Physiology Friday: [Mental Health] A 6 Step Approach Connecting Mind, Body, and Nutrition w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash and Dan Garner
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged we cover:
- A framework for understanding mental health and physiology
- The relationship between the mind and the body
- How physiology follows psychology
- How to turn your thoughts into character traits
- How come prescriptions and medications can make mental health worse
- How sleep is the gateway to improving mental health
- Blood sugar management and how it affects mood
- Why broad solutions to improve mental health will not work
- Coaching the person before you coach their mental health issues
- Supplementation that positively affect mental health
- The process of creating and excreting dopamine and serotonin
- The impacts of B6 and Magnesium for mental health
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrugged family this week on Barbell Shrugged Physiology Friday is back and today we are talking mental health with Dan Garner. |
| 0:05.3 | As always friends make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. |
| 0:08.9 | That is where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galpin are doing a free lab lifestyle and performance analysis. |
| 0:13.3 | You can access that free report over at rapid health report.com. |
| 0:16.9 | Friends, let's get into the show. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Barbell Shrug. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Anders Warner, Doug Lars and Dan Garner. |
| 0:23.7 | Today on Barbell Shrug, we're going to be talking about nutrition for mental health. |
| 0:28.8 | And Dan Garner is going to be digging into a six-step process for how you can better understand mental health. |
| 0:35.9 | But before we get into this, I'd love to kind of hear, what is your philosophy around |
| 0:41.0 | mental health? |
| 0:42.8 | So the philosophy on utilizing, say, nutrition and physical health for mental health, |
| 0:49.3 | is it's multifold. |
| 0:51.1 | I mean, I originally got into utilizing my lane of practice for optimizing brain chemistry |
| 1:00.8 | and performance because of the demographic that I work with. |
| 1:04.1 | So I work a lot with some of the best athletes in the world. |
| 1:08.1 | That's like what I'm most known for. |
| 1:09.8 | That's a lane that I've got a lot of experience in. And in the world. That's like what I'm most known for. That's, that's a lane that I've got a lot |
| 1:12.1 | of experience in. And in that lane, everybody is physically gifted. So to a huge degree, |
| 1:19.5 | your mindset that you show up with that day determines who wins and who loses. Because at that |
| 1:25.3 | level, when you're an Olympic medalist, when you're a world champion, |
| 1:28.9 | nobody there doesn't have good genetics. |
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