Are you taking the right form of vitamin C, or is most of it going to waste?

In this episode, I sit down again with Dr. Dan Pardi to unpack a brand-new study revealing "ferroaging" — a mechanism where iron builds up in our tissues and quietly accelerates how we age. Dan, a researcher and health-behavior expert who helps develop products at Qualia, walks me through why vitamin C turned out to be the single most powerful compound for slowing and even reversing this process. We get into the forms, doses, and timing that actually make vitamin C work, so you can move it from an afterthought to a true foundation of your longevity stack.

What you’ll learn:

06:08 Why vitamin C matters far beyond fighting off colds and flus.

06:57 What the brand-new Cell Metabolism study revealed about a new aging mechanism called ferroaging.

08:22 How ferroptosis differs from normal cell death — and why iron makes cells "explode".

13:01 Why vitamin C beat every other compound at blocking this iron-driven aging process.

16:52 What happened when monkeys drank vitamin C for 40 months, including younger brains and tissues.

22:03 How liposomal, buffered, and ascorbic-acid forms of vitamin C differ in absorption.

27:07 How to time your vitamin C so it doesn't blunt your workout gains.

47:19 Which foundational supplements Dan builds his own longevity stack around.

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