#019 Dr. Darya and Kevin Rose Talk Meditation Retreats, Diet, Seasonal Eating, and More
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Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Rhonda Patrick chats with Dr. Darya and Kevin Rose.
Dr. Darya Rose, PhD is a neuroscientist, author of "Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting," and creator of Summer Tomato, which was featured in TIME magazine's list of the web's 50 best websites in 2011.
Kevin you may know from TV, the investing world, or any of a wide variety of things he's well known for (founding digg.com, just for starters). More recently, Kevin hosts a podcast where he's had guests ranging from titans of industry like Elon Musk to notables like his buddy Tim Ferriss, multi-time New York Times best selling author, investor, self-experimenter and fellow podcaster.
In this episode, we discuss...
- (00:00) Introduction
- (03:23) Darya Rose talks about her 10-day silent retreat
- (11:32) Mindfulness can be achieved during daily activities
- (16:10) Kevin's self-experimentation with a ketogenic diet
- (23:59) Rhonda's interviews with Dr. Valter Longo and Ray Cronise on fasting
- (29:13) Tumeric increases the body's detoxification enzymes
- (33:17) Darya's career from PhD student to health advocate
- (39:32) The benefits of eating seasonally
- (45:12) Technology that promotes mindfulness and productivity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone. In this episode I had a very fun chat with Dr. Daria Rose and her husband |
| 0:07.4 | Kevin Rose. We chat about Daria's fascinating experience on a 10-day silent meditation retreat. |
| 0:14.5 | Yes, you heard me correctly. A 10-day silent meditation retreat. Fascinating stuff. She spent |
| 0:22.7 | around seven hours a day doing seated meditation, intermingled with another six hours a day of walking |
| 0:29.0 | meditation. So tune in to hear all about Daria's experience. We also discuss the biological significance |
| 0:35.9 | of mindfulness while eating, unlocking the mysteries of blood glucose by actually testing your response |
| 0:41.7 | to foods or in Kevin's case, food and alcoholic beverages. Kevin talks about his self-experiments |
| 0:49.1 | with the ketogenic diet featuring large amounts of vegetables combined with fats to drive his ketosis |
| 0:55.2 | as well as other ideas and projects he's working on. We also discuss intermittent fasting and how |
| 1:00.2 | the body responds to it as a beneficial, whorimetic stressor that activates gene expression changes |
| 1:05.6 | that can actually make you more resilient and we discuss so much more. I hope you all enjoy |
| 1:11.1 | this conversation with Daria and Kevin Rose as much as I did. Okay, so now that I've given you a |
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| 2:04.7 | Finally, if you enjoyed this podcast, you should also go check out Daria's website, |
| 2:09.3 | summertomato.com. It was named one of times best 50 websites for 2011 and has a focus on food |
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