The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

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1:50 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:15 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

15:30 - Dr. Eric's Journey Into Essential Oils

23:35 - Chronic Disease

27:30 - Essential Oils As Medicine

31:40 - What Is An Apothecary?

34:50 - Women As Healers In The Home

43:00 - What Do You Have To Learn?

45:50 - Everyday Use

48:30 - The Female Audience

51:50 - What Can Essential Oils Do, And What Role Can They Play In Helping Prevent Chronic Disease?

51:30 - COVID

55:50 - Is The Benefit Of Essential Oils In The Smell Alone?

57:00 - Sneezing, Watery Eyes, Diarrhea

1:01:30 - The Emotional Benefits Of Essential Oil

1:03:20 - Bringing Back Smell And Taste After COVID

1:05:20 - Getting Sick

1:11:00 - Snacks

1:12:15 - Tolerance And Addiction To Sweets And Fats

1:20:20 - CBD

1:32:15 - Metabolic Health And Weight Loss

1:35:00 - Adaptogens

1:38:20 - Fat Burning Roll On

1:41:50 - Lime Oil

1:46:20 - Reducing Toxic Burden

1:47:00 - Fasting Of All Types

1:53:30 - Building Your Own Haven

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2:15 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:15 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

11:45 - Why Does Fructose Threaten Our Health?

13:50 - Can We Evolve Out Of The Obesity Signaling Pathway From Fructose?

20:20 - Triggering The Pathway

21:20 - Orange Juice

23:55 - The Historical Consumption Of Fructose

25:45 - Depletion Of Energy In The Cell By Fructose Metabolism

30:15 - AMPD

34:05 - Neurological Effects Of High Uric Acid

36:00 - Uric Acid's Role As An Independent Risk Factor In Mortality

40:50 - Does Metabolic Syndrome Come With High Uric Acid Exclusively

41:40 - Purines

46:00 - Checking Uric Acid

47:20 - "Normal Levels"

48:30 - Recommended Sugar Consumption Per Day

52:00 - Allopurinol 

54:45 - Does Ketosis Create Uric Acid?

1:00:10 - Cycling Keto

1:03:30 - Healthy Mitochondria

1:06:00 - Gender And Uric Acid

1:09:20 - Endogenous Fructose Production

1:11:15 - Why Is The Body Making Fat If It Feels Its Dehydrated?

1:13:30 - The Evolution Of Storing Fat For Metabolic Water

1:15:00 - Sodium In The Diet

1:16:15 - Drugs That Elevate Uric Acid

1:17:40 - Quercetin Daily

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2:10 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:25 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

10:35 - Dr. Anna's Credentials

11:35 - Dr. Anna's Beginning

14:40 - What Is Addiction?

16:10 - The 4 Cs

17:20 - Withdrawal

17:50 - The Difference Between Enjoyment And Addiction

19:35 - Workaholism

22:20 - Does The Feeling Of Fulfillment Matter?

24:45 - Dopamine And Motivation

25:50 - Pain And Pleasure Balance

31:10 - Dopamine And Hunger

32:30 - Addiction Ritual

36:00 - When Did Addiction Start?

37:10 - Modern Addiction

38:10 - Orgasm

39:50 - Who Is More Likely To Become Addicted?

41:50 - What Role Does Repetitive Exposure Play?

46:00 - Could We Evolve To No Longer Be Addicted?

49:00 - Can Everyone Recover From Addiction?

51:50 - CBD And Cannabis

52:50 - Can Anything Become Addictive?

55:10 - Finding A Solution

58:20 - Self Binding

1:01:10 - Shame And Guilt In Recovery

1:03:20 - Radical Honesty, And Our Addiction To Lying

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1:55 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:05 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

10:10 - Farmer Lee Jones Story

15:30 - How Farming Used To Be

17:00 - Nutritional Levels In Produce

18:30 - Growing For Flavor

20:25 - Vitamin D

23:40 - Chemicals And GMOs

25:00 - Home Delivery

25:20 - Could We Have Done It Differently?

26:00 - How The War Changed The Way We Eat

27:50 - A Change In Mindset About Our Food

30:10 - Using The Whole Plant

31:45 - How Much Of Our Food Are Native Species?

33:15 - Seed Savors Exchange: An Heirloom Seed Preserve

34:10 - Are Heirloom Varieties More Nutritious?

35:50 - The Algal Bloom In The Great Lakes

36:30 - How We Can Turn Things Around

37:35 - Buying Local

39:00 - Respecting Your Farm Employees

41:00 - Microgreens

43:05 - Hydroponic Gardens

45:30 - Eating The Root And Greens

46:55 - Edible Flowers

52:20 - White Vegetables

54:40 - Winter Vegetables

58:20 - "Beneficials" In Organic Farming

1:01:15 - Seed Sorting & Seed Weight

1:04:15 - Vegetable Tops

1:05:15 - Craving Certain Plants

1:07:00 - Pollination And Hybridization

1:10:00 - The Recipes

1:12:30 - How To Navigate The Regular Grocery Store

1:15:30 - Regenerative Agriculture With Animals

1:16:50 - Eating Seasonally

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2:40 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:50 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

11:20 - Maria's Personal Story

13:40 - Pure Protein Days

14:35 - Fat & Insulin

15:25 - Fat & Ketosis

19:40 - Fast And Effective Weight Loss

22:15 - 30 Grams Of Fat

23:35 - Intramuscular Lipids

24:20 - Macro & Calorie Counting

28:00 - Satiation Timeline

29:05 - Eating Fat To Burn Fat

30:50 - Artificial Sweeteners

32:15 - Insulin Release

32:55 - HOMA-IR

33:20 - CGMs

36:35 - A Higher Resting Blood Glucose

37:15 - Testing Insulin

37:40 - Fecal Fat

40:45 - The Fat Flux

41:20 - Reverse Insulin Resistance

43:15 - Eating Low Carb Or Low Fat

44:05 - Dairy Foods

45:50 - Ghee Vs Butter

46:20 - MCT Oil

48:10 - Exogenous Ketones

50:35 - The Literature On Exogenous Ketones

51:55 - Blood Ketones And Long Term Ketogenic Diets

53:25 - Ample Nutrition And Iron

55:50 - Oxalates And Anti-Nutrients

1:01:10 - Vitamin C

1:02:20 - Organ Meats

1:06:45 - Maria's Favorite Recipes

1:09:20 - Halle Berry

1:12:20 - The Best Recipes For Kids

1:15:50 - New Recipes

1:18:15 - Intermittent Fasting

1:19:00 - "Healthy At Any Size"

1:21:10 - Keto College

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2:05 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:10 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

12:05 - Adam's Journey Into The Film Industry

14:15 - Working Your Way Up From The Mailroom

16:10 - Becoming A Producer

18:25 - Challenges 

20:55 - Making Movies For Everyone

13:10 - Adams Current Projects

26:40 - Being On Location

27:55 - Reimagining Disney Classics

29:10 - The Midnight Brigade

33:40 - Adam's Creative Process With The Book

37:10 - The 'Big Reveals'

38:15 - Finding An Agent And Making Changes To The Story

41:35 - The Query Letter

43:05 - Lessons From The Collaborative Process

45:35 - What Happens When A Movie Flops

48:20 - Should Everyone Follow Their Dreams In The Movies?

50:00 - Adams Next Book

50:40 - Midnight Brigade The Movie

52:10 - Writing A Screenplay Vs A Novel

58:30 - What Adams Kids Watch

59:15 - Character Basis

1:00:10 - Carl's Dad's Food Truck

1:00:50 - Adam's Daily Habits

1:03:30 - Being Part Of A Working Family

1:04:30 - Emails

1:05:50 - Does Adam Biohack?

1:08:00 - Blue Light Blocking Glasses

1:12:00 - Misconceptions Of The Industry

1:14:00 - The Future Of The Movie Industry

1:17:35 - How The Pandemic Affected Adam's Production Company

1:20:15 - The Future

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2:10 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:25 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

9:45 - Why Does Ketosis Happen?

13:00 - How Does The Liver Know It Needs To Make Ketones?

15:00 - How Do People Burn Fat Without Ketosis?

16:05 - Releasing Fat From Fat Cells

17:10 - Are We Burning Free Fatty Acids In A Ketogenic State?

21:25 - What Is The Mitochondria?

24:15 - Why Don't Red Blood Cells Have Mitochondria?

24:50 - Brown Fat And Beige Fat

25:40 - Can We Evolve Further In Energy Synthesis?

27:05 - A Theory Of Cancer; The Warburg Effect

31:05 - Mitochondrial Uncoupling

37:55 - Efficient Fat Burning

40:00 - Food Induced Thermogenesis

40:30 - DNP

42:30 - Kitavans

43:15 - Prebiotic Fiber

45:15 - What About Exogenous Ketones?

46:15 - Metabolic Flexibility

51:00 - Goat And Sheep Cheese

51:35 - Being Hot Or Cold With The Keto Diet

53:00 - Eating Vs. Burning Saturated Fats

53:40 - Fructose & Ceramides

57:10 - Fermented Foods

57:45 - Vinegars

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2:00 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:10 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

11:55 - Cynthia's Personal Journey With Fasting

15:40 - Best Practices For Fasting For Women?

17:10 - OMAD

20:50 - Fasting And Feeding For Your Cycle; Is It Intuitive?

23:15 - The First Two Weeks Of Your Cycle

24:50 - Nutrition For Your Cycle

26:45 - The Lack Of Research On Cycling Women

33:00 - Rodent Studies

34:10 - Extended Fasting

37:30 - What Can Effect Our Cycles The Most?

43:15 - Hormones Dysregulation

50:40 - The Effect Of Fasting On Hormones; PCOS & Thyroid Regulation

53:00 - Weight Loss And Adipose Tissue

54:50 - Autoimmunity

58:15 - Carbohydrate Intake, Low Carb Diets

1:03:10 - Cortisol

1:10:00 - Testing Cortisol

1:15:20 - What Should We Be Testing?

1:18:30 - Oxytocin

1:21:30 - Clean Fasting, Breaking Your Fast

1:26:05 - Coffee

1:27:30 - Using A Glucometer

1:28:40 - DHEA

1:32:00 - Having Your Sleep And Stress Dialed In Before Beginning Fasting

1:34:20 - Melatonin

1:38:50 - CBD

1:40:45 - Perimenopause

1:49:30 - Mindset

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2:10 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

2:20 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon

9:05 - Dr. Barnard's Introduction to Plant-Based

13:10 - How Do Opposite Diets Work On Both Extremes?

16:20 - Low Carb Vs. Low Carb High Fat Diets

18:40 - Energy Toxicity And Fuel Competition In The Body

20:30 - Intracellular Muscle Fat

22:35 - Endurance Athletes

24:35 - Processed Vegan Foods And Added Oils

26:20 - Post Menopausal Weight Gain

30:15 - Dr. Barnard's New Study

36:45 - Benefits From Soy

40:30 - What Are Isoflavones? 

45:25 - Isoflavones Effect On Cells

47:10 - Diets Rich In Soy; Correlation On Mortality

49:00 - Is Soy Preventative For Breast Cancer?

50:15 - What Are The Implication Of Isoflavones On A Woman's Current Estrogen Load?

54:35 - Equol

58:15 - Equol In Dairy

1:00:05 - Can We Get Back The Gut Bacteria That Produce Equol?

1:00:50 - Fiber And The Microbiome

1:03:45 - Can Everyone Thrive As A Vegan?

1:06:15 - What Is A Vegan Diet Lacking?

1:08:15 - Are We Omnivores?

1:13:40 - Why Do We Make Enzymes To Digest Dairy?

1:16:45 - Melanie's Diet

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2:05 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD Group For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome!

11:05 - Max's Personal Story

15:05 - Having The Risk Factor

20:40 - Dietary And Lifestyle Factors

21:30 - Environmental Pollutants; Fine Particle Matter

26:20 - Protein Build Up In The Brain

28:05 - Amyloid Hypothesis & Other Possible Causes Of Dementia

28:30 - Cholesterol

30:15 - APOE4 Gene

35:10 - Variances In APOE 

37:15 - Dietary Fats, Specifically Saturated Fat

41:10 - Vegan Approach To Brain Health​​

43:10 - Choline

44:15 - Creatine

47:40 - Furan Fatty Acids

49:40 - The Problem With Isolating Nutrients

50:30 - Taurine

52:00 - Types Of Fuel For The Brain

56:10 - Ketones Affect On Alzheimer's 

57:20 - Medium Chain Triglycerides

58:00 - Insulin Degrading Enzyme

1:00:50 - Mindset & Wobbly Furniture

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