High Performance Longevity

What if you could switch between deep focus and true recovery on command, instead of white-knuckling one gear until you burn out?
Serial entrepreneur and Organic Technology creator Hess Adnani joins Nick to map the human operating system: a two-axis model of your nervous system and your mind that tells you where you are and how to move. He explains why recovery is a productivity multiplier, not lost time, and how to read your body's free daily signals instead of leaning only on wearables and bloodwork.
Meet our guest
Hess Adnani is a serial entrepreneur and innovation ecosystem architect, and the creator of Organic Technology. He built Cyprus's largest startup community, facilitated over two million euros in funding, and helped create 100+ jobs. He now teaches founders to build strong companies and strong inner systems at the same time.
Resources & tools:
BioEnergetic Baseline (map your energy and nervous-system state): https://outliyr.com/app/bioenergetic-baseline
Energy Leak (find what's draining you and blocking recovery): https://outliyr.com/apps/energy-leak/
Braverman Brain-Type Test (understand your default mind state): https://outliyr.com/app/braverman-test-online
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Key takeaways
Your internal state sits on two dials: the nervous system and the mind, forming four states of being.
Wise mode is open and creative; doer mode is focused and executing.
Camping in one mode backfires: doer mode leads to burnout, wise mode to stalling.
Hustle past two weeks and output slides toward 50%; two to three days of recovery restores 80% to 90%.
Short activations shift your state in minutes, with no equipment.
Roughly 20% of your body's daily signals reveal about 80% of your health.
Episode highlights
1:47 What Organic Technology is
5:15 Wise mode vs doer mode
19:09 Why camping in one mode burns you out
24:44 Recovery has a quality
37:18 The "invisible jacket" activation
49:30 Your body as an 80/20 diagnostic
56:02 The free assessment, plus a live activation
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What if the spot that hurts is not actually the problem? After 26 years fixing bodies, David Starbuck Smith says most chronic pain starts somewhere else entirely.
Exercise therapist and functional anatomist David Starbuck Smith rebuilt the bodies of NFL, ATP, and WTA athletes and consulted for the San Francisco 49ers. In this episode he explains why non-traumatic pain is almost always a whole-body alignment problem, how to spot your own imbalances at home, and why varied movement keeps you strong and pain-free as you age.
Meet our guest
David Starbuck Smith is a former pro tennis player turned exercise therapist, trained under Pete Egoscue. He is an expert on posture, alignment, and joint mechanics, has written three books on relieving pain, and now coaches clients worldwide through The Daily Motion Lab.
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Key takeaways
The site of pain is rarely the cause; imbalance and compensation move it around the body.
An MRI tells you the what, not the why, and misses the imbalance behind the injury.
Roughly 80 to 95 percent of people get back pain; non-traumatic pain means an imbalance.
Strengthening an imbalanced body only deepens the imbalance.
A painful muscle is usually switched off, not weak; alignment brings the strength back.
Movement variety, more than any single workout, is what a Harvard finding links to longevity.
Age is not the cause of decline; lost motion is.
Episode highlights
0:00 The place that hurts isn't where you broke down
9:06 80% of us get back pain: it's imbalance
21:02 The at-home mirror self-test
27:30 Why 'stand up straight' never sticks
40:56 How emotional stress becomes physical pain
53:41 We just cured your DNA
58:41 Prevention, variety & living longer
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It's not your income that stresses your gut. It's what your circumstances mean to you.Full episode: https://outliyr.com/podcast/boost-testosterone-naturally-ollie-matthews-ojay-health

What if fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and chronic Lyme were not separate diseases at all, but one problem wearing different masks?
Dr. Bill Rawls, MD, co-founder and medical director of Vital Plan, got so sick in his forties that conventional medicine could not reach him. He rebuilt himself from the cell up with herbs, and he now argues that your cells carry dormant microbes for decades, and that health comes down to whether those cells can keep clearing house. This episode lays out the cellular picture of chronic illness and the herbs that hold it in check.
Meet our guest
Dr. Bill Rawls, MD is a number-one bestselling author (Unlocking Lyme, The Cellular Wellness Solution) and the founder of Vital Plan, where he developed the RESTORE180 herbal protocol. After a chronic-Lyme crisis, he restored his health through botanical medicine and has spent over a decade piecing together the research on how cells and microbes drive chronic illness.
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Key takeaways
Chronic illness is one problem in disguise: cellular stress impairs autophagy and lets dormant microbes reactivate.
About 60% of all microbe mass on Earth is dormant at any moment.
95% of people carry Epstein-Barr and at least 60% carry Toxoplasma, usually without symptoms.
Antibiotics depend on fast growth, so they struggle against slow microbes like Borrelia.
Herbs carry hundreds of compounds, so microbes never develop resistance, and they spare the gut and mitochondria.
Adaptogenic antimicrobials like Japanese knotweed and cat's claw can be taken long term.
Start with turmeric, boswellia, and reishi on a base of sleep, plant diversity, and movement.
Episode highlights
1:54 Why cells are the real root of chronic illness
15:21 Dormant microbes living in your cells for decades
24:53 Autophagy: your cells' cleanup crew and defense
46:45 Why antibiotics fail against stealth microbes
51:20 The boiling point and rebuilding with herbs
58:38 Adaptogens vs adaptogenic antimicrobials
1:10:14 Where to start: herbs, dose, and the basics
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What if the one signal you can't fake is already in your pocket? Your voice changes when you are stressed, tired, or run down, and Alex Fredericks built a company that reads it.
ToneWell founder Alex Fredericks explains how a 30-second voice clip is analyzed against a static database to extrapolate about 1,000 biomarkers, delivered as a prioritized wellness report in minutes. No blood, no wearable.
Meet our guest
Alexander B. Fredericks is a growth engineer and the founder of ToneWell and AECC Group. After more than twenty years in brand, media, and the music business, he turned the voice into a wellness analytic, built on a 30-second Performance Readiness Scan and validated by his co-founder Dr. Bear Walker, a double-PhD pioneer of bio-tracking machines.
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Key takeaways
A 30-second voice clip can extrapolate around 1,000 biomarkers, with a report in under five minutes.
Voice is topical: readable in the moment, unlike a blood panel that takes an appointment, a draw, a lab, and a callback.
Your baseline is stable, but your in-the-moment values shift, so a single lab draw can miss both.
A hard training day burns through magnesium, potassium, zinc, boron, and copper.
A wearable gives you a sleep score but not the reason, like a low magnesium form.
The science of frequency is old; what is new is the delivery speed.
Alex uses ToneWell mostly as his own recovery tool.
Episode highlights
1:38 What ToneWell reads in 30 seconds
2:50 How your voice becomes data
22:35 Baseline versus the moment
24:53 Minerals that stress burns
40:10 Nick's own scan
53:31 Meet the BioTracker
58:13 Wellbeing over wellness
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Why does every diet eventually end with you back where you started? Ben Fudge says the problem was never your willpower. It was the plan.
Ben Fudge, head coach of the Elite program at Trevor Kashey Nutrition and a former Army Ranger, reveals Cognitive Nutrition: a behavior-first method that turns new eating habits into skills that finally hold. He walks through the SRO model, why you track before you target, and how to stay calm when the cookie is right in front of you.
Meet our guest
Ben Fudge is the head coach of the Elite program at Trevor Kashey Nutrition (TKN). A former Army Ranger with four overseas deployments, he brings military-grade discipline and structure to coaching built on TKN's Cognitive Nutrition method, developed by Dr. Trevor Kashey. Ben has helped clients lose over 100 pounds in a single year and coaches high-performing men to match their body to the life they have already built.
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Key takeaways
Calling it a "diet" implies an end date, and that framing is what causes the rebound.
Behavior change, not willpower, is what makes new habits stick.
The SRO model (Stimulus, Response, Outcome) inserts time and space before you react.
Track everything to the gram first, before setting any target.
Fix protein and calories, then run the big four: sleep, hydration, nutrition, activity.
One slip is not total failure. Do not slash the other three tires over one flat.
Rehearse high-risk moments ahead of time instead of relying on willpower.
Reinforce the behavior, not the outcome, and stop rewarding yourself with food
Episode highlights
0:00 Why calling it a 'diet' guarantees you quit
1:20 What cognitive nutrition actually is
7:21 The SRO model: stimulus, response, outcome
12:56 Start by tracking everything
17:24 The big 4: sleep, hydration, nutrition, activity
35:26 Rehearse the party before you walk in
1:02:11 How to work with Ben Fudge & TKN
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Your annual physical came back "normal," so why do you still feel foggy, tired, and stuck? Dr. Adrijana Kekic says your biology has probably been drifting for years before any standard test notices.
Former Mayo Clinic pharmacogenomics specialist and Futurome founder Dr. Adrijana Kekic reveals what a standard 30 to 100 marker panel misses, how multi-omics testing catches metabolic drift early, and why women age differently after 40. After a preventable pulmonary embolism nearly killed her, she rebuilt her own health and now maps cellular aging for people who look fine on paper.
Meet our guest
Dr. Adrijana Kekic is a pharmacist and nutritionist trained in genetics, one of the first pharmacogenomics clinical specialists at Mayo Clinic and winner of its 2023 Innovation Award. She founded Futurome, a precision health intelligence company that reads thousands of biomarkers to map cellular aging, with a special focus on female biology.
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Key takeaways
Standard panels lean on late markers; fasting insulin and HOMA-IR flag metabolic trouble years earlier.
Multi-omics testing reads thousands of markers across genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiome.
Cellular aging spikes around 40 and 60, the windows where personalization pays off most.
The highest mitochondrial density in women sits in the ovaries; decline can surface there before any blood test.
Perimenopause is estrogen swinging up and down, not just falling; it hides on standard labs.
Women make about 50% less gut serotonin than men, so fasting protocols should differ by sex.
Foundation first: sleep, magnesium, vitamin D, movement, and a CGM before advanced interventions.
Episode highlights
0:00 Normal labs, hidden aging
6:09 What standard bloodwork misses
18:24 The two aging cliffs at 40 & 60
25:33 The perimenopause you don't notice
30:27 The ICU wake-up call
40:40 Foundation before shiny objects
46:18 Why men & women differ
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Can you reverse type 2 diabetes without drugs?
Chris Reade did, and it came down to one nutrient most people never think about.
He took his A1C from a diabetic 9.3 back to normal, no medication, no extreme dieting. In this episode he breaks down the soluble-fiber approach and the simple habits that made it stick for almost a decade.
Meet our guest
Chris Reade is a former software CEO with no medical background who reversed his own type 2 diabetes after an accidental blood test caught his blood sugar sky-high. He now shares a science-first, practical plan built on soluble fiber, walking, sleep, and stress control in his book Beating Diabetes.
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Key takeaways
Soluble fiber (edamame, chickpeas, beans, broccoli, oats) slows digestion and blunts glucose spikes.
Starting a meal with edamame keeps blood sugar flat and curbs your appetite.
Chris dropped nearly 25 pounds in 6 months with no portion control.
A short post-meal walk lowers blood sugar as much as a supplement.
Berberine matched metformin for him; cinnamon and apple cider vinegar were busts.
1 gram of visceral fat on the pancreas can trigger type 2 diabetes, and losing it can reverse it.
Use a CGM short-term to learn, then avoid the long-term analysis paralysis.
 
Episode highlights
0:00 The accidental blood test
4:06 The one nutrient: soluble fiber
6:09 Edamame before sushi
21:24 Berberine vs cinnamon
7:44 The post-meal walk
43:35 One gram of fat
49:24 Where to find Chris
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