The Energy Molecule High Performers Are Quietly Using
Muscle Intelligence — Longevity, Training & Human Performance with Ben Pakulski
Release Date: 06/01/2026
Muscle Intelligence — Longevity, Training & Human Performance with Ben Pakulski
Apply to work with a Muscle Intelligence Coach → W. Bryan Hubbard is the CEO of Americans for Ibogaine, the organization he co-founded with former Texas Governor Rick Perry, and the reason ibogaine is now inside an FDA drug development pathway. He is also a conservative Kentucky attorney who once believed anyone holding a psychedelic belonged under the jail. What changed his mind was a single Scientific American article about psilocybin and alcohol dependency, a family history with alcohol, and a decade running two of Kentucky's largest government systems while the opioid epidemic that...
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Want help designing your training, nutrition, and recovery around the way your body and brain actually work? Apply to work with the Muscle Intelligence coaching team → Wharton neuroscientist Dr. Michael Platt has spent his career studying how the brain makes decisions, why high performers burn through their attention, and what actually improves brain health and brain performance in people with real demands on their time. In this conversation with Ben Pakulski, he explains why the human brain is still running on wiring built for a world of small groups, constant movement, and natural...
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Work with a Muscle Intelligence Coach: Dr. Nathan Bryan has spent 25 years researching nitric oxide, the gas your body produces to open blood vessels and move oxygen into every cell you have. In this conversation he explains why production drops roughly 10 to 12 percent per decade, why a man in his forties is often operating on half of what he had, and what that decline shows up as first. Ben and Dr. Bryan cover the symptom hierarchy of nitric oxide deficiency, why sexual function is the earliest signal and what it says about the rest of the arterial system, why 50 percent of men...
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If you're interested in peptides I have some resources for you → Apply to work with the MI team → Ryan Smith co-founded the first pharmacy in the United States to offer an extensive list of peptides — and he ran the synthesis floor himself. Preparative HPLC, mass spec, chemical synthesis, the lot. Which means he spent years watching the same two failures from the inside: the molecule that works beautifully at a small dose and stops working when someone doubles it, and the vial that looks identical to the real thing and isn't. He is not a peptide evangelist. Ask him about the compound...
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Most men trying to change their body are shopping for a tactic. A cleaner diet, a better split, a smarter supplement stack, and lately a peptide protocol they found online. Ben has coached enough high performers to know how that story ends, because he lived a version of it himself. He was an obese fifteen-year-old who decided he was going to compete at the Mr. Olympia, and the obsessive, run-through-the-wall identity that got him there is the same one he had to dismantle at forty-five when it started costing him at home and failing to keep pace with what his life actually demanded. This...
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This episode is sponsored by Super Patch: Apply for Muscle Intelligence Coaching: You cleaned up your diet, cut the carbs, and your LDL went up. Your doctor circled it in red and reached for a statin. Dr. Anthony Jay spent five years doing heart disease research full time at Boston University Medical School — running autopsies, removing plaque from human arteries, publishing on oxidized LDL — and for most of that time he was a statin guy himself. His mentor took them and bragged about it. His textbooks put the men who invented them on a pedestal. Then he kept looking at what was...
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Work with the Muscle Intelligence Team: Most men who suspect their testosterone is low get a blood test, get told the number is normal, and get sent home still exhausted, still soft in the middle, still wondering what happened to the guy they used to be. Dr. Abraham Morgentaler has spent thirty-five years proving that those men are not imagining it. He is a urologist on the Harvard Medical School faculty, the physician who overturned the belief that testosterone causes prostate cancer, and the author of Testosterone for Life and The Truth About Men and Sex. He was treating low testosterone...
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Get first access to my 21-day mobility series (first 100 signups free) → Apply to work with the MI team → Most men accept stiffness, tight hips, and creaky shoulders as just part of getting older. Ben says that's backwards — and in this solo episode, he breaks down why. He covers why mobility has almost nothing to do with stretching (it's about keeping the fascia hydrated through movement), why your rib cage and spine — not your shoulder — are usually the real reason your shoulder hurts, and why skipping squats and deadlifts quietly caps how much upper-body muscle you can build. He...
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Book your free Transformation Call → The story you believe about aging isn't just a mindset — it's a biological input. Dr. Ellen Langer, the first woman ever tenured in psychology at Harvard (at 31) and author of The Mindful Body, has spent 50 years running experiments that sound impossible until you see the data: hotel housekeepers who lost real weight after a single 10-minute conversation, wounds that healed at the speed of a rigged clock, and elderly men who came out of a 5-day experiment with measurably better memory, strength, hearing, and vision. Ben sits down with the...
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Want to work with Muscle Intelligence? Most men try to out-discipline their emotions and wonder why they still snap, freeze, or stew at the worst possible moment. Donald Robertson, the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist who wrote the book on thinking like a Roman emperor, has spent three decades proving there's a better operating system. Drawing on the same Stoic playbook that ran an empire, he and Ben discuss why composure isn't suppression, why the calmest man in the room is almost never the one trying hardest to stay calm, and where the real leverage hides inside every reaction you...
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Functional medicine Dr. Scott Sherr joins Ben Pakulski to break down methylene blue — the 100-year-old compound that's become one of Ben’s favorite tools for energy, focus, and endurance. Dr. Sherr explains how it reboots mitochondrial function in days (not months), how one endurance athlete he coaches cut three hours off a 100-mile race, and how to dose it safely. Plus the warning most people never hear: why the majority of methylene blue sold online is contaminated, and what to look for in a clean source.
In this episode…
→ The bottleneck behind almost everything (energy, brain, recovery, fat loss)
→ The four complexes of your electron transport chain, and where most men are blocked
→ Why statins might be quietly trashing the system you're trying to optimize
→ Which molecule does "ninja moves" for mitochondrial dysfunction
→ The exact dosing protocol Scott uses for performance, travel, sauna, and endurance
About Dr. Sherr
Dr. Scott Sherr is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician and one of the leading clinical voices on methylene blue and mitochondrial medicine. He is certified to practice Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe) — a root-cause framework he helped bring to the U.S. as founder of HOMe-SF, the country's first HOMe clinic — and is a specialist in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT).
He is the COO of Troscriptions (the precision-dosed troche company behind Just Blue, Tro+ Blue, and Blue Cannatine) and its parent, Smarter Not Harder, as well as COO of the nonprofit Health Optimization Medicine and Practice (HOMe/HOPe) USA, which trains doctors to detect and correct the root causes of health. He is also co-founder of OneBase Health, an integrative HBOT ecosystem. He has consulted for Upgrade Labs, Remedy Place, and other wellness ventures, and lives in Louisville, CO with his wife and four kids.
Key credentials
- Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) specialist
- COO, Troscriptions / Smarter Not Harder
- COO, Health Optimization Medicine & Practice (HOMe/HOPe) USA
- Co-Founder, OneBase Health
Connect with Dr. Sherr
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drscottsherr/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsherr
Website: https://drscottsherr.com/
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