michellecen

⭐️ https://www.michellecen.com 🎙️ Podcast version: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh... Topics include: how to find life purpose, how to get motivated, how to improve study skills, how to raise IQ, how to be healthy, wrestling, how conventional medicine fails, how to prevent disease. 📕 Dr. Peter Rogers is a Stanford & Harvard-educated MD who for over 30 years has helped people optimize performance for school, sports & health. He is a surgeon & neuroradiologist. He's written nutrition, medical & study skills books and lectures on his YouTube channel / @peterrogersmd Dr. Rogers promotes what he calls Spartan Veganism, a low fat WFPB SOS-free vegan lifestyle that's also free of environmental toxins. 🕐 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:56 Dr. Rogers' motivation 2:00 Conventional medical textbooks are wrong 3:19 Dr. Rogers' self-reinvention from wrestler to scientist/doctor/scholar 6:57 Alfred Adler inferiority principle, personality 7:19 If upset at something, put the energy to something else 7:35 Study & meet people achieving your goals 8:00 Condensed notes 8:25 Don't memorize for the test - LOVE the material 9:00 Doing something makes one happy - redemption story 10:00 Coming back too soon from injury & getting re-injured 10:45 Do young people rush & hurry too much? 11:00 Ayn Rand, how to raise kids, cellphones make people dumb 12:00 People need to spend time alone & reflect 12:10 Don't sleep with smartphones 12:30 Spend time with older people 13:30 Mark & David Shultz brothers World & Olympic Champions gave Dr. Rogers CONFIDENCE & ENERGY 14:47 How David Schultz overcame being fat, dyslexic & weak to become a champion wrestler 15:36 Get older mentors 16:10 Go to competitions to get motivated 16:30 How to prevent physical & mental burnout? 16:50 Overcome burnout by loving & feeling grateful for the opportunity to get an education 19:16 Kids benefit from mom & dad 19:35 How to find your life purpose? 19:58 How to find your life purpose: help others, do what makes you happy 21:00 Improve your health: stop caffeine, MSG, holding phone to 21:39 Many people today are cognitively impaired & impulsive 22:09 Aristotle "The first step to an intelligent conversation is to remove all emotion" & blind men elephant story 23:00 Thinking skills are valuable - understand reality - "If you think there's a contradiction, then recheck your premises. There are no contradictions" - Ayn Rand 23:41 "There's always the good reason for something, and then there's the REAL reason" 24:15 How Michelle's 6th grade teacher tried to stop her from reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged 24:50 Public school system makes people minimum wage conformists 25:10 Value of liberal arts education instead of vocational education 26:00 People who read a lot can defend themselves 27:21 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, meritocracy, private property 28:19 Who are Dr. Peter Rogers' medical inspirations? 28:50 Transformation story: Dr. Rogers couldn't save his mom nor dad & was fat, then found Dr. John McDougall's work 31:30 Wrestling was a meritocracy which encouraged being different & unique, unlike medicine & big pharma 32:33 Medicine doesn't reward patients getting well 33:11 Medicine makes money off drugs & surgery 34:20 Doctors don't have time to educate patients on nutrition & epidemiology 35:30 Doctors must please big pharma, insurance companies - affects Standard of Care 36:20 Medical centers don't care about patient outcomes, just that doctors follow Standard of Care 37:13 Brian Tracy - "Maximum Achievement" - align conscious & subconscious mind to achieve 37:40 Religion motivates people - Bach 38:44 Importance of having 2 points of view - spend time in 2 countries 39:13 Plan your day in 30 minutes 39:22 Never watch TV, TV is for idiots 39:40 Wondery podcasts are good education 40:10 Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power book is good - world is unfair 41:40 "Do not ask for an easier time, because you are not going to get it" 42:05 Don't do alcohol nor marijuana, substitute something else like religion for it 42:42 Combine a variety of skills to become great 43:20 How David Schultz learned technique to overcome his physical weaknesses 44:33 Incrementalism - system of how to become the best 45:16 Study tips: 1. Love what you're studying, to remember it 48:00 The Sorrows of Young Werther story - love what you're doing 49:49 How to learn languages - Spanish - get the FEEL of the language 51:40 What Peter Rogers is interested in learning & doing now 52:40 Go vegan to avoid heart disease, cancer 53:50 Teaching someone about nutrition & toxicology can give them extra decades of life 54:30 Dr. Rogers' goals 55:30 People don't get second chances to live - patient who gets blood infection gets paraplegic 56:44 How most people in their 60's have cognitive decline 57:00 All atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension damages the brain

⭐️ https://www.michellecen.com 🎙️ Podcast version: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/... Dr. Peter Rogers is a Stanford & Harvard-educated MD who for over 30 years has helped people optimize performance for school, sports & health. He is an imaging guided surgeon & neuroradiologist. He's written nutrition, medical & study skills books and lectures on his YouTube channel ( / peterrogersmd . Dr. Rogers promotes what he calls Spartan Veganism, a low fat WFPB SOS-free vegan lifestyle that's also free of environmental toxins. Thanks to Andy Bains (https://www.bainsnutrition.com) for referring me to Chef AJ's interview of Dr. Rogers, which is how I found out about him. 🕐 Show Notes & DETAILED Timestamps (minute-by-minute): https://www.michellecen.com/blog/pete... 🕐 General Timestamps 00:00 Focus & work hard to be the best 00:38 Dr. Peter Rogers introduction 01:55 Is synthetic clothing safe? 02:44 Don't use laundry detergent & synthetic fibers because of phthalates, estrogens, BPA 04:38 Synthetic estrogens increase breast cancer, prostate cancer, lower testosterone 05:06 Does not using detergent nor soap cause bad smells? 06:47 Is electromagnetic radiation from in-house WiFi use or 5G towers safe? Is it connected to high blood pressure? 08:08 The cure rate of most drugs is 0% 08:27 Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn diet - cure rate for heart disease is 100% 08:45 Stents don't change peoples' risk for getting a heart attack 09:22 At least 70% of diseases are due to diet and toxicology 11:13 Saray Stancic overcame multiple sclerosis, Ruth Heidrich overcame metastatic cancer & runs marathons 12:24 Do you recommend everyone use air purifiers? 13:18 Is zinc oxide-based sunscreen safe? 14:48 Why we DON'T need 8 cups of water daily 16:00 The water paradox & water filtering 18:04 How to not be sedentary all day? 18:53 Benefits of exercise to fight cancer 19:23 Exercises activates the AMPK pathway, the opposite of mTOR, which stops cancer from growing 20:55 How vegans look younger for their age 21:35 Does strength training have the same longevity benefits as cardio/aerobic activity? 22:28 Bulking up can lead to kidney failure - anabolic steroids & creatine are bad 23:13 Many protein supplements are contaminated by nephrotoxic heavy metals 24:00 Don't lower testosterone by exposing the self to EMF's through phone & laptop 24:27 Why to be a minimalist with products 25:23 Don't use dishwasher soap 27:43 Are salt-free fermented foods healthy? 28:04 Are Wim Hof cold plunges & ice baths safe? 29:00 Dr. Rogers doesn't like ice baths - the shock to the system increases sympathetic hormones 29:41 Does intake of plant diversity matter? 30:01 Opinion of Dr. Will Bulsiewicz author of "Fiber Fueled" 30:28 Blue Zones people didn't need to eat a high variety of plants 32:26 Okinawans who live to 100 regularly didn't eat a very diverse diet 32:44 How to to overcome asthma? 32:57 Salt sensitivity is under-recognized as causes of asthma 34:06 Recommendations to cure long COVID? 35:12 No coffee, no tea, no caffeine - caffeine raises acute stress response, mimics catecholamines adrenaline & noradrenaline which are immunosuppressants, impairs sleep 35:37 Advice on happiness, purpose, getting along with people 40:46 Dr. Rogers' high school & med school life - social & financial life recommendations 42:18 Dr. Rogers' books don't promote corporate products - they say diabetes can be cured by diet - textbooks will never say this! 43:38 Medical textbooks are 100 years out of date & wrong about diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, autoimmune disease 47:51 Dr. Rogers would love to do telehealth & coach people 50:18 How hysterectomies make women demented 51:02 Rogers theory on Alzheimer's not existing 52:26 Conclusion - Let us know what you thought! Want more? #doctorinterview #medicaladvice #plantbased