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🗓️ 8 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, |
| 0:02.0 | where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. |
| 0:15.0 | My guest today is Dr. Michael Snyder. Dr. Michael Snyder is a professor of genetics at Stanford University School of |
| 0:21.5 | Medicine. His laboratory focuses on how different people respond differently to different types |
| 0:26.4 | of food and health interventions. And his overall goal is to figure out how different genes and |
| 0:31.3 | proteins that different people express impact people's immune system function, reaction to different |
| 0:36.4 | foods and diets, blood sugar regulation, immune system,, reaction to different foods and diets, |
| 0:37.7 | blood sugar regulation, immune system, and longevity. |
| 0:41.0 | Today's episode could basically be summarized as, |
| 0:43.9 | as you suspected, not everybody responds the same way |
| 0:47.6 | to the same behavioral drug, supplement, |
| 0:49.9 | or other treatment designed to improve health span and lifespan. |
| 0:53.4 | For instance, the Snyder Laboratory published a paper earlier this year, showing that different |
| 0:58.0 | people spike insulin in response to different types of carbohydrates. |
| 1:02.2 | Things like the glycemic index, which we may be familiar with because they are essentially |
| 1:06.7 | a readout of how much a given food impacts blood sugar depends on who you are. They identified |
| 1:12.9 | so-called potato spikers. They literally refer to them as potato spikers in this paper versus grape |
| 1:18.0 | spikers, people whose insulin spikes in response to potatoes but not grapes and vice versa. |
| 1:23.0 | While this might seem kind of silly or trivial or micros-slicing, the identification of these different |
| 1:27.8 | subtypes of people in the general population who respond differently to different types |
| 1:31.9 | of foods is extremely important. Because I think most all of us are getting a little bit tired |
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