Authentic Edge Podcast

In this episode, I introduce a concept that I believe is largely missing from the way we think about health and exercise: conditioning exercise. Most people exercise with performance goals in mind. We go to the gym to build strength, improve fitness, lose weight or perform better in sport. Those are all worthwhile goals—but they leave out an important piece of the puzzle. Modern life has us sittin...

In this episode, I break down how long you should wait before exercising after a treatment, and why the answer isn’t one-size-fits-all. It depends on things like intensity, duration, and what your body is actually processing. Just like a deep therapy session, breathwork, or even something as intense as an ayahuasca ceremony, what you do after matters just as much as what happens during. If you go...

Most people think they need to process their negative emotions more. They don’t. They’re already experts at it. In this episode, I break down why constantly revisiting frustration, anxiety, and resentment isn’t helping you—it’s reinforcing you. Every time you relive the same emotional pattern, you strengthen it. You’re literally wiring it deeper into your nervous system. Fire together, wire togeth...

Squat like a piston for strong quads. With all the focus on peach day, the quads aren't getting much attention lately. But they should!! Even the conventional back squat has turned into a proxy deadlift which doesn't use the quads anymore. In this podcast I discuss some technique cues and exercises to activate and develop the quads properly.

Many of us wake up with a sore jaw, tight neck, or even headaches — and we assume it’s just something physical. But what if jaw grinding and clenching aren’t dental issues at all, but signals of mental agitation? In this episode, Andrew explores how jaw tension often reflects our inner stress and agitation. While mouth guards and splints can help temporarily, they don’t address the real cause — th...

In this episode of the Authentic Edge Podcast, I sit down with Beatriz Durango, a Clinical Pilates instructor at Novellus Wellness , to explore some of the features of 'clinical' and 'regular' pilates. We unpack some of the most common Pilates misconceptions — like the belief that you need to work up a sweat for it to be effective, or that pilates isn’t for men. Beatriz explains how Clinical Pilat...

Lately, there’s been a surge of interest in “nervous system resets,” with buzzwords like vagus nerve and polyvagal theory popping up everywhere, and books like 'The Body Keeps The Score'. At the core, it’s about understanding how our parasympathetic and sympathetic systems affect our health — and how frequent sympathetic activation (fight, flight, freeze) can wreak havoc on our hormones, ramp up c...

From boosting your body to inspiring ancient rituals, mushrooms have a history as wild as their health benefits. In this episode, we explore how mushies work their magic on the human body, why they’re like nature’s multivitamins, and where they fit in (without replacing healthy habits). You’ll also hear the strange-but-true tale of how Siberian shamans — and their love for a certain mushroom — may...

Typical explanations of how massage works are usually more physiological or mechanical, and while speaking about what processes take place, they are not good explanations as to why it happens?  In this episode we paint a broad picture to understand the real truth about how massage actually works.  We discuss types of issues and their causes and how they all cause the 'guarding response' and that M...

The major mistake I see people making is chasing the new 'shiny objects' and thinking that if we do a bunch of different hacks, that that will somehow compensate for our lack of attention to the fundamentals.  If you think hacks can make up for doing the basics well then you're kidding yourself. Whether it's a training hack, diet hack, or anything else - hacks can be useful, but if you're taking t...

In this episode you find out what authentic edge is, and why the podcast was created.  We describe the overall mission to balance and optimize the body and mind, who the podcast is for, and what the structure of the podcast will be.   Some of the main philosophies will be touched on, including the 'anthropological perspective of health', Gaps in Western Medicine, multidirectional holistic health,...