Dr.
Rhonda Patrick has done extensive research on aging, cancer, and
nutrition. Her goal to challenge the status quo and encourage the wider
public to think about health and longevity using a proactive,
preventative approach.
It is Dr. Patrick’s goal to challenge the status quo and
encourage the wider public to think about health and longevity using a
proactive, preventative approach. In
her talks she gives specic information in detail about her findings and
recommendations that would not be easy to find elsewhere.
She
did her graduate research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
where she investigated the link between mitochondrial metabolism,
apoptosis, and cancer. Her groundbreaking work discovered that a
protein that is critical for cell survival has two distinct
mitochondrial localizations with disparate functions, linking its
anti-apoptotic role to a previously unrecognized role in mitochondrial
respiration and maintenance of mitochondrial structure. Her
dissertation findings were published in the 2012 issue of Nature Cell
Biology.
She later investigated the effects of micronutrient
(vitamins and minerals) inadequacies on metabolism, inflammation, DNA
damage, and aging and whether supplementation can reverse the damage.
Dr. Patrick
has also done research on aging at the Salk Institute for Biological
Sciences. At the Salk she investigated what role insulin signaling
played in protein misfolding, which is commonly found in
neurodegenerative diseases.
She frequently engages the public on
topics including the role micronutrient deficiencies play in diseases
of aging, the role of genetics in determining the effects of nutrients
on a person's health status, benefits of exposing the body to hormetic
stressors, such as through exercise, fasting, sauna use or heat stress,
or various forms of cold exposure, and the importance of mindfulness,
stress reduction, and sleep.
About 70% of your immunes live in your gut and collectively our microbiomes are in trouble which seems to be related to most disease, both physical and psychological.
She says most
Americans are badly deficient in Vitamin D which play a vital role in
at least 28 bodily functions. And even if you are taking multi-vitamins
you are probably deficient in more ways than you thought.
Vitamin D is turned into this active form, it travels throughout the
body and plays a part in a number of diverse (and vital) functions: It
builds bones and muscles; it also has anti-inflammatory effects, and
helps to make enzymes and proteins that prevent diseases; it affects
aging.
High levels of vitamin D have been linked to stronger immune
systems, while low levels are associated with cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, and cancer. The full extent of vitamin’s D impact has yet to
be fully understood—nearly every cell and tissue in our body has
vitamin D receptors (proteins that bind to vitamin D); and in its
active form, vitamin D can interact with the vast majority of the
body’s cells.
Dr. Patrick says that unless you are regularly in the sun, it may take months of somewhat elevated D3 supplements to normalize a deficiency. But after that too much D3 may tend to keep you awake according to Dr. Gominak.
Here is a list of some of Dr. Patrick's many video presentations from her website, foundmyfitness.com
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