Ep 72 - Hydration (Beyond Water)
About this episode
The episode discusses hydration beyond water, including the role of food, sleep tracking technology, and fasted training.
Trexler and Lauren open with Lauren's return after a mystery 18-hour illness and her travels, followed by a callback to their running guilt-tipping saga — this time being asked to tip at a Canadian grocery-store self-checkout — plus some beverage talk and listener feedback. From there they get into the week's science. The main thread is hydration beyond plain water: an article on water-rich foods and whether you really need to chase a giant-water-bottle hydration goal, and how much fluid we get from food and other sources. They then look at a New York Post story on Eight Sleep's mattress that claims to track your "biological aging" via in-bed sensors, and debate whether it offers anything over a ring or watch, the limits of sleep-tracking wearables, and the health-tech habit of re-solving already-solved problems. Dr. Drew's endorsement of a C15 (pentadecanoic acid) supplement gets an extended breakdown of the marketing claims and how you'd actually design a study to test them. The episode closes on a listener question about fasted training, where they separate fasted training from low energy availability and discuss the topic through an evolutionary lens before wrapping…
People in this episode
Hosts: Trexler, Lauren
Topics covered
- hydration
- water-rich foods
- sleep tracking
- health technology
- fasted training
Keywords
- hydration
- water-rich foods
- sleep tracking
- health technology
- fasted training
- C15 supplement
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Eight Sleep, New York Post
Products: C15 (pentadecanoic acid) supplement
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