The Quantified Body

The Quantified Body

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The Quantified Body episodes

  • 12: Jeffrey Bland PhD: Assessing the Body via the Functional Medicine Framework and Your Detoxification System
    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 assessing the body via the functional medicine framework and your detoxification system.
    Where "standard of care" excels at dealing with acute health crises, like car accidents injuries and deadly pathogens and infections, functional medicine has grown to tackle primarily chronic health issues.
    The argument for a future where we turn increasingly to functional medicine is that:
    where traditional medicine seeks to manage disease (e.g. pharmaceutical therapy or surgery), functional medicine ...
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  • 11: Simon Wegerif: HRV- Endurance Training, Adrenal Fatigue, and Future App Developments
    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 training.
    Today we also look at some scenarios where the HRV metric can be confounded where an increase in it is not good, how it can be used to identify possible adrenal fatigue and how to improve its accuracy by combining it with Resting Heart Rate and qualitative measures.
    Today's guest is Simon Wegerif who founded ithlete, the first HRV app company, which appeared 5 years ago in 2009. ...
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  • 10: Doug McGuff: Time-Efficient Workouts and How to Optimize Workouts for Strength and Size Gains
    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 getting swallowed up by the demands of my career job while starting my own business on the side and trying to keep to my crossfit workout program (which I dearly loved).
    I barely had any time or energy to socialize or get anything else done. More worryingly my performance in my workouts was going down - not up. I found myself getting more and more tired during and after workouts, having to hold ...
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  • 9: Jessica Richman: Quantifying the Microbiome and the State of Crowd Science
    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 the big new topic in the health media and news the last few years. Research is increasingly relating differences in our microbiomes to a range of disease conditions, primarily chronic and gut related ones. If you’re already buying the probiotics or prebiotics in the health store - the reason you’re doing that, is for the microbiome.
    But what, if anything, do the probiotic and prebiotic products do for us? ...
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  • 8: Todd Becker: Experiments in Using Hormesis to Improve HRV
    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, stresses us, is what ends up making us stronger. The process is known as "hormesis" and applies to pretty much everything we can think of. Low doses of all types of stressors can make us better by stimulating us to adapt - exercise, emotional stress, radiation, natural pesticides found in plants - also known as phytonutrients and so on.
    When the dose is too high it proves to do ...
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  • 7: Jimmy Moore: How to Measure Ketones & Optimize Ketogenic Diets
    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 how your low carb or high fat diet is really affecting you.
    If there is one area of our bodies that is debated to extremes, with literally hundreds of differing strong opinions on it, it's nutrition. For many, beliefs about nutrition and diet are tribal. We put ourselves in different camps and we war agains the other camps. Whether it be paleo, low fat, low carb, ...
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  • 6: Ronda Collier: Managing Stress with Heart Rate Variability
    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 other contexts such as stress management, general health, motivation, and willpower, where it can help you make decisions about how to improve these areas and identify what’s working for you - and what is not. So we’re going to continue to look at its use in these different contexts and the research behind it.
    Today we’re looking at managing stress with heart rate variability ...
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  • 5: Dr. Ben Lynch: Optimizing Methylation
    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 health risks like heart disease or cancer when it doesn’t.
    Addressing methylation SNPs (genetic mutations that we all have some of to varying degrees) and related biochemical imbalances personally made a very big impact to the quality of my life, eliminating issues like migraine headaches, improving sleep, and enhancing my quality of life and productivity by smoothing out "mood dips and bumps”, and helping heal my ...
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  • 4: Dr. Cheryl Burdette: Measuring Oxidative Stress and How to Lower It
    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 we be checking our oxidative stress levels as often as we check our cholesterol?
    Not a day goes past that we don't hear about oxidative stress in the news and interwebs, and how it is shortening our lifespan or causing diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
    Unless you’ve been living under a HUGE rock, you also know that antioxidants protect us from oxidative ...
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  • 3: Dr. Terry Wahls: Linking Mitochondrial Health to Autoimmune and Chronic Disease
    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 our modern day ailments?
    When we think about health risk, and reducing it, most of us are thinking about cancer, heart disease and strokes.
    Autoimmune and other chronic health conditions aren't top of mind, because they don't tend to get the same attention in the media - and have much smaller research budgets currently.
    But if you look at the numbers you are statistically much more likely to face autoimmune problems in your lifetime ...
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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.