196 Dr. Gil Blander talks Aging, Supplements, Extending your Lifespan, and How to Stave off Cognitive Decline

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week features a conversation with Dr. Gil Blander. Dr. Blander is an expert in nutrition, biomarker analytics, athletic performance, biochemistry, and aging research.

Gil is also the Founder and CSO of InsideTracker, a personalized health and performance analytics company created by a team of scientists, physicians, nutritionists, and exercise physiologists from MIT, Harvard, and Tufts University.

Today Matt and Dr. Blander discuss aging, supplements that actually help performance, homeopathy, extending your lifespan, and how to stave off cognitive decline.

They deliver insights and information to help you understand your body, apply focus, and move towards an optimized life by focusing on what matters.

And, just like a deck of cards, you may be dealt a certain hand, but you can always play them well.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:20.3	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:25.5	And this week, we've got a cracker.
0:28.2	It's a conversation with Dr. Gill Blander.
0:32.3	Gill is an expert in nutrition, biomarker analytics, athletic performance, biochemistry and aging research.
0:40.2	He is well accomplished. He received his PhD in biology from the Vizeman Institute of Science
0:45.2	and took postgraduate research at aging at MIT. Now, Gill is also the founder and the chief science officer of one of our partners, Inside Tracker.
0:57.5	And as if you're a regular listening to the show, you know that Inside Tracker is a personalized health and performance analytics company.
1:05.7	It was created by a team of scientists, physicians, nutritionists and exercise physiologists stemming from MIT,
1:12.6	Harvard and Tufts University. And us at Purple Patch and our athletes, well, we love to leverage
1:18.8	inside tracker. It helps our athletes and fitness enthusiasts build a platform of health.
1:24.8	And I really wanted to have Gill on the show, not some promotion for Inside
1:30.0	Tracker, but I did want to understand why he founded Inside Tracker, but beyond this, we get into
1:36.7	some really juicy discussions around aging, supplements that actually help performance,
1:42.2	others that probably don't help performance.
1:44.7	We even get into a little splash of homeopathy.
1:48.2	I think that you are going to enjoy this very much, and I think you're going to help it
1:52.6	helpful as well.
1:54.2	But before we get going, I do want to do a couple of Squaddy updates with a little bit
1:58.7	of an update from me.
2:07.1	Thank you. with a little bit of an update from me. Yes, the primary squaddy update this week is going to anchor around strength.
2:12.5	And I'm here to tell you, embracing a new habit is just not very easy. As mentioned over the last few weeks,
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