69 years old and fitness priorities
I have exercised all my life with cardio fitness mostly. I am listening to Dr. Gabrielle Lyon’s episode with you right now. I was a marathon runner for 15 years from ages 40-55. I am now 69 and no longer run (knee replacement). I have known forever that weight training is so important. I just couldn't get motivated to do this because intensity training (tennis, cycling, golf, and walking) is SO much easier. Now, I am no longer a thin person (15 lbs heavier) and struggle to get weight down. I eat clean and rarely drink alcohol. I do have sleep apnea. I exercise about 5 days a week. I walk when playing golf (twice a week-18 holes), cycle 45 minutes 4 times a week, and play singles 2 times per week. I do not do any weight training. What should I do? This episode has me worried and just need motivation to add resistance training. My cardio is essential for my mental health. I have no cardio issues, and live with a low blood pressure and only have hypothyroidism. I need help. Who can you recommend in my area (Chicago) to get me started?
Heuristics, systems 1 & 2, and CPG's
Dr. Huberman, Thank you for your show and the content you produce at low to no cost. Your work is important to a lot of folks, and I fall into that category. I am a police officer, and police instructor. I teach use of force which includes physical uses of force as well as mechanical, and your episode on learning faster has been a cornerstone to a training I am building out. My question is about using those learning protocols you discussed in the episode. I am drawing connections to building heuristics in training that allow for faster decisions to be made (cognitively and physically) and I am referencing those protocols that allow for building central pattern generators. This sounds an awful lot to me like Daniel Kahnaman's system 1 and system 2, or the fast autonomic response versus having to slow down and put thought into a decision. Is this a fair or equal comparison?
Temporal binding and the evolutionary embedding of motricity
Episodes that discuss mechanism often focus on chemical and biological components (e.g. neurotransmitters for mental health related issues or biomarkers for physiological changes as a result of lifestyle or movement variables). Can we have an episode that discusses how we understand temporal binding to be equally as important as spatial binding to our mental and physical abilities, including perception and movement? Andrew has talked about increased reverbatory activity in relation to ADHD as well as perception of time relating to blinking etc. However, can he talk about the role of the inferior olive as the time-keeper, thalamocortical rhythms and dysrhythmia, how asynchronous activation in brain regions and networks relates to perceptual distortions, movement problems and some of the pathologies that have been talked about on the show many times but only in relation to NT variables and lesions, and some of the interventions that improve timing in the brain and body (e.g. Interactive Metronome). I have been hoping Andrew would take us further along with the brain-body contract and discuss how cognition seems to have evolved from motricity (cognition being temporal and spatial binding at a more sophisticated level) and in our lifetime, how we can phylogenetically manipulate movement variables to improve the maturity of our brain functions. Could Rodolfo Llinas or Gyorgy Buzsaki be interviewed?