Go Super Brain with Andy Triana

[00:03:39]   Carl tells the story about how he successfully manages the longest running health and fitness podcast in the world.

[00:08:26]   The delineation between exercise and training.

• Exercise is supposed to promote all things health.
• For elite athletes their accessory work, skill work and recovery work matter the most.
• There is a cost, and everything associated demand wise to maintain and progress as an elite athlete.
• When you look at what learning means from getting it as a resistance training benefit, it comes from perfectly balanced resistance training.
• The facilitation of insulin sensitivity system-wide is the prerequisite to learn something.

[00:11:09]   Why is it that our sleep seems to suffer under heavy training?

• Excessive or extremely high intensity training impairs sleep because of the massive change in neurogenic sensitivity.
• That is why specific supplementation, food, and recovery regimens specific to the stress imposed, ameliorate sleep debt.

[00:15:00]   Carl talks about Oxytocin and its amazing benefits and then proceeds to ask Andy’s opinion on peptides.

• Systemically, Oxytocin and Serotonin, achieves amazing outcomes.
• If you want to increase your deep sleep, taking even a small dose of oxytocin between 3:00 and 7:00 PM can do a lot for you.
• Oxytocin enhances memory through sympathetic innervations other neurons associated with excitement.
• IGF (Insulin-like growth factor) is associated with oxytocin because change in your skinsuit needs to correlate with the ability to make changes in your brain.

[00:20:16]   Carl makes interesting observations about arthrosclerosis and Melanotan II.

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[00:33:31]   How does heavy weightlifting help us with allostatic load (the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events)?

• The things that make it easy to be in pain as you get older are 2-fold.
  • what happens enzymatically after the beginning of atrophy,
  • the dopaminergic decreasing that happens in the basal ganglia of the substantia nigra.
• When those start to deplete and we lose them as our primary strategy, we start to go into secondary and tertiary strategies.
• Pain is one of our last lines of defense.

[00:38:50]   VO2 max is an adaptation of the muscles’ interplay with oxygen. It is not our body's ability to circulate oxygen and make it available to the muscle. It is the muscle's ability to utilize the oxygen at a lower demand on the heart and pulmonary system. Listen to the discussion following.

[00:45:02]   Perception is in fact reality. Leveraging perception.

• If you do not believe your perception is reality, then you are subjected to everybody else’s.
• Andy shares a few life stories and experiences to substantiate this statement.
• If you are committed to something, then you are donating faculty to it all the time before you actually have to execute it.
• A riveting discussion on the phenomenon of change in for instance elite athletes, is something not to be missed!

[00:56:08]   When we look at the body's ability to respond to stress, do you lose the ability to manage stress if you do not keep stress at a certain range?

• Balance is the answer.
• If you are a strength trainer and stressed all day, then relaxing meditation will be good for you.
• However, if your ability to respond to stress is poor, then that means the way to get healthy for you is actually the opposite, i.e., the Wim Hoff breathing technique.
• It is the dysregulation between stress and the substrate that pays off that stress and your recovery system that makes you healthy, nothing inherently.
• The pizza analogy to explain the above: if there was a pizza exercise where pizza was the specific substrate, you could then only eat pizza and be healthy because you have enzymatic actions that will break down pizza specifically.

[01:03:09]   The sleep mechanism for magnesium is through the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor and it gives you the dissociated feel. Magnesium Threonate seems to be the best as it traverses the blood brain barrier. Magnesium and glycine before bed temporarily improves insulin sensitivity.

[01:07:42]   How does low carb and keto dictate your workout intensity and duration, recovery, and over-training?

• Hypoxia equals glucose and the closer you follow the lower carb and ketogenic diets, the further you push to over-training in glycolysis, the further you are likely to get side effects.
• When on keto and low carb, you can have formidable capacity for something closer to the aerobic or creatine if you get proper rest time.
• In that scenario, you can push in your over-training bounds and not have side effects, but what you eat should be analogous to what you train.

[01:09:27]   Do not miss the discussion on PEDs (Performance Enhancement Drugs) for the older athlete and how the mainstream medical fraternity looks at hormone replacement therapy.

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