How To Unlock Insane Brain Health In Three Days | Ep 21
Apr 25, 2024
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Rían Doris, CEO of Flow Research Collective, delves into optimizing brain health through nutrition timing, intermittent fasting, and high flow foods. He highlights the benefits of aligning meals with circadian rhythms, exploring the impact of fasting on cognitive function, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining lean body for peak performance.
Distinguish between fuel and ritual meals to optimize cognitive performance and energy levels.
Align eating patterns with internal rhythms through chrono nutrition for enhanced metabolic functions and cognitive abilities.
Deep dives
The Science of Nutrition for Optimal Performance
Elite performers utilize the science of pro-no-nutrition to achieve remarkable results. The speaker shares a personal story of a head injury that led to brain fog and fatigue, hindering physical and mental performance. Through experimentation with nutrition, the speaker discovered two meal categories: fuel meals for energy and flow state, and ritual meals for pleasure and connection. This distinction helped in optimizing cognitive performance by aligning meal choices with specific goals.
Chrono Nutrition and Its Impact on Performance
The concept of chrono nutrition aligns eating patterns with internal rhythms to enhance metabolic functions and cognitive performance. By differentiating between flow meals and ritual meals, individuals can optimize their energy levels and cognitive abilities throughout the day. Understanding the significance of meal timing based on energy peaks and troughs can lead to sustained focus and productivity while avoiding energy crashes.
Intermittent Fasting for Cognitive Enhancement
Intermittent fasting plays a significant role in promoting cognitive clarity and maintaining optimal blood sugar levels for sustained focus. By shifting the body from glucose to fat utilization, fasting facilitates improved mental acuity and energy regulation. The practice of intermittent fasting, supported by research on its benefits, provides a pathway to enhancing cognitive function and accessing flow states.
Body Composition, Caloric Management, and Performance
Achieving and maintaining leanness is essential for enhancing cognitive function and accessing flow states. By incorporating strategies such as daily moderate physical activity, consuming high-volume, low-energy density foods, and implementing a six-hour daily feeding window, individuals can manage caloric intake effectively. The interplay between body composition, caloric balance, and cognitive performance underscores the importance of prioritizing health for optimal productivity.
Rían Doris is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flow Research Collective, the world’s leading peak performance research and training institute focused on decoding the neuroscience of flow states and helping leaders and their teams unlock flow states consistently.
Clients include Accenture, Audi, Facebook, Bain & the US Airforce. Along with being listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Rian's thought leadership has been featured in Fast Company, PBS and Big Think and he hosts Flow Research Collective Radio, an iTunes top 10 science podcast.
Rían is also the Executive Chairman & Owner of Consulting.com. On the side, Rian does some angel investing in health and performance companies like Levels Health, Neurohacker Collective, The Way & Myodetox.
Rían holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Neuroscience at King's College, London and an MBA. Rian is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Birmingham—focusing on how flow states affect perceived meaning in life.
Prior to co-founding Flow Research Collective with Steven Kotler, Rian worked with NYT Bestselling Author Keith Ferazzi, and 12X NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Dan Siegel, distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
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