Stephanie Venn-Watson

  • CEO and Co-Founder of Epitracker

Credentials

  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
  • Master of Public Health (MPH)

Education

  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine – University of California
  • Master of Public Health – University of California

Affiliations

  • Epitracker
  • National Marine Mammal Foundation
  • Naval Health Research Center

Research Focus

  • Lipid biology
  • Metabolic diseases
  • Longevity

Notable Publications

  • Cross-Species Application of Transcriptome Profiling in the Discovery of Dietary Biomarkers of Disease (2016)
  • Clinical Relevance of the Primary Findings of the MTA: Success Rates Based on Severity of ADHD and ODD Symptoms at the End of Treatment (2001)
  • Life expectancy, causes of death and movements of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in marine zoological park settings (2011)

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Awards & Honors

  • National Institutes of Health Director's Transformative Research Award (2020)

Key Contributions

  • Identified novel targets for the treatment of metabolic diseases and aging through her research in lipid biology.
  • Co-founded Epitracker, a platform that uses lipid biology to discover novel therapeutics.
Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 0:02 0
“We showed that C15 is not only a beneficial and active saturated fat, but that it was meeting these rare criteria of being an essential fatty acid.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 0:21 0
“four independent teams have now looked at the criteria of C15 being an essential fatty acid, including gold standard studies that were used back in 1929 and 1931.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 1:16 0
“You wrote this book, The Longevity Nutrient. This thing was intriguing for me because I'm always looking around for things that haven't been talked about yet in the whole nutrition and supplementation world.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 5:19 0
“one in three older Navy dolphins were developing things that are going to sound really familiar like insulin resistance, fatty liver disease, high cholesterol, anemia, chronic inflammation, and as we just published last week, um the full suite of changes consistent with Alzheimer's.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 6:28 0
“Dolphins are getting fatty liver disease and Alzheimer's and all the, you know, chronic inflammation, metabolic syndrome exactly like you're saying, without carbs, without trans fatty acids.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 7:30 0
“So those two and three that age well, we thought it'd be omega-3s because all they eat are fish. And instead, right, they completely surprised us by showing that in fact it was C15, this odd chain saturated fat that predicted the healthiest aging dolphins and has emerged today, which we'll talk about.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 8:57 0
“We've learned that not all saturated fats are created equal. Those that have an odd number of carbons like C15, C17, and C-15 being the Goldilocks fat have anti-inflammatory effects.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 12:02 0
“an essential fatty acid is a a nutrient that our bodies must have uh in order to maintain our baseline physiological health. If we don't have enough of it, we will see a deficiency syndrome.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 12:26 0
“we have to get certain amounts routinely from our diet.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 12:35 0
“One's in omega-3, alpha lendolenic acid, and ones in omega6 uh linoleic acid, which were discovered way back when um by George and Mildred Burr back in 1929 and 1931.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 14:48 0
“C-15 is not only a beneficial and active saturated fat but that it was meeting these rare criteria of being an essential fatty acid.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 16:45 0
“the more C-15 mom has as a human, right? That the more C-15 baby gets and the more C-15 baby gets, the better the fetal body growth and head circumference, which is brain development, the better the baby once it's born, its growth and development.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 19:15 0
“C-15 improves um health so decreases glucose um insulin weight uh body you know body weight on a highfat diet lower inflammation”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 20:53 0
“Sardinian population and the high longevity zone, they have swapped out um cheese for meat. So eat a lot less meat. They eat a lot of cheese and their cheese specifically has um has 50% more C15 in it compared to other dairy fats.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 21:18 0
“dairy fat that comes from animals that are grass-fed have twice as much C15 in it than, um, like cows, for example, that are fed corn.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 24:49 0
“Steve, like C-15 is the evidence I'm seeing is that C-15 is emerging as a ger protector.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 26:01 0
“C-15 does all of that. It activates EMPK and inhibits mTor.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 26:54 0
“People with higher C-15 have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 26:30 0
“C-15 has been shown to reliably reverse RDW, a key biomarker of aging rate.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 30:58 0
“I think two darlings of the anti-aging industry as far as off label drugs are metformin and rapamycin.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 32:00 0
“So, what we did is we used this like this um panel that is industry standard for the pharmaceutical world, right? And it's called biomap. It's 12 human cell systems mimicking various disease states. heart disease, liver disease, lung disease.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 32:10 0
“And what you do is then you treat these diseases in a dish with 10 concentration. So, no, let me take that back. Four concentrations of each molecule. It measures 148 different biomarkers and it gives you a profile of um how well does this molecule behave across many different human cells.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 33:10 0
“So it's this wonky set of tools that if you have these, you're going to live longer.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 35:00 0
“It predicted for example that C-15 would have um anti-cancer benefits in this dish. And then there's a group that then moved C-15 forward in cancer studies in vivo and they were able to figure out what was the mechanism of action.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 36:20 0
“Uh we had about um half of the people within two weeks reporting deeper sleep, calmer mood, and less joint pain.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 37:54 0
“Prior to our discovery there was only one uh known uh full acting endockinabonoid. This uh PDC was the second so the second ever discovered which then helped explain aha deeper sleep calmer mood less joint pain all of which I have experienced myself and now it's like I get it like I'm understanding why uh those benefits.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 37:54 0
“Prior to our discovery there was only one uh known uh full acting endockinabonoid. This uh PDC was the second so the second ever discovered which then helped explain aha deeper sleep calmer mood less joint pain all of which I have experienced myself and now it's like I get it like I'm understanding why uh those benefits.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 40:02 0
“So we want to have C15 stored in our tissues because of uh you know all the things we talked about anti-inflammatory, antioxidant that keeps our liver, our heart, our brains healthy.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 44:02 0
“I love fish. There's so much um there's so many studies been showing that the more fish we eat, if we eat two to four servings a week that the better our health.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 46:50 0
“So, if you're you like leave the oil out of the fish oil supplements, they can get rancid. It's shipped via Amazon and sits out in the summer heat for 90 degrees on your doorstep for two days while you're on vacation. you come back and put that in your fridge, it's still probably pretty damaged.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 47:56 0
“And so I kind of go back and forth and I recently added C15 in the mix after reading your book. I decided to do like a well so far I think I'm 2 months into kind of triing using C15 via this uh uh supplement called Fatty 15.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 48:09 0
“I've been taking four of those a day. Is that okay? You know uh three maybe three.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 48:23 0
“I'm almost 200 lb now and uh uh I get I get uh a little bit of flack for this, but I don't purposefully keep my body fat low, but I'm 4% body fat and 200 lb.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 49:17 0
“How many like milligrams is in one capsule? 100 milligrams.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 49:32 0
“So, it matches up. So, um there have been uh multiple clinical trials. Uh one of them uh used 200 milligrams. The other one did use 300 milligrams, but uh you know what we'll um cover is that the these clinical trials were done in people who uh were likely C-15 and then we saw C15 deficient.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 54:10 0
“including metabolic health that there's clear substantiated evidence that C15 plays a core role in supporting our metabolism.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 54:54 0
“The studies to date on clinical trials have focused on fatty liver disease.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 55:44 0
“The first one which was 200 milligrams per day had um people go on it. And this um clinical trial then was a home run.”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 58:53 0
“So the big question is, well, if you don't take the supplement, you're not going to increase your C-15.”

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Is This the Missing Longevity Nutrient?
The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 1:00:12 0
“we strongly recommend that every person before they start fatty 15 the supplement to go get your blood work C-15 levels great to assess to look at but what's more important is are we seeing clinically relevant improvements”

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The Vital Longevity Nutrient Revealed for Optimal Health Benefits 1:00:49 0
“We say we recommend between 3 to 6 months later. And that's where if you go to our reviews and that's where Ben, we're seeing again why people stay on fatty retention is so high.”

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