470: Underrated biohacking tools for women | Personalized medicine physician Molly Maloof, M.D.

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Order a copy of my new book The Joy Of Well-Being at thejoyofwellbeing.com! Molly Maloof, M.D.: “It still blows me away [how many] doctors don't require vitamin D testing.” Molly, a leading biohacker and personalized medicine physician, joins us to discuss all the underrated—and overrated—methods to increase healthspan and boost longevity, plus: - Molly’s medical background & professional work (~01:51) - Why the biohacking conversation skews more male (~05:22) - How Molly optimizes her HRV levels (~06:40) - What women should focus on when biohacking (~12:50) - Which labs you should ask for at the doctor (~17:16) - Why parasites are more common than you think (~23:00) - How to know if your mitochondria are healthy (~29:10) - Underrated tips to stimulate mitochondria (~32:41) - Sneaky factors that may damage mitochondria (~35:14) - How long to intermittent fast to optimize mitochondria (~42:01) - Why women should get more protein (~47:55) - Why protein consumption means nothing if you don’t exercise (~51:45) - How social connection influences longevity & health span (~53:42) - How to balance processed social connection (~56:46) - Overrated biohacks that shouldn’t get as much hype (~01:00:58) - How self-love leads to longevity (~01:08:20) Referenced in the episode: - Molly's book, The Spark Factor. - mbg Podcast episode #146, with Molly. - Shop products mentioned: NuCalm, HigherDose PEMF Mat, Centropix PEMF Mat, MUD/WTR, Ion Layer NAD patches, BiOptimizers. - mbg Podcast episode #451, with Chris Palmer, M.D. - mbg Podcast episodes #411, #293, and #29, with Mark Sisson. - Research on excessive HIIT training & mitochondria. - mbg Podcast episode #466, with Don Layman, Ph.D. - mbg Podcast episode #468, with Robert Waldinger, M.D. - mbg Podcast episode #344, with Lisa Miller, Ph.D. - Lisa's study on depression & spirituality. - mbg Podcast episode #322, with Kristin Neff, Ph.D. - Sign up for The Long Game. Take 25% off vitamin D3 potency+ with code D3POD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! 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 Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:07.2	Hey everyone, there are some exciting innovations in the biohacking space, but unfortunately the
0:13.2	conversation has definitely skewed more towards men. Why does biohacking have such a
0:18.6	bro-dominated feel? Well, Dr. Molly Maloof is here to shift the narrative. A leading biohacker
0:25.6	Molly shares her unique wisdom specifically tailored to the biology of women. Biohacking
0:31.5	deserves a major rebrand and a miss episode you'll learn about all the underrated and overrated
0:38.2	methods to increase health span and boost longevity. Now to the show. Molly, welcome.
0:45.1	Hey, thanks for having me Jason. So great to have you back on the show. I think the last time we saw
0:50.2	each other was when we did this in our studio in Brooklyn back in September 2019. Yeah, back when
0:57.6	people went to the office and all those. Oh my god, that was like literally right as I was starting
1:03.2	to study viruses. And I was like telling all my friends, I was like guys, I'm like studying
1:08.4	chronic fatigue syndrome and I'm so confused. Like how come doctors think it's psychosomatic? It's
1:13.1	clearly due to interstellar infections and viruses and get this. We don't know anything about
1:17.7	viruses. So we're totally screwed if we get another plague. And they're like, and I was like,
1:21.9	by the way, we're overdue for a plague. Isn't that crazy? And all my friends are like, what are
1:25.4	you talking about? And I'm like literally six months later, we're like it's the beginning of a
1:30.0	pandemic. And I just wish I would have like trusted my gut a little bit more and not been so much
1:35.2	in panic mode when it happened because like, what's a pandemic hit? I went into like, my god,
1:40.0	what am I going to do? Where am I going to go quarantine? What are we? What's going to happen?
1:43.2	It was the whole thing with such a shichou. We all did. We didn't leave New York. So when it happened,
1:49.5	we were calling it eye in the kids. We were in Brooklyn the whole time. And I remember
1:55.3	it was Erie and everyone was gone. And you couldn't go to the playgrounds. And it was scary.
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