Dr. Ara Suppiah
Twitter: @draraoncall
Web: draraoncall.com
Ara was born in Malaysia and developed into one of the top junior tennis players in Asia. Instead of continuing in tennis Ara moved to England to study medicine at Liverpool University Medical School in England. After graduating from medicine Dr. Ara spent 3 years training in surgery and then found his passion for emergency medicine. 12 years later, Ara is an ER physician, Chief Wellness Officer of Florida Emergency Physicians, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida Medical College and personal physician to many of the world’s top professional golfers, tennis players, and other athletes.
Show Notes:
4:00 - Differences learning a sport today
12:00 - The art of the grind
13:00 - Great ball-strikers (Graham DeLaet, Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose)and the trap of early identification of professional potential
18:30 - The importance of learning how to win
23:00 - Learning a new skill
25:00 - The trap of sacrificing future health for today's ego
30:00 - Recovery, chronic inflammation, sleep
34:00 - Chronobiology, the PER gene and why we need both morning people and night owls
39:00 - Roger Federer, Nadal and the importance of creating efficiency
44:00 - The importance of maintaining your range of motion and potential to perform as we age and why movement is medicine
48:30 - Greg Kovacs and why my training sucked when I was a teenager
54:00 - Personalized medicine, the medical carwash,
101:00 - Ketosis, the pluses, and minuses and the role of genetics
104:00 - Why you need to take control of your own health and not rely on a health practitioner
106:00 - Why not everyone should be drinking bone broth, kombucha, and other "healthy" foods
114:00- The "DEAP 10
