366: How to reverse your biological age | Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.: “In eight weeks time with a doable diet and lifestyle intervention, we reversed the biological age of our participants by over three years.” Fitzgerald, a naturopathic doctor and functional medicine expert, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to actually slow down aging, plus: - How to know if you're methylating correctly (~08:30) - Why you should eat 7 cups of veggies per day (~13:24) - The best foods to help you become biologically younger (~20:00) - What to look for in a liver supplement (~24:47) - The best exercises for longevity (~35:13) Referenced in the episode: - Fitzgerald's book, Younger You. - mbg Podcast episode #241, with Fitzgerald. - Fitzgerald's study on reversing biological age by 3 years. - Ancestral grass-fed beef liver supplements. - A study showing the risk of too many B vitamins. - David Sinclair, Ph.D.'s Harvard lab. - mbg Podcast episode #363, #217, and #170, with Sinclair. - GRAIL cancer test Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Cara Fitzgerald is the first ever recipient of the
0:51.6	Emerging Leadership Award from the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in recognition of
0:57.2	her work on DNA methylation. She lectures globally on functional medicine, is on the faculty at
1:04.3	the Institute for Functional Medicine, and is an IFM certified practitioner. And today she is
1:10.8	back on the show to chat about her new book titled Young Your You. Reduce your biological age
1:17.5	and live longer and better. And yes, that's right. We're going to go on a deep dive into all
1:23.3	things methylation and homocysteine, which are near and dear to my heart. Cara, welcome back.
1:32.0	Absolutely. It's just it's great to be with you and I always enjoy our conversations. In fact,
1:38.2	you know, just as you and I were talking about you, you know, sparked a thought with me and a
1:42.8	number of occasions to, you know, dig a little deeper into the research from, you know, those
1:48.0	interesting angles that you bring forward. So glad to be back here and do some more digging.
1:53.6	Well, thank you so much. And I am so excited to talk with you about your new book, Young Your You
1:59.0	because the big meaty topic in the book is methylation, which is near and dear to my heart.
2:05.6	Our listeners are probably tired of the story, but I have a problem methylating. I am the MTHFR
2:10.2	gene, double C6770. A sky-high homocysteine brought it down through supplementation and it's
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