Optimize your Health and Wellness with Joe Linares

Topics Covered

• Joining the Fire Explorers at 14 and the call that set the career
• The Marine Corps, Fourth Tank Battalion, and deploying to Iraq in 2007
• Transitioning from the military into the fire service
• Life inside the busiest fire department in the nation
• Repeated trauma exposure and the toll it takes over years
• Sleep deprivation, fight or flight, and coming home at a level 10
• Peer support, decompression, and mental health in the fire service
• Why firefighters age faster, and the search for something to do about it
• Building Ageless Cocktail for his parents before anyone else
• Underdosing and pixie dusting in the supplement industry
• Clinical dosing, cGMP manufacturing, and third-party batch testing
• Creatine monohydrate for brain support, and the daily protocol Joe uses
• How creatine and NAD work together around ATP production
• Inside NAD+ Protein: 25g whey isolate with NAD, B12, and TMG
• Stacking Ageless Reserve, Awaken, and NAD+ Protein in one shake
• A high-sodium electrolyte with a full 5g creatine dose
• Nasal spray and sublingual peptides for people who will not inject
• Peptide purity, lot numbers, and certificates of analysis
• Custom peptide protocols built around individual goals

Episode Overview

In this episode of the Mike Force Podcast, Joe Linares walks Mike Glover through the whole arc: high school Fire Explorer at 14, the Marine Corps and a 2007 deployment to Iraq, and 17 years as a firefighter and paramedic, the last stretch with the Los Angeles City Fire Department.

That background is the reason Longevity Farms exists. Joe describes what years of interrupted sleep, constant fight or flight, and repeated trauma exposure ask of the body, and why he started looking into cellular health in the first place. The formulas came after: built for his parents and himself before they were ever sold to anyone.

The second half gets practical. Joe explains why so many supplements are underdosed, what cGMP manufacturing and third-party batch testing actually verify, and how he thinks about creatine monohydrate for brain support, including his own daily dosing. The conversation covers NAD, NMN, resveratrol, creatine, and how NAD+ Protein, Awaken, and Ageless Reserve stack together in a single morning shake.

Joe also covers the peptide side of the conversation: nasal spray and sublingual delivery for people who would rather not inject, why every batch carries a lot number tied to a certificate of analysis, and how a protocol gets built around a person's stated goals.