Derrick Hines
237 episodes listed below
Practical science for pain, recovery, and performance.
The Pain and Performance Podcast is a health optimization show built around pain care, recovery, nutrition, sleep, and longevity. Dr. Derek Hines moves between clinic-style explanations, questions, and expert conversations with a steady focus on what can be tested, changed, and tracked.
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The Pain and Performance Podcast is a health and recovery show built around the questions that tend to follow pain, fatigue, poor sleep, metabolic issues, and stalled healing. Dr. Derek Hines keeps the tone direct and usable. He explains physiology in everyday language, then ties it to choices a patient or health-focused listener might actually make. The show is not a quick-tip feed. Episodes often spend time circling a concept until the practical point is clear. Glutathione becomes a way to talk about oxidative stress, brain health, immune function, and recovery. Cortisol becomes a timing problem, not simply a hormone to fear. Statin-related muscle symptoms become a wider conversation about cardiovascular risk, testing, fasting windows, exercise, and data-driven decisions. Pain is treated as something to sort carefully. Nerve pain, muscle pain, inflammation, healing rate, visualization, and nervous system tone all show up as parts of a larger recovery puzzle. The show also has a clear performance streak. Zone two training, VO2 max, morning workouts, protein intake, calorie awareness, and routine structure are discussed as tools for better energy and resilience. Interviews broaden the scope. Conversations with guests such as Dr. John Lewis bring in nutrition, sugar myths, Alzheimer's, MS, and the way food choices connect to long-term health. The show is strongest when it turns a broad wellness topic into a sequence of mechanisms and next steps. It favors testing over guessing. It also favors consistency over extreme programs. That makes the tone supportive without becoming soft. Listeners who want dense health conversation, clinic-adjacent reasoning, and practical takeaways will find the format familiar and useful. Those looking for entertainment-first wellness chat may find it more instructional than breezy. Its editorial value is the blend: pain practice observations, research references, and everyday behavior change in one steady stream.
Made for: For health-focused listeners dealing with pain, fatigue, sleep problems, metabolic concerns, or recovery goals who want explanations that lead to action. It also suits athletes and longevity-minded listeners who like research, testing, and habit systems.
What sets it apart: The show connects clinic-style pain and recovery questions with broader health optimization topics, so episodes rarely stay in one narrow lane. Its strength is the repeated move from mechanism to measurable next step.
Scientifically Hacking: Health, Healing, Pain, Nutrition, and Longevity. We'll dive into all the exact habits, technology and recommendations you can use to optimize health, healing and life! Learn how I use and apply these everyday in my Pain Specialty Practice to improve my patient's lives, speed their healing, and increase longevity. On the podcast, I interview the scientist, doctors, creators and even patients on topics like: -Health Optimization-Supercharge Healing and Recovery-Sleep Enhancements Techniques-Daily Routines and Tactics for the Optimized Life-Research on Technology, Treatments, Supplements and more.-Case Review - We interview and discuss difficulty pain or health cases and…
This is where your health reset meets tests, fasting windows, and a suspiciously specific VO2 max.
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Straightforward guidance on pain, recovery, supplements, and morning workouts.
This episode moves through pain, recovery, glutathione, inflammation, and morning workouts with a practical bent. It gives a simple way to think about nerve pain versus muscle pain, then ties movement and supplements back to how the body feels from day to day.
Clear guidance on statin muscle pain, with a practical path from symptoms to testing, diet, and exercise.
Dr. Derek Hines presents statin-associated muscle symptoms in a clear, patient-first register, moving from what people notice to the next practical step.
Ben Brown keeps fat loss grounded in calorie awareness and steady habits.
Ben Brown keeps the focus on routine, not hype. He treats fat loss as something that starts with calorie awareness, then moves through food quality, protein, timing, and supplements in that order.
Plainspoken physiotherapy from Alberta's front lines.
Pain explained properly, by two physical therapists.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
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Ben Brown says fat loss is usually not an information problem, because people already know they should eat less sugar, move more, and sleep better.
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