Health Via Modern Nutrition with Dr. Latt Mansor

Rowing as a sport is incredibly nuanced. While not perhaps as popular as other sports, the technique, teamwork, training, nutrition, the combination of aerobic and anaerobic exertion requires a high-level skill set. This week, we have on Mike DiSanto to really dive into the life of an active Olympian rower and learn more about the sport. Mike has unique insight: He represented America at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, balances a full-time job with a full-time athletic career, and was an early user of our ketone ester when it was being researched at the University of Oxford. In this discussion, you'll discover: The various coaching philosophies Mike trained under and how he structures his training now How he overcame his nontraditional rowing physique and used it to his advantage The experience of competing in the Rio Olympics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit our website to learn more: https://go.hvmn.com/podcast-audio Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini (https://go.hvmn.com/sprint_mini_podcast).

Hydration is more than just drinking "enough" water. There's room to optimize according to your own biology, needs, and goals. Andy Blow, a triathlete and sports scientist, suffered from serious cramps throughout his athletic career. There are many reasons why people cramp, and a key mechanism is through dehydration and poor electrolyte replenishment. All athletes sweat, yet there's a huge variance in sweat and sodium losses, which can lead to sub-optimal performance and a terrible feeling we've all experienced: Cramps. To combat this, Andy founded Precision Hydration to help endurance athletes and a number of teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB meet their personalized hydration and electrolyte needs. In this discussion, you'll discover: The misconceptions of hydration and electrolytes, and how there is a huge variance in how much sodium each individual loses when sweating How and why endurance athletes tend to lean more into the quantified-self philosophy than other types of athletes The physiology behind cramping ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website to learn more: https://go.hvmn.com/podcast-video Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini (https://go.hvmn.com/sprint_mini_podcast).

Many of our conversations center around actionable interventions for peak physical performance, but something we’ve been wanting to dive into is the more philosophical side of fitness and how it ties in with our society.  We explore these topics with Samuel Robinson, who holds a Ph.D. in history and is a centerpiece in the endurance community here in the Bay Area. His writing, published on outlets such as Outside Magazine, focuses on the culture, experience, and inner lives of endurance athletes and uses sport as a lens that provides otherwise unseen perspectives around us. In this discussion, you'll discover: How do we as a society and culture play a better role in promoting health? What exactly has been attracting everyday people to competing in marathons and triathlons vs. other sports? Running motivation...what drives us to keep pushing even when it hurts? Check out Sam's work here: https://www.robinsonsamuel.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website to learn more: https://go.hvmn.com/podcast-audio  Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

Tennis is commonly dubbed the “sport of a lifetime”. This is true for none other than Pat Cash, a legend of the sport who is a Wimbledon Men’s Champion and 5x Grand Slam Finalist. A force to be reckoned with throughout the 80’s, Pat dominated the court by seeking out the cutting-edge of training, nutrition, and recovery…even when no one else was. Pat’s philosophy of following the science extends into his coaching career, in which he is currently coaching top players like Coco Vandeweghe. In this discussion, you’ll discover: - The evolution of tennis, how modern players are pushing the envelope more than ever before, & current controversies regarding the double standard between men and women players - The mental aspect of the game and the discipline required to wear down opponents set after set - Pat’s explorations in optimizing human performance throughout the years, including his recent experiments with HVMN Ketone Pat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealPatCash Pat's Website: https://www.patcash.co.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

With data as the backbone, athletes are looking for new ways to train, fuel, recover and even think. After years of research on these topics, Alex Hutchinson has become an authority on the limits of human endurance. His newest book, Endure, is a New York Times bestseller; his Sweat Science column in Outside magazine is wildly popular; he received a National Magazine Award for his technology coverage in Popular Science. With an unbiased, balanced outlook, Alex has been especially interested in analyzing groundbreaking research that suggests physical barriers are as much a product of our mind as our body. In this discussion, you’ll discover: The different philosophies of the brain’s impact on physical performance through research by Professors Tim Noakes and Samuele Marcora How Alex’s thinking around sports nutrition has evolved Alex’s approach to retaining journalistic integrity while exploring new theories, research, and products in endurance sport ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from you! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

The heart of all life is DNA. What possibilities open up when one can directly manipulate and alter this fundamental building block…in humans? Josiah Zayner, who holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and previously worked with NASA on engineering bacteria to terraform Mars, was drawn to explore the applications genetic engineering could bring to humanity. So much so, in fact, that Josiah performed multiple self-experiments, attempting to genetically engineer the color of his skin and becoming the first known person to directly edit his genes with CRISPR-Cas9. In this discussion, you'll discover: - The nuances of genetic engineering: What it means, how it's done, and why it's currently largely inaccessible - Increasing creativity and divergent thinking by thought expansion by reading atypical books - How the biohacking space can mature and evolve alongside established regulation agencies like the FDA. Check out Josiah's company The ODIN: http://www.the-odin.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

As a new runner, it can be daunting to look at the miles ahead and know the only way to get there is with your own two feet. You hear about runners who are completely enamored with the sport... they run every day, they run fast, and they run far. But really, they’re not that different from you. Let’s talk about how you can achieve your own personal running success. Michael Brandt (HVMN co-founder) will be going through 10 valuable tips that have helped him and other runners get started, stay motivated, and continue to improve their running game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

Who are you calling old? When you look at the world's greatest athletes, past and increasingly present, you'll notice that many of them are past what we would consider "prime age" for peak sports performance. One example is NFL quarterback Tom Brady, who is over 40 years old. Despite already winning multiple Super Bowl championships and being the fifth-oldest player in the League, Tom shows no signs of slowing down and proves he can still improve his performance. How can one maintain or achieve such elite performance in the face of natural aging? This was the question that drove Jeff Bercovici, the San Francisco bureau chief of Inc and an athlete in his own right, on a quest to find the answer. After talking to top players, coaches, and sports scientists, such as the aforementioned Tom Brady, Serena Williams, and Carli Lloyd, he laid out all his learnings in his book "Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance At Any Age". In this discussion, you'll discover: - The common misconceptions of famous athletes and their training - The most valuable tips & advice Jeff learned from his research and then implemented to reach his physical prime - Musing over the concept of immortality...would you choose to live forever? You can read a full transcription for this episode here: Check out Jeff's book "The New Science of Elite Performance At Any Age". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway. We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

Angel investing, which is backing and investing in companies at the earliest stages, is a high-risk, high-reward game. Jason Calacanis, who was one of the first investors for billion dollar startups Uber and Robinhood, came from a difficult beginning. As a scrappy kid from Brooklyn who lost out on a $20 million buyout offer for Silicon Alley Reporter when the dotcom bubble burst, Jason refused to give up and made his fortune as an angel investor. Still not satisfied, Jason is setting his sights even higher to impact the world at scale. Within the episode, he tells host Geoffrey Woo that he is aiming to become the greatest investor in the history of Silicon Valley. In this discussion, you'll discover: How and why Jason plans to become the greatest investor in Silicon Valley The impact of social media and identity politics on conversation and discourse Techniques for developing a self-aware, self-improving mindset   Check out a full transcription and highlights for the episode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway. We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.

How does one perform at peak capacity in life or death situations on an ongoing basis? This is the life of a special operator in the military, where an unbreakable mind and body is imperative for survival and success. In his podcast debut, we sit down with the person responsible for founding Seal Team 7: Ret. Navy Seal Admiral Alexander Krongard. Between reaching one of the highest ranks achievable in the Navy, serving in President Barack Obama’s National Security Council Staff, and now doing business in Silicon Valley, Alex has deep insight in human performance from a very special angle. In this episode, you’ll discover: What it takes to excel at senior-level leadership in the military and beyond The mindset and mental resilience of those in service Strategies and approaches to tackle the psychological burden of combat and deployment ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact podcast@hvmn.com with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini.