๐คEpisode 60: What Is The Matrix? – Red Pill vs Blue Pill Where are you putting your energy? Who does that energy benefit? We go full “Tin Foil Hat” on this episode...
๐ค Episode 02: The Concepts Behind StrongFit In this week’s episode Julien describes the higher concepts around StrongFit, and explains why it’s become so much more than...
๐ Cueing Attention After The Stimulus Is Gone Can Retrospectively Trigger Conscious Perception Is our perceptual experience of a stimulus entirely determined during the early buildup of the sensory representation, within 100 to...
๐ค No Fix November Update – StrongFit Podcast Bonus Episode We thought we’d better check in with y’all and see how you’re doing with No Fix November while letting you...
๐ Heart Rate In Relation To Insulin Sensitivity And Insulin Secretion In Nondiabetic Subjects OBJECTIVE โ Elevated heart rate has been predictive of cardiovascular disease and has been proposed as a global index of...
๐ Cortisol Rapidly Affects Amplitudes Of Heartbeat-Evoked Brain Potentials โ Implications For The Contribution Of Stress To An Altered Perception Of Physical Sensations? Interoception, the perception of bodily processes, plays an important role in the subjective experience of emotions (Wiens, 2005), in consciousness...
๐ Low Vagal Tone Magnifies The Association Between Psychosocial Stress Exposure And Internalizing Psychopathology In Adolescents Vagal tone is a measure of cardiovascular function that facilitates adaptive responses to environmental challenge. Low vagal tone is associated...
๐ The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate NonCommunicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health Global burden of diseases (GBD) includes non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These share...
๐Neural Responses To Heartbeats In The Default Network Encode The Self In Spontaneous Thoughts Selfhood and autonomic regulation are linked in the Task Negative Network.So our sense of self would be an extension of...
๐ Emerging Roles For The Gut Microbiome In Autism Spectrum Disorder I donโt know if you guys are interested in all the papers out there but here is an interesting one...
๐ค Episode 33: StrongFit Performance- Andrew Kalen Daish This week we’re joined by rugby player and member of the StrongFit Mentoring Program, Andrew Kalen Daish. Andrew has put...
๐ The Antidepressant-Like Effect Of Lactate In An Animal Model Of Menopausal Depression The World Health Organization recently published a report indicating that major depressive disorders (MDD) are affecting 322 million people all...
๐ค Episode 36: Life, Information and Learning This week, Julien kept Tyler in the dark about the content of this episode until the cameras were on.. Julien...
๐ Characterization Of The Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System The heart is supplied and controlled by centrally derived sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. The classical augmenting influence of sympathetic inputs...
๐ฌ Nervous System & Heart Rate Under Q Learning Edit: The conversation on the heart rate vs energy system was done in the context of Q learning : State...
๐ฌ We Hacked The Human Body For Performance Today we had the chance to share some of the new ways we found to hack the human body for...
๐Identifying Large-Scale Neural Networks Using fMRI Contrary to the DMN, the CEN, also known as the โcognitive-controlโ or โtask-positiveโ network, is most active during cognitive tasks...
๐ค Episode 62: Serotonin: An Agent of Averageness Serotonin… Everyone’s heard of it. Most people associate it with happiness.. But how does it work? Does it really make...
๐ Autonomic Adjustments To Exercise In Humans However, perhaps the most notable difference between dynamic and isometric exercise is the pressor response, which occurs to a much...
๐ค Episode 58: How Physical, Mental and Emotional Fitness Saved My Life – w/ Bill Anthes The challenges of active-duty military life are extreme, but readjusting to life back home presents an entirely new set of...
๐ค Episode 78: Q&A w/ Richard Aceves – The StrongFit Podcast Episode Richard joins us for another special Q&A episode this week.... We answer your questions about nutrition, training, education and everything in between. Get your question on the next Q&A by submitting them on the form in the link below...
๐ The Yin And Yang Of Cardiac Autonomic Control: Vago-Sympathetic Interactions Revisited Very interesting paper about the co-activation of Para-Sympathetic & Sympathetic nervous activity relating to the heart. As you can see...
๐ Is The Cardiac Monitoring Function Related To The Self In Both The Default Network And Right Anterior Insula? So here is another paper sent to me by Daniel. This is another major step forward, it basically establishes that...
๐ค Episode 55: The Heart And The Sense Of Self What role does the heart play in our sense of self? How does this relate to the Task Negative Network,...
๐ค Episode 07: Living on the Spectrum – Autism, Socialization, Evolution and The Nervous System “I am on the Autism spectrum I have always known, just never out loud. Not even to myself It is...
๐ Circadian Disruption In Psychiatric Disorders Nearly all psychiatric disorders present with circadian disruption, such as abnormalities in the timing of the sleep-wake cycle, core body...
๐ฌ The Nervous System and Reich Whatever blocks you may have mentally, you may also have them physically.
๐Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What Theyโre Saying Interesting article Go past the Alzheimer, Autism, etc… reference and just look at the relationship gut flora – nervous system...
๐ค Episode 27: Learning and the Fear of Mistakes Share this fundraiser with all of your local communities, groups, gyms, followers, aunts, cousins, and old roommates. We are all...
๐ฌ Principles & Philosophy of Training – European Tour Excerpt – Part 2 Our second excerpt follows up on the power of internal and external rotation; this time looking at the lower limbs,...
๐ค Episode 64: Burn The Questions This month, it’s time to bring intensity back. Learn more about this fundamental StrongFit principle and how it fits in...
๐ The Timing Of Mental Events: Libetโs Experimental Findings And Their Implications The major findings by Libet et al. are briefly summarized. The criticisms and alternative proposals by Trevena and Miller, Pockett,...
๐ฌ Principles & Philosophy : Coaches Week A lot of people are interested to learn what the next step is after taking the Strongfit Seminar, and the...
๐ Stress Is Suggested To Lead To Metabolic Dysregulations – But The Underlying Biological Mechanisms Are Not Yet Well Understood Obesity and the collapse of the Arch. โthese results suggest that especially the combination of increased SNS activity and decreased...
๐ Bacteria Contradict Darwin: Survival Of The Friendliest New microbial research at the University of Copenโ hagen suggests that ‘survival of the friendliest’ outโ weighs ‘survival of the...
๐๐ฌA Neural Substrate Of Prediction And Reward The capacity to predict future events permits a creature to detect, model, and manipulate the causal structure of its interactions...
๐ Lactate: The Ultimate Cerebral Oxidative Energy Substrate? The controversy surrounding the role lactate plays, if any, in the adult brain is as ferocious as any other past...
๐๐ฌDorsal And Ventral Attention Systems More than a decade ago, Corbetta and Shulman published their influential review article in which they introduced the concept of...