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Today’s guest is Dr. Gil Blander. Gil is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and translating research discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. He leads a team of biology,
Today’s guest is Dr. Gil Blander. Gil is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and translating research discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. He leads a team of biology, nutrition & exercise physiology experts, and computer scientists at InsideTracker, and has been featured in CNN Money, The New York Times, Forbes, Financial times, and The Boston Globe to name a few. Gil received a Ph.D. in biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his Post-Doctoral fellowship at MIT. In 2009, Gil founded InsideTracker alongside leading scientists in aging, genetics and biometric data from MIT, Tufts, and Harvard to realize his mission to transform the way every human being eats, sleeps, and moves to live a longer, better life. InsideTracker is the leading personalized nutrition platform which generates ultra-customized recommendations to optimize an individual’s health by tracking and analyzing blood and genetic biomarkers using a patent-pending algorithm. The expert system matches the most relevant, science-based recommendations to each individual based on blood data, DNA data and demographics, as well as self-reported preferences and goals. I recently received my bloodwork results back from InsideTracker and was very impressed by the platform’s specificity of recommendations and more importantly, why it’s recommending a certain food, form of exercise, or supplement. If you’d like to try it out too, go to InsideTracker.com, choose a plan, and use the code DRIVINGFORCE (all one word) at checkout for 25% off anything sitewide. That’s DRIVINGFORCE at checkout for 25% off your plan. I’ve also included a link in the show notes to bring you directly to the InsideTracker plans page. In my interview with Gil, we discuss the origins of his interest in longevity, the inspiration to start InsideTracker, how the InsideTracker platform works, blood biomarkers vs. physiological markers, and much more!
Link to InsideTracker plans: https://hubs.ly/H0Fdd7h0
Timestamps
00:03:49 Growing up in Israel and interest in longevity
00:07:02 What his parents did for work
00:07:48 Inspiration to start InsideTracker
00:10:31 Story around starting InsideTracker
00:15:43 InsideTracker overview
00:20:00 Biomarkers vs. physiomarkers
00:23:56 How he determined which blood biomarkers they would test
00:28:27 Really important blood biomarkers
00:32:19 How someone can get tested using InsideTracker
00:34:48 How do the InsideTracker recommendations work?
00:40:48 The InsideTracker mobile app
00:43:15 Biological vs. chronological age
00:48:56 Challenges consumers face in adopting a personalized approach to nutrition
00:54:18 Biomarkers significant to fighting Covid-19
00:56:42 Key learnings from starting InsideTracker
00:59:27 Biggest challenges facing InsideTracker as they look to grow
01:00:53 Ultimate vision for InsideTracker
01:01:50 What he wants to accomplish 5 years from now
01:02:21 His daily routine
01:03:25 His driving force
01:03:54 Parting words of wisdom around optimizing our health
