Stop Wasting Your Money on These Longevity Supplements with Dr. Brad Stanfield
Dhru Purohit Show
Dhru Purohit
4.7 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
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The supplement industry has experienced exponential growth, inundating consumers with a plethora of new recommendations. Navigating through the abundance of information to discern genuine needs and what is actually beneficial for longevity can be challenging. Today’s guest is here to help us navigate the research and clarify what is truly worth taking.
Today, on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Brad Stanfield to discuss the research behind the top supplements that are beneficial for longevity and the ones that fall short based on the studies. Dr. Stanfield shares the benefits of creatine, collagen peptides, and hyaluronic acid serums. He also discusses the importance of a quality multivitamin, adequate fiber, and the best way to take daily supplements. If you are looking to deep dive into the world of supplements, this episode is for you.
Dr. Brad Stanfield is a primary care physician hailing from Auckland, New Zealand who has garnered over 200,000 followers on YouTube for his video segments related to longevity-promoting strategies.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Stanfield dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- The top three longevity supplements that are overhyped (0:00:33 / 0:00:33)
- The impact of lifestyle changes and lifestyle coaching (19:22 / 17:35)
- What we know about rapamycin (22:22 / 20:15)
- The slam dunk evidence behind creatine for recovery and cognition (24:47 / 22:40)
- Collagen peptides as a wrinkle reducer (31:05 / 27:15)
- Hyaluronic acid serums versus supplements (33:23 / 29:28)
- Increasing fiber intake with psyllium husk (39:45 / 36:06)
- The data behind Omega 3s and testing levels (45:28 / 41:41)
- Are daily multivitamins helpful? (55:49 / 52:00)
- The best way to take your daily supplements (1:01:53 / 58:06)
- Dr. Stanfield’s daily smoothie recommendation (1:03:50 / 59:41)
- Optimal protein intake (1:06:18 / 1:02:35)
- Exercise is more protective for health than any supplement (1:13:04 / 1:09:22)
- The fundamentals of a healthy diet (1:19:30 / 1:15:47)
- Dr. Stanfield’s journey (1:21:50 / 1:18:09)
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Brad Stanfield, today we're talking about the top longevity and health supplements that the data strongly suggest work and that can help us on our quest, hopefully knock on wood to live to a hundred and beyond and we're also talking about the top |
| 0:16.8 | supplements that may not be worth the hype and are actually in some cases or at least could be damaging to our health. |
| 0:26.0 | So I'd love to start there. You made a viral video titled, |
| 0:30.4 | Avoid these popular supplements. |
| 0:33.2 | These are a list of three supplements |
| 0:35.9 | that have gotten a lot of hype, |
| 0:37.5 | especially in the world of longevity. |
| 0:39.4 | And I'd love to hear your argument |
| 0:41.1 | for why you stopped taking them yourself. |
| 0:44.5 | Let's go to the first one on the list, which is Resveritrol. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, Resveritrol has got a lot of excitement in the longevity space and unfortunately I think a lot of that |
| 0:54.8 | excitement is misplaced. |
| 0:56.1 | When I first started looking into this field I was sucked into the hype as well and actually |
| 1:00.0 | used to take Resveritron myself. So it's a bit of a story background so it's a |
| 1:04.8 | bear with me here. We're going to focus on on what the evidence actually shows. |
| 1:08.5 | So the theory is that resveritrol is meant to activate an enzyme called satuan one and that's meant to be a |
| 1:15.7 | so-called longevity gene that's been to give us all of these benefits and all of |
| 1:19.7 | this harks back to the early 2000s where it was thought that if you over activate an |
| 1:24.2 | enzyme in yeast called Sur 2 you can see these lifespan extension effects. |
| 1:28.8 | What's interesting about that though is that subsequent papers in the 2000s said that actually if you delete the Sir 2 gene you can actually see these lifespan extension benefits as well. |
| 1:40.0 | So that's probably where the hype should have stopped about resveritrol, but it continued because it appeared that if you used resveritrol in the lab, you can activate the Sur 2 gene in yeast, and you can see these lifespan extension effects. |
| 1:56.1 | A mouse study was then done giving resveritrol to mice and it seemed to extend lifespan. |
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