The Quantified Body
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. Guests on this show include scientists, lab technicians, practicing physicians, citizen scientists and others with insights and perspectives on data collection and use towards health management and optimization. This show has the mission to hunt down the best, most accurate, most accessible sources of data we can find – that provide the clearest insights – to make better decisions about our bodies – whether it be towards the goals of better health, disease resolution, higher performance or longevity. Find more at http://thequantifiedbody.net
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7: Jimmy Moore: How to Measure Ketones & Optimize Ketogenic Diets
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10/21/14 • -1 min
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, ...
07/12/15 • -1 min
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 understanding your oxidative stress levels via lipid peroxidation. We previously took a broad look at measuring and lowering oxidative stress in episode 4 with Dr. Cheryl Burdette. Now, we are going to take a look specifically at one of the more accurate and reliable markers: F2 isoprostanes, a measure of lipid peroxidation. This is an important marker for the fact that every cell membrane in the body is comprised mainly of lipids and ...
19: Dr. Garry Gordon: Lead Body Burden: Testing and the Long Detoxification Process
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04/15/15 • -1 min
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 industrialized age) human skeletal remains contained very low levels of lead. Once the earth’s crust was disturbed through mining, much higher levels of lead were released into our food and air. In a previous episode, Episode 13, we looked at the burden imposed by the heavy metal mercury on the body. Today we will discuss Heavy Metals Part II: Lowering Your Lead Burden. Problems associated with a heavy ...
4: Dr. Cheryl Burdette: Measuring Oxidative Stress and How to Lower It
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09/05/14 • -1 min
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 ...
3: Dr. Terry Wahls: Linking Mitochondrial Health to Autoimmune and Chronic Disease
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08/28/14 • -1 min
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 ...
1: Andrew Flatt: How to Use Heart Rate Variability to Optimize Training
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08/14/14 • -1 min
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 sufficiently we end up decreasing our performance and health rather than getting the results we desire - higher performance, beating our records and increasing our health and wellbeing overall. In today’s chronically stressed world, it’s all too easy to over train as we are so used to the constant stress burden. Most people are aware of this now. But it’s still difficult to manage, even with this ...
52: Rejuvenation Biotech: An Introduction to the State of the Industry – RAADfest
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04/21/19 • -1 min
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 technologies and their potential timelines. Life extension - this is something I've wanted to spend time on for a while. In this episode, I interview 5 thought leaders from the life extension movement. Consider this an introduction to the current status of life extension tools and technologies, as we look at most areas with a broad first-look. You will learn where things are and what the risk profile of those life ...
50: Machine Learning Applied to Functional Medicine – Christopher Kelly & Tommy Wood
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08/25/17 • -1 min
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-minute questionnaire identify physiological weaknesses and bypass the need to spend money on expensive lab tests? This episode focuses on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. These topics are massively discussed in investor and entrepreneurial circles, as well as the media in general. There is a trickle of that starting to move into areas of health tech and health data. There is a lot of potential and discussion around what that ...
49: How Carbohydrate Intolerance Works – Robb Wolf
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04/30/17 • -1 min
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 appetite regulation and carbohydrate metabolism and offer ways to regain carb tolerance through diet and lifestyle modifications. In this episode, we explore how carbohydrate intolerance works. We look at the evolutionary template (basically the Paleo template), neuroregulation of appetite, carbohydrate tolerance, insulin resistance and sensitivity, and the factors that drive all of these. "Once the person is insulin resistant, particularly when they are heading down this road towards prediabetes and potentially diabetes, ...
8: Todd Becker: Experiments in Using Hormesis to Improve HRV
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10/24/14 • -1 min
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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FAQ
How many episodes does The Quantified Body have?
The Quantified Body currently has 52 episodes available.
What topics does The Quantified Body cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on The Quantified Body?
The episode title 'Microbiome Labs: How Actionable Are They Today? In the Future?' is the most popular.
How often are episodes of The Quantified Body released?
Episodes of The Quantified Body are typically released every 15 days, 3 hours.
When was the first episode of The Quantified Body?
The first episode of The Quantified Body was released on Aug 14, 2014.
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