Using Blood Metrics To Hack Health & Longevity

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Jeffery Gladden chats with Dr. Gil Blander, internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and for translating his discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. He received a Ph.D. in biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. He has been featured in CNN Money, The New York Times, Forbes, The Financial Times, and The Boston Globe. He is also the founder of InsideTracker. In this episode, Dr. Gladden and Dr. Gil discuss how Dr. Gil's passion and expertise in longevity informed his decision to found InsideTracker. Drawing from his expertise Dr. Gill also touches on how blood work is an ideal foundation for creating personalized lifestyle protocols intended to optimize longevity and how "set variables" like DNA, gender, and ethnicity play into a personalized quest for longevity. If you want to know how much a person can really impact longevity markers with non-medical, nutrition, and lifestyle interventions, then this episode is for you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Gladden welcome Dr. Blander. (1:20)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Blander shares his personal journey and how he got to start InsideTracker, and his background. (1:50)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Blander shares some insight into research that is ongoing on cellular senescence. Dr. Blander mentions his involvement in researching sirtuins, a gene found in yeast that can extend lifespan and cellular senescence, and the use of animal models in the research. (3:48)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Gladden mentions that sirtuins are a family of proteins essential for longevity, and we go to great lengths to try to activate sirtuins by various mechanisms. (8:05)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Gladden states how NAD/NADH ratio goes down with aging for various reasons. (10:41)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: