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Cellular Nutrition, Staph in BJJ & Why Your Moisturizer Doesn't Work — Benjamin Fuchs RPh | EP101
Benjamin Knight Fuchs, RPh — pharmacist, skin chemist, founder of Truth Treatments, and one of the clearest voices in the cellular nutrition space — on why all disease begins at the cell, why staph and MRSA in grapplers trace back to the gut, why your moisturizer is making your skin worse, and why empowerment is the only medicine that matters.
Episode 100: Dr. Anil Bajnath on Precision Medicine, Multiomics & Longevity | The Josh Button Podcast
Dr. Anil Bajnath — author of The Longevity Equation, founder of the Institute for Human Optimization, and founder of the American Board of Precision Medicine — on deep molecular phenotyping, why the standard of care is about to change completely, the future of personalized health, and why the ancestral practices we already do are the foundation everything else builds on.
Ancestral Nutrition, Seed Oils & Real Food Truth — Niklas Gustafson of Natruly | EP99
Niklas Gustafson — celiac from birth, 13-time Ironman finisher, co-founder of Natruly, and host of Hungry for Change — on ancestral nutrition as a lived practice, why real food is the most radical act left, the plant milk scam, oxalates nobody talks about, and what four years without alcohol actually changed.
Breathe or Tap The CO₂ tolerance system for BJJ over 40
The CO₂ tolerance system for BJJ over 40 — why you gas out mid-round, what's actually happening in your body under pressure, and the exact protocol to fix it.
Early Morning Sunlight: The Most Powerful Free Health Tool Most Athletes Ignore
Sunlight isn't a cancer risk — it's the master signal for every hormonal, circadian, and metabolic process in your body. Avoiding it is the disease.
Fasting Is Strategic and Backed by Science: Why I Use 16:8 Training BJJ 5–7 Times Per Week
Not despite high-frequency training — because of it. Here's the full breakdown of how intermittent fasting and daily grappling coexist and reinforce each other.
Efficiency Is the Strong Angle. Isokinetics & Neurological Strength for BJJ Over 40 — Dr. Lyneil Mitchell Part 2 | EP98
Dr. Lyneil Mitchell returns for part two — on isokinetics as the highest return-on-investment strength tool for midlife athletes, why most training creates maladaptation rather than improvement, the Hebbian principle and how your nervous system is quietly patterning the wrong thing, and what integrity under demand actually means as a new definition of fitness.
Am I in the Strong Angle or the Weak Angle? BJJ Injury Prevention & Biomechanics — Dr. Lyneil Mitchell on the Strong Angle | EP97
Dr. Lyneil Mitchell — two-time Division II All-American wrestler, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Marinovich Systems practitioner, and author of The Strong Angle Way — on the single question that fixes your movement, why your dominant side is costing you power, and the biomechanical blind spots that are quietly ending midlife athletic careers.
Sourdough: The Gut Missing Link — Why Properly Fermented Bread Is Not the Enemy
Not all bread is bread. The long fermentation that makes real sourdough destroys anti-nutrients, colonises your gut with beneficial bacteria, and lowers the glycaemic response. Here's the science.
Navy Diver & BJJ Black Belt William Dorman on Staying on the Mats Past 40 | EP96
Navy diver, BJJ black belt under Gustavo Machado, BJJ Globetrotters coach, and founder of Blue Ring Solutions — William Dorman on suffering as growth, top pressure that nobody escapes, why jiu-jitsu is the best thing for humanity, and staying dangerous long after the body starts objecting.
Functional Medicine for Midlife Men — Kristin Oja DNP on Muscle, Hormones & Longevity | EP95
Kristin Oja DNP — founder of STAT Wellness and the first practice in the nation to put barbells inside a functional medicine model — on the three pillars of longevity, why muscle mass is the most important biomarker you're not tracking, and the root causes most doctors never look for.
The Midlife Grappler's Survival Guide: Everything I Know About Training Hard After 40
Not a compromise. Not a modified, gentle version of grappling. The full system for staying on the mats, staying dangerous, and staying hard to kill.
Organ Meats: Why Every Traditional Culture Prized Them — and Why You Should Too
Nature's original supplements. More bioavailable nutrition per gram than anything else on earth — and we threw them away.
Consistency Beats Everything — Chris Ryan on Midlife Training & Longevity | EP94
Chris Ryan on training smarter past 40, what your liquid diet is silently doing to you, why less is more for midlife athletes, and the one investment that pays compound interest for the rest of your life.
Sodium Bicarbonate: The Daily Performance Enhancer and the Cancer Prevention Research Nobody Is Talking About
Sodium Bicarbonate is not just for baking. It's a proven acid buffer, a gut alkalizer, and — according to University of Arizona research — a potential anti-cancer agent. I use Bob's Red Mill daily.
Red Meat Does Not Cause Cancer: Dismantling the Most Damaging Nutrition Myth of the Last 50 Years
The IARC classification, the cherry-picked data, and why the epidemiology on red meat has been systematically misrepresented to the public.
BJJ Black Belt at 50: Matt McPeake on Concepts, Recovery & Staying on the Mats | Josh Button Podcast EP 93
Professor Matt McPeake on earning it the right way, why concepts beat techniques every time, how to stay on the mats past 50, and the one word that explains why jiu-jitsu is the most human thing you can do.
Sleep Is the Number One Recovery Tool — Full Stop
No supplement, cold protocol, or sauna session competes with what happens when you sleep correctly — and most midlife athletes are destroying their recovery every single night.
PTSD to Spiritual Bodybuilder — Nahum Vizakis on Healing Men | Josh Button Podcast EP92
Nahum Vizakis on surviving PTSD, escaping the pharmaceutical fog, plant medicine, the testosterone epidemic, and why resilience is the only word men need right now.
Why We Ice Bath: Testosterone, Brown Fat, Pre-Cooling, and the Resilience It Builds
Cold immersion is one of the most studied recovery tools available — and for midlife grapplers training twice a day, the hormonal and performance case is hard to argue with.
