype caused a cognitive load.
Unpacking how nootropics work in the human body.
How nootropics support neurogenesis.
Why improving liver function can help prevent Alzheimer‘s.

[13:35] How to Improve Your Cognition

How nootropics help Josh stay focused and avoid distractions.
Nootropics as Cognitive Enhancers: Types, Dosage and Side Effects of Smart Drugs
How nootropics increase mitochondrial activity.
Why some Nootopia products contain ketones.

[16:10] Achieve Cognitive + Spiritual Surplus

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Why we need to take care of our physiology before anything else.
We are not able to navigate different phases of our relationships.
The importance of having a purpose in life.
Why most people lack cognitive and spiritual surplus.

[22:30] Life-Changing Events + Decisions

Why Mark felt burnt out and what changed his life.
How his body expelled Accutane from the muscle fiber and fascia.
Elon Musk
Why we need to learn to master task switching.
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[29:00] Neurotransmitters

The Top 5 Neurotransmitters from a Clinical Neurologist's Perspective
Charlie Rose
Unpacking how Nootopia labs function.
The lack of Acetylcholine causes problems with speech.
Why Mark has a strong connection to music and movies.

[35:50] How to Balance Acetylcholine Levels

What happens when we have too much Acetylcholine in the body.
How to keep the flow of Acetylcholine steady.
Josh‘s favorite Nootopia products.
Why carbon dioxide spending is the measurement of athlete‘s performance.
The reason why we need to remove carbon dioxide and oxidized fats from the body.

[43:40] Dopamine + Drive for Achieving Good Results

Bryan Johnson
How we become dependent on dopamine to feel accomplished.
Clean Fifteen
How we can find joy in doing the right thing instead of following our unhealthy drive.
Why dopamine can be both good and bad.

[51:00] Embrace The Pain of Getting to Your Goal

The benefits of cold plunging.
How Nootopia‘s Dopa Drops are designed for a three-stage dopamine release.
The importance of enjoying the pain of the process to getting to the reward.
David Goggins
How we can become limitless with Nootopia.
Unpacking how to avoid the spike and drop of dopamine.
How weightlifters deplete themselves of dopamine.

[01:02:40] GABA + Glutamate Neurotransmitters

How glutamate wakes you up and makes you hypervigilant.
Why Mark was motivated by helping people with addiction to create a revolutionary product.
How glutamate removes the delay between thought and action.
Why diet causes low or high glutamate levels.
The benefits of GABA for down-regulation of the nervous system and making decisions under stress.

[01:11:20] How to Avoid SSRI Mood Swings

How to recognize what we need to optimize for.
The tools for health optimization.
Why serotonin is not the "happy" molecule.
How selective serotonin recycles the re-uptake cycle.
Maria Bamford
How to avoid mood swings with SSRI.

[01:16:15] Recover from Addiction with Nootropics

How bipolar medications prevent Josh‘s mom from feeling the highs and lows.
Why Mark wants everyone to have access to biological optimization.
In Nootopia, people get a neurochemical analysis to understand where they‘re dominant and what they‘re lacking.
Why nootropics are anti-addictive.
Addiction is a byproduct of neurochemical processes and repeated systems.

[01:27:55] Biomarkers of Aging

Why pharmaceutical drugs are not a long-term solution to addiction.
The difference between plant-derived and lab-grown nootropics.
The peptides Mark is currently researching.
David Sinclair
How to modulate hormones to prevent aging and disease.
Why detoxication gets less efficient as we get older.

[01:39:55] The Essence of Nootopia

How Nootopia collaborates with scientists to deliver the best products.
The reason why Mark and his team meditate in their meetings.
Where Nootopia sources their ingredients.
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[01:48:20] Zamner Juice: A Solution for Entrepreneurs

How Zamner Juice increases verbal fluency.
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About Mark Effinger

Mark Effinger is a seasoned entrepreneur and intrapreneur with specialties in biochemistry and hormone and brain optimization. He is successful in industries from marketing to lasers to software. Companies turn to him for his clear grasp of the startup-to-sellout process.

The death of Mark's former wife from a painkiller overdose put him on the path to creating high-performance nutritional supplements.

After 4 years of development, he released a product called “Limitless NZT-48,” as in the movie Limitless, with 3,500% growth over the first year (now 5,100% over 29 months).

Mark considers the biggest challenge with nootropics to be that everyone’s brain chemistry is unique. For the first time ever, Nootopia has solved this with a personalized process and product.

They use your information to evaluate your goals and brain chemistry, then customize their nine core blends. Whether you want to say goodbye to afternoon energy crashes, increase your verbal fluency, boost your emotional intelligence, or reach other optimization goals, Nootopia gets you 100% personal help every single day.

The system even comes with an app that guides you every step of the journey and allows you to give feedback to customize your blends even further.

Mark's vision is for the resources from the company to move the needle in terms of making a difference while they make healthy profits. He firmly believes that Nootopia can add value both locally and globally.

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast land, it's Josh Trent. This is Wellness and Wisdom, the podcast where we explore how to feed and nourish the five sides of you, the five sides of self, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial you.
0:14.9	We're either starving or we're nourishing when it comes to these five signs and I've found
0:19.2	in my life that if you take from one, the others start to suffer.
0:23.4	Today is a very special podcast when it comes to cognition
0:26.7	and the physiology and neurology of how thoughts become things.
0:30.3	I'm not talking about just psychoneuro immunology. I'm not talking about just how the brain works or why the brain is just the most hungry organ ever.
0:38.0	Today we're talking about Neutropics. This is a master class, a true science and understanding of Neutropics.
0:44.0	And by the end of this podcast from Mark Effinger, the co-founder, the CEO, the juggernaut,
0:49.1	when it comes to all things the mind and cognition. He leads a company called Neutopia. He's led many
0:55.1	companies in his life, almost 20 in many decades. But Mark comes to the
1:00.0	podcast today to share not just the science of Neutropics but the spirituality and the
1:05.0	healing behind how your brain can work better through these just little pedestals of
1:10.0	support sometimes really big pedestals by the way. This is how to achieve perfect
1:14.0	chemical balance in your brain. You can learn all the things that we talk about
1:17.8	today and more about them at Josh Trent.com forth slash 593. Head over to Josh Trent.com. 4.93. Head over to Josh Trent.com.
1:24.0	4.93 and make sure that you understand just how potent and how powerful
1:29.0	Neutropics will be for you if you've been struggling with brain fog, cognitive decline, and just a host of other things that all equate to you not being able to speak your truth.
1:40.0	Mark is a friend of mine. He's a brother. I have a lot of love, a lot of respect, and just so much reverence for the way that Mark shows up.
1:48.0	He has had not the easiest time in life when it comes to relationships after After losing his wife through drug addiction
1:54.8	that she struggled with for so long, he then turned that pain into purpose and he
1:59.5	allowed his heart to lead the way for not just ututopia, but for brains and people across the world, myself
2:06.0	being one of them.
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