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How can athletes continue to perform, compete, and stay healthy as they age? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Sharon McDowell-Larsen and Dr. Regan Stiegmann, coauthors of Staying in the Game: Leveraging Lifestyle Medicine to Elevate Health, Outsmart Aging, and Enhance Performance. Dr. McDowell-Larsen is an exercise physiologist, decorated endurance athlete, and age-group world champion, while Dr. Stiegmann is a board-certified physician in Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine and a nationally recognized leader in lifestyle and performance medicine. Together, they bring decades of experience helping people optimize health, performance, and longevity.

We Discuss:

• How to slow athletic decline and maximize performance longevity
• The power of consistency and embracing “non-zero days”
• Can a plant-based diet improve athletic performance?
• Why nutrition compounds over decades
• Why carbohydrates matter more for performance than protein
• Do masters athletes need more protein?
• Why fibre may be one of the most important nutrients for athletes
• How gut-derived postbiotics may influence performance
• Simple ways to eat more fibre
• Reducing inflammation and managing osteoarthritis
• Why women may excel in endurance events
• Key considerations for postmenopausal athletes

Get the book! Staying in the Game

Episode Show Notes

• Connect with Sharon: Substack | Instagram
• Connect with Regan: LinkedIn
• Film: The Game Changers

Connect with me on Instagram: @casswarbeck

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*Please appreciate that any information discussed is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, always seek the opinion of a physician or qualified healthcare provider.*

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This conversation is with Andrew Cordssen-David, CEO and co-founder of HeadFirst and a former semi-professional hockey player. Driven by his own experience with concussions, Andrew is working to transform how these injuries are detected and managed through the development of a rapid, saliva-based screening tool designed to help physicians make better sideline decisions.

We Discuss:

• Andrew’s hockey career and personal concussion history
• Current diagnostic tests for concussion
• Athletes hide concussion symptoms
• Concussion pathophysiology
• Saliva biomarkers of concussion
• Best case use for point of care saliva testing
• Bringing the product to market in North America
• Advice for athletes dealing with a concussion

HEADFIRST

Episode Show Notes:

• Connect with Andrew - LinkedIn
• Sport Awareness Concussion Tool
• Parachute Concussion Resources
• Concussion Awareness Training Tool

Connect with me: @casswarbeck

Connect with me on Instagram: @casswarbeck

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @herealldaypodcast

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*Please appreciate that any information discussed is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, always seek the opinion of a physician or qualified healthcare provider.*

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This conversation is with Dr. Michael Klaper, a physician, educator, and one of the early pioneers in plant-based and lifestyle medicine who was a major influence on my decision to pursue medicine. With over four decades of clinical experience across acute care, family medicine, and nutritional medicine, Dr. Klaper is widely known for his work teaching both physicians and the public about the role of nutrition in preventing and treating chronic disease, including his longstanding lecture, “What I Wish I Had Learned About Nutrition in Medical School.” In his latest book, Moving Medicine Forward, he continues to advocate for a more prevention-focused, nutrition-informed approach to healthcare—one that addresses the root causes of many of the chronic conditions we see every day.

We Discuss

• What medicine keeps getting wrong
• Nutrition is real medicine
• We can all agree vegetables are good for us
• Moving medicine forward by inspiring medical students
• “Do no harm” applies to the food on our plate
• How doctors start applying this in practice
• Ditch dairy first
• Athletes should care about long term health
• A day in the disease reversal clinic

Get the book! Moving Medicine Forward: What More Doctors Should Know About Nutrition and How It Can Save Your Life!

Episode Show Notes

• Connect with Dr. Klaper | Website | YouTube | Instagram |
• Moving Medicine Forward - Medical School Nutrition Education Initiative
• Video Lecture: What I Wish I Learned about Nutrition in Medical School
• The American College of Lifestyle Medicine
• The Plantrician Project
• Film: The GameChangers

Connect with me: @casswarbeck

Connect with me on Instagram: @casswarbeck

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @herealldaypodcast

Audio editing and processing by Wyatt Pavlik

Theme music by Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

*Please appreciate that any information discussed is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, always seek the opinion of a physician or qualified healthcare provider.*