Episode 361: Dr. Alexis Cowan

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Diet, Mental Health, Lowcarb, Nutrition, Keto, Brianlenzkes, Health & Fitness, Jasonfung, Doctortro, Intermittentfasting, Trokalayjian, Medicine, Meganramos

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Alexis Cowan is a Princeton-trained PhD whose interests and specialities lie at the intersection of circadian and quantum biology, metabolism, and the microbiome. After completing her doctoral research in one of the top metabolism labs in the world, she started her private practice where she works with professional athletes and highly motivated individuals looking to optimize their health and performance as well as health coaches and professionals looking to expand the repertoire of tools in their toolkits.

In this episode, Drs. Brian, Tro, and Alexis talk about…

How Dr. Alexis became interested/involved in metabolic health, nutrition, and sunlight exposure
The various types of light we are exposed to in our world
How sunlight exposure relates to metabolic health
The negative effects of exposure to light from screens and fluorescent bulbs
How we can live in a modern world while maintaining a healthy exposure to light from various sources
Cold and heat exposure

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope.
0:07.2	Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes.
0:20.3	Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast.
0:23.1	Tro, our guest is making us jealous already.
0:25.0	She's out in the sun.
0:26.8	That might have something to do with what we're talking about today.
0:29.2	Maybe nature's important after all.
0:32.0	What do you think, Trow?
0:33.6	I think we should give our listeners a little bit of backstory.
0:37.6	So the little bit of backstories is that, you know, we've been looking into the data
0:42.3	regarding our light environment, microbiome, and one of the foremost experts and a guy
0:48.0	who I just love on social media, Dr. Jack Cruz, I contacted him, and we had a discussion, and he said, look, Trow, there's somebody even smarter than me.
0:59.8	There's somebody even, you know, who knows the data even better than me.
1:05.4	And he's like, and she's in your neck of the woods, my neck of the woods being the, you know,
1:10.1	New York, New Jersey area, Brian.
1:11.9	And he's like, you got to get her up.
1:15.1	So Dr. Alexis Cowan is our guest today.
1:19.5	And she did her PhD at Princeton.
1:24.1	She did her postdoc, UPenn.
1:26.3	And she's an absolute beast on Instagram talking about everything
1:30.4	for health optimization, light environment, microbiome, nutraceuticals, and more.
1:36.8	And Brian, I'm just excited that we have the real deal on today.
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