How to use blood tests & biomarkers to improve your mental health + how to not let too much data, tracking, and biohacking rule your life

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: Words like “health”, “wellbeing” and “longevity” are often thrown around, but what do they actually mean, and what do they mean for you? In this podcast I speak with Dr. Gil Blander, director, founder and chief scientist at InsideTracker about how InsideTracker can improve your mental and physical health, my own experience with InsideTracker, how to not become too stressed or obsessed with biohacking, data and numbers and still enjoy good health, how thinking affects your health and metabolism, and how to proactively have a long and quality-filled life! 

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS: 

2:40 What InsideTracker is & how it can help improve your health 

6:00 What our biomarkers can tell us about our unique health & needs 

8:00 How tracking biological data can help improve mental health 

12:00 The relationship between white blood cells, stress, inflammation & cognitive decline 

17:00 My own results using InsideTracker 

17:45 How cholesterol, diet & genetics are related 

20:00 How you can use biomarker systems like InsideTracker to see what diet works for your body type 

24:00 How InsideTracker works 

32:38 How knowing what is going on in your brain & body empowers you to make sustainable changes & improve your healthspan & longevity 

38:34 The relationship between metabolism and mental health 

41:40 The downsides of biohacking 

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