The Thorne Podcast

What You’ll Learn From Biological Age Testing (Rebroadcast)

Ever wonder how your lifestyle has affected the way you age? Now you can with knowledge from Thorne's Biological Age Health Panel. In this episode, Dr. Robert Rountree is joined by Dr. Laura Kunces, Thorne’s Vice President of Medical Strategies, as the two run through their own personal results and recommendations after taking Thorne’s Biological Age health test.

Watch the video version of this episode here.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

• Dr. Laura Kunces' Background [1:11]
• Biological Age Health Panel [2:54]
  • Tracking your health [3:36]
• Chronological age vs. biological age [3:42]
• Understanding biomarkers [5:08]
• What the test tells you [6:42]
  • Actionable results [7:36]
• Biological age testing in younger adults [9:23]
  • Optimize the aging process [10:04]
• How to set up the test [10:50]
  • Blood draw [11:48]
  • Fasting before test [13:00]
• Dr. Kunces' Biological Age results [16:35]
  
  • Understanding age rate [18:34]
  • Organ ages and blood age [19:33]
  • How often to test biological age [20:40]
• Kunces personalized recommendations based on test results [23:58]
  • Diet [24:07]
  • Supplement and exercise [24:45]
• Tracking health over time [25:35]
• Test cost [27:58]
• Rountree’s Results [28:36]
  • Interpreting 5 age scores [30:08]
  • Recommendations [35:36]
  • Supplement validation [37:05]
• Questions about the Biological Age Test [38:08]
  • Thorne’s extensive practitioner network [38:19]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• Biological Age Test
• How Does Thorne's Biological Age Test Work?
• What’s Your Actual Age? Chronological vs. Biological Age
• How to Promote Healthy Aging During Your 20s, 30s, 40s, and Beyond

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How to Solve an Age-Old Problem, with Dr. Lee Hood

Can decoding your genome be the key to a longer health span? Dr. Leroy "Lee" Hood returns to the podcast to discuss the research on what your biological age says about your health, and how metabolic processes and the microbiome might be controlling your aging.  

During this episode you’ll learn about:  

• Dr. Leroy "Lee" Hood, pioneer in human genomics [1:23] 
• Different ways to measure aging: Chronological age vs. biological age [5:11] 

• Biological age as a measure of wellness inside and out [7:48] 

• How microbiomes differ between healthy and unhealthy people [11:43] 
• Steps  

• Metabolic and medicinal impacts on the aging process [16:40] 
• Questions from the community 

• How is biological age calculated? What other test methods are there? [18:55] 
• Do supplements support healthy aging? [22:35] 
• What factors lead to signs of accelerated aging? [24:48] 

• How can AI be used to predict health outcomes? [28:03] 

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:  

• Go deeper into wellness with Thorne’s Biological Age Health Panel 

• What’s Your Actual Age? Chronological vs. Biological Age 
• Assess Your Biological Age With Thorne's Biological Age Health Panel 

• How Does Thorne's Biological Age Panel Work? 
• The Thorne Podcast – Episode 35: What You’ll Learn From Biological Age Testing 

• 6 Steps to Improving The Aging Process  
• How to Promote Healthy Aging During Your 20s, 30s, 40s, and Beyond  
• The 4 Best Thorne Supplements to Support Healthy Aging 

• From the podcast archives 

• Episode 51: Exploring the Science of Healthy Aging with Dr. Nathan Price 
• Episode 75: It's Personalized: The Future of Data-Driven Health with Dr. Leroy "Lee" Hood 

• Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) 
• Phenome Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to health innovation and social change 

• The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands, by Drs. Leroy "Lee" Hood and Nathan Price 

 

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It’s Personalized: The Future of Data-Driven Health

Tune in this week as special guest, Dr. Leroy Hood, an accomplished scientist best known for his integral work on the Human Genome Project, discusses data-driven analysis of chronic diseases and how our genomes may be able to provide individualized health recommendations in the future.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

1. Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, a world-renowned scientist in human genomics, cancer research, Alzheimer’s research, co-founder of the Institute of Systems Biology (ISB), and whose research allowed for the completion of the Human Genome Project [00:00:50]
2. Hood’s personal life/ early scientific background [1:27]
3. Hood’s famous Caltech professors and what they taught him [7:03]
4. The systems biology approach of applying data taken over time to the body’s networks [9:33]
5. Using a digital twin system to forecast Alzheimer’s disease and make recommendations [13:25]
6. How blood samples taken years before a disease diagnosis present an opportunity [16:44]
7. What’s the future of DNA sequencing for disease susceptibility? [19:31]
8. Questions from the community [24:02]
   • How did the Human Genome Project change the everyday person’s life? [24:09]
   • Is cancer becoming more common, or are we getting better at detecting it? [27:49]
   • Could the CRISPR technique/ genome engineering help extend the human lifespan? [31:49]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• Three Science-Backed Lifestyle Changes to Lower Your Dementia Risk
• How Chronic Inflammation Contributes to Disease and What You Can Do About It
• Mayo Clinic: Exploring the Connections Between the Microbiome, Health, and Disease
• How Plant Based Foods Help Fight Cancer
• Eight Nutrients for Brain Health
• Our Newest Health Panels – Advanced and Essential Data from a Basic Blood Draw
• What Can a Microbiome Test Tell You That a Genetic Test Can’t?
• Will Exercise Extend Your Lifespan?

Links to products mentioned in this episode:  

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No products mentioned. Focus was on chronic diseases/ genetics, so I figured linking tests would be less suggestive than products.

New Episodes Coming in 2023

Defying Gravity: Astronaut Health and Your Genes

Launch into outer space with Dr. Chris Mason, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, as he tells the story of his collaboration with NASA on the famous Twins Study and its implications for the future of human health, genetics, and interplanetary travel.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

1. Chris Mason, professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-founder of Onegevity [00:00:53]
2. Mason’s first research mission with NASA [3:48]
   • How space and gravity affected astronaut Scott Kelly [4:28]
   • What is genetic malleability? [8:54]
3. How many genes do humans have? [10:14]
   • The cost to test a whole genome [12:39]
4. Thorne’s Biological Age Test, modifying your own genetic expression with lifestyle changes [16:01]
5. Concern over the scientific possibility of altering genetic expression with technology [18:52]
6. Questions from the community [23:38]
   • How sterile are the inside of spaceships, and is there such thing as being “too clean” for astronauts? [23:45]
   • Is space itself sterile? [26:03]
   • What TV show most accurately depicts life in space? Space nutrition? [27:11]
   • Do people age at different rates because they’re in space, and can supplements impact how people age? [29:51]
   • When are humans going to Mars, and how will we get our nutrition there? [34:24]
   • What has the space program taught us about the value of supplements? Do astronauts take them now? [35:46]
   • Are astronauts getting less nutrition from the dehydrated foods they eat? [36:53]
   • Will humans find a mineral in space that could someday be used for human health? [38:07]
   • Is there intelligent life out in space? [39:27]
     
     

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• GENCODE
• One Giant Leap: What Space Travel Has Taught Us About Health on Earth
• Research Extracts: NASA’s Twins Study | PCOS and Microbiome | Blueberries for Pain Reduction
• How Does Thorne’s Biological Age Test Work?
• Why It’s Important to Take Methylate While Taking Nicotinamide Riboside
• What Can a Microbiome Test Tell You That a Genetic Test Can’t?
• Episode 10: Onegevity with Joel Dudley and Chris Mason

Links to products mentioned in this episode: Biological Age Health Panel, FloraMend Prime Probiotic®, Prebiotic +, Niacel® 400, Gut Health Test with Microbiome Wipe

 

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Life Finds a Way: The Genetic Map of Microbes

Dr. Chris Mason, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, zeroes in on microbial movement within the planetary microbiome, outer space, and even in our own gut systems. Learn more about your “gut print” as well as the scientific possibility of reviving extinct species and lost ecosystems.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

1. Chris Mason, professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-founder of Onegevity [00:00:53]
2. Origins of a planetary genetic map [4:51]
3. Metagenomics as a genetic puzzle [6:55]
   • What is the Metropolome? [7:34]
   • The microbial signatures of cities [9:36]
4. How microbes interact with humans [10:45]
   • Using wastewater to study the level of COVID in a population [13:07]
5. Thorne’s Gut Health Test with Microbiome Wipe shows which microbes inhabit your gut [15:59]
6. People in our society have less diversity and fewer microbes now than before [18:40]
   • How probiotics can help improve your gut ecosystem [20:03]
7. How epigenetic differences may allow experts to screen patients for cancer [22:07]
8. Questions from the community [26:28]
   • What is the planetary microbiome? [26:35]
   • How do humans fit into the microbiome? [27:51]
   • How genetically similar are humans to one another? [30:55]
   • How can I heal my microbiome? [32:28]
   • What would happen if the Mars Rover brought back a foreign microbe? [34:59]
   • Are there new species of microbes in outer space? [37:06]
   • How can humans embrace the planetary microbiome again? [38:47]
   • How have humans changed the planet’s microbiome for better or worse? [40:21]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• About MetaSUB
• Understanding How the Gut Acts as a Protective Barrier
• How the Microbiome Sometimes Helps — And Hurts — the Immune System
• 8 Facts About the Microbiome and the Microorganisms Living in Your Gut
• ITOL: Interactive Tree of Life
• How Does Your Gut Microbiota Develop and Change Throughout Life?
• Mayo Clinic: Exploring the Connections Between the Microbiome, Health, and Disease
• Microbiome 101

Links to products mentioned in this episode: Gut Health Test with Microbiome Wipe, Bacillus Coagulans, FloraMend Prime Probiotic®, Prebiotic +

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Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• About MetaSUB
• Understanding How the Gut Acts as a Protective Barrier
• How the Microbiome Sometimes Helps — And Hurts — the Immune System
• 8 Facts About the Microbiome and the Microorganisms Living in Your Gut
• ITOL: Interactive Tree of Life
• How Does Your Gut Microbiota Develop and Change Throughout Life?
• Mayo Clinic: Exploring the Connections Between the Microbiome, Health, and Disease
• Microbiome 101

Links to products mentioned in this episode: Gut Health Test with Microbiome Wipe, Bacillus Coagulans, FloraMend Prime Probiotic®, Prebiotic +

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More in-depth than the last one since they brought up more questions/ went on more tangents.

Mitochondria: ‘Little Furnaces’ for Fat Burning

Dr. Mark Holthouse returns to The Thorne Podcast to discuss mitochondrial uncoupling to generate heat and burn fat. Listen in to learn how this process can promote healthy aging and how the powerhouse of the cell reacts to oxidative stresses in the body.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

• Mark Holthouse’s 30 years of practice [0:59]
• Mitochondrial uncoupling: What role does it play in longevity? [3:30]
  • How mitochondria are “little furnaces” for fat burning [6:19]
• Cold water and red light therapies help with uncoupling [10:58]
• Ketones as a signaling agent for fat burning [13:16]
  • A plant-based diet promotes mitochondrial uncoupling [14:48]
• Oxidative stress and free radicals: The good, the bad, the not-so bad for mitochondria? [17:30]
• Questions from the community [23:28]
  • Why does mitochondrial biogenesis slow down over time? [23:42]
  • What age do we start losing mitochondria? [28:50]
  • How can I improve my mitochondrial health? [34:57]
  • What does NAD have to do with all this? [38:35]
  • How long do I need the fast to stimulate my mitochondria? [44:03]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• Can Your Body Keep Up with Its Energy Demands?
• What’s Your Actual Age? Chronological vs. Biological Age
• Natural Ways to Support Your Level of NAD+
• Six Ways You Can Benefit From Supplementing with Nicotinamide Riboside (NR)
• Intermittent Fasting: Five Tips for Success
• Learn more about Dr. Holthouse and his team at Functional Medicine of Idaho
• Products mentioned in the episode:
  • Biological Age Test
  • Products with Nicotinamide Riboside
  • Niacel
  • Advanced Nutrients
  • Vitamin B Complexes

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The Kryptonite of Low T: HIIT the Gym and the Diet

Dr. Mark Holthouse, medical director at Functional Medicine of Idaho, explores the signs and symptoms of low testosterone, its correlation with prediabetes, and what men can do about it. Hear about the big improvements Dr. Holthouse has seen in patients who commit to healthy lifestyle changes. 

During this episode you’ll learn about:  

• Dr. Mark Holthouse, medical director at Functional Medicine of Idaho and physician specializing in men’s health [1:26] 
• How prevalent testosterone deficiency is in U.S. men and lifestyle associations linked to it [3:36] 
• Immediate prescriptions may keep men from making lifestyle choices that can significantly improve their condition [7:59] 
• The best types of exercises for men with low T [10:54] 
• An overview of the relationship between insulin and testosterone [13:56] 
• Research showing an association of high insulin with low T levels [16:23] 
• Men with low T may improve testosterone levels with lifestyle changes [19:28] 
• Questions from the community [23:26] 
• Best supplements for testosterone [23:35] 
• How to know if you have low testosterone and what you can do about it [30:13] 
• The role processed foods play in people with low T and how to approach dietary changes [35:50] 

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:  

• Signs of Hormonal Imbalance in Men 
• How Exercise Routines (Or Lack of One) Affect Your Testosterone Level 
• Metabolic Syndrome — What is it and What Causes it? 
• Stress and Weight Gain: What’s the Connection? 
• What’s the Connection: Understanding How Weight Affects Blood Fats 
• Carbohydrates: The Good, the Bad, and Why You Might Be Craving Them 
   

Links to products mentioned in this episode: Curcumin, Zinc, Magnesium, NAC - N-Acetylcysteine, Berberine, B Complex, Chromium 

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New Approaches to Kids’ Nutrition

Kids can be fussy at mealtime, but even when they eat the right foods, are they getting the right nutrients? Dr. Stephen Phipps, chief innovation officer at Thorne, joins the show to discuss ways to add nutrition to a picky eater’s diet.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

• Stephen Phipps, from study of botanicals to on-the-ground practice [0:55]
• How children’s nutrition needs differ from adults’ [5:50]
  • Helping the immune system learn; neurological development [7:18]
  • Picky eaters might lack nutrients [8:56]
  • Indoors pressure from blue light, screen time, and lack of vitamin D [11:30]
• The evolution of supplements for kids, from cod liver oil to sugary gummies and cereals [13:28]
• Changing attitudes to daily multivitamins for kids [15:56]
• What Daily Value means for nutrient intake [17:42]
• Choline for brain development [19:32]
  • Algae: a vegan source for DHA [22:09]
• Questions from the community [24:49]
  • Thorne’s approach to a kids multivitamin: dissolvable discs
  • How a kids multivitamin can build on the foundation of a diverse, healthy diet [29:48]
  • Probiotic support for kids [33:10]
  • What age to start giving children a multivitamin [36:30]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• Tips to Help Kids Make Healthy Food Choices
• Helping Kids Manage Screen Time: 5 Tips for Parents
• How Probiotics Are Affecting Your Children
• Snack (Or Sip) Your Way to A Healthy Gut
• Why A Prenatal Supplement Is Important Before, During, and After Pregnancy
• Dissolvable Discs — An Easy And Eco-Friendly Way to Optimize Your Health and Wellness*

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Navigating the Science Behind Botanical Extracts

Dr. Stephen Phipps, Thorne’s chief innovation officer, examines the changing field of ethnobotany, from cultural study to chemical analysis. Discover the difference between fresh herbs and herbal extracts, and how botanicals can be standardized for naturopathic uses.

Rundown

During this episode you’ll learn about:

• Stephen Phipps, chief innovation officer at Thorne HealthTech: The study of ethnobotany [3:24]
• How Indigenous people built early medical systems by experimenting with plant compounds in everyday life [6:10]
• Why standardized herbal extracts makes botanical supplements more accessible [13:53]
• The importance of quality analytical methods when testing botanical products [17:05]
• Questions from the community [22:44]
  • History of FDA regulation in herbal medicine [23:00]
  • Difference between an herb and a botanical [28:00]
  • How to determine which botanical supplements are right for you [29:16]
    • The academic pathway naturopathy experts take [30:35]
  • What's the difference between a botanical versus an extract versus a phytochemical? [33:43]
  • Do labels have to list everything in a product? [40:10]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

• Curcumin Phytosome (formerly Meriva) https://www.thorne.com/products/dp/meriva-500-sf-60
• Berberine (formerly Berberine-500) https://www.thorne.com/products/dp/berberine-500
• Curcumin Phytosome — The Most Clinically Studied Curcumin on the Market https://www.thorne.com/take-5-daily/article/meet-meriva-the-most-clinically-studied-curcumin-on-the-market
• The Five Best Botanicals to Support Liver Health https://www.thorne.com/take-5-daily/article/the-five-best-botanicals-to-support-liver-health
• Episode 12: The Medicine Hunter Talks Ashwagandha https://www.thorne.com/take-5-daily/podcast/episode-12-the-medicine-hunter-talks-ashwagandha

 

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