Episode 24: Jay Cowin—Dangers of Concussions, Hormone Recovery & Forming Habits

 

In the latest episode I speak with Jay Cowin. As Director of Formulations at Asystem, he works in functional medicine with specializations in nutrition, performance, hormones and more. We dive into Jay's own journey from being given a couple years to live before the age of 30 and his self-education experience that brought up back to health. We speak about the impact of mental health, the frightening dangers of concussions, human growth and other crucial hormones. His message is that we have to become our own doctor, we have to take responsibility for our own health and not only make the day to day choices that support health but look more deeply into our conditioning so that we can find lasting sustainable well-being and enjoy our life. Jay shares how getting the right blood panels and supplementing with something like DHEA can make a vast difference to all hormone function.

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If you make the effort to make your life a little uncomfortable, your death will be comfortable. But if you try to make your life as comfortable and easy as you can, your death is going to be very uncomfortable.
— Jay Cowin

SHOW NOTES

• 3:15 Learning to heal from a personal crisis of health

• 10:00 Giving too much power to doctors for our personal well-being

• 13:00 Childhood trauma resulting in physical injuries

• 14:15 Exponential pain and suffering caused by concussions

• 20:00 Use of cold therapy for energy just to sustain

• 26:00 Getting to a point of desperation, I’ll do anything to feel “normal” 

• 28:40 Being told to prepare for death at the age of 30

• 36:00 Discovering the detrimental importance of human growth hormone

• 43:00 If you don’t have your diet and hormones sorted out, nothing else will really help

• 50:10 The power of peace of mind and placebo in the healing process

• 52:00 Some of the problems with general hormone testing

• 60:30 Why DHEA is so important

• 70:00 Hormones are not the enemy

• 78:10 How Omegas affect the cell membrane, which is essential for building health

• 81:00 Developing formulations for Asystem Super Human Supplements

• 90:20 Important free natural ways to nurture holistic well-being

• 92:15 Take care of yourself for 80% of the time, let loose for 20% - not the other way around

• 94:15 The simple daily habits that are the foundation for health and tackling adversity

• 105:00 How self-love and self-care creates empathy for others