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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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In this mind-blowing episode, you'll get to discover how a Navy dolphin program accidentally cracked open an exciting breakthrough in human health and longevity.
I sit down with Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson, a veterinary epidemiologist whose fascinating path led her from caring for military dolphins to identifying a completely overlooked fatty acid—C15:0—that's now being recognized as the first essential fatty acid discovered in over 90 years.
If you’ve ever been confused about dairy fat, the nuances of saturated fats, or how to truly fuel your body for lasting vitality, this conversation will clear it all up—and give you real, actionable ways to start leveraging this cutting-edge science right away.
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0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast. |
0:05.0 | When we first made this link in the Dolphins, we did eight studies over three years. |
0:10.0 | We showed that C-15 is not only a beneficial and active, saturated fat, |
0:16.0 | but that it was meeting these rare criteria of being an essential fatty acid. |
0:21.7 | And importantly, this is critical that over the last 24 months and really 12 months, four |
0:28.6 | independent teams have now looked at the criteria of C-15 being an essential fatty acid, |
0:35.6 | including gold standard studies that were used back in |
0:38.3 | 1929 and 1931, really important follow-up from independent teams that have nothing to do with us, |
0:45.6 | all concluding that, yes, C-15 meets the criteria of an essential fatty acid. |
0:50.8 | So lots of exciting work on that frontier. |
0:53.7 | Welcome to The Boundless life with me, |
0:56.6 | your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionists, |
1:01.7 | and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, |
1:07.6 | and beyond. |
1:19.2 | I want to tell you about these funky monkey five-toed shoes that you see me wearing. |
1:20.0 | They're called Palluva. |
1:24.8 | It's a new zero-drop minimal shoe with the distinctive five-toed design that I love. |
1:27.7 | It's the most authentic barefoot style experience, but with sufficient cushioning to use for all manner of everyday movement, fitness, and athletic activities, |
1:32.1 | incredibly stylish fashion. So you get a barefoot shoe that actually looks good that people don't |
1:37.1 | wrinkle their noses at. They got a wide box zero drop approach and individualtoe articulation with a separate slot for each of |
1:46.4 | your toes for correct dynamic movement of the foot through your walking stride, through your |
1:50.4 | running stride. That's impossible when your toes are in a single traditional shoebox, |
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