Merging Biohacking, Ayurveda, & Modern Functional Medicine | Awais Spall

Most folks in medicine focus on the current medical paradigm. Some venture off and learn the cutting edge. Others study time-tested wisdom. Few do them all. Our guest this week is the rare exception. Combining the best of modern biohacking, steeped in Ayurvedic understanding.

📕 Video chapters
0:00 Introduction
00:42 Antibiotics & pharmaceuticals can be useful for rebalancing the gut
01:10 Awais’s morning routine includes sun gazing
2:29 Biohacking meditation with guided meditation and adding tech like NuCalm
3:18 His background
5:13 Few people can truly view through multiple lenses
6:46 What is “true” integrative medicine
9:09 Ayurveda overview
9:32 Three doshas and optimizing your life to your constitution
16:50 Vitalism and constitutionalism and metabolic typing
19:34 Other key Ayurveda principles
19:59 Living seasonally
20:47 Agni “digestive fire” and microbiome
22:23 Mind, body, spirit (Dharma)
23:28 why focus on Microbiome medicine
26:52 Organ transplant recipients take on donor characteristics
28:01 Can disrupting the gut Microbiome change your personality and who you are?
30:06 Fungus and Candida can mutate to resist any substance within 21 days
35:24 Optimizing the brain with modern nootropics like Nootopia
37:15 Tips to get the greatest effects out of your nootropics
37:30 Awais Spall’s favorite nootropics
38:59 Nootropic peptides
39:39 Sometimes the best cognitive enhancers are the full-body optimizers
41:00 Cerebrolysin, P21, Dihexa
42:53 Can nootropics rewire negative experiences faster and deeper via neurogenesis and synaptogenesis?
45:08 Actoprotectants are synthetic adaptogens
46:19 His opinion on the popular racetam class of nootropics
47:40 Indirect versus direct nootropics
49:12 Potential future President Awais would subsidize these top supplements
47:54 KPV, BPC157, TB4 are almost universally beneficial peptides
51:50 Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) + CBD is a synergistic therapy
53:27 Peptide info & resources
54:57 Benefits of Thymalin & TA-1
55:58 CHK-Cu copper peptide uses and benefits
59:59 Medical frontier Awais is currently researching

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📝 About our guest
Awais Spall FDN is a Functional Medicine practitioner based out of Santa Monica, CA. Prior to becoming a health practitioner, Awais worked as a formulation chemist for various cannabis companies. As a product formulator, Awais combined his knowledge of formulation chemistry with his background in Ayurvedic Herbalism. Awais has inherited much of his knowledge around Ayurveda from his grandfather, who was a renowned herbalist in Pakistan.

Awais eventually left the formulation world to pursue his deeper calling in life as an alchemist of the healing arts. In his practice, at integrative Oasis- Awais combines the cutting-edge science of Functional Medicine with Ayurveda to address various gut health issues. His practice integrates peptide medicine, bio-regulators, exosomes ozone therapy, plant medicines, among various biohacking technologies. Through his growing practice and participation in research collectives, he has found that the most profound and transformative healing is possible at the intersection of cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom.

🔑 Key takeaways
- Provide necessary nutrients first and brain enhancers will work far better
- Learn different systems to gain breadth & depth of bioharmonic understanding
- Cutting-edge health and ancient Ayurvedic wisdom both prioritize gut/microbiome medicine
- How to evaluate nootropics through multiple lenses
- Under-rated peptides and supplements

🔗 Links
- Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/96
- Music by Luke Hall: soundcloud.com/c_luke_hall

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