Digital Social Hour
How Lifestyle Medicine Can Reverse Aging & Stress | Dr. Kirk Parsley DSH #1153
Fri, 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: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com 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/
Chapter 1: How does lifestyle medicine reverse aging?
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,
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Chapter 2: What challenges do Navy SEALs face with health and performance?
And so I just, the good thing was the SEALs, like when I was a SEAL, nobody knew what a SEAL was. So it wouldn't have been helpful.
Movies hadn't come out yet.
Yeah, the movies and Bin Laden and all that stuff. Like none of that happened. But when I was treating these guys, they already kind of had this celebrity status. And so- If I saw somebody's TED talk or heard them lecture or read their book, I'd call them and be, hey, I'm the doctor for the West Coast Seals. Can I consult with you, run patients by you? Can I, whatever, come train with you?
And every single guy that I talked to was like, sure, I'd love to help. Nobody ever charged me for mentorship, and I just got to learn a whole new way of treating people. It took me out of sick disease care into, this performance optimization role is what I call it.
It's like taking people who are relatively healthy compared to the general population, and still is, of course, exceptionally healthy compared to the general population. But there's a delta between what you're capable of, what you know you're capable of, and what you can actually do at this moment. And how do we close that delta? And it's a lot of the same stuff that a longevity doctor would do.
I don't know how long you're going to live, so I can't really promise you longevity. You could work with me and die tomorrow. You could work with me and not die till you're 90, but maybe you're going to live to 95. If you didn't work with me, I don't know. So I'm not comfortable with saying longevity, but it's a lot of the same stuff. You're basically improving their numbers.
Yeah, I mean, the way I look at it is if I can make my goal is basically as I take your lab, but everything that I know how to measure And now there's all kinds of wearables and there's all sorts of stuff that we, genetics, epigenetics, there's all kinds of things we can test now that I couldn't do then. But everything that I know how to measure and everything I know how to have impact on,
I know what a 25-year-old healthy athletic man looks like, right? If we use that as the baseline and we say, hey, I want all your metrics to look like, if I gave your packet to a colleague of mine and said, who do you think this is? They'd say, a fit 25-year-old athletic man, right? which means you have the most potential at that point, right? You're the most resilient.
As far as what we can measure, your capability of being strong, your capability of being enduring, your capability of handling injury and recovering from disease, which is essentially youth, right? What's the difference between a kid who falls down the stairs and an 80-year-old who falls down the stairs? What resources do you have to recover from that? Well, when you're 80, not many.
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