Die Flowgrade Show mit Max Gotzler

“My most important task is to make a positive impact on others.” - Mark Verstegen   Mark Verstegen is the President and Founder of EXOS, a world leading company for upgrading health and performance for elite athletes, military and innovative companies with over 400 locations and more than 3400 people involved worldwide. He is also the Director of Performance for the NFL Players Association and has spearheaded the athletic training under Jürgen Klinsmann for the German National Soccer Team. He truly is a legend in the world of functional fitness and performance upgrading. In this episode, Mark and I speak about his definition of a sustainable high performance life, his personal approach when he starts working with an athlete and Mark's favorite basketball team and his dinner experience with Kobe Bryant, the retired legend from the Los Angeles Lakers. Enjoy! For shownotes and further information, go to flowgrade.com

In diesem Beitrag vom Functional Training Summit 2016 in München spreche ich über die Kunst des Biohackings, wie es genau definiert wird und wie du sofort damit loslegen kannst. Ich präsentiere dir 10 Methoden (plus 3 Bonus Biohacks), die für mich funktionieren und mir dabei helfen, mich jeden Tag mit Energie, Fokus und Flow zu versorgen. Vielleicht kennst du die ein oder andere Methode schon aber ich bin mir sicher, einige werden komplett neu für dich sein. Besonders bei den Bonus-Hacks ging ein interessiertes Raunen durch das Publikum. Kannst du erraten, bei welchem?

In dieser besonderen Episode der Flowgrade Show sprechen Paul und ich über immer noch bestehende Ernährungsmythen, warum Jäger und Sammler gerade Zähne hatten, die Legende des Teepilzgetränks Kombucha und wie Paul selbst in den Flow gelangt. Zudem bekommt ihr ab Minute 23:00 eine Kostprobe der Rap-Künste des langjährigen Musikers. Viel Spaß!

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.