Optimal Health Uncovered

E3: The four pillars of optimal health

June 02, 2020 Performance
Optimal Health Uncovered
E3: The four pillars of optimal health
Show Notes Transcript

In this episode, Todd and Mike are joined by guest Zack Buechner who helps offer insights into the four pillars of Optimal Health (Nutrition, Stress, Recovery, and Exercise). They review each pillar in broad strokes to explain to importance of the balance, then detail their own experiences and personal tips and tricks from their own journeys to achieving optimal health.  

4 pillars of Optimal Health (1:10)

What does optimal health mean to you? (2:02)

Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, Stress Management (2:20)

Living healthier for longer periods of time (2:45)

Choosing optimal health (2:45)

How optimal health has changed with age (3:30)

Pushing the body to its limits (4:15)

Sleep becomes more important with age (4:15)

Finding the right balance (4:30)

Rest days are vital (4:50)

Heavy lifting vs cardiovascular training (5:15)

Walking 18 holes in golf (5:30)

Finding a routine that works (6:00)

The four pillars of optimal health are exercise, stress, nutrition, and recovery (6:30)

How can exercise can effect body (7:30)

Sedentary individual or injured athletes that come into office(8:20)

Goal setting (9:10)

Heal or get injury corrected first (9:20)

How to help tennis players achieve their goal? (10:00)

Prescribe exercise as the best form of medicine (10:30)

Dosing exercise, is it negative or positive? (11:15)

Dosing exercise appropriately (12:15)

Overtraining (12:55)

Tangible goal setting with patients or clients (13:30)

Exercise and stress management  (14:15)

Zack Buechner and recovery specialty (15:00)

Preparing the body for stress (15:30)

Recovery starts before the stress (15:45)

The best ways to recover are cryotherapy, sauna heat therapy, and NormaTec compression therapy (16:00) 

Hormesis and how the body adapts over time (17:00)

What is causing your stress? (17:45)

Negative and Positive stress (18:15)

Optimal health is balancing stress, nutrition, exercise, and recovery (19:30)

Overuse stress of young athletes (21:00)

Sport specific training (21:30)

Emotional stress (21:50)

Heart disease, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular issues (22:00)

Navigating stress in life (23:15)

Importance of 4 pillars of optimal health can prevent mental health issues (23:30)

Apps on phone or tablet for meditation or breathing exercises (24:00)

Nutrition and a healthy lifestyle (25:00)

Finding balance and sustainable in nutrition or your “diet” (26:00)

Decrease saturated fats and low sugar (27:00)

Ketogenic diets (28:02)

Cholesterol and its importance (28:30)

Meat and fish with carbohydrates (29:00)

Time restricted eating (29:50)

Veggie-based or Mediterranean diets (30:30)