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Mitochondria Peptides: MOTS-c, Humanin, Genetic Variation in Health & Disease | Pinchas Cohen | Episode 304

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Neuro-Immune Interactions: Pain, Inflammation, Peptides & Healing | Isaac Chiu | Episode 303

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MOTS-c & Mitochondrial Peptides in Health & Aging | David Lee | Episode 302

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Peptides & GHK-Copper in Skin Health | Rahi Sarbaziha | Episode 301

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Peptides & Blood-Brain Barrier in Health & Disease | William Banks | Episode 300

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Iron Overload & Lipid Peroxidation in Cell Death & Neurodegenerative Disease | Pamela Maher | Episode 299

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GLP-1s & Novel Peptides in Obesity, Diabetes & Metabolic Health | Katrin Svensson | Episode 298

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Deuterium, Metabolic Water & Cancer | Gábor Somlyai | Episode 297

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Do Antioxidant Supplements Promote Cancer? | Isaac Harris | Episode 296

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Opioid Addiction: RNA Biology, Brain Inflammation & Psychedelic Therapy

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Estrogen & Body Fat: Menopause, Puberty, Females vs. Males

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The Claustrum: Cognition, Consciousness, Alcohol & Psychedelics | 278

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Psychedelic Neurobiology: Sex-Specific Effects of MDMA & Psilocybin in Addiction & Reward Behavior

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AMPK: Biochemistry of Nutrient Sensing, Fasting, Cell Repair & Growth | Greg Steinberg

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Farm Food: Soy in Animal Feed, Pesticides, Phytoestrogens, Seed Oils & Regenerative Farming

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Personalized Nutrition: Individual Responses to Foods, Fiber, Fats & Maternal Health

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Nutrition Content of Animal & Plant Foods: Beef, Plant-Based Meat, Raw vs. Processed Milk

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Metabolic Effects of Oxidative Stress in Development & Neurodegeneration Disease | Robert Lustig | 272

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Carbohydrates vs Ketosis in Exercise, Fatigue & Sports Science | Andrew Koutnik | 271

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Stress & Psilocybin: Effects on Maternal Care & Offspring Development | Danielle Stolzenberg | 270

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Soybean Oil: Obesity, Fatty Liver Disease, Gut Health, IBS & Colitis | Frances Sladek | 269

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Dietary Fat & Light Regulation of Circadian Biology | Louis Ptacek | 268

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Ketosis & BHB: Metabolic Diet Therapies, Brain Cancer & Exercise | Dominic D'Agostino | 267

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Seed Oils, Chronic Inflammation, Heart Health & Marijuana | Ganesh Halade | 266

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Evaluating Science: Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Preclinical Studies & Mendelian Randomization | George Davey Smith | 265

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Energy Metabolism & Information Processing in the Brain | Luis Felipe Barros | 264

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How & Why Mitochondria Make Their Own Fat | Sara Nowinski | 263

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Hormones & Instincts: Hunger, Aggression & Parenting Behavior | Jonny Kohl | 262

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Mitochondrial Transfer, Obesity & Immune-Metabolism Interactions | Jon Brestoff | 261

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Energy Resistance Principle in Life, Healing & Disease | Martin Picard & Nirosha Murugan | 260

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Menstrual & Lunar Cycle Synchrony, Circadian Rhythms | Charlotte Förster | 259

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Evolution of Bipedality, Human Pelvis, Muscle & Brain | Terence Capellini | 258

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Sleep, Mitochondrial Metabolism & Oxidative Stress | Gero Miesenbock | 257

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Bacterial Infection, Oral Hygiene, Atherosclerosis & Heart Disease | Pekka Karhunen | 256

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Unlocking Energy: How Nutrition & Drugs Impact Your Mitochondria | Chris Masterjohn | 255

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How Genes & Environment Shape Your Brain: ApoE, Alzheimer's & Space Radiation | Jacob Raber | 254

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Maternal Obesity, Immune System, Fatty Liver Disease & Epigenetics | Elvira Mass | 253

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Scarring, Fibrosis, Oxidative Stress, and Psilocybin & Aging | Louise Hecker | 252

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Protein Restriction & Liver Hormones: Appetite, Brain, Behavior | Chris Morrison | 251

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Cognition, Form, Regeneration & Metaphysics: Does Biology Arise From Math? | Michael Levin | 250

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Fructose, Microglia, Anxiety & Brain Development | Justin Perry | 249

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Autism, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) & Oxidative Stress | William Parker | 248

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Cholesterol: Immune Benefits, Heart Health, Statins & Research Malpractice | Uffe Ravnskov | 247

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Appendix, Gut Worms, Allergies & Autoimmunity | William Parker | 246

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Cannabinoid System: Metabolism, Evolution & Energy Storage | Giovanni Marsicano | 245

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Seed Oils & Heart Disease: Oxidized LDL, Cholesterol, Fat & Cardiology | Tucker Goodrich | 244

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Evolution & Variation in Human Diet, Energy Expenditure & Metabolism | Herman Pontzer | 243

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Sunlight: Cosmology, Energy Metabolism & the Physics of Life | Robert Fosbury | 242

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Synapse Energetics & Fat Metabolism in the Brain | Timothy Ryan | 241

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Microbiome as a Modifiable Organ System | Eugene Chang | 240

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Sleep Duration, Sleep Timing & Short-Sleepers | Ying-Hui Fu | 239

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Hormones, Endocrine Disruptors & the Fate of Modern Liberal Society | Charles Cornish-Dale | 238

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Circadian Biology: Genetics, Behavior, Metabolism, Light, Oxygen & Melatonin | Joseph Takahashi | 237

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Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Self-Assembly & Self-Organization, Wound Healing | Bill Bement | 236

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Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning vs. Biological Learning, Large Language Models | Marius Pachitariu | 235

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Brain Fat: Dietary PUFAs, Cannabinoids, Fatty Acid Binding Proteins, Anxiety & Mood | Steven Laviolette | 234

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Feel the Burn: Seed Oils, Memes & Oxidative Stress | Brian Kerley | 233

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SSRIs, Sexual Dysfunction, Suicide & Mass Shootings, How FDA Works | David Healy | 232

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Psychedelic Chemistry, Magic Mushrooms, Kratom, Gray Market Research Chemicals, Vape Shops | Andrew Chadeayne | 231

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Psilocybin & MDMA: Inflammation, Stress & Brain-Body Communication | Michael Wheeler | 230

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Linoleic Acid, Seed Oils, mTOR & Breast Cancer | Nikos Koundouros & John Blenis | 229

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Rhythms, Memory, Time, Place, Representation & the Brain | György Buzsáki | 228

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Biophysics of Life: Biophotons, Light, Quantum Biology, Regeneration & Cancer | Nirosha Murugan | 227

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Psychedelics & Cerebral Cortex: Neuroplasticity, Psilocybin, Ketamine | Alex Kwan | 226

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Nutrition Epidemiology: Fake Science? | John Speakman | 225

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Cancer Biology: Metabolism, Mitochondria & Energy | Thomas Seyfried | 224

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Ketogenic Diet: Cholesterol, Plaque & Heart Heart | Matthew Budoff | 223

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Genetics & Neurobiology of Obesity: Hypothalamus, Leptin, Gut Hormones, Weight Loss Drugs | Giles Yeo | 222

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Regenerative Energy & the Light Inside You | Jack Kruse | 221

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Cell Death, Oxidative Stress, PUFAs & Antioxidants | Pamela Maher | 220

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Shamanism, Human Culture & the Evolution of Religion | Manvir Singh | 219

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Chemical Exposures, Neurodegenerative Disease & Exposomics | Gary Miller | 218

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Communication & Social Cognition in Elephants & Animals | Mickey Pardo | 217

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Can Aspirin Prevent Cancer Metastasis? | Rahul Roychoudhuri | 216

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Cancer Metabolism: Sugar, Fructose, Lipids & Fasting | Gary Patti | 215

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Gut Microbiome Plasticity | Peter Turnbaugh | 214

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Causes of Diabetes: Insulin, Mitochondria, Genetics, Metabolism | Scott Soleimanpour | 213

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How Science Really Works: Meta-Research, Publishing, Reproducibility, Peer Review, Funding | John Ioannidis | 212

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Short-Chain Fatty Acids, Diabetes Subtypes & Wearable HealthTech | Michael Snyder | 211

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Public Health & Trust in Science in the Post-COVID Era | Martin Kulldorff | 210

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Thyroid Biology in Health & Aging | Diana van Heemst | 209

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Glyphosate, Choline & Alzheimer's: Toxins & Nutrition to Prevent Neurodegeneration | Ramon Velazquez | 208

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Glycosylation, CDGs & Role of Sugars Beyond Energy Production | Eva Morava | 207

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Cultural Evolution, Religion & the Origins of WEIRD Psychology | Joseph Henrich | 206

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Systems Biology, Personalized Medicine, AI & the Future of Health | Lee Hood | 205

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Preventive Medicine, Personalized Nutrition & Changing Your Microbiome | Momo Vuyisich | 204

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Metagenomics, Microbiome Transmission, Gut Microbiome in Health & Disease | Nicola Segata | 203

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Why Do Animals Sleep? | Vlad Vyazovskiy | M&M #202

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Aroma, Olfaction & Using AI to Digitize Smell | Alex Wiltschko | #201

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Dietary Fats & Seed Oils in Inflammation, Colon Cancer & Chronic Disease | Tim Yeatman & Ganesh Halade | #200

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Ancient Diets, Human Carnivory, Mammoth Hunting, Clovis Culture & Origin of Native Americans | Ben Potter & Jim Chatters | 199

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Vaccine Adverse Events & mRNA Biotechnology | Jessica Rose | #198

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Creation Myths, Stoned Apes & the Eve Theory of Consciousness | Andrew Cutler

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Neurobiology of Stress: Resilience, HPA Axis, Stress Hormones, Sex Differences, Early Life Stress | Rosemary Bagot | #191

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Mental Illness & Substance Abuse: Genetics, Psychosis, THC, Dopamine & the Brain | Jibran Khokhar | #190

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Vaccine Contamination & Fiat Science | Kevin McKernan | #196

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Skin Biology: Hormones, Light, Vitamin D, Melatonin & Stress | Andrzej Slominski | #189

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Psychedelics, Functional Neuroimaging & the Human Brain | Joshua Siegel | #188

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Synesthesia & Effects of Digital Technology on Brain & Mental Health | Richard Cytowic | #187

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Kidney Biology: Simple Diet & Lifestyle Practices for Kidney Health | Thomas Weimbs | #186