Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Are biological organisms like liquid biological machines? What is the app store of the human body? Is evolution moving from natural selection to intelligent design by humans? How gene editing works and what’s the future like for biological computers? How gene manipulation can solve grand human problems or is it a problem in itself? All this and more in this episode of Biohacker’s LIVE Show. Elsa Sotiriadis is a globetrotting biohacker-turned-futurist and entrepreneur. As director of a VC firm she helped build 25 breakthrough startups to advance innovation in medicine, food, energy and sustainability. Prior to that, she was a lead analyst and management consultant on emerging technologies and co-lead a futurism study. She holds a PhD in Synthetic Biology from Imperial College London, has written for publications like Singularity Hub and tech goes under her skin – she became a ‘cyborg’ live on stage. In her (rare) spare time, she writes science fiction …
Sleep, Diet & Metabolism With Greg Potter (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)
Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. What are the top sleep hacks? How to influence circadian rythms and chronobiology? Why shoud you sleep with your socks on? What are the top sleep promoting supplements and herbs? How eating at night influences blood sugar levels? What is the role of fasting in promoting a good night sleep? All this and more in this episode of Biohacker’s LIVE Show. Greg Potter recently handed in his PhD at the University of Leeds where his research focused on sleep, diet, and metabolism. His work has been featured in Reuters, TIME magazine, The Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, and many other major media outlets. In addition to his PhD, Greg also holds BSc and MSc degrees in exercise physiology from Loughborough University. Currently Greg serves as Content Director at Humanos.me which is an online platform designed to help people improve their health and performance. These are also values Greg lives by as his goal …
Regenerative Medicine With Dr. Kristin Comella (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)
Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Kristin Comella, PhD is a world renowned expert on regenerative medicine with a focus on adipose derived stem cells. Dr. Comella has a PhD in Cell Science and holds both an MS and BS in Chemical Engineering. Her professional experience includes positions in several companies including US Stem Cell, VetBiologics, Tulane University, and Osiris Therapeutics. She is currently serving as the Chief Scientific Officer and board member of US Stem Cell, a publicly traded company focusing on the discovery, development, and commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of degenerative diseases. She has been responsible for the development and implementation of cell therapies in the clinic for a variety of different indications for more than 7000 patients. Furthermore, hundreds of practitioners world-wide have provided stem cell treatments to their patients using Comella’s protocols. Watch the interview to learn more about: How Kristin Comella got interested in regenerative medicine What stem cells are and …
Extreme Biohacking With Serge Faguet (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)
Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Serge Faguet is a serial entrepreneur, extreme biohacker and CEO of Mirror AI. Previously he founded Ostrovok, Russia’s largest online travel company with $500m in turnover. While there he raised >$50m in capital and led the company to EBITDA profitability and >300 employees. Before that, he founded TokBox, a leading B2B video communication company with ~$50m ARR, funded by Sequoia Capital. He has also worked at Google and studied at Cornell and Stanford GSB. In addition to being a tech CEO, Serge is a diehard biohacker who is keen on having better energy, mood, focus, happiness, confidence, willpower, intelligence, health, and longevity. His hobby for the past 5-6 years has been to achieve the above-mentioned attributes by hacking the body and mind through science. As a part of that journey Serge has optimized sleep, nutrition, and exercise, taken thousands of tests, meditated > 1000 times, and worked with some amazing doctors. He wrote two very …
Biohacking Sleep With Dan Pardi (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)
Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Dan Pardi is a sleep researcher and CEO. Dan’s life’s work centers on how to help people live healthfully. He is the CEO of humanOS which leverages a novel behavior model to promote health fluency, skill development, and lifestyle insights to help people master their health practice. Dan does research with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford, and the Departments of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands where he investigates how lifestyle factors, like sleep, influence decision making, cognitive performance, and metabolism. Dan also works with Naval Special Warfare to help the most elite fighters in the world maintain alertness and capable mental performance under challenging circumstances. He currently serves as Board Member for StandUpKids.org, as a Council Director for the True Health Initiative, and Advisor to several health-oriented companies (Ample Meals, Fitstar, Splendid Spoon, Validic), an Editor for the Journal of Evolution and Health. He also runs the …
Reconnecting with Nature with Herbalist Yarrow Willard
[powerpress] It is not everyday that you find yourself in the presence of a 21st century jedi by a stream in the woods, though the Biohacker Summit has a unique way of identifying and bringing these modern day wise men into one mesmerizing space. Enchanting as it may be, that is exactly what Yarrow Willard known as the ‘Herbal Jedi enlists to be. A Clinical/Master Herbalist, and Director of the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing, he differentiates from many self-discovering biohackers, because his immersion into the world of herbs began a generation before him when he was born to herbalist parents. Now a father with children of his own and married (also to a herbalist), Yarrow participated in 200 hours of clinical trials with patients using plants as medicine, before venturing out to further explore the wonders of nature with his brood. His knack for using entertainment in his profession as an educator brings the topics of herbs, mushrooms, superfoods, advanced nutrition and the growing science of rediscovering wellness, with a renewed vigor to anyone passionate to care about the endlessly magical secrets of wild green vegetation. Hailing from Canada, a country geographically and florally similar to Finland, Yarrow’s …
Dr. Beth Healey on Living In Extreme Conditions
Biohacker’s Podcast Teemu Arina interviews Research MD Beth Healey who spent an extended period of time at Concordia station in Antarctica researching extreme conditions (e.g. temperatures as low as -100 celsius) where humans are put to test during difficult missions such as one we may take to planet Mars. Beth Healey’s most recent role was with the European Space Agency (ESA) as a Research MD, Concordia Station, Antartica. During her year long mission at Spaceflight Analogue Concordia ‘White Mars’, she was responsible for co-ordinating and implementing seven research protocols, selected by the ESA, to investigate the effects of this extreme environment on the physiology and psychology of the crew. Beth led the medical rescue team and worked alongside the base doctor in case of emergency. Beth is a UK trained doctor. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, with an interest in polar environments she has worked as part of logistical and medical support teams for expeditions and endurance races in Svalbard, Greenland, Siberia and at the North Pole. As part of her medical elective she worked in a remote Inuit Hospital in NE Greenland. Beth Healey is also a patron of Extreme Medicine. [powerpress] Time-stamped Show Notes 0:35 – Biohacker Summit …
Prof. Russel Hanson on How To Make a Digital Copy of Your Brain
Biohacker’s Podcast Teemu Arina interviews professor Russell Hanson on our current capabilities of making a digital copy of a human brain on the connectome level. Professor Russell Hanson is founder and CEO of Brain Backups a company with the ambitious mission of providing non-destructive non-invasive brain imaging at the connectome level. Why would one want a Brain Backup or connectome? This is the image of one’s neural connections much like the genome is the image of one’s DNA sequence. This means it encodes everything you are, do, and have experienced. Prof. Hanson is also a professor of Genetics and Multi-scale Biology at Mount Sinai. Previously he has worked at Harvard, MIT, and the Technical University of Berlin. [powerpress] 0:27 – Teemu welcomed Russell Hanson to the show 0:32 – Brain backups< 2:13 – Dr. Aubrey de Grey 2:35 – Why Russell is interested in life extension? 5:32 – You Are Not A Gadget 6:27 – Belief in chemical information 6:31– Belief in electrical information 6:53 – Electrophysiology 7:11 – Heartbeat is an electrical spiking process 7:31– Experts in measuring chemical information 7:38 – How we measure chemicals 8:35 – Long term memories 10:05 – Neural interfaces 10:24 – NESD 11:47 – telepathic …
Dr. Rhonda Patrick on Nutritional Health and the Benefits of Sauna
Biohacker’s Podcast Teemu Arina interviews one of the leading experts on nutrition aging, Dr. Rhonda Patrick on heat alteration such as swimming in ice cold water or entering a sauna. Dr. Rhonda Patrick with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences is an expert in nutrition, metabolism and aging. She has done considerable research in all of these fields, including research on cancer and the effects of mineral and vitamin supplementation on metabolism, inflammation and aging. She did her graduate research at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, where she focused on cancer, mitochondrial metabolism and apoptosis. Currently a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF-Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, she is known primarily for her studies of the mechanistic link between vitamin D and serotonin production, research that may have important implications for the understanding of autism and other disorders. [powerpress] 0:20 – Teemu welcomed Dr. Rhonda Patrick to the show 1:33 – CEO & Co-Founder of Found My Fitness 1:54 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick’s background 2:52 – The Salk Institute 4:43 – St. Jude 5:14 – Found My Fitness Blog 5:56 – Dr. Bruce Ames 6:21 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick newsletters and Podcasts 8:54 – Folate 9:04 – Why folate is important 11:26 – DNA damage 13:00 …