Neuro Athletics: The Intersection of Neuroscience and Performance w/ Louisa Nicola, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson #704
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Louisa leverages her experience as a neurophysiologist and professional triathlete to not only teach but inspire your audience to perform like an athlete.
By using science-driven data from EEG scans, labs tests and cognitive assessments, Louisa has a first class ticket inside the brain of elite NBA, MLB and NFL stars as well as Wall Street's biggest Hedge funds and portfolio managers.
9 years ago, Louisa was training to go to the Olympics (representing Australia in the triathlon), when she was hit by a car and suffered seemingly insurmountable injuries.
Desperate to accelerate her recovery, Louisa integrated brain training into her physiology regime and was able to make a near-miraculous recovery to not only go to the Auckland World Championship series, but place 13th in the triathlon.
Louisa has since helped so many elite performers become the top 1% in their field by leveraging neuroscience, exercise physiology, and biomedical services. Louisa has successfully given her signature talk "Perform like an athlete" to the head of sales at IBM, Salesforce and Google, etc.
Louisa graduated from the University of Sydney medical school with a master of medicine in neurophysiology and is currently completing her doctorate under the guidance of Dr Tommy Wood at UW, studying the effects of resistance exercise on the brain. She is on the scientific advisory board of Tonal, Klora and Momentous.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrud family this week on Barbell Shrug we are hanging out with Louisa |
| 0:04.0 | Nikola we're going to be talking about neuro athletics which is the intersection |
| 0:08.6 | of neuroscience and performance because I've never heard of Louisa, she is, she works with very high performing |
| 0:16.2 | human beings helping them eke out the last 1% of brain power that allows them to excel |
| 0:21.1 | at their sports and their jobs, combining and leveraging |
| 0:24.4 | neuroscience, exercise fiz, and biomedical services so that she can take them to the top of |
| 0:30.2 | their game. As always, you can head over to RapidHealth report.com. |
| 0:35.0 | That is where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galvin are doing a lab, lifestyle and performance analysis |
| 0:38.7 | that everybody inside Rapid Health optimization receives once they get all their labs and lifestyle |
| 0:43.9 | tracking and questionnaires performance metrics done and you can get a little |
| 0:49.2 | sneak peek at what you would receive being a part of Rapid Health optimization. |
| 0:52.6 | You can head over to RapidHealth report.com. |
| 0:55.9 | You can check that out over there. |
| 0:57.2 | Friends, let's get into the show. |
| 1:00.7 | Welcome to Marlboro Shrug. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Anders Martyr, Doug Larson, Louisa, |
| 1:04.2 | Nicola. Hey, it is so awesome having you on here. |
| 1:07.2 | We're going to talk all about brain health and performance today. |
| 1:09.6 | It's really cool as we've gotten a little bit of some behind the scenes working with you inside rapid health optimization. |
| 1:15.6 | Having you on the show, it's beautiful now. At the highest level though, how do we |
| 1:22.1 | when you think about brain health and performance is there actually a separation between health and performance or are those two so closely related that |
| 1:30.8 | They all kind of |
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