Consciousness, Drugs, & Brain Upgrades: Anesthesiologist Neuroscientist Divya Chander : 547
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Divya Chander is a physician, neuroscientist, and (a total badass) futurist who trained at Harvard, UCSD, UCSF, and the Salk Institute. In the operating room, Dr. Chander applies EEG technology to understand what human brains look like when they lose and regain consciousness, and has recently developed a precision medicine initiative at Stanford aimed at understanding genetic variability in responses to anesthetic drugs.
Her postdoctoral training in optogenetic technology was conducted at Stanford, where she used light-activated ion channels inserted in DNA to study sleep and consciousness switches in brains. Her goal is to understand the neural mechanisms of consciousness, as well as the evolution of human consciousness secondary to human augmentation.
She is currently working on applications of neural wearable devices to crossover consumer and medical markets. She also works in the field of space life sciences and is involved with a consortium that elaborated a road-map for studying the effect of microgravity and radiation on the nervous system, cardiovascular system, cognition and sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | A bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. |
| 0:13.5 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.3 | Today's cool fact of the day is that scientists discovered a new human organ and it could be |
| 0:23.2 | the biggest human organ. |
| 0:24.9 | At least that's what a team of doctors from NYU's Lingo in School of Medicine found. |
| 0:31.1 | They call it the interstitium. |
| 0:33.6 | They discovered it using probe-based confocal laser endom microscopy, which is a revolutionary |
| 0:39.6 | new form of microscopy. |
| 0:42.2 | And what's cool is they were able to look in living tissue instead of dead tissue and |
| 0:47.4 | they figured out there are these fluid filled channels all over your body and it's a passage |
| 0:51.2 | way for lymphatic fluid and other fluids. |
| 0:54.7 | And this discovery probably helps to explain the effectiveness of Eastern medicine or traditional |
| 0:59.6 | Chinese medicine and probably how cancer metastasizes at least one of the pathways. |
| 1:05.2 | This new organ, if it is such a thing, lines layers beneath your skin, digest or tract |
| 1:09.5 | lungs, urinary system and muscles. |
| 1:12.6 | Scientists aren't officially classifying it as an organ because there needs to be consensus. |
| 1:16.7 | And for scientists to get consensus, it usually takes three generations of dead scientists |
| 1:20.0 | before they all agree at which point it just becomes obvious. |
| 1:22.6 | At least that's been my experience. |
| 1:23.8 | And since I want to be around for the generations to watch the scientists die who don't do |
| 1:27.2 | anti-aging like I am, well, hey, that's okay. |
| 1:29.3 | I'd rather watch them live. |
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