PODCAST · health
The Aliquot Preview
by Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
This is the Aliquot Preview - a sneak peek into FoundMyFitness's members-only podcast: The Aliquot.Learn more about The Aliquot at foundmyfitness.com/aliquot.We release a quarterly free preview episode here so you can sample one of the many FoundMyFitness Premium Membership benefits.So what is an aliquot? An aliquot is a sample taken from a larger whole, that captures the essence of the entirety. FoundMyFitness Aliquots are short, members-only podcasts focused on single topics, curated and remixed to surface our richest content on the most popular topics like diet and nutrition, health span and life extension, exercise, fasting, ketosis, sauna and cold exposure, sleep and depression.Some episodes are edited excerpts, highlights, and informative moments taken from full interviews in the FoundMyFitness podcast (with a little more context from Dr Rhonda Patrick!) Other episodes are mash-ups and highlights from our regular Q&As with members. Become a FoundMyFitness Premium member to g
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PREVIEW Aliquot #106: The Science of Longevity Vitamins: Taurine, Ergothioneine, and PQQ
Get more Aliquots! Become an FMF Premium Member and get full access to our members-only podcast, The Aliquot, plus live Q&As with Rhonda, every-other-week Science Digest emails, and more. Learn more about The Aliquot podcast here Vitamins are substances that our bodies need to develop and…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #92: The Underestimated Role of Resistance in Body Recomposition
Having a healthy body composition, with plenty of lean mass – in the form of muscle and bones – is essential for health throughout the lifespan. Achieving a healthy body composition requires a balanced approach that emphasizes resistance training – and calorie reduction where appropriate. In this...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #85: The Science of Wrinkle Prevention ⎯ Building Resilient Skin
Your skin is a crucial barrier to the outside world – the first line of defense against environmental exposures, and the primary means by which the body retains fluids necessary for survival. Consequently, maintaining a healthy skin barrier is important for your overall health. In this Aliquot, I...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #78: The minimum effective dose for hypertrophy
Incorporating resistance training into your exercise regimen presents a scheduling dilemma – there's simply not enough time. Performing time-efficient workouts that involve supersets, paired sets, drop sets, and multi-joint exercises decrease training time while providing the minimum effective…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #70: Preventing age-related muscle loss
The progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that occurs with aging, referred to as sarcopenia, begins as early as our 30s or 40s. Many factors contribute to sarcopenia, including diet and inactivity. Building muscle mass in one's early years is essential for staving off the...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #65: Concerns with chronic NSAID use
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, are among the most widely used drugs worldwide, available in both prescription and over-the-counter forms, such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and others. Most NSAIDs, with the exception of aspirin, work by inhibiting the activity of a family of...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #61: How dietary fiber influences metabolic health
Dietary fiber is a broad term that refers to the non-digestible components of fruits and vegetables. Gut microbes break down certain types of fiber, releasing micronutrients trapped in the fiber matrix and producing beneficial metabolic byproducts, such as short-chain fatty acids. Fiber exerts a...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #59: How alcohol affects sleep, behavior, and cancer risk
Alcohol, one of the most used drugs worldwide, is a controversial subject. Whereas some research suggests drinking alcohol improves health, an abundance of evidence indicates that drinking alcohol also harms health. Particularly, higher alcohol intake is associated with an increased risk of many...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #54: Dietary and environmental factors that may impact autoimmune diseases
Autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis occur when the immune system mistakes the body's own proteins for those released by invading pathogens. The immune system has strategies for filtering these autoimmune cells out of circulation; however, this...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #51: What's the best omega-3 dosage for maximum benefit?
Early studies of omega-3 fatty acid intake demonstrated dramatic biological effects. Since then, the body of research enumerating the profound anti-inflammatory and multi-system, generalized health-promoting qualities of omega-3s continues to grow; however, some studies fail to show any effects...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #43: Protein consumption: Finding the Balance
Protein is essential for maintaining muscle mass as we age. Modulating protein intake via dietary intake or fasting can have variable effects on aging and muscle growth. Whereas fasting turns off multiple pathways associated with aging, such as mTOR, IGF-1, growth hormone, and others, eating for...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #41: Q&A and Interview Mashup - Blood Tests, Biomarkers, and Lab Work
"If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." - William Thompson Getting regular checkups and undergoing blood tests are fundamental to maintaining good health. FMF guests with expertise ranging from lipid metabolism to Alzheimer's disease risk to micronutrient status have shared their...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #38: Zinc's role in brain and immune health
Zinc is an essential nutrient that participates in many biological processes and plays critical roles in immune function, protein synthesis, wound healing, DNA synthesis, cell division, and brain health. Zinc deficiency puts a person at risk for a subtype of Alzheimer's disease and poor immune...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #34: How fasting influences immune function
This month's Aliquot Preview episode features Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Valter Longo describe the roles that diet and fasting play in maintaining or restoring proper immune function. Diet plays essential roles in immune function. Consequently, deficiencies or insufficiencies in vitamins or...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #30: Lifestyle modifications that enhance immune health
Having a healthy, robust immune system is crucial for our survival. Critical players in the body's antiviral immune response are interferons. Certain lifestyle behaviors can boost interferon production and immune function, including sleep, vitamin D, and hot hydrotherapy. This Aliquot segment...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #26: How mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Work
Traditional vaccines take many years to develop. A recent innovation in vaccine technology involves exploitation of messenger RNA, or mRNA, to facilitate rapid scaling of vaccines and expedite their modification if the virus mutates significantly. The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #25: Coffee, caffeine, and sleep
Coffee consumption is associated with protection from several chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disease. Whereas some of the beneficial effects of coffee may stem from its ability to induce autophagy, other evidence points to the benefits of…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #22: Q&A Mashup - Rhonda's personal supplement routine
This month's Aliquot Preview episode is a special mashup episode features a compilation of supplement-related topics taken from many of my Q&A episodes over the last couple of years. This episode covers many supplement-related topics including: (00:00) Introduction (00:49) Personal…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #18: The dual nature of IGF-1: Striking a balance for optimal health
Insulin-like growth factor-1, or IGF-1 for short, is a protein that plays critical roles in major growth pathways in the human body. It influences nearly every tissue in the body, especially developmental growth, skeletal muscle and neurons. Emerging evidence suggests that IGF-1 also regulates…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #16: Time-restricted eating for better metabolic health - Part 1
Time-restricted eating, which involves taking in food within a small window of time during the day and fasting for the remainder, can improve certain biomarkers of health – even without weight loss – to improve overall health. In Part I of this two-part segment, Drs. Satchin Panda and Ruth...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #8: Lifestyle interventions for depression and anxiety
This month's Aliquot Preview episode features Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry. Various ancient practices, including meditation, hot yoga, and sauna, may aid in the treatment of depression. Whether the medical community will embrace these lifestyle interventions remains to be seen.…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #6: Genetic and lifestyle risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
The single most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is a variant of apolipoprotein E, or APOE for short, a lipoprotein produced in the liver and brain. Roughly a quarter of all people living in the US – about 75 million people – carry a genetic variant of APOE called APOE4.…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #3: Q&A Mashup - Fasting
This month's Aliquot Preview episode is a collection of clips that covers a range of topics related to fasting, including associated mechanisms of healthspan and longevity, health benefits, and when and how to break the fast. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Intermittent fasting caused…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #2: Q&A Mashup - Sauna
This month's Aliquot Preview episode is a collection of clips that covers some of the many health benefits associated with sauna use, including heat shock protein activation, cardiovascular health, muscle mass preservation, and more. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Implications of sauna...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #1: Q&A Mashup - Pregnancy and Child Development
This month's Aliquot Preview episode is a collection of clips that covers a range of topics related to optimizing a child's development and growth, from pregnancy to toddlerhood. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Common deficiencies in infants and toddlers and how Rhonda optimizes her…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is the Aliquot Preview - a sneak peek into FoundMyFitness's members-only podcast: The Aliquot.Learn more about The Aliquot at foundmyfitness.com/aliquot.We release a quarterly free preview episode here so you can sample one of the many FoundMyFitness Premium Membership benefits.So what is an aliquot? An aliquot is a sample taken from a larger whole, that captures the essence of the entirety. FoundMyFitness Aliquots are short, members-only podcasts focused on single topics, curated and remixed to surface our richest content on the most popular topics like diet and nutrition, health span and life extension, exercise, fasting, ketosis, sauna and cold exposure, sleep and depression.Some episodes are edited excerpts, highlights, and informative moments taken from full interviews in the FoundMyFitness podcast (with a little more context from Dr Rhonda Patrick!) Other episodes are mash-ups and highlights from our regular Q&As with members. Become a FoundMyFitness Premium member to g
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