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Hints and tips to improve your bids and proposals, so that you can win more business!
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This is the Aliquot Preview - a sneak peek into FoundMyFitness’s members-only podcast: The Aliquot. Learn more about The Aliquot at foundmyfitness.com/aliquot. Every month we release one free preview episode here so you can sample one of the many FoundMyFitness Premium Membership benefits. So what is an aliquot? An aliquot is a sample taken from a larger whole, that captures the essence of the entirety. FoundMyFitness Aliquots are short, members-only podcasts focused on single topics, curate ...
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PREVIEW Aliquot #106: The Science of Longevity Vitamins: Taurine, Ergothioneine, and PQQ
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Get more Aliquots! Become an FMF Premium Member and get full access to our members-only podcast, The Aliquot, plus live Q&As with Rhonda, every-other-week Science Digest emails, and more. Learn more about The Aliquot podcast here Vitamins are substances that our bodies need to develop and function normally. When considering vitamins, we tend to thi…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #92: The Underestimated Role of Resistance in Body Recomposition
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Having a healthy body composition, with plenty of lean mass – in the form of muscle and bones – is essential for health throughout the lifespan. Achieving a healthy body composition requires a balanced approach that emphasizes resistance training – and calorie reduction where appropriate. In this Aliquot, Dr. Brad Schoenfeld describes a balanced ap…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #85: The Science of Wrinkle Prevention ⎯ Building Resilient Skin
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Your skin is a crucial barrier to the outside world – the first line of defense against environmental exposures, and the primary means by which the body retains fluids necessary for survival. Consequently, maintaining a healthy skin barrier is important for your overall health. In this Aliquot, I describe some things you can do to protect your skin…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #78: The minimum effective dose for hypertrophy
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Incorporating resistance training into your exercise regimen presents a scheduling dilemma – there's simply not enough time. Performing time-efficient workouts that involve supersets, paired sets, drop sets, and multi-joint exercises decrease training time while providing the minimum effective dose necessary for muscle hypertrophy. In this Aliquot,…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #70: Preventing age-related muscle loss
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The progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that occurs with aging, referred to as sarcopenia, begins as early as our 30s or 40s. Many factors contribute to sarcopenia, including diet and inactivity. Building muscle mass in one's early years is essential for staving off the age-related loss of muscle mass and may promote longevity. In…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #65: Concerns with chronic NSAID use
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, are among the most widely used drugs worldwide, available in both prescription and over-the-counter forms, such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and others. Most NSAIDs, with the exception of aspirin, work by inhibiting the activity of a family of enzymes called cyclooxygenases, which drive inflamma…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #61: How dietary fiber influences metabolic health
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Dietary fiber is a broad term that refers to the non-digestible components of fruits and vegetables. Gut microbes break down certain types of fiber, releasing micronutrients trapped in the fiber matrix and producing beneficial metabolic byproducts, such as short-chain fatty acids. Fiber exerts a wide array of beneficial health effects, influencing …
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PREVIEW Aliquot #59: How alcohol affects sleep, behavior, and cancer risk
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Alcohol, one of the most used drugs worldwide, is a controversial subject. Whereas some research suggests drinking alcohol improves health, an abundance of evidence indicates that drinking alcohol also harms health. Particularly, higher alcohol intake is associated with an increased risk of many cancers. Some of the deleterious effects of drinking …
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PREVIEW Aliquot #54: Dietary and environmental factors that may impact autoimmune diseases
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Autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis occur when the immune system mistakes the body's own proteins for those released by invading pathogens. The immune system has strategies for filtering these autoimmune cells out of circulation; however, this filter can malfunction due to age, genetic predispos…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #51: What's the best omega-3 dosage for maximum benefit?
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Early studies of omega-3 fatty acid intake demonstrated dramatic biological effects. Since then, the body of research enumerating the profound anti-inflammatory and multi-system, generalized health-promoting qualities of omega-3s continues to grow; however, some studies fail to show any effects from omega-3 supplementation. This source of consterna…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #43: Protein consumption: Finding the Balance
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Protein is essential for maintaining muscle mass as we age. Modulating protein intake via dietary intake or fasting can have variable effects on aging and muscle growth. Whereas fasting turns off multiple pathways associated with aging, such as mTOR, IGF-1, growth hormone, and others, eating for optimal fitness activates these important processes. …
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PREVIEW Aliquot #41: Q&A and Interview Mashup - Blood Tests, Biomarkers, and Lab Work
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“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.” - William Thompson Getting regular checkups and undergoing blood tests are fundamental to maintaining good health. FMF guests with expertise ranging from lipid metabolism to Alzheimer's disease risk to micronutrient status have shared their recommendations regarding blood tests that a person shou…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #38: Zinc's role in brain and immune health
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Zinc is an essential nutrient that participates in many biological processes and plays critical roles in immune function, protein synthesis, wound healing, DNA synthesis, cell division, and brain health. Zinc deficiency puts a person at risk for a subtype of Alzheimer's disease and poor immune function. In this Aliquot, Drs. Dale Bredesen and Rhond…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #34: How fasting influences immune function
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This month’s Aliquot Preview episode features Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Valter Longo describe the roles that diet and fasting play in maintaining or restoring proper immune function. Diet plays essential roles in immune function. Consequently, deficiencies or insufficiencies in vitamins or minerals can impair immune function. The gut microbiota al…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #30: Lifestyle modifications that enhance immune health
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Having a healthy, robust immune system is crucial for our survival. Critical players in the body's antiviral immune response are interferons. Certain lifestyle behaviors can boost interferon production and immune function, including sleep, vitamin D, and hot hydrotherapy. This Aliquot segment features Dr. Roger Seheult, a quadruple board-certified …
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PREVIEW Aliquot #26: How mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Work
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Traditional vaccines take many years to develop. A recent innovation in vaccine technology involves exploitation of messenger RNA, or mRNA, to facilitate rapid scaling of vaccines and expedite their modification if the virus mutates significantly. The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines capitalize on this technology to induce antibody production a…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #25: Coffee, caffeine, and sleep
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Coffee consumption is associated with protection from several chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disease. Whereas some of the beneficial effects of coffee may stem from its ability to induce autophagy, other evidence points to the benefits of caffeine, which, when consumed early in the morning – resets…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #22: Q&A Mashup - Rhonda's personal supplement routine
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This month’s Aliquot Preview episode is a special mashup episode features a compilation of supplement-related topics taken from many of my Q&A episodes over the last couple of years. This episode covers many supplement-related topics including: (00:00) Introduction (00:49) Personal supplementation routine as of October 2017 (08:04) Personal supplem…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #18: The dual nature of IGF-1: Striking a balance for optimal health
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Insulin-like growth factor-1, or IGF-1 for short, is a protein that plays critical roles in major growth pathways in the human body. It influences nearly every tissue in the body, especially developmental growth, skeletal muscle and neurons. Emerging evidence suggests that IGF-1 also regulates the aging process. Overactivity of IGF-1 has been impli…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #16: Time-restricted eating for better metabolic health - Part 1
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Time-restricted eating, which involves taking in food within a small window of time during the day and fasting for the remainder, can improve certain biomarkers of health – even without weight loss – to improve overall health. In Part I of this two-part segment, Drs. Satchin Panda and Ruth Patterson describe how eating following the body's circadia…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #8: Lifestyle interventions for depression and anxiety
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This month’s Aliquot Preview episode features Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry. Various ancient practices, including meditation, hot yoga, and sauna, may aid in the treatment of depression. Whether the medical community will embrace these lifestyle interventions remains to be seen. In the meantime, most people with clinical depression …
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PREVIEW Aliquot #6: Genetic and lifestyle risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
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The single most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is a variant of apolipoprotein E, or APOE for short, a lipoprotein produced in the liver and brain. Roughly a quarter of all people living in the US – about 75 million people – carry a genetic variant of APOE called APOE4. Having APOE4 is associated with higher circulating levels…
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This month’s Aliquot Preview episode is a collection of clips that covers a range of topics related to fasting, including associated mechanisms of healthspan and longevity, health benefits, and when and how to break the fast. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Intermittent fasting caused an increase in bacterial richness in the gut microbiom…
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This month’s Aliquot Preview episode is a collection of clips that covers some of the many health benefits associated with sauna use, including heat shock protein activation, cardiovascular health, muscle mass preservation, and more. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Implications of sauna bathing on risk of pneumonia and respiratory illness…
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PREVIEW Aliquot #1: Q&A Mashup - Pregnancy and Child Development
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This month’s Aliquot Preview episode is a collection of clips that covers a range of topics related to optimizing a child's development and growth, from pregnancy to toddlerhood. In this episode, you'll discover: (00:00) Common deficiencies in infants and toddlers and how Rhonda optimizes her son’s diet. (01:45) Low omega-3 fatty acid intake in tod…
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Time planning for bid and proposal development
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A bid and proposal development plan is very much like a project plan. Just as you would in a project, you need a plan to develop a proposal in response to an ITT/RFP. Knowing the times that some of the activities are likely to take during proposal development will help make the planning process much easier. This podcast and fact sheet look at some …
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Early customer engagement to create winning bids and proposals - Part 2
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The second of two episodes, dealing with some hints and tips to help you get early customer engagement up and running and how to use that engagement to help you create winning bids and proposals! Download the full fact sheet for both episodes Part 1 and Part 2 here. Let me know what other areas you would like me to cover by contacting me at www.wil…
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Early customer engagement to create winning bids and proposals - Part 1
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Many organisations seem to think there’s no need to engage with customers prior to putting a successful bid/proposal together. The norm is that those organisations who don’t engage with customers prior to being asked to respond to the RFP/ITT, usually fail and fail badly. This episode, the first of two parts, deals with some hints and tips to help …
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Using graphics to create winning bids and proposals
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Graphics are a very powerful weapon in a bid/proposal manager’s armoury. If used appropriately, graphics will turn a mediocre proposal into one that will win. In this episode, I look at; Why use graphics in a proposal?; When to use graphics; How to plan graphics production; How to use graphics in the proposal. Download the full fact sheet and notes…
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Six more ways to reach bid and proposal Nirvana in quiet periods!
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Here are another six ways in which you can use a quiet period to help save time during the next proposal preparation period, and reach your own Bid Nirvana! To keep things in context with the last podcast, I have numbered the points from 7-12 on this episode soundtrack. The next 6 areas that we will be looking at in this episode are: Competitor ana…
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Six ways to reach bid and proposal Nirvana in quiet periods!
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Now is the right time to look at areas where you can save time during the next proposal preparation. I like to think of this as aspiring to reach ‘Bid Nirvana’, where time is always on your side and everything goes to plan! This episode addresses six areas that always cause tremendous anxiety during proposal preparation, all adding up to a loss of …
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