Podcasts by The Quantified Body
The data revolution has begun. The knowledge you will gain over your body, your health, your performance, will explode in the next 5 years. Empowering you to make better decisions about your body and get the results you’re looking for, instead of just guessing or following the latest opinion fad in health or fitness or anti-aging.
The Quantified Body introduces you to the cutting edge in this trend – wearable devices, biomarkers, the latest lab tests, quantified self protocols, biohacking tactics, n=1 experiments and crowd science.
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52: Rejuvenation Biotech: An Introduction to the State of the Industry–RAADfest from 2019-04-21T13:09:19
Rejuvenation biotech is a new industry forming around the theme of life extension technologies. This episode provides a broad look at the state of the industry, its most promising life extension te...
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Microbiome Labs: How Actionable Are They Today? In the Future? from 2018-03-20T12:50:52
Microbiome testing can be confusing: many companies, different technologies and a lack of standards make it hard to get actionable insights from the data. Find out how technologies and labs differ ...
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50: Machine Learning Applied to Functional Medicine–Christopher Kelly&Tommy Wood from 2017-08-25T12:14:55
Looking at an example of Machine Learning applied to functional medicine with the goal of helping athletes optimize performance. The question - with the help of artificial intelligence, can a 7-min...
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49: How Carbohydrate Intolerance Works–Robb Wolf from 2017-04-30T12:19:19
What is carbohydrate intolerance? Do each of us have a personal tolerance or intolerance of carbohydrates? Does this also vary by source of carbohydrate? Learn how evolutionary tools may explain ap...
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Eran Segal&Lihi Segal: Is Your Glucose Metabolism Unique to You? from 2016-12-26T11:40:40
Is your glucose metabolism driven by your personal microbiome? Recent research reveals how the microbiome influences blood glucose, weight gain and weight loss. And how the new company, "Day Two", ...
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47: Using Supplement Testing Results to Ensure Supplement Efficacy–Neil Thanedar from 2016-09-23T05:25:48
Recent investigations have shown supplements to not always contain what they say they do. Or at other times to have unwanted contaminants such as heavy metals. Learn to use 3rd party lab testing to...
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Chris Masterjohn: Fat Soluble Micronutrients Optimization from 2016-07-23T10:07:44
Micronutrient status is a foundation of health, performance and chronic disease minimization. This episode looks at how to optimize fat soluble micronutrients status. In this episode we look at ens...
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Dominic D’Agostino: Leveraging Ketone Bodies for Health, Performance and Longevity from 2016-06-19T15:57:10
Ketone bodies, whether gained from fasting, keto diets, MCTs or exogenous ketones have many potential applications with benefits ranging from performance, to health, to longevity and mitigating sym...
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44: N=1 Experiment: Using Ketosis to Fight a Brain Tumor from 2016-05-08T18:39:49
Putting the body into ketosis and controlling blood glucose levels may prove to be effective therapy against certain cancers. This real case reveals one aggressive self-experimenter who used a comb...
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43: Learnings from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (and the Future of Blood Sugar Management Tech)–Tim Omer from 2016-04-26T13:10:36
Most of us have non-optimal blood glucose regulation today.The impact? Reduced performance, and reduced longevity. We wrongly assume that it's only diabetics that are exposed to these issues. This ...
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42: 10 Day Water Fast Results (Self Experiment) from 2016-03-29T21:05:34
Part 3 in our series of Fasting Self-Experiments. In this longer 10 day water fast I tracked results with a broad set of biomarkers (ketones, glucose, weight, hormones and cognitive performance pan...
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41: How to Quantify Cardiovascular Fitness–Marco Altini from 2016-02-25T18:06:51
A look at how to accurately quantify your cardiovascular fitness in order to optimize endurance sports or your cardiovascular health. Is VO2Max the gold standard? Are the metrics in the current "fi...
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40: Quantifying Heart Disease Risk and Reducing Plaques in Your Arteries from 2016-01-20T09:14:12
Heart disease affects 50% of the U.S. population in their lifetime. Learn how to accurately quantify your personal heart disease status and risk, and if necessary, take clear actions to reduce that...
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39: Meditation Tech to Increase Focus and Self Awareness (Interaxon’s Muse)–Ariel Garten from 2015-12-24T16:16:22
Meditation - ever more popular as studies pile up proving its benefits. However, how do you assure yourself that you gain the same benefits with your meditation practice? Muse Calm is a neurofeedba...
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38: Can Genetic Testing Give Us Precision Health?–Michael Nova from 2015-12-03T17:58:23
What is genetic testing able to do and not do with current services? We talk with one of the top genetic lab services to understand how technologies differ in accuracy and where it is working, wher...
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37: How the Human Microbiome Impacts Health–Dr. Rob Knight from 2015-11-18T13:59:14
What defines human microbiome health? The co-founder of American Gut Project discusses the differences we've found in the gut microbiome and how it influences our health. We look at tools and lifes...
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36: Quantifying Cancer and Reexamining Which Cancers May be Inhibited by Fasts–Gene Fine from 2015-10-27T21:21:29
Water fasting or ketogenic therapies may be effective with some cancers, and not with others. Learn about the PET scan and how it can provide insights into whether a cancer is likely to be responsi...
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35: Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback as a Tool to Reduce Stress–Richard Gevirtz from 2015-10-10T20:13:15
An in-depth look at using heart rate variability biofeedback with slow breathing to reduce stress, enhance athletic performance and provide therapeutic support for some chronic health issues. Hear...
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34: High Impact Endurance Upgrades–Ben Greenfield from 2015-09-23T08:34:17
A look at a collection of high impact endurance tools and tactics - and the top biomarkers to watch for optimization. Vetted by an endurance athlete with years of experiments and competitions behin...
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33: How to Know What Improves Your Mental Performance (in Only a Few Minutes per Day)–Yoni Donner from 2015-09-21T06:35:52
We strive for the best mental performance but how do you know if your routines (sleep patterns, coffee habits, etc.) are helping or hurting? The Quantified Mind is a web-based project that allows y...
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32: Quantified Medicine: Working with a Quant-Friendly Physician and Where Self-Tracking Makes Medicine Better–Paul Abramson from 2015-09-20T12:35:10
Can physicians improve health outcomes using new self-tracking tech with their patients? Or is the tech still too inaccurate or impractical? We take a hard look at the reality and potential with a ...
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31: Fast Mimicking Diet (Self Experiment) from 2015-09-19T12:23:23
Is the Fast Mimicking Diet (FMD) an easier way to get the benefits from fasting? In this self experiment I tracked lean muscle mass gains, improved metabolism (ketones, glucose), strong regeneratio...
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30: Is Oxaloacetate the Next Big Brain&Anti-Aging Supplement?–Alan Cash from 2015-09-18T08:06:32
Oxaloacetate is an important metabolic intermediate in the energy pathway of the mitochondria. Recent case studies support the use of oxaloacetate as a nutritional supplement to help regulate blood...
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29: How to Repair Mitochondria with Lipid Replacement–Garth Nicolson PhD from 2015-08-15T14:19:02
Mitochondria, the power plants of our body, get damaged through aging and other stressors. Lipid Replacement Therapy (LRT) is a tool being used to repair part of this damage to mitochondrial membra...
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28: 5 Day Water Fast Results (Self Experiment) from 2015-07-19T18:17:09
A walk-through of the 5-day water fast with the tracked results (ketones, glucose, weight) and the practical do's and don'ts to make the most of the experience. I'm not a fan of cancer. The only pe...
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27: Dr Adrian Owen: Does Brain Training Improve Mental Performance? from 2015-07-18T13:24:25
Have you been using Dual-N-Back or other braining tools? A look at failed brain training experiments and how to assess real mental performance improvement with Dr. Adrian Owen. In today's fast pac...
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26: Aging Biomarkers–Gil Blander PhD from 2015-07-16T09:42:31
How well are you aging? We look at an attempt to make an aging biomarker index accessible to consumers that tracks their true biological age and provides feedback recommendations to improve how the...
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25: Understanding Your Oxidative Stress Levels via Lipid Peroxidation Markers from 2015-07-12T10:15:24
What is the best biomarker to track your oxidative stress burden? Joshua Fessel explains why F2-isoprostanes provide the best assessment of our ongoing oxidative state. Today's topic is understand...
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24: Troy Angrignon: What Value Can We Really Get from 2015’s Wearable Devices? from 2015-06-23T06:15:32
This episode is about experimenters in the field of biohacking, the people actually in the trenches doing stuff. We’re focusing on wearable devices such as watches, shirts, bracelets, necklaces and...
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23: Kara Fitzgerald: Assessing Your Toxic Burden from 2015-06-05T10:49:29
Today we return to the topic of detoxification. A simple and universal lever everyone can use in the quest for better health, detoxification is a worthwhile endeavor whether you suffer from a chron...
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22: Bob Troia: N=1 Experiments (Bulletproof Diet, Intermittent Fasting, Blood Glucose Regulation and More) from 2015-05-27T10:42:26
Today's episode is about practical tools that we can use to improve our biology and how we can track those results to make sure we are getting the right answers. This episode can serve as an import...
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21: Michael Weisend: Does tDCS Accelerate Learning? Is it Safe? from 2015-05-18T06:56:49
Recently, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) or the non-invasive targeting of weak direct current (DC) to specific brain regions has received media attention. Among the scientific resea...
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Dr. Joon Yun: Heart Rate Variability as a Biomarker of Longevity from 2015-05-03T18:28:08
Is Heart Rate Variability the best biomarker of the time to track our longevity? In this episode we look at why HRV may be the best way to track how well you are aging and the bets being placed on ...
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19: Dr. Garry Gordon: Lead Body Burden: Testing and the Long Detoxification Process from 2015-04-15T17:30:47
Today our bodies, particularly our bones, are burdened with one to two thousands times the level of lead that our ancestors carried. As recently as seven hundred years ago (prior to the industriali...
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18: Dr. Greg Welk: Fitness Tracker Accuracy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly from 2015-04-04T08:57:28
According to a 2015 consumer wearables report, 1 in 10 Americans has a fitness tracker. Yet there have been various media reports questioning the accuracy of these devices. Today we talk about whet...
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17: Dr. Carolyn Dean: The Tricky Art of Testing for and Fixing Magnesium Deficiency from 2015-03-14T06:07:20
Micro-nutrient deficiencies are prevalent today, and prevent our biology from functioning optimally by limiting its activity. The most common and most severe micro-nutrient deficiency for most of u...
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Dr. Thomas Seyfried:“Water Fasts”as a Potential Tactic to Beat Cancer from 2015-02-28T20:53:47
Is some aspect of mitochondrial damage behind cancer? If so, can this theory help us take control of cancer via tactics such as yearly or more frequent "7 day water fasts". When we think about de...
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15: Ernesto Ramirez : The Quantified Self Movement from 2015-02-18T17:03:45
This week’s podcast is about the rising movement for quantifying our lives beyond just health and body. The Quantified Self is about self-knowledge through self-tracking and extends our awareness...
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Aubrey De Grey: A Framework to Increase Longevity and End Aging from 2015-02-13T10:10:46
A walk-through of a practical framework designed to achieve what most of us believe is impossible - completely eliminate aging. Learn about the 7 ways we age, and how scientists are trying to desig...
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13 Dr. Chris Shade: Quantifying Your Mercury Burden and Detoxification from 2015-02-05T04:51:12
Toxins negatively impact our health, longevity and performance in a variety of ways. Today we look at one of the most important toxins all of us are exposed to in today’s environment - mercury. It ...
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12: Jeffrey Bland PhD: Assessing the Body via the Functional Medicine Framework and Your Detoxification System from 2015-01-01T22:12:23
Functional medicine is a framework for tackling health issues and an approach to optimizing health that contrasts sharply with today's "standard of care" medicine model. In this episode we look at ...
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11: Simon Wegerif: HRV- Endurance Training, Adrenal Fatigue, and Future App Developments from 2014-11-22T19:14:23
Today we're looking at HRV- endurance training, adrenal fatigue, and future app developments. If you didn't listen to it, in Episode 1 we primarily looked at resistance training, or weight trainin...
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10: Doug McGuff: Time-Efficient Workouts and How to Optimize Workouts for Strength and Size Gains from 2014-11-07T21:10:40
A different philosophy: Leverage highly time efficient workouts to increase strength, build lean mass, promote cardiovascular performance and provide longevity benefits. In 2009 I found my time get...
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9: Jessica Richman: Quantifying the Microbiome and the State of Crowd Science from 2014-10-29T15:07:39
A couple of cutting edge and very relevant quantified body topics today- quantifying the microbiome and the state of crowd science We’re looking at the microbiome, which you probably have seen is ...
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8: Todd Becker: Experiments in Using Hormesis to Improve HRV from 2014-10-24T23:13:29
What is it that makes our bodies stronger? Gives them greater longevity? Greater resilience to disease? Greater performance? The strange answer to this is that often something that harms us, stre...
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7: Jimmy Moore: How to Measure Ketones&Optimize Ketogenic Diets from 2014-10-21T14:49:51
The problem with diets is that we think that one diet should be good for everyone. But research and N=1 experiments show that's not the case. Learn about measuring ketones and ketosis to understand...
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6: Ronda Collier: Managing Stress with Heart Rate Variability from 2014-09-18T13:44:35
In the first episode of The Quantified Body, we looked at the biometric of Heart Rate Variability or HRV and how to apply it to optimize training and workouts. HRV has also been researched in oth...
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5: Dr. Ben Lynch: Optimizing Methylation from 2014-09-12T09:40:26
Today's episode takes a look at Methylation, it's role and importance for many body functions, how it can enhance our quality of life and performance when running properly, or expose us to greater ...
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4: Dr. Cheryl Burdette: Measuring Oxidative Stress and How to Lower It from 2014-09-05T12:52:02
The paradox: We spend a lot of money and time on increasing our antioxidant intake through foods and supplements. Yet most of us never know if this effort is making any impact on our health. Should...
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3: Dr. Terry Wahls: Linking Mitochondrial Health to Autoimmune and Chronic Disease from 2014-08-28T11:46:57
Are your autoimmune and chronic health issues driven by mitochondrial damage? Could nutritional and other simple approaches targeting improved mitochondrial function provide the answer to many of o...
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2: William J. Walsh: Optimizing Your Brain via Biochemistry from 2014-08-19T11:01:54
Our performance and quality of life is largely dependent on a delicate balance of brain biochemistry. It defines our mental health, mood, our anxiety, our focus and attention, cognitive performance...
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1: Andrew Flatt: How to Use Heart Rate Variability to Optimize Training from 2014-08-14T13:58:48
Whether you’re a professional athlete or a weekend warrior, taking a break from mental work to hit the gym at weekends, recovery is an important part of how you train. When we don’t recover suffic...
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