The Neuro Experience

Louisa Nicola

The Neuro Experience. Conversations with the greatest minds in Brain Science.

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Dec 1, 2021 · 38 min
Why we self sabotage the recovery process. Learn how to refuel your brain and body the natural way.
In this episode with Dr. Ralph Esposito, a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, we talk about recovery methods and how you can recover your body and your brain in the most natural ways possible. In order to be having a high performing life, in order to reach your peak performance, you need to learn how to recover and I'm not talking about if your legs hurt or if your arms hurt. I'm talking about how can you recover your brain? How can you recover the mental aspect of the sp...
Nov 22, 2021 · 30 min
Get Better Results in Performance by Following These 5 Rules.
Today’s episode is dedicated to the problems of ‘Plateau in performance’ and how to achieve peak optimal performance by following 5 simple categories. What habits, routines, activities, and stimulations really work? What can you do daily to train your brain to achieve performance? There’s no substitute for intellectual labour, but there are ways to maintain a healthy brain and there are also ways to train your brain to work at its peak. The following five categories are strategies that...
Nov 16, 2021 · 1 hr 26 min
What is Inflammation and Immunity? Medicine Redefined with Austin Perlmutter
Dr Austin Perlmutter, MD is back on the podcast to give us a a complete overhaul of the immune system, inflammation and what we can do to optimise for both. Some types of inflammation are damaging to the body, while others, usually more transient and playing a signaling role, can be beneficial. Chronic inflammation creates reactive oxygen species that damage DNA, cellular proteins, and lipids. This type of inflammation plays a key role in the development of many diseases, including cancer, c...
Nov 9, 2021 · 1 hr 4 min
Reduce Stress, Optimise Your Hormones & Eliminate Toxins for Better Performance | Tyler Jean and Carrie Jones
Carrie is a a functional medicine doctor focusing on women’s health and hormones. She believes in the importance of both men and women understanding their hormones in a simplified manner and joins the podcast today to talk to us about hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone and cortisol, what these hormones are, how they are disregulated and what we can do to get back on board with a healthy functioning hormonal system. Gut health is at the forefront of complaints of Americans. Some ...
Nov 3, 2021 · 24 min
How We Age and What We Should Do About It
My guest today is a revolutionary thinker and medical doctor who’s on a mission to make you younger. Scientists now know that short-term acute “stress” has powerful health and longevity benefits, as long as the stress subsides at some point. For example, it’s long been known that exercise is good for us, but it wasn’t exactly clear why. Hormesis is the likely explanation. Consuming nothing at all can also put your body into a temporary state of nutritional adversity. Extended malnourishmen...
Oct 29, 2021 · 46 min
5 Scientific Errors Made by Public Heath Officials - Dr Vinay Prasad
I’m sure you are sick to death of the confusion surrounding COVID-19. I am too! The bottom line is is that there is so much confusion about what is going on and where exactly we are right now. Who should we trust? Who is right and who is just feeding us more politics? Most of the confusion comes from public officials and some physicians, those who we deem to trust, who have told lies and who have failed to abide by the laws that govern their industry. It’s hard to not be angry when you hear a...
Oct 27, 2021 · 40 min
The Next Holy Grail of Human Performance- Justin Medeiros
If you're going to unlock the next level health enhancing, life lengthening and all round optimising benefits of sleep, then you're going to have to start treating a good night's rest like it matters, because it does- a whole lot. I recently interviewed Justin Medeiros, the worlds fittest man and winner of the 2021 Crossfit championships. He revealed his recovery techniques, his winning sleep routine and how he has incorporated sleep into his life to increase game day performance. The interes...
Oct 18, 2021 · 59 min
The Psychology of Billions with Wall Street Performance Coach - Denise Shull
There is an old saying on Wall Street that the market is driven by just three emotions: fear and greed and uncertainty. Succumbing to these three traits are the biggest challenge that most people wanting ultimate success possess. Fear is what stops us from making the hard decisions. It’s called F.O.M.O Greed pushes us to make the wrong decisions. At the end of the 20th century, extreme greed fueled a bubble. Uncertainty is a lack of confidence in our decisions. Investors face an uncertain eco...
Oct 11, 2021 · 30 min
3 Powerful Ways to Increase Your Deep Sleep
This episode is a part II dedicated to understanding the sleep stages. If you haven’t done so yet, I urge you to listen to part I titled “2 Powerful Ways to Increase Your REM Sleep” so you get an understanding of the difference. Despite a better understanding of the genetic, physiological and environmental factors involved in the sleep-wake regulation, many people still don’t get enough sleep—in fact, as many as one-third are not sleep enough, according to the National Sleep Foundation. One...
Oct 4, 2021 · 50 min
Protecting Players at All Cost
We have a pandemic happening in our society. I'm not talking about COVID-19, I'm talking about the way in which coaches and trainers are training athletes without being properly credentialed. The coaching profession is ever changing. Coaches at each level of competition need to know more than just the Xs and the O's in order to be successful. As the primary individuals tasked with developing athletes from average to elite, they are challenged with not understanding how to optimise an a...
Sep 27, 2021 · 20 min
3 Powerful Ways to Increase Your REM Sleep
Sleep is an important part of our lives. It improves physical and mental health. Sleep happens in stages, including REM sleep and non-REM sleep. REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is the period when people dream . REM sleep enhances learning and memory, and contributes to emotional health — in complex ways. In this podcast you'll find out what REM sleep is, why it's important and how it's different from other stages of sleep. You will understand what blocks REM sleep and lastly we will go...
Sep 15, 2021 · 26 min
Change Your Life by 1%
In today's episode we go over: 1. The neuroscience of decision making 2. Two crucial things you can be doing to upgrade your brain and decision making areas of your brain 3. The 1% compound effect rule I use with my athletes 4. A brief interview I did with a Wall Street Investor on his thoughts on human optimisation for risk management Sponsors of the show: Span Health: Get 35% off - code: LOUISA https://www.span.health/louisa Eight Sleep: Get $150 off- code: LOUISA https://www.eights...
Aug 31, 2021 · 23 min
Neural Effects of Cold Immersion
Today I would like to focus on some of the scientific benefits and mechanisms at play regarding short bursts of cold exposure (both through cold water immersion and whole body cryotherapy) may have on the brain, the immune system and recovery. I will cover 3 benefits of cold immersion and one myth of cold immersion so be sure to listen all the way to the end because you might be doing this one thing that could be impacting your performance negatively. Thank you to our sponsors: Eight Sl...
Aug 17, 2021 · 27 min
How Hormones Control Your Performance | Athletes and Traders
As long as there have been sports, there have been athletes in search of an advantage. Of all the ways to get ahead and have an inch of speed on your opponent, many have turned to performance enhancing drugs. I’m sure you’ve heard about them in just about every sport in the US, some of the best baseball players of all time have been accused of doping, American football players are regularly suspended for failing drug tests, and of course Lance Armstrong famously finally came clean about blood...
Aug 10, 2021 · 54 min
Mastering Your Performance Psychology
In this episode you will learn the performance psychology principles needed to succeed in any area of life. Performance psychology is the systematic application of psychological principles and techniques to performance, particularly when there is a time element and one must perform on demand. The psychology behind a great performance really lies in one's ability to know themselves. I spoke with Dr. Dimitrios Tsatiris, MD who is a practicing board-certified psychiatrist specializing i...
Aug 3, 2021 · 19 min
Discover Your Chronotype to Achieve Peak Performance
There is plenty of advice for how to improve your sleep. I know I have spoken extensively on the topic and I am sure you have all heard about the importance of getting a good nights sleep. But it all comes down to the same assumption that you're doing something wrong, when in fact, it may not be your fault at all. No, I am not telling you to go and spend 3 hours at your favourite werq class either! The amount of sleep you need is individualised however the timing of when to go to...
Jul 27, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
How to Optimise Your Heart Rate Variability | Dan Plews PhD
Its been hailed as the one key biometric anyone can measure easily that gives the best all-round indicator of health and stress on the body. As more devices are able to collect high-quality Heart Rate Variability (HRV) data during the night, a few questions come up: What data should we use as HRV score? What is a good HRV? Why is my HRV plummeting after a glass of wine? How can I increase my HRV? I have been wanting to dive deep into the HRV literature for quite some time. My community...
Jul 13, 2021 · 34 min
Technology to Enhance Sleep. Q&A with Eight Sleep CEO - Matteo Franceschetti
This week’s conversation is with Matteo Franceschetti, the CEO of Eight Sleep. Get $150 off on any product at Eight Sleep : https://bit.ly/2ULzSza code: NEURO at checkout Amidst growing concern about COVID-19 infection, health officials have provided several recommendations to help individuals protect themselves and their families from infection, including washing hands regularly and maintaining a distance of at least six feet from anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Fortunately, a growing ...
Jul 1, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
Healing Trauma with Psychedelics | Dr. David Rabin MD, PhD
There has been a lot of curiosity about the continued developments in the psychedelic therapy space recently. Designer drugs such as, Psilocybin, 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) have started to emerge within the athletic space. In May of 2019, a video was leaked featuring the Washington Capitals’ Evgeny Kuznetsov sitting near two lines of a white, powder-like substance that many presumed to be cocaine. It was taken while the team was in Las Vega...
Jun 15, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min
Dominic D'Agostino, Ph.D: Ketones, Brain Health & Athletic Performance
Ever wanted to know what the best keto diet breakfast recipes are? Or just want to know what the keto diet is all about? Dr. Dom D’Agostino. He holds a PhD in neuroscientist and physiology and is a professor at the University of South Florida, and is probably most recognisable to people listening to this because he is certainly one of the foremost experts on ketosis, and that's in all variants of it; so starvation, ketosis, nutritional ketosis, keto diet for epilepsy, how the ketogenic...