FoundMyFitness

Jari Laukkanen This podcast features Jari Laukkanen, M.D., Ph. D., a cardiologist and scientist at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio. Dr. Laukkanen has been conducting long-term trials looking at the health effects of sauna use in a population of over 2,000 middle-aged men in Finland.  In this episode, you'll discover:  (00:00)  Introducti...

Dr. Judith Campisi is a professor of biogerentology at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and a co-editor in chief of the Aging Journal. As an expert on cellular senescence, the discussion involves a lot of talk about aging and cancer, where senescence plays a very important fundamental role. What are some of the strategies we might use in the future to prevent senescent cells? What causes t...

Dr. Gordon Lithgow of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging tells us about worms! This unassuming scientific model has a lot of important advantages for science: they can be frozen and subsequently thawed and retain viability, they are extremely well understood down to the precise number of cells in their body and the wiring of their nervous system, known as the connectome. Additionally, they h...

If you're anything like me, having the facts straight can sometimes help you to push through the tough part of building new habits or breaking old bad ones. This podcast talks about the realities of what the science says surrounding the consumption of refined sugar. Some of the facts may surprise you! In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Introduction (01:16)  Excess sugar consumption is commo...

Today we try to answer or at least explore a big question in the world of health: does saturated fat cause heart disease? This is not an unreasonable concern given the fact that there have been several associative studies that have found a link between saturated fat and heart disease, which is, no doubt, a fat that we find abundantly in the typical American diet since it is richly found in staples...

Does meat consumption cause cancer? Or, put another way… does avoiding meat help prevent cancer? If you aren't already savvy to the topic, this may sound more absurd than it should. Here's why: there have been many, many, many correlative studies that have found that higher meat consumption is associated with a significantly higher risk of cancer and cancer mortality. In this episode, you'll disco...

The World Health Organization estimates that more than 350 million individuals of all ages have depression and approximately one-third of all patients with depression fail to respond to conventional antidepressant therapies like SSRI's. The good news is that today, good science is starting to illuminate the underlying biological mechanisms of depression. This new understanding may soon help the cl...

Dr. Roland R. Griffiths Dr. Roland R. Griffiths is a clinical pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins and has been researching mood-altering compounds for over 40 years. As an unusually prolific scientist, having published over 360-times, he's also responsible for having started the psilocybin research program at Johns Hopkins nearly 2 decades ago. In this podcast, you'll discover:  (00:00)  Introduction...

Dr. Jed Fahey is a multi-decade veteran of isothiocyanate research and is the director of the Cullman Chemoprotection Center at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00)  Introduction (03:44)  What is sulforaphane? (10:25)  The NRF2 pathway, a master regulator of antioxidants (14:22)  Cruciferous vegetables are rich sources of sulforaphane (20:39)  Does cooking broccoli d...

This podcast is about one of the most important biological pathways you could possibly take the time to learn about: the NRF2 pathway. The most potent naturally-occurring inducer of this pathway, a plant compound known as sulforaphane, may be one of the most potent health-enhancing compounds at our disposal and yet... no one is keeping it out of your hands! No $1,000 per pill markup is keeping it...

 Dr. Valter Longo This episode of the FoundMyFitness podcast features Dr. Valter Longo, a professor of gerontology and biological sciences and director of the longevity institute at the University of Southern California. Dr. Longo has made huge contributions to the field of aging, including the role of fasting and diet in longevity and healthspan in humans as well as metabolic fasting therapies fo...

Dr. Ruth Patterson Dr. Ruth Patterson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Family Medicine and Public Health as well as Associate Director of Population Sciences and leader of the Cancer Prevention program at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. In this episode, we chat about: (00:00)  Introduction (03:33)  Lifestyle modifications that reduce breast cancer risk  (11:18)  Modern l...

Dr. Satchidananda (Satchin) Panda is a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In this video we discuss... (00:00)  Introduction (06:42)  Why humans developed an internal clock (i.e., the circadian rhythm) (15:28)  Light is necessary to regulate our circadian clock (25:02)  Morning bright light exposure lowers cortisol levels and lifts mood, but...

Ray Cronise Ray Cronise is a former NASA material scientist and cofounder of zero gravity, a company that offers weightless parabolic flights to consumers and researchers. The interesting thing about this interview, isn't strictly raised professional background, however, but instead his propensity towards aggressive self-experimentation. In this episode, Ray and I discuss... (00:00)  Introduction...

Dr. Dominic D'Agostino This podcast is with Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa and all-around expert on ketosis. In this podcast we discuss: (00:00)  Introduction (03:46)  Ketosis has abundant therapeutic potential  (10:20)  What to eat to maintain nutritional ketosis (19:58)  Does a high-fat diet harm the gut? (29:14)  Adaptations to a ketog...

Dr. Peter Attia Peter is the founder of Attia Medical, a medical practice with offices in San Diego and New York City, focusing on the applied science of longevity and optimal performance. In addition to being a medical doctor, Dr. Attia has done research on the role of regulatory T cells in cancer regression and other immune-based therapies for cancer. Regulatory T cells have also been, in the pa...

Dr. Rhonda Patrick explains how cold shock is a type of hormesis, which is a description of a type of stress that, in the right doses, is enough to shock the body and kick off adaptive processes and response mechanisms that are hardwired into our genes, and, once on, are able to create a resilience that actually exceeds what was needed to counter the initial stimuli. In this episode, you'll discov...

Rich Roll This podcast features Rich Roll. Rich is an author, a podcaster ("Rich Roll Podcast" on iTunes) , as well as founder and first person to complete the EPIC5 Challenge. The EPIC5 challenge involves completing 5 Full Iron Distance triathlons on 5 Hawaiian islands in under a week. Rich has also been a repeated top finisher in the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii, which is a three-day,...

In this episode, Dr. Rhonda Patrick chats with Dr. Darya and Kevin Rose. Dr. Darya Rose, PhD is a neuroscientist, author of "Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting," and creator of Summer Tomato, which was featured in TIME magazine's list of the web's 50 best websites in 2011. Kevin you may know from TV, the investing world, or any of a wide variety of things he's...

Dr. Pierre Capel Dr. Pierre Capel is a professor emeritus in experimental immunology at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands where he researched a wide range of topics from genetic modification to cancer immunotherapy. Pierre also works with Wim Hof, otherwise known as the iceman (guest on the last podcast ) who is especially well-known for some of his amazing physical feats, like staying in...

Wim Hof Wim Hof, also known as "the Iceman", holds the world record for the longest ice bath (1 hour and 53 minutes and 12 seconds), just to name one of his many impressive feats. Dr. Patrick and Wim talk a bit about Wim's back story that culminated in him trying out cold water immersion, the relatively recent 2014 scientific publication of the "Wim Hof Method" which includes cold exposure during...

Dr. Rhonda Patrick delivers the keynote lecture at the Orthomolecular Medicine Congress in Bussum, Netherlands (MBOG Congres 2015). In this talk, you'll learn about: (00:00) Introduction (04:52)  Micronutrient inadequacies and triage theory (10:42)  Role of DNA damage in cancer and aging (21:10)  Vitamin D, serotonin, and the development of autism (41:39)  Omega-3s also regulate serotonin  If you'...

In this podcast, I discuss some of the mechanisms by which chronic stress (and rumination) affect health and aging and how meditation can reduce rumination and buffer stress. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Introduction (02:41)  Eustress such as exercise vs distress such as fear (06:15)  Effects of stress on the brain (07:30)  Effects of stress on the gut and microbiome (10:21)  Stress a...

In this episode Rhonda talks about: (00:00)  Introduction (03:00) Heat stress makes the body more resilient to the stresses of aging (14:45)  Possible mechanisms why sauna use reduces heart disease risk (16:45)  Sauna enhances athletic endurance and muscle growth (28:16)  Sauna use stimulates neurogenesis and improves cognitive function and mood (37:34)  Sauna use detoxifies BPA, PCBs, phthalates,...

Dr. Justin Sonnenburg Dr. Justin Sonnenburg is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford and Dr. Erica Sonnenburg is a senior research scientist in the Sonnenburg lab where they research many aspects the interaction between diet with the 100 trillion or so bacteria in the gut (specifically the colon) and how this impacts the health of the host (which in this case is a labor...