The Evolution Lab with Matt Roberts: Recent Episodes
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The Evolution Lab Podcast explores the most effective, tried, tested and guaranteed routes and answers to success with the human body by asking the people who research, coach, treat and make it happen, and with those that use their bodies to the highest levels of performance.
Matt Roberts interviews guests and experts offering their insight, experience, successes and failures, as well as probing into the key pillars for physical health, mental focus and longevity.
Every human body goes through enormous challenges when being pushed to perform at the very highest level and every human body breaks down at some point in time.
The Evolution Lab aims to find the ways in which the individuals have trained, eaten, recovered, adapted and succeeded, and also explores the approaches that failed in their programming, why they did and what they learned in order to improve.
The shows get under the skin of coaching, science, longevity, psychology, nutrition and sleep in order to find the answer to how we reach our full potential and reach the peak of their own physical capabilities.
Since leaving the Banking sector, Sarah Williams has embarked on a number of phenomenal endurance challenges. After competing in a number of London Marathons, Sarah then completed the Marathon Des Sables, hiked the Appalachian trail and cycled the Pacific Coast Highway. Sarah then founded Tough Girl Challenges and The Tough Girl Podcast before recently winning a Sports Podcast Award.
02:13 Summary of Sarah's Challenges
05:07 Competing or Completing?
12:56 The Appalachian Trail and Resiliance
17:31 Why we stay motivated throughout tough challenges
22:43 Marathon Des Sables Training Block
30:24 Strength training being key to endurance events
37:30 Diet and weight training for endurance challenges
39:34 KETO eating and endurance
46:11 Training changes with getting older
52:28 Changing headspace away from office life
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Veteran of more than 100 marathon and ultra running events, Vassos Alexander is perhaps best known for his role as side-kick to Chris Evans on Virgin Radio but his experience, insight, anecdotes and guidance come from a place of many thousands of miles covered, not to mention completing the remarkable “Spartathlon”
01:55 Introduction to Vassos
07:45 The Spartathlon
12:02 Talking us through Vassos’ First Marathon
16:00 Is Vassos a competitive person?
18:45 How Vassos trained for his first marathon
25:00 Training block for a sub 3 hour marathon
30:40 What’s the hardest race distance?
37:40 Endurance training and interleukin response
40:10 Testosterone levels
41:55 Benefits of cold water
47:35 Using heat for training effectivity
50:20 Supplementation and magnesium
52:00 Changing to a plant-based diet
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Medicinal Chef Dale Pinnock discusses the vital impacts of how the foods we consume affect our body in very profound ways. Dale delves into the impact of various well used eating programmes and explains how key foods as supplements can have a positive effect on our well-being, immunity, energy and longevity.
00:08:00 - Have our diets got better or worse in the last decade?
00:13:10 - Should there be more intervention in our diets?
00:18:48 - The Importance of diet diversity
00:26:35 - Introducing meat after 20 years of Veganism
00:33:32 - Whole-food Diets
00:35:14 - Keto Diets
00:48:19 - Turmeric
00:50:13 - Ginger
00:51:46 - Mushrooms and Funghi
00:56:26 - Garlic
00:57:28 - Cinnamon
00:59:47 - Resveratrol
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Entrepreneur and Longevity investor Jim Mellon talks about how the investment world is rapidly turning to longevity and sustainability for returns and as a result our expectations about ageing, performance and also how we can positively help the environment through changes in how we eat whilst also making ourselves healthier.
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Liz O’Riorden, formerly an oncologist surgeon, talks with Matt about her own experience of discovering and overcoming cancer and using physical training to stay mentally strong, physically capable and discusses the extent to which exercise has been proven to aid recovery from Cancer and to keep cancer in remission.
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James Moore, Physiotherapist and Conditioning expert to Olympic squads, Rugby Teams and now to Tennis player Andy Murray dives deep into the physiology of performance, injury management and optimising reruns from time spent training.
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Longevity expert Tamsin Lewis discusses the ways in which science is finding routes to living for longer, being more vital whilst age increases and treating age as a disease that can be cured rather than an acceptable fate.
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Endurance event competitor and veteran of Marathon de Sables, Atlantic Rowing, South Pole Trek and Everest ascent, Ben Fogle is Matt’s guest to talk about his experience of competing in some of the worlds toughest endurance challenges and the physical and mental preparation that he undertook to be ready.
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Internationally renowned and respected Epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector discusses his research and experience of the Gut and how we negatively and positively effect it. Tim also shares his unique insight into the effects of Covid on our bodies based on data collected via the Zoe research app that he founded and used throughout the pandemic.
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The Evolution Lab Podcast explores the most effective, tried, tested and guaranteed routes and answers to success with the human body by asking the people who research, coach, treat and make it happen, and with those that use their bodies to the highest levels of performance.
Matt Roberts interviews guests and experts offering their insight, experience, successes and failures, as well as probing into the key pillars for physical health, mental focus and longevity.
Every human body goes through enormous challenges when being pushed to perform at the very highest level and every human body breaks down at some point in time.
The Evolution Lab aims to find the ways in which the individuals have trained, eaten, recovered, adapted and succeeded, and also explores the approaches that failed in their programming, why they did and what they learned in order to improve.
The shows get under the skin of coaching, science, longevity, psychology, nutrition and sleep in order to find the answer to how we reach our full potential and reach the peak of their own physical capabilities.