Latest / The You Project / #2096 Optimising Brain Performance - Dr. Denise Furness
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'll get are you bloody Champions. It's Jumbo, it's Fatty Harps.
- 0:03Speaker 1: It's doctor Denise, who's definitely not a jumbo, definitely not
- 0:06Speaker 1: fat from the thriving metropolis of Queensland, she joins us.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Hi, Doc, Hello, how are you. I know you've had
- 0:14Speaker 2: a very busy day.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Oh busy day, back to back, back to back, but always.
- 0:18Speaker 4: Happy to be here and chatting with you, Craig Harper almost.
- 0:21Speaker 2: I'm very glad, very glad.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Now I'm writing something because this is not great listing.
- 0:29Speaker 1: I apologize listeners. Cognebisi all right, because I want to
- 0:35Speaker 1: talk about something. So I'm going to give you the
- 0:37Speaker 1: heads up.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Everyone. This is a little warning.
- 0:40Speaker 1: We're going to do about a six or seven minute
- 0:42Speaker 1: promo about a program we're doing, which won't be for
- 0:45Speaker 1: all of you. Of course, it'll probably not be for
- 0:47Speaker 1: most of you. It'll be for some of you. So
- 0:51Speaker 1: I've tried very hard on this show not to promote
- 0:53Speaker 1: or not to do ads, because ads kind of suck
- 0:57Speaker 1: in terms of I know we have you in build ads,
- 0:59Speaker 1: but that's how we hey for the show. But in
- 1:01Speaker 1: terms of me doing advertorials, I hate doing it, but
- 1:05Speaker 1: I am very, very proud of this and excited about
- 1:07Speaker 1: this thing that Denise and I are doing. So if
- 1:10Speaker 1: you want to zoom through this you can and we'll
- 1:14Speaker 1: have a normal potty in about five or six or
- 1:16Speaker 1: seven minutes. But anyway, Denise and I, the lovely Denise
- 1:18Speaker 1: and I are running a program up in her neck
- 1:20Speaker 1: of the woods, to be specific, at the Mantra Hotel
- 1:25Speaker 1: in Malulabar on the Sunshine Coast. The program is called
- 1:28Speaker 1: the Reset Program, which is a little bit self explanatory,
- 1:32Speaker 1: but we'll dive into it a bit.
- 1:33Speaker 2: It's this June. It's June, so.
- 1:35Speaker 1: It's still a way away June twelve to fourteen. That's
- 1:38Speaker 1: a Friday night to a Sunday. Now, Denise and I
- 1:43Speaker 1: are going to give you a very brief snapshot of
- 1:45Speaker 1: what we're each doing. We're collaborating, we're working together. The
- 1:48Speaker 1: idea of her being the genetic wizard. What's a female wizard,
- 1:53Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's just go guru, who's it s
- 1:59Speaker 1: Let's go with good educator, world authority, which is very true.
- 2:04Speaker 1: She's going to just kind of play in the biological
- 2:07Speaker 1: space and the genetic space and the you know, learning
- 2:10Speaker 1: to love your body and look after your body space.
- 2:12Speaker 1: I'm going to be a little bit of that, but
- 2:13Speaker 1: more in the headspace, mind state, brain space, behavioral self
- 2:17Speaker 1: regulation space. So we have a waiting list which is
- 2:21Speaker 1: currently open. The reason we have a waiting list is
- 2:24Speaker 1: because Denise, if I fuck something up, just.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Say Craig, you fucked this up. The reason we have
- 2:29Speaker 2: a waiting.
- 2:29Speaker 1: List is because we only have to have fifty spaces
- 2:33Speaker 1: fifty places. Obviously, it's an invert an in person event.
- 2:38Speaker 1: A few people have already said can we do it online?
- 2:41Speaker 2: You can't.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we're planning to do a few of these, so
- 2:48Speaker 1: this is our first one, but we're excited. We've both
- 2:50Speaker 1: been presenting forever. I've been presenting for forty years, Denise
- 2:55Speaker 1: not quite as long, but she's been presenting all over
- 2:57Speaker 1: the world in the last few years. She's high regarded
- 3:00Speaker 1: me not so much, but I'll go anyway. So we
- 3:04Speaker 1: have a weight list that you can go on to.
- 3:06Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that you're committing, that doesn't mean that
- 3:09Speaker 1: you're obligated to do anything, But what it means is
- 3:13Speaker 1: if you go onto the wait list, then you are
- 3:17Speaker 1: first to be off at a place. So if you're
- 3:20Speaker 1: on the wait list. We actually are going to launch
- 3:23Speaker 1: to the people in the wait list for about a
- 3:26Speaker 1: week before we open it up to the general public.
- 3:29Speaker 1: So when we launch the program and make ticketing available,
- 3:32Speaker 1: spaces available to the people on the wait list that
- 3:35Speaker 1: will not be known by the public until a week later.
- 3:40Speaker 1: People who sign up or people who get on that
- 3:43Speaker 1: weight list will get a significantly cheaper price if they
- 3:47Speaker 1: want to take it. But let me just remind you
- 3:49Speaker 1: that the.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Weight list really quickly. At the end of the day.
- 3:53Speaker 4: This is for you know, my people and your people, right,
- 3:56Speaker 4: we have people that are dedicated to your podcast. I've
- 3:59Speaker 4: got my people too that have been dying to see
- 4:02Speaker 4: me live. So for those of you that want to
- 4:05Speaker 4: get in, and as Craig said, obviously only fifty spots.
- 4:09Speaker 4: So giving you this information quick. But the other thing
- 4:14Speaker 4: is all the stuff that we're going to talk about
- 4:15Speaker 4: really really quickly. Should we just mention this stuff just
- 4:18Speaker 4: what we might?
- 4:19Speaker 1: I just want to say one more thing, so being
- 4:21Speaker 1: on the wait list is not an obligation.
- 4:24Speaker 2: No, you can be on the weight list and then.
- 4:26Speaker 1: When we make it live, you know, buy your ticket
- 4:30Speaker 1: by your place or you can go nah so there's
- 4:33Speaker 1: there's no hooks, catches or agendas. Once again. June twelve
- 4:40Speaker 1: to fourteen, the Reset Program. Denise and I, why don't
- 4:43Speaker 1: we start with you.
- 4:45Speaker 2: I want to know.
- 4:46Speaker 1: We're not going to divulge too much, but just to
- 4:49Speaker 1: give you a snapshot everybody of where Denise is going
- 4:52Speaker 1: to focus, where I'm going to focus. I will tell
- 4:55Speaker 1: you that it will be a very interactive if I'm there,
- 4:59Speaker 1: I hope fun experience. Denise's fun. I'm fun while I
- 5:03Speaker 1: try to be. I like you to in You know,
- 5:05Speaker 1: this is not university. This is, but it is. There
- 5:08Speaker 1: is a big focus on education and inspiration and helping
- 5:13Speaker 1: you operationalize your potential in a very real way. We're
- 5:17Speaker 1: not just going to talk at you for forty eight hours.
- 5:20Speaker 1: I want this to be the genesis for a lot
- 5:23Speaker 1: of you, the starting point for a lot of you
- 5:25Speaker 1: to do some big transformative work. That's what I want.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Depends what you want, doctor Denise. Tell us what you're
- 5:33Speaker 1: going to be sharing on the weekend in June.
- 5:37Speaker 4: So I will be talking about biological age, and for
- 5:40Speaker 4: those that know what I do, I've been talking about
- 5:42Speaker 4: that for a long time all over the world. So
- 5:43Speaker 4: I'll be there talking about biological age, what speeds up aging,
- 5:47Speaker 4: and more importantly, what you'll probably want to know what
- 5:49Speaker 4: slows down aging. I'll be talking about nutrition. Obviously I'm
- 5:53Speaker 4: a nutritionist as well, so you know what of fads,
- 5:56Speaker 4: what's really going to move the needle from a health perspective,
- 5:59Speaker 4: as well as genetics, optimizing your genetics. You don't have
- 6:02Speaker 4: to have done DNA testing, but understanding and listening.
- 6:06Speaker 3: To your body.
- 6:07Speaker 4: And I think that's something that Craig and I talk
- 6:08Speaker 4: about all the time, is paying attention. We're often so disconnected,
- 6:13Speaker 4: so really just connecting with your body. What are the
- 6:16Speaker 4: priorities for you? So you're walking away at the end
- 6:19Speaker 4: of this knowing the action steps that you need to
- 6:22Speaker 4: take to improve your health because we're a little bit
- 6:25Speaker 4: different and learning about that. And as Craig said, yes, educational,
- 6:30Speaker 4: but there'll be interactive staff.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Craig's going to do the movement. You'll probably tell you
- 6:33Speaker 3: about that.
- 6:35Speaker 4: But of course we are fun too, a bit of
- 6:37Speaker 4: fun in the middle of all of that stuff.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Maybe we're not, maybe we just think we are.
- 6:42Speaker 1: We're going to do some movement stuff, which is all optional,
- 6:44Speaker 1: by the way, everything's optional. I mean, I wouldn't pay
- 6:47Speaker 1: to go away for a weekend like this and choose
- 6:50Speaker 1: not to come to too many sessions would defeat the.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Point, I think. But in terms of the movement stuff.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Obviously my background is very much in the fitness exercise
- 6:59Speaker 1: movie in Space, owning gyms, working with elite teams, athletes,
- 7:03Speaker 1: all that stuff. So we're going to have optional fitness
- 7:07Speaker 1: and movement sessions, and probably every time we do a
- 7:11Speaker 1: session there will be a range of options, either two
- 7:15Speaker 1: or three options from easy ish too harder for people
- 7:18Speaker 1: who want to do that.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Right. I'm going to rip.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Through what I'm kind of going to focus on, and
- 7:23Speaker 1: then we're going to jump into a podcast.
- 7:25Speaker 2: So I'm going to be exploring more.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Head stuff, mind stuff, understanding human behavior stuff, a little
- 7:30Speaker 1: bit of sociology.
- 7:31Speaker 2: What do I think the way that I do?
- 7:33Speaker 1: Why do I behave the way that I do around
- 7:36Speaker 1: this person? Why do I tell myself stories of fucking
- 7:39Speaker 1: doom and gloom?
- 7:40Speaker 2: And what can I do about that?
- 7:43Speaker 1: How do I build a life and a life kind
- 7:47Speaker 1: of operating system that is a reflection of who I
- 7:50Speaker 1: want to be and how I want to be? Like,
- 7:52Speaker 1: what are my values? What's the shit that matters to me?
- 7:55Speaker 1: And how come I don't do that? How can I?
- 7:58Speaker 1: How can I behavior outlast my motivation because we all
- 8:03Speaker 1: get pumped and excited, we get in the zone and
- 8:05Speaker 1: we're like, fack, this is me, and then four and
- 8:07Speaker 1: a half minutes or weeks or days or whatever later,
- 8:10Speaker 1: we're not doing it, despite the fact that we said
- 8:12Speaker 1: we would be different this time. This is me, this
- 8:14Speaker 1: is my time to shine. And that's not a weakness,
- 8:17Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing, that's a human thing. So
- 8:20Speaker 1: how do I actually build an operating system that means
- 8:23Speaker 1: I'm going to keep doing what I need to do
- 8:24Speaker 1: to get where I want to go. We're going to
- 8:26Speaker 1: talk about human potential. What is your potential? What is
- 8:30Speaker 1: your capacity? What is your actual ability and potential and
- 8:34Speaker 1: capacity versus what you think because they are vast most people,
- 8:39Speaker 1: in my experience, my four decades of working with humans
- 8:42Speaker 1: face to face, my experience is that most people don't
- 8:47Speaker 1: have a fucking clue as to how capable they are.
- 8:51Speaker 2: So we're going to explore capability potential.
- 8:53Speaker 1: We're going to talk about what success is for you,
- 8:56Speaker 1: not globally but personally, like what matters to you and
- 8:59Speaker 1: why we're going to talk about a little bit about
- 9:02Speaker 1: the way we see ourselves in the world, about the
- 9:04Speaker 1: way we see others, how we understand, how others think.
- 9:08Speaker 1: We're going to talk about objective and subjective reality, what's
- 9:11Speaker 1: actually going on, like what's going on? And then what's
- 9:13Speaker 1: my version of what's going on? And is that empowering
- 9:16Speaker 1: me or disempowering me. So it's going to be a
- 9:19Speaker 1: really nice synthesis between psychological, emotional, physiological health, and most importantly,
- 9:26Speaker 1: we both want to kind of empower and encourage you
- 9:29Speaker 1: to pick up the you know, the cricket bat and
- 9:34Speaker 1: run or whatever metaphor you want to use, following the
- 9:36Speaker 1: program so.
- 9:37Speaker 3: And having steps right, practical steps that you walk away
- 9:41Speaker 3: with so you know where to focus. You know, is
- 9:44Speaker 3: that focus going to be?
- 9:46Speaker 4: You really need to start prioritizing more of that exercise
- 9:49Speaker 4: or you know, why are you doing it? The sleep,
- 9:51Speaker 4: the nutrition, you know, a lot of you might know
- 9:52Speaker 4: all these things that you should be doing, but prioritizing.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Listening to your body and working out why aren't I
- 9:58Speaker 3: doing that?
- 9:59Speaker 4: And what do I need do and walking away with
- 10:01Speaker 4: a bit of a plan, So you are prioritizing the
- 10:04Speaker 4: most important thing that you want, because we're all a
- 10:06Speaker 4: little bit different. One thing we're not doing is giving
- 10:09Speaker 4: a protocol. We are teaching you the tools, the.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Practical things you can do, and then you do what's
- 10:14Speaker 3: right for you.
- 10:15Speaker 4: And as Craig said as well, we do hope you
- 10:18Speaker 4: come along for all the sessions, but you don't have to.
- 10:20Speaker 3: This is your.
- 10:21Speaker 4: Journey and if you want to go off and go
- 10:23Speaker 4: for a walk on the beach, go for it. But
- 10:24Speaker 4: if you want to be there and grab every bit
- 10:26Speaker 4: of information and hang out with us the whole time,
- 10:28Speaker 4: we would also love that.
- 10:30Speaker 1: I guess the overarching question without getting Dr Denise's permission
- 10:35Speaker 1: on this would be something like, in the context of
- 10:38Speaker 1: my life, my dreams, my goals, my needs, but how
- 10:42Speaker 1: do I manage me optimally? I think we're not particularly
- 10:46Speaker 1: good at managing ourselves. Some of us are, some of
- 10:48Speaker 1: us not so much. Sometimes I'm a superstar, sometimes I'm dogshit.
- 10:53Speaker 1: So how do I get better? I hope no new
- 10:55Speaker 1: people listening to this, they're like, I'm definitely not going
- 10:58Speaker 1: for that guy.
- 10:59Speaker 2: All right, there, we know.
- 11:00Speaker 3: I would not say that about yourself. You are not dogs.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Well, also, I probably should have said this. If you
- 11:07Speaker 1: want to go on the wait list, go to craigharper
- 11:10Speaker 1: dot net and that'll just you know, Denise's listeners, my listeners, whoever,
- 11:16Speaker 1: and you can click on that and you'll see it there.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Bib Bobby Boo. We'll mention the deats, just the quick
- 11:21Speaker 1: beats at the end if you so care to hang
- 11:25Speaker 1: around for that long. Now let's do a podcast. I
- 11:27Speaker 1: wanted to ask you before we went live. You said
- 11:32Speaker 1: to me, not in a siokie way, just in an
- 11:34Speaker 1: updating me way. I've had a big day. I've done this, this, this, this,
- 11:37Speaker 1: and I went I started at four thirty and you're
- 11:42Speaker 1: my last commitment. And as i'm talking right now, it's
- 11:45Speaker 1: four o four, so I'm going to be done is
- 11:47Speaker 1: by four thirty four forty five. And one of my
- 11:51Speaker 1: my challenges is I'm not bad at it, but I
- 11:55Speaker 1: think it's a very common challenge. How do I how
- 12:00Speaker 1: do I try and maintain my focus and my concentration
- 12:03Speaker 1: and my energy and the quality of what I'm doing
- 12:08Speaker 1: with my five pm person like you've got stuff till
- 12:12Speaker 1: seven pm tonight in or eight pm tonight in Queensland,
- 12:15Speaker 1: which is here right from early today.
- 12:19Speaker 2: And I feel like for a.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Lot of people, our challenge is how do I you know,
- 12:24Speaker 1: between eight and two, I'm fucking amazing, and then at
- 12:27Speaker 1: four I'm dog shit because I'm sliding into a coma.
- 12:29Speaker 1: There goes that word again. Apologies, hashtag not really. What's
- 12:33Speaker 1: your strategy for trying to keep your energy as much
- 12:38Speaker 1: where it needs to be as possible?
- 12:41Speaker 3: So a quick little break in between.
- 12:44Speaker 4: Obviously I was ten minutes late coming onto the podcast,
- 12:47Speaker 4: as you know, and I said, sorry, busy day, but
- 12:50Speaker 4: I said I need five minutes, even though I wanted
- 12:52Speaker 4: to come running in as I need five minutes, and
- 12:54Speaker 4: I did. I had a water, I just had a breath,
- 12:56Speaker 4: and I kind of just shook it all out right.
- 13:00Speaker 3: So it's like, I do need a break. You need
- 13:01Speaker 3: a little reset because you've just been thinking about one thing.
- 13:04Speaker 4: You know, you've seen a patient where you've just had
- 13:05Speaker 4: this meeting, or to get out of that space. But
- 13:08Speaker 4: just giving yourself a little reset. Excuse the living there,
- 13:12Speaker 4: but just that small little reset. I can't lie though,
- 13:16Speaker 4: I would say that as the day goes on, sometimes
- 13:19Speaker 4: the energy is different.
- 13:22Speaker 3: What I do do and.
- 13:23Speaker 4: I don't do this successfully. I am going to be
- 13:25Speaker 4: very honest, is I do have planned breaks. I should
- 13:29Speaker 4: technically have at least half an hour between all of
- 13:32Speaker 4: my meetings and clients, and most of the time I'm
- 13:34Speaker 4: actually pretty good at it, and.
- 13:36Speaker 3: That half an hour is great.
- 13:38Speaker 4: I can make a quick smoothie or have a coffee,
- 13:40Speaker 4: or go out and pat the dog. That is so refreshing.
- 13:44Speaker 4: But today's been one of those days where I was
- 13:46Speaker 4: just a little a little bit over. But typically my
- 13:50Speaker 4: days are no longer back to back like this. I've
- 13:53Speaker 4: learned not to set my life up like this most
- 13:56Speaker 4: of the time.
- 13:56Speaker 2: It's not Yes, that's great, you know, I think you'll
- 14:01Speaker 2: like this.
- 14:02Speaker 1: So obviously, good personal trainers and there are good personal trainers,
- 14:08Speaker 1: great personal trainers, there are shit personal trainers, just like
- 14:10Speaker 1: in any industry or profession.
- 14:13Speaker 2: But the trainers that.
- 14:14Speaker 1: Work for me as honest as I can be or
- 14:17Speaker 1: as objective as I can be about my own stuff,
- 14:20Speaker 1: they weren't all amazing, but mostly they were somewhere between
- 14:23Speaker 1: pretty good and I would say outstanding. But I always
- 14:28Speaker 1: the one thing that I had a conversation with every
- 14:31Speaker 1: trainer about was everybody's paying the same amount, so you
- 14:37Speaker 1: can't give somebody forty percent you at five pm because
- 14:41Speaker 1: you started work at five am and five am client
- 14:45Speaker 1: got one hundred percent you because they're not getting the
- 14:48Speaker 1: same value. So my question to you is doesn't have
- 14:52Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent, but somewhere in the eighty
- 14:54Speaker 1: ninety hundred. How many quality sessions can you do per day?
- 15:00Speaker 1: Because if you can only do five great sessions, I'm
- 15:03Speaker 1: not going to let you do six, I'm not going
- 15:05Speaker 1: to let you do ten, and your threshold will build.
- 15:09Speaker 1: But I used to talk to them about this concept
- 15:12Speaker 1: called your shit threshold, and the shit threshold is how
- 15:15Speaker 1: much of a certain thing you can do before it
- 15:18Speaker 1: turns to shit. And so I know, for example, this
- 15:25Speaker 1: weekend that we're going to do. I know that because
- 15:29Speaker 1: I'm a high energy presenter, you're a high energy presenter.
- 15:35Speaker 3: I am one hundred percent.
- 15:37Speaker 1: I'm not trying to talk about the program, but I
- 15:39Speaker 1: know that I need to manage me. I know that
- 15:41Speaker 1: if I go all right, I'm going to present from
- 15:44Speaker 1: here to here, then I'm having two hours where I
- 15:46Speaker 1: might hang around or I might sleep, like whatever I
- 15:49Speaker 1: need to do to be awesome for people for the weekend.
- 15:52Speaker 1: And I would say to my trainers maybe you do
- 15:56Speaker 1: four in the morning and then maybe you have six
- 15:58Speaker 1: hours off and maybe you do four in the late
- 16:00Speaker 1: afternoon slash early evening. But I don't want you trying
- 16:03Speaker 1: to do six or seven in a row if you
- 16:05Speaker 1: can't do six or seven amazing sessions. So I think
- 16:08Speaker 1: that you know, in any job that's skill based or
- 16:12Speaker 1: people facing, I think trying to understand what is your capacity,
- 16:17Speaker 1: what is your threshold, because.
- 16:20Speaker 2: After a while, you do your you do.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Everybody's got a brand, whether or not you think it
- 16:24Speaker 1: might be just a brand within your team, but you
- 16:26Speaker 1: do your brand and your reputation harm if you can't consistently,
- 16:33Speaker 1: at least pretty consistently. Of course, people have good and
- 16:36Speaker 1: bad days, but over the for the most part, you
- 16:39Speaker 1: know can produce something that's at a reasonably high level,
- 16:43Speaker 1: especially if you want to build a reputation as somebody
- 16:46Speaker 1: who's great at what they do.
- 16:49Speaker 4: And I think this leads into more than just performing
- 16:52Speaker 4: or you know as a PT or me being a practitioner,
- 16:55Speaker 4: you know, seeing patients. It's coming down to managing your energy.
- 17:00Speaker 4: Then also just for your long term health because you
- 17:04Speaker 4: push yourself constantly.
- 17:06Speaker 3: So when I told you I have half an hour breaks.
- 17:08Speaker 4: That's because I've learned and I, like most people have
- 17:12Speaker 4: been through burnout.
- 17:12Speaker 3: You know, had an autoimmune condition, which no doubt came
- 17:15Speaker 3: for burnout.
- 17:17Speaker 4: So you need to manage your energy and work out
- 17:21Speaker 4: what's best for you whatever you're doing in life, whether
- 17:23Speaker 4: you're in corporate, whether you're you know, behind the counter
- 17:26Speaker 4: at the bakery or whatever. Maybe you need to have
- 17:29Speaker 4: a I don't know, you need to have a walk
- 17:30Speaker 4: in the morning, or you need to do something at lunchtime.
- 17:32Speaker 4: But it's managing your energy, not just so that you're
- 17:35Speaker 4: good for the person in front of you, but so
- 17:37Speaker 4: you're good for yourself so you actually don't feel exhausted,
- 17:41Speaker 4: so that you're actually not depleting yourself.
- 17:45Speaker 3: So there's there's both ways.
- 17:46Speaker 4: It's showing up for that person but also taking care
- 17:49Speaker 4: of yourself because you know, what you and I do
- 17:52Speaker 4: creat is we're they're to help people be the best
- 17:55Speaker 4: they can be, you know, to to go and find
- 17:58Speaker 4: their dreams and their goals, and that it's never going
- 18:00Speaker 4: to happen when you depleted and you're.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Busy and you go, go, go, So you need those.
- 18:03Speaker 4: Little moments to re energize. And I only have two
- 18:07Speaker 4: big days a week. By the way, it's Tuesday Thursday.
- 18:10Speaker 4: I would never usually do a podcast on a Thursday.
- 18:12Speaker 4: That we had a chat yesterday about the program and
- 18:15Speaker 4: we were going to do the podcast. Moved it into today,
- 18:17Speaker 4: which was fine. I actually had a longer gap. It
- 18:19Speaker 4: was meant to be. But I have two big days.
- 18:21Speaker 4: My other days are not like that because I could
- 18:25Speaker 4: do every day like today. Otherwise I'd never show up
- 18:28Speaker 4: in that energetic way. But also I would burn out.
- 18:32Speaker 4: So it's understanding, what are our limits?
- 18:34Speaker 3: You know or not linkits? I know that's not a
- 18:36Speaker 3: good word, is it limits? But well energy managing energy, Well.
- 18:41Speaker 1: We do have limits, and it's not bad things to
- 18:43Speaker 1: say we have limits. But like when so you presented
- 18:47Speaker 1: at the U Project. By the way, everyone, we're going
- 18:49Speaker 1: to do you Project conference this year if the old
- 18:52Speaker 1: docks available, although we can't fucking afford her anymore.
- 18:55Speaker 2: I got a windshis didn't realize how much she was worth.
- 18:59Speaker 1: But you know, when I've I've done half day kind
- 19:04Speaker 1: of four hour gigs with seven hundred people where there's
- 19:08Speaker 1: no one else at that auditorium you spack spoke at
- 19:11Speaker 1: at Deacon.
- 19:11Speaker 3: University, the one I spack at.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the one you spack at. Thanks for picking
- 19:15Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, money, you can someone edit that out
- 19:19Speaker 1: to leave it. I'm tired.
- 19:22Speaker 4: We both people, we both are. We came into this.
- 19:26Speaker 4: You know what you didn't mention. I'm just going a
- 19:28Speaker 4: little tangent here. I thought you were going to say
- 19:30Speaker 4: at the beginning of this podcast, because by the way
- 19:32Speaker 4: we both said, well we're going to talk about we'll
- 19:33Speaker 4: just you know, we'll just go with it.
- 19:35Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say when I.
- 19:37Speaker 4: Told her that I started at four and I was tired,
- 19:39Speaker 4: she turned around and said, well, I started at eight
- 19:41Speaker 4: and I don't finish till seven, Like it was a
- 19:44Speaker 4: competition between us.
- 19:45Speaker 3: That's what I thought.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so, I think, but I think gone.
- 19:51Speaker 4: No, I was going to say, I I where you're
- 19:53Speaker 4: going with the long sessions too, not seven hundred people.
- 19:57Speaker 4: I mean I spoke in front of ten thousand people
- 19:59Speaker 4: just in December, spoke at Longevity Fest in Vegas.
- 20:01Speaker 3: It was ridiculously huge.
- 20:03Speaker 4: But that was.
- 20:03Speaker 3: Only thirty minutes. Mind you, it's huge. It's full on.
- 20:07Speaker 4: It's full on, like the energy of those couple of
- 20:10Speaker 4: days is just in tense.
- 20:14Speaker 3: But what I was going to say is I've done
- 20:16Speaker 3: all day workshops, you.
- 20:17Speaker 4: Know, and I've gone to London, and it's a bit
- 20:20Speaker 4: nerve racking knowing that I'm on the other side of
- 20:22Speaker 4: the world and the next morning I've got to get up,
- 20:23Speaker 4: you know. It's the time difference in jet lag and
- 20:25Speaker 4: stuff like that. But I prepare again thinking about the energy.
- 20:29Speaker 4: I'm so mindful of having a quiet night, you know,
- 20:33Speaker 4: even if there is a dinner. So I do so
- 20:36Speaker 4: much of the international speaking and often they'll have a
- 20:40Speaker 4: speaker's dinner or people want to take me out, and
- 20:43Speaker 4: I'm actually getting really good at saying no, even though
- 20:45Speaker 4: I'm at social butterfly and I love people and I
- 20:48Speaker 4: want to catch up with everyone. I know that if
- 20:50Speaker 4: I do too much, I then it does affect my
- 20:54Speaker 4: presentation in the sense that I'm more nervous because I'm.
- 20:56Speaker 3: A bit tired. I'm not feeling as prepared.
- 20:58Speaker 4: So I will generally always have a quiet night before
- 21:01Speaker 4: my presentation, and even if someone has put together a dinner,
- 21:05Speaker 4: I'll just politely decline and say I'm sorry, I need
- 21:08Speaker 4: to just you know, I need to rest. So I
- 21:10Speaker 4: am more than ever very mindful of my energy. And
- 21:13Speaker 4: it's interesting because people always think I'm constantly high energy,
- 21:17Speaker 4: and I am. I'm an extrovert. I feed off other people.
- 21:20Speaker 4: I love being around people. But if I don't have
- 21:22Speaker 4: those moments to recharge I do, I get very depleted.
- 21:28Speaker 3: So what do you doing for our day when you're well?
- 21:31Speaker 1: What I was going to say was, like you, I
- 21:33Speaker 1: do all day days work corporate, which are obviously fucking tiring,
- 21:39Speaker 1: But for me, it's not as emotional as when I'm
- 21:42Speaker 1: working with people who plugged into me, like they know me,
- 21:48Speaker 1: they like me, they follow me, they love the show
- 21:51Speaker 1: they and I feel like, you know, I reckon sometimes
- 21:56Speaker 1: in those seven hundred people events, I give three hundred hugs,
- 21:59Speaker 1: you know. And so I go into that I can
- 22:04Speaker 1: do you know, four hours half our day ish and
- 22:08Speaker 1: be way more tired than when like I did one
- 22:11Speaker 1: recently for the Department of Justice, and I spoke for
- 22:14Speaker 1: about ten hours.
- 22:15Speaker 2: Well that was a ten hour thing, but with breaks
- 22:18Speaker 2: and whatever, and I was tired.
- 22:20Speaker 1: But when I'm totally plugged into a room where this
- 22:26Speaker 1: is not a corporate thing, where I've got to tick
- 22:28Speaker 1: all these particular boxes and meet all these corporate criterion,
- 22:32Speaker 1: don't say shit or fuck and don't do this, and
- 22:34Speaker 1: you know all that. Where you go and you do that,
- 22:37Speaker 1: that's your job and I understand that and I can
- 22:39Speaker 1: do that. But I remember doing one of these half
- 22:42Speaker 1: day ones and I drove home and I was just smashed.
- 22:48Speaker 1: And I hadn't physically worked hard. I was just walking
- 22:52Speaker 1: up and back of stay stage talking but yeah, that stuff, okay.
- 22:57Speaker 1: So off the back of this, I had a question,
- 22:59Speaker 1: why why were you so hap for me? Just just emotionally.
- 23:03Speaker 1: It's like I had that particular day.
- 23:08Speaker 2: We had.
- 23:10Speaker 1: I don't know, I really would be guessing, but hundreds
- 23:13Speaker 1: of people crying. M and then I see people crying,
- 23:17Speaker 1: I get emotional and I'm like, you can't lose your shit.
- 23:19Speaker 1: You're the fucking idiot up the front. Get it together,
- 23:22Speaker 1: get it together. And then that takes a lot of
- 23:24Speaker 1: self regulation. And I'm not embarrassed to cry. I've literally
- 23:27Speaker 1: cried in front of hundreds of people.
- 23:31Speaker 3: Mean too. But it's hard as a presenter. So I
- 23:33Speaker 3: presented two days after my mom passed.
- 23:36Speaker 4: And believed it or I was talking about epigenetics through
- 23:39Speaker 4: the women's lifespan. It started through preconception, fertility, which is
- 23:43Speaker 4: where I started. It ended at Alzheimer's dementia and my
- 23:45Speaker 4: mom passed Alzheimer's dementia, and of course the organizers were like,
- 23:50Speaker 4: you don't have to come, and I was like.
- 23:51Speaker 3: I'll be there. And I got right to the end, right.
- 23:54Speaker 4: To the end, and then I'm talking about dementia and
- 23:56Speaker 4: then I just you know, just almost like can't get
- 23:59Speaker 4: my breath. And then I told everyone and I'm crying,
- 24:03Speaker 4: and yeah, I mean it was good because I guess
- 24:06Speaker 4: it was at the end. I didn't have to because
- 24:09Speaker 4: I've had another one that I'll tell you about where
- 24:10Speaker 4: it was sort of earlier on. But I have to
- 24:13Speaker 4: say it took a lot out of me because I.
- 24:15Speaker 3: Wasn't comfortable crying.
- 24:17Speaker 4: I thought my before that I'd probably never been emotional
- 24:19Speaker 4: ever on stage, and I saw myself as the expert.
- 24:21Speaker 3: It's not who I wanted to be.
- 24:23Speaker 4: However, the feedback I got from that and years later,
- 24:26Speaker 4: people you know, doctors that were there or people just
- 24:28Speaker 4: going that was one of the most moving talks that
- 24:30Speaker 4: I'd ever heard, so I think people really loved that.
- 24:34Speaker 3: Side of it.
- 24:35Speaker 2: But then, of course, but a few years.
- 24:37Speaker 4: Later, similar thing when I started the healthy Aging study,
- 24:40Speaker 4: and I was starting to share the results from that.
- 24:42Speaker 4: That came off the back of my dad passing. Like
- 24:45Speaker 4: that sort of gave me a bit of the motivation
- 24:47Speaker 4: to focus on all that stuff. A few things all aligned.
- 24:49Speaker 4: But I was talking about why I started the study,
- 24:52Speaker 4: and I was in New Zealand and I mentioned my
- 24:55Speaker 4: dad and I couldn't even believe it. I just started
- 24:57Speaker 4: crying at the beginning of the talk. But it was
- 24:58Speaker 4: it took so much energy to come back, like I
- 25:01Speaker 4: kept just trying to go, just get it together, just
- 25:04Speaker 4: get it together. But yes, I've cried on stage a
- 25:07Speaker 4: few times now, and I have to say, even though
- 25:10Speaker 4: it connects with people in a way and they say
- 25:13Speaker 4: they love it, I don't like it. Like I come
- 25:15Speaker 4: off stage going I wish I didn't do that. It's
- 25:18Speaker 4: interesting how we do that to ourselves.
- 25:21Speaker 2: I get it, but it just is what it is.
- 25:23Speaker 1: I'll shut up after this and move on to a
- 25:26Speaker 1: new question. But one of my best friends died about
- 25:30Speaker 1: ten years ago now. But I had anyway, I had
- 25:32Speaker 1: a corporate gig. I had a corporate gig at two
- 25:35Speaker 1: pm in the city and my friend passed away in
- 25:41Speaker 1: a car accident obviously totally unexpected, completely healthy, fit XAFL footballer,
- 25:47Speaker 1: helicopter pilot, film producer, superstar. Also two of his only
- 25:54Speaker 1: two kids passed away. It's the saddest thing of all time. Yeah, yeah,
- 25:58Speaker 1: so wife left with none of the men in her life,
- 26:02Speaker 1: right and saddest, Like, I've never been to a funeral
- 26:07Speaker 1: like it. But anyway, So I found out that the
- 26:10Speaker 1: funeral was on the same day, but it was like
- 26:12Speaker 1: two and a half hours before, and I'm like, well,
- 26:15Speaker 1: I'll go to the funeral. The funeral will be an hour.
- 26:17Speaker 1: I'll have at least an hour to get to the event.
- 26:19Speaker 1: I'm on my motorbike, it's twenty minutes away. I'll get
- 26:22Speaker 1: my shit together, I'll have a coffee, I'll throw some
- 26:24Speaker 1: water on my face, I'll put on my big boy
- 26:26Speaker 1: pants and I'll.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Do the thing. Right.
- 26:29Speaker 1: So, the funeral starts late and it goes forever, and
- 26:34Speaker 1: it's still going like thirty minutes before I've got to present,
- 26:38Speaker 1: and I'm at least fifteen twenty minutes away on a motorbike,
- 26:43Speaker 1: so I you know, it's coming to an end. So
- 26:47Speaker 1: it wasn't totally you know, horrible that I walked out,
- 26:51Speaker 1: but so I had to leave, which obviously made me
- 26:57Speaker 1: feel shit. But there was literally three hundred people waiting
- 26:59Speaker 1: for me to talk of this thing. So I went
- 27:01Speaker 1: to this thing and same, I'm like, I started talking
- 27:07Speaker 1: about something and anyway, I thought of my mate and
- 27:14Speaker 1: just like I just started losing it and I definitely
- 27:19Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have done the gig. And I just said
- 27:22Speaker 1: to everyone, I just paused, and I said, this is
- 27:27Speaker 1: on no level should you need to tolerate this right now,
- 27:30Speaker 1: but let me just briefly explain. And I told them
- 27:35Speaker 1: and they were just like your people. They were like,
- 27:37Speaker 1: oh my god, that's like, thank you for being vulnerable,
- 27:41Speaker 1: thank you for being honest. And it went better than
- 27:46Speaker 1: if I clearly I didn't cry for effect.
- 27:49Speaker 2: But yeah, and so I think people are very compassionate.
- 27:51Speaker 2: And I think when you're crying.
- 27:53Speaker 3: Real, right, people like reality.
- 27:56Speaker 4: We have this world where we think we need to
- 27:58Speaker 4: show up in a certain way, but truth is, people
- 28:01Speaker 4: people appreciate that because then all of a sudden they've
- 28:04Speaker 4: got a little bit of insight to you, and it
- 28:06Speaker 4: is it's so real.
- 28:08Speaker 2: I have a question for you. We'll pause that. Thank you.
- 28:13Speaker 1: So I don't know how much you ever think about this.
- 28:17Speaker 1: But out in the world of you know, superstar bloody
- 28:20Speaker 1: social media, people who are all promoting this gizmo and
- 28:23Speaker 1: that supplement and you know, this peptide and that whatever
- 28:28Speaker 1: off label, My patients come.
- 28:29Speaker 3: Through it and go, what about this? I've seen this online.
- 28:32Speaker 3: I pay two hundred dollars a month for this supplement
- 28:35Speaker 3: all that stuff.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Yes, so, I mean, I know, obviously, without naming anybody,
- 28:42Speaker 1: I know lots of students, believe it or not, I'm
- 28:45Speaker 1: still a student who use neotropics, A nootropic just for
- 28:52Speaker 1: our listeners, essentially something that improves cognitive performance.
- 28:57Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever opened this.
- 28:59Speaker 1: Door, but things like again, not a recommendation anyone at all,
- 29:04Speaker 1: but things like people use nicorette gum, so people who
- 29:08Speaker 1: don't even smoke, they'll use like a I'm not going
- 29:12Speaker 1: to name doses or anything because I don't want to
- 29:14Speaker 1: direct anyone to anything, but they'll use.
- 29:16Speaker 3: There's good evidence for it though, and.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but so and things like modafinol, which is
- 29:23Speaker 1: an anti narcolepsy drug, which people use. Friend of mine,
- 29:29Speaker 1: fuck another friend of mine who passed away a couple
- 29:31Speaker 1: of years ago. Or a year and a half ago,
- 29:33Speaker 1: he was a pharmacist and he was all about it.
- 29:37Speaker 1: He's like, oh, yes, it's not addictive, it's this and
- 29:40Speaker 1: that and so other than my question, my.
- 29:43Speaker 4: Long whining because we don't necessarily want to be recommending them,
- 29:47Speaker 4: but there are others.
- 29:47Speaker 1: No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm just saying what people well,
- 29:50Speaker 1: I'm actually asking quite a what's the word, like.
- 29:56Speaker 2: A morally grounded question.
- 29:58Speaker 1: So we don't want people necessarily, definitely not at our
- 30:02Speaker 1: direction or advice, taking drugs for their brain to work
- 30:06Speaker 1: optimally and to override their fatigue or whatever. And we
- 30:09Speaker 1: know sleep, and we know maybe a bit of caffeine,
- 30:12Speaker 1: and we know not having too much chaos, and we
- 30:15Speaker 1: know a bit of music, and we know a bit
- 30:16Speaker 1: of recovery. But is there anything that people can use
- 30:20Speaker 1: that is something in the ballpark of a natural supplement
- 30:23Speaker 1: or food or herb that has any kind of cognitive
- 30:29Speaker 1: enhancement effect.
- 30:32Speaker 4: Yes, and we may have mentioned on a previous podcast,
- 30:35Speaker 4: but if we haven't, something that works really well for
- 30:37Speaker 4: me and what I probably should have done before the
- 30:40Speaker 4: podcast because it's so good with my.
- 30:41Speaker 3: Clarity and my thoughts. El theanine is one of my favorites.
- 30:46Speaker 3: It's actually something that is more for when.
- 30:49Speaker 4: You're It increases the deep wave patterns in the brain.
- 30:56Speaker 4: So often people think about it with sleep because you
- 30:58Speaker 4: get a bit more deep sleep, but actually when you're
- 30:59Speaker 4: really dressed, or you're anxious, or you've got lots on,
- 31:01Speaker 4: which often happens when you're a bit tired, like when
- 31:04Speaker 4: we jumped on the podcast and we've had a million
- 31:05Speaker 4: things going on, elthenine just helps calm things down. But
- 31:09Speaker 4: it's not a sedative. It's actually not a sedative. It
- 31:12Speaker 4: actually helps with clarity. And when I love Healthanine before
- 31:15Speaker 4: I do presentations because I do always get a bit nervous.
- 31:18Speaker 3: People say you don't look nervous.
- 31:19Speaker 4: I am, But when I have Lthanine, I actually do
- 31:22Speaker 4: notice the difference. And as you were just talking about
- 31:26Speaker 4: all this is like why I didn't I have any
- 31:27Speaker 4: before coming on here, because it just helps me just
- 31:29Speaker 4: be a bit sharper with my with my thoughts. It
- 31:32Speaker 4: just takes a bit of that fuzz away. So I
- 31:34Speaker 4: love Lthanine. Another one is bu Copa.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Can you eate one sec? I just want to before
- 31:39Speaker 1: we finish and go on. Is Lthanine an amino acid,
- 31:44Speaker 1: it is it.
- 31:45Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bit like that.
- 31:46Speaker 4: So, but it's coming from it's a plant extract, mainly
- 31:49Speaker 4: in green tea, and so you know, when people talk
- 31:53Speaker 4: about the benefits of green tea, they're often talking about
- 31:56Speaker 4: you know, lthenine as well some of the antioxidants. But
- 31:59Speaker 4: in interestingly they think in plants. It's actually to help
- 32:02Speaker 4: with plants with a stress response as well.
- 32:05Speaker 3: So and then we take it.
- 32:08Speaker 1: So where one, I'm asking for me, not for any
- 32:11Speaker 1: of our audience. So if I wanted to take it,
- 32:14Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you know what I'm about. I'm
- 32:17Speaker 1: eighty kilos By the way, what how much would I take?
- 32:21Speaker 1: Where do I get it?
- 32:23Speaker 2: Is it a pill? Is it liquid? Is it? What
- 32:28Speaker 2: is it?
- 32:29Speaker 4: So?
- 32:30Speaker 2: Typically where do I get it? How much do I take?
- 32:32Speaker 3: So you could pop in?
- 32:34Speaker 4: I always recommend at least chatting to a pharmacist, you know,
- 32:37Speaker 4: popping into the chemist. There's usually someone there that's knowledgeable
- 32:40Speaker 4: in all the supplements. So if you don't have a
- 32:42Speaker 4: health practitioner, chat to your pharmacist, ask them for LC
- 32:45Speaker 4: and they'll have a range of different brands, Lots of
- 32:48Speaker 4: different companies offer it, but at least if you're speaking
- 32:50Speaker 4: to the pharmacist, it's going to be a good one
- 32:53Speaker 4: that's TGA.
- 32:53Speaker 3: Approved in Australia.
- 32:54Speaker 4: If you buy something online, you just don't know where
- 32:57Speaker 4: it's from all that kind of stuff. So I always
- 32:59Speaker 4: think of about getting it from a practitioner, at least
- 33:01Speaker 4: that the pharmacists to start with, so you know you're
- 33:03Speaker 4: getting a reputable brand.
- 33:05Speaker 1: You also don't even know if you're getting what you
- 33:07Speaker 1: think you're getting, Like if you buy it online, I
- 33:11Speaker 1: forget the number, but it's very like if it says
- 33:14Speaker 1: one hundred milligrams of whatever, it almost never is because
- 33:18Speaker 1: there's no way for you to know unless you go
- 33:21Speaker 1: get it laboratory tested.
- 33:23Speaker 2: Good luck with that.
- 33:24Speaker 1: There's no way for you to know if what it
- 33:27Speaker 1: says on the outside of the bottle or the packet
- 33:30Speaker 1: is what you're actually putting in your body one hundred percent.
- 33:32Speaker 3: And there are many studies where they've looked.
- 33:35Speaker 4: At supplements and there aren't the levels. Sometimes it's much less,
- 33:40Speaker 4: there's hardly anything. Other times it's much more. And what
- 33:43Speaker 4: you've got to be careful of is these brands that
- 33:45Speaker 4: we don't know, even if they've got fantastic marketing, they
- 33:48Speaker 4: can have what are known as excipients, other little things
- 33:51Speaker 4: fillers and stuff like that that actually aren't good for you,
- 33:54Speaker 4: so you want In Australia, we're quite lucky. We have
- 33:57Speaker 4: well lucky that could go off on a holidside that
- 34:00Speaker 4: I won't talk about.
- 34:01Speaker 3: The TGA. They could be a pain in some ways,
- 34:03Speaker 3: but they are quite strict.
- 34:04Speaker 4: So anything that has approval from our Therapeutic Goods Association.
- 34:09Speaker 4: So something stocked in a pharmacist, you know it's got
- 34:12Speaker 4: if they're going to have TGA approved things, so that
- 34:15Speaker 4: we know that they've been tested, the ingredients are safe.
- 34:20Speaker 4: I mean we're obous talking about then, and I'm telling
- 34:22Speaker 4: you about something, but there might be another product you're
- 34:24Speaker 4: looking at. So I would pop into the pharmacy. I
- 34:26Speaker 4: would chat to them and ask them, tell them you're
- 34:28Speaker 4: interested in this product. They can tell you what brands
- 34:31Speaker 4: they have. From a dosic perspective, from the dosages are
- 34:36Speaker 4: one hundred or two hundred milligrams.
- 34:39Speaker 3: I'm going to be honest.
- 34:40Speaker 4: For you, Craig, who's really busy at exercising, you know,
- 34:45Speaker 4: you know your weight and everything, and also for me
- 34:48Speaker 4: personally when I'm really thinking about using it for performance.
- 34:51Speaker 3: I don't really get.
- 34:53Speaker 4: Those effects that I just told you about until it
- 34:55Speaker 4: hits four hundred milligrams. Now, I know that's a little
- 34:58Speaker 4: bit higher than what recommended, but often on the bottle
- 35:01Speaker 4: they're giving you just a little low dose.
- 35:03Speaker 3: But if you're doing it just for helping you with
- 35:05Speaker 3: your sleep, as I said, getting your deep sleep or
- 35:07Speaker 3: a bit of calming, that two hundred milligrams is enough
- 35:10Speaker 3: that if you're doing it because you're getting up and
- 35:12Speaker 3: you're doing a presentation, or you're in a podcast, or
- 35:15Speaker 3: you just really need to just get your head together.
- 35:18Speaker 4: You know you're at UNI, you're obviously finishing your PhD.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Then I would be going that four hundred milligrams. That's
- 35:23Speaker 4: still not getting to a dose that's that's dangerous. But again,
- 35:27Speaker 4: don't take this from me. I would talk to your
- 35:30Speaker 4: health practition or the pharmacist. Get it from the pharmacist,
- 35:33Speaker 4: and know what they tell you for that specific product.
- 35:37Speaker 2: Is something interesting. I read this the other day.
- 35:40Speaker 1: I just brought it up again on AI to try
- 35:42Speaker 1: and it's a bit of discrepancy over But so these
- 35:46Speaker 1: are all university studies where they tested how much creatine
- 35:50Speaker 1: is in creatine gummies. And at least at least fifty
- 35:55Speaker 1: percent of the creatine gummies have no creatine.
- 35:58Speaker 4: Oh wow, so Creatin's obviously another one that's really good.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Did I tell you about my story of trying to
- 36:03Speaker 4: have fifteen grams at one go and actually did it twice?
- 36:06Speaker 3: And both times I was not. I was like all dizzy.
- 36:10Speaker 3: And have you had high dose creatine in one go?
- 36:13Speaker 4: I have it every day, every day milligram fifteen gram
- 36:16Speaker 4: sorry in one go?
- 36:18Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, generally probably ten or twelve grams,
- 36:22Speaker 1: which is like two heaped teaspoons, but.
- 36:24Speaker 2: I've had twenty grams. Yeah. Yeah.
- 36:28Speaker 1: But also I think, like everything again, everyone not a recommendation,
- 36:32Speaker 1: and why would why do I take creatine?
- 36:35Speaker 2: Not for you know, extra.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Reps in the gym, although that doesn't hurt, But there's
- 36:40Speaker 1: a lot of evidence to suggest that, as Denise is suggesting,
- 36:43Speaker 1: there's a cognitive benefit, more like cognitive endurance and focus
- 36:48Speaker 1: and clarity. Yeah, so definitely I find that. So it's
- 36:54Speaker 1: ironic that I used to take creatine because I was
- 36:56Speaker 1: a bullfed training Yeah, and now because I'm trying to
- 36:59Speaker 1: be less of a I'm taking creating.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:03Speaker 4: I remember taking it and honestly, I could, you know,
- 37:06Speaker 4: run further, you know, when I was injured and.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Things like that.
- 37:08Speaker 4: I was a bit anti creatine for so long because
- 37:10Speaker 4: I was using it for the wrong reasons. I was
- 37:13Speaker 4: using it to push myself when I was already fatigued,
- 37:16Speaker 4: and because I did get something from it.
- 37:18Speaker 3: But I now use it for a different reason.
- 37:20Speaker 4: And I am quite a chat to my clients and
- 37:23Speaker 4: patients and say, we're not using this to increase performance,
- 37:26Speaker 4: particularly if you've got some health issues. We don't want
- 37:28Speaker 4: you to overtrain because it's going to make things worse.
- 37:30Speaker 3: But from a cognitive perspective, the higher.
- 37:33Speaker 4: Dose it has been shown to cross the blood brain
- 37:37Speaker 4: barrier and be really helpful with cognition. However, this is
- 37:41Speaker 4: a reason why you should go and chat to your
- 37:43Speaker 4: farmer st or have a practitioner. Because even though I
- 37:45Speaker 4: hear these things on podcasts and there's all this stuff,
- 37:48Speaker 4: I had fifteen.
- 37:49Speaker 3: So it said that it also helps.
- 37:51Speaker 4: Get rid of jet lag. Well, I am someone that
- 37:53Speaker 4: has jet lag all the time. So I got home, Great,
- 37:56Speaker 4: I'm going to have my fifteen gram's going to get
- 37:58Speaker 4: rid of my jet lag. No, I felt a little
- 38:01Speaker 4: bit dizzy. Is at the word, but just not right
- 38:03Speaker 4: in my head. And then i'd slight nausea and I
- 38:05Speaker 4: was like, I don't feel great. Interesting, and I thought, okay,
- 38:08Speaker 4: that's a one off. Don't judge it on one off.
- 38:11Speaker 4: So then I had at the second time felt exactly
- 38:13Speaker 4: the same. What I haven't done, though, is try a
- 38:16Speaker 4: different brand. So I'm using a high quality Australian straight
- 38:20Speaker 4: creatine powder. There's nothing in it's from a an Australian. Yeah,
- 38:25Speaker 4: I won't say the brands, but anyway, it is a
- 38:27Speaker 4: very high quality practitioner only actually not that you need
- 38:30Speaker 4: a practitioner only one.
- 38:31Speaker 3: So I don't think there's anything nasty in it.
- 38:33Speaker 4: But what I need to do, because it's been about
- 38:35Speaker 4: twelve months since I tried it, is get a different brand.
- 38:38Speaker 4: But I can have five grams. But again, the five
- 38:40Speaker 4: grams doesn't take away my jet lag. I don't notice
- 38:43Speaker 4: the cognitive stuff. Do you notice so with lth and
- 38:46Speaker 4: when I have four hundred milligrams, I personally works wonders
- 38:50Speaker 4: for me. Do you have fifteen milligrams order that high
- 38:52Speaker 4: dose of creatine.
- 38:54Speaker 3: And you notice it? You actually can feel the difference,
- 38:57Speaker 3: think differently, you're on your.
- 38:58Speaker 2: Show one hundred.
- 39:00Speaker 1: So I feel like this is probably not true, but
- 39:02Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a little bit smarter. But the
- 39:05Speaker 1: few times that and I've spoken about this that I've
- 39:08Speaker 1: likened this is a person who's never had a cigarette.
- 39:11Speaker 1: But the times that I've taken not a recommendation everyone.
- 39:14Speaker 1: I've taken two milligram chewing gum, nicotine or nicorette or
- 39:19Speaker 1: whatever at one hundred percent, I can absolutely tell. And
- 39:25Speaker 1: it's not a placebo because I've done things before where
- 39:28Speaker 1: I knew it was going to work and I got
- 39:30Speaker 1: fucking nothing. So my expectation doesn't necessarily create a response.
- 39:34Speaker 1: But yeah, where So the funny thing is for me,
- 39:41Speaker 1: it's about one and a half hours where everything's just clearer,
- 39:49Speaker 1: My recalls better, you know, my articulation of things is better.
- 39:53Speaker 2: Bah bah bah. It's about an hour and a half
- 39:56Speaker 2: to two.
- 39:57Speaker 1: So if I have say which I offer and have,
- 40:01Speaker 1: I've got to speak at a function at night and
- 40:03Speaker 1: I've been up since five and I'm.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Speaking at seven thirty.
- 40:08Speaker 1: So I'm like, on a typical day, I'm just like
- 40:12Speaker 1: my brain's just putting itself to bed and just fucking
- 40:15Speaker 1: pulling the blankets up over its prefrontal cortex and going
- 40:18Speaker 1: giving a finger to the world, right, And yeah, so
- 40:23Speaker 1: I will have as I'm driving in or maybe even
- 40:26Speaker 1: maybe even five or ten minutes before I speak. I
- 40:29Speaker 1: sometimes will do that, and for me it works. Again,
- 40:34Speaker 1: I do shit that works for me, like I had
- 40:36Speaker 1: two meals a day. I wouldn't recommend it to everybody.
- 40:39Speaker 1: I haven't had a job for forty years. I wouldn't
- 40:42Speaker 1: recommend it to anybody now. And then I take a
- 40:44Speaker 1: bit of nicotine because it works for me. But you know,
- 40:47Speaker 1: like I would say this year, not this year, because
- 40:50Speaker 1: I've done you know, fuck all. But probably in the
- 40:52Speaker 1: last twelve months, I've done three bits of gum, So
- 40:55Speaker 1: this is definitely not a habit, right. And another thing
- 40:58Speaker 1: that I've used, which I spoke about before, my dafinol,
- 41:01Speaker 1: which I've probably used six times in my life. But yeah,
- 41:07Speaker 1: again that's I don't even want to tell you on air,
- 41:11Speaker 1: but yeah, that just is for me. That's a fucking
- 41:14Speaker 1: game changer. Yeah, like our game changer. That's why I
- 41:20Speaker 1: don't use it because I maybe have addictive tendencies and.
- 41:24Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I could get used to this, and
- 41:26Speaker 2: I don't want to so bad to be relying on it. Yeah, yeah,
- 41:31Speaker 2: and again. But the thing is, it's like, here's the
- 41:33Speaker 2: thing you're talking about. You had fifteen grams and cretin
- 41:36Speaker 2: and you've got this response. I was saying, I have
- 41:37Speaker 2: fifteen grams. I have a totally different response.
- 41:40Speaker 1: But you know, I've given people who've never had careateine.
- 41:44Speaker 1: I'd say, look, take this, that's like fucking thirty grams.
- 41:47Speaker 1: I'd give them a bit of mine or whatever, and
- 41:49Speaker 1: I'd take that and do like ten grams three days
- 41:55Speaker 1: in a row. And the first day they'd ring me
- 41:58Speaker 1: and go, I've got a horrible fucking game. And it's
- 42:01Speaker 1: like it gives them a horrible gut. Say the next person,
- 42:04Speaker 1: they do not even notice it, So it's it's less Well,
- 42:09Speaker 1: of course, it's about what we're putting in our body,
- 42:12Speaker 1: but it's also very much about how our physiology interacts
- 42:16Speaker 1: with that whatever it is we're digesting, absorbing.
- 42:19Speaker 3: See, even something as basic as magnesium.
- 42:22Speaker 4: You know, we can use magnesium as a laxative because
- 42:24Speaker 4: some people really gets their vowels moving.
- 42:26Speaker 2: Some people.
- 42:27Speaker 4: But you know, I have had little she was tiny
- 42:31Speaker 4: and ballet, professional ballet dancer, but she was having a
- 42:34Speaker 4: gram like so, you know, we're usually most magnesium supplement
- 42:38Speaker 4: about one hundred and fifty milligrams, so had her on
- 42:40Speaker 4: our whole gram, you know, over a thousand milligrams, but that's.
- 42:43Speaker 3: What she needed.
- 42:44Speaker 4: She was stressed, she was a bit anxious, you know,
- 42:45Speaker 4: her level of exercise. That was really helpful for her.
- 42:48Speaker 4: But someone else would have four hundred milligrams and they
- 42:51Speaker 4: would get the runs. So you know, different people respond
- 42:55Speaker 4: in different ways. By the way, you know, a gram
- 42:57Speaker 4: of magnesium is a lot. I'm definitely not recommending that
- 42:59Speaker 4: that was a unique person in that situation. Definitely want
- 43:02Speaker 4: to be working with how health practitioner if you want
- 43:04Speaker 4: to start to think about using things therapeutically high dose
- 43:07Speaker 4: and most often I don't recommend high dose, but it
- 43:11Speaker 4: is important to note how we respond differently and when
- 43:14Speaker 4: you see something online and you see what you were.
- 43:16Speaker 3: Talking about the start.
- 43:17Speaker 4: If we go back to the question the social media stuff,
- 43:19Speaker 4: it's not good for everyone. We're all different, and you
- 43:22Speaker 4: need to be really careful what you put in your body,
- 43:25Speaker 4: really careful and try to choose quality things, be confident
- 43:29Speaker 4: that you're getting what you're actually wanting, and the other one.
- 43:34Speaker 3: I wanted to mention too.
- 43:35Speaker 4: If we're thinking about stress cognition is bu copa, and
- 43:41Speaker 4: that's often in some of the neotropics, and I do
- 43:43Speaker 4: give a nootropic kind of powdery teething to some of
- 43:46Speaker 4: my clients. They're worried about cognition and it's got bu
- 43:48Speaker 4: copa in it. And we have a lot of studies
- 43:50Speaker 4: with bu copa, again a herbal extract.
- 43:53Speaker 3: A lot of the herbalist and naturopaths have been using it.
- 43:55Speaker 4: For a long time, but now it's becoming popular with
- 43:58Speaker 4: the cognition and I also so I'm interested in it
- 44:00Speaker 4: because there are some studies to show that it's helpful
- 44:03Speaker 4: with reducing cognitive decline, and that's obviously an area I'm
- 44:06Speaker 4: interested in me being predisposed to Alzheimer's, But there's also
- 44:10Speaker 4: a lot of studies with stress showing that bu copa
- 44:12Speaker 4: can actually help people with just managing their stress levels.
- 44:16Speaker 3: And I think often when we are thinking that we
- 44:18Speaker 3: can't get.
- 44:19Speaker 4: Our thoughts together and all that stuff, there is just
- 44:21Speaker 4: because there's this bit of underlying stress, So managing that stress.
- 44:24Speaker 4: Obviously there's a lifestyle stuff as well, but if you
- 44:26Speaker 4: can take a supplement here or there that's natural, that
- 44:29Speaker 4: doesn't have side effects, that's not addictive. You're lcnin, you know,
- 44:33Speaker 4: a bit of creatine. If it works for you, work
- 44:35Speaker 4: out what dose is right, you know, be COPA or
- 44:38Speaker 4: some of these things.
- 44:38Speaker 3: I mean, we do have a lot of evidence that
- 44:40Speaker 3: they work.
- 44:42Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so yes, and I think that, you know,
- 44:47Speaker 1: I was just thinking about one of my friends who
- 44:48Speaker 1: I saw a dude on the weekend that's five to
- 44:53Speaker 1: ten coffees a day. I'm like, dude, I would be dead,
- 44:57Speaker 1: and he goes. I can go to bed with a
- 45:00Speaker 1: and I sleep like a baby. Right.
- 45:02Speaker 4: And another one of my past another delizer of caffeine.
- 45:05Speaker 4: Some people are fast metabolizers of genetics. And these people
- 45:09Speaker 4: are actually known to often drink more coffee, but they
- 45:11Speaker 4: actually process it really quicker, quicker than there are some
- 45:14Speaker 4: people that just couldn't tolerate that much caffeine. It wouldn't
- 45:17Speaker 4: matter what they tried genetically, biologically, they're not able to
- 45:21Speaker 4: do that.
- 45:22Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was going to mention another friend who
- 45:24Speaker 1: has one and if they have two, they get anxiety.
- 45:29Speaker 3: You know.
- 45:29Speaker 2: Sometimes I'll have a second.
- 45:30Speaker 1: One, I'll be right, and then they just get anxiety
- 45:33Speaker 1: and slight, and it's got to be one a day,
- 45:34Speaker 1: and it's got to be early. I like, if they
- 45:38Speaker 1: have it at midday, they're fucked. If they have it
- 45:40Speaker 1: at seven am, they're all right.
- 45:41Speaker 4: So and of course I can't put everything onto genetics,
- 45:44Speaker 4: but I'm almost guessing their genetics.
- 45:46Speaker 3: And you should never guess genetics because you never know.
- 45:48Speaker 4: But I would say that person is a slow metabolizer.
- 45:51Speaker 4: So there's a phase one enzyme called SIP one A
- 45:54Speaker 4: one one A two, and it metabolizes not there's sick
- 45:57Speaker 4: one A two is ninety percent of the caffeine.
- 45:59Speaker 3: So some people are fast or slow that first.
- 46:01Speaker 4: Enzyme they whiz it through or they're really slow. So
- 46:04Speaker 4: if you whiz it through, but the slow metabolizers, it's
- 46:07Speaker 4: going through slowly. And then we have another enzyme called
- 46:11Speaker 4: compt thattually helps us break down our adrenaline. And then
- 46:13Speaker 4: some people are slow at breaking down adrenaline because caffeine
- 46:16Speaker 4: causes a bit of cortisol, bit of adrenaline.
- 46:18Speaker 3: So if you're putting that in, you're slow at the coffee.
- 46:20Speaker 4: And then you're also slow when it comes to clearing
- 46:23Speaker 4: your adrenaline. You're not so good with dealing with the stress.
- 46:25Speaker 4: It's all those things. And it's not just genetics. That
- 46:28Speaker 4: COMPT that I just told you about. That is the
- 46:30Speaker 4: actual enzyme that breaks down adrenaline. It relies on magnesium.
- 46:33Speaker 4: You don't have enough magnesium.
- 46:35Speaker 3: That doesn't work. That's why we give magnesium for stress,
- 46:38Speaker 3: big vitamins, all that stuff, all that fun stuff.
- 46:42Speaker 1: I feel fifteen percent dumber every time I talk to you.
- 46:45Speaker 1: But thanks, thanks for that. I'm not sure what you said.
- 46:48Speaker 1: I'll have to ask chat GPT you later when I
- 46:51Speaker 1: decode it. Now I'm kidding, you're great. Hey, everyone, just
- 46:55Speaker 1: remember so June twelve to fourteen, the Reset program Mantra
- 46:59Speaker 1: Malulaba jump on the weight list if you want, of course,
- 47:03Speaker 1: go to Craig Harper or one word Cragharper dot net
- 47:07Speaker 1: and we'll be launching the program officially in a week
- 47:11Speaker 1: or two. But what that does is guaranteed, Well, it
- 47:14Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee you a spot. It guarantees that you are
- 47:17Speaker 1: in first.
- 47:19Speaker 3: So you don't miss out. So you don't miss out.
- 47:22Speaker 1: Well, you might because we've only got fifty spots. But
- 47:24Speaker 1: I think, like what.
- 47:26Speaker 2: We know, can I say now? I don't want to say,
- 47:29Speaker 2: we've got a fair few people on the waitlist.
- 47:31Speaker 1: But also what we do know about this stuff is
- 47:33Speaker 1: that most times, like nine percent of the people on
- 47:36Speaker 1: the weight list don't go through with it.
- 47:38Speaker 2: Maybe eighty to ninety percent. It varies.
- 47:40Speaker 1: But I think we're going to have a good time.
- 47:43Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Dr Denise. Oh god, I need a
- 47:47Speaker 1: new tropic. It's but how I hope that the rest
- 47:50Speaker 1: of your night goes okay.
- 47:51Speaker 2: I hope your brain works.
- 47:53Speaker 4: I'm so glad we had this conversation because I have
- 47:55Speaker 4: such a busy day and I initially didn't have the
- 47:57Speaker 4: podcast sladed in here. I am going off to have
- 47:59Speaker 4: my LFA, I'm going to have some creatine. This has
- 48:02Speaker 4: actually made.
- 48:02Speaker 3: Me go, yes, this is what I need to get
- 48:04Speaker 3: me through the next couple of hours. So thanks for that.
- 48:07Speaker 1: Just remind me again you think I should have how
- 48:09Speaker 1: much a day give or take.
- 48:11Speaker 4: Elth and I, because you're using it really for the
- 48:14Speaker 4: mental clarity, I'd have four hundred milligrams.
- 48:17Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're not a tracker, are you. You don't
- 48:20Speaker 3: track your rem or your deep sleep or anything.
- 48:23Speaker 2: Nah. No, it would just give me more shit to
- 48:25Speaker 2: worry about.
- 48:26Speaker 1: I just go not fuck it. I would become like
- 48:29Speaker 1: a fucking deer in the headlights. I'd just be looking
- 48:31Speaker 1: at that shit all day.
- 48:33Speaker 3: I like it, to be honest.
- 48:34Speaker 4: The whoop gave me less anxiety because I labeled myself
- 48:38Speaker 4: as a bad sleeper.
- 48:38Speaker 3: And I realize I'm not a bad sleeper anymore. But
- 48:40Speaker 3: I've worked on sleep. Oh you know what I have
- 48:42Speaker 3: not told you.
- 48:44Speaker 4: We should have talked about this at the beginning of
- 48:45Speaker 4: the podcast. Is getting excited and we're just about to
- 48:48Speaker 4: wrap it up after doing the last podcast with you.
- 48:52Speaker 2: We're not just about to we're wrapping it up.
- 48:57Speaker 3: After the last podcast. I said to you, I'm a
- 49:00Speaker 3: good sleeper.
- 49:00Speaker 4: I'm perimenopausal, and I'm this and I travel and I'm
- 49:03Speaker 4: so amazing, and I work on my sleep. I for
- 49:06Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks was waking up at two
- 49:09Speaker 4: in the morning, three in the morning, four in the morning,
- 49:11Speaker 4: and I was like, what is that?
- 49:13Speaker 3: What is that?
- 49:14Speaker 4: Anyway, Everything's back to normal, but isn't it interesting? Just
- 49:17Speaker 4: don't get too copy anyone, because then life will just
- 49:20Speaker 4: throw something at you. And I don't exactly know what
- 49:22Speaker 4: the difference was. I thought I'd nailed this sleep stuff.
- 49:25Speaker 2: But it's hilarious. That's calm of kicking you in the
- 49:28Speaker 2: sleep cycle.
- 49:28Speaker 3: It was it was like, don't get ahead of yourself. Girl,
- 49:31Speaker 3: Like what I was going to say to you.
- 49:34Speaker 2: Settle down, professor.
- 49:36Speaker 3: Yeah, my whoo.
- 49:37Speaker 4: I track, and I know that I sleep well most
- 49:40Speaker 4: nights but the lth and if you are listening to
- 49:42Speaker 4: this and you do like that bit of data, actually
- 49:46Speaker 4: see if it works for you. Have it at night,
- 49:47Speaker 4: because I do get more deep sleep when I have
- 49:49Speaker 4: the LC and and it's nice to be to be
- 49:51Speaker 4: able to track these things. If you're not a tracker,
- 49:53Speaker 4: just pay attention to how you feel. Like Craig said,
- 49:55Speaker 4: feels better with the creteen.
- 49:56Speaker 3: All right, I'm shutting up now. I can see you
- 49:58Speaker 3: looking at me.
- 50:00Speaker 2: Can I tell you something funny?
- 50:01Speaker 1: As a host, one of the funniest things that guests
- 50:04Speaker 1: say is if you are listening. I'm like, literally, everyone
- 50:09Speaker 1: that's listening is listening, and if they're not listening, they
- 50:12Speaker 1: won't hear you. So if you are listening, listeners, I
- 50:18Speaker 1: love that. Hey, how can people connect with you? Find you?
- 50:23Speaker 1: And I feel like you're.
- 50:24Speaker 2: Too busy to get back to people.
- 50:27Speaker 3: By god, I'm sorry everyone. I wasn't taking any patients
- 50:31Speaker 3: last year.
- 50:31Speaker 4: I know that there's a lot of people on the
- 50:32Speaker 4: wait list, but I'm doing a lot less international travel,
- 50:35Speaker 4: focusing on the business. Midyear, I will be trying to
- 50:38Speaker 4: open up a little bit. But obviously we've got the
- 50:41Speaker 4: retreat and doing a few in person events. So you
- 50:43Speaker 4: can look up my name the website and come over
- 50:46Speaker 4: to the Facebook group. I'm not doing as much in there,
- 50:49Speaker 4: but jump on the email list and see what's happening,
- 50:52Speaker 4: or you know, jump on the weight list if you
- 50:53Speaker 4: want to come to the Sunshine Coast and see us.
- 50:55Speaker 3: In person, and if you don't, that's fine, we still
- 50:58Speaker 3: love you.
- 50:59Speaker 2: Yeah. Also there might be some other stuff happening after
- 51:03Speaker 2: the weekend. We'll see.
- 51:04Speaker 1: We'll talk off air. But you're the best. I'm the
- 51:10Speaker 1: second best.
- 51:12Speaker 3: Chuck out the rest.
- 51:12Speaker 2: No, we're not choking, thanks tooff We'll see you next time.