Human Performance and Longevity with Dr. Tommy Wood - 009

Anti-Aging Lifestyle - Longevity, Aesthetics, Health, and Beauty

In episode 9 of the Anti-Aging Podcast I bring you in live to another interview I did at the Ancestral Health Symposium, a health summit where dozens of industry leading doctors, trainers, and specialists give presentations on optimizing your health. This is where I met and interviewed this episode’s guest, Dr. Tommy Wood.

Dr. Tommy is a Senior Fellow in the Pediatrics Department at the University of Washington, and Chief Scientific Officer of Nourish Balance Thrive, an online-based company using advanced biochemical testing to optimize performance in athletes.

Dr. Tommy received a bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences and Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge before studying medicine at the University of Oxford. He worked as a junior doctor in central London for two years after medical school, and then moved to Norway to complete a PhD in physiology and neuroscience at the University of Oslo.

Dr. Tommy is currently President-elect of Physicians for Ancestral Health, he is a director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and the Icelandic Health Symposium, and is on the scientific advisory board of Hintsa Performance.

Dr. Tommy has also coached and competed in multiple sports including rowing, CrossFit, powerlifting, and ultra-endurance racing. Alongside his career in medicine and research, Dr. Tommy has published and spoken on multiple topics surrounding functional and ancestral approaches to health, including examining the root causes of multiple sclerosis and insulin resistance.

Some highlights from the episode:

Functional Medicine: Why it’s so important to take into account a complete family history, major life events, and blood tests, when optimizing anyone’s health.

Advanced Blood Analysis Calculators: The future of blood work, how scientists are able to use modeling and machine learning, along with very basic and affordable blood work, to give you much more thorough and detailed health guidance.

Optimizing Sleep: The importance of overall sleep duration, and why factors like wake up frequency and time to fall sleep matter.

Keto Diets and Performance: What happens when you take someone who is adapted to carbs, and put them on a keto diet? It turns out after a 3-6 week adaption period, your body can perform at the same level, often times with improved body composition.

Importance of Eating Enough: Why a lot of health issues can sometimes be remedied with a simple fix. Eat more food. Period. (preferable good food though)

Caloric Restriction and Longevity: If you eat super healthy but you eat a lot, will you live a shorter life than if you ate healthy, but less overall calories? What does the research say? If you eat poorly, eating less overall calories is beneficial. But if you eat healthy, effects may be negligible.

Creatine Supplementation: Why creatine is a low risk, high potential benefit supplement that most people would benefit from.

You can always find Dr. Tommy through his website drragnar.com and you can find him on IG as “drtommywood”