#266 - Nicklas Brendborg on JELLYFISH AGE BACKWARDS
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - July 19, 2022 11:42 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Molecular biologist Nicklas Brendborg chats with Trey Elling about JELLYFISH AGE BACKWARDS: NATURE'S SECRETS TO LONGEVITY. Topics include:
Why we age (:51)
How a certain jellyfish ages backwards (1:29)
The unique aging of salmon (2:26)
Large animals outliving small ones (3:17)
The curious case of the naked mole rat (4:19)
Genetics and lifespan (6:49)
Why eradicating major diseases wouldn't extend average lifespan (9:20)
Distinguishing the queen bee from worker bees (12:04)
Antioxidant supplements bad for our health? (12:59)
Hormesis (14:30)
Heat shock proteins (16:25)
Human growth hormone (19:30)
Insulin-like Growth Factor 1, aka IGF-1 (21:25)
Rapamycin and fungi (2:22)
Spermadine (25:43)
Telomeres (26:44)
The epigenetic clock (28:33)
Do old people benefit from young blood transfusions (34:13)
The microbiome and aging (36:31)
Fecal transplants (39:06)
Caloric restriction (40:05)
Insulin and the aging process (45:45)
Metformin (48:33)
Exercise (51:35)