Die Flowgrade Show mit Max Gotzler

In this episode, demo and I dig into the different sleep phases, the importance of a biorhythm, and how you can influence your sleep quality with nutrition and supplementation. You will find out, how coffee and even cannabis substrates can help you get more out of your sleep. Make sure to check out Teemu’s take on lucid dreaming at minute 55:00. I am very excited to welcome you to our first full episodes on sleep since for me this still is the number one most important biohack.

Growing up on a farm in rural Finland before exploring the entire planet, Tero has been fascinated by nature’s effect on the human body his whole life. He co-founded his company Four Sigmatic (formerly Four Sigma Foods) in 2012 with several Finnish friends and ever since then, he’s converted tons of people to mushroom lovers (including Four-Hour Body author Tim Ferriss). In this episode, Tero and I will go into the differences between the powerful adaptogenic herbs and mushrooms, how they work in the body and how they can help you get into the flow state. Make sure to check out the end of the episode where Tero shares his experience of a soundbath in the Californian countryside.

In der heutigen Episode der Flowgrade Show tauchen wir ein in die Welt der ketogenen Ernährung. Wir sprechen darüber was es bedeutet in der Ketose zu sein, wie der Körper adaptiert, welche Menge an Kohlenhydraten noch erlaubt sind und die ganzen Vorteile der ketogenen Diät. Wir haben viele Fragen geklärt und ich hoffe du kannst als Zuschauer oder Zuhörer einiges an Erfahrung dazugewinnen. Jetzt aber erst einmal viel Spaß mit dem Keto Guru aus München: Marina Lommel!

In this episode of the Flowgrade Show, Jamie Wheal takes us on a thought-provoking ride of the metaphysical elements of flow. We discuss the opportunities and risks that come with a life around altered states, the use of psychedelics like Ayahuasca and the concept of a hyperslap. Jamie explains his inner drive to study transcendence, his quest for creating a new generation of flow seekers and what he hopes to achieve with the Flow Genome Project, a research program to crowdsource the flow state that he created with his co-founder Steven Kotler. This episode is a true philosophical journey that will leave anyone inspired who is interested in altered states of consciousness. Enjoy!

In another German episode of the Flowgrade Show, we are covering the topic sugar with the enchanting Nadine Hüttenrauch, a well-known German Food Coach who is using nutrition in order to help people become healthier, more productive, and happier. I am sorry to all listeners without German language skills. Don’t worry, the next episode in English is already in the works and will be published soon. In the meantime, check out other episodes of the Flowgrade Show with leading experts such as Bulletproof founder Dave Asprey, fitness guru Ben Greenfield, 5-Minute Journal creator UJ Ramdas or meditation expert Emily Fletcher. In these episodes, you will hear these high achievers’ advice for how to upgrade your physical and mental skills and generate more flow moments in your life. Enjoy and if you like what we do, make sure to check us out on flowgrade.com, leave us a review on iTunes or just give us a shout on social media or at hello@flowgrade.de! We are looking forward to hearing from you :) Max & your Flowgraders

"Visual memory is way more powerful than auditory memory.“ - Jonathan Levi Did you ever dream of picking up a book, reading it in one sitting and then recall it in great detail at the next sophisticated dinner conversation? If yes, then you will enjoy listening to Jonathan Levi. The young entrepreneur does not have time to read anything twice with many simultaneous projects demanding his attention. Jonathan hosts the very successful Becoming Superhuman Podcast (LINK), develops cutting-edge online courses to accelerate learning and improve memory, and still aims to read one book per week while spending at least 72 hours per month outside in nature. The man has developed powerful methods to massively upgrade his learning and memorization skills because he doesn’t like to compromise when it comes to reaching his goals. In this episode, Jonathan shares some easy methods to read faster, learn quicker, and memorize greater chunks of information. He talks about the importance of using our visual memory, why he prefers written text to audio books, and gives two methods that everyone can use right now to immediately start remembering the names of people at the next cocktail party. Enjoy and leave us a comment below!

“Trees are the best natural chemists.” - Jaakko Halmetoja When Jaakko Halmetoja finds some spare time, the self-proclaimed herbalist often goes into the woods to find ingredients for one of his many tinctures. Over the years, he has acquired an impressive amount of knowledge on medicinal mushrooms, and other earth grown nutrients. Jakko aims to make the information more accessible with the Biohacker’s Handbook, an ambitious project by several Finnish researchers to offer actionable guidelines to your own biology. Jaakko Halmetoja is a nutrition expert, author and professional speaker. Among his many fields of expertise are the benefits and unique uses of mushrooms including chaga mushroom and cordyceps, cacao, wild foods, various berries and medicinal herbs. He’s even hired a translator to understand some early Russian works about adaptogens and mushrooms. Equipped with the passion of a true entrepreneur, Jaakko also maintains a non-profit database for finding local springs around Finland and hosts weekly talk show called InspiRadio Podcast. In this episode we dig into the workings of these powerful foods and how you can add them to your personal diet.

We all know how the feeling of not having accomplished what we set out to at the start of the day. Not a good feeling… quite the opposite. We even feel unproductive sometimes when we actually were productive. The reasons for this lie deep in our human psyche. We seem to be programmed to be unhappy. Good news though: There are methods to escape this negative thinking pattern. After a wonderful Part 1 with UJ Ramdas on the art of gratitude, you will learn in Part 2 why we constantly feel unproductive and how we can change that. My guest UJ Ramdas is an expert in behavioral psychology, a trained hypnotist, author, and one of the creators of the Five-Minute Journal, a gratitude journal for the daily practice of thankfulness. Together with his co-founder Alex Ikonn, he recently published their second product, the Productivtiy Planner to help you overcome procrastination and follow through on all of your projects. Enjoy another very special episode with UJ Ramdas and leave us your questions below! We hope you can put the advice to good use and become and feel more productive in your life.

Gratitude…is the counting of one’s blessings. - UJ RAMDAS The occasional pauses make me ponder if UJ Ramdas, a trained hypnotist, uses a special hypnosis method to make me pay close attention. The man thinks before he talks and the topics he covers are of great interest to anyone aiming for a happier and healthier life. I was lucky to record two episodes with UJ. In this first one, you will learn how you can use the daily practice of being grateful to become happier, healthier, and more successful. UJ Ramdas is an expert in behavioral psychology, a trained hypnotist, author, and one of the creators of the Five-Minute Journal, a gratitude journal for the daily practice of thankfulness. Together with his co-founder Alex Ikonn, he recently published their second product, the Productivtiy Planner to help you overcome procrastination and follow through on all of your projects. I hope you will enjoy this episode as much as I did when I was recording it! Enjoy and please ask questions in the comments below.

“So they really froze their testicles?” I thought I misheard the last phrase from Pessi. “They did! This technique was well known among bodybuilders in the Soviet Union. They thought they could boost Testosterone that way.” Well, thankfully, there are other effective measure one can take nowadays.   Our guest for this episode of the Flowgrade Show is the Testosterone expert Pessi Peura. As some fantastic guests of past episodes of the Flowgrade Show (like Nelli Lähteenmäki, Teemu Arina and soon to be published Jaakko Halmetoja), Pessi is from Finland, the most active place of the European Biohacking scene. The young Pessi is an active personal trainer, speaker and published author of two health books. His latest book The Guide For Naturally Boosting Testosterone helps guys to reach optimal testosterone levels. The book was published in Finnish and will be translated to English later. In this episode, Pessi and I discuss the importance of Testosterone, the reasons and symptoms of a deficiency. At the end of the episode, Pessi shares his preferred methods for naturally raising Testosterone.