The Longevity Lab MD Podcast 🎙️
The Longevity Lab MD Podcast 🎙️
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The Longevity Lab MD is a podcast by a team of doctors and healthcare professionals passionate about helping you live longer and healthier. We explore the science of longevity, biohacking, preventive medicine, and lifestyle optimization. From cold plunges to cutting-edge blood tests, each episode breaks down real, research-backed tools to improve your healthspan. Tune in for expert insights and practical tips to thrive—at every age.
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The podcast focuses on the science of longevity, biohacking, preventive medicine, and lifestyle optimization, with episodes examining topics such as the benefits of cold exposure, the carnivore diet, supplement stacking strategies, and insights from the Blue Zones on healthy living.
The Longevity Lab MD is a podcast by a team of doctors and healthcare professionals passionate about helping you live longer and healthier. We explore the science of longevity, biohacking, preventive medicine, and lifestyle optimization. From cold plunges to cutting-edge blood tests, each episode breaks down real, research-backed tools to improve your healthspan. Tune in for expert insights and practical tips to thrive—at every age.
Some longevity panels measure everything: IL-6, TNF-alpha, ESR, and dozens more. So why do I measure just one inflammation marker?
In this episode I explain, in plain English, what inflammation really is, what each of these blood tests measures, and why more data isn't the same as more information. Then I answer a second question I'm asked constantly: if you test testosterone and SHBG, what else should you be checking?
You'll learn:
- Why hs-CRP is the inflammation marker worth measuring, and why you repeat it before escalating
- Why IL-6 and TNF-α are important in biology but rarely useful as screening tests
- What ESR is good for, and why it isn't a clean longevity marker
- How SHBG and albumin change what your testosterone result really means
- When it makes sense to go further, with LH, FSH, prolactin and estradiol
Chapters (0:00) Why we don't test everything (1:02) Inflammation 101 (2:45) hs-CRP: the one we keep (4:36) IL-6 & TNF-α (7:20) ESR (8:36) The verdict (9:24) The testosterone question (12:07) A two-stage approach (14:04) Better medicine
Watch the animated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IGByagnMGkk?si=t1W0fel73EPe1NPR
Sources: Pearson et al., Circulation 2003 · Ridker, NEJM 2002 · Mayo Clinic Laboratories · Vermeulen et al., JCEM 1999 · Endocrine Society 2018 · AUA 2018.
Educational content only, not medical advice. Speak to your own doctor about your testing.
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