Daily Value
Daily Value brings science out of the lab and into daily life. Hosted by Dr. William Wallace, each short, research-driven episode explores how nutrients, supplements, and metabolism influence how we think, move, and age. It’s evidence-based, concise, and designed to make you smarter about what fuels you.
Podcasting since 2024 • 72 episodes
Daily Value
Latest Episodes
A Nutrient Mixture That Tunes Brain Signaling
Nutrients are usually studied in isolation, yet synapses don’t operate that way. This episode examines research showing that coordinated nutritional inputs can reshape synaptic proteins and neural firing patterns (effects that isolated inputs f...
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Episode 76
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9:06
How One Amino Acid Touches Two Aging Pathways
L-arginine is usually treated as a simple nitric-oxide precursor, a molecule with a narrow vascular role. But across multiple lines of research, it keeps appearing in places it shouldn’t: improving cerebral blood flow in older adults, shifting ...
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9:34
Two Missing Nutrients, Big Brain Consequences
Parkinson’s is often framed as a brain-first disorder, but some of its earliest changes unfold in the gut. This episode unpacks a global metagenomic analysis showing that two surprisingly ordinary microbial compounds, ones most people consume e...
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Episode 74
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11:09
The Nutrient Your Stress System Overuses
A new brain-imaging meta-analysis has uncovered the first consistent biochemical signature across multiple anxiety disorders (a shift in a single molecule that moves in the opposite direction of every major psychiatric condition studied to date...
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Episode 73
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9:51
Magnesium: The ‘Best’ Form Isn’t What You Think Part 2
Magnesium salts are often marketed as if they target specific tissues - i.e., “threonate for the brain,” “glycinate for calm,” “taurate for the heart.” Part 2 breaks down what the evidence actually shows: animal studies demonstrating tissue dif...
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Episode 72
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