Mind Body Peak Performance
Mind Body Peak Performance is the show for folks dedicated to maximizing their overall quality of life. I am your host Nick Urban and I’m bringing you the best minds handpicked from cognitive enhancement, bioharmonization (biohacking 2.0), fitness, ancestral health, herbal medicine, spirituality, personal development, longevity, supplementation, and meditation. Each episode deconstructs their world-class work into tangible steps for you to look, feel, and perform your best. We’ll leave no stone unturned whether modern topics like peptides and nootropics, or ancient systems like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. You’ll learn how to re-sculpt your body, boost energy levels, improve athletic performance, and gain mental clarity. Nick Urban is a certified Chek Practitioner, biohacker, performance coach, and has spent a decade studying high performance. Health nut or not, MPB will fill your toolbox with products, tactics, knowledge, and resources needed to live at your maximum potential.
Episodes

Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Nootropics are the wave of the future to create bioharmony. Using stealth biochemical precision, nootropics have major potential to upgrade your brain and body chemistry to become your best self.
Get the insider scoop on improving your sleep, mental, and emotional well-being…and even your sex life!
Meet our guest
Mark "Mr. Noots" Effinger was born of a Trappest Monk father and a farmer mother. Mentored by a Ph.D. Microbiologist and Xerox Parc/MIT genius from the age of 5, he dove deep into the nuances of chemistry, electronics, and optics, crafting his first laser before his 10th birthday.
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Key takeaways
Using Nootropics to balance mood and peak performance states naturally
How to get the best sleep for better detox and brain function
What specific peptides activate pleasure and impact neurotransmitters
Discover Nootopia's world-class cutting-edge formulas/stacks
Links
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Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/104
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Wednesday May 10, 2023
”Internal Sunscreen”, Skin Peptides, & Renegade Beauty | Nadine Artemis @LivingLibations
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
This deep dive will teach you the most current natural and effective strategies to bioharmonize your beauty, aesthetics, and personal care.
Meet our guest
Nadine Artemis is the author of two books including Renegade Beauty and Holistic Dental Care. She is the creator of Living Libations, a luxury line of organic wild-crafted non-GMO serums, elixirs, and essential oils for those seeking the purest of the pure botanical natural health/wellness and beauty products on the planet.
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Key takeaways
Using melatonin, melanotan, & food for sun protection
How to use sun exposure for anti-aging
Strategies and recipes to heal skin conditions like acne naturally
How to maintain our bodies' natural microbiome for optimal gut and organ health
Effective ways to maintain impeccable oral care
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G1TfVVTOFLc
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/103
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Wednesday May 03, 2023
Optimal Sauna Protocols, Junk Light, Heat Therapy PT2 | Brian Richards @SaunaSpace
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Saunas, light therapy, and blue-blocking glasses have become extremely popular in recent years. Each wavelength impacts your health differently. This conversation will help you clean up & optimize your light exposure (and hopefully convince you to try a NIR sauna).
Meet our guest
Brian Richards is a nationally known expert in sauna therapy, light science, EMF science. In 2008 Brian transformed his health by creating his own incandescent electric light bath. In 2013, he founded SaunaSpace®, a company that combines cutting-edge incandescent infrared technology with the age-old practice of sauna.
In 2023, he brings a refreshing approach to natural living, biohacking and natural health transformation.
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Key takeaways
Every culture around the world has a sauna practice
Sauna reduces the risk of death and dementia
The sun is an incandescent light source
20-30% of proteins aren't folded correctly by the ribosomes and heat shock proteins through the sauna can help
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y-6S-skUCq4
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/102
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Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Healing Light: Harnessing the Power of Near Infrared | Brian Richards @SaunaSpace
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Brian Richards is a nationally known expert in sauna therapy, light science, EMF science. In 2008 Brian transformed his health by creating his own incandescent electric light bath.
In 2013, he founded SaunaSpace®, a company that combines cutting-edge incandescent infrared technology with the age-old practice of sauna. In 2023, he brings a refreshing approach to natural living, biohacking and natural health transformation.
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Key takeaways
Sun is 40% near infrared spectrally, but in terms of photons per second it is 70% (not much UV)
"We have a built-in healing, repair, regeneration, rejuvenation anti-aging system that's in every cell of the body. It's activated by NIR and red light"
"MB is the only drug I recommend that works really well to amplify near infrared sauna usage"
Any sauna session and heat therapy practice is profoundly beneficial
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FW3muJ_Gy98
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/101
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Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Sleep is the undisputed foundation of performance. Every 1% improvement compounds throughout our lifetime.
This is the best & holistic way to get started.
Meet our guest
Devin Burke helps high achievers and exhausted insomniacs get and stay asleep so they can wake up with more peace, power, and presence. He is an author, speaker, sleep coach, and founder of Sleep Science Academy which helps people stop suffering and start sleeping using a unique holistic approach based on science.
He was named one of the "Top 25 Health Coaches in America," and has studied innovative holistic coaching methods from some of the world's top health and human performance experts for over a decade.
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Key takeaways
Our self-stories constantly reinforce either our problems or our superpowers
The 5 key psychological roadblocks to optimal sleep
How to sleep tech & supplements fit into the routine
Focus on psychological —> physiology —> environment
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Djb_vApw6E
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/100
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Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Activate Cellular Defenses With ”Broccoli in a Pill” | David Roberts @MaraLabs
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Certain plants like broccoli, turmeric, and berberine have a long list of purported health benefits. Unfortunately, however, we don't really absorb the active ingredients. New technologies help us overcome the bioavailability issue.
Meet our guest
David Roberts holds an MPH from Johns Hopkins, a Master's in BME from the UVA, and a Bachelor's in EE and BME from Duke. David has more than 20 years of public health experience on three continents. In 2014 David cofounded the gut supplement, RESTORE.
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Key takeaways
Throughout history, polyphenols and other phytonutrients have played a beneficial role in human health
Stimulating the NRF2 pathway with something like Sulforaphane activates the body's built-in antioxidant defense systems
The anatomical analysis clearly shows that humans are omnivores, not pure carnivores
Berberine is a potent sleep aid and increases oxytocin
Berberine also improves weight control, and cholesterol, and dramatically lowers blood sugar
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/u96Kk5CbPcs
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/99
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Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Law of Similars, Constitutional Medicine, Holistic Homeopathy | Jerry Kantor
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Homeopathy is often viewed as an ineffective pseudoscientific scam. Knowledgeable practitioners, however, get great results for their clients. Usually, as a last resort when other systems fail. This conversation unpacks the science, mechanisms, and use cases of homeopathy.
Meet our guest
Jerry M. Kantor is the author of four other books: Interpreting Chronic Illness, the Convergence of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy and Biomedicine; The Toxic Relationship Cure, Clearing Traumatic Damage from a Boss, parent, lover or Friend with natural, drug-free remedies; Autism Reversal Toolbox, Strategies, Remedies and; under a pseudonym, Heymischer Homeopathy, the Schmendrick's Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches.
He holds a BA in Philosophy from Queens College, CUNY, a Masters's in the Management of Human Services from Brandeis University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Acupuncture Program for Foreign Students, Nanjing College of Traditional Medicine, Nanjing Peoples Republic of China.
Mr. Kantor's Boston area acupuncture and homeopathy practice specializes in pediatrics, mental illness, autism spectrum ailments, autoimmune conditions, and infertility.
He lectures and teaches across North America, and is a faculty member and board member of the British Institute of Homeopathy. He was the first acupuncturist granted an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School's Department of Anaesthesiology.
A longtime practitioner of qi gong and tai qi, Jerry holds a fourth-degree black belt in the Japanese martial art Aikido.
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Key takeaways
"Acute illness detoxifies while chronic illness informs"
Characteristics of a substance/remedy matched to a human constitution
Homeopathy once was the standard of care and is still a primary medicine around the world
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ceKvbp2D45c
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/98
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Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
We often assume that our unique biochemical constitution forms our personality. Our quirks. Yet, it's often merely a byproduct of our epigenetics. Of the experiences and beliefs of previous generations.
Meet our guest
Judy Wilkins-Smith is a highly regarded Family Patterns, Systemic Work & Constellations expert, transformational coach, motivational speaker, and author who is passionate about individual growth, visionary leadership, and positive, accelerated, global change.
The Founder of System Dynamics for Individuals and Organizations, she has 18 years of expertise assisting high-performance individuals, Fortune 500 executives (Chevron, JP Morgan, Kellogg's, ExxonMobil), and legacy families to end limiting cycles and create lasting breakthroughs and transitions into peak performance.
She is a regular guest on TV news and entertainment shows and is the author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns (Sounds True).
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Key takeaways
Micro-traumas are passed down through generations via epigenetics
Specific processes can help you track down and transform disserving patterns
Your everyday words contain a goldmine of information about your subconscious
The root cause of medicine should begin with understanding your epigenetics
Links
Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qL0pPogwmZ4
Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/97
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