The Lucas Rockwood Show

Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition affecting as many as three percent of the population. While prescription medicine and creams can relieve symptoms in the short term, long-term solutions often require stress management, detoxification, and gut health. Our guest on this week’s podcast specializes in helping people get their skin under control.

Listen and learn:

• About the role of sun exposure and vitamin D
• How your gut health and microbiome relates to your skin
• The impact of food intolerances and allergies on the skin
• Risks vs rewards of long-term prescriptions

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Dayna’s Site

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Dayna Hrovath is a physician's assistant with a particular focus on psoriasis.

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MDMA, better known as the party drug ecstasy, has been legalized in Australia and will soon be approved in The United States for use in psychotherapy. While much of the research pushing for legalization has focused on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its potential use in couples therapy also holds great promise. My guest on this week’s podcast wrote his master’s thesis on the therapeutic uses of MDMA in the 1980s and has been at the forefront of drug-assisted counseling ever since.

Listen and learn:

• How an MDMA-assisted session for couples can fasttrack therapy
• Legal and safety concerns
• Fentanyl risks and the safety promises of prescription options
• Why couples should aim to share two appreciation comments daily
• How to utilize the “acknowledgement formula” to resolve conflict in your relationship

NOTE: MDMA is illegal in most jurisdictions worldwide. This podcast is not meant to endorse purchase or consumption of illicit drugs. Even when legal and prescribed, there are real risk and dangers that must be considered before using any drug.  

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Jonathan’s Site

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Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist and author of ten books including, The Enlightenment Project and Communication Miracles for Couples.

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Running is an amazing way to build cardiorespiratory fitness, it’s accessible to just about anyone, and you can start right now. The problem? An estimated 80 percent of runners get injured each year, so simply staying on your feet consistently is a huge challenge for most people. My guest on this week’s podcast is a physiotherapist who will share her tips for running pain-free.

Listen and learn:

• How to choose between road, trail, and treadmill running
• The importance of stride rate and elbow drive
• How to supplement your running with strength training

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Hilary’s Site

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Hilary is a physical therapist and was previously a member of the US Alpine ski team. She works with athletes and non-athletes in-person and online. She does a lot of work with runners, focusing on gait fixing and running injuries. 

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What if your greatest pain in life was not the terrible things that happen to you, but instead the confusion and disjunction between your mind and body? Our bodies are wired for survival, but we all hope to find peace and contentment. Is it possible? Our guest on this week’s podcast believes it is.

Listen and learn:

• How pain increase amygdala size and activity while simultaneously decreasing hippocampus size and activity
• Why self trust is the missing link in the confusion created by pain
• How exposure and facing our pain head on is the only way through
• The idiocy of trying to outrun or avoid the monster that lives between your ears

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Julia’s Site

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Dr. Julia DiGangi is a neuropsychologist and founder of NeuroHealth Partners, specializing in the neuroscience of emotional, cognitive, and social health. She also has an excellent TEDx talk on the art of suffering.

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Longevity is having a moment on social media right now with Silicon Valley paying teenage boys to have blood transfusions, experimental peptide injections, and all the predictable skin lasers and fillers. Most of these experiments will be useless, some will be harmful, but perhaps a few will actually work. Dr. Stephen Krichevsky joins this week’s podcast to help us separate the signal from the noise.

Listen and learn:

• What we can learn about aging from yeast, worms, fruit flies, and mice
• Does starving yourself really extend your life?
• What about NMN and rapamycin?
• Why stable weight might be more important than being thin as you age

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Dr Kritchevsky’s Work

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Stephen Kritchevsky has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers and serves as the director of Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) and co-directs the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention. He is a contributor to the ABC study and the LIFE Trial.

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Do you feel burned out? My guest on this week's podcast, Dr. Neha Sangwan, defines burnout as exhaustion, ineffectiveness, and cynicism. Once that trifecta occurs, you’re in trouble - and most of us have been there. How do you bounce back from true burnout? What role can medicine, spirituality, and social groups play? Listen in to learn more.

Listen and learn:

• Why exhaustion, ineffectiveness, and cynicism typify burnout
• How to find “your people” if you’re socially isolated
• Why it’s important to identify your core values
• Which medication and natural interventions can act as a bridge back to balance

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Dr Neha’s Site

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Neha Sangwan is an internal medicine physician, international speaker, and corporate communications expert. She is the author of new book, Powered by Me: From Burned Out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life.

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Most of us have a bucket list of things we’ll do once we grow up, after the kids move out, once we’ve retired… or someday. The problem with someday is that we don’t know when or if it will ever come, and more importantly, why wait? Most of life’s richest experiences don’t cost very much at all, and most things you could start to experience immediately.

Listen and learn:

• How to find joy in everyday moments
• Why doing things you suck at but enjoy can unlock amazing experiences
• How your lowest lows can turn into peak experiences
• How to start if you’re currently time and/or financially poor

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Experiential Billionaire

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Bridget Hilton and Joe Huff are entrepreneurs and co-authors of the new book, Experiential Billionaire. 

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Hip pain ranges from minor pinching felt during squats to excruciating pain that causes you to limp or even need the support of a cane. Like all joint injuries, the process of diagnosing and treating a hip injury is often long and circuitous. Do you need surgery? Physical therapy? Will the pain ever go away? In this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a physiotherapist who focuses specifically on hips.

Listen and learn:

• What femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is and what it might mean for you
• Why you should forget quick fixes and focus on a six months plus healing journey
• Realistic options for post-hip replacement exercise and sport
• Why labrum tears are so common in the general population and are usually asymptomatic

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Mehmet’s Site

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Mehmet Gem is a physiotherapist. Much of his work is focused on the hips and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). He has worked with athletes in multiple sports and non-athletes internationally via his consultancy and training programs.

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Pelvic floor problems affect an estimated 40 percent of the population. Common symptoms include incontinence, prolapse, premature ejaculation, and irregular bowel movements. Your pelvic floor is a muscular net that supports your bladder, bowels, and in women the uterus. Those muscles can be trained and strengthened just like your biceps - but it’s a little more tricky to learn how. On this week’s podcast, we meet a physiotherapist who specializes in this area of the body.

Listen and learn:

• How to take charge of your pelvic floor health  
• Whether pee-stop-pee is a safe practice for strengthening
• Do apps and gizmos actually work? Are they worth it?
• Will you ever be able to jump on a trampoline or deadlift again?
• Are medical interventions such as collagen fillers, botox, and surgery effective?

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Clare’s Site

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Clare Bourne is a pelvic health physiotherapist. She works with extremely common but rarely discussed issues such as incontinence and prolapse. She is the author of Strong Foundations: Why Pelvic Health Matters.

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Public speaking and communication skills are crucial for every aspect of life. Whether you’re negotiating a promotion at work or advocating for yourself with your doctor, the better you can express yourself, the greater your success. Good communication is a meta skill that pays off in multiples, and it’s something we should all invest more time in developing.

Listen and learn:

• The power of story and narrative during presentations
• How to use visual aids carefully
• The importance of time management
• Why formulaic structures are often a wise choice
• How to handle feedback, trolls, and grandstanders

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Ben’s Site

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Ben Crosby is a professor of rhetoric and a communication skills consultant. He is also the author of Presentations as Performance: A Professional’s Guide to Better Speaking.

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When most people think about getting in shape, their first priority is usually fat loss - and for good reason. Excess adipose tissue can, in many cases, contribute to or exacerbate dozens of other health problems. But what if instead of focusing on losing fat, you focused on gaining muscle? Lean muscle tissue is a metabolic workhorse. It strengthens your bones, acts as a natural glucose storage location and helps to balance your hormones. Interestingly, it’s often faster to build muscle than it is to shed fat, and the two often go head-in-hand.

Listen and learn:

• Why lean muscle tissue tests are inaccurate
• The future of D3-creatine tests for accurate “weigh in” of muscle mass
• The correlation between lean muscle, bone density, and reduced all-cause mortality
• Weights vs bodyweight exercise: can you do it at home?
• The minimum effective dose for change

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Dr Lyon’s Site

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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a physician and the founder of the Institute of Muscle-Centric Medicine. She is the author of a soon-to-be released book, Forever Strong. 

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Psilocybin mushrooms (aka magic mushrooms) are being studied and used for their therapeutic and mental health benefits. These powerful substances have a long history of use in various cultures around the world, and are surprisingly safe if used carefully with medical supervision. At the same time, any drug, natural or not, presents a complex set of risks and rewards that must be considered. On this week’s podcast, you’ll learn about the popular new style of sub-perception use called microdosing.

Listen and learn:

• How one tenth of a psychoactive dose can provide many of the same benefits without a “high” or psychedelic experience
• Legal considerations and options for traveling with psilocybin
• How psychedelics might impact emotional processing and reverence for nature

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Retreat Microdose

LEGAL & HEALTH WARNING: in most jurisdictions, psychedelic drugs are illegal. Even when legal, they should be treated and used with care, ideally only under the supervision of trusted healthcare professionals. The views of the guest and host of this podcast are theirs alone and should not be taken as health or medical advice. 

ABOUT OUR GUEST
Cori Sue Morris is a former journalist, an entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Retreat. Her company helps educate people on how to use psilocybin, better known as magic mushrooms for personal growth and health. 

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Food allergies are a common and growing problem. To complicate things further, food allergy tests have a fifty percent false positive rate and most general practitioner doctors have just two weeks of allergy training - so you’re often left on your own when trying to diagnose and deal with them. Extreme allergies are rare, but skin problems, digestive issues, headaches, and bowel issues are becoming increasingly common. My guest on this week’s podcast will help you understand more about allergies and what to do about them.

Listen and learn:

• Why allergies are a huge and growing problem
• Why most IGG food allergy tests are a waste of time
• How avoiding foods like peanuts could contribute to the development of an allergy
• The important difference between an intolerance and an allergy  

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Theresa’s Site

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Theresa MacPhail is a medical anthropologist, professor, and writer. She is the author of the book, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World.

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If you have a phone or computer, you could start a media company right now and publish and share whatever you like. On one hand, this is amazing and democratizes what was previously reserved for a handful of gatekeepers. At the same time, the deluge of messages, often with ulterior motives, makes it extremely difficult for most of us to think freely. Should you trust governmental organizations? Left or right leaning news media? And what about the bro science podcaster? I don’t have the answers to any of these questions, but our guest on this week’s podcast does. 

Listen and learn:

• About the wisdom of the crowd
• The dangers of conformity
• Why conspiracy thinking exists
• Poetic truth vs. real world facts

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Free Your Mind Book

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Patrick Fagan is an applied behavioral scientist with over 13 years of experience in marketing, political campaigns, and data science consultancy. His expertise is in understanding human behavior and decision-making processes. Through his work, he advocates responsible and ethical practices in behavioral science, empowering individuals to resist manipulative influences and fostering critical thinking in society. He is the coauthor of the book, Free Your Mind. 

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Erectile dysfunction is often a canary in the coalmine for metabolic health problems, and it might be just the motivation some men need to make some changes. Like all things related to health, restoring sexual vitality often requires a holistic approach, but the good news is that these changes have nothing but positive upsides.

Listen and learn:

• The risk vs reward of PDE5 inhibitors
• Why diabetes and heart disease are often correlated with ED
• Soundwaves, lasers, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections
• Why 90 percent of sexual dysfunction problems are physiological

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Dr. Truong’s Site

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Dr. Anne Truong is a medical doctor specializing in anti-aging and biological cellular medicine, with a career spanning over 25 years. She is the author of the book, Erectile Dysfunction Fix, and runs an educational group called, The Modern Man Club.

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Give a baby an ice cream cone and watch his eye brain light up with pleasure. The desire for sweet is hard-wired into us, but our access to sweet is unprecedented and problematic. Sugary and starchy foods are cheap, delicious, and last for years on the shelf. As you know all too well, once you’ve established a habit of indulging, it’s so difficult to stop. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet as public health educator who turned her own sugar breakup into a focus for her teaching and advocacy.

Learn

• How sugar affects your dopamine, insulin and microbiome
• Why sugar is in 74% of all packaged foods
• How starchy foods can be just as problematic as added sugar
• Planning for the 7 to 10 day detox
• The psycho-social role of sugar and sugar addiction

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Dr. Grayson’s Site

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Andrea Grayson is a behavior change communications consultant. She teaches about Public Health Communications at the University of Vermont. In 2016, Andrea weaned herself off sugar and now helps others do the same. Her book, The Sweet Tooth Dilemma, is available on Amazon. 

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Do you get sick easily? Do you catch every cold and flu that comes through town? This could be due to a depleted immune system or even chronic immune deficiency. This is more common than most people realize, and for a number of lifestyle and environmental reasons, it’s a growing problem with a glaring lack of medical support or recognition. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a doctor who focuses on boosting the immune system and treating those with immune problems.

Listen & learn

• How fecal transplants can help with extreme gut problems
• Why cardio and strength exercise and sleep are the foundations for immune health
• Genetic ApoE test
• Genetics vs. epigenetic influence on our health 

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Gary’s Site

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Gary Kaplan, D.O., is a clinical associate professor at Georgetown University, director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine. He’s the author of two books, Total Recovery and Why You Are Still Sick are available on Amazon. 

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Lucas answers a handful of relevant listen questions on food, fitness, yoga, and movement. Join the conversation!

• What vitamins does Lucas take?
• Is yoga enough?
• Why 1 gram of protein per lbs of body weight?
• How to not lose fitness gains during summer holidays
• Is lab grown meat the future?

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The carnivore diet is one of the most requested and controversial topics on the podcast in the past year, and I’ve had a number of guests on including a medical doctor and heart surgeon. While I do not eat nor plan to eat this way myself, I’m alway open to learn about new approaches for weight loss and optimal health. While this extreme approach raises some very real concerns, there are some very interesting benefits too making it well with a discussion.

Listen and learn: 

• What we can learn from the inuit and yupik people who traditional at an animal-centric diet
• Why elimination diets can be powerful short term for illnesses and disease but why they are almost never sustainable
• The big cholesterol gamble from a cow-centric diet
• How to separate signal from noise in the diet industry 

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All of us want to change something: our job, our relationship, our waistline, or even our career. We wake up thinking about it and fall asleep wondering “what if.” For some unknown reason, we never seem able to push past our stuck point and create real change. Why? My guest on this week’s podcast coaches using a visual and sensory-based model designed to help you achieve what you desire.

Listen to learn:

• Why what you elaborate on is often what you become
• How to loop in your 5 senses - plus emotions - to anchor an image
• The power of a negative “what if I don’t” scenario

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Imagery Coaching

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Joanna Grover, LCSW, is a pioneer of Functional Imagery Training (FIT) with 15 years experience as a coach and cognitive therapist. She’s the co-author of the new book, The Choice Point.

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