60. Part 2: How not to die of chronic disease or COVID (aka how to avoid insulin resistance), with Tommy Wood, MD/PhD

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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.

 

Time Stamps:

 

10:15 Tommy on Coronavirus.

13:00 Why it's okay to be wrong as a scientist.

15:00 Where are we now with Coronavirus? (12:24) (14:20-14:59)

 

22:17 Boris Johnson Moves To Ban Junk Food Discount Deals To Fight Obesity
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-junk-food-ban-buy-one-get-one-free-obesity-coronavirus-a9611766.html

 

24:45. Tommy’s article on metabolic health and pandemics.
Metabolic health and lifestyle medicine should be a cornerstone of future pandemic preparedness Metabolic health and lifestyle medicine should be a cornerstone of future pandemic preparedness https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lim2.2

 

27:45  COVID-19 severity is predicted by earlier evidence of accelerated aging

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.10.20147777v1

 

37:10 Is there an ideologically ‘’perfect’’ diet.

 

40:25 How does metabolic health affect our immune system? (38:44)

 

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41:47  An elastic-net logistic regression approach to generate classifiers and gene signatures for types of immune cells and T helper cell subsets

https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-2994-z

 

42:55 The NLRP3 inflamm