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The Blue Zones are a myth! Your optimal microbiome and much more with Tommy Wood MD, PhD

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Tommy Wood MD, PhD is an elite-level professional nerd who has coached world class athletes in a dozen sports.  He has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from the University of Oslo. Tommy is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine cognition, and is on the scientific advisory board of Hintsa Performance. He is also CSO (Chief Snake Officer) at the Costa Rican Center for Bro Research. Tommy lives in Seattle with his wife Elizabeth and their two goofy boxers. In his spare time he can usually be found cooking, reading, or lifting something heavy.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Paul Saladino. This podcast

0:11.1

is the result of my relentless search to understand and correct the roots of chronic

0:15.1

disease and illness. In this podcast, I will share with you everything I have learned

0:18.9

about how to live the most healthy and radical life possible. Thanks for joining me on this

0:23.3

journey.

0:25.3

What's going on, everybody? I am so stoked about this episode. I know I say that every week,

0:34.7

but listen, if you know anything about me, you know that I am pretty perpetually stoked about

0:40.9

everything. Well, this episode is no exception and this episode, I believe, is exceptional in the

0:48.4

fact that it is incredible. So I had the opportunity to sit down with my friend Thomas Wood,

0:55.4

Tommy Wood. He has two doctoral degrees. As you'll hear at the beginning of this episode, he did

1:00.6

an MD at Oxford and then went back and did a PhD because he is just a curious, super intelligent guy.

1:09.4

And he and I have lifted together. We have talked about all kinds of cool things. Every time I

1:14.4

hang out with Tommy, I learn a bunch. I learned so much. And so we have talked about the carnivore

1:21.4

diet together. We talked about ketogenic diets. We've talked about heavy metals. We talk about

1:25.4

functional medicine. I am so stoked to have them on this podcast with me because we dove into

1:31.7

basically everything that I wanted to talk about with him and kind of pick his brain. We talked

1:35.8

about testosterone and what it means if your sex hormone binding glowyland is high, maybe that's

1:41.8

not the bad thing that we always think it is. We talked about the microbiome and what different

1:46.4

organisms might mean and some of these people on carnivore diets or people with idiopathic

1:50.7

constipation, what organisms we might be looking for and how to treat that. We talked a little

1:55.6

bit about heavy metals, how to detox them. We talked about TMAO and we're able to break down a

2:03.0

recent study that came out confirming the things that many of us in the health space have been

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