Fasting VS Exercise: Autophagy & Mitochondrial Biogenesis with Dr. Tommy Wood
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This episode is all about Autophagy & Mitochondrial Biogenesis From Exercise vs Fasting with Dr. Tommy Wood. Check him out on Instagram Here
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so excited for today's episode. We have Dr. Tommy Wood joining us for the first time on the podcast. He is a senior fellow at the Pediatrics Department at the University of Washington and the chief scientific officer of |
| 0:21.7 | Nourish Balance Thrive, which is an online-based company using advanced biochemical testing |
| 0:27.7 | to optimize performance and athletes. He received his undergrad at the University of Cambridge |
| 0:35.0 | in biochemistry and then went on to study medicine at Oxford. |
| 0:39.0 | And he really has so much knowledge on physiology and neuroscience. |
| 0:44.8 | And on today's episode, we talk a lot about autophagy and the amount of autophagy that you can |
| 0:49.9 | actually get from exercise and some really really surprising statistics including how you can get |
| 0:56.8 | as much autophagy from a 30 minute vigorous exercise like going for a brisk walk as a three-day fast |
| 1:04.4 | we talk a lot about the statistics on this why it is important to have functional active muscle mass and not just having muscle |
| 1:12.8 | mass in general, how that is associated with cognitive performance and cognition overall. |
| 1:18.3 | We talk about ketones, about MCTs. We also talk about some incredible research that he has done |
| 1:24.8 | on preterm babies and the various interventions and things |
| 1:29.7 | that they're studying and looking at. And I really, really enjoyed all of the different |
| 1:35.2 | topics that we got to cover on this episode. So I know you're going to get a ton of takeaways |
| 1:40.4 | from it. So I hope you enjoy the episode today. Be sure to share any takeaways or |
| 1:45.1 | highlights with us in the podcast group, which is the Optum Protein podcast on Facebook. |
| 1:49.9 | There's just one question to answer and then agreeing to the group rules and you will be |
| 1:54.2 | able to join the group and join the discussion there. I love talking about these topics with you |
| 1:59.0 | all after the show. So be sure to join us there |
| 2:02.2 | and let us know what's sit out for you or tag us on social media and share any highlights |
| 2:08.1 | or takeaways. It means the world to me. Now before we jump into the episode today, I want to take a |
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