Dr. Melissa Ilardo

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Huberman Lab · Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo · 26 May 2025 podcast

Yeah, so I was actually diving as part of a coral genomics project in Thailand, escaping Danish winter, because that's where I was doing my PhD.

Yeah, so I was actually diving as part of a coral genomics project in Thailand, escaping Danish winter, because that's where I was doing my PhD. And I heard about a population called the Moken. So that's another group of these sea nomads.

And I heard about a population called the Moken.

So that's another group of these sea nomads.

And heard about their incredible underwater diving, started looking into it, and saw a study that I think you've seen that showed that children, Moken children, could actually see underwater better than European children.

And started thinking about, you know, I mean, freediving is really dangerous.

And so I was thinking that this could actually be something that's driving selection in this population that's causing this population to evolve.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, we see with competitive breath hold divers, you know, I've never actually been to one of these competitions, but I've read about them. People pass out underwater all the time and they're, you know, pulled to the surface and revived.

Yeah.

And, you know, I mean, we see with competitive breath hold divers, you know, I've never actually been to one of these competitions, but I've read about them.

People pass out underwater all the time and they're, you know, pulled to the surface and revived.

But if you're a sea nomad diving in the middle of the ocean with no one nearby, nobody's going to pull you out of that water. And so you've just removed yourself from the gene pool completely, whereas someone who maybe has a variation or has genetic variation that's making them safer at diving might survive that.

But if you're a sea nomad diving in the middle of the ocean with no one nearby, nobody's going to pull you out of that water.

And so you've just removed yourself from the gene pool completely, whereas someone who maybe has a variation or has genetic variation that's

making them safer at diving might survive that.

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