[Sleep] Stress, Psychedelics, and Brain Health w/ Dr. Kirk Parsley, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash #763
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Kirk Parsley served as an Undersea Medical Officer at Naval Special Warfare Group One from June 2009 to January 2013. While there, he led the development and supervised the group’s first Sports Medicine Rehabilitation center. He is a former SEAL, and received his Medical Degree from Bethesda, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in 2004.
He interned in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Balboa Naval Hospital San Diego in 2005 and subsequently completed a Navy residency in Hyperbarics and Diving Medicine in 2006.
Dr. Parsley has been a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine since 2006 and served as Naval Special Warfare’s expert on Sleep Medicine. In addition he is certified in hormonal modulation (Age-Management Medicine).
After leaving the Navy he went into concierge medicine and consulting. He continues to consult for multiple corporations, and professional athletes/teams. Doctor Parsley lectures worldwide on sleep, wellness, and hormonal optimization and is currently completing a book on sleep and health optimization.
His philosophy for wellness is simple; in order to optimize our health and get the most out of our bodies and minds, we must live more closely to the way we evolved as a species. He believes that many diseases and disorders that we accept as “inevitable” in modern society are unnecessary complications of poor sleeping habits, living in a toxic environment, eating foods we were not designed to digest, and allowing stress to overwhelm us. His passion is to help his patients and clients achieve the highest quality of life possible, and realize their health, performance, and longevity goals.
Dr. Parsley spends as much of his spare time as possible with his wife Cindy, and his three beautiful children (Hayden, Cole, and Harper). He has been a competitive athlete his entire life, and enjoys nearly all outdoor activities and sports.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrud Family this week on Barbale Shrug, Dr. Kirk Parsley is coming back to the show. |
| 0:04.6 | For those of you guys have been listening to Shrug for many, many years now, Kirk's been on the show a ton. |
| 0:09.8 | Especially back in the early days when all of these scientists in the human |
| 0:14.0 | performance world were tucked away and nobody and it was really really hard to find |
| 0:17.3 | them. We found Kirk Parsley being in the sleep world working with tons of Navy SEALs and their brain health. |
| 0:25.0 | Turns out he's still in the game. |
| 0:27.0 | He's still leading the charge and it was phenomenal. |
| 0:30.0 | It was the first time I had met him even though he'd been on the show many times which is always an honor for some of these long term |
| 0:35.7 | or a long time guests that we've had for me to actually be able to get in here and meet these people but a wealth of knowledge today we talk about all things sleep and human performance a wealth of knowledge today, we talk about all things, sleep and human performance, |
| 0:43.6 | a lot of his history, how he got into this working with Navy SEALs, and a lot of the stuff I didn't know |
| 0:49.6 | that they were using kind of on the medical side of treatments. A lot of things that maybe you |
| 0:54.8 | wouldn't expect to be medical, but Kirk is a medical doctor which allows him to go |
| 1:00.0 | and implement some of these things working with a lot of the Navy SEAL organizations |
| 1:04.1 | that he's working with and helping people kind of transition out of that world. |
| 1:08.1 | So very cool interview and as always friends make sure you get over to RapidHealth report.com |
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| 1:29.5 | RapidHealth report.com forward slash results, friends. |
| 1:33.2 | Let's get it into the show. |
| 1:38.1 | Welcome to Marlboro Shrugged. |
| 1:38.9 | I'm Anders Warner, Doug Larson. |
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