Performance Driven Living

About Performance Driven Living

Age Defiantly is a podcast for high-performing adults who refuse to accept decline as a normal part of aging. Hosted by Mark Young, the show explores health, longevity, performance, and mindset through evidence-based conversations with credible experts and practitioners. Each episode focuses on understanding what actually works, why it works, and how to apply it in real life. This podcast is for entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, and driven individuals who believe health is the foundation of everything else: leadership, relationships, purpose, and long-term success. No hype. No trends. Just honest conversations, clear thinking, and practical frameworks to help you live with more strength, clarity, and intention for decades to come.

Publisher

Mark Young

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 May 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 77 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Stop Drugging Anxiety. Fix the Problem Instead.

   Just a few years ago, peptides were rarely discussed outside niche health and biohacking circles. Today, peptide therapeutics are a massive industry, with the global market projected to grow from $164 billion in 2026 to nearly $295 billion by 2033. Why did peptides become mainstream so quickly? Is the industry regulated enough? And what happens when peptide treatment goes wrong? In this episode excerpt, Jay Campbell, bestselling author and hormone optimization expert, explains why peptides and GLP-1s have become so popular and what people get wrong when using them. He also shares his experience using peptides and explains how years of experimentation and knowledge-sharing helped shape peptide use. Connect with Jay Campbell: Website: https://jaycampbell.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaycampbell1971/ Connect with Mark Young: Website: https://themarkyoung.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmlj25/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themarkyoung/

2. 

   11 Sept 2026

   The Crazy Thing Marriage Does to a Man's Testosterone with Dr. John Gray

   When the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus was published in 1992, nobody could have predicted it would sell tens of millions of copies in more than 50 languages. Most people picked it up looking for communication advice. Its author, Dr. John Gray, has spent the decades since arriving at a different conclusion. The reason men and women struggle to understand each other runs deeper than how they talk. It runs through their hormones. At 74, John is living proof of his own thesis. His testosterone is higher now than it was in his 20s. He produces almost no cortisol. He's been married twice, raised children, and built a 40-year career as a relationship counselor and author of more than 20 books. The science, he says, has finally caught up with everything he was already teaching. Connect with Dr. John Gray: Website: https://www.marsvenus.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johngraymarsvenus_official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray/ Connect with Mark Young: Website: https://themarkyoung.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmlj25/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themarkyoung/

3. 

   3 Sept 2026

   Restoring the Cellular Energy We Lose With Age With Baran Dilaver

   For a lot of people, diagnosis feels like the beginning of a health problem. However, most of the time it's closer to the middle. Type 2 diabetes can be developing at the cellular level for a decade or more before a doctor catches it. Brain changes caused by Alzheimer's can begin decades before the first symptom shows up. By the time those problems become visible, the body may have spent years moving in the wrong direction. Yet our healthcare system is largely built to respond after symptoms appear, with far less attention paid to what is happening upstream. Baran Dilaver, co-founder and CEO of Wonderfeel Biosciences, believes many answers lie much deeper, at the cellular level. In this episode, he unpacks what happens to NAD as we age, how CD38 and gut health may influence its decline, and why NMN works differently from taking NAD directly. Connect with Baran Dilaver Website: https://getwonderfeel.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baran-dilaver-3442b27/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barandilaver/ Connect with Mark Young: Website: https://themarkyoung.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmlj25/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themarkyoung/

Inside a recent episode

Your Body Loses 90% of Stem Cells Before the Age of 40, Here's Why - Christian Drapeau

Published 16 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Inflammation is the signal. And again, getting back to the point that I talked a lot about cardiovascular issues, I always refer to hypertension as like, we've called it a, we've called it a disease when in fact i would arguably say it's a symptom of something else that's going on and we're trying to we're trying to to silence a symptom and never deal with the repair problem that needs to actually take place throughout the system and i love how you said that that inflammation is the signal and where inflammation exists it's a signal to tell the body where the most urgent repair is but you know, in some people's bodies, every light on the dashboard is on. […]

Who has been a guest on Performance Driven Living

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Shawn Wells
• Herb Moskowitz
• Dr Melissa Grill-Petersen
• Dr Sean Drake
• Dr John Kim

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

573,743,234

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

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Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

0

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