
Optimal Performance
Optimal Performance is the podcast all about taking your mental and physical performance to the next level. Whether it's through nootropics, cutting-edge biohacking techniques, or adjusting your approach to nutrition and fitness, we'll have the best minds in the industry on to talk about how you can achieve optimal performance in all areas of your life.
Latest episodes

Sep 13, 2021 • 1h 3min
340 Digital Therapeutics and health tech that will blow your mind with Lyle Maxson
I thought I couldn't be surprised by emerging health tech. I was wrong! Envision a future where people get healing from Virtual Reality, Technology induced psychedelics states. Find out more about all of Lyle's amazing projects at Geniusx.com entheo.digital enterandromeda.com/blog @luminouslyle on IG In this very futuristic episode we cover: •Replacing pharmaecuticals with digital therapeutics •Defining digital therapeutics - neurohacking and creating different brainwave states using technology: wellness technology •Technodelics: Creating psychedelic states through digital therapeutics - Entheodigital makes Sound Self which creates a similar effect as a psilocybin within 15-20min •How Lyle thinks about the balance of our default reality and virtual/online reality •Highlighting some of the emerging technoglo •A VR game for kids to help with ADD/ADHD •The future includes learning in VR open world. Waking around in a VR campus, attending classes from a wide array of instructors Help make this podcast possible by supporting our sponsors: FÜM essential oil inhaler...trust me it's awesome

Sep 11, 2021 • 7min
342 Finished the Prolon 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet
Holysmokes, what an experience. 5 days without protein. 5 days without any sugar whatsoever. And the results speak for themselves. •Better mental clarity •Lower inflammation •Weight loss •Appetite reset •Portion control insights •Better sleep Check out the Prolon 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet HERE.

Sep 10, 2021 • 4min
341 Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet Day 4
Fasting while eating for 5 days in a row. Already losing weight, and digestion resetting. What a fascinating process. Find out more about Prolon here.

Sep 9, 2021 • 6min
340 Day 3 Fasting mimicking diet from Prolon
Fasting while eating for 5 days in a row. Already losing weight, and digestion resetting. What a fascinating process. Find out more about Prolon here.

Sep 8, 2021 • 7min
339 Day 2 Fasting mimicking diet from Prolon
Day 2 report on my experience with Prolon's fasting mimicking diet. How am I doing? https://prolonfmd.com/

Sep 7, 2021 • 6min
338 Day 1 Fasting mimicking diet from Prolon
My 5-day report of the Fasting Mimicking Diet from Prolon Weight on day 1 - 208 https://prolonfmd.com/

Sep 6, 2021 • 1h 7min
337 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet - Dr. Joseph Antoun L Nutra
The 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet is the most researched, most effective fasting protocol in the world. And you can eat the whole time. It blows the top off of the ideas I had about fasting. Dr. Joseph Antoun is the CEO and chairman at L-Nutra. Founded by Valter Longo - L-Ntura is largely thought of as the most science based approach to fasting in the world. Learn more HERE In this totally eye-opening episode we cover: •What is a fasting mimicking diet specifically •The cells stays fasted while you’re still eating plant based •Why intermittent fasting may not be ideal •Currently 16 clinical trials studying the fasting mimicking diet •1 prolon per month for three months •20s or 30s for weight loss, do it 2-3 times per year •For older populations, with health goals do prolon once a month for three months, then quarterly. •Fast bar is equivalent to water when it comes metabolic response - IN A CLINICAL TRIAL. •65-70% of customers are women •12-14 hours is the best fasting period for healthy people according to the studies •Full ethical transparency and they donate 50% of proceeds to the Create Cures Foundation

Aug 30, 2021 • 4min
336 Be Your Own Doctor - A Sean Short
Don't be a fool.

Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 10min
335 Holy sh*t - a $45 at home hormone test - TRT with Hone Health with Saad Alam
We're half the men our grandfathers were, and now you can do something about it. GET A $45 mail in hormone test and virtual dr. visit here. honehealth.com/opp Saad Alam found out he had the testosterone of an 80 year old when he was in his 30s. So he created what is now the fastest growing men's health company in the US. The future of health optimization is here. And we cover it in this awesome episode of Optimal Performance. •Why Saad NEEDED to create a testosterone improvement company •The jarring psychological effects of low T •40% of men over 35 suffer from low T •Our fathers generation had 26% more T and 50% more •More testosterone = fewer cardiac events, generally happier •Primary care physicians aren’t trained to help you with hormone optimization •How Hone Health works - Get the test in the mail, send in blood sample, talk to a doc, determine best action to take, receive medication. Re-consult with doc, and retest… •Most medications have noticeable results in 3-6 weeks •The benefits of Clomid •How to feel like yourself again •The importance of connecting with other guys who have gone through TRT •Sleep, stress management, nutrition are essential to a quality life.

Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 13min
334 Preventing and Reversing Alzheimer's With Dr. Dale Bredesen
Dr. Bredesen is beating Alzheimer's... And now, he's telling the stories of those who have reversed Alzheimer's in his new book - The First Survivor of Alzheimer's. The Alzheimer's statistics are staggering and dwarf all but two causes of death in the U.S. In this relevant, and fascinating episode we cover: •Results of clinical trial of unprecedented medial improvement •4 Groups: Inflammation - mouth, mold, leaky gut etc,, Toxicity - air pollution, glyphosate, biotoxins Energetics - blood flow, oxygenation, mitochondria, ketosis Trophic factors - hormones, thyroids, nutrients •Alzheimers as the third leading cause of death in USA •84% of people in the trial got better brain scores, not just a slowing of decline •4 Groups: Inflammation - mouth, mold, leaky gut etc,, Toxicity - air pollution, glyphosate, biotoxins Energetics - blood flow, oxygenation, mitochondria, ketosis Trophic factors - hormones, thyroids, nutrients •The Alzhiemer’s pandemic dwarfs covid •The connection between improvements in cognition and improvements in Parkinson’s •Dr. Bredesen and his cognoscapy •Brain training supplementation and detox are essential •Brain training specifically speed of processing is very helpful… •The power of brainhq •What it’s like to have Alzheimers •The importance of knowing whether you have the gene APOE4…2 copies means greater than 50% change of developing Alzheimer’s •How wearables and social networking are two of the most important influencers in preventing cognitive decline