The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Blood Sugar is the Power Energy in Your Video Game Life – Dr. Molly Maloof with Dave Asprey : 706

May 29, 2020

In this discussion, Dr. Molly Maloof, a physician focused on health optimization and a lecturer at Stanford, advocates for making continuous glucose monitoring accessible to everyone. She emphasizes the need for personal health autonomy by challenging traditional healthcare practices. Dr. Maloof shares insights on the detrimental effects of constant eating and the benefits of fasting, while also highlighting the critical role of mitochondria in health and longevity. She argues for empowering individuals to take charge of their health through informed choices and innovative technologies.

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INSIGHT

Healthspan vs. Anti-Aging

Anti-aging focuses on longevity, while healthspan emphasizes quality of life, free from disease.
True health is measured by resilience, or how quickly you recover from challenges.

INSIGHT

Mitochondria and Blood Sugar

Dr. Molly Maloof realized her blood sugar wasn't optimal, despite considering herself healthy.
This led her to focus on mitochondria, the regulators of blood sugar and key to metabolic health.

ANECDOTE

Dismissive Doctor

Dave Asprey diligently tracked his blood sugar but his doctor dismissed his concerns.
This experience highlighted the limitations of traditional medical approaches to metabolic issues.

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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I got to talk with Dr. Molly Maloof about why she wants to bring continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to the masses and how it can optimize nutrition and health.

CGM is the ultimate lifestyle biomarker. “I don't think CGM should be a prescription device,” Dr, Molly says. “I think the information about your body should not be behind a pharmacist's desk. It's absurd that you have to ask your doctor for information about yourself.”

Her goal is to maximize human potential by radically extending human health span through personal health technologies, scientific wellness and educational media. Dr. Molly teaches a course at Stanford University on strategies for extending health span for longer lifespan. Her concierge medical practice is oriented around optimizing health and improving mitochondrial function.

“It is not acceptable that we are getting so sick so young and we need to ask ourselves ‘what are all the possible causes,’ ” she says. “A lot of it does have to do with how we eat, how we live, how we breathe.” EMFs are in the mix, too.

Dr. Molly’s aim is to redesign the healthcare system by reducing medicine prescriptions and implementing healthy lifestyle principles, like fasting.

“We're designed to be fasting most of the time,” she says. “We're not designed to be eating all the time, We have the genetics of scarcity and so abundance is actually damaging to health. Food is fundamental to health. If your food is wrong, your fuel is wrong, you're screwed.”

She’s a passionate evangelist, empowering advocate and visionary futurist who is pioneering new approaches to personal health. “This is the whole crux of what biohacking is about, right? Like having to hack a system because it won't give you what you want, why can't people learn about their bodies? What's wrong with that?”

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