The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance (Brad Cooper, PhD)
Welcome to The Coaching Lab podcast, your trusted source for engaging, evidence-based, thought-provoking health, wellness & high-performance insights for those looking to improve their lives (or coaches/clinicians looking to enhance client outcomes). The Coaching Lab is the evidence-based journey toward better! If you've been looking for a health & wellness podcast that avoids the fluff and the headline-chasing fads while providing practical, real-world guidance, you just found it. We bring together the world's foremost experts, from world-class researchers and best-selling authors to elite athletes and coaches, sharing their insights about how to make the most of your personal and professional life. If you're looking for an entertaining format to help optimize your own health, wellness and performance through such evidence-based practices, this is the place for you!
The Coaching Lab podcast is hosted by Dr. Brad Cooper, who brings a uniquely expansive background to the table. He has a PhD in performance psychology along with Masters degrees in both physical therapy (MSPT) and business (MBA) and a Bachelors degree in biology. He is CEO/Co-founder of Catalyst Coaching, an internationally recognized speaker, and elite masters endurance athlete (11 time Ironman, including 4 times at the Hawaii Ironman World Championship, winner of the 2-person 3,000 cycling Race Across America and 2:47 marathoner). Most importantly, he's husband to Suzanna (celebrating 30 years of marriage) and Dad to three amazing kids, now ages 30, 28 and 25. You can tap into Dr. Cooper's "NOT DONE YET!" (Fitness & Life After 50) publication free of charge at https://betterpath.substack.com/
The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance (Brad Cooper, PhD)
Heat Therapy for Fitness, Alzheimer's and Life (Paige Geiger, PhD)
What is the potential connection between heat therapy, exercise, cognition and Alzheimer’s? Are hot tubs and saunas good for our health? And what is happening at the molecular level when it comes to chronic diseases and does that provide any additional clues about how to live our lives? Those questions and more are on the table today as Dr. Paige Geiger joins us here on the latest episode – our 301st episode! - of the Catalyst 360 podcast – your source for engaging, evidence-based health, wellness & performance insights.
I met our guest, Dr. Geiger, when she presented some of her research about heat therapy and alzheimers at a recent health & exercise science seminar. Her background includes undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and English Literature, a PhD in Physiology from Mayo Graduate School in MN and postdoctoral work in Florence, Italy and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis – which caught my attention since that’s where Suzanna & I met while attending graduate school ourselves. Dr. Geiger’s research is fascinating, applicable and her engaging personality – perhaps seen in her choice to combine Chemistry and English Literature degrees – makes this a fun discussion. You can follow Dr. Geiger's work via https://paigegeiger.substack.com/
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