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The Neuro Experience

The Neuro Experience

Louisa Nicola & Pursuit Network 425 Episodes Aug 12, 2026

This podcast interviews top experts on athletic performance, neurology, sleep physiology, and medicine. Host Louisa Nicola consults for tech companies and professional sports organizations in the NBA, MLB, and NFL. She serves on the scientific advisory boards of Tonal, Hone Health, Klora, and Momentous. The show aims to bring emerging themes from these fields to listeners.

Episodes

No, AI Isn’t Rotting Your Brain, It’s Actully Far Worse | Jim Kwik
No, AI Isn’t Rotting Your Brain, It’s Actully Far Worse | Jim Kwik Aug 12, 2026 3925 AI can write the essay, calculate the answer, summarize the book, and solve the problem before you have really had to think. Jim Kwik's concern is not just cognitive offloading. It's cognitive surrender. After 34 years teaching people how to learn, remember, read, and focus, he believes the real risk of AI is that technology starts doing so much of the mental work that we stop building the abiliti
Keith Rabois: This One Number Predicts How Long You’ll Live! Why Stress Makes You More Successful & The “No Days Off” Rule!
Keith Rabois: This One Number Predicts How Long You’ll Live! Why Stress Makes You More Successful & The “No Days Off” Rule! Aug 4, 2026 4052 Keith Rabois has built companies, backed some of Silicon Valley's biggest successes, and earned a reputation as one of the sharpest strategic minds in venture capital. But when Louisa sat down with him, they barely spoke about investing. Instead, they explored the system behind his decision-making: the daily habits he believes keep his brain performing at an elite level. From treating himself like
World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40
World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40 Jul 30, 2026 3616 Ask most people what a brain chip does and they will tell you it reads your mind. Dr. Michael Lawton implants these devices, and he says that is not what comes off them. He is President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the hospital where Neuralink's first human implant was performed, and he has completed more than 10,000 brain operations and clipped around 5,500 aneurysms. Loui
78.3% Alzheimer's Patients Are Women: Here’s How to Fix It. (Yes really)
78.3% Alzheimer's Patients Are Women: Here’s How to Fix It. (Yes really) Jul 21, 2026 1965 Two out of three Alzheimer's patients are women, and for decades that gap was written off as a side effect of living longer. The newer neuroscience tells a more specific story: menopause is not a reproductive event, it's a neurological one, and the pathology begins 20 to 30 years before the first symptom. In this episode, Louisa breaks down why the female brain loses its primary protection around
Exercise Expert: The Workout That Reverses 20 Years of Aging
Exercise Expert: The Workout That Reverses 20 Years of Aging Jul 16, 2026 3759 Six days before he sat down for this conversation, he ran a marathon. Then he explained what the race did to his brain. When you run 26 miles and your glycogen runs out, your brain still needs energy, so it starts stripping the fatty myelin off its own neurons and burning it for fuel. MRI scans caught a 20% drop in myelin up to two months after a marathon, and cognitive testing showed real impairm
Growing $20,000-a-Gram Medicine in a Warehouse | Sam Bertram
Growing $20,000-a-Gram Medicine in a Warehouse | Sam Bertram Jul 14, 2026 3928 "Everyone gets cancer five times a day — your body already knows how to take care of it." Sam Bertram is the co-founder and CEO of OnePointOne, the vertical-farming company behind the Willo brand. With his brother John (CTO), Sam is building fully automated indoor farms — powered by AutoStore robotics, AI, and precision LED light — that grow nutrient-dense produce in about 15 days, with no soil
This Psychedelic Is Changing Everything Doctors Thought About Depression
This Psychedelic Is Changing Everything Doctors Thought About Depression Jul 7, 2026 2013 Fifty years ago the U.S. government classified it alongside heroin: no accepted medical use, high potential for abuse, illegal in most of the world. The peer-reviewed data now coming out of Johns Hopkins, Imperial College, and Nature tells a different story, one that has some of the most credentialled neuroscientists alive rethinking how the brain heals. In this episode, Louisa breaks down exactly
Don't Take Omega-3s Until You Know This | Dr Nick Norwitz
Don't Take Omega-3s Until You Know This | Dr Nick Norwitz Jun 23, 2026 5535 He carried two copies of ApoE4, the highest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, went through medical school knowing exactly what his LDL of 700 meant, decided the experts were wrong, and then published the case report to prove it. In this episode, Louisa sits down with Dr. Nick Norwitz, PhD researcher and metabolic scientist, for one of the most scientifically dense conversations on brain
The True Origin of AI: A 45 Year Old Scientist Took In a Homeless Teen, Then they Changed the World
The True Origin of AI: A 45 Year Old Scientist Took In a Homeless Teen, Then they Changed the World Jun 16, 2026 2377 Every AI breakthrough you've heard of, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, traces back to a single 1943 paper, and its co-author was a homeless teenage runaway who never finished high school. Walter Pitts taught himself Greek, Latin, and the foundations of modern logic in a Detroit public library, corrected Bertrand Russell's math by letter at age 12, and was taken in by a 45 year old scientist who treated h
If You Want To Stay Healthy, You NEED to Understand This!
If You Want To Stay Healthy, You NEED to Understand This! Jun 9, 2026 3187 70% of what American children eat today is ultra processed food and the regulatory system that's supposed to protect them has been asleep for decades. In this episode, I sit down with Nick Green, co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, the membership-based online grocery platform that built a $700 million business by treating healthy food access as an infrastructure problem, not a willpower problem.
If You Want To Build Muscle FAST You Need To Start Doing THIS! | Brad Schoenfeld
If You Want To Build Muscle FAST You Need To Start Doing THIS! | Brad Schoenfeld Jun 2, 2026 4387 If you think you need to train to failure to build muscle, you've been operating on outdated science. Dr. Brad Schoenfeld has nearly 400 peer-reviewed papers on hypertrophy and he's done a complete 180 on some of his most firmly held beliefs. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, professor of exercise science and one of the world's most cited researchers in muscle hypertrophy.
Exercise Expert: The FASTEST Way to Lose Fat | Liz Plosser
Exercise Expert: The FASTEST Way to Lose Fat | Liz Plosser May 26, 2026 3757 Most people think tracking their protein is enough. The science says what your body actually craves is something far more specific and the person making that argument spent 23 years inside legacy media watching the wellness industry sell women everything from "bikini body in two weeks" to canned protein soda. In this episode, I sit down with Liz Plosser, former Editor in Chief of Women's Health

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