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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#26: Anette Sams – The Truth About Sugar and How to Reverse Diabetes 2

How do you reverse diabetes 2 through food and exercise? That is part of what this podcast episode is about. It also turns out this knowledge can help adults whether you have diabetes or not! How do we then make that...
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#25: Chuck Hazzard - What Most Experts Got Wrong About Sleep

If you care about sleep then you need to hear this episode! I have listened to a ton of podcast about sleep and read about the subject. But I never heard the real story about what we actually know about sleep and why...
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#24: Dr. Scott Sherr – Biohacks that the elite uses in Silicon Valley

I got a medical doctor who is at the forefront of health optimization medicine. He is also an expert in integrative hyperbaric medicine. And you might be wondering what the …. is that? Well, that and what some of the...
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#23: Mette Skjaerbaek – Concrete Tips For Natural Health & How To Choose Skin Care Products

How do you select a skincare product? I am often quite confused when looking at different products. Which ones are really the ones without all the bad chemicals? I would love to hear how you navigate that jungle? I...
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#22: Jacob Strachotta – How to Use Hypnotherapy to Increase Performance or Overcome Challenges

Jacob Strachotta, is the Founder & CEO of HelloMind and Founder of The Institute for Advanced Hypnosis in Copenhagen, Denmark Jacob Strachotta has worked with hypnosis and hypnotherapy for more than 25 years. He...
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#21: Sofia Popov - Concrete steps to optimize your health through microbiome research and home test

Sofia Popov is a microbiome scientist and the founder of GUTXY - a company that helps people figure out how to incorporate the latest scientific findings on the microbiome into their daily lives. Their aim is to give...
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#20: Kiki Bosch – The Queen of Ice: Overcoming Rape, Anxiety and Pain

Kiki Bosch is an Ice Water Freediver, adventurer, practitioner, and coach at The Wim Hof Method. Having gone through rape, anxiety and pain she knows how to deal with the darker sides of life. She use these...
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#19: Tim Gray - Five fundamentals of biohacking

Tim Gray is a serial entrepreneur and the leading biohacker in the UK. He founded and ran a psychology based digital marketing agency based in London, and has many years of experience in NLP and Cognitive...
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#18: Dan Brulé - Breathing for self-healing and top performance

Dan has personally trained more than 150,000 people in over 60 countries to use breath and breathing for self-improvement, self-healing, and spiritual awakening. He has trained Olympic athletes, elite warriors, and...
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#17: Martin & Artur - How to breathe for optimal energy and performance

Martin Petrus and Artur Paulins are both Wim Hof Method certified instructors and teach different breathwork techniques around Europe. They share some of the latest research and very concrete techniques for breathing...
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#16: Dr. Olli Sovijärvi – Concrete steps to getting better deep sleep

Olli Sovijärvi is a medical doctor and biohacker. He is co-author of “Biohacker´s Handbook” which a new book on biohacking with more than 1500 references. He is also co-founder of Biohacker Center and Biohacker...
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#15: Jeppe Skovgaard - Get out of your head and start feeling yourself again

Jeppe Skovgaard is a movement expert. He was part of bringing parkour to Denmark and later Akroyoga. He has been teaching movement around the world and has now started his own movement studio in Copenhagen. Jeppe...
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