EP 305: Dr. Mohammad Ashori
August 31, 2026
Dr. Mohammad Ashori is a board-certified family medicine physician, health coach, and rock climber. We talked about the importance of putting on muscle, how much rest we need between training sessions, nutrition and metabolic health, zone 2 cardio, key metrics and blood markers to track, different levels of data, why some data can be misleading or harmful, relative vs. absolute risk, and much more.
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Show Notes:
The 5 Things That Will Keep You Climbing for Decades
Build more muscle than you think you need.
Treat recovery as a workout.
Protect your metabolic health.
Train your heart, not only your climbing.
Know what is changing before it becomes a problem.
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00:00:00 – Intro
00:02:09 – Dr. Ashori’s background
00:07:01 – Treatment to prevention
00:12:17 – Dr. Ashori’s current practice
00:14:37 – Introducing today’s topic
00:16:13 – #1: Build More Muscle
00:17:57 – Should you put on muscle on purpose?
00:25:15 – Key lifts for climbers
00:28:55 – #2: Treat Recovery as a Workout
00:31:35 – Growing the tree
00:34:06 – Pitchers in baseball
00:38:57 – Proactive, Adaptive, & Reactive
00:40:45 – Active recovery strategies
00:43:23 – #3: Metabolic Health
00:46:44 – Is sugar the culprit?
00:51:59 – Lifestyle factors
00:53:14 – My nutrition journey
00:59:26 – Psoriasis & leaky gut
01:01:39 – Agency over your health
01:13:28 – Looking fit vs. being healthy
01:17:05 – #4: Train Your Heart
01:18:00 – VO2 Max & Zone 2 Cardio
01:28:33 – #5: Tracking Changes
01:29:50 – Blood pressure & waist circumferance
01:31:56 – Cholesterol, glucose, HbA1c
01:33:02 – Family history
01:33:46 – My HbA1c story
01:38:02 – Levels of data
01:45:33 – Fasting insulin
01:47:43 – Speculating why my A1c is high
01:50:49 – Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
01:55:20 – My hsCRP
01:55:46 – My LDL & other lipids
02:04:28 – Relative vs. absolute risk
02:08:28 – How to work with Dr. Ashori