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The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Dung Trinh
243 episodes
14 hours ago
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
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Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
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The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Your Brain Predicts Reality: How Perception Shapes Everything You Experience
Send us a text We explore how the brain fuses sight and sound into one stable reality, predicts away saccade blur, and even moves the eardrum to align hearing with vision. We connect top-down control to simulation-based thinking, environmental acoustics, deep focus, and the social power of rhythm. • superior colliculus as early multisensory hub • predictive mapping across saccades for visual stability • microsecond timing and pinna cues for sound localization • visual dominance and the ventr...
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2 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
The Simple Fitness Blueprint: Science-Backed Habits for Strength, Energy, and Longevity
Send us a text We map the nine training adaptations, the law of progressive overload, and the exact levers that drive strength, size, and endurance. Clear protocols, simple hydration math, and smart use of breathing, heat, and cold turn guesswork into growth. • defining nine adaptations and why fat loss is a byproduct • progressive overload as the non‑negotiable driver • six variables that control outcomes in training • using RPE and reps in reserve for intensity • strength protocol: >85%...
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2 days ago
14 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
The Brain’s Blueprint for Connection: Why Bonding Shapes Your Health, Happiness, and Longevity
Send us a text We map the brain’s universal blueprint for human connection and show why loneliness is a biological drive, not a flaw. Then we offer two levers—synchronization and cognitive empathy—to build stronger bonds that protect health and resilience. • one neural template for attachment across relationships • isolation as a stressor raising cortisol • social homeostasis and its four-part circuit • DRN dopamine as social hunger and drive • acute versus chronic is...
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2 days ago
11 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
“PCOS & Endometriosis: The Hidden Pain Doctors Often Miss”
Send us a text We expose why PCOS and endometriosis remain widely undiagnosed, how to spot the real signs, and what to demand from doctors to protect fertility and long-term health. Practical tools, from Rotterdam criteria to targeted treatments and fertility planning, turn confusion into action. • PCOS prevalence, underdiagnosis, and misunderstood criteria • Rotterdam criteria explained and applied without lab gatekeeping • AMH, “string of pearls,” and the cysts misconception • Mood, weight...
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2 days ago
16 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Find Your Life’s Purpose: A Step-By-Step Guide to Discovering Your Calling
Send us a text We trace a clear path from childhood clues to a focused life’s task, then map the social terrain where power, masks, and influence shape daily choices. Along the way we separate false highs from real flow, explore love built on values, and turn anxiety and urgency into fuel for mastery. • finding the internal radar from early impulses • using emotions and necessity to accelerate learning • directing resistance without sliding into cynicism • navigating power, masks, and social...
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2 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
How to Build a Healthier Mind: From Emotional Defenses to Daily Well-Being
Send us a text We map a working model of a healthy mind where agency and gratitude are earned outcomes of solid inner engineering. We trace structure, function, and drives, then give a practical audit to escape overthinking, envy, and demoralization. • flipping from pathology to the engineering of a healthy self • agency and gratitude as outcomes supported by empowerment and humility • structure of self through the iceberg model and character structure • defense mechanisms from projection to...
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2 days ago
14 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
How to Rewire Fear Into Courage: The Neuroscience of Bravery Explained
Send us a text We explain the true differences between fear, stress, anxiety, and trauma, then map the circuits that make threat memories stick and how to unwind them. The path forward is clear: extinguish the old response and build a stronger, purpose-driven one using therapy, chemistry, and practice. • operational definitions of fear, stress, anxiety, trauma • autonomic seesaw, HPA axis, cortisol and memory consolidation • amygdala dual outputs to threat and reward systems • prefrontal cor...
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2 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Amygdala vs. Dopamine: How Your Brain Handles Stress, Motivation, and Emotions
Send us a text We map the biology of fear from the autonomic seesaw to the HPA axis, then show how the amygdala links threat to motivation and how the prefrontal cortex writes the story that guides action. We share a two-step framework to extinguish old circuits and build stronger, positive ones with therapy, breathing, and smart supplement timing. • clear definitions of fear, stress, anxiety and trauma • autonomic nervous system and HPA axis explained • cortisol’s role in long-term memory a...
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2 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Mastering Motivation: How Dopamine Peaks, Valleys, and Baselines Shape Your Drive
Send us a text We unpack how dopamine actually governs motivation through a balance of tonic baseline and phasic peaks, why big highs lead to slumps, and how to build steady drive without crashes. We share tools like cold exposure, intermittent rewards, effort-first framing, and social connection, plus cautions on supplements and stimulants. • defining dopamine as a neuromodulator and the tonic versus phasic modes • the seesaw effect where peaks lower baseline and create post-win slumps • re...
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2 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
How to Turn Setbacks Into Superpowers: The Neuroscience of Resilience
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
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2 days ago
10 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Doctors, Debt, And The Wealth Paradox
Send us a text We unpack why many physicians feel financially stuck despite high pay: the lost decade of compounding, crushing student debt, lifestyle inflation, and time poverty that leads to reactive decisions. We show how RVU income, 1099 structures, liability risk, and the advice gap require a tailored plan that starts with protection and disciplined saving. • the paradox of high earnings but delayed wealth • lost compounding from extended training timelines • student loan complexity and...
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3 days ago
12 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Daily Devotion: Walking By Faith Through Uncertainty
Send us a text We reflect on what it means to walk by faith rather than sight, drawing insight from Peter on the water and the documented prayer life of George Mueller. We end with three practical steps and a short prayer to help you trust God when fear rises. • faith as confidence in God’s character • Peter’s focus on Jesus versus the storm • George Mueller’s recorded answers to prayer • releasing control through prayer • declaring Scripture over specific needs • taking one small, faith-fil...
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4 days ago
3 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Daily Devotion: Choosing Love Above All Things
Send us a text We reflect on why love stands above faith and hope, exploring how patient, humble, and sacrificial love heals relationships and realigns motives with God’s heart. We look at Jesus washing feet, Saint Francis’ embodied compassion, and three simple practices that make love concrete today. • love as the highest spiritual gift • choosing understanding and compassion over convenience • Jesus’ humble service as the model for action • Saint Francis’ consistent, practical compassion •...
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4 days ago
3 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Daily Devotion: Gratitude in Every Season of Life
Send us a text We explore gratitude as a practice that changes how we see hardship and prepares the heart for God’s work. Scripture, history, and simple habits show why giving thanks before change strengthens hope and shapes daily life. • giving thanks in all circumstances as a deliberate posture • gratitude as alignment with God’s goodness and presence • Jesus giving thanks before miracles as a model • Corrie ten Boom’s fleas story as hard-won trust • daily gratitude record to train attenti...
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4 days ago
3 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Daily Devotion: Ask For Wisdom, Receive Clarity
Send us a text We trace a straight line from James 1:5 to a quiet, steady way of living: ask God for wisdom, receive clarity, and walk with peace. Solomon’s request and Augustine’s prayer frame three simple habits that turn impulse into discernment. • what spiritual wisdom is and why it steadies us • Solomon’s choice for understanding over gain • Augustine’s posture of self and God awareness • daily asking for wisdom in real moments • pausing between impulse and action • seeking counsel from...
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4 days ago
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The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Rewiring Recall: Working, Episodic, And Semantic Memory
Send us a text We challenge the old idea that memory declines in a fixed way and show how targeted training can strengthen recall quickly. Working memory emerges as the leverage point, and we share concrete tools—paired associations, storybuilding, matching, and dual encoding—to turn learning into durable memory. • defining working, episodic and semantic memory • how aging affects each system differently • why prefrontal plasticity makes working memory trainable • paired association for name...
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5 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Build Cognitive Resilience By Upgrading Attention, Switching, And Self‑Control
Send us a text We explore executive function as the brain’s mental CEO and map it to concrete training: inhibition, switching, and sustained attention. We share simple, evidence-based drills you can do daily, including a two-minute focus practice that builds control fast. • executive function as control system in the prefrontal cortex • the three pillars of training: flexibility, speed, endurance • why targeted cognitive friction outperforms generic brain games • stroop task for inhibition a...
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5 days ago
10 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
How Cognitive Reserve Shields You From Cognitive Decline
Send us a text We dig into cognitive reserve and show how targeted, difficult practice builds a brain that stays functional even in the face of age and pathology. From the Nun Study to the ACTIVE trial, we separate hype from evidence and leave you with a clear plan to train smarter. • Definition of cognitive reserve as adaptive capacity • Nun Study findings on idea density and resilience • Limits of brain game marketing and what actually transfers • ACTIVE trial results on reasoning and proc...
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5 days ago
10 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Brain Games for Neuroplasticity
Send us a text We explore how diverse puzzles can slow cognitive aging and why the right level of challenge drives real neural change. We share clear signs you’re training in the optimal zone and a simple plan to build a durable, flexible mind. • shifting from passive stimulation to active engagement • four-category framework: logic, numerical, language, spatial • how logic puzzles train executive function and inference • Sudoku’s load on working memory and sustained attention • crosswords a...
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5 days ago
13 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
20 Minutes To A Sharper Mind
Send us a text We share a practical framework for cognitive longevity: four lifestyle pillars that protect brain health and a simple 20-minute daily plan that actually transfers to real life. We replace game scores with a brief daily self-rating to track clarity, recall, and focus where it matters. • Reframing brain health away from puzzle apps • The big four pillars: sleep, exercise, omega-3s, social connection • Why the 40% risk reduction changes priorities • The 4x5 structure: memory, foc...
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5 days ago
12 minutes

The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...