The Six-Pillar Framework for Peak Performance and Health #297
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Today's episode is a new Six Pillar Series episode, where I talk with some amazing experts in their fields about the 6 Pillars of Human Optimization…
Sleep, breath, nutrition, training, environment, and mindset.
In this series I discuss the following topics with these experts:
- Sleep with Tara Youngblood: the impact of today's overstressed world on sleep, how to optimize your bedroom for high quality sleep, and how to optimize the primary physiological factors impacting sleep. Listen to the full interview with Tara Youngblood.
- Breathing with Patrick McKeown: we address the power of breathing for health, focus and concentration, what happens when breathing patterns change, and the biochemistry of breath. Listen to the full interview with Patrick McKeown.
- Nutrition with Dr. Mike T. Nelson: we talk about the utilization of fat as fuel and how to burn the greatest amount of fat at rest, fasting, and HRV and metabolic flexibility. Listen to the full interview with Dr. Mike T. Nelson.
- Training with Sal DiStefano: the pros and cons of cardio, why resistance training should be the foundation of your exercise routine, and the different adaptations caused by resistance training. Listen to the full interview with Sal DiStefano.
- Environment with Dr. Michael Twyman: why circadian biology is so closely correlated with cardiovascular health, what to do with negative cardio or endothelial function, and supplements for cardiovascular and endothelial function. Listen to the full interview with Dr. Michael Twyman.
- Mindset with Ido Portal: we talked about focus, movement as a gateway to an optimized mind, and how to begin with intentional movement practice. Listen to the full interview with Ido Portal.
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| 0:00.0 | Write it down, get it out of your head, be peaceful, change your breathing, all of those sort of things. |
| 0:05.9 | That last half hour before you go to bed is absolutely critical to be distressed. |
| 0:10.6 | Anytime I think about the breath, I think of the benefits that I've got from it. I think of the |
| 0:14.8 | benefits, the potential, calmness of the mind, the ability to focus and concentration, holding your attention on your breathing to train the brain. |
| 0:23.6 | How well are you able to use fat during low to moderate intensity exercise? |
| 0:27.6 | It's variable between 23 to 93%. |
| 0:30.6 | So a huge variation. |
| 0:32.6 | Doing lots of cardio literally slows your metabolism down. |
| 0:36.6 | It literally makes your body a more efficient |
| 0:39.8 | fat-storing machine. To optimize your circadian rhythms, it generally takes two things. One, it's |
| 0:46.9 | controlling your light environment, and then it's controlling the timing that your nutrients come |
| 0:50.5 | into the system. All these rules and all these educational attempts that are being slapped on us, |
| 0:59.0 | which are actually robbing us the opportunity of developing the real skill behind everything. A quick message before you get into this show from muscle intelligence. |
| 1:22.3 | Me and my team have been working diligently on creating a masterclass series for you. |
| 1:30.3 | Two masterclasses, one on optimizing the effectiveness of your training, the other on optimizing the effectiveness of your nutrition. |
| 1:35.1 | We all have the same number of hours in the day, roughly 16 hours. We sleep for eight, we've got |
| 1:39.4 | 16 hours. People who make the most of the life who create quote unquote success are the ones that |
| 1:44.7 | learn to be more effective with their time. They don't necessarily do more. You learn to be |
| 1:48.7 | effective or create leverage. Well, training is no different. People think that people are hugely |
| 1:53.3 | fit. All they do is eat sleep and train. That's not the reality. People who are really fit |
| 1:58.1 | learn to make the most of the 60 or 90 minutes that they're in the gym or the time that they're nourishing their body. |
| 2:04.8 | They're learning how to optimize what goes into the body and ultimately how their body utilizes what goes into their body. |
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