dr. mike t nelson

• Dr Doug Bibus introduction and background
• A brief primer of essential fats
• Mortality and fish oil
• Recommended amounts for health benefits
• Sport supplementation
• COVID, clinical trials, inflammation, and fish oil
• DHA and arachidonic acid in membranes and athletes (and sled dogs)
• Cold exposure can help convert more DHA
• Hibernating animals
• Can you get too much EPA and DHA?
• Farm-raised salmon EPA and DHA quite low?
• 2-3g DHA and EPA science-backed recommendation
• Omega 3 blood testing (omega3test.com)
• Find Dr. Bilbus at lipidlab.com and omega3test.com

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• How Jodie avoided dentures
• Zac’s background and how he got into this field
• What proper mouth structure should be
• The connection between sleep and mouth structure
• The connection between ADHD and other behavior issues and airway
• What to ask for with a sleep study
• At home sleep apnea testing: Watch-PAT
• Addressing oral posture sooner rather than later
• How much can you change
• It takes a team to be fully optimized
• Recommendations on what to do and where to go
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Show Notes:

What James’ wife thinks of his experiments

What happened when he plugged his nose for 10 days and how the experiment came about

Disorders correlated with mouth-breathing

Things to look out for: how long you can hold your breath after a complete exhale as a marker of health.

How this science got lost

What the perfect breath looks like

CO2 therapy

Holotropic Breathing practice

How the airway can impact facial structure and ADHD

Key Takeaways

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Bugs change in response to exercise and exercise can change gut bugs.

Reduction in microbiota can cause exercise to suffer in mice - discussion of recent studies

How can humans test themselves based on the mouse study

How microbes adapt to training stimulus

How long does it take microbiota to change and keep that change from reverting to baseline

Gut bugs and inulin in type 2 diabetics. 

Classification of microbes

Where more research is needed in regards to resistance training and HIIT

Top two things people should be doing and one thing most people are probably not doing that they should

How you go about data collection in a lab

Referenced studies and articles: 

Impact of Protein Intake in Older Adults with Sarcopenia and Obesity: A Gut Microbiota Perspective

FitBiomics CEO: ‘First athlete-derived probiotics to hit the market within a year, if not sooner’

Food for thought about manipulating gut bacteria

Host genotype and exercise exhibit species-level selection for members of the gut bacterial communities in the mouse digestive system

Gut bacteria selectively promoted by dietary fibers alleviate type 2 diabetes