Growth Island

Growth Island

Hosted by: Mads Friis

Growth Island is a podcast about how to become and be the best version of yourself. The focus is on strategies, tools, and blueprints for a meaningful life. I interview high performers and experts within nutrition,...

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#62: Professor Katarzyna Wac - How to improve your quality of life through data

An orgasm right before sleep might just mean your glucose levels return back to normal despite drinking alcohol or eating food that increases your glucose level 😃🙋‍♂️Perhaps an experiment you want to try? ☺️ That and...
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#61: Greg Potter PhD - Easy to implement tips for better sleep

Do you want better sleep? Well, then you might just have to stop wearing your sleep tracker!!! What???🤪 Was the whole point of a sleep tracker not to get better sleep? 😜 Yes it was! But turns out your sleep tracker...
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#60: Boomer Anderson - The concrete steps to evaluating what biohacks to try and test

Have you ever felt a little confused with all the new health and biohacking advice? I surely have… There are so many claims and contradictory advice that it feels like you need to dedicate yourself full-time to...
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#59: Mads Friis: Simple tool to building habits and reaching goals

You try to start a new habit but somehow it ends up not becoming a habit 🤷‍♂️ I have tried this way too many times 😅 However, I learned a tool when I was at Harvard which when followed has helped me a lot with...
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#58: Martin Kremmer - 5 Biohacks You Can Implement Tomorrow

You might have heard about biohacking and thought what the f… is that and how does it apply to me? To answer that I got one of my close friends who is both a TedX speaker and one of the leading biohackers in Denmark...
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#57: Sarah Turner - Why Athletes are using Red Light Therapy and How You Can Benefit from it

Red Light Therapy or more correctly Photobiomodulation has been one of the hottest subjects in the health and biohacking space the last year. And there is a good reason for that. The amount of scientific papers that...
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#56: Sten Stray-Gundersen - Getting more Effective Workouts with Blood Flow Restriction Training

What is the most effective dose of bodily exercise for people with a limited amount of time? We will dive into that whis week, thanks to Boomer Anderson, the host of the Decoding Superhuman Podcast who introduced me...
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#55: Dasha Maximov - What you didn’t know about Women’s Health and Why it is Important

I got to interview one of my favorite humans and a trusted advisor on an extremely important subject: Women's health! It was a shocker for me to learn that an important part of health research is only done on men...
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#54: Mads Friis: TAGTalk - Hacks for a meaningful life

I had the pleasure of being invited to share some of my key takeaways from Growth Island for the wonderful people from TalentGarden and their audience. The episode delivers some of the simplest and easiest things...
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#53: Sandy Sembler and John Hall - Secrets for better romantic relationships

Have you ever thought “Why are romantic relationships so difficult?” I sure have. But then again, I never spend the time studying and intentionally learning what makes a good romantic relationship. In all of the...
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#52: Peter Gould - Bridging the gap between spirituality and entrepreneurship in a heartfelt way

Have you ever meet someone who has such amazing energy that they affect you positively instantly? Today's guest is one of them. I first meet Peter Gould several years ago in Dubai and his presence, centeredness,...
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#51: Tine Jørgensen - All about the Gut Microbiome and the Good Bacteria in our bodies

This week, I’m really excited about the interview with Tine Jørgensen. Tine is a Master of Science (MSc) in Clinical Nutrition. I was happy to have this conversation with her as it gave me clarity on topics like gut...
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