My guest today, Dr. Molly Maloof, provides health optimization and personalized medicine to high achieving entrepreneurs, investors, and technology executives.

Since 2012, she has worked as an advisor or consultant to more than fifty companies in the digital health, consumer health, and biotechnology industries. She’s on the frontier of personalized medicine, digital health technologies, biofeedback-assisted lifestyle interventions, psychedelic medicine, and science-backed wellness products and services.

And now – she's the author of the new book, The Spark Factor: The Secret to Supercharging Energy, Becoming Resilient, and Feeling Better Than Ever, where she shares a biohacking program uniquely tailored to the biology of… women! Her comprehensive plan, some of which we cover today, targets mitochondria function, the power source for all cellular life.

In addition to being a business advisor and newly published author, she’s a private doctor, she instructs at Stanford, and has turned her course into a digital offering – she’s super busy and even more so informed, both by her lived experience and a wide-ranging professional expertise.

We also cover…

00:01:49 — Getting to Know Dr. Molly Maloof

Leaving traditional medicine to focus on health vs. sickness
Leaning into technology and data
Human connection, the mitochondria, and optimal health
Dr. Molly’s favorite lab tests after 10 years of practice
Upgraded Formulas hair and mineral testing
Evexia Diagnostics lab work analysis
The Concussion Repair Manual by Dr. Dan Engle
Genova Diagnostics
Biotimizers best-in-class enzymes

00:16:45 — Nutrition’s Role in Full-Body Health

Using a CGM to understand your blood sugar response
Dr. Molly’s low-carb, paleodiet
Blood sugar dysregulation and stress
Future of wearable data analysis
Aura Ring + Natural Cycles

00:24:40 — Understanding Heart Rate Variability

Hanu app to elevate your mental game
Othership for breathwork
Tips for addressing HRV using a CGM
Benefits of fasting, weightlifting, and cardio training
What is a healthy resting heart rate?
Why bed rest is the worst thing for you

00:33:19 – How to Boost your Metabolic Flexibility

Addressing key differences in biohacking for men vs. women
The downfalls of overexercising and undereating
Different strategies for fasting
The importance of protein intake around exercise
Reframing the stigma around food

00:44:50 — Healing Underlying Stress

Meditation and the power of the mind
Identifying and working through trauma
Dr. Maloof recommends somatic experiencing over talk therapy
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
Sharing a moment of hope for the world

00:56:50 – Reconnecting with her Spirituality

Dr. Maloof experience with religion
Opening up about sexual assault
Learning from Burning Man and the Esalen Institute
Achieving a state of Kundalini awakening
Real Magic by Dean Radin PhD
The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
David R. Hawkins on Amazon
The art of achieving true health and happiness

Resources:

Read: The Spark Factor: The Secret to Supercharging Energy, Becoming Resilient, and Feeling Better Than Ever
Course: Your Healthspan Journey
Instagram: @drmolly.co
Website: drmolly.co
Linkedin: Molly Maloof MD

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