The Paul Taylor Podcast | Expert in Hardiness and Mental Fitness

Today I discuss some pretty cool research that clearly shows the most important thing you can do to live longer. I'll also add my take on it to give you a more comprehensive strategy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Money and happiness expert Ken Honda is a best-selling self-development author in Japan, with book sales surpassing eight million copies since 2001. Ken’s financial expertise comes from owning and managing several businesses, including an accounting company, a management consulting firm, and a venture capital corporation. His writings bridge the topics of finance and self-help, focusing on creating and generating personal wealth and happiness through deeper self-honesty. Ken is the first person from Japan to be voted into the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of personal and professional development leaders. He is fluent in Japanese and English; lived in Boston, Massachusetts for two years; and currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. Learn more at KenHonda.comCheck out his Happy Money bookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's episode of Wisdom Wednesdays, I explore a couple of recent research papers that report on a surprising link between your gut bugs and your exercise motivation and performance.Here is the initial paper on athletesHere is the follow-up study on miceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Julie Smith, clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience and a social media star with 4 million followers, discusses the impact of social media on human connection, importance of sleep, nutrition, and routine, integration of mental and physical health, pitfalls of becoming a rescuer, and her increasing reach through social media.

Today, I discuss the important functions that amino acids play in our bodies and why eating enough protein is key, not only to good cellular health, but in combatting the obesity crisis.Here is the link to the study I mention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Julie Smith, a clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience, discusses her success as an online mental health educator and vlogger, gaining a large following and providing valuable advice. They delve into thought biases, the impact of exercise on mental well-being, and the importance of social connection. They also explore the role of the amygdala in fear perception and discuss mental filter bias.

<__truncato_root__>Today, I discuss some recent research investigating the links between body composition and brain volume.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s guest is a world-renowned professor of Human and Applied Physiology. Professor Mike Tipton spent 35 years working in the areas of thermoregulation, environmental and occupational physiology and is a world expert on survival in extreme environments.  Mike has published over 600 scientific papers and a number of books and was awarded an MBE in the UK for services to physiological research in extreme environments. Mike provides advice to a range of universities, government departments, industries, medical, legal, search and rescue and media organisations and today he’s going to provide us all advice on the risks and benefits of cold-water exposure and how to do it safely to improve your health.  Mike has also very kindly provided valuable advice to me on the next phase of my PhD, so I was super excited when he agreed to come onto the podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This edition of Wisdom Wednesdays discusses a research paper that for the first time, give really concrete evidence that our modern lifestyles are a betrayal of our hunter-gatherer genome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is part 2 of the episode with Dr Stuart Shanker - part 1 was episode 87 released last week.Dr Stuart Shanker is the visionary founder of the MEHRIT Centre, an organisation dedicated to understanding how stress affects human behaviour and to help both kids and adults self-regulate how they respond to stress in order to improve their lives. This turned out to be an absolutely fascinating conversation that was so good I broke it into 2 parts.Stuart  is the author of the Self-Reg trilogy: Calm, Alert and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation (Pearson 2012), Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life (Penguin 2016); Reframed: Self-Reg for a Just Society (UofT Press 2020). And with Susan Hopkins, Self-Reg Schools: A Handbook for Educators (Pearson 2019).Here is a link to the MEHRIT centre - make sure you check out their resources section and blog. Here is also a link to self-reg global, which is the international work that they do. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.