Optimal Performance
Sean McCormick
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.
Episodes
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Jan 25, 2017 • 47min
Natural Stacks Hot Seat: Team NS Shares Top Books, Advice and Secrets for Success
Team Natural Stacks is on the Hot Seat this week. Meet the team and get our favorite books of 2016, best advice, top new biohacks and more tools for Optimal Performance - like new coffee recipes, food logging tips, and mushroom teas with our Myco Stacks.
Jan 18, 2017 • 1h
Sleep Stages, Brain Waves and PEMF for Improved Sleep
Sleep hacking with Michael Lares. We discuss the 5 stages of sleep, physical & mental recovery during sleep, the brain waves involved with each stage and how PEMF can help you get better sleep, heal tissue, migraines and more.
Jan 11, 2017 • 1h 7min
Flow State: Neuroscience of Getting in ''The Zone'' with Max Gotzler
Flow States can increase productivity by 500-700%. Flow Grade founder Max Gotzler reveals the 3 neurological changes that occur in our brain during flow & tips for us to achieve flow in our everyday lives to increase purpose, productivity & happiness.
Jan 4, 2017 • 1h 2min
Deep Nutrition: 4 Pillars of the Perfect Human Diet with Dr. Cate Shanahan
Dr. Cate Shanahan is the author of Deep Nutrition and the Director of the LA Laker's PRO Nutrition Program. Dr. Cate explains the 4 components that all healthy diets share, how the low-fat craze began, & why vegetable oil is ''liquid age''.
Dec 28, 2016 • 1h 10min
Cell Phones, Brain Cancer, and Public Health with Katie Singer
Katie Singer, author of An Electronic Silent Spring, educates us on legislative policy that has paved the way for cell phone and electronics usage that has been proven to uncouple DNA, linked to brain cancer, and most importantly - how we can limit exposure and damage to our health.
Dec 21, 2016 • 1h 9min
Nootropics, Metabolism, and Circadian Hacks with Steve Fowkes
Biohacking legend Steve Fowkes talks nootropics, piracetam use, metabolism, reducing viral susceptibility, HIIT for brain function, dangers of cell phones and his favorite sleep hacks to improve sleep, increase energy, ad improve health.
Dec 14, 2016 • 59min
Alheimer's Prevention and Reversal with Steve Fowkes
Biohacking legend Steve Fowkes: We talk Alzheimer's prevention and reversal, including the role - and importance - of pH, redox reactions, grounding, glutathione and the ''browning out'' of our metabolisms. Plus the dangers of living ''wired to the max''.
Dec 7, 2016 • 51min
Super Learner Jonathan Levi on Learning, Memory and Speed Reading
''Learning is the only skill that matters'' If we can learn, there is no new skill, trait or ability that is out of our reach. Super Learner Jonathan Levi shares the secrets to acquire new skills at an accelerated rate, improve memory, and read faster.
Nov 30, 2016 • 1h 8min
Neurofeedback, Finland Biohacking Summit and My QEEG Brain Scans
On-site recordings from my LA trip to Peak Brain and the Biohacking Summit in Finland explain neurofeedback and give you tools (both ancient and space-age) to train short-term states and long-term traits of your brain for increased cognition & happiness.
Nov 23, 2016 • 1h 9min
Accountability, Growth Mindset, and Holding the Standard with Deuce Gym's Logan Gelbrich
Deuce Gym's Logan Gelbrich talks about the most common reasons we fail in our pursuits - including accountability, developing a growth mindset, becoming Anti-Fragile and how to hold yourself & others to higher standards.
