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Sunday Science by GoUnPro 2026_11_01 Lipid Lengthening and Aging
Welcome to Sunday Science, where we dive into a few recent scientific articles and their translation into our modern lives. Here is your host, Brent W. Laartz, MD. All right, everyone. All right, everyone. Welcome to Go Un Pro Sunday Science. Here we are Sunday, November 1st, Halloween yesterday. Here in Florida, it was raining. And what we're talking about today is a neat study that came out here in October, just last month. And it is about... lipid lengthening and aging. So
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Week 29: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and Best-Selling Author. All right, everyone, welcome to week 29 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Here we are making ourselves into an unprocessed person and by the five pillars diet and movement. And sleep and connection and with our plastic free l
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Week 28: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host, Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and best-selling author. Alright everyone, welcome to week 28 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life, where we are manifesting 111. We're Manifesting 111. We had a great week last week at our Manifesting 111 workshops and all of the healthy things that we
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Manifesting 111 Aspen Live Event October 15 2026
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host, Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, neuroscientist, and best-selling author. I can't believe everybody's here with us now. All right, so here it is, Manifesting 111. I am so excited to bring this second annual Manifesting 111 Wellness Festival this whole week of everything we're doing to make us live to 111 years of age
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Week 26: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go UnPro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, neuroscientist, and best-selling author. All right, everyone, welcome to week 26 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. This is the Go On Pro podcast. I am so excited to be here. Do you know why? Because I am an Aspen and I am on vacation. Get that seven days off. I am o
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Week 25: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go UnPro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, neuroscientist, and best-selling author. All right everyone, welcome to week 25 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Can't wait to get into this because first things first, I usually mention this at the end of the podcast, but I wanted to mention it to you because if y
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Week 24: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Lartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, neuroscientist, and best-selling author. All right here it is the go on pro podcast week 24 a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life where I am changing my life every facet of my life slowly but surely within one year I am getting to the healthiest I can be and we are manifesti
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Week 23: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go UnPro Podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and Best-Selling Author. All right everyone, welcome to week 23 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Today we're going to be talking a little bit more about achieving goals. Those goals could be weight loss, could be connection, could be diet, labs, som
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Week 22: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, neuroscientist, and best-selling author. Hello everyone. Welcome to week 22, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life, the GoUn Pro podcast, right? This is week 22. Can't wait to get into this because I'm really excited about what's going to happen this week with the seven-d
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Sunday Science 2026_09_13 Diet and Coronary Artery Disease
Welcome to Sunday Science, where we dive into a few recent scientific articles and their translation into our modern lives. Here is your host, Brent W. Laartz, M.D. Alright everyone, welcome to Sunday Science, part of the GoUnPro podcast. We are talking this week about vegetarian diets and coronary artery disease. Some people might think that... they already have coronary artery disease or they're already obese and they already have risk factors they already have family histo
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Week 21: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro Podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host, Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, neuroscientist, and best-selling author. All right, everyone, welcome again to another episode of Go Unpro Podcast. This is a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. And thank you very much for joining me again. Love it. Love you guys. Love that you're here with me. This is a
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Week 20: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host, Dr. Brent W. Laartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and best-selling author. Alright, welcome everyone for week 20 of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. This is going to be a little bit of a short one. I have a flight today. I'm getting traveling done and getting some connection with some traveling and c
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Sunday Science Marijuana and Longevity and Cancer 2026_08_23
Welcome to Sunday Science, where we dive into a few recent scientific articles and their translation into our modern lives. Here is your host, Brent W. Laartz, M.D. Alright everyone, welcome to another Sunday Science expedition here as we launch on a discovery about marijuana and longevity and cancer. Here we are in Colorado, the land of marijuana, right? So I thought we've had a lot of questions about marijuana and longevity. So we're going to dive into this. We have a lot o
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Go Unpro Week 19: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro Podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Lartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and Best-Selling Author. All right, everyone. Welcome to another week of a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. This is week 19. All right. So last week on... Sunday Science, we talked about sleep a lot, okay, about all of the different factors that play into
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Sunday Science by Go UnPro Sleep and Aging and Cancer 2026_08_16
Welcome to Sunday Science, where we dive into a few recent scientific articles and their translation into our modern lives. Here is your host, Brent W. Laartz, M.D. Alright everyone, welcome to another Sunday Science Go by GoUnPro, the,... study and multiple different studies. So this is going to be really a fly-by-night thing here. We're going to be looking through six different studies regarding sleep. This is my subject that I am really delving into my own life over the
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Week 18: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Welcome to the Go Unpro podcast, a doctor's 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. Now, here is your host Dr. Brent W. Lartz, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Neuroscientist, and best-selling author. Alright everyone. here we are week 18 a doctor's 52 week journey to an unprocessed life here we are uh week 18 we've passed the one-third way mark and finding a few hiccups here along the way but mostly success and that's the point to it mostly
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Sunday Science by Go UnPro 2026_08_09 Variety of Exercise and Longevity
Sunday Science: Longevity and Physical Activity Analysis Summary Of Speaker Contributions Dr. Brent Laartz: Led the session by reviewing multiple scientific studies regarding physical activity and longevity. He introduced the "five pillars" of movement—strength, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, mobility, balance, and muscular endurance—and synthesized data from cohort studies and meta-analyses to advocate for a diverse exercise routine. Key Points And Decisions Th
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Week 17: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Go UnPro: Week 17 Progress and The Comfort Crisis Summary Of Each Speaker Dr. Brent Laartz: Provided a progress update on his 52-week journey toward an unprocessed life. He focused on the psychological and physical benefits of embracing discomfort, the importance of tracking goals, and the ongoing effort to eliminate plastics and processed habits from his daily routine. Key Points And Decisions Goal Reassessment: Dr. Laartz emphasized that goals should not be "set and
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Sunday Science by GoUnPro 2026_08_02 Protein Restricted Diets
Insights on Protein Restriction and Longevity Summary Of Speaker Contributions Dr. Brent Laartz: Served as the primary presenter, synthesizing findings from over 300 scientific articles regarding protein restriction and its impact on aging. He highlighted the role of nutrient-sensing pathways, such as mTOR and GCN2, and argued that while high protein intake is often marketed for muscle growth, it may negatively impact longevity and metabolic health in older adults. He adv
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Sunday Science Forever Chemicals and Nanoplastics and Inflammation
Sunday Science: Impact of Microplastics and Forever Chemicals on Human Health Speaker Contributions Dr. Brent Laartz: Acted as the primary subject matter expert, synthesizing three recent scientific studies regarding the health impacts of microplastics and perfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS). He provided detailed analysis on how these contaminants contribute to inflammation, cellular senescence, and tumorigenesis, while sharing his personal journey toward a "deplasticized" li
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Week 16: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Navigating the Comfort Crisis: A Journey to an Unprocessed Life Speaker Contributions Dr. Brent Laartz: Served as the primary speaker, detailing his personal journey through "Week 16" of an unprocessed life. He contributed insights on the psychological and physical impacts of modern comfort, the importance of intentional living, and the rejection of instant gratification in favor of long-term health. Key Points and Decisions The Comfort Crisis: The host argued that mo
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Week 15: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
The 52-Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life: Week 15 Progress Report Speaker Contributions Dr. Brent Laartz: Acted as the primary contributor, detailing his "dollar cost averaging" philosophy for health. He shared his personal progress on his 52-week journey, emphasizing the importance of consistent daily investments in diet, exercise, sleep, motivation, and connection to secure long-term health. Key Points and Decisions Health as a Retirement Account: Dr. Laartz estab
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Sunday Science Diet Comparison and Aging 2026_07_12
Sunday Science: Biological Aging and Dietary Patterns Speaker Contributions Dr. Brent Laartz: Presented a detailed analysis of a UK Biobank study involving 400,000 participants. He evaluated the correlation between dietary patterns—specifically regular meat-eating, low-meat, pescatarian, and vegetarian diets—and biological aging using KDM-BA and PhenoAge metrics. Key Points and Decisions Study Findings: The research demonstrated that individuals who consume less meat,
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Week 14: A Doctor’s 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life
Go UnPro Podcast: Week 14 Summary Dr. Brent Laartz: Provided a comprehensive update on his 52-week journey to an unprocessed life. He detailed his strategies for post-holiday recovery, home-based resistance training, dietary habits, and the reduction of environmental toxins in his new home. Key Points And Decisions Post-Holiday Detox: Dr. Laartz emphasized returning to a routine of fiber, water, and calorie restriction following the July 4th holiday, rather than relying
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