Nourish Balance Thrive
400 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe Nourish Balance Thrive podcast is designed to help you perform better. Christopher Kelly, your host, is a co-founder at Nourish Balance Thrive, an online clinic using advanced biochemical testing to help athletes overcome chronic health complaints and improve performance. On the podcast, Chris interviews leading minds in medicine, nutrition and health, as well as world-class athletes and members of the NBT team, to give you up-to-date information on the lifestyle changes and personalized techniques being used to make people go faster – from weekend warriors to Olympians and world champions.
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Hormesis, Nootropics and Organic Acids Testing
May 11, 2017 12:05 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MBIn this dense and technical episode with Dr Tommy Wood, we introduce Hormetea! Why Hormetea? We love polyphenols - those magical compounds from plant foods that lend them their bright colours and multiple health benefits. The greens and yellows in tea, the deep orange of turmeric, and purples of berries. Many of these compounds provide some of their benefits by activating the metabolic machinery associated with fasting and autophagy - a process known as hormesis. To get all these great c...
Arrhythmias in Endurance Athletes
May 04, 2017 19:05 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBPeter H Backx, PhD is a senior scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and also at York University. Dr Backx is a recognised expert in cardiac mechanics, heart failure and arrhythmias. His research focuses on the role of ion transport, ion channels and myocardial signalling in the initiation and progression of heart disease with a particular interest in atrial fibrillation. He holds a patent on tissue-specific drug delivery and has published over 190 peer-reviewed articles, ...
How to Achieve High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel
April 27, 2017 18:04 - 51 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this episode, Dr Tommy Wood turns the mic on one of our favourite podcast hosts, Mike Mutzel. Mike has a B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Clinical Nutrition and is a graduate of the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is an independent consultant for one of the world’s leading professional nutrition companies (XYMOGEN) and the host of the High Intensity Health show. Sign up for our Highlights email and every week we’ll send you a short (but sweet) email containing the following: One pie...
How to Overcome Amenorrhoea
April 20, 2017 18:04 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBTawnee Prazak, MS, CSCS, is a triathlete and triathlon coach living in Laguna Beach, California. She’s been involved in the endurance world for nearly a decade and is considered one of today’s leading experts in the field of endurance training, racing, strength training, nutrition and wellness. When I first started listening to Tawnee’s Endurance Planet podcast, I was utterly addicted to carbohydrate, unable to go more than 40 minutes on the bike without sucking down 30g of sugar in the fo...
How to Fix Autoimmunity in the over 50s
April 14, 2017 07:04 - 56 minutes - 45 MBDeborah Gordon, MD is a doctor practicing in Ashland, Oregon. Her focus is real food and an active lifestyle which she integrates with gentle and targeted medicine. You should listen to this interview to learn about the common problems that Dr Gordon encounters in her practice and the treatments getting the best results. We talk about the gut microbiota and gut health in general and the potential link to autoimmunity in its various guises. I was particularly interested in learning of a pot...
How to Make a Career in Paleo
April 06, 2017 18:04 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBTony Federico is a shining example of how to make a career out of the paleo diet and lifestyle. After a personal training client suggested the diet, Tony never looked back, going on to write for Paleo Magazine and hosting the podcast of the same name. He recently made the decision to move on to VP of marketing at Natural Force; a supplement company committed to making products using only the purest, highest quality, all-natural and organic ingredients. You should listen to this interview f...
How to Run Efficiently with Drs Cucuzzella & Wood
March 30, 2017 19:03 - 1 hour - 89 MBDr Mark Cucuzzella, MD, is Professor of medicine at West Virginia University medical school, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), family physician for over 20 years, Lt Col in the US Air Force Reserves, and an avid runner and running coach. In this episode, Dr Tommy Wood, MD, PhD and Dr Cucuzzella discuss optimal nutrition, running efficiency, fat-adaptation, atrial fibrillation and more. Sign up for our Highlights email and every week we’ll send you a short (but s...
An Update on The Athlete Microbiome Project
March 23, 2017 16:03 - 43 minutes - 34.8 MBLauren Petersen, PhD, is a postdoctoral associate investigating the microbiome and she’s back on the podcast to update us on her research. Be sure to listen to our first interview first! I sent Lauren some of the probiotics we use in our practice, and she said, “they look great!” Lauren did some calculations for the number of CFUs, and she got pretty much exactly what the bottle claims for live organisms, with growth on both Lactobacillus-selective and Bifidobacterium-selective medias....
Wired to Eat with Robb Wolf
March 16, 2017 11:03 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBIn 2010, with his New York Times Bestselling book The Paleo Solution, Robb Wolf presented the answers that enabled me to recover my health. His podcast of the same name launched my business and connected me with the incredible partners who helped shape NBT into an online clinic that has now helped over a thousand athletes achieve optimal health and performance. In his new book, Wired to Eat, Robb carefully examines the neuroregulation of appetite as this is necessary for eating enough to b...
Is Your Skin Missing This Essential Peacekeeping Bacteria?
March 09, 2017 18:03 - 39 minutes - 31.2 MBJasmina Aganovic is a cosmetics and consumer goods entrepreneur who received her degree in chemical and biological engineering from MIT, and she’s back on the podcast to talk about the progress AOBiome have made with their clinical trials. In this interview, we focus mostly on the potential treatment of acne and hypertension, but trials are also underway for allergies, eczema, wound healing, migraines and temperature regulation. Mother Dirt is the company focussed on commercialising the re...
The Importance of Strength Training for Endurance Athletes
March 02, 2017 07:03 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBSince starting NBT, I’ve noticed a growing gap between what I'm doing (lots of cycling) and what I need to be doing for longevity (strength training). This year then, I plan to focus more on strength. The trouble is, I've no clue what I'm doing! Luckily, I was able to hire Dr Mike T Nelson, PhD as my strength and conditioning coach. Sign up for our Highlights email and every week we’ll send you a short (but sweet) email containing the following: One piece of simple, actionable advice to i...
Specialists, Synthesizers, and Popularizers with Drs. Wood and Gerstmar
February 23, 2017 13:02 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBThis episode is syndicated from Dr Tim Gerstmar Aspire Natural Health podcast. We love Dr Gerstmar and would highly recommend you subscribe to his show. You should listen to this episode to get a fly-on-the-wall perspective of two brilliant doctors with different backgrounds problem-solving using similar techniques. Sign up for our Highlights email and every week we’ll send you a short (but sweet) email containing the following: One piece of simple, actionable advice to improve your he...
Five Things Every Athlete Needs to Do to Succeed
February 17, 2017 08:02 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBSign up for our highlights email and each week we’ll send you: An interesting scientific paper we've read with actionable advice. Nonsense we read/heard this week and why it's nonsense. Something awesome we read/listened to this week and why it's awesome. I was inspired to record this podcast by a discussion that took place on the Lower Insulin Facebook group. I love the conversation that goes on over there, but like many of debates we see around the Internet, the conversation is some...
World Champion Rower and Ketone Monoester Researcher Brianna Stubbs
February 10, 2017 07:02 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MBBrianna Stubbs, PhD is an extraordinary woman on multiple levels. She was the youngest person ever to row across the English Channel, has represented GB at every age level and won gold at the World U23 Championships in 2013, and again at the senior level at the 2016 World Championships. Brianna will be looking to build on that success during the Tokyo 2020 Olympiad. If that wasn’t enough, Brianna recently gained her PhD in Biochemical Physiology at Oxford University where she worked alongs...
The Critical Role of Oestradiol for Women’s Cognition
February 03, 2017 07:02 - 48 minutes - 38.6 MBDr Ann Hathaway, MD has been successfully treating women and men with bioidentical hormones and other natural remedies since 1995. She is a member of the prestigious Institute for Functional Medicine and is a director of the Orthomolecular Health Medicine Board. Tommy and I met Dr Hathaway at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging where she presented this excellent and incredibly well-referenced talk on the role of oestradiol in cognition for women. Dr Hathaway is primarily using blood...
How to Use Biomedical Testing for Obstacle Course Racing Performance
January 27, 2017 08:01 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MBThe ketogenic diet has many promising applications including better management of type 1 diabetes and as an adjunct cancer therapy. Thirty-five thousand people signed up for the Keto Summit where we talked about other applications including neurological diseases, fat loss and improved athletic performance. If you adopted a high-fat paleo-type diet, you could be forgiven for thinking that if that was good, then ketosis should be better. I know I did. Unfortunately, that isn’t necessarily th...
Why We Get Fat and What You Should Really Do About It
January 20, 2017 08:01 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBMy guests this week are two of the brightest minds in the health and fitness industry. The first is my own Chief Medical Officer, Tommy Wood, MD PhD. Tommy is currently working as a visiting scientist researching neonatal brain injury at the University of Washington. He received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, before studying medicine at the University of Oxford. My second guest is Chris Masterjohn, PhD. Chris earned his PhD in Nutritional Science...
How to Think Yourself Younger, Healthier, and Faster
January 12, 2017 17:01 - 34 minutes - 28 MBSeveral years ago, I learned about mindfulness the hard way. I was eating a cardiologist recommended diet that apparently wasn’t working for me and I failed to pay attention to any of the warning signs. The first person to draw attention to my mindlessness was the woman who is now my wife and co-founder at NBT. Only recently did I discover the decades of careful research on the simple practice of noticing, and how that can be both good for you and fun. My guest this week is Dr Ellen Langer...
How to Test and Predict Blood, Urine and Stool for Health, Longevity and Performance
January 06, 2017 12:01 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBDr Tim Gerstmar practices Naturopathic Medicine at his Redmond, WA office, Aspire Natural Health. He specialises in working with people with digestive and autoimmune problems, and has worked with many of the most difficult to treat situations using a blend of natural and conventional medicine. He treats patients locally, throughout the US and as far away as the Qatar, Korea and Australia. In this interview, Dr Gerstmar discusses the tests he most commonly uses, especially for gastrointesti...
High Ketones and Carbs at the Same Time? Great Performance Tip or Horrible Idea…
December 30, 2016 10:12 - 51 minutes - 41.5 MBCoach and exercise physiologist Dr Mike T. Nelson pulled me to one side recently after seeing the results of my little experiment with a ketone ester supplement. In this interview, you’ll learn about why Dr. Mike thinks we should exercise caution before regularly simultaneously raising blood glucose and ketones. We also talk about why metabolic flexibility, not ketosis, should be the goal for most endurance athletes. Problems with impaired fat use: From Nelson, Michael T., George R. Bi...
Why You Should Skip Oxaloacetate Supplementation, Fueling for Your Activity and More!
December 22, 2016 15:12 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBTommy and I recorded this interview in person at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging where we were attending Dr. Dale Bredesen’s training for reversing cognitive decline. If you’ve yet to discover Dr. Bredesen’s amazing work, I’d highly recommend his STEM-Talk interview. My attempt to capture the impressiveness of the Buck Institute leaves a lot to be desired, but since I promised a photo during the recording, here it is: We love our supplements at Nourish Balance Thrive, and we regu...
Getting Stronger
December 15, 2016 14:12 - 35 minutes - 40.3 MBHormetism is the application of progressive, intermittent stress to overcome challenges and grow stronger physically, mentally and emotionally. As athletes, we intuitively understand the hormetic effect of exercise but did you know that cold, altitude, plant toxins and even straining slightly to read can all be used to help us get stronger? My guest is for this interview is Todd Becker, a freelance blogger based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife and two children. H...
How to Teach Machines That Can Learn
December 08, 2016 13:12 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MBMachine learning is fast becoming a part of our lives. From the order in which your search results and news feeds are ordered to the image classifiers and speech recognition features on your smartphone. Machine learning may even have had a hand in choosing your spouse or driving you to work. As with cars, only the mechanics need to understand what happens under the hood, but all drivers need to know how to operate the steering wheel. Listen to this podcast to learn how to interact with machi...
How to Use Biomedical Testing for IRONMAN Performance
December 01, 2016 17:12 - 49 minutes - 114 MBAfter a rocky start to the season, NBT client Bob McRae turned everything around using our performance orientated functional medicine program for athletes. "I had the best race of my life yesterday, beyond my imagination." said 47-year old McRae, after his first age-group win (by 14-minutes) and 6th overall at IRONMAN Boulder. Bob is now the number one USAT ranked athlete in his age group. Listen to this podcast to discover how Bob used a combination of blood chemistry, urinary organic ac...
A New Hope for Brain Tumors
November 25, 2016 08:11 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBThis year in the United States, over 22,000 people will be diagnosed with a primary brain or spinal tumor. Of these, more than 13,000, many of them younger than 21 years old, will die of their disease. New treatment modalities are critical in the battle against cancer. Adrienne Scheck, PhD, is an associate professor of neurobiology at Barrow Neurological Institute. Dr. Scheck’s expertise includes neuro-oncology. She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, Society for N...
Pro Tour Rider Nutrition and the Benefits of Fasted-State Training
November 18, 2016 07:11 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBBarry Murray is a sports nutritionist and member of the Irish Ultramarathon Team currently working with Pro Tour cyclists. Barry has won several ultra-distance (70-200 km) running races, The Mourne Mountain Way, The Abbots Way, The Giants Causeway, The Wicklow Way, The Kerry Way, all without eating anything for breakfast. How? In a word, fat-adaptation. In this interview, Barry describes his work with the pros and six much overlooked factors for high-performance ultra-endurance training: su...
How to Achieve Near-Normal Blood Sugar with Type 1 Diabetes
November 11, 2016 07:11 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBDr. Keith Runyan, MD is a retired physician previously in private practice in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Runyan specialised in internal medicine, nephrology, and obesity medicine. He practiced emergency medicine for ten years before starting his private practice in 2001. In February 2012, he began the diet for the treatment of is diabetes and learned that this diet was also effective for the treatment of numerous other conditions, including obesity. He added obesity medicine to his practi...
How to Live Well with Chronic Illness
November 03, 2016 07:11 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBChris here, writing the show notes for this episode presented by my wife and food scientist Julia Kelly where she interviews Mickey Trescott, and Angie Alt. I’ve talked a lot about ketogenic diets on the podcast, but the truth is ketosis is a hack to improve my cognition and athletic performance. Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) is the diet that enabled me to recover my health, and since then, we’ve coached hundreds of other athletes in our practice using a very similar approach. With the diet corner...
Methylation and Environmental Pollutants with Dr. Tim Gerstmar
October 27, 2016 16:10 - 58 minutes - 47.3 MBDr. Tim Gerstmar practices Naturopathic Medicine at his Redmond, WA office, Aspire Natural Health. He specialises in working with people with digestive and autoimmune problems, and has worked with many of the most difficult to treat situations using a blend of natural and conventional medicine. He treats patients locally, throughout the US and as far away as the Qatar, Korea and Australia. In this interview, Dr. Tim talks about methylation, sequencing diet and lifestyle medicine, environmen...
Human Performance and Resilience in Extreme Environments
October 21, 2016 08:10 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBDr. Dawn Kernagis is a Research Scientist in the area of human performance optimization and risk mitigation for operators in extreme environments, such as those working in undersea diving, high altitude aviation, and space. Dr. Kernagis came to IHMC from Duke University Medical Center, where her postdoctoral research was funded by the Office of Naval Research and the American Heart Association to identify pathophysiological mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets in multiple forms of ac...
How to Start a Functional Medicine Practice
October 14, 2016 08:10 - 1 hour - 148 MBA Whole Health Educator and Personal Trainer from Mountain View, California asked me some questions about the FDN certification and since we get so many questions like the ones below, Tommy and I did a webinar to answer those and more, live. The questions: What health services did you offer before studying with FDN? How did you integrate your new training into your service offerings at the beginning? Have you been able to use FDN to build a solid/sustaining income and business model? ...
Self-Care and Integrated Movement for the Modern World
October 07, 2016 13:10 - 47 minutes - 110 MBAaron Alexander is an accomplished manual therapist and movement coach with over a decade of experience. He is the founder of Align Therapy™, an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care that has helped thousands including Olympic and professional level athletes. He is the creator of the 'Self-Care Kit' and the host of a highly ridiculous and informative podcast. Here’s the outline of this interview with Aaron Alexander: [00:00:18] Rolfing Institute. [00:00:28] Structural ...
The Athlete Microbiome Project: The Search for the Golden Microbiome
September 29, 2016 10:09 - 46 minutes - 84.4 MBLauren Petersen, PhD, is a postdoctoral associate working for Dr. George Weinstock and investigating the microbiome. Our knowledge of the 100 trillion microorganisms that inhabit the human body is still very limited, but the advent of next-generation sequencing technology has allowed researchers to start understanding what kind of microorganisms inhabit the human body and identifying the types of genes these organisms carry. As part of the NIH-funded Human Microbiome Project, her lab is focu...
Don't Miss the Keto Summit
September 24, 2016 20:09 - 5 minutes - 4.71 MBIt's really tough to get science-based information about the ketogenic diet - there's so much new research happening all the time, it's hard to keep up! However, we’ve put together a free online Keto Summit with some world-class doctors, researchers, and athletes who share their latest and best knowledge - how to refine your keto diet, ketone supplements, health benefits of keto, weight loss benefits of keto, and more. I'm especially excited about the talks by Patrick Arnold, Prof. Tim N...
Love People and Use Things (Because the Opposite Never Works)
September 22, 2016 19:09 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBJoshua Fields Millburn is one half of The Minimalists. At first glance, people might think the point of minimalism is only to get rid of material possessions: Eliminating. Jettisoning. Extracting. Detaching. Decluttering. Paring down. Letting go. But that’s a mistake. Minimalists don’t focus on having less, less, less; rather, they focus on making room for more: more time, more passion, more experiences, more growth, more contribution, more contentment. More freedom. Clearing the clutte...
GMOs: The State of the Science
September 15, 2016 19:09 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MBAny discussion of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is fraught with difficulty, not least of which is the definition. The Non GMO Project describes them as “organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering,” but there are others, see Leandra’s AHS 16 poster for more details. Leandra Brettner is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington department of bioengineering, and in this interview we discuss artificial...
Surviving in a Toxic World: Nonmetal Toxic Chemicals and Their Effects on Health
September 08, 2016 13:09 - 59 minutes - 47.3 MBThis podcast is the second part of a series. In the first part, Dr. Shaw and I talked about how to measure metabolism using organic acids. My initial test showed two major problems: yeast and clostridia overgrowth. It’s been about six months since I took probiotics and Raintree Formulas Amazon antifungals for two months and the retest shows some but not complete improvement. The primary focus of this interview is the new Great Plains test for organic (nonmetal) environmental toxicity,...
How to Conquer Anxiety with Tim JP Collins
September 02, 2016 12:09 - 46 minutes - 37.5 MBTim JP Collins is a British entrepreneur and host of The Anxiety Podcast. In a former life as an executive, Tim reached a tipping point onstage during a big presentation and has since turned his life around to overcome his anxiety and is now helping other people do the same. Looking back Tim realised that he’d created the perfect storm: Lots of travel away from home and family. Drinking alcohol in excess and too often. Staying up late and then waking up with gallons of coffee. Years...
How to Recognise Good Chocolate (and Why You Should Care)
August 29, 2016 09:08 - 38 minutes - 30.7 MBI will send the first 100 people that leave me a 5-star review on iTunes (video instructions) a bar of Fruition 100% dark chocolate. Please send your US shipping address to [email protected] Chocolate is awesome! Everyone knows that. Less well known is cacao’s (we use the terms chocolate, cocoa, and cacao synonymously in this podcast) blood pressure lowering and insulin signalling effects. The interest in the effect of cacoa on blood pressure started with the discovery th...
Male ED: The Canary in the Coal Mine
August 23, 2016 13:08 - 42 minutes - 33.7 MBThe overall prevalence of erectile dysfunction in men aged ≥20 years was 18.4% suggesting that erectile dysfunction affects 18 million men in the US alone. Among men with diabetes, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction was 51.3%. ED can have a neurogenic, psychogenic, or endocrinologic basis, but the most common cause is thought to be related to vascular abnormalities of the penile blood supply and erectile tissue often associated with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. Listen to...
National Cyclocross Champion Jeremy Powers on Racing, Training and the Ketogenic Diet
August 09, 2016 09:08 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBJeremy Powers is the current U.S. Cyclocross champion and top-ranked American rider in the world, and he listens to my podcast! I couldn’t believe it when I found out. Jeremy emailed me to say hi, and of course, I immediately invited him on so that I could probe deep into the diet, lifestyle, training and racing strategy that has enabled him to be National Champion four times. Our contact was minimal before the interview, and I had no idea that Jeremy has a delicate relationship with carbohy...
Recovering from Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics Injury
August 03, 2016 19:08 - 50 minutes - 40.3 MBIn January 2014, young and talented Romanian engineer Fabian Popa was feeling fine when pneumonia struck from nowhere. He remembers coming home from work and feeling a burning sensation in his chest. After a short time coping with the coughing, severe fatigue set in and Fabian found himself unable to work. Having heard about the potential for unwanted effects caused by antibiotics, Fabian held out hoping the coughing would subside. After ten days he relented, and upon listening to his lung...
18 Hours of Mountain Bike Racing on Zero Calories
July 24, 2016 16:07 - 55 minutes - 44.4 MBFast facts: The elimination diets that we’ve gotten great results with for our clients travel very well with a little planning. Our diet didn’t vary from the norm on a recent three week road trip. I’ve been eating a very high fat and fibre, moderate protein, zero acellular carbohydrate (e.g. sugar) ketogenic diet. Just before we departed, my blood glucose was 77 mg/dL and blood beta-hydroxybutyrate was 1.4 mmol/L. I placed 29/600 in the BC Bike Race, a 7-day race in a very wet British ...
An Interview with a 4th Year Medical Student
July 19, 2016 09:07 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBRory Heath is a columnist at Strength & Conditioning Research and a 4th-year medical student at King's College, London. Rory has a passion for sports medicine and attends many sports medicine conferences. Treatment for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, common in contact sports like rugby, are frequently the focus of these events. In this interview, Rory talks about how some simple dietary changes may reduce the basal level of inflammation and reduce the number of injuries happening in...
How to Track Effectively
July 01, 2016 07:07 - 53 minutes - 42.5 MBDan Pardi is a rare bird. Not only does Dan have a classical education in sports medicine and exercise physiology, he also spent time working with Dean Ornish at the Preventive Medicine Lifestyle Institute before spending a decade working in the pharmaceutical industry. Dan now collaborates with the Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford University and the Departments of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University and is also the CEO of a health-behavior technology company called Da...
The Race to Make a Ketone Supplement
June 23, 2016 18:06 - 47 minutes - 37.8 MBTwo brilliant scientists are racing to be the first to commercialise exogenous ketones. The applications include athletic performance and metabolic therapies for CNS oxygen toxicity, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases. In the red corner, Dr. Richard Veech, one of the greatest living minds in basic biochemistry. In the blue corner, the also brilliant renegade chemist Patrick Arnold. Stuck somewhere in the middle is superhuman researcher Dominic D’Agostino, associate professor in the d...
Nootropics 101: How to Hack Memory, Creativity, and Motivation
June 17, 2016 12:06 - 44 minutes - 35.9 MBIn the past two weeks for the Keto Summit, I interviewed Dave Asprey, Mark Sisson and Professors Tim Noakes, Kieran Clarke and Tom Seyfried. These are just five of the 33 expert interview I have lined up. Each interview is around one hour or 10,000 words long. So much wisdom, sometimes decades in the making, is there anything I can do to help retain some of it in my long term memory? Quite possibly: nootropics are are drugs, supplements, or other substances that improve cognitive function, p...
Foodloose Recap
June 09, 2016 20:06 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB“Gary Taubes is in the building!” exclaimed Foodloose host Dr. Maryanne Demasi. Gary was scheduled to arrive at Iceland’s international airport the morning of the conference, and he’d already missed his keynote slot. British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra had assumed Gary’s position, and I’d started to wonder if the rest of the speakers would be advanced in the same way. Fortunately, that was not to be the case, and Gary delivered an impressive display of public speaking of the likes I’ve n...
Hyperinsulinaemia and Cognitive Decline with Catherine Crofts, Ph.D
June 02, 2016 17:06 - 42 minutes - 34 MBCatherine Crofts is a New Zealand community-based clinical pharmacist who firmly believes in using the lowest dose of the least number of medications to treat disease. After 17 years of practice, she feels more like a “disease management specialist” than a health professional. Together with Caryn Zinn, Mark Wheldon, and Grant Schofield, Catherine is the author of Hyperinsulinemia: A unifying theory of chronic disease? Catherine blogs at Lifestyle Before Medication. Catherine will soon...
Keto UFC Fighter Kyle Kingsbury: Biohacking and the Missing Low Gear
May 27, 2016 02:05 - 54 minutes - 43.5 MBI couldn’t help laughing when former UFC fighter Kyle Kingsbury described the trouble he was having deadlifting 525 lb when 495 came so easily. 180 is a problem for me! The ketogenic diet has removed Kyle’s “low gear”, but the sacrifice is worth it because, in the ketogenic state, Kyle enjoys an enormous cognitive benefit and less systemic inflammation. Having suffered two orbital fractures that ultimately lead to his retirement, I wonder if Kyle is an example of how ketosis can help with tr...