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
You know, it would be interesting to count that.
You know, it would be interesting to count that. I think now, you know, things are changing for the Baja, at least the community that I worked with, where a lot of people are moving away from traditional diving and into other kinds of fishing practices.
I think now, you know, things are changing for the Baja, at least the community that I worked with, where a lot of people are moving away from traditional diving and into other kinds of fishing practices.
And so I think at this point, you know, this prowess, this respect for these, you know, these divers is more respect for the fact that they're keeping the tradition alive and they're continuing this tradition, even though it's a very hard thing to do.
And so I think at this point, you know, this prowess, this respect for these, you know, these divers is more respect for the fact that they're keeping the tradition alive and they're continuing this tradition, even though it's a very hard thing to do. Um, but yeah, it would be really interesting.
Um, but yeah, it would be really interesting.
I know actually the one, the one diver came from a very big family and that was something that the Bajo actually asked me about was why, why did the Bajo have so many children?
I know actually the one, the one diver came from a very big family and that was something that the Bajo actually asked me about was why, why did the Bajo have so many children? And so it would be interesting to see if, yeah, diving success correlates with reproductive success. Cause you could imagine that it would, I mean, they're, they're diving for things that they're eating.
And so it would be interesting to see if, yeah, diving success correlates with reproductive success.
Cause you could imagine that it would, I mean, they're, they're diving for things that they're eating.
So why wouldn't that, um, increase your success on that?
They dive for, it depends on where they are.
They dive for, it depends on where they are. They're spearing a lot of fish. Everything is delicious. They dive for shellfish. They also harvest seaweed sometimes. And they actually collect a lot of sea cucumbers, which they dry out in the sun and then eat later.
They're spearing a lot of fish.
Everything is delicious.
They dive for shellfish.
They also harvest seaweed sometimes.
And they actually collect a lot of sea cucumbers, which they dry out in the sun and then eat later.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so we started thinking about, okay, you know, for natural selection to act in this population, it needs some kind of physical trait to act on, which got us looking at the dive reflex or the mammalian dive reflex.
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