The mindbodygreen Podcast

"Your body heals better when it feels safe, when your nervous system is quiet,’ explains Victoria Maizes, M.D.

Maizes is the Executive Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and co-host of the Body of Wonder podcast. She's a leading voice in integrative medicine and author of the new book Heal Faster, which makes the case that modern medicine has been so focused on treating disease that it's largely overlooked the body's most powerful asset: its innate capacity to heal.

In this episode, we discuss:


What is the recovery reflex? (1:10)


Why two people can have completely different health outcomes (3:26)


Protein, the catabolic state, & tests to run before major surgery (6:11)


The difference between managing disease & actually healing (18:21)


The power of language (19:00)


Trauma & how to activate your vagus nerve (29:00)


Mindset, guided imagery, & letting go of outcomes (35:42)


The mystery of long COVID (41:46)


Circadian medicine & red light therapy (48:50)

Referenced in the episode: 

You can find Dr. Maizes website here: www.drvictoriamaizes.com

And her latest book, Heal Faster, here: https://a.co/d/0i0OT4KJ

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"You are in control of your brain health, just the same way you're in control of your heart health."

Today's guest is Majid Fotuhi, M.D., a Harvard and Johns Hopkins-trained neurologist, brain health researcher, and author of Invincible Brain. Dr. Fotuhi has spent his career studying one of the most pressing questions of our time: why do some people's brains deteriorate with age, while others stay sharp well into their eighties and nineties? His answer might surprise you.

Why 45% of dementia is preventable (00:00)

The biomarkers worth testing for cognitive decline (1:53)

Why you should never test tau in isolation (2:50)

How COVID can spike your tau levels (10:54)

How to grow your hippocampus in 12 weeks (16:00)

The 5 pillars of brain health (18:16)

Slow breathing can reduce amyloid in the brain (24:00)

Chronic stress is silently shrinking your brain (30:13)

Why your IQ doesn't define your intelligence (33:19)

Lifestyle outperforms Alzheimer's drugs by 200-400% (43:02)

Referenced in the episode: 

Learn more about Dr. Fotuhi on his website: https://drfotuhi.com/about-dr-fotuhi/

You can find Dr. Fotuhi’s book here: https://a.co/d/00qJcyuE

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“When we really look at the definition of flourishing, it's joyful, meaningful growth shared,” explains Daniel Coyle.

Coyle is the bestselling author of The Culture Code and The Talent Code, who just released his latest book, Flourish: The Art of Building Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment. After spending decades studying elite performers, Navy SEALs, championship sports teams, and top business leaders, Coyle had climbed to the mountaintop of success research only to realize it wasn’t what he thought it would be. Now, he focuses his work trying to answer the question: What actually makes a life worth living? 

Here's a glance at our conversation:


What makes a life meaningful? (00:24)


Why you can’t flourish alone (00:45)


Shifting your focus (04:43)


Rituals vs habits (09:12)


The value of small, frequent connections (12:49)


The 33 miners & bottom-up rituals (15:51)


A tiny Vermont town that produces Olympians (19:14)


Rebuilding community in Paris (25:30)


How to design vulnerability (30:53)


Why connection creates health & safety (31:38)


Cleveland Guardians case study (33:25)


Joy vs fear as fuel (40:13)

Referenced in the episode: 

Find more on Daniel Coyle and his books at his website, danielcoyle.com

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Are your kids too clean for their own good?

Amish children experience 90% less asthma than the national average—not despite getting dirty, but because of it. When scientists analyzed the dust in their farmhouses, they discovered an invisible ecosystem that was training immune systems to be resilient instead of reactive.

In his episode, host Jason Wachob explores the groundbreaking research behind the "hygiene hypothesis" and its implications for modern parents raising kids in an increasingly sanitized world.

This discovery is forcing us to rethink everything about dirt, bacteria, and health. And it's already led to treatments used by 100+ million people worldwide.

Are we too clean for our own good?

Study Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37210851/

Chapters:

[00:18] The Amish morning: A scene from another era

[02:23] The asthma epidemic vs. farm kids' secret weapon

[04:30] What's really in farm dust? (It's not what you think)

[05:46] Bacterial lysates: Recreating farm protection in a lab

[08:22] The hygiene hypothesis: Why clean might be too clean

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"I define wealth as being able to take my son in the pool at 1:00 PM on a Tuesday," explains Sahil Bloom.

Bloom is a NYT bestselling author of The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. He’s also an entrepreneur, investor and a proud, son, husband, and father who believes the greatest things in life come not from finding the right answers, but from asking the right questions.


The math that changed Sahil’s life (0:18)


Redefining success & happiness (2:03)


The truth about time with kids (6:11)


Can you be a present parent & still pursue a career? (8:37)


The “last time” principle (13:30)


The arrival fallacy we all fall into (19:18)


Avoiding the pyrrhic victory (23:33)


Light switches vs. dimmer switches (30:00)


His anti-goals framework (32:49)

Referenced in the episode: 

You can check out Bloom’s book here: The 5 Types of Wealth

Learn more on his website, here

You can read the stats of the American Time Use Survey mentioned, here

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