Ranked by shared topics, with one result from each original episode.
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“Biomarkers can be used to track how the body is responding to a dietary intervention or exercise program. To assess his body's response to the ketogenic diet, Tim routinely measures his blood ketone level - observing that his level of blood ketones closely reflects his state of mental clarity.”
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“Research in trained cyclists found that daily heart rate variability tracked training load and perceived exertion during an overload period, then returned toward baseline during recovery, supporting its use as a sensitive signal when interpreted against an individual's normal range.”
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“Dr. Patrick also discusses glucose, HbA1c, fasting insulin, kidney and electrolyte markers, hs-CRP, fibrinogen, thyroid tests, CBC, vitamin D, sex hormones, IGF-1, and the Omega-3 Index.”
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“With its focus on prevention, personalized medicine entails collecting deep molecular measurements when a person is healthy and tracking these measurements over time. In this clip, Dr. Michael Snyder discusses his views on how personalized medicine is the way of the future.”
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“Uric acid adds another long-range signal. In the Swedish AMORIS cohort, 1,224 people who reached age 100 tended to have lower midlife glucose, creatinine, and uric acid than peers who did not become centenarians.”
“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.”
“Recent discoveries in the field of epigenetics suggest we might be able to slow aging, based on the realization that not everyone ages at the same rate. Evidence suggests that drugs or other medical procedures can slow epigenetic aging, but other factors, such as diet and disease states influence it too.”
“And one potential strategy for mitigating our risk for Alzheimer's disease as we age is a "cognoscopy" – a battery of assessments that measures some of the key biomarkers associated with the disease and can inform the trajectory of treatment.”
“Cholesterol is vital to human health, but an oversimplified view of cholesterol — that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is good, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is bad — has led to a gross misunderstanding of the nuances that define the differences in cholesterol-containing lipoproteins.”
“This episode of the Aliquot features FoundMyFitness guests with expertise in fields including lipid metabolism, Alzheimer's disease, and micronutrient biochemistry sharing their recommendations regarding blood tests that a person should consider adding to their yearly checkup.”