We always talk about how vitamin C from citrus fruits helps with immune functioning. In today’s episode, we will break down how vitamin C mechanistically works by donating and reducing electrons as ascorbate (its other name). You will learn how vitamin C plays integral roles in collagen, carnitine, and norepinephrine synthesis as well as protecting you from free radicals and reactive oxygen species.

This month, I am releasing a special micronutrient series, where I will be breaking down the fundamentals of vitamin and mineral metabolism so that you can understand its mechanism and subsequent impact on your wellbeing.

Continuing with choline, we will be discussing the mechanisms of how this vitamin helps with cell maintenance, nervous system function, and DNA synthesis.

This month, I am releasing a special micronutrient series, where I will be breaking down the fundamentals of vitamin and mineral metabolism so that you can understand its mechanism and subsequent impact on your wellbeing.

We continue with folate, and its superpower of donating and accepting one-carbon units. This episode is all about diving deep into the complex mechanism for my lovely science aficionados, relating it to making the building blocks of DNA and methylation of DNA.

This month, I am releasing a special micronutrient series, where I will be breaking down the fundamentals of vitamin and mineral metabolism so that you can understand its mechanism and subsequent impact on your wellbeing.

Today, we are going to be chatting about our friends, riboflavin and thiamin which are B vitamins, just like our buddy niacin. This episode is going to be split in halves regarding riboflavin and thiamin. In short, riboflavin is needed for mechanistic electron transfer whereas thiamin is needed to make nucleotides.

This month, I am releasing a special micronutrient series, where I will be breaking down the fundamentals of vitamin and mineral metabolism so that you can understand its mechanism and subsequent impact on your wellbeing.

Starting with niacin, we will be exploring how our strong bodies use this vitamin to turn your yummy food into ENERGY. We will dive into sources of niacin, consequences of niacin deficiency, mechanisms related to NAD/NADH, enzymes that help keep your niacin levels steady via two wonderful biochemical pathways.

Fat loss is a challenging feat for many people, and as it may sound like a simple act of controlling your caloric balance to create an energy deficit, it doesn’t always work this way. There are many factors at play, and one of them is due to a phenomenon called adaptive thermogenesis.

The "Dear Heart and the Brain" Podcast is the podcast for YOU to move you closer to achieving the life that you were destined to lead. Hosted by Certified Personal Trainer, Jess Wong, the goal of every The Brain and the Heart episode is to provide science-backed insight to help you level up your mindset and strategies in your fitness journey, career, school life, business, relationships, future mission, and even the way you perceive yourself.

It’s a general consensus in nutrition research that there’s no one-size-fits-all nutrition plan. Of course, many factors are at play, but one reason why certain meal plans work for one person but not the other may have to do with human genetics. This, is, nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics, which means nutrition plus genomics, is a pretty fascinating cutting-edge science that reveals how one can create the best path in health. It’s essentially the field that includes both the study of how the whole body responds to macro and micro nutrients as well as how single genes and food compounds will interact.

The "Dear Heart and the Brain" Podcast is the podcast for YOU to move you closer to achieving the life that you were destined to lead. Hosted by Certified Personal Trainer, Jess Wong, the goal of every The Brain and the Heart episode is to provide science-backed insight to help you level up your mindset and strategies in your fitness journey, career, school life, business, relationships, future mission, and even the way you perceive yourself.

Commonly known as the sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D is produced by the body in response to our skin being exposed to sunlight, and yes, it does also naturally occur in some foods such as fish, egg yolks, and fortified dairy and grain products. Today, we’re going to be learning a lot. We’re going to be talking about vitamin D deficiency, what the gold standard of measuring vitamin D is, the difference between vitamin D2 and D3, the HPA axis, more about molecular and cellular neuroscience related to vitamin D, and many suggestive animal model studies that reveal the importance of vitamin D in human health.

The "Dear Heart and the Brain" Podcast is the podcast for YOU to move you closer to achieving the life that you were destined to lead. Hosted by Certified Personal Trainer, Jess Wong, the goal of every The Brain and the Heart episode is to provide science-backed insight to help you level up your mindset and strategies in your fitness journey, career, school life, business, relationships, future mission, and even the way you perceive yourself.

Just as you are about to sit down to do some work, you suddenly hear a ding: a text notification from your phone. Do you read the text or do you get to work, suppressing the urge to check it? If you are able to suppress the urge, that is known as delay of gratification, which is defined by the act of resisting an impulse to take an immediately available reward in the hope of getting a deeper valued reward in the future. Why are there some people better at delaying gratification than others? In today’s episode, we will explore how the pathways of delayed gratification create that trait.

The "Dear Heart and the Brain" Podcast is the podcast for YOU to move you closer to achieving the life that you were destined to lead. Hosted by Certified Personal Trainer, Jess Wong, the goal of every The Brain and the Heart episode is to provide science-backed insight to help you level up your mindset and strategies in your fitness journey, career, school life, business, relationships, future mission, and even the way you perceive yourself.