{"podcast":{"title":"Home of Healthspan","slug":"home-of-healthspan-7069559","podcast_index_feed_id":7069559,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/4DQ53tnR.rss","website_url":"https://alively.com/","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/92527a6c-2cfc-445d-957e-2b2555da52d7.jpg","author":"a@alively.com","episode_count":109,"summary":"We profile health and wellness role models, sharing the tools, practices, and routines they use to help you live healthier, longer. Since 1950, the average lifespan has extended by 11 years, but our healthspan hasn’t kept up. We've been pursuing living longer without considering how to make those extra years vibrant and fulfilling. After all, 30 plus years of old age is a long time to spend slowly falling apart. And that's where Home of Healthspan comes in. Host Andrew McConnell interviews healthspan role models to help guide listeners through the 5 Pillars of Healthspan: * Fitness * Nutrition, * Sleep and recovery, * Stress management and Mindset, * And Social connection & purpose. All so you can not only extend your years, but make them vibrantly healthy from start to finish. This is your guide to extending your healthspan, Making sure you live Alively day today, every day, for all of your days.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:17:40.971505+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559"},"episode":{"title":"The Healing Power Of Sound As Medicine with Laura Avonius - E89","slug":"the-healing-power-of-sound-as-medicine-with-laura-avonius-e89","published_at":"2026-03-09T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/the-healing-power-of-sound-as-medicine-with-laura-avonius-e89","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/P61RPuk9","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/69aaf307ff821316e6e8324d/size/48990573/audio-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/0c0b2632-8c67-4237-a7ee-a0a5d3f8e2f2.mp3","summary":"City noise, relentless alerts, and the pressures of work keep our nervous systems in a constant state of overdrive - making deep relaxation, quality sleep, and a true sense of calm feel out of reach. While traditional advice focuses on meditation or medication, few consider how the sounds around us may be fueling our stress, or how harnessing the right kinds of audio could repair the damage. For anyone feeling tired, tense, or overstimulated, the answer may be simpler - and more natural - than you think. In this episode, we'll explore the science and tradition behind sound therapy, discover the impact one audio company is having on athletes and professionals alike, and how to regulate your nervous system in just 10 minutes. Laura Avonius is the Finnish entrepreneur and artist behind Audicin, a company pioneering the use of audio as medicine for nervous system regulation and improved well-being. Drawing from her personal journey with complex PTSD and her background in composition, Laura has combined centuries-old healing traditions with contemporary brainwave research to develop tailored audio interventions. Audicin's effectiveness has attracted investment and advisory support from the co-founders and science leaders behind the Oura Ring, and its programs have been piloted with major clients such as SOK, Finland's largest retail group, as well as hospital groups and corporate teams seeking measurable performance and wellness gains. \"We have been using audio and music as a medicine in every single civilization on Earth. We just somehow… forgot it with Western medicine.\" - Laura Avonius In this episode you will learn: * How Laura's experience with PTSD shaped the creation of Audicin and her interest in nervous system health. * The science behind audio as medicine and how…","meta_description":"City noise, relentless alerts, and the pressures of work keep our nervous systems in a constant state of overdrive - making deep relaxation, quality sleep…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2041,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/home-of-healthspan-7069559/episodes/the-healing-power-of-sound-as-medicine-with-laura-avonius-e89/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/the-healing-power-of-sound-as-medicine-with-laura-avonius-e89.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}