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The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Melanie Avalon
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- Health & Fitness
Join best-selling author and actress Melanie Avalon as she interviews today's leading health and wellness experts, going beyond the fads to bring you all the biohacking tips, tricks, and techniques to effortlessly upgrade your body, brain, and life. Because why not live awesome? You got this! Theme Music by Narek Mirzaei, Artwork by Barbara McGregor
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#256 - Max Lugavere: Little Empty Boxes, Preventing Alzheimer’s And Cognitive Decline, Ketogenic Diets, Optimizing Protein & Weight Training, Family Member Health Issues, Environmental Pollutants & Toxins, Genetic Alzheimer's Risks, And More!
GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/littleemptyboxes
IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook group for a weekly episode giveaway, and to discuss and learn about all things biohacking! All conversations welcome!
Follow Melanie on Instagram to see the latest moments, products, and #allthethings! @melanieavalon
AVALONX SPIRULINA: Spirulina is being formulated now! AvalonX supplements are free of toxic fillers and common allergens (including wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, shellfish, nuts, soy, eggs, and yeast), tested to be free of heavy metals and mold, and triple-tested for purity and potency. Get on the email list to stay up to date with all the special offers and news about Melanie's new supplements at avalonx.us/emaillist! Get 10% off avalonx.us and mdlogichealth.com with the code MELANIEAVALON!
Text AVALONX to 877-861-8318 for a one-time 20% off code for avalonx.us
FOOD SENSE GUIDE: Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities! Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, fodmap, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. Food Sense also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in them, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more!
Stay up to date with all the news on the new EMF collaboration with R Blank and get the launch specials exclusively at melanieavalon.com/emfemaillist!
The making of Max's documentary
The meaning of empty little boxes
The journey of diet to fight Alzheimer's
Type 3 diabetes, is it causative?
Environmental pollutants and toxins
Genetic testing for variants
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Does medicine even help?
How late is too late?
The ketogenic diet
The menopausal shift
Optimizing protein and weight training
The importance of insulin sensitivity
Is the vegan diet optimal?
Blue zones and misrepresenting the diets of the population
Meat eaters and epidemiology
Intermittent fasting
Is there an upper limit of protein? -
#255 - Dr. Mindy Pelz: Fast Like A Girl, Balancing Hormones, Quitting Food Buddies, Fixing Perimenopause & Menopause Symptoms, Fasting For Your Cycle, Maximizing Fertility, Gut & Microbiome Repair, Balancing Autophagy & MTOR, And More!
GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/girlfasting
IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook group for a weekly episode giveaway, and to discuss and learn about all things biohacking! All conversations welcome!
Follow Melanie on Instagram to see the latest moments, products, and #allthethings! @melanieavalon
AVALONX SPIRULINA: Spirulina is being formulated now! AvalonX supplements are free of toxic fillers and common allergens (including wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, shellfish, nuts, soy, eggs, and yeast), tested to be free of heavy metals and mold, and triple-tested for purity and potency. Get on the email list to stay up to date with all the special offers and news about Melanie's new supplements at avalonx.us/emaillist! Get 10% off avalonx.us and mdlogichealth.com with the code MELANIEAVALON!
Text AVALONX to 877-861-8318 for a one-time 20% off code for avalonx.us
FOOD SENSE GUIDE: Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities! Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, fodmap, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. Food Sense also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in them, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more!
Stay up to date with all the news on the new EMF collaboration with R Blank and get the launch specials exclusively at melanieavalon.com/emfemaillist!
LMNT: For fasting or low-carb diets electrolytes are key for relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness. With no sugar, artificial ingredients, coloring, and only 2 grams of carbs per packet, try LMNT for complete and total hydration. For a limited time go to drinklmnt.com/melanieavalon to get a sample pack with any purchase!
Fast Like a Girl: A Woman’s Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones
The Menopause Reset: Get Rid of Your Symptoms and Feel Like Your Younger Self Again
Mindy's background
The timeline of fasting
Personalizing the metabolic switch
The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #115 - Valter Longo, Ph.D.
Protein intake causing weight gain
Fasting as gut repair
SIBO
Fermented Foods
Carnivore Fasting
The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #220 - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Autophagy mTor balancing
Fasting concerns
The problem with food buddies
Cycling your fast for your period
Fertility
Hormonal hand off around 40yo
Stress and menopause symptoms
Fasting as a healing tool
Reducing fast length after ovulation
GLP-1 inhibitors -
#254 - Dr. Peter Martone: Optimal Sleeping Position, The Neck Nest, Improving Sleep Quality, Posture Correction, Psychological Safety, Back Pain Reduction, Side Sleeping Vs. Back Sleeping, And More!
GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/neck
IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook group for a weekly episode giveaway, and to discuss and learn about all things biohacking! All conversations welcome!
Follow Melanie on Instagram to see the latest moments, products, and #allthethings! @melanieavalon
AVALONX SPIRULINA: Spirulina is being formulated now! AvalonX supplements are free of toxic fillers and common allergens (including wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, shellfish, nuts, soy, eggs, and yeast), tested to be free of heavy metals and mold, and triple-tested for purity and potency. Get on the email list to stay up to date with all the special offers and news about Melanie's new supplements at avalonx.us/emaillist! Get 10% off avalonx.us and mdlogichealth.com with the code MELANIEAVALON!
Text AVALONX to 877-861-8318 for a one-time 20% off code for avalonx.us
FOOD SENSE GUIDE: Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities! Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, fodmap, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. Food Sense also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in them, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more!
Stay up to date with all the news on the new EMF collaboration with R Blank and get the launch specials exclusively at melanieavalon.com/emfemaillist!
Peter's background
Neck vs. body positioning
Fetal position
Animal sleeping positions
Side Sleeping
Sleeping on a full stomach
Autonomic nervous system
Elevating while sleeping
Sense of safety
Sleep studies
Go to drsleepright.com to take the sleep assessment!
Remember yourself to sleep -
#253 - Brittany Masters & Jonathan Sepp: Bison Vs. Beef Benefits, Roam Free Ranch, Regenerative Farming, Homesteading & Ranching, Organic Label Problems, Environmental Impact of Ruminates, Grass-Fed Bison Nutrition, And More!
GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/roamfree
IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook group for a weekly episode giveaway, and to discuss and learn about all things biohacking! All conversations welcome!
Follow Melanie on Instagram to see the latest moments, products, and #allthethings! @melanieavalon
AVALONX SPIRULINA: Spirulina is being formulated now! AvalonX supplements are free of toxic fillers and common allergens (including wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, shellfish, nuts, soy, eggs, and yeast), tested to be free of heavy metals and mold, and triple-tested for purity and potency. Get on the email list to stay up to date with all the special offers and news about Melanie's new supplements at avalonx.us/emaillist! Get 10% off avalonx.us and mdlogichealth.com with the code MELANIEAVALON!
Text AVALONX to 877-861-8318 for a one-time 20% off code for avalonx.us
FOOD SENSE GUIDE: Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities! Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, fodmap, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. Food Sense also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in them, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more!
Stay up to date with all the news on the new EMF collaboration with R Blank and get the launch specials exclusively at melanieavalon.com/emfemaillist!
LMNT: For fasting or low-carb diets electrolytes are key for relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness. With no sugar, artificial ingredients, coloring, and only 2 grams of carbs per packet, try LMNT for complete and total hydration. For a limited time go to drinklmnt.com/melanieavalon to get a sample pack with any purchase!
Brittany and Jonathan's background
Bison Bison Bison
Bison vs. cattle
Manifest Destiny and the bison population
Roam Free Ranch
Raising ruminates vs. growing crops for food
Is regenerative agriculture sustainable?
Can anyone start a ranch?
Grocery store organic labeling
How they began the ranch
Branding
Costco partnership
Nutritional content of bison
Where to buy their products
ORDER PREMIUM GRASS-FED BISON
Visit the ranch! -
#252 - Nathan Price, PhD and Leroy Hood, MD, PhD: The Age Of Scientific Wellness, Genome Sequencing, Genetic Risks Vs. Lifestyle Risks, Alzheimer's & Anti-Amyloid Therapies, Disease Processes, Direct To Consumer Testing, And More!
GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/scientificwellness
IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook group for a weekly episode giveaway, and to discuss and learn about all things biohacking! All conversations welcome!
Follow Melanie on Instagram to see the latest moments, products, and #allthethings! @melanieavalon
AVALONX SPIRULINA: Spirulina is being formulated now! AvalonX supplements are free of toxic fillers and common allergens (including wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, shellfish, nuts, soy, eggs, and yeast), tested to be free of heavy metals and mold, and triple-tested for purity and potency. Get on the email list to stay up to date with all the special offers and news about Melanie's new supplements at avalonx.us/emaillist! Get 10% off avalonx.us and mdlogichealth.com with the code MELANIEAVALON!
Text AVALONX to 877-861-8318 for a one-time 20% off code for avalonx.us
FOOD SENSE GUIDE: Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities! Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, fodmap, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. Food Sense also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in them, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more!
Stay up to date with all the news on the new EMF collaboration with R Blank and get the launch specials exclusively at melanieavalon.com/emfemaillist!
The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
Leroy and Nathan's backstory
Data driven health
Are pharmaceuticals or lifestyle better for preventing disease?
The parts vs. the whole; systems biology
P4 Medicine
Common blood panels
Optimizing your health for longevity
Genetic risk vs. lifestyle risks
When does disease really start?
Alzheimer's Disease
APOE4
The problem with anti-amyloid therapies
Skewing trial data and biasing outcomes
Direct to consumer testing
AI's role in healthcare diagnostics
Dr. Hood and Dr. Price's current work -
#251 - Roudy Nassif: Blue Light Blocking Glasses Problems, Mastering Sleep & Energy, The Dangers of Artificial Light, Digestive Circadian Rhythm, Sunglasses & Sunburn, Full Spectrum Light Benefits, Combatting Anxiety & Depression, And More!
GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/bluelightglasses
IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook group for a weekly episode giveaway, and to discuss and learn about all things biohacking! All conversations welcome!
Follow Melanie on Instagram to see the latest moments, products, and #allthethings! @melanieavalon
AVALONX SPIRULINA: Spirulina is being formulated now! AvalonX supplements are free of toxic fillers and common allergens (including wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, shellfish, nuts, soy, eggs, and yeast), tested to be free of heavy metals and mold, and triple-tested for purity and potency. Get on the email list to stay up to date with all the special offers and news about Melanie's new supplements at avalonx.us/emaillist! Get 10% off avalonx.us and mdlogichealth.com with the code MELANIEAVALON!
Text AVALONX to 877-861-8318 for a one-time 20% off code for avalonx.us
FOOD SENSE GUIDE: Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities! Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, fodmap, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. Food Sense also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in them, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more!
Stay up to date with all the news on the new EMF collaboration with R Blank and get the launch specials exclusively at melanieavalon.com/emfemaillist!
LMNT: For fasting or low-carb diets electrolytes are key for relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness. With no sugar, artificial ingredients, coloring, and only 2 grams of carbs per packet, try LMNT for complete and total hydration. For a limited time go to drinklmnt.com/melanieavalon to get a sample pack with any purchase!
Go to melanieavalon.com/vivarays and use the coupon code MELANIEAVALON for 10% off site wide!
Artificial light is killing us
Woofing
Identifying as unfocused and depressed
How light exposure can go wrong
Red, blue, & full spectrum light
Blue light harmonizing glasses
Melanin
Light in our eyes and on our skin
Creating the glasses
The problem with clear blue blockers
3 in 1 lens technology
The circadian rhythm of digestion
Early eaters vs. late eaters
Different sleep wake cycles
Two types of melatonin