The Real Cost of Training in the Gi for 30 Years | Professor Jay Pages on BJJ Over 40, Ecological Dynamics & Training Smart EP102

The Real Cost of Training in the Gi for 30 Years | Professor Jay Pages on BJJ Over 40, Ecological Dynamics & Training Smart EP102

He has six herniated discs. No ACLs. Arthritic hands and fingers that are now permanently deformed. And he loves jiu-jitsu. Professor Jay Pages — founder of one of Arizona's premier no-gi academies and a black belt through the BGJ Revolution Carlson Gracie team — joins Josh Button to talk about the physical cost of training hard without training smart, what thirty years on the mats taught him about the gi vs. no-gi question, and why ecological dynamics is not the debate most people think it is.For midlife jiu-jitsu practitioners, BJJ over 40 athletes, and anyone who wants to still be on the mats in their 60s — this is the episode that changes how you think about every session.Topics covered:→ Brooklyn to Arizona: how three decades of jiu-jitsu built one of the state's best no-gi programs→ The real physical cost of gi training — arthritic hands, permanently deformed fingers, constant grip tension→ The Marcelo Garcia principle: minimize the gap between your gi and no-gi games→ Why constant gi tension is harder on midlife athletes than no-gi frames and wedges→ Direct vs. indirect control — what the gi teaches vs. what no-gi forces you to build→ Size and strength in gi vs. no-gi — the honest answer nobody wants to give→ Starting jiu-jitsu late in life: the structural advantage most people don't recognize→ What ecological dynamics actually means — and why the debate is mostly a misunderstanding→ The problem with conventional warm-ups and what small-sided games do instead→ The constraint spectrum: from non-representative games to situational sparring→ Dead drilling vs. live drilling — and why the Faris Zahabi argument is correct but incomplete→ Why zero-sum games build resistance without manufactured compliance→ Cherry-picking fights, refusing to tap, and the pride tax on an athletic career→ Roger Gracie's warning: if you don't tap, you'll be a cripple when you're older→ Competition advice for midlife grapplers: use the first event as a baseline, not a performance→ Build a game your body can actually do — on everyone→ The Breathe or Tap connection: why the adrenaline dump and the ego problem are the same nervous system issue→ One word: Fun→ Breathe or Tap — breathwork for jiu-jitsu and midlife recovery:Watch at ThatJiujiteiro.com or search Breathe or Tap on YouTube @thatjiujiteiro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Jay Pages:Instagram: @jayjpages🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com Jay Pages, Jay Pages Jiu Jitsu & MMA, @jayjpages, gi vs no-gi BJJ, ecological dynamics, constraint-led approach, CLA BJJ, BJJ warm-ups, small-sided games, BJJ longevity, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife jiu-jitsu, midlife combat athlete, train smart BJJ, Carlson Gracie, Marcelo Garcia, competition mindset BJJ, ego in BJJ, Breathe or Tap, hard to kill in midlife, hard to kill, staying on the mats, BJJ recovery over 40, training after 40, that jiujiteiro, stop killing the plants, josh button podcast, ep102, lineage provisions, no-gi BJJ, BJJ competition midlife

We're Not Sick. We're Starving. | Benjamin Fuchs RPh on Cellular Nutrition, Skin Health & Why Your Moisturizer Is Making Things Worse EP101

A pharmacist who spent his internship in the Blistex research lab instead of a pharmacy. A skin chemist who built a skincare company around transdermal nutrient delivery rather than oil and water. A cellular nutrition educator who has been talking about the Mighty 90 essential nutrients since 1998 and consults for free seven days a week.Benjamin Knight Fuchs RPh — founder of Truth Treatments and host of The Pharmacist Ben Show — joins Josh Button to break down why all disease begins at the cell, why your moisturizer is suppressing your skin's ability to moisturize itself, why staph and MRSA in grapplers trace back to the gut microbiome rather than mat hygiene, and why empowerment — not medicine — is the missing link in both skincare and healthcare.For anyone serious about ancestral nutrition, hard to kill in midlife living, BJJ over 40 skin health, or getting off the treadmill of skincare products that never actually work — this is the episode.Topics covered:→ From the Blistex research lab to Truth Treatments — 40 years of formulation science→ Why pharmacy school teaches disease as nutritional deficiency — and what that means→ The Mighty 90: vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids — God's drugs→ All disease is cell disease — why the medical model treats the organ and ignores the cell→ The missing link in both skincare and healthcare: cellular nutrition→ Why your moisturizer is suppressing your skin's ability to moisturize itself→ The dumbest thing you can put on dry skin — and what actually works→ Transdermal delivery: how Truth Treatments gets nutrients through the dead skin surface to living cells→ Skin as diagnostic: what your skin is telling you about your internal biochemistry→ Staph, MRSA, and fungal infections in BJJ — they start in the gut, not on the mat→ Why the microbiome is disrupted by chlorinated water, antibiotics in food, and processed food→ Fungus and why it laughs at pharmaceutical antifungals — and what microbiome balance actually does→ Psoriasis, eczema, acne — all reversible, none of them primarily skin diseases→ Biologics: what monoclonal antibodies actually do and why suppressing inflammation is biochemically bankrupt→ Drugs depleting nutrients — the zinc and copper deficiencies nobody connects to prescription side effects→ SMEP: spiritual, mental, emotional, physical — the four dimensions of healing→ The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and why healing only happens in one of them→ Excitotoxins, engineered palatability, and why you can't eat one chip→ Food diary as the first step toward dietary sovereignty→ The point of no return — and why theoretically it doesn't exist→ One word: Empowerment━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Benjamin Fuchs:Truth Treatments: truthtreatments.comYoungevity / Mighty 90: rootnotfruit.comWebsite: pharmacistben.comEmail: fuchs.ben@gmail.com (free consultation, 7 days a week)🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Benjamin Fuchs, Truth Treatments, pharmacist Ben, cellular nutrition, Mighty 90, Youngevity, skin health, gut skin axis, staph infection BJJ, MRSA jiu-jitsu, microbiome, transdermal nutrients, moisturizer myth, psoriasis natural, skin infections grapplers, biologics danger, vitamin C skin, zinc deficiency, essential fatty acids, hard to kill in midlife, hard to kill, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife jiu-jitsu, training after 40, stop killing the plants, that jiujiteiro, josh button podcast, ep101, empowerment health, ancestral nutrition, excitotoxins, Wallack Warriors, lineage provisions

EPISODE 100: The Future of Personalized Medicine Is Already Here | Dr. Anil Bajnath on Multiomics, Longevity & the Blueprint Your Doctor Never Ordered

Episode 100. Hard to Kill in Midlife. One hundred conversations in — and for this one, I wanted someone operating at the absolute frontier of what personalized health can look like.Dr. Anil Bajnath MD — author of The Longevity Equation, founder of the Institute for Human Optimization, and founder of the American Board of Precision Medicine — joins the show to break down why your standard blood panel is telling your doctor almost nothing, what deep molecular phenotyping actually reveals, and why the future of healthcare is an N of 1 protocol built from your specific genome, microbiome, metabolome, and environmental toxin load.For midlife athletes, biohackers, BJJ over 40 practitioners, and anyone serious about hard to kill in midlife longevity — this is the most technically advanced health conversation I have had in 100 episodes. And we still found time to talk about jiu-jitsu.Topics covered:→ How a 16-year-old at Whole Foods in Plantation, Florida started a precision medicine career→ Deep molecular phenotyping — what multiomics actually means and why it matters→ Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiome, exposomics — the full stack→ The digital twin: what your molecular portrait reveals that no symptom can→ Pharmacogenomics — why your prescribed medication might be wrong for your genome→ The homocysteine debate: why population meta-analyses cannot answer individual questions→ Why the microbiome is the innocent bystander to every other stressor in the system→ Exposomics — heavy metals, organophosphates, phthalates, mycotoxins, and what to do→ The grounding researcher with the highest naturally occurring testosterone over 60 ever measured→ The lymphatic system, Flowpresso, and why protein reduction matters more than compression→ Water — reverse osmosis, remineralization, deuterium, and what tap water actually contains→ Mold and mycotoxins — the hidden burden nobody's asking about→ Why insurance companies deny the tests that would prevent the conditions they pay to treat→ Function Health, direct-to-consumer testing, and the democratization of precision labs→ AI in medicine — why AI slop upstream causes deleterious downstream consequences→ The American Board of Precision Medicine and why this needs to be the standard of care→ Self-experimentation guardrails — where it's useful and where it gets dangerous→ George Pereira, American Top Team Davie, Vagner Rocha — the South Florida jiu-jitsu connection→ 14 months off the mats and counting — what brought him here and what he's building toward━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Dr. Anil Bajnath:Instagram: @dranilbajnathInstitute for Human Optimization: @instituteforhumanoptimization · ifho.orgAmerican Board of Precision Medicine: abopm.orgWebsite: anilbajnath.comThe Longevity Equation — available now🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com Anil Bajnath, Institute for Human Optimization, American Board of Precision Medicine, The Longevity Equation, precision medicine, multiomics, deep molecular phenotyping, digital twin health, genomics, microbiome, exposomics, pharmacogenomics, lymphatic drainage, grounding earthing, water filtration, environmental toxins, mycotoxins, hard to kill in midlife, hard to kill, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife performance, longevity, biohacking, training after 40, midlife combat athlete, episode 100, josh button podcast, that jiujiteiro, stop killing the plants, lineage provisions, MTHFR methylation, functional medicine, personalized medicine

The Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know This | Niklas Gustafson on Ancestral Nutrition, Seed Oils, Oxalates & Raw Dairy EP99

He has been a celiac since birth. Nearly didn't survive infancy. Was experimenting in his grandmothers' kitchens at five years old because there was nothing safe on the supermarket shelf. Now 56 — 13 Ironman triathlons completed, six kids, zero alcohol for four years, and a food company that makes real food in a market that resists it.Niklas Gustafson — co-founder of Natruly, host of Hungry for Change, and one of the clearest voices in the ancestral nutrition space — joins Josh Button on the Stop Killing the Plants episode that covers everything: why the spinach superfood myth is built on ignorance of oxalates, what plant milk actually contains and why it's the biggest food scam of the last decade, why raw dairy is treated as contraband while alcohol is freely sold, and what four years without alcohol actually changed.For anyone serious about ancestral nutrition, real food, and hard to kill in midlife living — this one is foundational.Topics covered:→ Celiac from birth in 1970s Sweden — and what that education produced→ The five pillars: nutrition, exercise, sleep, sun, and social connection→ Cutting refined sugar at 40 — the first domino that changed everything→ Paleo, keto, carnivore, animal-based — the full 16-year self-experiment→ Why spinach is not a superfood — the oxalate problem nobody teaches→ Plant milk: what emulsifiers, enzymatic sugar conversion, and the Oatly scam actually mean→ Seed oils in everything — including the Nutella you grew up eating→ The Natruly 43% hazelnut spread — what a real version of that product looks like→ Raw dairy as contraband — why you can buy unlimited alcohol but not unpasteurized milk→ Fake meat and pea protein companies — why they're crashing and why that's good news→ Baby formula: sugar and seed oils from month one→ Let the kid choose from whole foods — and trust what they choose→ Natural testosterone support — sun, lifting, sleep, no alcohol, no seed oils→ GLP-1 drugs: the industry that profits from your insecurity→ Borrowing happiness from tomorrow — four years without alcohol and what changed→ The dinner table conversation that drops in quality after the second bottle→ RFK Jr., MAHA, and why the mainstream media won't say anything good about him→ GMO crop labeling changes in the EU — what's being slipped through under the radar→ One word: Truth━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Niklas Gustafson:Instagram: @NiklasGustafsonNatruly: @Natruly_Int · natruly.comPodcast: Hungry for Change🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplants | @IamJoshButtonWebsite: joshbutton.com

The Strength Training Mistake BJJ Over 40 Athletes Keep Making — Dr. Lyneil Mitchell on Isokinetics, Maladaptation & Midlife Jiu-Jitsu EP98

If you're training BJJ over 40 and still treating weight as your primary measure of strength progress — this conversation will change how you think about every session.Dr. Lyneil Mitchell DPT returns for part two to break down why most strength training for midlife BJJ athletes and combat sports practitioners is building maladaptation instead of performance, why isokinetics represent the highest return on investment for BJJ after 40, and why the nervous system is silently patterning the wrong thing in almost every gym in the world.For midlife jiu-jitsu practitioners, midlife combat athletes, and anyone doing BJJ recovery over 40 — this is the episode that explains what the research actually says about training after 40.Topics covered:→ What happened when Josh applied the strong angle question in live training — it works in chaos→ Two guys in the strong angle at the same time — why high-level matches look like standoffs→ Why weight always overloads your weakest angle first — and what your connective tissue is paying→ Isokinetics vs. weightlifting for BJJ over 40 — when the transition has to happen→ Accommodating resistance — why it sounds soft and why it's not→ Diminishing returns on connective tissue — the timeline problem nobody explains→ The breathing test applied to the weight room — the simplest diagnostic you have→ The Hebbian principle — neurons that fire together wire together and you're patterning right now→ The pinky grip example — how a small mechanical habit silently destroys the chain above it→ Irradiation — the facilitation cascade that runs through your entire kinetic chain→ Isometric overuse — why training the stuck position makes you worse at reacting→ Why training your weak side is the most direct path to improving your strong side→ Integrity under demand — a new definition of fitness for midlife athletes→ The three rules Lyneil gives everyone from his son to professional athletes→ Professional sports, cortisone injections, and the dark side of return-to-play medicine→ OJ McDuffie, turf toe, and the legal battle over how it was managed→ The 49ers substation, the Nike shoe that ended careers, and what gets swept under the rug→ Efficiency — the one word that contains the entire framework━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Dr. Lyneil Mitchell:Instagram: @drlyneilWebsite & Free Assessment: thestrongangle.comThe Strong Angle Way — Amazon🔗 Lineage Provisions — Official Podcast Partner:15% off with code JOSHBUTTON at lineageprovisions.comOr grab the link in bio🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplantsWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Lyneil Mitchell, The Strong Angle Way, BJJ over 40, BJJ after 40, midlife jiu-jitsu, midlife combat athlete, BJJ recovery over 40, training after 40, midlife BJJ, midlife grappler, staying on the mats, isokinetics, accommodating resistance, Hebbian principle, neurological strength training, strong angle, weak angle, integrity under demand, maladaptation, non-contact injury prevention, midlife athlete, martial arts over 40, BJJ longevity, staying dangerous after 40, Josh Button podcast, that jiujiteiro, stop killing the plants, hard to kill, ep98, Quintin Torres, Marinovich Systems, Lineage Provisions