This podcast is about how to improve your brain health today and tomorrow using neuroscience, diet, lifestyle medicine and more. Topics include food, exercise, sleep, nature, modern medicine, psychedelics. I interview key experts and take you on deep dives into the latest research.
How does nature influence our brain function?
In this episode we'll review the science connecting exposure to nature, or "vitamin N" with improvements in general as well as brain health, and the path…
Deep dive episode!
With millions reporting symptoms of brain fog, depression, anxiety and trouble focusing alongside infection with COVID-19, many want to know: how is the virus influencing the brain…
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change itself over the course of our lives. Impairments in neuroplasticity have been linked to depression, and many antidepressive therapies may actually wor…
Trauma is certainly a popular topic of conversation these days. But few in this space share the level of expertise offered by Dr. James. S. Gordon. Dr. Gordon has been helping people around the world…
Anxiety is one of the most common states of stuckness today, and COVID-19 hasn't made it any better. In this episode I interview psychiatrist Dimitrios Tsatiris about his area of expertise: anxiety. …
In this episode, I explore brain health with two physician scientists, Dr. Ayesha Sherzai and Dr. Dean Sherzai. It was one of my favorite conversations, filled with science, philosophy and psychology…
In this episode I speak with Psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Angela Reiersen about her recent publication in JAMA, "Fluvoxamine vs Placebo and Clinical Deterioration in Outpatients With Symptomatic C…
In this episode of GTSO, I interview Wendy Wood, Ph.D. Wendy is a the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California and a prolific researcher in the field of h…
In this short solo episode, I dissect the concept of plasticity and its role in enabling humans to be successful and adapt to changing environmental pressures. I discuss plasticity as it relates to o…
In this information-packed episode, I speak with Dr. Casey Means, an MD with a passion for maximizing human potential and reversing the epidemic of preventable chronic disease through tech-enabled to…
In this overview episode, I begin to dive into the ways that what we take as true can be distorted, fabricated, or otherwise replaced by fiction. Examples I cover include popular social myths, the wa…
In this episode, I continue to lay the groundwork for the series with an explanation of the importance of cycles of behavior and thought in our lives. I discuss what I believe to be the most damaging…
All of us are trying to improve ourselves. Whether it's eating better, exercising, or calling our grandmothers on occasion, it's so much easier to say we're going to do something than make it happen.…