Upgrading Human Performance
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Mark Verstegen, an internationally known trainer and founder of EXOS, shares his holistic approach to performance and wellness—blending mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery into an integrated system. He highlights how the principles of EXOS can enhance both athletic training and personalized health care for better outcomes.
About the episode
In this episode, Mark Verstegen, an internationally known trainer and founder of EXOS, discusses his approach to health and performance enhancement. His innovative system integrates mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery, optimizing athlete rehabilitation and personal wellness. Verstegen emphasizes a consumer-centric strategy and explains how his methods can apply to health care, encouraging clinicians to develop tailored care plans that respect individual differences. The episode details how EXOS combined traditional methods such as strength conditioning, therapy, and nutrition to create integrated performance training, and it takes listeners through the ways this can enhance patient performance and wellness.
About the series
Atria’s Vanguard Symposia is a lecture series where some of the world’s most compelling researchers translate leading-edge science into medicine. In each episode, top experts share breakthrough science about preventive health care, dive deep into headline-grabbing topics, and take you beyond the buzzwords to explain the latest in longevity science. Our show will arm you with practical information and the tools of discernment to cut through the hype and understand what matters most.
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