MOTW #67: Performance vs Longevity

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome back to Mind of the Warrior everybody. For those of you that don't know it in addition to all the other stuff I got going on continue to be a
0:24.7	practicing emergency medicine physician working as a SWAT doc doing what I'm
0:29.2	doing with the the individual first aid kits that many of you have already purchased and some other
0:34.7	upcoming projects that I have. I am also medical director for an amazing multinational company that
0:41.5	makes mostly pre-hospital stuff but also some stuff that you may have seen in
0:45.7	hospitals.
0:46.7	So the name of the company is Persus Medical.
0:50.1	Most known for the Israeli bandage, also known as the emergency bandage, also very well known for the Neo Inter-Aseus device, as well as a lot of other great life-saving equipment. What I'd like you guys to do, if you would,
1:05.9	really trying to boost the presence out there of Persus.
1:10.9	You know, we're a company that a lot of people use our products and don't know that they're using our products.
1:17.0	So what I'd like for you guys to do is to pause this podcast, go over to your Instagram account and follow Persus on Instagram.
1:35.8	So give them a follow and give them some interaction
1:38.5	over there on Instagram.
1:40.7	Really appreciate it.
1:41.8	All right, Speaking of performance, we're going to
1:46.6	talk about performance optimization versus longevity optimization. I was recently
1:51.7	asked this question about the differences between the two and the approaches to the two.
1:57.0	My role as an operational physician in the military and special operations with tier one units and also as a SWAT physician and
2:06.1	how that impacts specifically on things like performance optimization and
2:10.1	longevity optimization and I thought it was a great question and it sparked a lot of things in my mind
2:16.6	that I want to talk about today. I want to talk about the difference between the
2:19.2	two, where they diverge, where they come together and how you can bring them even closer together.
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