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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Inflammation’s Ties to Fasting, Cancer and Covid – Dr. Miriam Merad with Dave Asprey : 783

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Education, Fat, Wellness, Diet, Brain, Self-improvement, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Hacking, Meditation, Nutrition, Science, Biohacking, Fasting

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, the focus is on inflammation and how it’s related to fasting, cancer and even Covid. 

If you want to know how your immune system works, Dr. Miriam Merad most definitely is the expert to ask. So I did. She’s an internationally acclaimed physician scientist who’s doing groundbreaking research on how our immune system fights common and recurring infections. 

Dr. Merad leads the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine (PrIISM) at Mount Sinai, New York. Her research lab recently found that fasting reduces inflammation and improves chronic inflammatory diseases without affecting the immune system’s response to acute infections. 

However, our immune systems respond differently to stressors like fasting, diets and levels of activity. 

“We are not all equal,” says Dr. Merad. “So, we have to really understand that it’s important to stratify people, and this stratification comes from teamwork with computational and quantitative immunologies and quantitative biologies. Some ethnic groups have different type of gene organization, that we can now identify, and sometimes it’s spontaneous mutation.”

We also get into Dr. Merad’s recent findings on COVID-19 (why some patients develop severe forms of the virus and some don’t) and her research on cancer immunology. 

Her findings are fascinating, and she’s an engaging guest. Her research helps us better understand human immunology, a topic she’s always been captivated by.

“We, as a human species, are alive today because we were able to survive millions of years of exposure to threats,” Dr. Merad says. The only reason we were able to survive is because our immune system protected us. “It is our best doctor.“

I appreciate her holistic approach to her practice and her research, and I really think you’ll find something in here that inspires you.

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0:58.5

Food proof radio a state of high performance you're listening to bullet proof radio with Dave aspree today show is going to be exciting because we're talking about inflammation which is one of my favorite subjects which happens when your body doesn't do a good job of combining air and food to make electrons instead it does.

1:17.5

Something wrong you get inflammation but we're going to talk with a major research about how inflammation is related to fasting to cancer even to covid and our guest today is dr Miriam marad who's an internationally acclaimed physician scientist at Mount Sinai who leads the precision immunology institute at the icon school of medicine.

1:40.5

Fortunately that's called prism is the acronym for that so I can say that and prism integrates immunological research programs looking at biology medicine tech physics math and computational biology this is basically a really smart person and if that didn't convince you she's a professor in cancer immunology and founded the human immune monitoring center at Mount Sinai.

2:02.5

This is likely the world's most sophisticated research center because of single cell technology that they're using to look at what immune cells are doing to all major human diseases and treatment responses.

2:14.5

Basically you want to have your immune system works this is the person to talk to dr Miriam welcome to the show.

2:21.5

Thank you for having me.

2:23.5

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2:46.5

It increases levels of BDNF which is brain derived Neutropic factor I wrote a whole book about this and that's what gives you the neuroplasticity of a young person my son light and sauna also makes infrared that improves insulin sensitivity it burns extra calories like I was exercising and it even improves heart rate variability and sleep.

3:06.5

New research shows that it even increases autophagy which is the signaling part of your body that replaces old weak cells with young strong ones that's why you really should consider doing any kind of heat exposure work but in particular look at sunlight.

3:19.5

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3:27.5

Wow you've done so much in your career I mean this is really high level stuff you've written more than 200 papers in high and big visibility journals and people have cited your work thousands of times.

3:42.5

How did you get here like why the fascination with this one little immune thing of all the things you could have done with your obviously big brain like how to explain why.

3:53.5

Well you know interest in that system interest based on the fact that we as a human species are alive today.

4:05.5

Because we were able to survive millions of years of exposure to threats you know whether they were infectious threats like viruses many different type of micro dot on the viruses but also extreme fatigues but also extreme weather.

4:22.5

And the realization that you know the vision have doctors at that time right the only reason we were able to survive all those of us that survive are those that have a immune system that protected them it is our best doctor and in fact there is I realize a children book calling the immune system is your best doctor it's exactly that it is and yet.

4:44.5

I realize when I was trained you know being trained as as as a cancer doctor which is my clinical training that you know we were not exploiting that we do not know yet how to exploit.

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