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The Neuro Experience
by Louisa Nicola & Pursuit Network
This podcast interviews the best experts in the world to bring emerging themes in athletic performance, neurology, sleep physiology and medicine. Louisa regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations and consults with the biggest names in NBA, MLB and NFL. Louisa is on the scientific advisory board of Tonal, Hone Health, Klora and Momentous. Find Louisa on Instagram @louisanicola_
Episodes
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Top Flow Researcher: How to Get 5 Days of Work Done in 1 Day | Steven Kotler
Steven Kotler has spent 30 years studying the state that makes people 500% more productive, and he has a problem with the book everyone on your feed is quoting. In this conversation he explains what flow actually is, how to train it, and why "The Body Keeps the Score" got trauma wrong. In this...
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Surgeon Exposes How Health Insurance Tricks You Into Overpaying | Dr. Elisabeth Potter
When Dr. Elisabeth Potter scrubbed out of surgery to take a call from UnitedHealthcare, she had no idea it would change her life. The patient in question was already under anesthesia, mid-mastectomy, and the insurer wanted her to justify an overnight hospital stay on the spot. They denied it...
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No, AI Isn’t Rotting Your Brain, It’s Actully Far Worse | Jim Kwik
AI can write the essay, calculate the answer, summarize the book, and solve the problem before you have really had to think. Jim Kwik's concern is not just cognitive offloading. It's cognitive surrender. After 34 years teaching people how to learn, remember, read, and focus, he believes the real...
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Keith Rabois: This One Number Predicts How Long You’ll Live! Why Stress Makes You More Successful & The “No Days Off” Rule!
Keith Rabois has built companies, backed some of Silicon Valley's biggest successes, and earned a reputation as one of the sharpest strategic minds in venture capital. But when Louisa sat down with him, they barely spoke about investing. Instead, they explored the system behind his…
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World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40
Ask most people what a brain chip does and they will tell you it reads your mind. Dr. Michael Lawton implants these devices, and he says that is not what comes off them. He is President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the hospital where Neuralink's first human implant was...
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The World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40
Ask most people what a brain chip does and they will tell you it reads your mind. Dr. Michael Lawton implants these devices, and he says that is not what comes off them. He is President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the hospital where Neuralink's first human implant was...
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78.3% Alzheimer's Patients Are Women: Here’s How to Fix It. (Yes really)
Two out of three Alzheimer's patients are women, and for decades that gap was written off as a side effect of living longer. The newer neuroscience tells a more specific story: menopause is not a reproductive event, it's a neurological one, and the pathology begins 20 to 30 years before the first...
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Exercise Expert: The Workout That Reverses 20 Years of Aging
Six days before he sat down for this conversation, he ran a marathon. Then he explained what the race did to his brain. When you run 26 miles and your glycogen runs out, your brain still needs energy, so it starts stripping the fatty myelin off its own neurons and burning it for fuel. MRI scans...
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Growing $20,000-a-Gram Medicine in a Warehouse | Sam Bertram
"Everyone gets cancer five times a day — your body already knows how to take care of it." Sam Bertram is the co-founder and CEO of OnePointOne, the vertical-farming company behind the Willo brand. With his brother John (CTO), Sam is building fully automated indoor farms — powered by AutoStore...
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This Psychedelic Is Changing Everything Doctors Thought About Depression
Fifty years ago the U.S. government classified it alongside heroin: no accepted medical use, high potential for abuse, illegal in most of the world. The peer-reviewed data now coming out of Johns Hopkins, Imperial College, and Nature tells a different story, one that has some of the most...
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Don't Take Omega-3s Until You Know This | Dr Nick Norwitz
He carried two copies of ApoE4, the highest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, went through medical school knowing exactly what his LDL of 700 meant, decided the experts were wrong, and then published the case report to prove it. In this episode, Louisa sits down with Dr. Nick Norwitz,...
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The Man Behind Every AI Model And Why You've Never Heard of Him
Every AI breakthrough you've heard of, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, traces back to a single 1943 paper, and its co-author was a homeless teenage runaway who never finished high school. Walter Pitts taught himself Greek, Latin, and the foundations of modern logic in a Detroit public library, corrected...
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The True Origin of AI: A 45 Year Old Scientist Took In a Homeless Teen, Then they Changed the World
Every AI breakthrough you've heard of, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, traces back to a single 1943 paper, and its co-author was a homeless teenage runaway who never finished high school. Walter Pitts taught himself Greek, Latin, and the foundations of modern logic in a Detroit public library, corrected...
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If You Want To Stay Healthy, You NEED to Understand This!
70% of what American children eat today is ultra processed food and the regulatory system that's supposed to protect them has been asleep for decades. In this episode, I sit down with Nick Green, co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, the membership-based online grocery platform that built a $700...
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If You Want To Build Muscle FAST You Need To Start Doing THIS! | Brad Schoenfeld
If you think you need to train to failure to build muscle, you've been operating on outdated science. Dr. Brad Schoenfeld has nearly 400 peer-reviewed papers on hypertrophy and he's done a complete 180 on some of his most firmly held beliefs. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Brad Schoenfeld,...
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Exercise Expert: The FASTEST Way to Lose Fat | Liz Plosser
Most people think tracking their protein is enough. The science says what your body actually craves is something far more specific and the person making that argument spent 23 years inside legacy media watching the wellness industry sell women everything from "bikini body in two weeks" to canned...
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Why Breast Cancer Survivors Are Aging 20 Years Faster (And Doctors Don't Care)
Most people think breast cancer treatment ends when the tumor is gone. Science says that's where the real damage often begins, and the woman making that argument was diagnosed at 28, lost her mother to ovarian cancer the same year, and turned her own dismissal by the medical system into a...
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5 ONE MINUTE HABITS That REVERSE Brain Aging (Science Explained)
*Reduce your risk of Alzheimer's with my science-backed protocol for women 30+:*https://tinyurl.com/55c24w66 Most people think tracking your brain is science fiction. The truth is, the technology to measure your brainwaves, train your focus, and deepen your deep sleep already fits inside a sleek...
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The 5-Minute Habit That REVERSES Brain Aging (Science Explained)
Most people think tracking your brain is science fiction. The truth is, the technology to measure your brainwaves, train your focus, and deepen your deep sleep already fits inside a sleek little headband and the woman who built it has been studying neuroplasticity since long before consumer...
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Most CREATINE Gummies Are FAKE (what to use instead) | Kent Yoshimura
Most people think building a billion-dollar consumer brand requires a Stanford MBA, a celebrity co-sign, and a war chest of venture capital. The reality is messier. The person making that case mixed nootropics in his college dorm room, helped his paralyzed best friend find his edge again with the...
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How THIS Founder Built a $150M Brand Without Any Funding
Most people think building a billion-dollar consumer brand requires a Stanford MBA, a celebrity co-sign, and a war chest of venture capital. The reality is messier. The person making that case mixed nootropics in his college dorm room, helped his paralyzed best friend find his edge again with the...
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Why You Might Be Actually EATING Plastic without Even Knowing it
Most people think their kitchen is the safest place in their home. The truth is the opposite. The cookware you use every day, the cutting boards you trust, the utensils you stir with, even the coffee maker on your counter, may be quietly leaching forever chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals...
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Neurophysiologist: How To Boost Your Focus PERMANENTLY in Minutes
Elon Musk is widely regarded as the benchmark of elite human performance. From a neuroscience perspective, he is something else entirely: by his own self-documentation across interviews and social media, he has become the most thoroughly traceable case of elite cognitive deterioration ever…
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This Is What Exercise Actually Does to Your Brain
Most people think a brain scan is just a snapshot of what is wrong right now. Dr. Mistry has spent twenty years reading over 300,000 neuroimaging studies and what he has found is that your brain scan does not just show you the present. It reveals your past and with the right tools, it predicts…
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What Most People NEED to Know About Black Plastics (Throw it Away Immediately! )
Most people think allergies are seasonal annoyances and autoimmune disease is just genetic bad luck. The science says otherwise and the doctor making that argument has spent her career tracing both epidemics back to a cascade of well-intentioned medical decisions made thirty years ago that got it...
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Why You Keep Attracting The Wrong Person (and how to actually fix it) | Naomi
Most people think astrology is a personality quiz. This conversation will make you reconsider that entirely. Naomi Nama Bracha is one of the most sought-after birth chart readers working today. In this episode, she sits down with me for a live, cold read of my chart pulling from the exact…
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Muscle Expert: Everyone Takes Ozempic But Nobody Knows What It Does to Your Muscles | Dr. Mike Israetel
Most people think going to the gym for aesthetics is shallow. Science says it's actually the most honest starting point you've got and the person making that argument built one of the most respected evidence-based fitness companies in the world, openly used steroids, and then had surgery to…
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Exercise Experts Reveal The 20-Minute Protocol That Actually Fights Aging
This week, we're going to do something a little different. Six of our experts reveal what most people are getting completely wrong about exercise. One: the minimum effective dose for resistance training is shockingly low, just 3 to 6 sets per muscle group per week. Two: the biohacking tools...
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Gut Expert: Eating THIS Everyday Protects The Gut from Diseases | Dr Karan
Colorectal cancer is now the No.1 cause of death for people under 50 in the United States. When it is caught early, nine out of ten people survive. When it is caught late, only two out of ten do. Yet most people are not screening, not eating enough fiber, and have no idea how rapidly the gut...
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What Women Need to Know About Longevity Before It’s Too Late | Dr. Amy Killen
The moment a woman’s hormones begin to decline, the entire body starts aging faster. The brain, heart, bones, immune system, and metabolism are all affected by a single biological shift most doctors barely explain. I sat down with Dr. Amy Killen, physician and leading expert in regenerative and...
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Exercise Expert Reveals: The One Thing Blocking Women From Burning Fat Faster
Zone two has been sold to you as the gold standard for mitochondrial health, fat burning, and longevity. But what if it was built on culture, not science. In this episode, I sit down with Kristi Storoschuk, a PhD researcher whose work is challenging some of the biggest claims in the exercise…
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Longevity Surgeon: The Biomarkers That Predict If You'll Get Cancer or Alzheimer's
The surgeon who spent 12 to14 hours a day in the operating room developed diabetes, uncontrolled high blood pressure, and an autoimmune disease that was eating away at his skull and it forced him to confront what medical school never taught him about actually staying healthy. I sat down with Dr....
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Mitochondria Expert Reveals: Why Your Immune System Starts Failing in Your 40s (And How to Fix It)
80% of all autoimmune diseases occur in women, and no one can explain why. Cancer cells are always present in your body, but it's only when your T cells go into energy deficit that cancer starts overtaking the system. And here's what almost no one is talking about: the mitochondria in your immune...
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Neurophysiologist: Why 30 Minutes of Exercise Changes 13 Types of Cancer
Most people fear cancer, but they're never given a clear explanation of what it actually is, how it progresses, or why metastasis, not the initial tumor, is what kills 90% of people with solid tumors. And here's what almost no one talks about…30 minutes of exercise per day can down-regulate 13...
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Neuroscientist: Why Women Are Being Sold Untested Brain Drugs (The Peptide Lie)
The peptide industry just hit $328 million in imports from China in nine months, and the fastest-growing buyers aren't bodybuilders. They're women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who were told their labs look "fine" when they know something is deeply wrong.In this episode, I break down why peptides…
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Why Most Women Are Taking Heart Medications Wrong - And Dying From It | Dr. Jayne Morgan
It’s one of the most uncomfortable truths in modern medicine: women’s hearts have been misunderstood, under-researched, and misdiagnosed for decades. I sat down with Dr Jayne Morgan, cardiologist, heart health expert, and one of the leading voices calling out gender bias in cardiovascular…
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Expert Urologist Reveals the Hormone Making Women Look 10x Younger | Dr. Kelly Casperson
I sat down with Dr. Kelly Casperson, urologist, women’s health advocate, and a leading voice fighting for equality in healthcare, to explore what’s really happening to women’s bodies and brains during perimenopause and menopause. We discuss why UTIs spike after menopause, how vaginal estrogen...
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What Actually Happens to Your Brain When You Start Fasting | Dr Mindy Pelz
It's a controversial topic, fasting, especially for women. Dr. Mindy Pelz was teaching women to fast primarily because they wanted to lose weight, but what she was witnessing was women saying things like, "I lost weight, but my hair's falling out. I don't have a period anymore. I sat down with…
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Intense Exercise Is Wrecking Your Testosterone | Dr Paul Turek
Most people assume they’re healthy until something breaks. The problem is that dysfunction shows up in your biology years before symptoms appear. I sat down with Dr. Paul Turek to break down what modern biomarkers actually reveal about your health, performance, and long term disease risk. We...
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Breathing Expert Reveals The First Signs of Dementia… | Mike Feldstein
In this episode of The Neuro Experience, I sit down with Mike Feldstein to explain how indoor air quality affects the brain and nervous system. They break down why indoor air is often more polluted than outdoor air and how modern buildings trap particles and chemicals. The conversation also…
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7 Principles to Rewire Your Brain to Maximize Progress in 2026 (Neuroscience Backed)
Most people fail at their goals not because they lack discipline but because they are working against their own neurobiology. After spending over a decade studying the brain I have learned this. Your brain does not change based on what you want. It changes based on the conditions you create for…
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I Asked a Neuroscientist How to Avoid Dementia. His Answer Changed Everything | Dr. Tommy Wood
What if 70% of cognitive decline is optional — and you've been told the wrong story about aging? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Tommy Wood — neuroscientist, performance researcher, and author of The Stimulated Mind — to dismantle the myth that brain decline is inevitable. Dr. Wood reveals…
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The Science of Vigorous Activity: Why 30 Minutes of This Exercise Is Worth 4 Hours of Walking
What if thousands of steps of gentle walking aren’t giving you the brain protection you think they are? In this solo episode, I break down one of the most important exercise studies published in Nature Communications and what it means for your brain, longevity, and Alzheimer’s risk. Tracking over...
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How Cancer Treatment Is Destroying Men’s Sexual Function | Dr. Shawn Zimberg
What if thousands of men are losing their sexual function treating a cancer that was never going to kill them? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Shawn Zimberg — board-certified radiation oncologist and medical director at Advanced Radiation Centers of New York — to unpack the truth about...
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Why ‘Doing Everything Right’ Still Won’t Get You Pregnant | Dr. Natalie Crawford
I used to think fertility was pure luck — until conversations like this changed everything. I’ve watched women do everything right and still struggle… while others who ignored all the “rules” conceived effortlessly. It’s confusing, emotional, and at times, deeply unfair. But today’s guest, Dr....
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The Deadly Truth About Bone Loss: What Women Never Get Told | Dr. Vonda Wright
What if I told you that the moment you break your femur, you have a 30% chance of dying — and a 50% chance of never going home again? In this minisode, I share the most shocking moments from my conversation with orthopedic surgeon and longevity expert Dr. Vonda Wright, and why bone health is one…
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You’re Not Depressed—You’re Hormonal: The Hidden Women’s Health Crisis | Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz
Millions of women in their 30s–50s are being told they’re “depressed” when their brains and hormones are simply changing. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz to unpack the truth about midlife mood shifts, rage, and the hormonal fluctuations that mimic depression but aren’t…
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A Neurophysicist's Holiday Health Guide to Boost Your Brain, Energy, Sleep & Longevity
If you’re heading into the holidays feeling drained or unfocused, this episode is your reset button. Before the year ends, I’m sharing my personal health gift guide—the real tools and rituals I use to support my brain, boost my energy, and improve my sleep. I walk you through the five pillars I...
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This Bacteria Can Delay Pregnancy by 2+ Months | ft. Dr. Staci Whitman
A single overlooked bacteria in your mouth can alter hormones, disrupt implantation, and delay pregnancy — and most doctors never test for it. That’s what I discovered reading a study showing that women with periodontal disease take two months longer to conceive, and that the gingivitis pathogen…
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How Your Mouth Reveals the First Warning Sign of Menopause | ft. Dr. Leedia Riman
What if your mouth could reveal your hormonal health, fertility status, and even your brain’s risk for Alzheimer’s? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Leedia Riman, a biological and integrative dentist redefining how we care for our teeth. She reveals the science behind estrogen receptors in…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast interviews the best experts in the world to bring emerging themes in athletic performance, neurology, sleep physiology and medicine. Louisa regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations and consults with the biggest names in NBA, MLB and NFL. Louisa is on the scientific advisory board of Tonal, Hone Health, Klora and Momentous. Find Louisa on Instagram @louisanicola_
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Louisa Nicola & Pursuit Network
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