s2/e39 Become an "Anti-Biohacker" with Dr. Adrian Chavez, MS, PhD (dr.adrian.chavez)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
“Biohacking” practices have proliferated in the last 20 years, marketed as ways to optimize your body, health, and performance… but is biohacking something you should really be focusing on? Dr. Adrian Chavez calls himself an “anti-hacker” and joins the show to talk about biohacking, marketing, and why you should focus on nailing the foundations instead of pouring money into biohacks.
- A brief history of biohacking
- A spectrum of biohacks: from legit in certain situations to legit dangerous in others
- Marketing/follow the money: is someone creating a problem & selling you the solution?
- Belief systems vs. the search for “truth”
- Nutritional/diet trends
- High-profile adherents of certain biohacks & dietary trends
- Understanding the foundational principles: nutrition, hydration, sleep
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Dr. Adrian Chavez has a PhD in Nutrition; his mission is to help people improve their well-being and prevent or reverse chronic diseases using science-based nutrition and lifestyle strategies. He is an expert in the gut/brain connection and hosts the Your Nutrition Prescription podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:06.8 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers. |
| 0:15.1 | So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster, runner. There's no question |
| 0:22.9 | too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. My guest this week is Dr. Adrian Chavez. |
| 0:33.8 | Dr. Chavez is a nutrition professional. He has a PhD in nutrition. He also has a master's and exercise scientist and ah, you can see where the intersection comes into play. |
| 0:43.6 | This episode is a little bit different because we're not specifically talking about running in it. |
| 0:51.2 | I mean, yes, the things we talk about will apply to endurance athletes, but this |
| 0:55.3 | is not an episode about running nutrition. My conversation today with Dr. Chavez is about |
| 1:01.3 | what he calls himself as an anti-biohacker. We're talking about biohacking and why he believes, |
| 1:09.2 | and his mission is to be an anti-biohacker and what and it's a discussion about |
| 1:16.6 | I mean it is nutrition focused but kind of all the things the marketing around certain ways that |
| 1:22.1 | we've been taught about certain things and it's just a really good conversation. So I hope you enjoy. Dr. Adrian Chavez, |
| 1:32.2 | welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:36.7 | So before we get started and talking about biohacking, go ahead and tell us about yourself. |
| 1:40.8 | Who are you? So I am, I do a lot of things right now. I currently wear a lot of hats, but I operate a |
| 1:48.0 | business in nutrition and health promotion. So I have a PhD in nutrition and health promotion. |
| 1:53.0 | I got that from Arizona State University in 2015. After that, I went into academia for a little bit, |
| 1:59.0 | but just saw some opportunities outside of academia |
| 2:01.4 | online with social media and digital marketing and being able to work with a larger |
| 2:07.5 | population of people or impact a larger population of people. So I've been doing that for about |
| 2:12.5 | six years now, been working with groups and working one-on-one and just seen a lot of different cases and worked |
| 2:20.7 | with a lot of different populations of individuals. During my PhD, I did research teaching classes, |
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