Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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And I ended up being um with the Navy in San Diego, um caring for this population for over 20 years.
Um, the Navy's cared for this sustained population of bottlenose dolphins who live out in San Diego Bay.
Um and they uh they've cared for them for over 60 years.
And when you look at dolphins in the wild, they live to about twenty.
When you look at navy dolphins, because they get such great care, they're living into their forties and fifties with two dolphins this last year turning sixty years old.
So I had this like incredible job of saying, Hey Steph, we want you to come in.
Work with our team and understand healthy aging in dolphins, not to help people.
This was to help, this was a dedicated effort.
And funding from Office of Naval Research to continually improve the health and welfare of navy dolphins.
Which was incredible.
So
Over a long period of time we found that Navy dolphins as they get older, about one in three get conditions that are gonna sound super familiar, right?
High cholesterol.
Chronic inflammation, fatty liver disease, even the full suite of changes consistent with Alzheimer's.
We didn't then did this um advanced technology called uh metabolomics, which is just a fancy way of saying that we're looking at a bunch of small molecules in their all fish diet in their blood to see which small molecules predicted the healthiest aging dolphins.
And lo and behold, that's how we discovered C fifteen, uh, this nutrient that uh was in their fish and for us in butter.
That predicted the healthiest aging dolphins.
Fast forward 10 years and over 150 peer-reviewed studies later.
And C15's now emerging as the first essential fatty acid to be discovered in over 90 years.
So a big thanks to the dolphins.
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