Mind & Matter Podcast: Science, Health, Metabolism

Food, drugs, or ideas: what you consume shapes who you become. Join neuroscientist Nick Jikomes, PhD, for interviews with top scientists on neuroscience, nutrition, metabolism, hormones, evolution, behavior, psychology, cannabis science, and health optimization.

Weekly Episodes

In-depth talks on:
Neuroscience & brain science
Nutrition, metabolism & hormones
Psychology, behavior & evolution
Cannabis research & innovations
Health, wellness & human performance

Not medical advice.

Host: Nick Jikomes, PhD
Harvard PhD in Neuroscience, UW-Madison BS in Genetics. Former Director of Science & Innovation at a legal cannabis tech startup.

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Mind & Matter Podcast: Science, Health, Metabolism

Another new episode uploading now. For technical reasons, videos are having some upload issues for me. New episode will be available early today for subscribers and everyone else on Monday morning. Let me know what you think of the new video quality.

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Let me know how my video looks in the new episode.

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Mind & Matter Podcast: Science, Health, Metabolism

I’m going to be traveling Sunday-Sunday. Tried hard to get enough recordings done so keep releasing one every 5 days, but couldn’t get schedules to quite work out. There will likely be no new episode next week. M&M 276 about AMP kinase and nutrient sensing is up early now on Substack for subscribers, and will release widely this Sunday.

I’ve got a string on interesting guests lined up for early Feb…

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 6

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Are the captions in the video shorts more helpful or more annoying to you?

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Episode 276 with Greg Steinberg features a new home video set up. Some more improvements will be coming in the next couple of weeks. Let me know if the changes are noticeable and you like them better.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Mind & Matter Podcast: Science, Health, Metabolism

When I worked in the marijuana industry, people made all sorts of cannabinoid gummies marketed for different effects: sleep, energy, stress, etc.

The non-THC stuff never caused a noticeable effect for me, perhaps because most products contained low amounts (~10mg) of cannabinoids.

Someone convinced me to try a Cordyceps mushroom extract gummy product recently, each with 300mg of mushroom extract.

Two of these causes a noticeable "mental energy" affect in me.

Looked into it, and there is some literature on Cordyceps affecting both exercise performance in humans and cellular ATP production in rodents.

This is the one I tried. For a limited time you can use the code TRIKOMES for a 20% discount: sporesmd.com/product/cordyceps-energy-support-mush…

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 18

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Uploaded the new episode on grass vs grain-fed beef in 1080p instead of 720, as well as the one with Michael Snyder I just uploaded.

Do people notice the difference in video quality, or care?

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 9

Mind & Matter Podcast: Science, Health, Metabolism

Working on some home studio upgrades over the next week or two.

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 9

Mind & Matter Podcast: Science, Health, Metabolism

People should be able to post questions and start discussions here now.

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