Nick Norwitz MD PhD

Could This Probiotic Make Ozempic Obsolete?

35K views · 7h ago · 22:21

Free members get partial access to most letters, while Premium members (67 cents per letter—get three or more 3,000-word deep dives every week. GLP-1 Hunger Neuron Paradox Letter, Description Scientists have engineered a first-of-its-kind “living drug,” one that can sense glucose inside your gut and respond by producing GLP-1. In a new study published in Nature, researchers tested this living drug in mice and monkeys.

Topics: Scientists Have Just Invented a Living Drug · How to Actually Build a Living Drug · Giving The Living Drug to Animals · The Great GLP-1 Hunger Neuron Paradox · The Science of Coming Off GLP-1s · From Mice to Monkeys

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How to Get the Best Blood Flow of Your Life

185K views · 1w ago · 23:56

Free members get partial access to most letters, while Premium members (67 cents per letter) get three or more 3,000-word deep dives every week. Blood Sugar Brownie Letter: Coming in December to . Reverse Atherosclerosis Video

Topics: The Most important Molecule for Your Heart Health · What Nitric Oxide (NO) Really is · The Two Ways Your Body Makes NO · Mouthwash, Nitric Oxide, and Blood Pressure · Nose Breathing · Humming

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How to Make Your Cells Immortal (I Couldn't Believe It!)

175K views · 2w ago · 23:04

NOHO Labs: My Peptide and Longevity Clinicians If you're looking for comprehensive support with peptides, I've spent a lot of time searching and vetting providers, and I'm happy to recommend the thoughtful clinicians at NOHO Labs, which is the service my family and I use.

Topics: The 200-Year-Old Whale That Doesn’t Get Cancer · Peto’s Paradox: Why Whales Should Be Full of Cancer · Solving Our Longevity and Cancer Paradoxes · The Secretes of the Greenland Shark’s Super longevity · Immunosurveillance: Rejuvenating the Immune System · Tardigrade and Spaceflight

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The Focus Trick I Wish I Knew Sooner

300K views · 3w ago · 20:44

We explore brain-imaging research on what stimulant medications appear to do to arousal, reward, and attention networks, why sleep deprivation can produce symptoms such as distractibility, impulsivity, and emotional dysregulation, and how delayed circadian rhythms may overlap with ADHD.

Topics: Why You Can’t Focus · The Two Unresolved Paradoxes · The Brain Scans That Changed the Story · The Clock in the Middle of Your Brain · Resolving Our Paradoxes · Tools You Can Use

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How He Lost 50 lbs of Fat AND Built 26 lbs of Muscle

204K views · 4w ago · 23:17

For much more on the frontier of human optimization, be sure to explore this library at StayCurious Metabolism NOHO Labs: My Peptide and Longevity Clinicians If you're looking for comprehensive support with peptides, I've spent a lot of time searching and vetting providers, and I'm happy to recommend the thoughtful clinicians at NOHO Labs, which is the service my family and I use.

Topics: Can You Lose Fat and Gain Muscle? · A Real-World Body Recomposition Transformation (Nicholas N.) · SLAP: A Simple Lifestyle Paradigm for Gaining Muscle and Losing Fat Naturally · A Real-World Body Recomposition Transformation · Plugging the Metabolic leak: 5-Amino-1MQ Explained · ATX-304, AMPK, and the Metabolic Switch

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What I Wish I Knew About Caffeine Sooner

655K views · 1mo ago · 15:47

Ingredients 2 cups heavy cream 6 pasture-raised egg yolks Half cup granulated allulose 2 Tbsp high-quality matcha powder 2 tsp vanilla extract Quarter tsp sea salt Instructions 1. Heat the cream. Add the heavy cream and allulose to a saucepan. Heat gently until steaming and the allulose has dissolved. Don’t boil. 2. Temper the yolks. Whisk the egg yolks in a bowl. Slowly pour about half cup of the warm cream into the yolks while whisking.

Topics: Why All Caffeine Doesn't Feel the Same · Coffee vs Matcha vs Energy Drinks · Coffee: Benefits, Jitters & Heart Health · Matcha & Green Tea: The L-Theanine Advantage · Yerba Mate: The Smoothest Source of Caffeine? · Guarana: The Slow-Release Caffeine Plant

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The Gut Health Trick I Wish I Knew 10 Year Ago

845K views · 1mo ago · 19:55

It’s completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can test it and see how your body responds. Description What if stress isn’t merely “in your head,” but is physically wired into inflammation? In this video, I explore the emerging science of the vagus nerve, inflammation, gut health, and autoimmune disease.

Topics: Reset Your Vagus Nerve to Control Gut Inflammation · The Takes Are Greater Than I Realized · The Gut Health Study That Hit Close to Home · What The SUMOylation? · Quick Summary of Main Points So Far · Stimulating the Vagus Nerve Lowers Inflammation in Humans

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Why I Quit Being a Doctor

436K views · 1mo ago · 10:33

I spent most of my life preparing to become a practicing doctor. I was valedictorian at Dartmouth, completed my PhD at Oxford, earned my MD at Harvard Medical School, and grew up in a family where medicine was practically the family business. But I was also a patient. In my early twenties, severe inflammatory bowel disease took me from the laboratory to hospital beds, intensive care, and some of the darkest moments of my life.

Topics: From an MD PhD to... YouTube? · Growing Up in a Family of Doctors · Why I Walked Away from Medicine · My Double Life as a Patient · Trying Something Outside the Mainstream · The Evidence-Based Medicine Paradox

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