EP 305: Dr. Mohammad Ashori — The 5 Things That Will Keep You Climbing for Decades

Dr. Mohammad Ashori is a board-certified family medicine physician, health coach, and rock climber. We talked about the importance of putting on muscle, how much rest we need between training sessions, nutrition and metabolic health, zone 2 cardio, key metrics and blood markers to track, different levels of data, why some data can be misleading or harmful, relative vs. absolute risk, and much more. 

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Show Notes:

http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/mohammad-ashori

Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro
(00:02:09) – Dr. Ashori’s background
(00:07:01) – Treatment to prevention
(00:12:17) – Dr. Ashori’s current practice
(00:14:37) – Introducing today’s topic
(00:16:13) – #1: Build More Muscle
(00:17:57) – Should you put on muscle on purpose?
(00:25:15) – Key lifts for climbers
(00:28:55) – #2: Treat Recovery as a Workout
(00:31:35) – Growing the tree
(00:34:06) – Pitchers in baseball
(00:38:57) – Proactive, Adaptive, & Reactive
(00:40:45) – Active recovery strategies
(00:43:23) – #3: Metabolic Health
(00:46:44) – Is sugar the culprit?
(00:51:59) – Lifestyle factors
(00:53:14) – My nutrition journey
(00:59:26) – Psoriasis & leaky gut
(01:01:39) – Agency over your health
(01:13:28) – Looking fit vs. being healthy
(01:17:05) – #4: Train Your Heart
(01:18:00) – VO2 Max & Zone 2 Cardio
(01:28:33) – #5: Tracking Changes
(01:29:50) – Blood pressure & waist circumferance
(01:31:56) – Cholesterol, glucose, HbA1c
(01:33:02) – Family history
(01:33:46) – My HbA1c story
(01:38:02) – Levels of data
(01:45:33) – Fasting insulin
(01:47:43) – Speculating why my A1c is high
(01:50:49) – Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
(01:55:20) – My hsCRP
(01:55:46) – My LDL & other lipids
(02:04:28) – Relative vs. absolute risk
(02:08:28) – How to work with Dr. Ashori