V.A. – Health Activator Conference Series 2013 [9 Webrips (MP4)]

Let the experts bring you actionable steps to feel healthier, think better, and live longer, based on the newest and most cutting-edge information in their fields.
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New health research methods are yielding key findings at an increasing rate. They’re producing so much information that no one person can process it all. Today’s medical system is too overloaded to manage fast-changing best practices and new information. The good part? These new findings empower people to take responsibility for their own health. But there’s a downside too: the information overload is filled with too much misinformation.
There is no filter for the new information. Good information gets mixed in with medical fallacies and ineffectual advice. And that’s where we come in. We are HealthActivator, and we provide that filter for you. We bring you the cutting edge of health science, providing the highest-quality, ground-breaking health information from world-renowned health experts.
We filter out the bad information and provide you with immediately actionable information of the highest possible quality to help you reach your ultimate health goals.
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Content:

Maximizing Heart Rate Variability to Lower Stress
Jo Beth Dow
COO, Sweetwater Health

We might assume that having perfectly evenly-spaced heart beats is ideal — not so. Healthy young hearts are naturally irregular — they beat faster when we inhale and slower when we exhale. A measurement of this change is called “heart rate variability” and we want it to be high for optimum health and lower effective biological age.
We all know that prolonged high stress levels are hard on the body. Unfortunately, today’s lifestyles are continually pushing our autonomous nervous system into the “fight or flight” mode, when we need to spend more time in the opposite “healing and repair” mode. But we can take control of this by measuring and learning to raise our HRV in real time!

Physical Improvements using Hormesis
Todd Becker
gettingstronger.org
Hormesis is a biochecmical reaction that describes how our bodies react adaptively to stress. Small amounts of stress can be good. Four examples are:
– Physical Strength: exercise dose and intensity
– Vision improvement: plus lens therapy
– metabolic health: Intermittent Fasting
– Immune Health: Supplements, immunotherapy, gut microbes

Eliminating Chronic metabolic Acidosis
Dr. Lynda Frassetto
Director, Adult Clinical Research Center at UCSF & Professor of Nephrology, UCSF
Many of us may suffer from chronic, low-grade metabolic acidosis — that is, a lifetime of diet-induced, self-inflicted damage that is usually associated with age. We humans are better adapted to the diet of our ancestors — a diet they ate for millions of years — than to the diet we have been eating since the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, changed even more so by the Industrial Revolution just 200 years ago.

Correcting Hormones for Peak Health
Lynne Mielke, MD
Founder, Optimal Health Spectrums

Thyroid and Cortisol: “The two horses that pull your cart through the day”. Optimal health depends on optimal hormone levels. Most common complaint is fatigue. Thyroid and cortisol are controlled by the HPT axis and HPA axis (hypothalamus-pituitary, thyroid-adrenal). Discussion of the causes of fatigue. There are two thyroid hormones. Most doctors only check TSH, but we also need to check for FreeT3 and FreeT4.

Autophagy: Triggering Cellular Trash Collection via Protein/Carb Alternation
Josh Whiton
Founder and CEO, Transloc; Co-Founder, Raleigh City Farm

Four goals: health, slow aging, body composition, satiety. Contributing concepts: glycation, inflammation, low carb, insulin, ADCR, CR, ketones, autophagy, MR, Protein. Result: recommended diet is very high fat, very low carb, anti-inflammatory. 5 to 6 days a week: ultra low carb, high fat, moderate protein. 1 to 2 days a week: very low protein, high fat, moderate carb. Specific food recommendations for these two timeframes.

You are a Superorganism! Taking Control of Your Microbiome
Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and INformation Technology, a UCSD/UCI Partnership

We are still in the very early days of the microbiome. It will change medicine in very fundamental ways. Most biological diversity is in the microbial world, metagenomics. There are 10,000 species of bacteria living in our guts. Startups are enabling genomic sequencing of your microbiome.
Current therapies: Diet probiotics, drugs, surgery
Emerging directions: Microbiome transfer, synthetic microbiome, ecological gardening, Targeted bacteriophage, fecal transplants. They are at the very beginning with fecal transplants – buyer beware!

DNA Testing
Geoffrey Schmigelsky
CEO, Think Exponential

DNA Primer, 23andMe, DNASnips, 3rd party tools and apps, 3 billion DNA base pairs, 10 million SNPs (1 in 300 base pairs), 23andMe account for ~ 1 million SNPs, 200+ conditions in disease, medicine, traits, ancestry, Family. DNA is probability, not deterministic. Some insurance companies can use your genetic data against you, ie, life, disability. You can submit DNA anonymously 23andMe and have the option to contribute your DNA to their database.

Optimizing Brain Function
Nick Winter
Quantified Mind, Skritter co-founder, Author

Optimization of brain function through cognitive testing. The brain is very sensitive organ and may be viewed as “The canary in a coal mine” with respect to the rest of the body. Cognitive decline from 18 to 80 years old is like going from 18 to 8 years old. Age-related cognitive decline can be reduced through lifestyle changes. Overview tour of Quantified Mind, free website with tests for reaction time, executive function, verbal learning, motor skills, context switching, visual perception, short term memory and more. Take tests for brain function monthly.

The HealthActivator Introduction
Christine Peterson
CEO Co-Founder, Foresight Institute

This is the first online HealthActivator mini-conference. During this session, we familiarize our customers with a primer for using our Fuze videoconferencing system. We go over basic functions – video, audio, chat, flags, etc. After some familiarization with the system, Christine walks us through the speakers we have during 2013 and the topics they will discuss. We think you will find that we have a very exciting lineup this year, including DNA testing, diet, hormone balancing, quantified-mind, and much more.