Digital Social Hour
How Lifestyle Medicine Can Reverse Aging & Stress | Dr. Kirk Parsley DSH #1153
31 Jan 2025
Discover how lifestyle medicine can reverse aging and slash stress! 🌟 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he sits down with Dr. Kirk Parsley, former Navy SEAL and renowned health expert, to uncover groundbreaking strategies for optimizing health and performance. 🏋️♂️💡 From tackling sleep issues to the power of psychedelics, hyperbaric therapy, and peptides, this episode is packed with valuable insights you don’t want to miss! Did you know sleep is the ultimate anti-aging tool? Or that stress management can transform your overall health? Dr. Parsley reveals all, sharing inspiring stories from Navy SEALs and actionable tips to reclaim your vitality. 🕒 Tune in now to learn how to enhance your lifespan and live stronger, healthier, and happier! 🎙️ Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Don’t miss out—your health and future self will thank you! 🙌 #ptsd #motivation #anxiety #leadership #trauma #lifestylechoicesbydrlawaniah #preventativemedicine #functionalmedicine #genetherapy #selfimprovement CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Navy SEALs Resilience and Limitations 04:56 - Specialized Recruiting Group Insights 05:49 - Understanding Navy SEALs' Vulnerabilities 12:53 - Psychedelics and Mental Health 18:00 - Neuroplasticity and Brain Adaptation 19:54 - Amygdala's Role in Stress Response 22:00 - Effects of Psychedelics on Brain Function 24:37 - Hyperbaric Therapy Benefits 29:10 - Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) Explained 34:10 - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for TBI 37:48 - Brain Injury Recovery Strategies 40:44 - Navigating the Medical System 44:49 - Role of Peptides in Recovery 47:26 - Future Directions for Healing 49:10 - Importance of Sleep for Recovery 52:41 - Sleep: Key to Health and Recovery 56:30 - Where to Find Kirk APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Dr. Kirk Parsley https://www.instagram.com/kirkparsley https://www.youtube.com/@docparsley418 SPONSORS: Specialized Recruiting Group: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
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It's a total mess. Oh my gosh. We do some good things, but mainly it's a mess. It saved my life. I had pneumonia once. I can say Western medicine did save my life. They're great for that. We're great at infectious disease, like severe infectious, great at trauma, but everything else, you probably want to take care of yourself.
All right, guys, Dr. Kirk Parsley here today. We're going to talk Navy SEALs, talk peptides, and a bunch of fun health stuff. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me, man. Absolutely. We were talking out there. I was just so fascinated that the SEALs are dealing with some major issues.
Yeah, a lot of people A lot of people just think military guys are young and indestructible and they can just keep going forever. It's like any other organization. It takes years to get really good at it, to be proficient, to be a leader, to be able to...
you know, plan and lead missions and things, you know, you're looking at a decade or more to be in there, which is a lot of training and a lot of deployments and a lot of battle and a lot of injuries and a lot of sleep deprivation and, you know, a lot of, you know, psychological trauma, you know, for lack of a better word, and all that stuff.
And it pays, you know, it costs, you know, it weighs on the individual. And they are very strong, very resilient, very capable men, but they're not indestructible. And they do start breaking down and their performance does start to decline for reasons that are by and large repairable.
But you want to talk about a stilted, overly conservative medical organization, nothing towards the military medicine. I mean, they're just, they're very, staunchy old school kind of, you know, anything that our troops have to have disqualifies them. Because if they have to have a medication, well then you can't deploy them because what if they don't have their medication? So it's a tough battle.
And there's a lot of political stuff in there that upsets people too because like technically when somebody wants to do transgender, whatever, and they need hormones, those people are considered OK and they're still deployable. But if a SEAL needs hormones to be not above normal, but just to be high in the high reference range of what his age group should be, the upper, say, 25% of that range,
If you need, you know, or if you just want to take them out of the tank, like I see a lot of guys who, you know, they're only in the normal range by one point out of like a 800 point range, right? So they're one point into it, but you can't, but that's normal. And you can't, you can't give them, you can't give them hormones, even though.
You know, it's much different than what people think of when they think of cheating in sports. Like cheating in sports, like a high end of normal would be $1,100. Somebody who's cheating in sports is probably going to be like $1,500 or $2,000 or something. They're going outside to be superhuman. Yeah. Like, no, we just want to get them up to the $900 range, right?
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