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?
John Asher
John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and 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.
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. 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. 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.
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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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We all want to lead a fulfilling future. That’s why planning is important. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Jerry Cahn, CEO of Age Brilliantly, a community platform for people who want to live longer, healthier and happier lives to 100+. It brings together resources and people to discuss Purposeful Living, Financial Security, Healthy Aging, Travel, Lifelong Learning, and ways to Build and Maintain Relationships, all to help people make better decisions and plans for their next stages in life. In a simpler world, work-life balance was the goal. In the elongated life, you need to consider more life essentials, individually and collectively. Life fulfillment results from the tradeoffs you make between them and integrating those decisions into a lifelong, holistic balance. What does your future self look like?
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In this episode of ALIve from the Asher Longevity Institute, we continue with Dr. Jeffrey Boone of the Boone Heart Institute. This was taken from a presentation he made sharing case studies of the leaps in improved heart, circulatory, and brain health achieved through the use of PCSK9 and not accepting that some plaque is normal in your aorta. Although he refers to slides, the word pictures he gives us about the effect of cholesterol on our circulatory system and brains is invaluable in arming us to take control of our aging body, and especially brains. Listen through the case studies to determine what age you'd like your brain to achieve.
Here is the PDF covering this episode. It's from a 2020 Symposium presentation given by Dr. Boone.
Think beyond measuring cholesterol. Dr. Jeffrey Boone gives us information today about what we should be measuring, and how the information can prevent the world's most silent, and sudden killer - heart disease.
Cardiovascular health is vitally important in the aging process. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute 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 the Chief Medical Officer of the Asher Longevity Institute. John describes the importance of the heart to longevity and Dr. Boone explains the intricacies of heart muscle and valves in layman's terms, plus new drugs and therapies that can restore heart health. What anatomic feature indicators are there that point to heart failure? Are there tests that can help predict heart failure? What role does genetics play in this process? High blood pressure? The heart’s electrical system? Can early treatment prevent heart failure? What specific drugs and treatments are found to improve heart health?
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Cardiovascular health is vitally important in the aging process. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute 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 the Chief Medical Officer of the Asher Longevity Institute. John explains how the two met and began to cooperate and Dr. Boone explains the intricacies of heart health in layman's terms, plus new drugs that can restore heart health.
How do changes in the cardiovascular system affect aging? Why is cholesterol in the bloodstream so dangerous? What treatments are available to reduce plaque in arteries? Can the stages of deterioration be reversed? How does this improve overall heart health? And are there also improvements in brain function with these treatments? Where can you go to learn more?
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