Live your best life in the second half. This no-nonsense show is dedicated to healthspan and features best-selling authors and thought leaders in nutrition, mental health, relationships, and self-improvement. Each episode also includes listener Q&A. Hosted by yoga trainer, writer, and expert speaker, Lucas Rockwood, the founder of YOGABODY.
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640: Understanding Chronic Pain with Dr. David Clarke
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Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions worldwide, with conditions like gastrointestinal issues, back pain, and migraine topping the list. In many cases, psychological factors play a significant role in causing or worsening pain. Despite overwhelming evidence, the mind-body connection is often ignored or dismissed as "all in your head," as though…
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639: Weight Loss Bankruptcy with Lucas Rockwood
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The iconic brand Tupperware filed for bankruptcy this week, burdened with over $1.2 billion of debt. They’ve reached a point of no return, where digging out is virtually impossible. In many ways, this mirrors the struggle of those facing severe obesity—a situation where years of weight gain have led to a seemingly insurmountable challenge. Just as …
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Neuroscience might be the final frontier when it comes to the human body. There is still so much to be discovered and understood about memory, attention, and how we learn. My guest on this week’s podcast runs a research lab at UCLA that uses brain imaging and electrical stimulation to see if science can move the needle and unlock our potential. Lis…
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637: Telomeres and Aging with Dr. Richard Allsopp
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You know how old you are, but do you know your biological age? Meaning, are your body and brain younger or older than your chronological years? For anyone interested in slowing down aging and preventing disease and illness, telomeres are an important part of the discussion. These chromosomal caps provide insight into the health or senescence of cel…
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636: Understanding Sleep with Dr. Ketema Paul
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Sleep is as vital for life as food, water, and breathing, but knowing its importance doesn’t necessarily provide you with the tools to improve it. What if you toss and turn and can’t sleep until late? What if you wake up five times a night to pee? What if you work night shifts and suffer from jetlag-like symptoms weekly? On this week’s podcast, you…
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635: Understanding the Gut Microbiome with Dr. Gregor Reid
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Inside your gastrointestinal tract there are trillions of microbes, about 3 lbs in total, and in terms of absolute numbers, you have more microbial cells than human cells. This collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi are collectively referred to as your gut microbiome, and at this juncture of human history, most of us struggle with some degree o…
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634: How to Become Hyperefficient with Dr. Mithu Storoni
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The way we work has changed more in the past four years than it has in the past 20. An estimated 43 percent of Americans are now working at least partially from home, artificial intelligence is making most people at least marginally more productive, and we’re all connected all of the time. This sounds good–or at least exciting–but is it working for…
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633: How to Thrive in Menopause with Dr. Liz Lyster
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Despite the obvious fact that every woman will experience menopause, support and education on the topic remains embarrassingly sparse. Worse still, misinterpreted studies have left many fearful of hormone replacement therapy and determined to simply white knuckle their way through this transition. My guest on this week’s podcast is an OB-GYN specia…
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632: Regenerative Medicine for Your Joints with Professor Paul Lee
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The joint pain market is fraught with wild claims, fringe treatments, and scary interventions. At the same time, whether you’ve got hip, knee, or back pain, there are some truly remarkable mainstream and alternative options you’ll want to consider. But you need to take agency over the process as your decisions can have a huge impact on the quality …
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631: Mental Health in Later Life with Dr. Helen Lavretsky
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According to the WHO at least 14 percent of people over 60 have a mental health disorder with depression and anxiety at the top of the list. Loneliness, isolation, chronic pain, and diminished health are contributing causes, and unfortunately, many suffer in silence. My guest on this week’s podcast has dedicated her career to geriatric psychiatry a…
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630: Reversing Insulin Resistance with Dr. Morgan Nolte
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In middle age and beyond, your metabolism changes. It’s easier to gain weight - particularly around your midsection - and it’s very hard to lose it. The same foods that kept you lean when young suddenly cause imbalance. Why? What changed? Aging creates a cascade of changes, but insulin resistance is a key driver that is rarely measured or understoo…
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629: Living with IBS & Crohn's Disease with Dane Johnson
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Digestive health issues can make every day a challenge, put strain on personal relationships, and even become life threatening if advanced and untreated. My guest on this week’s podcast suffered from severe Crohn’s that left him emaciated and very ill. He found his way back to health through functional medicine and now dedicates his career to helpi…
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628: Finding Love in Middle Age with Evan Marc Katz
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No one wants to die alone, and yet according to Pew Research, 29% of people aged 50 to 64 are single. That number jumps to 36% for those over 65. Dating is a minefield at any age, but how do you start again in the later chapters of life? On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a dating coach who helps women do just that. Listen and learn: Why a pragmat…
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627: Learning to Grieve with Christina Rasmussen
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If you’re lucky enough to live a long life, you’ll inevitably be challenged by loss - the loss of family, friends, potentially even your spouse. Despite the obvious inevitability of loss, most people avoid even talking about it, much less preparing for the death of those we love. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet an author who’s dedicated her car…
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626: Anxious Attachment with Jessica Baum
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Much of how we interact with the world comes from early experiences from our childhood, with our family, and in our community. Attachment styles are psychological models for understanding the ways in which we tend to bond to others, particularly our spouses. This week’s guest reveals how understanding your attachment patterns might help you navigat…
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625: High Performance Life with Derin McMains
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The world of professional athletes and the concept of your body being your business, with its performance directly linked to your paycheck is completely outside of anything most of us have experienced. For most of us, we wake up to a to-do list of tasks, and it’s unclear if we’re winning or losing, what the score is, or whether anyone is even keepi…
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624: Transcendental Meditation and Consciousness with Tony Nader
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Transcendental meditation is arguably the most popular meditation technique in the world, and the TM organization has funded the bulk of published literature on meditation worldwide. This is in no small part due to its celebrity clients like the Beatles, David Lynch, and Jerry Seinfeld, but also because people find the practice extremely practical …
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623: The Amazing World of Fungi with Arturo Casadevall
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Fungi have played an important role both in culinary and medicinal traditions for thousands of years, but these magical living organisms are often overlooked - for both good and bad reasons - when it comes to the future of our health and planet. What if a new heat-loving fungus takes over? What if a fungus holds the key to an anti-cancer vaccinatio…
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622: Virtual Reality for Brain Health with Amir Bozorgzadeh
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When I was eleven years old, my grandmother predicted the demise of the personal computer. “Staring at the screen will ruin your eyes,” she proclaimed. The same story is repeated with all new technology: initially it’s met with resistance and fear, and later becomes so important in our lives that we cannot imagine life without it. In recent years, …
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621: The Future of Love with Roanne van Voorst
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Technology is accelerating at a blistering pace with obvious innovations in the devices we have in our pockets, in our homes, and in our cars. Less visible are the changes that are happening in love, sex, and relationships that are potentially reorganizing society in subtle, and not too subtle ways. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet an anthropolo…
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One of the biggest challenges that comes with aging is cognitive decline. You lose your keys, you can’t remember the neighbor’s name, and your brain seems to putter along instead of humming like it used to. From conversations with listeners over the past year, concerns over brain health are top of the list, so I’ve invited a neuroscientist onto the…
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619: ASMR Brain Tingles with Craig Richard
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Bob Ross was a popular PBS painting instructor in the 80s and 90s, but little did he know that decades later, he’d develop a cult following of people who simply wanted to hear his voice. Why? Because it triggers an autonomous sensory meridian response, known as ASMR. ASMR is a well-studied phenomenon that creates a pleasant tingling sensation on th…
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618: Methylation, Epigenetics & Longevity with Steve Horvath
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Kane Tanaka of Japan died in 2022 at the age of 119. Lucile Randon of France died in 2023 at 118. Jiroemon Kimura of Japan died in 2023 at 116, the oldest male ever. What did these people have in common? Were they biohackers? Did they do CrossFit? Did they take NAD supplements or run marathons? Nope. Like almost all centenarians they lived exceptio…
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617: The Power of Wonder with Monica Parker
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Finland has been dubbed the happiest country in the world, but in reality Finns are content, not overwhelmed with joy. They have a high GDP per capita, good healthcare, low corruption, and a decent amount of personal freedom - all great things, but not necessarily a recipe for joy and happiness. Most people claim their biggest aspiration in life is…
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