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Paul Laursen, PhD, is an adjunct professor, performance physiologist and coach. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in exercise and sports science journals, and this work has been cited more than 3000 times. Paul is coach and support to numerous elite and professional athletes across multiple endurance-based sports and is himself lightning-fast triathlete with performances across Olympic to Ironman distance events. Paul is an early adopter and technology-savvy geeks at the pointy end of discovery. In this interview, I’m joined by Tommy Wood, MD, PhD, to discuss high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Earlier this year, I went straight into some 3-8 hour races having done no long (20 min work period) intervals at all, a first for me as a competitive mountain biker. Almost all of my training consisted of MAF paced work and so I wondered why I ever did HIIT and that lead to this show. You can find Paul at his new home over at plewsandprof.com Here’s the outline of this interview with Paul Laursen: [00:00:24] High Performance Sport New Zealand. [00:00:34] Professor Paul Laursen on PubMed. [00:03:19] Endurance athlete definition. [00:05:00] Intensity definition. [00:05:44] Critical Power. [00:07:38] Aerobic threshold: 1 mmol increase in blood lactate above baseline (MAF). [00:08:52] Critical Power: maximal lactate steady state (30-60 min). [00:09:40] VO2 Max (2.5 min up to 8 min). [00:10:38] Anaerobic Speed Reserve Project by Gareth Sandford. [00:10:50] Maximal Power. [00:12:53] 2K rowing test. [00:17:43] More than one way to skin a cat. [00:19:51] Continuous blood glucose monitoring. [00:20:20] Polarised training model. [00:21:49] Does grey zone training provide some benefit you can't get from polarised? [00:23:13] Stress fractures. [00:25:09] Mindfulness. [00:26:35] Dr Daniel Plews. [00:28:17] Training for IRONMAN. [00:28:51] 80/20 aerobic/intensity. [00:31:47] TrainingPeaks TSS. [00:32:17] BANISTER, E. W. (1991). Modelling elite athletic performance. In: MacDougall, J.D.; Wenger, H.A. & Green, H.J. eds. Physiological testing of the high performance athlete. Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics Publishers Ltd., pp 403–424. [00:32:57] TrainingPeaks Performance Management chart. [00:34:28] Blog: Marco Altini on Heart Rate Variability (HRV). [00:35:05] Paper: Comparison of Heart Rate Variability Recording With Smart Phone Photoplethysmographic, Polar H7 Chest Strap and Electrocardiogram Methods” by Plews DJ et al. [00:36:41] Website: Brain.fm. [00:37:50] Interview: The Migraine Miracle with Dr Josh Turknett, MD. [00:39:09] Overall rise in HRV in a weekly block of training. [00:40:32] Marco Altini tweet chart. [00:41:15] Website: HRV for Training. [00:41:51] Dr Daniel Plews. [00:41:59] Mark Buchet? [00:43:20] The format of the book. [00:44:37] Artificial Intelligence (AI). [00:46:17] Dr Ken Ford and his publications. [00:46:45] Podcast: STEM-Talk. [00:46:56] Website: Plews and Prof, Plews and Prof on Twitter.

Radical Candor™ is the ability to Challenge Directly and show you Care Personally at the same time. Radical Candor will help you and all the people you work with do the best work of your lives and build the best relationships of your career. Two nearly universal experiences make Radical Candor unnatural. One, most people have been told since they learned to talk some version of “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.” When they become a boss, the very thing they have been taught not to do since they were 18 months old is suddenly their job. Furthermore, most people, since they got their first job, have been told to be “professional.” Too often, that’s code for leaving your humanity at home. But to build strong relationships, you have to Care Personally. You have to bring your whole self to work. Buy Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Here’s the outline of this podcast with Dr Tommy Wood: [00:00:29] Mastermind Talks. [00:01:04] MMT Guests: Ben Greenfield & Dave Asprey. [00:01:53] Carmel Valley Ranch. [00:02:55] Jayson Gaignard [00:05:51] Belgian Waffle Ride. [00:06:11] Lesley Paterson & Simon Marshall at Braveheart Coaching. [00:07:23] Book: Radical Candour by Kim Scott. [00:07:44] Chart. [00:08:51] Obnoxious aggression. [00:10:55] Shit sandwich. [00:11:21] Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz. [00:12:24] Kim Scott. [00:16:06] Viome CEO, Naveen Jain. [00:17:10] Catchbox. [00:17:39] Transcriptome. [00:18:08] Interview: Type 2 Diabetes, Fasting, Your Questions Answered with Dr Jason Fung. [00:18:46] Interview: Why We Get Fat and What You Should Really Do About It with Chris Masterjohn, PhD and Tommy Wood, MD, PhD. [00:19:41] Absentee hatchet job. [00:20:28] Interview: The Migraine Miracle with Dr Joshua Turknett. [00:21:34] Video: The Most Reliable Way to Lose Weight with Chris Masterjohn, PhD. [00:23:23] Article: Should Calorie Counting Be the Main Focus for Somebody Trying to Lose Weight (Body Fat)? by Tommy Wood, MD, PhD. [00:24:20] Tommy's Dad on PubMed. [00:25:09] Flat tire. [00:26:11] STEM-Talk podcast: Gary Taubes discusses low carb diets and sheds light on the hazards of sugar. [00:27:27] Manipulative insincerity. [00:31:33] IFM talk on insulin Buck Institute. [00:33:21] Book: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman by Richard P Feynman. [00:34:04] Paper: Dominique Chretien, Paule Benit, Hyung-Ho Ha, Susanne Keipert, Riyad El-Khoury, Young-Tae Chang, Martin Jastroch, Howard Jacobs, Pierre Rustin, Malgorzata Rak. “Mitochondria Are Physiologically Maintained At Close To 50 C”. [00:36:25] Paper: Cronise, Raymond J., David A. Sinclair, and Andrew A. Bremer. "Oxidative Priority, Meal Frequency, and the Energy Economy of Food and Activity: Implications for Longevity, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Disease." Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders (2016). Be sure to read Tommy’s response: Wood, Thomas. "If the Metabolic Winter Is Coming, When Will It Be Summer?" Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders (2017). [00:41:48] Slack, Torea Rodriguez. [00:44:51] Discourse forum software.

Last weekend Tommy flew from Seattle to San Jose to record with me in person for the Mind Pump podcast, and since it went so well, I thought I’d air the discussion on my show too. If you’re new to Mind Pump, I’d highly recommend you give it a listen. Sal, Justin and Adam record in a purpose-built studio and educate on all things health and fitness with an emphasis on strength, conditioning and critical thinking. In this episode, Sal asks Tommy some great questions on food quality versus quantity. I ask Adam about the Mind Pump avatar, and the transformation people can expect from their MAPS programs. Finally, we talk about our Elite Performance Program and the types of problems we solve for our athletes. We introduce our new 7-minute Elite Performance Analysis tool.

Kristian Manietta is a husband, dad, coach, coeliac, life athlete, entrepreneur and host of the Fat Black podcast. Over the past 11 years, Kristian has helped hundreds of triathletes achieve and even greatly surpass their goals using methods both traditional and unconventional… with the balance more skewed to unconventional. I wanted to get Kristian on to talk about his incredible journey from pro snowboarder to average triathlete to sub 9-hour IRONMAN finisher. Like me and many other of my guests, Kristian has suffered from a multitude of gut problems that he now successfully manages with diet and lifestyle. Here’s the outline of this interview with Kristian Manietta: [00:00:06] Sign up for the Nourish Balance Thrive Highlights email series. [00:00:30] Action item to add to your routine: Be the first person to say hello. [00:02:41] Pro snowboarding. [00:03:54] Buying more snowboards at a shop that was offering trip to Whistler. [00:06:45] Squamish, British Columbia. [00:07:54] 11:27 → 8:57 IRONMAN time. [00:10:48] Friend who was a therapist who was integral in getting through ITB injury. [00:13:08] Grey zone training. [00:13:30] Coach: Chris McGovern. [00:13:45] Interview: Dr Phil Maffetone: Doctor, Coach, Author, Teacher. [00:14:06] Site: Triathlon World Summit. [00:18:25] Nose breathing. [00:19:34] Too many gadgets? [00:21:15] Scheduling volume. [00:23:15] Swimming is the weakness. [00:24:05] IRONMAN mass start. [00:25:12] Interview: High Ketones and Carbs at the Same Time? Great Performance Tip or Horrible Idea with Mike T. Nelson. [00:30:04] Site: TrainingPeaks. [00:32:23] Nutrition strategies. [00:34:45] Coeliac diagnosis. [00:38:07] Villous Atrophy. [00:38:53] HLA genotype. [00:39:57] Italy. [00:40:36] The artist formerly known as Adrenal Fatigue. [00:40:46] MTHFR. [00:41:59] DOMS. [00:42:06] NBT People: Will Caterson interview. [00:43:55] Vegan. [00:45:02] 100k per week. [00:48:06] Liver, sardines & bone broth. [00:51:45] Using carbs in racing. [00:52:17] Phat Fibre MCT oil powder. [00:55:09] Finding the sweet spot. [00:56:42] Podcast: Fat Black. [00:58:40] Site: Trispecific. [00:58:54] Facebook community: Trispecific Cafe.

Three times XTERRA World Champion Lesley Paterson is the “little Scottish lassie who packs a mean punch.” In this interview, Lesley talks briefly about her early triathlon days and later success in the offroad world. I wanted to get Lesley on for two reasons, first, because I knew she’d been working with Chris Kresser and the Taymount Clinic to resolve longstanding gut and Lyme issues. Secondly, I wanted Lesley to talk about her new book, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion. Lesley co-authored the book with her sports psychologist husband Simon Marshall, PhD and I’d highly recommend to anyone looking to get the most out of their brain to maximise endurance. Sorry about the swearing! My goal was not to offend. Honest. Here’s the outline of this interview with Lesley Paterson: [00:00:00] PHAT FIBRE, Article: How to Use MCT Oil to Fuel an IRONMAN Triathlon, and, How Endurance Training Affects Carbohydrate Tolerance by Megan Roberts, MSc, and Tommy Wood MD, PhD. [00:00:24] Interview: Lauren Peterson, PhD. [00:00:35] YouTube: The Lesley Paterson Story by the Taymount Clinic. [00:01:12] Site: International Triathlon Unit, or ITU racing. [00:02:06] Site: XTERRA: Global Off-Road Triathlon and Trail Running Series. [00:03:57] Being out in nature. [00:04:14] Quote: “If it were easy, they'd call it IRONMAN” — Bob Babbitt. [00:07:27] Gut issues. [00:08:04] Antibiotics and Accutane. [00:09:29] Weight gain. [00:10:05] Lyme disease. [00:10:35] 6% bodyfat. [00:11:25] Site: Taymount Clinic. [00:11:48] Podcast: Chris Kresser interview with Glenn Taylor of the Taymount Clinic and an Update show. [00:13:00] Sign up for our Highlights series. [00:14:35] Ozone and IV therapy. [00:15:07] Interview: Dr David Minkoff. [00:16:06] The artist formerly known as Adrenal Fatigue. [00:16:26] Carbs. [00:17:01] SIBO. [00:18:10] The Taymount experience. [00:21:05] The gut brain connection. [00:23:25] Types of athlete at Braveheart Coaching. [00:25:01] Site: BMC bike racing team. [00:25:35] Professor Steve Peters. [00:26:33] TED Talk: Optimising the Performance of the Human Mind: Steve Peters at TEDxYouth@Manchester 2012. [00:28:06] Do you want to be having these feelings right now? If no, the chimp is in charge. [00:29:31] Alter ego. [00:32:46] Athlete identity issues. [00:40:30] Race: Sea Otter Classic. [00:42:48] Finding gratitude. [00:44:12] Being mindful during the race. [00:45:10] Negative thoughts. [00:46:26] Music. [00:48:25] Site: Braveheart Coaching.

After completing high school and college in just six years, Abel James graduated as a Senior Fellow with Honors at Dartmouth College with a concentration in Psychological and Brain Sciences. Despite some early successes in his life, in his early 20’s, Abel James found himself facing failure. Financially stressed, over-trained, over-worked, 30 lbs overweight and suffering a devastating loss due to an apartment fire, his health came crashing down and he found himself at rock bottom. As a self-proclaimed “nerd”, Abel hit the books hard and learned how to biohack himself back to health. Now, Abel is dedicated to helping others, who’ve faced the same challenges that he did, recover their health and fitness through his New York Times bestselling book, The Wild Diet, and his award-winning web series, Fat-Burning Man. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and serial entrepreneur. Abel lives with his wife Alyson and his yellow lab, Bailey, in the mountains of Wilder, TN. Here’s the outline of this interview with Abel James: [00:01:14] Why do you do this work? [00:02:59] 30 lbs overweight and the stress of an apartment fire. [00:04:32] Honest Abe's tips. [00:05:37] Quote: “Keeping a hundred pounds off for five years, that's special.” [00:07:04] The importance of being a performer. [00:08:13] Abel’s YouTube channel, including his first videos. [00:09:00] Video version of this interview. [00:10:00] Book: The Wild Diet: Go Beyond Paleo to Burn Fat, Beat Cravings, and Drop 20 Pounds in 40 days by Abel James. [00:11:32] Weston A. Price Foundation. [00:14:16] Dr Jack Kruse & Jimmy Moore. [00:14:49] Hippy Parents, Preventing and Reversing Chronic Disease by Dr Tommy Wood at Icelandic Health Symposium 2017. [00:15:23] Dr Deborah Gordon. [00:16:26] A day of eating on The Wild Diet. [00:16:58] Mark Sisson. [00:17:36] Robb Wolf. [00:19:36] The use and abuse of marketing in health and fitness. [00:20:40] How do you do the diet on food stamps? [00:21:01] Instacart in Austin. [00:21:14] Abel’s brother James lives on a farm in Upstate NY. [00:22:02] Working for food on local farms. [00:22:27] 50% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck. [00:24:22] Social isolation. [00:26:53] The use of humour and authenticity. [00:28:56] Quote: “Make great content that you know is the best you can do at that moment.” [00:29:23] Site: Wayback Machine. [00:31:00] First book: The Musical Brain by Abel James. [00:32:33] Hustling as a musician. [00:34:43] What do you think the world needs more of? [00:35:28] Book: Incorporating Herbal Medicine Into Clinical Practice by Angella Bascom, ARNP. [00:39:03] If you had to start again, what would you do? [00:40:02] Site: Quora. [00:42:27] The transition into TV. [00:44:22] ABC’s “My Diet is Better Than Yours” show featuring The Wild Diet and Abel James. [00:46:00] Abel James doing sprints in a bacon suit on ABC’s “My Diet is Better Than Yours” show. [00:47:33] The Annual Oxford vs Cambridge boat race. (Viking edition). [00:49:20] Membership Site: Fat Burning Tribe. [00:50:54] Paleo f(x). [00:51:31] Start a community. [00:52:59] Quote: “The hardest part is always right before the best part…” [00:54:43] Quote: “Take on the challenges that are really appealing to you.” [00:55:07] Album: Swamp Thing by Abel James. [00:55:39] Site: Abel James: Author/Musician/Talk Show Host/Adventurer.

Sam Feltham has been in the health and fitness industry for over a decade. He started out as a party coordinator at a sports centre and worked his way up to study at the European Institute of Fitness and qualified as a Master Personal Trainer. After 5 years of running a fitness boot camp business and a successful podcast called Smash The Fat, Sam decided to move away from that business in order to fully focus on improving public health by setting up and directing the Public Health Collaboration. In the UK, 25% of adults are obese and type 2 diabetes has risen by 65% in 10 years, both cost the NHS £16 billion a year. The Public Health Collaboration is a charity dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health. The PHC seeks to avert the crisis by informing healthcare professionals and the public with evidence-based reports and implementing initiatives. Here’s the outline of this interview with Sam Feltham: [00:00:00] Article: The Tea That Mimics the Effects of Exercise. TL;DR hormetea.com [00:00:14] Presentation: Low Carb Breckenridge 2017: Creating Change in Public Health by Sam Feltham. [00:02:57] The European Institute of Fitness. [00:04:14] Book: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes. [00:04:29] Blogs: Mark Sisson and Robb Wolf. [00:05:01] Smash The Fat Podcast and YouTube channel. [00:05:59] Public Health Collaboration Crowdfunding. [00:06:28] Report: Healthy Eating Guidelines & Weight Loss Advice For The United Kingdom. [00:06:38] Public Health England’s response to Public Health Collaboration’s report: Eat Fat, Cut the Carbs and Avoid Snacking To Reverse Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. [00:07:26] Obesity in the UK is at 25% and has been steadily increasing. [00:07:51] In the UK, 6% of the population has type 2 diabetes and 35% have pre-diabetes costing the UK $10 billion annually. [00:09:17] Sam's overfeeding experiment. [00:11:09] Harris-Benedict Equation. [00:14:33] Sleep apnoea and asthma. [00:15:58] Bloodwork and BOD POD. [00:17:18] Different types of fat deposition: subcutaneous vs visceral. [00:19:16] Vegan arm of the experiment. [00:22:09] Type 1 Diabetes. [00:26:02] The 57 randomised controlled trials on the Public Health Collaboration website. [00:27:44] Interview: Professor Richard Feinman. [00:32:36] NHS spends $3 billion looking after smokers while the tax is $7 billion. [00:34:42] Healthy Eating Guidelines mp3 and PDF. [00:37:07] Real Food Lifestyle. [00:38:38] Real Food Lifestyle for Weight Loss. [00:40:24] Report: Eat Fat, Cut the Carbs and Avoid Snacking to Reverse Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. [00:41:22] Website: Public Health Collaboration. [00:42:32] PHC’s Advisory Board members include Dr Aseem Malhotra, Dr Tamsin Lewis, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Dr David Unwin and others.   [00:43:21] Presentation: Low Carb Breckenridge 2017: The Glycaemic Index: Helping Patients in Primary Care with T2D by Dr David Unwin. [00:44:43] Public Health Collaboration Annual Conference 2017. [00:45:08] Real Food Lifestyle General Practitioner map.

As Scientific Director at Nourish Balance Thrive, Megan is a research scientist who helps keep the program state of the art. She received her BS in Exercise Biology and MSc in Nutritional Biology at UC Davis where her research focused on the effects of low carbohydrate and ketogenic diets on longevity and healthspan in mice. In her free time Megan enjoys reading, long walks in the sunshine, weight lifting, martial arts, and hiking in the Colorado mountains. You could listen to this interview to learn: How Megan recovered her gut health. The best diet to gain lean mass (for the underweight). About allostatic load. Here’s the outline of this interview with Megan Roberts: [00:01:14] IHH-UCSF Symposium on Functional Medicine and the Paleo Approach. [00:01:30] Presentations: Robb Wolf, Dr Stephan Guyenet, Dr Justin Sonnenburg. [00:02:55] The road to medical school. [00:03:14] Blog post: Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn’t Working Part One: Underfueling and Overtraining. [00:04:34] Integrating all the information. [00:04:59] Dr Ron Rosedale, Dr Dominic D'Agostino. [00:06:43] Allostatic load aka, "the stress bucket". [00:07:40] Gluten and dairy sensitivities. [00:08:01] Presentation: Dr Tommy Wood at Icelandic Health Symposium. [00:08:39] White blood cell counts and getting sick. [00:10:03] Book: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Dr Robert Sapolsky. [00:12:33] Favouring micronutrients over macronutrients. [00:14:05] Learning to be mindful. [00:14:51] Interview: How to Think Yourself Younger, Healthier, Faster with Dr Ellen Langer. [00:15:52] Presentation: The Way to the Man's Heart Is Through the Stomach, Dr Tommy Wood. [00:16:16] Blog post: How to Prevent Weight Loss (or Gain Muscle) on a Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet. [00:16:52] Sumo wrestlers. [00:17:12] Interview: Keto Summit with Dr Chris Masterjohn. [00:18:22] Interview: How to Achieve High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel. [00:19:07] Interview: Social Isolation: The Most Important Topic Nobody is Talking About with Dr Bryan Walsh. [00:20:46] Headspace. [00:23:59] Critical thinking and seeing shades of grey. [00:25:05] Timing carb intake. [00:26:34] Adapting to altitude in Colorado. [00:28:01] Will the ketogenic diet extend longevity? [00:28:25] The limitations of rodent studies. [00:29:30] Gender differences for the ketogenic diet. [00:29:59] Blog Post: The IRONMAN Guide to Ketosis. [00:32:50] Ben Greenfield's experience on a ketogenic diet. [00:33:06] Dr Mark Cucuzzella, Zach Bitter. [00:34:56] Interview: How to Use Biomedical Testing for IRONMAN Performance with Bob McRae. [00:35:10] Blog post: How to Use MCT Oil to Fuel an IRONMAN Triathlon, and, How Endurance Training Affects Carbohydrate Tolerance. [00:36:12] PHAT FIBRE v2. [00:37:39] Blog post: Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn’t Working Part One: Underfueling and Overtraining.

Find your path to a migraine-free life in the “Ultimate Guide” by headache expert, best-selling author, and longtime migraine sufferer, Dr Joshua Turknett, MD. After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience from Wesleyan University and his Medical Degree from Emory University, he went on to neurology residency training for four years at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. Josh has been practicing neurology in the Atlanta, Georgia area since 2005. As a migraine sufferer, Josh takes great satisfaction in helping fellow migraineurs take control of their headaches. Josh has a special interest in the role of nutrition and lifestyle in neurological illness. He blogs on these subjects and more and has also authored a best-selling book called The Migraine Miracle. Outside of his professional life, Josh enjoys playing a wide range of sports and string instruments with a special fondness for both tennis and the 5-string banjo. His love for the 5-string banjo has developed into several notable endeavours including an album of banjo music for children, and an online learning company called Brainjo, where he teaches people how to play the banjo and create a musical brain by hacking the science of neuroplasticity. Some of my favourite Josh quotes: “Seduced by our powers of reductionism” “Just play the game!” Here’s the outline of this interview with Josh Turknett, MD: [00:00:15] Ancestral Health Symposium 2014 talk - Migraine as the Hypothalamic Distress Signal. [00:00:54] Josh's migraine story. [00:03:00] Book: The Migraine Miracle. [00:03:29] Migraine symptoms. [00:06:15] Warning signs: prodrome. [00:06:55] Aura phenomenon. [00:07:53] 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men suffer from migraines. [00:09:00] Standard of care - drugs. [00:10:37] Triptans. [00:12:12] Causes of migraines. [00:13:06] Distress signal of an overwhelmed hypothalamus. [00:14:52] Sleep and circadian rhythms. [00:15:03] Metabolic flexibility. [00:17:00] Reactive hypoglycaemia. [00:17:48] The migraine threshold chart. [00:18:30] Inflammation. [00:20:54] Obesity and migraines. [00:23:15] Physicians for Ancestral Health 2017 talk - “How to Win at Angry Birds: Moving Towards a More Efficient Practice Model” Josh Turknett, MD. [00:25:03] “Seduced by our powers of reductionism” -- Josh Turknett, MD [00:30:15] The best diet for migraineurs. [00:31:50] Ketogenic diets. [00:32:24] Oliveira, Marcela de Almeida Rabello, et al. "Effects of short-term and long-term treatment with medium-and long-chain triglycerides ketogenic diet on cortical spreading depression in young rats." Neuroscience letters 434.1 (2008): 66-70. [00:34:02] The Three Pillars: Eliminate Rebound, Eliminate Mismatch, Establish Metabolic Flexibility. [00:36:08] Gut symptoms: blog post. [00:36:53] eBook: The Ultimate Guide. [00:37:52] Support group: Facebook group and meal plans Primal Provisions. [00:38:32] Support group: Migrai-Neverland. [00:39:08] The wall of inspiration. [00:40:23] Teaching the banjo: Brainjo. [00:41:45] Gourd banjo. Also see, Why the Banjo is Best.

Jonathan Levi is an experienced entrepreneur and angel investor from Silicon Valley. After successfully selling his Inc 5,000 rated startup in April of 2011, Jonathan enlisted the help of speed-reading expert and university professor Anna Goldentouch, who tutored him in speed-reading, advanced memorization, and more. He saw incredible results while earning his MBA from INSEAD, and later went on to teach a best-selling online course on the subject. With this unique skill, Jonathan has become a proficient life hacker, optimising and “hacking” such processes as travel, sleep, language learning, and fitness. I recently had the privilege of featuring as a guest on Jonathan’s Becoming Superhuman podcast where we talk about an engineering approaching to creating health versus the medical approach for episodic illness. You could listen to this podcast to find out why and how to become a better learner. After all, “learning is the only skill that matters.”--Jonathan Levi. Here’s the outline of this interview with Jonathan Levi: [00:00:35] Becoming Superhuman podcast. [00:00:44] Podcast with Robb Wolf. [00:01:24] Problems learning in an academic setting. [00:01:55] ADD. [00:02:34] Unhappy adolescence. [00:02:49] Methylphenidate hydrochloride (Ritalin). [00:03:51] MBA program. [00:04:46] Professor Anna and Dr Lev Goldentouch. [00:06:15] Ted Talk: What If Schools Taught Us How To Learn? [00:07:12] Humans have a heavy preference for visual learning. [00:07:32] Newtonian physics. [00:09:10] Dr Ben Lynch, ND. [00:09:25] Organic acids testing, dopamine and tyrosine. [00:10:11] Learning is the only skill that matters. [00:10:26] Book: Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett. [00:10:42] Book: The Game by Neil Strauss. [00:11:12] Keto for brain health, fasting. [00:11:42] Magnesium deficiency. [00:12:09] Movement & exercise, norepinephrine. [00:13:19] Machine learning. [00:14:08] Book: Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! [00:14:56] Harry Lorayne. [00:15:07] Steve Jobs. [00:16:18] Debating. [00:19:18] Udemy. [00:22:31] Book: Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. [00:25:37] Method of loci. [00:26:04] Neurons & synapses. [00:27:20] Hippocampus. [00:28:59] 5-HT4 serotonin receptor. [00:30:00] Book: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. [00:30:32] Ron White memory champion. [00:31:34] Anki flashcard software. [00:33:16] PageRank. [00:34:02] Clarke, Robert, et al. "Effects of homocysteine lowering with B vitamins on cognitive aging: meta-analysis of 11 trials with cognitive data on 22,000 individuals." The American journal of clinical nutrition 100.2 (2014): 657-666. [00:34:24] Spritzlet. [00:35:25] Evelyn Wood speed reading technique. [00:35:52] Pre-reading. [00:37:08] “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”--Abraham Lincoln. [00:38:39] The visual abstract. [00:40:27] Caring about the thing that you're trying to remember. [00:40:50] AcroYoga. [00:43:21] Malcolm Knowles. [00:43:58] Book: The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Denise Minger rebuttal. [00:46:17] Become a SuperHuman: Naturally & Safely Boost Testosterone. [00:47:12] jle.vi/drugs [00:47:37] Sam Harris. [00:47:50] jle.vi/kombucha [00:48:13] Book: Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler. [00:49:39] Funktion-One sound system. [00:50:55] Meditation. [00:51:54] Modulating cortisol response. [00:53:17] becomeasuperlearner.com [00:53:42] becomingasuperhuman.com [00:54:49] Wim Hof. [00:55:38] Dr Bryan Walsh, ND.