wise athletes podcast

Nov 17 2024 158 ep. 54 mins 8
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athletic longevity and peak performance as we age

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#149 | Near Infrared Light (NIR) is the Missing Puzzle Piece | Scott Zimmerman

Nov 17 2024 66 mins  
WiseAthlete Supplements Hey Everyone, welcome to WiseAthletes, your source for discovering how to flourish as an older athlete, and find your path to longevity in sport. I'm your host Joe Lavelle. Today on episode 149 I am starting a 2-part series on Near Infrared (NIR) light, an important environmental factor that our bodies expect to have and need for our health. But in a n

#148 | Adventure for Life | Brian Keane

Nov 09 2024 55 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements for WiseAthletes Hey Everyone, welcome to WiseAthletes, your source for discovering how to flourish as an older athlete, and finding your path to longevity in sport. I'm your host Joe Lavelle. Socrates warned us to beware the barrenness of a busy life. I understand that all too well these days. If you are like me, you are so busy doing the many

#147 | Solving Inflammaging | Dwayne Jackson PhD

Oct 24 2024 82 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements for WiseAthletes Hey Everyone, welcome to WiseAthletes, your source for discovering how to flourish as an older athlete, and finding your path to longevity in sport. I'm your host Joe Lavelle. Chronic low grade inflammation underlies all states of sickness and disease associated with aging. Everything that is "healthy" is probably good for chron

#146 | A Strong Foundation for Athleticism | Tyler Benner of Strong Feet Athletics

Oct 10 2024 64 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements for WiseAthletes If you are like me you have been investing time and effort into getting stronger and building a foundation of health with a variety of activities including resistance training, endurance exercise, high intensity intervals, and playing games requiring hand-eye coordination. I thought that was enough but what I haven't been doing is

#145 | Food for Thought | William Li, MD

Sep 29 2024 58 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements for WiseAthletes Food as medicine is an old idea...it's the original idea on how to be a healthy person dating back more than 2000 years, but can food be the way to achieve athletic longevity? Can wise athletes target certain foods to target faster recovery, better health, and longer life? Can it be done without extreme or highly restrictive diets?

#144 | Muscle for Athletics & Healthspan | Mark Tarnopolsky MD, PhD, FRCP(C)

Sep 08 2024 69 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements for WiseAthletes Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell....yes, but what does that mean? What can we do, as Wise Athletes, to have enough healthy mitochondria in our muscles and everywhere else powering our bodily functions for optimal brain power, energy levels, we well as muscle power and endurance? These questions and more are addressed

#143 | Heart, Lung & Brain Injury from Chronic Over-Breathing | George Dallam, PhD

Aug 27 2024 63 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements for WiseAthletes We all want a healthy heart, lungs, and brain. Can you guess at the single behavior that connects the dots on solving: the ability to run or ride at the same speed using 25% less breathing, reducing the occurrence of the so called exercise induced asthma or bronchoconstriction (EIB), eliminating side stitches while running, avoidin

#142 | Fasting Mimicking to Balance Muscle & Longevity | Joseph Antoun, MD PhD

Aug 17 2024 54 mins  
Professional Grade Supplements & 5-Day FMD Kits for WiseAthletes Like so many people, I have struggled to lose my visceral fat while I have continued to put on muscle.... but there is more to being a wise athlete than having maximum muscle. I also want to live LONG as a strong athlete. The prevailing wisdom says that when you fast or when you cut calories, you lose fat and muscl

#141 | Your Blood Test Results May Vary | Austin Baraki MD

Jul 28 2024 62 mins  
Pro Level Supplements & At-Home Tests for WiseAthletes "In science and engineering, convention dictates that unless a margin of error is explicitly stated, the number of significant figures used in the presentation of data should be limited to what is warranted by the precision of those data." Why don't I see error bars on my blood test results...? We love to say that wha

#140 | Solving Low Vitamin D | Grant E. Fraser MD

Jul 20 2024 41 mins  
Pro Level Supplements & At-Home Tests for WiseAthletes Updated edition: we had to fix a few spots in the recording so this episode is the (slightly) revised one. Vitamin D isn’t a vitamin but a hormone, and it plays an important role in our bodies including the building and repair of muscle. Can you just take a vitamin D pill and forget about it? Do you have to get sun