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“Dr. Patrick explains that omega-3 fatty acids may help preserve muscle during periods of immobilization, illness, or injury, while Brady Holmer describes creatine as a practical daily tool for training capacity, strength, and recovery.”

“A recent meta-analysis also found small benefits in selected cognitive domains, including memory and processing speed, with responses that may depend on age, diet, baseline stores, stress, dose, and the cognitive test used.”

“Dr. David Sinclair takes roughly a gram of each every day with caffeinated coffee – a combo that he asserts gives him a lot of energy. In this clip, Dr. David Sinclair describes his personal resveratrol and nicotinamide mononucleotide supplementation habits.”

“Dr. Cronise describes his extended, unsupplemented fast after which he observed no apparent metabolic changes, and he challenges the paradigm that nutrients need to be balanced daily. In this clip, Dr. Ray Cronise and Dr. Rhonda Patrick discuss the importance of diet in maximizing healthspan and longevity.”

“Dr. Patrick explains that she uses zinc lozenges only during exposure or the earliest signs of illness, often totaling roughly 80 to 100 milligrams per day for a short period. Small randomized zinc-acetate lozenge trials have produced mixed results, with one reporting a shorter cold and another finding no faster recovery with more adverse effects.”

“An extended overnight fast can improve hemoglobin A1C levels, a biomarker for the three months average plasma glucose concentration, and C-reactive protein levels, a biomarker of inflammation.”

“Sure, those dates on the calendar pass at the same rate for everybody, but some people appear to age slower (or faster) than others – with vastly different age-related physical changes and disease risks.”

“However, exercising while taking a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAID) may blunt the initial rush of acute inflammation and negate some of the long term health effects of exercise.”

“In this clip from his FoundMyFitness interview with Dr. Rhonda Patrick, Dr. Benjamin Levine explains why recovery is part of training rather than time lost between workouts. Hard sessions trigger protein synthesis, vascular signaling, and muscular remodeling, but those changes need lower-stress time to develop.”

“In a clinical trial, researchers subjected people to three cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet and measured biomarkers including cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, IGF-1, blood pressure, and C-reactive protein.”