Testosterone for men is an essential and beneficial hormone for energy, libido, functionality, and metabolism and it relieves depression, controls inflammation, and helps arteries. It's also important for women. Testosterone levels fall with age and can be replaced by topical creams, patches, injections, and pellets. Testosterone misuse - for bodybuilding and performance enhancement - can be dangerous to your health, but so can low levels of this vital hormone. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Abid Husain, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiologists and Certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. Doctor Husain is a physician at the Boone Heart Institute in Greenwood Village, Colorado, working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone on state-of-the-art cardiovascular and stroke prevention programs, combined with a functional medicine outlook. Following discussion of peptides in previous episodes, Dr. Husain begins a two-part session on hormones. Listen to Dr. Husain separate the myths from the truths of testosterone.
John Asher
John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and the key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John's mantra is always "making the complex simple". He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company.
Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.
Dr. Abid Husain
Dr. Husain is a cardiologist working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone at the Boone Heart Institute in Denver. Located in Denver, the Boone Heart Institute provides corporate wellness and executive health programs. Most other clinics treat heart patients after they have a stroke or heart issue. The Boone Heart Institute sets itself apart by treating the major risk factors of heart disease and working to roll back the damage and reduce your "arterial age" The proof is in the results, they have never once had any patient under their care suffer a heart attack or stroke!
You probably know you aren’t getting enough sleep. You believe you have limited time and too much on your mind and think you can sleep later. But what if you were able to get more sleep, be more successful in your pursuits, and also increase both your health span and life span? In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Bob Martel, professional sleep coach and head of Positive Results Hypnosis in Holden, Massachusetts. Bob is the author of “I am Sleeping Now: How to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep and Wake Up Refreshed” and the host of the weekly “Mind Magic Radio” show on WCRN talk radio.
John and Bob discuss how you can get the best sleep you’ve ever had:
- What’s meant by the term “respecting” sleep?
- How can you condition your mind for sleep?
- Do purposeful breathing techniques help?
- How can you get back to sleep after you’ve woken up in the middle of the night?
- What are some useful and positive self-talk phrases?
- How can you break the habits that sabotage good sleep?
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In this episode of ALIve, Dr. Husain continues the discussion of peptides that he started in an earlier episode titled “Best Non-Prescription Ways to Improve Longevity.” Peptides, a generalized term for cell-signaling molecules, have been around for over 100 years. They are isolated from plant and animal sources and have been produced in pharmaceutical labs since the 1960s. Peptides are often talked about in skincare, but they also can help build muscle, promote fat loss, reduce inflammation, and improve immune function. CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Abid Husain, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiologists and Certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. Doctor Husain is a physician at the Boone Heart Institute in Greenwood Village, Colorado, working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone on state-of-the-art cardiovascular and stroke prevention programs, combined with a functional medicine outlook.
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Do you know what your toxic body burden is? That’s the amount of toxins within your body made up of chemicals absorbed from food, water, air, and even personal care products. While the individual impact of any of the toxins may be minimal, the combination of all of them could be detrimental to your health. Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer chemicals are commonly thought of, as are industrial exposures, smoke, and vehicle exhaust; but there also are toxins in construction materials, household cleaners, and even the toothpaste and shampoo you use.
In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Tim James, Founder, and CEO of Chemical Free Body, a cutting-edge health organization changing our world through results-driven Coaching and Educational Resources along with Detox and Nutritional Supplementation. Chemical Free Body is a mission-based organization that is passionate about helping everybody ignite their highest excitement in life by putting themselves and their health first. Tim is also the host of the Health Hero Show podcast.
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Will this be the Decade of Biotech? Medical investment and research indicate that it might be. Technologies supporting longevity research, including artificial intelligence, big data, CRISPER, gene therapy, and machine learning are growing exponentially. And there’s been an explosion of longevity-related investment from billionaires and at universities and medical clinics. We can readily see what major investment in targeted health programs can mean in extending the careers of super athletes such as Tom Brady and LeBron James. What if you also had access to new longevity therapies, protocols, and technologies to extend not only your lifespan, but also your health span?
In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher follows up on previous podcasts describing the Nine Steps to an Unlimited Life with further details on the major contributing causes of aging and death and what you can do to slow or prevent them.
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Traumatic Brain Injury can come from a violent blow or jolt to the head or body. We tend to think of bomb blasts, athletic impacts, and car crashes with TBI, but its symptoms can arise from non-violent means as well. We also associate medications, surgery, and rehabilitation as treatments, but there can be other treatments as well. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Valerie Donaldson, Founder and Medical Director of the Regenerative Medicine Center (RMC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and certified in Anti-Aging Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Stem Cell Therapy.
- What are the causes of Traumatic Brain Injury?
- How is Traumatic Brain Injury alike or different from other brain illnesses such as Alzheimer’s or MS or Parkinson’s?
- How did Dr. Donaldson get interested in treating Traumatic Brain injury?
- How is her method of treatment different than others and what is her success rate?
- What types of people does she see for Traumatic Brain Injury and what’s the most common age group?
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Have you ever wondered what physically healthy people have in common? And why some seem to thrive in the face of challenges? Are they exceptions or can others of us also develop the same kinds of habits to succeed in any endeavor? In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Nick Shaw, co-founder of Renaissance Periodization (RP), a multi-million-dollar health and fitness company that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of clients around the world. Nick has coached world-class athletes including CrossFit Games champions, international medalists in weightlifting, UFC fighters, Navy SEALs, and Olympians. But it wasn’t until 2020 when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and facing the fallout of treatment for months through COVID-19, that he had to really lean into the habits he was teaching and put them to the ultimate test. His new book, with the same title as this podcast, details what he learned.
- What are the seven principle habits for success that both athletes and business professionals should master?
- Which are the most important?
- How vital is the concept of internal locus of control?
- What is the biggest takeaway Nick Shaw realized from all this?
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Would you like to break free of confining roles and routines that limit your joy and drain your life energy? In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Jim Strole, Director of The Coalition for Radical Life Extension and Co- Founder of People Unlimited Inc. He’s a leading anti-death activist and community builder, who has spoken around the world and written on radical life extension and physical immortality for over four decades. Jim is co-author of the book Just Getting Started: 50 Years of Living Forever, and Living Without Death: The Experience of Physical Immortality, and has published Living Unlimited Magazine. He has appeared on numerous TV shows both domestically and abroad and has co-hosted a weekly radio program on radical life extension and physical immortality.
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In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Abid Husain, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiologists and Certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. According to the Institute for Functional Medicine, it’s a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness. Dr. Husain explains how he has moved from conventional cardiology medicine treating current conditions to focusing on the future of his patients. He discusses the history of peptides, the role of hormones, and health at the cellular level. Dr. Husain advises three non-prescription actions we can take to slow down the body’s deterioration. Doctor Husain is a physician at the Boone Heart Institute in Greenwood Village, Colorado, working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone on state-of-the-art cardiovascular and stroke prevention programs, combined with a functional medicine outlook.
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Cardiovascular health is important for heart function in the aging process, but it’s also vitally important in brain function. The best way to protect the aging brain is to identify and aggressively treat vascular problems as soon as possible. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Jeffrey Boone, named one of the top cardiovascular doctors in America. Dr. Boone is the Founder and Director of the Boone Heart Institute in Denver and also is the Chief Medical Officer of the Asher Longevity Institute. John describes his own experience of increasing brain function under Dr. Boone’s care and Dr. Boone explains how scans can now measure brain function and how new therapies and drugs can help prevent strokes (the third leading cause of death) and early onset of dementia. While the brain is only 2% of the average human body weight, it receives up to 20% of the body’s blood supply. Protecting the aging brain by paying early attention to cardiovascular issues gives you a longer life span and also a longer healthspan.
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