PODCAST · health
The Quantified Body
by 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, diseas
Episodes
-
52: Rejuvenation Biotech: An Introduction to the State of the Industry – RAADfest
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…
more -
Microbiome Labs: How Actionable Are They Today? In the Future?
Microbiome testing can be confusing: many companies, different technologies and a lack of standards make it hard to get actionable insights from the data. Find out how technologies and labs differ and what information is actionable from today's microbiome tests. In this episode we continue our...
-
49: How Carbohydrate Intolerance Works – Robb Wolf
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…
more -
Eran Segal & Lihi Segal: Is Your Glucose Metabolism Unique to You?
Is your glucose metabolism driven by your personal microbiome? Recent research reveals how the microbiome influences blood glucose, weight gain and weight loss. And how the new company, "Day Two", is using microbiome sequencing data to provide personalized nutrition recommendations. In this…
more -
47: Using Supplement Testing Results to Ensure Supplement Efficacy – Neil Thanedar
Recent investigations have shown supplements to not always contain what they say they do. Or at other times to have unwanted contaminants such as heavy metals. Learn to use 3rd party lab testing to select supplements that contain the active ingredients needed to provide the results you seek....
-
Chris Masterjohn: Fat Soluble Micronutrients Optimization
Micronutrient status is a foundation of health, performance and chronic disease minimization. This episode looks at how to optimize fat soluble micronutrients status. In this episode we look at ensuring micronutrient status. Ensuring your body has the building blocks it needs to do what it needs…
more -
Dominic D’Agostino: Leveraging Ketone Bodies for Health, Performance and Longevity
Ketone bodies, whether gained from fasting, keto diets, MCTs or exogenous ketones have many potential applications with benefits ranging from performance, to health, to longevity and mitigating symptoms and risks of certain diseases. There is growing evidence that ketone bodies, whether they come...
-
44: N=1 Experiment: Using Ketosis to Fight a Brain Tumor
Putting the body into ketosis and controlling blood glucose levels may prove to be effective therapy against certain cancers. This real case reveals one aggressive self-experimenter who used a combination of the ketogenic diet, fasting and other tools to control his epilepsy and send his brain...
-
43: Learnings from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (and the Future of Blood Sugar Management Tech) – Tim Omer
Most of us have non-optimal blood glucose regulation today.The impact? Reduced performance, and reduced longevity. We wrongly assume that it's only diabetics that are exposed to these issues. This episode explores using continuous glucose monitoring and other tech to optimize blood sugar through...
-
42: 10 Day Water Fast Results (Self Experiment)
Part 3 in our series of Fasting Self-Experiments. In this longer 10 day water fast I tracked results with a broad set of biomarkers (ketones, glucose, weight, hormones and cognitive performance panels). This is a long post - if that scares you, jump directly to what you're looking for: Why Do a…
more -
41: How to Quantify Cardiovascular Fitness – Marco Altini
A look at how to accurately quantify your cardiovascular fitness in order to optimize endurance sports or your cardiovascular health. Is VO2Max the gold standard? Are the metrics in the current "fitness trackers" useful for this goal? In this episode we look at different ways to track fitness....
-
40: Quantifying Heart Disease Risk and Reducing Plaques in Your Arteries
Heart disease affects 50% of the U.S. population in their lifetime. Learn how to accurately quantify your personal heart disease status and risk, and if necessary, take clear actions to reduce that risk by eliminating plaque in the arteries. This episode presents an in depth look at heart disease...
-
39: Meditation Tech to Increase Focus and Self Awareness (Interaxon’s Muse) – Ariel Garten
Meditation - ever more popular as studies pile up proving its benefits. However, how do you assure yourself that you gain the same benefits with your meditation practice? Muse Calm is a neurofeedback device that promises accurate feedback on the quality of your meditation. In this episode we talk...
-
38: Can Genetic Testing Give Us Precision Health? – Michael Nova
What is genetic testing able to do and not do with current services? We talk with one of the top genetic lab services to understand how technologies differ in accuracy and where it is working, where it is not yet ready and why. In this episode we look at the impact that genetics has on our health...
-
37: How the Human Microbiome Impacts Health – Dr. Rob Knight
What defines human microbiome health? The co-founder of American Gut Project discusses the differences we've found in the gut microbiome and how it influences our health. We look at tools and lifestyle choices that have been shown to change the microbiome (for good, and for bad). Our microbiome...
-
36: Quantifying Cancer and Reexamining Which Cancers May be Inhibited by Fasts – Gene Fine
Water fasting or ketogenic therapies may be effective with some cancers, and not with others. Learn about the PET scan and how it can provide insights into whether a cancer is likely to be responsive or not to the water fast tactic we've covered in previous episodes. In this episode, we return to...
-
35: Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback as a Tool to Reduce Stress – Richard Gevirtz
An in-depth look at using heart rate variability biofeedback with slow breathing to reduce stress, enhance athletic performance and provide therapeutic support for some chronic health issues. Heart rate variability biofeedback is being used primarily to reset the nervous system and thus as an...
-
34: High Impact Endurance Upgrades – Ben Greenfield
A look at a collection of high impact endurance tools and tactics - and the top biomarkers to watch for optimization. Vetted by an endurance athlete with years of experiments and competitions behind him. Today's episode is about endurance training and using high-impact tools to get the most out…
more -
33: How to Know What Improves Your Mental Performance (in Only a Few Minutes per Day) – Yoni Donner
We strive for the best mental performance but how do you know if your routines (sleep patterns, coffee habits, etc.) are helping or hurting? The Quantified Mind is a web-based project that allows you to quickly check your cognitive function in a few minutes. In previous episodes, we have…
more -
32: Quantified Medicine: Working with a Quant-Friendly Physician and Where Self-Tracking Makes Medicine Better – Paul Abramson
Can physicians improve health outcomes using new self-tracking tech with their patients? Or is the tech still too inaccurate or impractical? We take a hard look at the reality and potential with a physician testing quantified self practices in his clinic for the last 3 years. This episode is…
more -
30: Is Oxaloacetate the Next Big Brain & Anti-Aging Supplement? – Alan Cash
Oxaloacetate is an important metabolic intermediate in the energy pathway of the mitochondria. Recent case studies support the use of oxaloacetate as a nutritional supplement to help regulate blood glucose levels, potentially support longevity and protect the brain. Can you get similar beneficial...
-
29: How to Repair Mitochondria with Lipid Replacement – Garth Nicolson PhD
Mitochondria, the power plants of our body, get damaged through aging and other stressors. Lipid Replacement Therapy (LRT) is a tool being used to repair part of this damage to mitochondrial membranes, and can help people recover and optimize their energy levels. The mitochondria is often…
more -
28: 5 Day Water Fast Results (Self Experiment)
A walk-through of the 5-day water fast with the tracked results (ketones, glucose, weight) and the practical do's and don'ts to make the most of the experience. I'm not a fan of cancer. The only people I've lost in memory - my grandfather and other close family - it was cancer that took them. NOT...
-
27: Dr Adrian Owen: Does Brain Training Improve Mental Performance?
Have you been using Dual-N-Back or other braining tools? A look at failed brain training experiments and how to assess real mental performance improvement with Dr. Adrian Owen. In today's fast paced, technologically advanced world strong mental performance is of utmost importance. From our...
-
26: Aging Biomarkers – Gil Blander PhD
How well are you aging? We look at an attempt to make an aging biomarker index accessible to consumers that tracks their true biological age and provides feedback recommendations to improve how they age. In this episode we take another look at longevity through the lens of aging biomarkers. This...
-
25: Understanding Your Oxidative Stress Levels via Lipid Peroxidation Markers
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...
-
24: Troy Angrignon: What Value Can We Really Get from 2015’s Wearable Devices?
This episode is about experimenters in the field of biohacking, the people actually in the trenches doing stuff. We’re focusing on wearable devices such as watches, shirts, bracelets, necklaces and on and on. We're focusing on wearable devices such as watches, shirts, bracelets, necklaces and on…
more -
23: Kara Fitzgerald: Assessing Your Toxic Burden
Today we return to the topic of detoxification. A simple and universal lever everyone can use in the quest for better health, detoxification is a worthwhile endeavor whether you suffer from a chronic disease or are an athlete seeking to gain a performance edge. Previously on The Quantified Body…
more -
22: Bob Troia: N=1 Experiments (Bulletproof Diet, Intermittent Fasting, Blood Glucose Regulation and More)
Today's episode is about practical tools that we can use to improve our biology and how we can track those results to make sure we are getting the right answers. This episode can serve as an important source of information about N=1 experiments and biohacking. N=1 experiments involve a single...
-
21: Michael Weisend: Does tDCS Accelerate Learning? Is it Safe?
Recently, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) or the non-invasive targeting of weak direct current (DC) to specific brain regions has received media attention. Among the scientific research community, tDCS has been a subject of great interest owing to its usage ease, relative...
-
Dr. Joon Yun: Heart Rate Variability as a Biomarker of Longevity
Is Heart Rate Variability the best biomarker of the time to track our longevity? In this episode we look at why HRV may be the best way to track how well you are aging and the bets being placed on it in Silicon Valley to drive innovation in anti-aging and longevity research. Previously we've…
more -
19: Dr. Garry Gordon: Lead Body Burden: Testing and the Long Detoxification Process
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...
-
18: Dr. Greg Welk: Fitness Tracker Accuracy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
According to a 2015 consumer wearables report, 1 in 10 Americans has a fitness tracker. Yet there have been various media reports questioning the accuracy of these devices. Today we talk about whether the accuracy of fitness trackers matters; upcoming research trends; and, the most important...
-
17: Dr. Carolyn Dean: The Tricky Art of Testing for and Fixing Magnesium Deficiency
Micro-nutrient deficiencies are prevalent today, and prevent our biology from functioning optimally by limiting its activity. The most common and most severe micro-nutrient deficiency for most of us is Magnesium. A hundred years ago we were able to get five hundred milligrams per day of…
more -
Dr. Thomas Seyfried: “Water Fasts” as a Potential Tactic to Beat Cancer
Is some aspect of mitochondrial damage behind cancer? If so, can this theory help us take control of cancer via tactics such as yearly or more frequent "7 day water fasts". When we think about death, cancer is often what we think of first. If you're like me, most, if not all, of the deaths...
-
15: Ernesto Ramirez : The Quantified Self Movement
This week’s podcast is about the rising movement for quantifying our lives beyond just health and body. The Quantified Self is about self-knowledge through self-tracking and extends our awareness about what’s happening in our lives, how we’re spending our time, and pretty much anything related to...
-
Aubrey De Grey: A Framework to Increase Longevity and End Aging
A walk-through of a practical framework designed to achieve what most of us believe is impossible - completely eliminate aging. Learn about the 7 ways we age, and how scientists are trying to design tools to repair each one of them. Today is our first episode on aging. Longevity is a subject…
more -
13 Dr. Chris Shade: Quantifying Your Mercury Burden and Detoxification
Toxins negatively impact our health, longevity and performance in a variety of ways. Today we look at one of the most important toxins all of us are exposed to in today’s environment - mercury. It finds its way into our bodies in many ways: through our dental amalgams, the fish we eat, and...
-
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...
-
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…
more -
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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…
more -
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...
-
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…
more -
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...
-
2: William J. Walsh: Optimizing Your Brain via Biochemistry
Our performance and quality of life is largely dependent on a delicate balance of brain biochemistry. It defines our mental health, mood, our anxiety, our focus and attention, cognitive performance and ultimately even our personality. Today's guest estimates that 80 to 90% of the population have...
-
1: Andrew Flatt: How to Use Heart Rate Variability to Optimize Training
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 -...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
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, diseas
HOSTED BY
The Quantified Body
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does The Quantified Body have?
The Quantified Body currently has 49 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Quantified Body about?
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...
How often does The Quantified Body release new episodes?
The Quantified Body has 49 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to The Quantified Body?
You can listen to The Quantified Body on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts The Quantified Body?
The Quantified Body is created and hosted by The Quantified Body.
URL copied to clipboard!