Hard to Kill in Midlife · New Episode Every Tuesday at 5 PM EST
Honest conversations with doctors, researchers, grapplers, and coaches who have figured something out the hard way. For midlife combat athletes who refuse to decline.
Gile Huni — founder of BJJ Eastern Europe, creator of Sloth Jiu-Jitsu, author of multiple e-books, developer of the Crocodile Passing instructional, head instructor at Kimura BJJ Serbia, and one of the most aligned voices in the global midlife grappling community — on building a game you can train forever, the natural performance stack that keeps him competing at 46, and why the person who never quits always outlasts the athletic kid who does.
Professor Kevin Figueroa — black belt under Tom Reusing at Gracie Barra Riverside, industrial electrician, competition team coach, grandfather at 44, and one of the most grounded voices on what it actually takes to stay on the mats when life is pulling from every direction.
Dr. Diana Wang and Dr. Kris Martin of Open Mat Physio — physical therapists who are also grapplers — on the real reason midlife BJJ athletes disappear from the gym, the four recovery non-negotiables that actually work, and why intention and sleep are the two words that change everything.
Professor Jay Pages — founder of one of Arizona's premier no-gi academies, BGJ Revolution Carlson Gracie veteran, and one of the most honest voices in the gi vs. no-gi conversation — on the physical cost of over-reliance on the gi, why ecological dynamics is not the debate people think it is, and why fun is the most underrated training principle in jiu-jitsu.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
