Welcome to Great Books, Great Voices, a weekly podcast where we aim to ignite a new world of community, connection, and conversation, one book at a time. My name is Diamond Michael Scott and I am your global book ambassador and show host.
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson, author of the book, The Longevity Nutrient: The Unexpected Fat That Holds the Key to Healthy Aging. Dr. Venn-Watson is a veterinary epidemiologist with over eighty peer-reviewed scientific publications and seventy patents. She discovered the health benefits of C15:0 while working for the US Navy to continually improve the long-term health of Navy bottlenose dolphins.
While seeking to understand why some dolphins were aging at slower rates than others, Stephanie applied an advanced technology called metabolomics on archived dolphin serum to discover which molecules predicted the healthiest aging dolphins. Here, she discovered C15:0 as a healthy saturated fatty acid.
Upon completing eight key studies over three years, she presented C15:0 as the first essential fatty acid to be found in almost 100 years. Her unique One Health approach to discovering novel ways to improve both human and animal health has been featured on NPR's Science Friday, The New York Times, Inverse, the BBC, National Geographic, and more.
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