Podcasts about Selenium

Story at-a-glance Selenium is a trace mineral essential for health, supporting immune function, hormone regulation, and fighting oxidative stress Incorporated into 25 selenoproteins, selenium is crucial for antioxidant production, particularly glutathione peroxidase, which neutralizes harmful free radicals and prevents cellular damage Research shows selenium benefits cardiovascular health, with supplementation reducing rates of Keshan disease in deficient regions and supporting overall heart function This mineral plays a vital role in thyroid function by helping convert inactive T4 hormone to active T3, with supplementation improving hormone conversion in those with thyroid disorders Research indicates selenium has anticancer properties, helping normalize tumor vasculature, enhancing cancer treatments, and targeting proteins involved in tumor growth and drug resistance

Your thyroid doesn't just need food—it needs the right nutrients. Are you getting enough?Key nutrients like iodine, selenium, magnesium and zinc are essential to thyroid function. Yet modern diets, stress, and medications can deplete them. In this episode, I discuss how these deficiencies can lead to fatigue, weight fluctuations, and brain fog—and why simply eating "healthy" isn't always enough. We also bust common myths about thyroid-friendly foods and what truly supports optimal thyroid health.Small changes can make a big impact. Discover how to fuel your thyroid for better energy and overall well-being—tune in now!Episode Timeline: 0:00 - Episode Start0:05 - Episode Overview1:12 - Podcast Intro 1:51 – Three Common Myths About Diet and Thyroid Health4:57 – Nutrient Deficiency vs. Nutrient Insufficiency Why Both Matter5:41 – Modern Diets Lack Nutrients The Hidden Gaps in Your Food6:08 – Gut Health and Nutrient Absorption - Why It Matters for Your Thyroid6:51 – Essential Nutrients Your Thyroid Needs to Function6:59 – Iodine for Thyroid Health Striking the Right Balance8:45– Iron's Role in Thyroid Function and Energy Levels9:20 – How to Test for Iron Deficiency and What to Look For10:07 – Selenium and Zinc for Immunity and Thyroid Support10:55 – Vitamin A and Its Impact on Thyroid Hormone Sensitivity11:58 – Omega-3s for Thyroid Support and Inflammation Reduction12:39 – Magnesium for Sleep Digestion and Thyroid Function13:04 – Vitamin D The Key to a Strong Immune System and Healthy Thyroid14:07 – Testing for Deficiencies Which Nutrients You Should Check14:58 – Signs You Might Have a Nutrient Deficiency16:10 – Why Symptoms Alone Aren't Enough to Diagnose Deficiencies16:49 - Short Break17:59 – Medications That Can Block Nutrient Absorption18:37 – How Environmental Toxins Deplete Essential Nutrients18:57– The Impact of Stress and Sleep on Nutrient Levels21:26 – How to Restore Nutrient Balance and Replenish Deficiencies25:32 – Why Home-Cooked Meals Help Prevent Deficiencies26:02 – When and How to Use Supplements for Thyroid Health27:35 - Podcast Outro27:58 – Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways for this EpisodeMentioned in the Episode: Dr. Eric's Books: The Hyperthyroid Healing Diet: Reverse Hyperthyroidism and Graves' Disease and Save Your Thyroid Through Diet and Lifestyle Changes eBookNatural Treatment Solutions for Hyperthyroidism and Graves' Disease 3rd Edition: Osansky, Eric M.Newsletter: Healthy Gut Healthy Thyroid Newsletter Free resources for your thyroid healthGet your FREE Thyroid and Immune Health Restoration Action Points Checklist at SaveMyThyroidChecklist.comHigh-Quality Nutritional Supplements For Hyperthyroidism and Hashimoto'sHave you checked out my new ThyroSave supplement line? These high-quality supplements can benefit those with hyperthyroidism and Hashimoto's, and To take the Save My Thyroid Quiz visit www.savemythyroid.com/quiz Do You Want Help Saving Your Thyroid? Access hundreds of free articles at www.NaturalEndocrineSolutions.com Visit Dr. Eric's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/c/NaturalThyroidDoctor/ To work with Dr. Eric, visit https://savemythyroid.com/work-with-dr-eric/

Dr. Nicole Rambo and Sarah discuss essential nutritional strategies for post-exercise recovery in horses. They delve into the importance of high-quality proteins, amino acids like lysine, and adequate calorie intake for muscle repair. The episode also covers the significance of antioxidants such as Vitamin E and Selenium, hydration, electrolyte replenishment, and holistic nutritional plans to support performance horses. Additionally, they highlight the importance of consistent nutrition, cooling down, and active recovery for optimal health and performance. For personalized feeding plans, listeners are encouraged to reach out to Tribute. You can learn more about these topics by visiting our expertise page HERE If you have any questions or concerns about your own horse, please contact us HERE This podcast was brought to you by Tribute Superior Equine Nutrition 

Is Bryan Johnson's anti-aging regimen the ultimate blueprint for health, or just another one-size-fits-all approach? In this episode, Joe Cohen breaks down Johnson's protocol, highlighting what works, what doesn't, and why personalization is key.Joe shares his own experiences and expert insights to help you optimize your health on your own terms.- Discover the pros and cons of Bryan Johnson's approach- Why personalization matters more than a strict regimen- The best practices for sleep, nutrition, and longevityJoin us for a deep dive into the science behind health optimization!- Check out SelfDecode: https://selfdecode.com/- Join Joe's online community: https://thejoecohenshow.com/ Timestamps:(00:20) - Brian Johnson's Blueprint: An Overview(00:48) - Personalization in Health Protocols(01:04) - Sleep and Eating Habits(03:31) - Critique of Calorie Restriction(05:10) - Protein Intake and Muscle Building(08:20) - Skepticism on Brian Johnson's Regimen(15:50) - Supplement Analysis: Ingredients and Dosages(25:31) - Joe's Personal Supplement Routine(28:21) - Blueprint Product Reviews(32:43) - Evaluating Niacin and B Vitamins(34:21) - Zinc, Selenium, and Genetic Predispositions(35:21) - Personal Dosage Preferences(37:03) - Critique of Supplement Formulas(37:42) - Advanced Supplements and Personal Experiences(54:50) - Dietary Choices and Sensitivities(57:29) - Exercise and Lifestyle Recommendations

Welcome to another episode of the TestGuild Automation Podcast! This time, we're diving into the archives by honoring SeleniumConf in Valencia, Spain, with a special rerelease of an interview recorded back in 2017. Join your host, Joe Colantonio, as he sits down with Jason Huggins, the legendary creator of Selenium. Recorded live during the hustle and bustle of SeleniumConf that year, Joe takes us back to the origins of Selenium with this remarkable founder's journey. Jason dives deep into the story behind Selenium's creation, the challenges faced during its early days, and the evolution of automation in tech. Whether you're an automation veteran or new to testing, this episode is a treasure trove of insights and inspiration you won't want to miss!  

In this episode, Dr. Motley dives deeper into everything EBV, how it works, its challenges to the immune system, and what you can do to fight it. Key takeaways? Find an Epstein-Barr knowledgeable practitioner and look into homeopathy!  Show Notes: Dr. Kasia Kines: The Epstein Barr Virus Solution Herbals - Astragalus: https://shorturl.at/PSYTK     Ashwagandha: https://shorturl.at/rG6ga     Schisandra Supreme: https://shorturl.at/4SD2r DesBio Homeopathics: DesBio Homeopathics Vitamins and Nutrients: NAC, Vitamin E + C, Selenium, Zinc, Licorice ------  Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe! Follow Dr. Motley! Instagram Twitter Facebook Tik-Tok Website ------ * Hunting for an excellent form of magnesium? Get 10% off ONLY with this link: bioptimizers.com/drmotley and code DRMOTLEY at checkout!   *Do you have a ton more in-depth questions for Doctor Motley? Are you a health coach looking for more valuable resources and wisdom? Join his membership for courses full of his expertise and clinical wisdom on every-day health concerns, plus bring all your questions to his weekly lives! Join here: https://www.doctormotley.com/store ------ 

Iodine deficiency is becoming incredibly common because most people aren't getting enough in their food, and chemicals like fluoride and chlorine in the water supply can deplete it. Vegans are at increased risk for iodine deficiency because they aren't consuming iodine foods such as shellfish, dairy, eggs, and other seafood.Here are 7 strange iodine deficiency signs to look out for. 1. Outer eyebrow thinningIf the outer third of your eyebrow is thinning, you could have an iodine deficiency.2. Hair lossIodine is vital in ensuring that you have adequate thyroid hormones to support your hair. 3. HoarsenessThis may feel like a lump in your throat due to an enlarged thyroid. 4. Enlarged tongueIndentations on the outside of the tongue signify an enlarged tongue. 5. Unexplained weight gainWhen your thyroid doesn't have enough iodine, it can slow your metabolism, leading to weight gain.6. Increased estrogen Heavy periods, excessive cramping, headaches, and weight gain in the hips all signify increased estrogen. Testosterone may also decrease in both men and women if the thyroid isn't functioning properly. 7. Lowered IQThyroid function affects many parts of the brain, including the portion responsible for making decisions, problem-solving, attention, focus, creativity, and memory. Iodine is vital for properly functioning thyroid hormones, which affect every part of the body. Thyroid hormones affect the ovaries and the testicles, regulate estrogen dominance, and help mood and cognitive function.Hypothyroidism is one of the most common health problems worldwide! Selenium is also essential for the thyroid, especially for conditions like Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. Rather than waiting for iodine deficiency symptoms, add the following iodine-rich foods to your diet to help prevent a problem:•Sea kelp/seaweed•Shellfish•Fish from the ocean•Eggs•Dairy Get a high-quality water filter to eliminate chlorine and fluoride in your drinking water!

In this episode, Tara takes a deep dive into three of the most commonly recommended supplements—Vitamin D, Iron, and Selenium—and why they might not be as harmless as they seem. While these nutrients are essential for health, the one-size-fits-all approach to supplementation can do more harm than good, especially when practitioners prescribe them without proper testing. Tara breaks down the misconceptions, the risks of over-supplementation, and how these supplements interact with other key minerals in the body. She encourages listeners to take a more critical approach, work with practitioners who think beyond blanket recommendations, and prioritize testing before taking any supplement.   In this episode:  The widespread belief that Vitamin D is a miracle nutrient and why this is misleading. How Vitamin D deficiency is often a symptom of inflammation rather than the root cause of disease. The dangers of high-dose Vitamin D supplementation and how it interacts with calcium and magnesium. Why iron deficiency is often misdiagnosed and why ferritin alone is not a reliable marker. The importance of looking at iron metabolism instead of assuming a deficiency. The risks of excess selenium and how over-supplementation can lead to toxicity. The myth that everyone with a thyroid condition needs selenium supplementation. The role of Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) in understanding your mineral status. The importance of working with a practitioner who understands nutrient interactions and proper testing.   BOOK A 30-MINUTE SESSION WITH TARA HERE   Mentioned in this episode: HRT Made Simple™ - Learn how to confidently speak to your doctor about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy so you can set yourself up for symptom-free, unmedicated years to come without feeling confused, dismissed, or leaving the medical office minus your HRT script. Hair Loss Solutions Made Simple™ – This course will teach you the best natural, highly effective, and safe solutions for your hair loss so you can stop it, reverse it, and regrow healthy hair without turning to medications. The Hormone Balance Solution™ – My signature 6-month comprehensive hormonal health program for women in midlife who want to get solid answers to their hormonal health issues once and for all so they can kick the weight gain, moodiness, gut problems, skin issues, period problems, fatigue, overwhelm, insomnia, hair/eyebrow loss, and other symptoms in order to get back to the woman they once were. [FREE] The Ultimate Midlife Perimenopause Handbook - Grab my free guide and RECLAIM your confidence, your mood, your waistline and energy without turning to medications or restrictive diets (or spending a fortune on testing you don't need!).

Mitochondria are the energy powerhouses of our cells. They use oxygen to convert glucose to an energy-storing molecule called ATP, which plays a role in numerous functions involved in neurotransmission, muscle contraction, DNA and RNA synthesis, and more.With thyroid hormones playing a vital role in regulating energy production within the mitochondria, the relationship between thyroid health and mitochondrial function is critical to our well-being.Today I'm discussing the relationship between thyroid health and mitochondrial function and why balanced thyroid hormone levels are needed to maintain optimal mitochondrial function and overall health.In this episode, you'll learn about:- The effects of oxidative stress on the mitochondria- How thyroid hormones stimulate energy production and mitochondrial formation- The connection between autoimmune conditions and mitochondrial dysfunction- How thyroid medications can impact mitochondrial health- The potential effects of beta blockers on mitochondrial function- Common factors that contribute to mitochondrial damage- Selenium's role in thyroid health and its protective effects on mitochondriaAs always, I hope you find this episode valuable, and I look forward to catching you in the next episode!To learn more, visit the show notes at https://savemythyroid.com/podcast/how-does-the-thyroid-affect-the-mitochondria/. Do You Want Help Saving Your Thyroid? Access hundreds of free articles at www.NaturalEndocrineSolutions.com Visit Dr. Eric's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/c/NaturalThyroidDoctor/ To work with Dr. Eric, visit https://savemythyroid.com/work-with-dr-eric/

We've all seen various hair gummy vitamins over the years, but hair health is actually much more complex than a basic multivitamin. In this episode, Dr. Herzog takes your along her hair journey exploring home and in-office treatments, supplements, products, and more. More specifically, Alma TED! Alma TED is a new revolutionary treatment that delivers growth factors and nutrients to your hair follicles via an ultrasound device. This treatment is pain free with no down time. Book a consultation with us in Scottsdale to see what Alma TED can do for you! Products Mentioned In This Episode:Plated Hair - https://perfectdoserx.com/products/plated-hair-serum-30mlSupplements! https://perfectdoserx.com/collections/desbioTimestamps00:00 Introduction02:42 Starting My Hair Transformation03:44 In-Office Treatments04:27 Alma TED vs. PRP06:36 Stem Cells and Exosomes08:31 Alma TED Results09:09 How Many Treatments Do You Need?10:11 At-Home Exosomes12:46 Supplements13:38 Getting Your Bloodwork14:32 Vitamin D315:21 Thyroid Hormone16:04 Zinc17:15 My Supplement Stack17:53 Selenium 18:28 Recap19:33 Get Bloodwork at Perfect Dose20:16 Reminder: Scalp Health is Important21:01 OutroDon't forget to follow Dr. Herzog on Instagram @the_perfectdose for more skincare tips!--------------

In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain how two key hormones control metabolism and discuss tools to enhance their levels to improve metabolic health. I discuss the pathways through which the brain and body interact to produce thyroid hormone and growth hormone, and how these hormones influence essential processes like tissue growth and repair, body composition, and energy production. I explain how thyroid hormone levels are influenced by key nutrients, such as iodine, selenium, and L-tyrosine. I also explain how practices such as exercise, sleep, meditation and sauna can offset age-related declines in growth hormone, to optimize overall hormone health and metabolism. Huberman Lab Essentials are short episodes (approximately 30 minutes) focused on essential science and protocol takeaways from past Huberman Lab episodes. Essentials will be released every Thursday, and our full-length episodes will still be released every Monday. Read the full episode show notes at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman David: https://davidprotein.com/huberman Timestamps 00:00:00 Huberman Lab Essentials; Hormones & Metabolism 00:01:41 Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Thyroid 00:03:22 Thyroid Hormone Functions, Tools: Iodine, Selenium, L-Tyrosine 00:07:55 Sponsor: Eight Sleep 00:09:27 Thyroid Hormone, Glucose & Metabolism; Thyroid Hormone Disorders 00:11:45 Growth Hormone Functions, Prescription Growth Hormone 00:14:41 Growth Hormone Release, Tools: Sleep & Bedtime Fasting 00:16:07 Growth Hormone Release, Tool: Meditation 00:18:21 Sponsor: AG1 00:19:24 Growth Hormone Release, Tools: Exercise, Warm-Up, Glucose, Cool Down 00:22:04 Growth Hormone Supplements, Arginine 00:24:07 Offsetting Age-Related Growth Hormone Decline 00:25:05 Temperature & Growth Hormone, Tool: Sauna Protocol 00:29:23 Sponsor: David Protein 00:30:38 Peptides, Sermorelin, Secretagogues, Risk 00:33:26 Recap & Key Takeaways Disclaimer & Disclosures

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A lot is discussed around thyroid health but do we actually know what it does and why it's so much more than a gland? The thyroid will often be blamed for stalled weight loss progress or even weight gain and while it could be playing a factor, there's so much more to understand about our thyroid and the HPT Axis. In today's episode, we're going to cover the essentials of thyroid health, testing TSH levels, how our lifestyle and diet affect our thyroid, birth control and midlife considerations, and so much more!   Time Stamps:   (1:03) Thyroid Health (1:45) Last Week's Episode (2:51) What We'll Cover (3:47) Your Thyroid Is Much More Than A Gland (6:30) Tough Love Time and Lifestyle Factors (10:50) Testing TSH (13:54) Diet and Thyroid Health (16:20) Hypertrophy Example (17:58) Hair Loss (21:58) Our Food Quality (26:28) Birth Control Side Effects (26:42) Midlife Considerations (30:15) Thriving in Midlife (31:05) Finding The Root Cause (32:28) Selenium and Zinc ----------  Thyroid Health Resources:   PubMed ID: 27829139 PubMed ID: 31452287 PubMed ID: 28653871 ----------  Apply for SF Coaching Method  https://sarahfechter.ac-page.com/sfhq-cc Complimentary Health Content  https://sarahfechter.ac-page.com/Health_Wellness_Community ----------  Follow Me On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarahfechter.ifbbpro/   Check Out My Website - https://www.sarahfechter.com ----------  This Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing, other professional health care services, or any professional practice of any kind. Any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk and Sarah Fechter Fitness LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual use of, reference to, reliance on, or inability to use, this Podcast or the information presented in this Podcast. All contents and design for this Podcast are owned by Sarah Fechter Fitness LLC. Always consult your professional team before beginning any exercise or nutrition program.

Today's episode is with Paul Klein, founder of Browserbase. We talked about building browser infrastructure for AI agents, the future of agent authentication, and their open source framework Stagehand.* [00:00:00] Introductions* [00:04:46] AI-specific challenges in browser infrastructure* [00:07:05] Multimodality in AI-Powered Browsing* [00:12:26] Running headless browsers at scale* [00:18:46] Geolocation when proxying* [00:21:25] CAPTCHAs and Agent Auth* [00:28:21] Building “User take over” functionality* [00:33:43] Stagehand: AI web browsing framework* [00:38:58] OpenAI's Operator and computer use agents* [00:44:44] Surprising use cases of Browserbase* [00:47:18] Future of browser automation and market competition* [00:53:11] Being a solo founderTranscriptAlessio [00:00:04]: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of Smol.ai.swyx [00:00:12]: Hey, and today we are very blessed to have our friends, Paul Klein, for the fourth, the fourth, CEO of Browserbase. Welcome.Paul [00:00:21]: Thanks guys. Yeah, I'm happy to be here. I've been lucky to know both of you for like a couple of years now, I think. So it's just like we're hanging out, you know, with three ginormous microphones in front of our face. It's totally normal hangout.swyx [00:00:34]: Yeah. We've actually mentioned you on the podcast, I think, more often than any other Solaris tenant. Just because like you're one of the, you know, best performing, I think, LLM tool companies that have started up in the last couple of years.Paul [00:00:50]: Yeah, I mean, it's been a whirlwind of a year, like Browserbase is actually pretty close to our first birthday. So we are one years old. And going from, you know, starting a company as a solo founder to... To, you know, having a team of 20 people, you know, a series A, but also being able to support hundreds of AI companies that are building AI applications that go out and automate the web. It's just been like, really cool. It's been happening a little too fast. I think like collectively as an AI industry, let's just take a week off together. I took my first vacation actually two weeks ago, and Operator came out on the first day, and then a week later, DeepSeat came out. And I'm like on vacation trying to chill. I'm like, we got to build with this stuff, right? So it's been a breakneck year. But I'm super happy to be here and like talk more about all the stuff we're seeing. And I'd love to hear kind of what you guys are excited about too, and share with it, you know?swyx [00:01:39]: Where to start? So people, you've done a bunch of podcasts. I think I strongly recommend Jack Bridger's Scaling DevTools, as well as Turner Novak's The Peel. And, you know, I'm sure there's others. So you covered your Twilio story in the past, talked about StreamClub, you got acquired to Mux, and then you left to start Browserbase. So maybe we just start with what is Browserbase? Yeah.Paul [00:02:02]: Browserbase is the web browser for your AI. We're building headless browser infrastructure, which are browsers that run in a server environment that's accessible to developers via APIs and SDKs. It's really hard to run a web browser in the cloud. You guys are probably running Chrome on your computers, and that's using a lot of resources, right? So if you want to run a web browser or thousands of web browsers, you can't just spin up a bunch of lambdas. You actually need to use a secure containerized environment. You have to scale it up and down. It's a stateful system. And that infrastructure is, like, super painful. And I know that firsthand, because at my last company, StreamClub, I was CTO, and I was building our own internal headless browser infrastructure. That's actually why we sold the company, is because Mux really wanted to buy our headless browser infrastructure that we'd built. And it's just a super hard problem. And I actually told my co-founders, I would never start another company unless it was a browser infrastructure company. And it turns out that's really necessary in the age of AI, when AI can actually go out and interact with websites, click on buttons, fill in forms. You need AI to do all of that work in an actual browser running somewhere on a server. And BrowserBase powers that.swyx [00:03:08]: While you're talking about it, it occurred to me, not that you're going to be acquired or anything, but it occurred to me that it would be really funny if you became the Nikita Beer of headless browser companies. You just have one trick, and you make browser companies that get acquired.Paul [00:03:23]: I truly do only have one trick. I'm screwed if it's not for headless browsers. I'm not a Go programmer. You know, I'm in AI grant. You know, browsers is an AI grant. But we were the only company in that AI grant batch that used zero dollars on AI spend. You know, we're purely an infrastructure company. So as much as people want to ask me about reinforcement learning, I might not be the best guy to talk about that. But if you want to ask about headless browser infrastructure at scale, I can talk your ear off. So that's really my area of expertise. And it's a pretty niche thing. Like, nobody has done what we're doing at scale before. So we're happy to be the experts.swyx [00:03:59]: You do have an AI thing, stagehand. We can talk about the sort of core of browser-based first, and then maybe stagehand. Yeah, stagehand is kind of the web browsing framework. Yeah.What is Browserbase? Headless Browser Infrastructure ExplainedAlessio [00:04:10]: Yeah. Yeah. And maybe how you got to browser-based and what problems you saw. So one of the first things I worked on as a software engineer was integration testing. Sauce Labs was kind of like the main thing at the time. And then we had Selenium, we had Playbrite, we had all these different browser things. But it's always been super hard to do. So obviously you've worked on this before. When you started browser-based, what were the challenges? What were the AI-specific challenges that you saw versus, there's kind of like all the usual running browser at scale in the cloud, which has been a problem for years. What are like the AI unique things that you saw that like traditional purchase just didn't cover? Yeah.AI-specific challenges in browser infrastructurePaul [00:04:46]: First and foremost, I think back to like the first thing I did as a developer, like as a kid when I was writing code, I wanted to write code that did stuff for me. You know, I wanted to write code to automate my life. And I do that probably by using curl or beautiful soup to fetch data from a web browser. And I think I still do that now that I'm in the cloud. And the other thing that I think is a huge challenge for me is that you can't just create a web site and parse that data. And we all know that now like, you know, taking HTML and plugging that into an LLM, you can extract insights, you can summarize. So it was very clear that now like dynamic web scraping became very possible with the rise of large language models or a lot easier. And that was like a clear reason why there's been more usage of headless browsers, which are necessary because a lot of modern websites don't expose all of their page content via a simple HTTP request. You know, they actually do require you to run this type of code for a specific time. JavaScript on the page to hydrate this. Airbnb is a great example. You go to airbnb.com. A lot of that content on the page isn't there until after they run the initial hydration. So you can't just scrape it with a curl. You need to have some JavaScript run. And a browser is that JavaScript engine that's going to actually run all those requests on the page. So web data retrieval was definitely one driver of starting BrowserBase and the rise of being able to summarize that within LLM. Also, I was familiar with if I wanted to automate a website, I could write one script and that would work for one website. It was very static and deterministic. But the web is non-deterministic. The web is always changing. And until we had LLMs, there was no way to write scripts that you could write once that would run on any website. That would change with the structure of the website. Click the login button. It could mean something different on many different websites. And LLMs allow us to generate code on the fly to actually control that. So I think that rise of writing the generic automation scripts that can work on many different websites, to me, made it clear that browsers are going to be a lot more useful because now you can automate a lot more things without writing. If you wanted to write a script to book a demo call on 100 websites, previously, you had to write 100 scripts. Now you write one script that uses LLMs to generate that script. That's why we built our web browsing framework, StageHand, which does a lot of that work for you. But those two things, web data collection and then enhanced automation of many different websites, it just felt like big drivers for more browser infrastructure that would be required to power these kinds of features.Alessio [00:07:05]: And was multimodality also a big thing?Paul [00:07:08]: Now you can use the LLMs to look, even though the text in the dome might not be as friendly. Maybe my hot take is I was always kind of like, I didn't think vision would be as big of a driver. For UI automation, I felt like, you know, HTML is structured text and large language models are good with structured text. But it's clear that these computer use models are often vision driven, and they've been really pushing things forward. So definitely being multimodal, like rendering the page is required to take a screenshot to give that to a computer use model to take actions on a website. And it's just another win for browser. But I'll be honest, that wasn't what I was thinking early on. I didn't even think that we'd get here so fast with multimodality. I think we're going to have to get back to multimodal and vision models.swyx [00:07:50]: This is one of those things where I forgot to mention in my intro that I'm an investor in Browserbase. And I remember that when you pitched to me, like a lot of the stuff that we have today, we like wasn't on the original conversation. But I did have my original thesis was something that we've talked about on the podcast before, which is take the GPT store, the custom GPT store, all the every single checkbox and plugin is effectively a startup. And this was the browser one. I think the main hesitation, I think I actually took a while to get back to you. The main hesitation was that there were others. Like you're not the first hit list browser startup. It's not even your first hit list browser startup. There's always a question of like, will you be the category winner in a place where there's a bunch of incumbents, to be honest, that are bigger than you? They're just not targeted at the AI space. They don't have the backing of Nat Friedman. And there's a bunch of like, you're here in Silicon Valley. They're not. I don't know.Paul [00:08:47]: I don't know if that's, that was it, but like, there was a, yeah, I mean, like, I think I tried all the other ones and I was like, really disappointed. Like my background is from working at great developer tools, companies, and nothing had like the Vercel like experience. Um, like our biggest competitor actually is partly owned by private equity and they just jacked up their prices quite a bit. And the dashboard hasn't changed in five years. And I actually used them at my last company and tried them and I was like, oh man, like there really just needs to be something that's like the experience of these great infrastructure companies, like Stripe, like clerk, like Vercel that I use in love, but oriented towards this kind of like more specific category, which is browser infrastructure, which is really technically complex. Like a lot of stuff can go wrong on the internet when you're running a browser. The internet is very vast. There's a lot of different configurations. Like there's still websites that only work with internet explorer out there. How do you handle that when you're running your own browser infrastructure? These are the problems that we have to think about and solve at BrowserBase. And it's, it's certainly a labor of love, but I built this for me, first and foremost, I know it's super cheesy and everyone says that for like their startups, but it really, truly was for me. If you look at like the talks I've done even before BrowserBase, and I'm just like really excited to try and build a category defining infrastructure company. And it's, it's rare to have a new category of infrastructure exists. We're here in the Chroma offices and like, you know, vector databases is a new category of infrastructure. Is it, is it, I mean, we can, we're in their office, so, you know, we can, we can debate that one later. That is one.Multimodality in AI-Powered Browsingswyx [00:10:16]: That's one of the industry debates.Paul [00:10:17]: I guess we go back to the LLMOS talk that Karpathy gave way long ago. And like the browser box was very clearly there and it seemed like the people who were building in this space also agreed that browsers are a core primitive of infrastructure for the LLMOS that's going to exist in the future. And nobody was building something there that I wanted to use. So I had to go build it myself.swyx [00:10:38]: Yeah. I mean, exactly that talk that, that honestly, that diagram, every box is a startup and there's the code box and then there's the. The browser box. I think at some point they will start clashing there. There's always the question of the, are you a point solution or are you the sort of all in one? And I think the point solutions tend to win quickly, but then the only ones have a very tight cohesive experience. Yeah. Let's talk about just the hard problems of browser base you have on your website, which is beautiful. Thank you. Was there an agency that you used for that? Yeah. Herb.paris.Paul [00:11:11]: They're amazing. Herb.paris. Yeah. It's H-E-R-V-E. I highly recommend for developers. Developer tools, founders to work with consumer agencies because they end up building beautiful things and the Parisians know how to build beautiful interfaces. So I got to give prep.swyx [00:11:24]: And chat apps, apparently are, they are very fast. Oh yeah. The Mistral chat. Yeah. Mistral. Yeah.Paul [00:11:31]: Late chat.swyx [00:11:31]: Late chat. And then your videos as well, it was professionally shot, right? The series A video. Yeah.Alessio [00:11:36]: Nico did the videos. He's amazing. Not the initial video that you shot at the new one. First one was Austin.Paul [00:11:41]: Another, another video pretty surprised. But yeah, I mean, like, I think when you think about how you talk about your company. You have to think about the way you present yourself. It's, you know, as a developer, you think you evaluate a company based on like the API reliability and the P 95, but a lot of developers say, is the website good? Is the message clear? Do I like trust this founder? I'm building my whole feature on. So I've tried to nail that as well as like the reliability of the infrastructure. You're right. It's very hard. And there's a lot of kind of foot guns that you run into when running headless browsers at scale. Right.Competing with Existing Headless Browser Solutionsswyx [00:12:10]: So let's pick one. You have eight features here. Seamless integration. Scalability. Fast or speed. Secure. Observable. Stealth. That's interesting. Extensible and developer first. What comes to your mind as like the top two, three hardest ones? Yeah.Running headless browsers at scalePaul [00:12:26]: I think just running headless browsers at scale is like the hardest one. And maybe can I nerd out for a second? Is that okay? I heard this is a technical audience, so I'll talk to the other nerds. Whoa. They were listening. Yeah. They're upset. They're ready. The AGI is angry. Okay. So. So how do you run a browser in the cloud? Let's start with that, right? So let's say you're using a popular browser automation framework like Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium. Maybe you've written a code, some code locally on your computer that opens up Google. It finds the search bar and then types in, you know, search for Latent Space and hits the search button. That script works great locally. You can see the little browser open up. You want to take that to production. You want to run the script in a cloud environment. So when your laptop is closed, your browser is doing something. The browser is doing something. Well, I, we use Amazon. You can see the little browser open up. You know, the first thing I'd reach for is probably like some sort of serverless infrastructure. I would probably try and deploy on a Lambda. But Chrome itself is too big to run on a Lambda. It's over 250 megabytes. So you can't easily start it on a Lambda. So you maybe have to use something like Lambda layers to squeeze it in there. Maybe use a different Chromium build that's lighter. And you get it on the Lambda. Great. It works. But it runs super slowly. It's because Lambdas are very like resource limited. They only run like with one vCPU. You can run one process at a time. Remember, Chromium is super beefy. It's barely running on my MacBook Air. I'm still downloading it from a pre-run. Yeah, from the test earlier, right? I'm joking. But it's big, you know? So like Lambda, it just won't work really well. Maybe it'll work, but you need something faster. Your users want something faster. Okay. Well, let's put it on a beefier instance. Let's get an EC2 server running. Let's throw Chromium on there. Great. Okay. I can, that works well with one user. But what if I want to run like 10 Chromium instances, one for each of my users? Okay. Well, I might need two EC2 instances. Maybe 10. All of a sudden, you have multiple EC2 instances. This sounds like a problem for Kubernetes and Docker, right? Now, all of a sudden, you're using ECS or EKS, the Kubernetes or container solutions by Amazon. You're spending up and down containers, and you're spending a whole engineer's time on kind of maintaining this stateful distributed system. Those are some of the worst systems to run because when it's a stateful distributed system, it means that you are bound by the connections to that thing. You have to keep the browser open while someone is working with it, right? That's just a painful architecture to run. And there's all this other little gotchas with Chromium, like Chromium, which is the open source version of Chrome, by the way. You have to install all these fonts. You want emojis working in your browsers because your vision model is looking for the emoji. You need to make sure you have the emoji fonts. You need to make sure you have all the right extensions configured, like, oh, do you want ad blocking? How do you configure that? How do you actually record all these browser sessions? Like it's a headless browser. You can't look at it. So you need to have some sort of observability. Maybe you're recording videos and storing those somewhere. It all kind of adds up to be this just giant monster piece of your project when all you wanted to do was run a lot of browsers in production for this little script to go to google.com and search. And when I see a complex distributed system, I see an opportunity to build a great infrastructure company. And we really abstract that away with Browserbase where our customers can use these existing frameworks, Playwright, Publisher, Selenium, or our own stagehand and connect to our browsers in a serverless-like way. And control them, and then just disconnect when they're done. And they don't have to think about the complex distributed system behind all of that. They just get a browser running anywhere, anytime. Really easy to connect to.swyx [00:15:55]: I'm sure you have questions. My standard question with anything, so essentially you're a serverless browser company, and there's been other serverless things that I'm familiar with in the past, serverless GPUs, serverless website hosting. That's where I come from with Netlify. One question is just like, you promised to spin up thousands of servers. You promised to spin up thousands of browsers in milliseconds. I feel like there's no real solution that does that yet. And I'm just kind of curious how. The only solution I know, which is to kind of keep a kind of warm pool of servers around, which is expensive, but maybe not so expensive because it's just CPUs. So I'm just like, you know. Yeah.Browsers as a Core Primitive in AI InfrastructurePaul [00:16:36]: You nailed it, right? I mean, how do you offer a serverless-like experience with something that is clearly not serverless, right? And the answer is, you need to be able to run... We run many browsers on single nodes. We use Kubernetes at browser base. So we have many pods that are being scheduled. We have to predictably schedule them up or down. Yes, thousands of browsers in milliseconds is the best case scenario. If you hit us with 10,000 requests, you may hit a slower cold start, right? So we've done a lot of work on predictive scaling and being able to kind of route stuff to different regions where we have multiple regions of browser base where we have different pools available. You can also pick the region you want to go to based on like lower latency, round trip, time latency. It's very important with these types of things. There's a lot of requests going over the wire. So for us, like having a VM like Firecracker powering everything under the hood allows us to be super nimble and spin things up or down really quickly with strong multi-tenancy. But in the end, this is like the complex infrastructural challenges that we have to kind of deal with at browser base. And we have a lot more stuff on our roadmap to allow customers to have more levers to pull to exchange, do you want really fast browser startup times or do you want really low costs? And if you're willing to be more flexible on that, we may be able to kind of like work better for your use cases.swyx [00:17:44]: Since you used Firecracker, shouldn't Fargate do that for you or did you have to go lower level than that? We had to go lower level than that.Paul [00:17:51]: I find this a lot with Fargate customers, which is alarming for Fargate. We used to be a giant Fargate customer. Actually, the first version of browser base was ECS and Fargate. And unfortunately, it's a great product. I think we were actually the largest Fargate customer in our region for a little while. No, what? Yeah, seriously. And unfortunately, it's a great product, but I think if you're an infrastructure company, you actually have to have a deeper level of control over these primitives. I think it's the same thing is true with databases. We've used other database providers and I think-swyx [00:18:21]: Yeah, serverless Postgres.Paul [00:18:23]: Shocker. When you're an infrastructure company, you're on the hook if any provider has an outage. And I can't tell my customers like, hey, we went down because so-and-so went down. That's not acceptable. So for us, we've really moved to bringing things internally. It's kind of opposite of what we preach. We tell our customers, don't build this in-house, but then we're like, we build a lot of stuff in-house. But I think it just really depends on what is in the critical path. We try and have deep ownership of that.Alessio [00:18:46]: On the distributed location side, how does that work for the web where you might get sort of different content in different locations, but the customer is expecting, you know, if you're in the US, I'm expecting the US version. But if you're spinning up my browser in France, I might get the French version. Yeah.Paul [00:19:02]: Yeah. That's a good question. Well, generally, like on the localization, there is a thing called locale in the browser. You can set like what your locale is. If you're like in the ENUS browser or not, but some things do IP, IP based routing. And in that case, you may want to have a proxy. Like let's say you're running something in the, in Europe, but you want to make sure you're showing up from the US. You may want to use one of our proxy features so you can turn on proxies to say like, make sure these connections always come from the United States, which is necessary too, because when you're browsing the web, you're coming from like a, you know, data center IP, and that can make things a lot harder to browse web. So we do have kind of like this proxy super network. Yeah. We have a proxy for you based on where you're going, so you can reliably automate the web. But if you get scheduled in Europe, that doesn't happen as much. We try and schedule you as close to, you know, your origin that you're trying to go to. But generally you have control over the regions you can put your browsers in. So you can specify West one or East one or Europe. We only have one region of Europe right now, actually. Yeah.Alessio [00:19:55]: What's harder, the browser or the proxy? I feel like to me, it feels like actually proxying reliably at scale. It's much harder than spending up browsers at scale. I'm curious. It's all hard.Paul [00:20:06]: It's layers of hard, right? Yeah. I think it's different levels of hard. I think the thing with the proxy infrastructure is that we work with many different web proxy providers and some are better than others. Some have good days, some have bad days. And our customers who've built browser infrastructure on their own, they have to go and deal with sketchy actors. Like first they figure out their own browser infrastructure and then they got to go buy a proxy. And it's like you can pay in Bitcoin and it just kind of feels a little sus, right? It's like you're buying drugs when you're trying to get a proxy online. We have like deep relationships with these counterparties. We're able to audit them and say, is this proxy being sourced ethically? Like it's not running on someone's TV somewhere. Is it free range? Yeah. Free range organic proxies, right? Right. We do a level of diligence. We're SOC 2. So we have to understand what is going on here. But then we're able to make sure that like we route around proxy providers not working. There's proxy providers who will just, the proxy will stop working all of a sudden. And then if you don't have redundant proxying on your own browsers, that's hard down for you or you may get some serious impacts there. With us, like we intelligently know, hey, this proxy is not working. Let's go to this one. And you can kind of build a network of multiple providers to really guarantee the best uptime for our customers. Yeah. So you don't own any proxies? We don't own any proxies. You're right. The team has been saying who wants to like take home a little proxy server, but not yet. We're not there yet. You know?swyx [00:21:25]: It's a very mature market. I don't think you should build that yourself. Like you should just be a super customer of them. Yeah. Scraping, I think, is the main use case for that. I guess. Well, that leads us into CAPTCHAs and also off, but let's talk about CAPTCHAs. You had a little spiel that you wanted to talk about CAPTCHA stuff.Challenges of Scaling Browser InfrastructurePaul [00:21:43]: Oh, yeah. I was just, I think a lot of people ask, if you're thinking about proxies, you're thinking about CAPTCHAs too. I think it's the same thing. You can go buy CAPTCHA solvers online, but it's the same buying experience. It's some sketchy website, you have to integrate it. It's not fun to buy these things and you can't really trust that the docs are bad. What Browserbase does is we integrate a bunch of different CAPTCHAs. We do some stuff in-house, but generally we just integrate with a bunch of known vendors and continually monitor and maintain these things and say, is this working or not? Can we route around it or not? These are CAPTCHA solvers. CAPTCHA solvers, yeah. Not CAPTCHA providers, CAPTCHA solvers. Yeah, sorry. CAPTCHA solvers. We really try and make sure all of that works for you. I think as a dev, if I'm buying infrastructure, I want it all to work all the time and it's important for us to provide that experience by making sure everything does work and monitoring it on our own. Yeah. Right now, the world of CAPTCHAs is tricky. I think AI agents in particular are very much ahead of the internet infrastructure. CAPTCHAs are designed to block all types of bots, but there are now good bots and bad bots. I think in the future, CAPTCHAs will be able to identify who a good bot is, hopefully via some sort of KYC. For us, we've been very lucky. We have very little to no known abuse of Browserbase because we really look into who we work with. And for certain types of CAPTCHA solving, we only allow them on certain types of plans because we want to make sure that we can know what people are doing, what their use cases are. And that's really allowed us to try and be an arbiter of good bots, which is our long term goal. I want to build great relationships with people like Cloudflare so we can agree, hey, here are these acceptable bots. We'll identify them for you and make sure we flag when they come to your website. This is a good bot, you know?Alessio [00:23:23]: I see. And Cloudflare said they want to do more of this. So they're going to set by default, if they think you're an AI bot, they're going to reject. I'm curious if you think this is something that is going to be at the browser level or I mean, the DNS level with Cloudflare seems more where it should belong. But I'm curious how you think about it.Paul [00:23:40]: I think the web's going to change. You know, I think that the Internet as we have it right now is going to change. And we all need to just accept that the cat is out of the bag. And instead of kind of like wishing the Internet was like it was in the 2000s, we can have free content line that wouldn't be scraped. It's just it's not going to happen. And instead, we should think about like, one, how can we change? How can we change the models of, you know, information being published online so people can adequately commercialize it? But two, how do we rebuild applications that expect that AI agents are going to log in on their behalf? Those are the things that are going to allow us to kind of like identify good and bad bots. And I think the team at Clerk has been doing a really good job with this on the authentication side. I actually think that auth is the biggest thing that will prevent agents from accessing stuff, not captchas. And I think there will be agent auth in the future. I don't know if it's going to happen from an individual company, but actually authentication providers that have a, you know, hidden login as agent feature, which will then you put in your email, you'll get a push notification, say like, hey, your browser-based agent wants to log into your Airbnb. You can approve that and then the agent can proceed. That really circumvents the need for captchas or logging in as you and sharing your password. I think agent auth is going to be one way we identify good bots going forward. And I think a lot of this captcha solving stuff is really short-term problems as the internet kind of reorients itself around how it's going to work with agents browsing the web, just like people do. Yeah.Managing Distributed Browser Locations and Proxiesswyx [00:24:59]: Stitch recently was on Hacker News for talking about agent experience, AX, which is a thing that Netlify is also trying to clone and coin and talk about. And we've talked about this on our previous episodes before in a sense that I actually think that's like maybe the only part of the tech stack that needs to be kind of reinvented for agents. Everything else can stay the same, CLIs, APIs, whatever. But auth, yeah, we need agent auth. And it's mostly like short-lived, like it should not, it should be a distinct, identity from the human, but paired. I almost think like in the same way that every social network should have your main profile and then your alt accounts or your Finsta, it's almost like, you know, every, every human token should be paired with the agent token and the agent token can go and do stuff on behalf of the human token, but not be presumed to be the human. Yeah.Paul [00:25:48]: It's like, it's, it's actually very similar to OAuth is what I'm thinking. And, you know, Thread from Stitch is an investor, Colin from Clerk, Octaventures, all investors in browser-based because like, I hope they solve this because they'll make browser-based submission more possible. So we don't have to overcome all these hurdles, but I think it will be an OAuth-like flow where an agent will ask to log in as you, you'll approve the scopes. Like it can book an apartment on Airbnb, but it can't like message anybody. And then, you know, the agent will have some sort of like role-based access control within an application. Yeah. I'm excited for that.swyx [00:26:16]: The tricky part is just, there's one, one layer of delegation here, which is like, you're authoring my user's user or something like that. I don't know if that's tricky or not. Does that make sense? Yeah.Paul [00:26:25]: You know, actually at Twilio, I worked on the login identity and access. Management teams, right? So like I built Twilio's login page.swyx [00:26:31]: You were an intern on that team and then you became the lead in two years? Yeah.Paul [00:26:34]: Yeah. I started as an intern in 2016 and then I was the tech lead of that team. How? That's not normal. I didn't have a life. He's not normal. Look at this guy. I didn't have a girlfriend. I just loved my job. I don't know. I applied to 500 internships for my first job and I got rejected from every single one of them except for Twilio and then eventually Amazon. And they took a shot on me and like, I was getting paid money to write code, which was my dream. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very lucky that like this coding thing worked out because I was going to be doing it regardless. And yeah, I was able to kind of spend a lot of time on a team that was growing at a company that was growing. So it informed a lot of this stuff here. I think these are problems that have been solved with like the SAML protocol with SSO. I think it's a really interesting stuff with like WebAuthn, like these different types of authentication, like schemes that you can use to authenticate people. The tooling is all there. It just needs to be tweaked a little bit to work for agents. And I think the fact that there are companies that are already. Providing authentication as a service really sets it up. Well, the thing that's hard is like reinventing the internet for agents. We don't want to rebuild the internet. That's an impossible task. And I think people often say like, well, we'll have this second layer of APIs built for agents. I'm like, we will for the top use cases, but instead of we can just tweak the internet as is, which is on the authentication side, I think we're going to be the dumb ones going forward. Unfortunately, I think AI is going to be able to do a lot of the tasks that we do online, which means that it will be able to go to websites, click buttons on our behalf and log in on our behalf too. So with this kind of like web agent future happening, I think with some small structural changes, like you said, it feels like it could all slot in really nicely with the existing internet.Handling CAPTCHAs and Agent Authenticationswyx [00:28:08]: There's one more thing, which is the, your live view iframe, which lets you take, take control. Yeah. Obviously very key for operator now, but like, was, is there anything interesting technically there or that the people like, well, people always want this.Paul [00:28:21]: It was really hard to build, you know, like, so, okay. Headless browsers, you don't see them, right. They're running. They're running in a cloud somewhere. You can't like look at them. And I just want to really make, it's a weird name. I wish we came up with a better name for this thing, but you can't see them. Right. But customers don't trust AI agents, right. At least the first pass. So what we do with our live view is that, you know, when you use browser base, you can actually embed a live view of the browser running in the cloud for your customer to see it working. And that's what the first reason is the build trust, like, okay, so I have this script. That's going to go automate a website. I can embed it into my web application via an iframe and my customer can watch. I think. And then we added two way communication. So now not only can you watch the browser kind of being operated by AI, if you want to pause and actually click around type within this iframe that's controlling a browser, that's also possible. And this is all thanks to some of the lower level protocol, which is called the Chrome DevTools protocol. It has a API called start screencast, and you can also send mouse clicks and button clicks to a remote browser. And this is all embeddable within iframes. You have a browser within a browser, yo. And then you simulate the screen, the click on the other side. Exactly. And this is really nice often for, like, let's say, a capture that can't be solved. You saw this with Operator, you know, Operator actually uses a different approach. They use VNC. So, you know, you're able to see, like, you're seeing the whole window here. What we're doing is something a little lower level with the Chrome DevTools protocol. It's just PNGs being streamed over the wire. But the same thing is true, right? Like, hey, I'm running a window. Pause. Can you do something in this window? Human. Okay, great. Resume. Like sometimes 2FA tokens. Like if you get that text message, you might need a person to type that in. Web agents need human-in-the-loop type workflows still. You still need a person to interact with the browser. And building a UI to proxy that is kind of hard. You may as well just show them the whole browser and say, hey, can you finish this up for me? And then let the AI proceed on afterwards. Is there a future where I stream my current desktop to browser base? I don't think so. I think we're very much cloud infrastructure. Yeah. You know, but I think a lot of the stuff we're doing, we do want to, like, build tools. Like, you know, we'll talk about the stage and, you know, web agent framework in a second. But, like, there's a case where a lot of people are going desktop first for, you know, consumer use. And I think cloud is doing a lot of this, where I expect to see, you know, MCPs really oriented around the cloud desktop app for a reason, right? Like, I think a lot of these tools are going to run on your computer because it makes... I think it's breaking out. People are putting it on a server. Oh, really? Okay. Well, sweet. We'll see. We'll see that. I was surprised, though, wasn't I? I think that the browser company, too, with Dia Browser, it runs on your machine. You know, it's going to be...swyx [00:30:50]: What is it?Paul [00:30:51]: So, Dia Browser, as far as I understand... I used to use Arc. Yeah. I haven't used Arc. But I'm a big fan of the browser company. I think they're doing a lot of cool stuff in consumer. As far as I understand, it's a browser where you have a sidebar where you can, like, chat with it and it can control the local browser on your machine. So, if you imagine, like, what a consumer web agent is, which it lives alongside your browser, I think Google Chrome has Project Marina, I think. I almost call it Project Marinara for some reason. I don't know why. It's...swyx [00:31:17]: No, I think it's someone really likes the Waterworld. Oh, I see. The classic Kevin Costner. Yeah.Paul [00:31:22]: Okay. Project Marinara is a similar thing to the Dia Browser, in my mind, as far as I understand it. You have a browser that has an AI interface that will take over your mouse and keyboard and control the browser for you. Great for consumer use cases. But if you're building applications that rely on a browser and it's more part of a greater, like, AI app experience, you probably need something that's more like infrastructure, not a consumer app.swyx [00:31:44]: Just because I have explored a little bit in this area, do people want branching? So, I have the state. Of whatever my browser's in. And then I want, like, 100 clones of this state. Do people do that? Or...Paul [00:31:56]: People don't do it currently. Yeah. But it's definitely something we're thinking about. I think the idea of forking a browser is really cool. Technically, kind of hard. We're starting to see this in code execution, where people are, like, forking some, like, code execution, like, processes or forking some tool calls or branching tool calls. Haven't seen it at the browser level yet. But it makes sense. Like, if an AI agent is, like, using a website and it's not sure what path it wants to take to crawl this website. To find the information it's looking for. It would make sense for it to explore both paths in parallel. And that'd be a very, like... A road not taken. Yeah. And hopefully find the right answer. And then say, okay, this was actually the right one. And memorize that. And go there in the future. On the roadmap. For sure. Don't make my roadmap, please. You know?Alessio [00:32:37]: How do you actually do that? Yeah. How do you fork? I feel like the browser is so stateful for so many things.swyx [00:32:42]: Serialize the state. Restore the state. I don't know.Paul [00:32:44]: So, it's one of the reasons why we haven't done it yet. It's hard. You know? Like, to truly fork, it's actually quite difficult. The naive way is to open the same page in a new tab and then, like, hope that it's at the same thing. But if you have a form halfway filled, you may have to, like, take the whole, you know, container. Pause it. All the memory. Duplicate it. Restart it from there. It could be very slow. So, we haven't found a thing. Like, the easy thing to fork is just, like, copy the page object. You know? But I think there needs to be something a little bit more robust there. Yeah.swyx [00:33:12]: So, MorphLabs has this infinite branch thing. Like, wrote a custom fork of Linux or something that let them save the system state and clone it. MorphLabs, hit me up. I'll be a customer. Yeah. That's the only. I think that's the only way to do it. Yeah. Like, unless Chrome has some special API for you. Yeah.Paul [00:33:29]: There's probably something we'll reverse engineer one day. I don't know. Yeah.Alessio [00:33:32]: Let's talk about StageHand, the AI web browsing framework. You have three core components, Observe, Extract, and Act. Pretty clean landing page. What was the idea behind making a framework? Yeah.Stagehand: AI web browsing frameworkPaul [00:33:43]: So, there's three frameworks that are very popular or already exist, right? Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium. Those are for building hard-coded scripts to control websites. And as soon as I started to play with LLMs plus browsing, I caught myself, you know, code-genning Playwright code to control a website. I would, like, take the DOM. I'd pass it to an LLM. I'd say, can you generate the Playwright code to click the appropriate button here? And it would do that. And I was like, this really should be part of the frameworks themselves. And I became really obsessed with SDKs that take natural language as part of, like, the API input. And that's what StageHand is. StageHand exposes three APIs, and it's a super set of Playwright. So, if you go to a page, you may want to take an action, click on the button, fill in the form, etc. That's what the act command is for. You may want to extract some data. This one takes a natural language, like, extract the winner of the Super Bowl from this page. You can give it a Zod schema, so it returns a structured output. And then maybe you're building an API. You can do an agent loop, and you want to kind of see what actions are possible on this page before taking one. You can do observe. So, you can observe the actions on the page, and it will generate a list of actions. You can guide it, like, give me actions on this page related to buying an item. And you can, like, buy it now, add to cart, view shipping options, and pass that to an LLM, an agent loop, to say, what's the appropriate action given this high-level goal? So, StageHand isn't a web agent. It's a framework for building web agents. And we think that agent loops are actually pretty close to the application layer because every application probably has different goals or different ways it wants to take steps. I don't think I've seen a generic. Maybe you guys are the experts here. I haven't seen, like, a really good AI agent framework here. Everyone kind of has their own special sauce, right? I see a lot of developers building their own agent loops, and they're using tools. And I view StageHand as the browser tool. So, we expose act, extract, observe. Your agent can call these tools. And from that, you don't have to worry about it. You don't have to worry about generating playwright code performantly. You don't have to worry about running it. You can kind of just integrate these three tool calls into your agent loop and reliably automate the web.swyx [00:35:48]: A special shout-out to Anirudh, who I met at your dinner, who I think listens to the pod. Yeah. Hey, Anirudh.Paul [00:35:54]: Anirudh's a man. He's a StageHand guy.swyx [00:35:56]: I mean, the interesting thing about each of these APIs is they're kind of each startup. Like, specifically extract, you know, Firecrawler is extract. There's, like, Expand AI. There's a whole bunch of, like, extract companies. They just focus on extract. I'm curious. Like, I feel like you guys are going to collide at some point. Like, right now, it's friendly. Everyone's in a blue ocean. At some point, it's going to be valuable enough that there's some turf battle here. I don't think you have a dog in a fight. I think you can mock extract to use an external service if they're better at it than you. But it's just an observation that, like, in the same way that I see each option, each checkbox in the side of custom GBTs becoming a startup or each box in the Karpathy chart being a startup. Like, this is also becoming a thing. Yeah.Paul [00:36:41]: I mean, like, so the way StageHand works is that it's MIT-licensed, completely open source. You bring your own API key to your LLM of choice. You could choose your LLM. We don't make any money off of the extract or really. We only really make money if you choose to run it with our browser. You don't have to. You can actually use your own browser, a local browser. You know, StageHand is completely open source for that reason. And, yeah, like, I think if you're building really complex web scraping workflows, I don't know if StageHand is the tool for you. I think it's really more if you're building an AI agent that needs a few general tools or if it's doing a lot of, like, web automation-intensive work. But if you're building a scraping company, StageHand is not your thing. You probably want something that's going to, like, get HTML content, you know, convert that to Markdown, query it. That's not what StageHand does. StageHand is more about reliability. I think we focus a lot on reliability and less so on cost optimization and speed at this point.swyx [00:37:33]: I actually feel like StageHand, so the way that StageHand works, it's like, you know, page.act, click on the quick start. Yeah. It's kind of the integration test for the code that you would have to write anyway, like the Puppeteer code that you have to write anyway. And when the page structure changes, because it always does, then this is still the test. This is still the test that I would have to write. Yeah. So it's kind of like a testing framework that doesn't need implementation detail.Paul [00:37:56]: Well, yeah. I mean, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Slenderman were all designed as testing frameworks, right? Yeah. And now people are, like, hacking them together to automate the web. I would say, and, like, maybe this is, like, me being too specific. But, like, when I write tests, if the page structure changes. Without me knowing, I want that test to fail. So I don't know if, like, AI, like, regenerating that. Like, people are using StageHand for testing. But it's more for, like, usability testing, not, like, testing of, like, does the front end, like, has it changed or not. Okay. But generally where we've seen people, like, really, like, take off is, like, if they're using, you know, something. If they want to build a feature in their application that's kind of like Operator or Deep Research, they're using StageHand to kind of power that tool calling in their own agent loop. Okay. Cool.swyx [00:38:37]: So let's go into Operator, the first big agent launch of the year from OpenAI. Seems like they have a whole bunch scheduled. You were on break and your phone blew up. What's your just general view of computer use agents is what they're calling it. The overall category before we go into Open Operator, just the overall promise of Operator. I will observe that I tried it once. It was okay. And I never tried it again.OpenAI's Operator and computer use agentsPaul [00:38:58]: That tracks with my experience, too. Like, I'm a huge fan of the OpenAI team. Like, I think that I do not view Operator as the company. I'm not a company killer for browser base at all. I think it actually shows people what's possible. I think, like, computer use models make a lot of sense. And I'm actually most excited about computer use models is, like, their ability to, like, really take screenshots and reasoning and output steps. I think that using mouse click or mouse coordinates, I've seen that proved to be less reliable than I would like. And I just wonder if that's the right form factor. What we've done with our framework is anchor it to the DOM itself, anchor it to the actual item. So, like, if it's clicking on something, it's clicking on that thing, you know? Like, it's more accurate. No matter where it is. Yeah, exactly. Because it really ties in nicely. And it can handle, like, the whole viewport in one go, whereas, like, Operator can only handle what it sees. Can you hover? Is hovering a thing that you can do? I don't know if we expose it as a tool directly, but I'm sure there's, like, an API for hovering. Like, move mouse to this position. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you can trigger hover, like, via, like, the JavaScript on the DOM itself. But, no, I think, like, when we saw computer use, everyone's eyes lit up because they realized, like, wow, like, AI is going to actually automate work for people. And I think seeing that kind of happen from both of the labs, and I'm sure we're going to see more labs launch computer use models, I'm excited to see all the stuff that people build with it. I think that I'd love to see computer use power, like, controlling a browser on browser base. And I think, like, Open Operator, which was, like, our open source version of OpenAI's Operator, was our first take on, like, how can we integrate these models into browser base? And we handle the infrastructure and let the labs do the models. I don't have a sense that Operator will be released as an API. I don't know. Maybe it will. I'm curious to see how well that works because I think it's going to be really hard for a company like OpenAI to do things like support CAPTCHA solving or, like, have proxies. Like, I think it's hard for them structurally. Imagine this New York Times headline, OpenAI CAPTCHA solving. Like, that would be a pretty bad headline, this New York Times headline. Browser base solves CAPTCHAs. No one cares. No one cares. And, like, our investors are bored. Like, we're all okay with this, you know? We're building this company knowing that the CAPTCHA solving is short-lived until we figure out how to authenticate good bots. I think it's really hard for a company like OpenAI, who has this brand that's so, so good, to balance with, like, the icky parts of web automation, which it can be kind of complex to solve. I'm sure OpenAI knows who to call whenever they need you. Yeah, right. I'm sure they'll have a great partnership.Alessio [00:41:23]: And is Open Operator just, like, a marketing thing for you? Like, how do you think about resource allocation? So, you can spin this up very quickly. And now there's all this, like, open deep research, just open all these things that people are building. We started it, you know. You're the original Open. We're the original Open operator, you know? Is it just, hey, look, this is a demo, but, like, we'll help you build out an actual product for yourself? Like, are you interested in going more of a product route? That's kind of the OpenAI way, right? They started as a model provider and then…Paul [00:41:53]: Yeah, we're not interested in going the product route yet. I view Open Operator as a model provider. It's a reference project, you know? Let's show people how to build these things using the infrastructure and models that are out there. And that's what it is. It's, like, Open Operator is very simple. It's an agent loop. It says, like, take a high-level goal, break it down into steps, use tool calling to accomplish those steps. It takes screenshots and feeds those screenshots into an LLM with the step to generate the right action. It uses stagehand under the hood to actually execute this action. It doesn't use a computer use model. And it, like, has a nice interface using the live view that we talked about, the iframe, to embed that into an application. So I felt like people on launch day wanted to figure out how to build their own version of this. And we turned that around really quickly to show them. And I hope we do that with other things like deep research. We don't have a deep research launch yet. I think David from AOMNI actually has an amazing open deep research that he launched. It has, like, 10K GitHub stars now. So he's crushing that. But I think if people want to build these features natively into their application, they need good reference projects. And I think Open Operator is a good example of that.swyx [00:42:52]: I don't know. Actually, I'm actually pretty bullish on API-driven operator. Because that's the only way that you can sort of, like, once it's reliable enough, obviously. And now we're nowhere near. But, like, give it five years. It'll happen, you know. And then you can sort of spin this up and browsers are working in the background and you don't necessarily have to know. And it just is booking restaurants for you, whatever. I can definitely see that future happening. I had this on the landing page here. This might be a slightly out of order. But, you know, you have, like, sort of three use cases for browser base. Open Operator. Or this is the operator sort of use case. It's kind of like the workflow automation use case. And it completes with UiPath in the sort of RPA category. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I would agree with that. And then there's Agents we talked about already. And web scraping, which I imagine would be the bulk of your workload right now, right?Paul [00:43:40]: No, not at all. I'd say actually, like, the majority is browser automation. We're kind of expensive for web scraping. Like, I think that if you're building a web scraping product, if you need to do occasional web scraping or you have to do web scraping that works every single time, you want to use browser automation. Yeah. You want to use browser-based. But if you're building web scraping workflows, what you should do is have a waterfall. You should have the first request is a curl to the website. See if you can get it without even using a browser. And then the second request may be, like, a scraping-specific API. There's, like, a thousand scraping APIs out there that you can use to try and get data. Scraping B. Scraping B is a great example, right? Yeah. And then, like, if those two don't work, bring out the heavy hitter. Like, browser-based will 100% work, right? It will load the page in a real browser, hydrate it. I see.swyx [00:44:21]: Because a lot of people don't render to JS.swyx [00:44:25]: Yeah, exactly.Paul [00:44:26]: So, I mean, the three big use cases, right? Like, you know, automation, web data collection, and then, you know, if you're building anything agentic that needs, like, a browser tool, you want to use browser-based.Alessio [00:44:35]: Is there any use case that, like, you were super surprised by that people might not even think about? Oh, yeah. Or is it, yeah, anything that you can share? The long tail is crazy. Yeah.Surprising use cases of BrowserbasePaul [00:44:44]: One of the case studies on our website that I think is the most interesting is this company called Benny. So, the way that it works is if you're on food stamps in the United States, you can actually get rebates if you buy certain things. Yeah. You buy some vegetables. You submit your receipt to the government. They'll give you a little rebate back. Say, hey, thanks for buying vegetables. It's good for you. That process of submitting that receipt is very painful. And the way Benny works is you use their app to take a photo of your receipt, and then Benny will go submit that receipt for you and then deposit the money into your account. That's actually using no AI at all. It's all, like, hard-coded scripts. They maintain the scripts. They've been doing a great job. And they build this amazing consumer app. But it's an example of, like, all these, like, tedious workflows that people have to do to kind of go about their business. And they're doing it for the sake of their day-to-day lives. And I had never known about, like, food stamp rebates or the complex forms you have to do to fill them. But the world is powered by millions and millions of tedious forms, visas. You know, Emirate Lighthouse is a customer, right? You know, they do the O1 visa. Millions and millions of forms are taking away humans' time. And I hope that Browserbase can help power software that automates away the web forms that we don't need anymore. Yeah.swyx [00:45:49]: I mean, I'm very supportive of that. I mean, forms. I do think, like, government itself is a big part of it. I think the government itself should embrace AI more to do more sort of human-friendly form filling. Mm-hmm. But I'm not optimistic. I'm not holding my breath. Yeah. We'll see. Okay. I think I'm about to zoom out. I have a little brief thing on computer use, and then we can talk about founder stuff, which is, I tend to think of developer tooling markets in impossible triangles, where everyone starts in a niche, and then they start to branch out. So I already hinted at a little bit of this, right? We mentioned more. We mentioned E2B. We mentioned Firecrawl. And then there's Browserbase. So there's, like, all this stuff of, like, have serverless virtual computer that you give to an agent and let them do stuff with it. And there's various ways of connecting it to the internet. You can just connect to a search API, like SERP API, whatever other, like, EXA is another one. That's what you're searching. You can also have a JSON markdown extractor, which is Firecrawl. Or you can have a virtual browser like Browserbase, or you can have a virtual machine like Morph. And then there's also maybe, like, a virtual sort of code environment, like Code Interpreter. So, like, there's just, like, a bunch of different ways to tackle the problem of give a computer to an agent. And I'm just kind of wondering if you see, like, everyone's just, like, happily coexisting in their respective niches. And as a developer, I just go and pick, like, a shopping basket of one of each. Or do you think that you eventually, people will collide?Future of browser automation and market competitionPaul [00:47:18]: I think that currently it's not a zero-sum market. Like, I think we're talking about... I think we're talking about all of knowledge work that people do that can be automated online. All of these, like, trillions of hours that happen online where people are working. And I think that there's so much software to be built that, like, I tend not to think about how these companies will collide. I just try to solve the problem as best as I can and make this specific piece of infrastructure, which I think is an important primitive, the best I possibly can. And yeah. I think there's players that are actually going to like it. I think there's players that are going to launch, like, over-the-top, you know, platforms, like agent platforms that have all these tools built in, right? Like, who's building the rippling for agent tools that has the search tool, the browser tool, the operating system tool, right? There are some. There are some. There are some, right? And I think in the end, what I have seen as my time as a developer, and I look at all the favorite tools that I have, is that, like, for tools and primitives with sufficient levels of complexity, you need to have a solution that's really bespoke to that primitive, you know? And I am sufficiently convinced that the browser is complex enough to deserve a primitive. Obviously, I have to. I'm the founder of BrowserBase, right? I'm talking my book. But, like, I think maybe I can give you one spicy take against, like, maybe just whole OS running. I think that when I look at computer use when it first came out, I saw that the majority of use cases for computer use were controlling a browser. And do we really need to run an entire operating system just to control a browser? I don't think so. I don't think that's necessary. You know, BrowserBase can run browsers for way cheaper than you can if you're running a full-fledged OS with a GUI, you know, operating system. And I think that's just an advantage of the browser. It is, like, browsers are little OSs, and you can run them very efficiently if you orchestrate it well. And I think that allows us to offer 90% of the, you know, functionality in the platform needed at 10% of the cost of running a full OS. Yeah.Open Operator: Browserbase's Open-Source Alternativeswyx [00:49:16]: I definitely see the logic in that. There's a Mark Andreessen quote. I don't know if you know this one. Where he basically observed that the browser is turning the operating system into a poorly debugged set of device drivers, because most of the apps are moved from the OS to the browser. So you can just run browsers.Paul [00:49:31]: There's a place for OSs, too. Like, I think that there are some applications that only run on Windows operating systems. And Eric from pig.dev in this upcoming YC batch, or last YC batch, like, he's building all run tons of Windows operating systems for you to control with your agent. And like, there's some legacy EHR systems that only run on Internet-controlled systems. Yeah.Paul [00:49:54]: I think that's it. I think, like, there are use cases for specific operating systems for specific legacy software. And like, I'm excited to see what he does with that. I just wanted to give a shout out to the pig.dev website.swyx [00:50:06]: The pigs jump when you click on them. Yeah. That's great.Paul [00:50:08]: Eric, he's the former co-founder of banana.dev, too.swyx [00:50:11]: Oh, that Eric. Yeah. That Eric. Okay. Well, he abandoned bananas for pigs. I hope he doesn't start going around with pigs now.Alessio [00:50:18]: Like he was going around with bananas. A little toy pig. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. What else are we missing? I think we covered a lot of, like, the browser-based product history, but. What do you wish people asked you? Yeah.Paul [00:50:29]: I wish people asked me more about, like, what will the future of software look like? Because I think that's really where I've spent a lot of time about why do browser-based. Like, for me, starting a company is like a means of last resort. Like, you shouldn't start a company unless you absolutely have to. And I remain convinced that the future of software is software that you're going to click a button and it's going to do stuff on your behalf. Right now, software. You click a button and it maybe, like, calls it back an API and, like, computes some numbers. It, like, modifies some text, whatever. But the future of software is software using software. So, I may log into my accounting website for my business, click a button, and it's going to go load up my Gmail, search my emails, find the thing, upload the receipt, and then comment it for me. Right? And it may use it using APIs, maybe a browser. I don't know. I think it's a little bit of both. But that's completely different from how we've built software so far. And that's. I think that future of software has different infrastructure requirements. It's going to require different UIs. It's going to require different pieces of infrastructure. I think the browser infrastructure is one piece that fits into that, along with all the other categories you mentioned. So, I think that it's going to require developers to think differently about how they've built software for, you know

In this first-ever AMA episode, Dave tackles your biggest biohacking questions—straight from The Upgrade Collective! From optimizing brain power to pushing the limits of cold therapy, this episode is packed with cutting-edge hacks to supercharge your body and mind. If you'd like to have your questions answered on the next AMA, click the link below for details on The Upgrade Collective membership, and get all sorts of extra biohacking add-ons for your life! In today's episode: What if you could amplify oxytocin—the “love hormone”—to build stronger relationships and lower stress? Or upgrade your cold plunge routine for max benefits in less time? Dave reveals the science behind these powerful biohacks, plus his take on rapamycin for longevity, the right way to supplement for thyroid health (without a prescription), and even how he personally overcame Asperger's traits through neuroplasticity and mitochondrial upgrades. There's even some great advice for all the parents out there! What You'll Learn: • How to naturally boost oxytocin for better relationships and emotional health • The fastest way to upgrade your cold plunge for heat shock benefits • Is rapamycin really a longevity miracle? Dave's personal take • How mitochondria impact brain power, mood, and aging—and how to fix them today! • The shocking reason some people can't process reality correctly (and how to retrain your brain) • The real truth about stem cells, exosomes, and V-cells for regeneration • The hidden dangers of selenium, thyroid supplements, and over-fasting SPONSORS -Puori | Visit https://puori.com/dave and use code DAVE for 20% storewide. -Calroy | Head to https://calroy.com/dave for an exclusive discount. Resources: • Upgrade Collective Membership: https://www.ourupgradecollective.com • Dave Asprey's New Book - Heavily Meditated: https://daveasprey.com/heavily-meditated/ • 2025 Biohacking Conference: https://biohackingconference.com/2025 • Danger Coffee: https://dangercoffee.com • Dave Asprey's Website: https://daveasprey.com • Dave Asprey's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daveasprey • Own an Upgrade Labs: https://ownanupgradelabs.com • Upgrade Labs: https://upgradelabs.com • 40 Years of Zen – Neurofeedback Training for Advanced Cognitive Enhancement: https://40yearsofzen.com Timestamps: • 00:00 – Intro • 00:37 – Welcome to the Human Upgrade AMA • 01:13 – Cold Plunges and Alpha Lipoic Acid for Health • 03:11 – Hot and Cold Therapy for Optimal Health • 07:29 – Understanding Thyroid Health and Treatment • 09:09 – The Importance of Selenium • 14:41 – Stem Cells vs. Exosomes • 16:27 – Rapamycin for Longevity • 18:07 – Asperger's Syndrome and Neuroinflammation • 28:53 – Understanding Asperger's and Self-Awareness • 29:24 – The Challenge of Offering Help • 30:06 – The Importance of Reconnection Work • 31:34 – Personal Development Journey • 34:42 – The Role of Emotions in Biohacking • 35:55 – Dealing with Flashbacks and Trauma • 45:46 – The Power of Oxytocin • 49:48 – The Truth About Kale and Oxalates • 54:25 – Teaching Kids to Regulate Their Nervous System See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textShort Summary: Thyroid biology, offering insights into its role in metabolism, development, and longevity, making it a fascinating listen for those interested in how our bodies manage energy and health across the lifespan.Guest: Diana van Heemst, PhD is a biologist at Leiden University Medical Center, specializing in gerontology and geriatrics. Her research focuses on the neuroendocrine biology of aging and longevity in humans, particularly involving thyroid functions.Note: Podcast episodes are fully available to paid subscribers on the M&M Substack and to everyone on YouTube. Partial versions are available elsewhere. Full transcript and other information on Substack.Full Summary: Dr. Diana van Heemst explores the thyroid's critical role in metabolism, growth, development, and transitions across life stages. It discusses the thyroid's evolutionary history, its location in the neck, and how it functions through hormone secretion, specifically T3 and T4. The conversation covers the importance of nutrients like iodine and selenium, the impact of thyroid hormone on various bodily functions, and the implications for health conditions like hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. It also touches on how thyroid activity might relate to longevity.Key Takeaways:Thyroid Hormones: T3 and T4 are crucial, with T3 being the active form that regulates metabolism, heart rate, and cognitive functions.Iodine and Selenium: Essential for thyroid hormone synthesis; iodine is unique to thyroid hormones, while selenium is vital for the enzymes that regulate hormone availability.Hypothyroidism vs. Hyperthyroidism: Hypothyroidism is more common, especially in older age due to autoimmune issues, leading to symptoms like fatigue and cold sensitivity. Hyperthyroidism can result from iodine excess or autoimmune conditions like Graves' disease.Developmental Role: Thyroid hormones are vital for major developmental transitions, from birth to puberty, impacting brain development and metabolic adaptation.*Not medical advice.Support the showAll episodes, show notes, transcripts, etc. at the M&M Substack Affiliates: Lumen device to optimize your metabolism for weight loss or athletic performance. Use code MIND for 10% off. Readwise: Organize and share what you read. Use your phone's link. Athletic Greens: Comprehensive & convenient daily nutrition. Free 1-year supply of vitamin D with purchase. KetoCitra—Ketone body BHB + potassium, calcium & magnesium, formulated with kidney health in mind. Use code MIND20 for 20% off any subscription. MASA Chips—delicious tortilla chips made from organic corn and grass-fed beef tallow. No seed oils or artificial ingredients. Use code MIND for 20% off. For all the ways you can support my efforts

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Selenium is an essential mineral, particularly for those with thyroid and autoimmune thyroid conditions such as Graves' disease and Hashimoto's. It plays a significant role in various bodily functions, including acting as a glutathione precursor and helping lower thyroid antibodies.While many food sources of selenium exist, their variable levels make it challenging to obtain adequate amounts, especially for people who need additional selenium to support their healing journey. Today, I'm discussing the importance of selenium for thyroid health and answering the question of whether consuming Brazil nuts can provide sufficient selenium for those with deficiencies.In this episode, you'll learn about:- The importance of selenium for thyroid and autoimmune thyroid conditions- Selenium's role as a precursor to glutathione and how it affects thyroid antibodies- Recommended dosages of selenium- The variability of selenium content in Brazil nuts- Alternative food sources of selenium and recommendations during healing- When to consider supplementationAs always, I hope you find this episode valuable, and I look forward to catching you in the next episode!To learn more, visit the show notes at https://savemythyroid.com/podcast/selenium-brazil-nuts-and-thyroid-health/. Do You Want Help Saving Your Thyroid? Access hundreds of free articles at www.NaturalEndocrineSolutions.com Visit Dr. Eric's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/c/NaturalThyroidDoctor/ To work with Dr. Eric, visit https://savemythyroid.com/work-with-dr-eric/

There is a nutrient that almost no one talks about, yet it is crucial for anti-aging and overall health…     Selenium plays a key role in protecting the body from oxidative damage, supporting a healthy metabolism, strengthening the immune system, and even promoting youthful, radiant skin.     Join me on today's Cabral Concept 3282 as we explore the benefits of selenium, what happens when your levels are too low, and simple ways to ensure you're getting enough of this essential mineral. Don't miss this episode—enjoy the show, and let me know your thoughts!   - - - For Everything Mentioned In Today's Show: StephenCabral.com/3282 - - - Get a FREE Copy of Dr. Cabral's Book: The Rain Barrel Effect - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: CabralSupportGroup.com - - - Dr. Cabral's Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels) - - - Get Your Question Answered On An Upcoming HouseCall: StephenCabral.com/askcabral - - - Would You Take 30 Seconds To Rate & Review The Cabral Concept? The best way to help me spread our mission of true natural health is to pass on the good word, and I read and appreciate every review!  

Welcome to Episode 61! In this episode, I explore the often-taboo subject of vaginal health and its profound impact on women's overall well-being. Join me, Lizzie Alexander, the host of the Endo Fertility podcast, as I talk about the importance of maintaining a healthy vagina, the role of hormones like estrogen, and how conditions such as endometriosis and infections can affect vaginal health. We provide insights and actionable tips to help you take charge of your reproductive health. EPISODES HIGHLIGHT: The significance of a healthy vaginal microbiome and its role in preventing infections. Common types of vaginal infections, including yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis, and how they can impact fertility. Symptoms indicating potential issues with vaginal health, such as itching, burning sensations, and unusual discharge. The relationship between hormonal changes, pregnancy, and vaginal health. RESOURCES MENTIONED: pH Testing Kits: Available at pharmacies or online, these kits help monitor your vaginal pH levels throughout your menstrual cycle. Be sure to buy a pH range of 3.5 up to 6.5+. One example from amazon here. Probiotics: Specific strains like Lactobacillus crispatus can be beneficial for maintaining a healthy vaginal microbiome - I love to use Invivo Healthcare's FemmeV (oral and vaginal use) - buy from Amrita Nutrition here* to get 10% off (use my practitioner code: B6SV6H). N-Acetylcysteine (NAC): A supplement that can help break down biofilms created by bacteria, making it easier to treat recurrent infections. It is also great for supporting endometriosis by reducing lesions and cysts (Bahat et al., 2022), improving fertility outcomes (Anastasi et al., 2023) and supporting detoxification. I love Pure Encapsulations* and Now* (with Selenium). Vaginal Microbiome testing: there are a number of examples that I use in my clinic, e.g. Invivo Healthcare Vaginal EcologiX (International but not US), Evvy (US), Juno Bio - if you want to know more or help with testing just contact me (details below). ACTIONABLE TIPS: A number of actionable tips were discussed including: Regular pH testing to monitor vaginal health. The importance of understanding your microbiome. Dietary recommendations to support vaginal and gut health. Probiotic use for maintaining a balanced vaginal environment. >>Endo Fertility Podcast Goodie Bag

Two Greek goddesses huddle close together in the sky this evening: Selene and Aphrodite – the Moon and Venus. They’re in good view well before night falls, shining through the twilight. Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. She was identified with the brilliant morning and evening star. We know them today by her Roman name, Venus. Selene was one of several Moon goddesses, but the only one considered to be the human form of the Moon itself. Selene’s name has been applied to a lot more than just the Moon. Among other things, it’s the name of a mineral – selenite – and an element – selenium. Selenite is a crystal form of the mineral gypsum. It’s translucent, so it was sometimes used as window panes. There are several possible explanations for the name. One says it might have been bestowed because the light that passed through the windows looked milky white – like the light of a bright Moon. Selenite doesn’t contain any selenium, though. The only thing the mineral and the element have in common is the name. Selenium was discovered in the early 1800s. It’s rare – usually found mixed in with the ores of various metals. Its appearance and properties were similar to those of another recently discovered element – “tellurium” – a word that means “Earth.” So it made sense to name the new one for our satellite world – the Moon. Tomorrow: a different seasonal dividing line. Script by Damond Benningfield

There is a nutrient that almost no one talks about, yet it is crucial for anti-aging and overall health…     Selenium plays a key role in protecting the body from oxidative damage, supporting a healthy metabolism, strengthening the immune system, and even promoting youthful, radiant skin.     Join me on today's Cabral Concept 3282 as we explore the benefits of selenium, what happens when your levels are too low, and simple ways to ensure you're getting enough of this essential mineral. Don't miss this episode—enjoy the show, and let me know your thoughts!   - - - For Everything Mentioned In Today's Show: StephenCabral.com/3282 - - - Get a FREE Copy of Dr. Cabral's Book: The Rain Barrel Effect - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: CabralSupportGroup.com - - - Dr. Cabral's Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels) - - - Get Your Question Answered On An Upcoming HouseCall: StephenCabral.com/askcabral - - - Would You Take 30 Seconds To Rate & Review The Cabral Concept? The best way to help me spread our mission of true natural health is to pass on the good word, and I read and appreciate every review!  

In today's episode, we'll explore my specially curated list of the top 10 must-attend software testing conferences and events for 2025. See all testing conferences with dates and time: https://testguild.com/software-testing-conferences/ Whether you want to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of test automation, QA, and software testing, this episode is packed with invaluable insights. We'll explore conferences focused on industry-leading tools like Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Cypress, and Robot Framework and events dedicated to security testing, QA leadership, and performance engineering. I'll share experiences, expert-led sessions, and real-world success stories from these remarkable gatherings. Plus, you'll get tips on how to make the most of your conference experience—from networking to taking structured notes. Stay tuned until the end, when I'll reveal a no-brainer event you won't want to miss! This episode is a must-listen if you're ready to boost your testing knowledge and connect with like-minded professionals. Let's get started! ** For Bitrise users signing up on BrowserStack App Automate, grab your free upgrade to App Automate Device Cloud Plan here:  https://testguild.me/bitriseuser ** For App Automate users signing up on Bitrise, grab your free credits here: https://testguild.me/AppAutomateUser ** BrowserStack Test Observability: Why Your Automation Tests Are Failing (Test Observability Can Help): https://youtu.be/1myqnQLnA7g

In today's episode, we're diving deep into the world of Robot Framework with some exceptional guests: Marcus, Gerwin, Stacy, and Stavrola. We'll uncover the financial dynamics, organic growth, and the profound flexibility of Robot Framework that makes it stand out in the automation landscape. Our guests will share their firsthand experiences using Robot Framework for diverse testing needs, and we'll bust some common misconceptions about integrating it with tools like Selenium and Playwright. You'll hear about the robust community support that keeps users engaged and excited, the ease of implementing custom keywords, and the seamless integration that Robot Framework offers without the hassle of stitching multiple technologies together. We'll also give you a sneak peek into the upcoming RoboCon 2025 in Helsinki, an event packed with workshops, community-driven activities, and main conference days designed to inspire and educate.

In today's episode with Dr. Terry Wahls, you'll hear us take a deep dive on: 1. The Wahls Protocol 2. Transforming MS 3. Nutrients that help your mitochondria function 4. Early indicators of chronic illnesse Dr. Terry Wahls is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the visionary behind The Wahls Foundation. Despite facing the challenges of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, she triumphed over her condition by implementing a personalized diet and lifestyle program designed specifically for her brain. Dr. Terry Wahls has not only revolutionized her health journey but has also empowered others through her written works. She authored the influential books, "The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine", "The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles", and the invaluable cookbook "The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions".

Before you stop the scroll and go try that health trend – you'll first want to listen to this episode. We've seen everything from helpful to harmful ideas on social media this year including:  ·         Using snail mucin for skin care·         Drinking adrenal cocktails to lower cortisol·         Ditching vegetables for the carnivore diet·         Sipping tadpole water to lose weight Listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast, where we talk about some of the top health trends on social media with Tina George, MD, family medicine physician with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN).   What are cortisol cocktails and charcoal lattes? Should you try snail mucin for skin care? Why are Brazil nuts the new superfood? What popular diets are problematic? Will putting sliced onions or potatoes in your socks overnight reduce cold symptoms? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month.Chapters:     · 0:01 - Intro     · 1:01 - Snail mucin skin care     · 5:54 - Slugging your skin     · 10:06 - Face yoga     · 13:39 - Brazil nut buzz     · 15:08 - The carnivore diet     · 18:06 - Papaya seed parasite cleanse     · 23:49 - Wearing food to bed     · 25:03 - Charcoal lattes     · 28:37 - Cortisol cocktails     · 33:16 - Electrolyte packets     · 34:29 - Tadpole water     · 37:01 - All-natural pre-workout      · 38:42 - Longevity training     · 41:34 - Little treat culture     · 43:36 - A dopamine menu To learn more health tips, visit LVHN.org/healthyyou. Remember to subscribe, follow and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Player FM, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Deezer.

In this episode of the The Natural Health Podcast, host Mihaela engages with Victor Dedaj, a certified holistic health coach, discussing the interconnectedness of emotions, mind, body, and spirit in achieving optimal health. Victor shares his personal journey from the corporate world to health coaching, emphasizing the importance of nutrition, lifestyle choices, and the concept of wholeness in health. The conversation explores the impact of chronic illnesses, the significance of laughter and rest, and the role of genetics versus lifestyle in health outcomes. In this conversation, Victor Dedaj discusses the critical role of vitamins and minerals in maintaining health, emphasizing the importance of a balanced diet and supplementation. He highlights specific nutrients like calcium, magnesium, selenium, and vitamins C and D, explaining their benefits and the consequences of deficiencies. The discussion also covers the impact of dietary choices on chronic illnesses, the significance of emotional resilience in health recovery, and practical steps individuals can take to improve their well-being. Dedaj advocates for a holistic approach to health, integrating diet, mental well-being, and community support.TakeawaysHolistic health encompasses the interconnectedness of emotions, mind, body, and spirit.Nutrition plays a crucial role in overall health and can prevent chronic diseases.Dental health is closely linked to overall health; nutrition affects both.Chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease are often preventable through lifestyle changes.Wholeness in health means addressing emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.Laughter and rest are vital for healing and overall health.Genetics may predispose individuals to certain illnesses, but lifestyle choices are crucial.Preventative health measures are more effective than reactive treatments.Key nutrientsSelenium is crucial for heart health and disease prevention.Vitamin C is essential for immune function and overall health.Vitamin D is vital for immune support and disease prevention.Omega-3 fatty acids are important for reducing inflammation.Emotional resilience can significantly impact recovery from illness.Regular supplementation may be necessary to avoid deficiencies.Timestamps00:00 Introduction to The Natural Health Podcast02:55 Victor's Journey to Health Coaching05:00 The Importance of Nutrition and Dental Health08:00 Understanding Chronic Illness and Lifestyle Choices11:10 The Concept of Wholeness in Health14:00 The Role of Laughter and Rest in Healing19:00 Genetics vs. Lifestyle in Health21:00 Preventative Health vs. Reactive Health27:00 The Importance of Minerals and Vitamins36:40 Dietary Choices and Their Impact on Health43:00 The importance of Cholesterol47:10 Emotional Resilience and Health50:00 Practical Steps to Avoid Chronic IllnessHow to Contact VictorFree health evaluation session http://yourfreehealthevaluation.comVictor's Book on AmazonHow To Be Happy, Healthy and Whole: Discover the Ways to Be Healthy and Happy and Avoid Chronic Illnesses https://www.amazon.com/How-Happy-Healthy-Whole-Illnesses-ebook/dp/B0D8263MXC/http://www.victordedaj.com❓ Want to have your QUESTION answered click here https://forms.gle/PpTvM4wYG2TV85g6A

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew dive into the Ruby 3.4.0 rc1 release, covering new features, modular garbage collector, language changes, and YJIT improvements. Chris shares updates on the Rails “Getting Started Guide” and improvements in deploying Rails apps. They also delve into humorous anecdotes about their personal lives and work experiences, like dealing with flaky tests in Selenium and switching to Playwright for more stable and faster system tests. The conversation wraps up with excitement over new features in Tailwind CSS v4.0 and its potential benefits for their projects. Hit download now to hear more!HoneybadgerHoneybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Jason Charnes X/Twitter Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter

TIME STAMPS: 00:28 About Robert Sikes (THE KETO SAVAGE) / visit www.ketobodybuilding.com/ for Robert's training programs discussed on the show! / IG @ketosavage / @ketobrick / visit worldnaturalbb.com for all WNBF events  01:11 Quick recap and reflection on Robert's recent interview with his figure client & WNBF Pro Jen Pittaro (IG @jenpittaro_keto_fit_mom) - ( click here for interview )  02:30 *TOP SECRET* sneak peak at the upcoming NEWEST Keto Brick flavor! 03:14 Taste/texture/performance review of the CAKE POP and MAPLE PECAN tallow-based bricks! 10:21 MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES for NEW PRO BODYBUILDERS. 12:41 How to become a MENTOR and a FRIEND and not just a COACH. 15:05 LAMB, VENISON, and BEEF: Why Robert sticks to these RUMINANT ANIMALS as the FOUNDATION of his diet. 16:06 Yiann Stevens (UK) - questions around SELENIUM and THYROID levels and discussion around peer review Selenium and Thyroid Disease: From Pathophysiology to Treatment 18:45 All about REVERSE DIETING & How to eat POST COMPETITION to maintain 5% body fat and LEAN BULK as a CARNIVORE. 22:12 POSING pre and post show. 28:02 How to leverage CARDIO and WEIGHT TRAINING to maximize fat loss and muscle glycogen on contest prep and when reverse dieting. 33:31 UPCOMING INBF / WNBF / IPL competitions Robert & I will be hosting in 2025! 36:16 This week's LISTENER INSPIRING SUCCESS STORY (L.I.S.S.) - Daiva, from Ireland 40:01 Why FRUIT is NOT part of an optimal human diet! (with Eddie Goeke) 48:49 Detailed macronutrient breakdown of Richard Smith's “TRIPLE REFEED” and the results Colt & Angela experienced using LONG-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS, WHITE RICE and EXOGENOUS KETONES to peak for recent pro natural bodybuilding competitions. 50:03 DAIVA (Ireland), ROBYN (Kansas, US), PAM (Oklahoma, US), KAREN (Colorado, US) - advice for those of our TRIBE that are in the middle of a PROLONGED FAST CURRENTLY! Training, supplementation, mentality, and benefits to be gained from fasting 24+ hours. 53:11 Yousef Mourtaza (Miami, FL - USA) - IG @bigpapayoshi / ONLINE INTERMITTENT FASTING AND KETO BASKETBALL COACH! (listen to our check in on E313 of THE SUPERSETYOURLIFE.COM PODCAST *12/20/24* for his backstory!) - questions around L.M.N.T. (specifically maltodextrin!) and more advice on prolonged fasting. PURELY TALLOW ANIMAL BASED SKINCARE: Save 10% with code COLT10! - https://f22e68.myshopify.com?ref=colt_milton Hungry for more?? 1. Check out RICHARDS KETO PRO PODCAST where he and his guests teach how to improve their health and wellbeing using a ketogenic diet. 2. Stream The SuperSetYourLife.Com Podcast from any platform. We publish every MONDAY and FRIDAY!

If you're struggling to untangle stress, hormone, and thyroid related symptoms, this episode is for you! Today, Dr. Izabella Wentz talks through adrenal dysfunction, and how it relates to thyroid issues. We also talk lab work, root causes, and whether certain protocols or restrictive diets actually make a difference. Timestamps:[3:33] Welcome Dr. Izabella Wentz[7:00] What are some root causes of adrenal dysfunction?[15:17] How are the thyroid and adrenal glands connected?[20:39] If someone's labs are normal, but have high reverse T3, would that be something to note?[21:43] Do you recommend people get a diagnostic test for adrenal dysfunction diagnosis or do you go off of symptoms?[24:35] What are common symptoms for women when it comes to thyroid issues?[29:50] Can you provide some troubleshooting tips for her adrenal recovery protocol?[36:35] What do I address first - Do I address my adrenals or my thyroid?[40:52] Is it necessary to go gluten free when you have a thyroid condition?[49:48] How can you tell if you're feeling bad from an adrenal fatigue crash or a hashimoto's flare?[52:40] What do you do if your thyroid numbers are good but you still have symptoms?[57:20] How do I get off thyroid medicine/ Should I get off thyroid medicine?[1:00:05] What's the connection between thyroid disorders and iodine?[1:04:07] Can you discuss supplements for hashimoto's?[1:09:24] What are some shifts a woman with a thyroid condition can do to set herself up for success during pregnancy?[1:15:56] What is your favorite at home test for getting a full thyroid panel when your doctor won't test?Episode Links:Follow Dr. Izabella Wentz on InstagramConnect with Dr. Izabella Wentz on FacebookVisit the Thyroid Pharmacist WebsiteDownload your FREE ABC's of Adrenals Support GuideEpisode #083: Finding The Root Cause Of Hypothyroidism, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, And Thyroid Disorders With Dr. Izabella Wentz Benfotiamine Adrenal Cocktail RecipeIodineMyo-Inositol 600mg + Selenium 83 mcg D Minder Pro App AshwagandhaSaccharomyces Boulardii For Pregnancy: TSH .5 – 2.0 for fertility, Omega-3s, Carnitine, SeleniumLabs:RUPA healthUlta Lab TestsZRT LabsSponsors:Go to blissy.com/wellfed and use code WELLFED for 30% off your purchase!Go to drinklmnt.com/wellfed and use code WELLFED to get a free 8-pack with any drink mix purchase!Go to http://mdlogichealth.com/chocolate and use coupon code WELLFED for 10% off and you always get free shipping on orders of $59 or more.Go to wellminerals.us/adrenal-stress-less/ and use code WELLFED to get 10% off your order.

Today, Gaurav Mittal, an expert data science manager with over 18 years of experience, joins the podcast. In this episode, Gaurav shares his journey from manual to automation testing and delves into AI's revolutionary impact on software testing careers. Add visual checks toi your tests now: https://testguild.me/vizstack We'll explore how open-source AI models and libraries like TensorFlow and Keras make powerful tools accessible without the price tag and discuss the crucial role of retraining machine learning models to adapt to dynamic data. Gaurav will highlight the substantial benefits of automation in categorizing emails and its time-saving prowess. We'll also uncover the advantages of shift-left testing with AI, enhancing efficiency in the CI/CD pipeline and fostering collaboration among QA teams, developers, and project managers. Moreover, Gaurav offers a comparative insight between Selenium and the newer Playwright, advocating for the latter's superior performance. Throughout the episode, Gaurav emphasizes the practicality of AI as an assistant rather than a necessity in automation efforts. He also provides hands-on advice for integrating open-source AI models into your processes. Stay tuned for actionable tips and incredible insights on utilizing AI to elevate your automation game—all this and more, right here on the TestGuild Automation Podcast!  

An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system attacks its own tissues. It is typically characterized by low regulatory T-cells and high Th17 and Th2 cells. T-reg cells prevent autoimmune diseases by supporting an appropriate immune response. There are natural ways to support your immune system so that it operates at an optimal level. Poor gut health and gut inflammation can block the function of vitamin D3. Without enough vitamin D, T-reg cells do not work properly. The majority of the population is vitamin D-resistant. To support the immune system, you need 8,000 to 10,000 IU of vitamin D daily, but even more to overcome resistance. Poor gut health, inflammation, and low vitamin D are a perfect storm for developing an autoimmune condition. B. infantis and L. reuteri are vital for your immune system, but many people don't have them because these probiotics are very sensitive to antibiotics. These two important microbes help prevent autoimmune diseases, greatly affect T-reg cells, and suppress inflammatory immune cells. L. reuteri helps increase oxytocin, one of the most potent anti-stress hormones. High cortisol levels mean high stress, which suppresses the immune system. The best way to consume l. reuteri is to cultivate it in a dairy product. If you're low in selenium, you will have higher amounts of inflammatory immune cells. Selenium helps lower Th17, Th2 cells, and auto-antibodies involved in autoimmune disorders. Prolonged fasting can improve your immune system by increasing T-reg cells and creating new stem cells. L. reuteri strain https://www.amazon.com/BioGaia-Osfort... Super Gut book link: https://amzn.to/4dIxTy2 Yogurt Recipe: https://www.culturedfoodlife.com/reci... **I am finding that using only ONE TBS of prebiotic fiber in the recipe makes a better-quality product. How to Make It: https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/201...https://www.culturedfoodlife.com/l-re... MICROBIOME MASTER CLASS WEBSITE: https://innercircle.drdavisinfinitehe... Yogurt Maker—https://lvnta.com/lv_lrJY1A8ZLtxmwUpYdX Yogurt Jars—https://lvnta.com/lv_qB2B90JNh0hQjaMoXk Yogurt Containers—https://lvnta.com/lv_SFt3wnanoNkBHrf0Rs

Today, I have a fascinating conversation lined up with Tobias Müller, the visionary founder and CTO of TestrResults.io. In this episode, we'll explore the complexities of test environments and innovative solutions in test automation. Tobias shares insights on handling complex enterprise cross-domain automation testing and practical techniques for streamlining test automation. He also explains why relying solely on code-based methods might be limiting. We'll also discuss the significance of UI versus API testing, dynamic software elements, and the challenge of universal approaches in automation. From the limitations of traditional tools like Selenium and Appium to the promising potential of computer vision techniques and AI integration, this episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to push the boundaries of test automation. Get ready for expert advice, industry anecdotes, and a thoughtful discussion on the future of digital testing. Listen up!

Dr. Nicole Rambo and Heather, they discuss a case study involving a 17-hand warmblood horse with high selenium levels detected in its routine blood work. They explain the importance of selenium in horse diets, its toxicity, and deficiency symptoms, and the significance of different blood tests. The episode also offers insights into how to interpret these blood test results, considerations for selenium testing in hay, and the suggested steps for managing the horse's diet. You can learn more about these topics by visiting our expertise page HERE If you have any questions or concerns about your own horse, please contact us HERE This podcast was brought to you by Tribute Superior Equine Nutrition

Send us a textIn this compelling episode, I sit down with Dr. Benjamin Kosubevsky, an innovative expert in integrative medicine and detoxification therapies. As a specialist in heavy metal detoxification and hyperoxygenation treatments, Dr. Kosubevsky is transforming the way we approach chronic health issues tied to toxic exposures. His mission at the Longevity Center is not only to improve patient health but to make cutting-edge therapies like chelation and Eboo available and affordable for everyone, empowering individuals to tackle the environmental challenges impacting modern wellness.Our conversation delves into Dr. Kosubevsky's deep-rooted passion for alternative medicine and his journey from traditional medical training to the pioneering, hands-on work he does today. He shares insights into the mechanics of chelation and hyperoxygenation, revealing how they remove accumulated heavy metals, reduce inflammation, and support whole-body healing. This episode is essential listening for anyone navigating fatigue, brain fog, or chronic inflammation, or simply curious about innovative paths to optimal wellness. Tune in to explore the profound potential of therapies that help restore the body's natural resilience and discover how to take control of your own health journey.Looking to discover your science and optimize your life?APPLY FOR HEALTH OPTIMIZATION COACHINGhttps://calendly.com/andrespreschel/intro-call-with-andresLinks Mentioned in Today's Episode:Click HERE to save on BiOptimizers MagnesiumKey Points From This Episode:Hyperoxygenation benefits for health [00:07:27]Mercury's impact on health [00:12:51]Molybdenum deficiency and heavy metals [00:14:37]Selenium's role in mercury protection [00:21:33]Foods that help chelate mercury [00:22:42]Hemochromatosis and iron levels [00:26:39]Mercury and neurological health impacts [00:30:01]Bioaccumulation of heavy metals [00:38:28]Ozone treatment advancements [00:46:41]Cost-effective chelation treatments [00:51:25]Vaccines and heavy metals [00:54:48]Heavy metals in everyday products [00:57:15]Chelation and oxygen benefits [01:02:18] PeopleDr. Benjamin KosubevskyLinkedIn ProfileInstagramDr. Wesley SmithUniversity of Miami ProfilePlacesLongevity CenterOfficial WebsiteProducts and ReferencesEDTA Chelation TherapyWebMD ResourceDMPS Chelation TherapyDMPS ChelationIV Ozone TherapyInformative ArticleSpirulina and Chlorella SupplementsInformative ArticleHyperoxygenation TherapyInformative Article:Molybdenum Deficiency and MercurySupport the show

In this episode, we explore the future of automation, where natural language bridges human intent and machine execution. Mudit unveils the concept of an "AI testing assistant" that interprets natural language to generate and manage test scenarios seamlessly. We'll discuss how this revolutionary tool supports popular frameworks like Selenium, Appium, and Playwright, enabling quality engineers to enhance existing code and execute tests more efficiently. Get ready to learn about innovative features like error classification, root cause analysis, and flakiness detection that streamline debugging and improve test reliability. Join us as we explore Kane AI, LambdaTest's smart AI-powered test agent for high-speed Quality Engineering teams. That allows you to create, debug, and evolve tests using natural language. natural language processing-based platform, designed to democratize quality assurance and tackle the challenges of CI/CD integration. Listen up!

A trace mineral found in abundance in Brazil nuts; this is what selenium micromineral is, but how does it relate to our health? It's a nutrient that we all need and having a deficiency could put someone at risk for certain conditions and diseases. Tune in to hear what selenium is, where it's found, what action it has in the body and why we need it, how much is the right amount, plus, of course, the food sources to include to get enough in your diet.  Episodes mentioned in this one, include Ep 4- Eating Well to Maintain a Healthy Immune System https://youtu.be/vP2mY_xiWiE Ep 33. Seeds: The Poor Cousin of Nuts, But Richer Nutritional Powerhouse https://youtu.be/sruEEJLnJ00 Enjoying the show? Consider leaving a 5 star review, and/or sharing this episode with your friends and family :) Sign up for our newsletter on our website for weekly updates and other fun info. You can also visit our social media pages. We're on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Your support helps fuel the stoke and keeps the show going strong every week. Thanks! Website: www.mywifethedietitian.com Email: mywifetherd@gmail.com

It's the second commonest cancer in men across the world and increasing in incidence.In this episode I look at why it occurs and what we can do prevent it, manage risk and raise awareness.Hormones and their roles in prostate cancer: https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-role-of-two-hormones-in-aggressive-prostate-cancer-risk#Benign prostatic hypertrophy (not cancer): https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20370087Genetics and prostate cancer: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/prostate-cancer/#causesGleason grading of prostate cancer: https://www.pcf.org/about-prostate-cancer/diagnosis-staging-prostate-cancer/gleason-score-isup-gradeStress and prostate cancer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5693840/Inflammation and prostate cancer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4029103/#:~:text=These%20preliminary%20studies%20revealed%20that,score%207%E2%80%9310)%20disease.Exercise and prostate cancer: https://www.pcf.org/patient-resources/living-prostate-cancer/exercise-prostate-cancer/Toxins / cadmium: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41389-020-0202-7Dietary cadmium: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-015-1153-9#Selenium supplementation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8971064/Prospective Japanese study on green tea: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17906295/Calcium and red meat: https://www.nature.com/articles/6604331Green tea and diet: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987722000792Movember.comBuy my book THE HEALTH FIX on sale price now: https://rb.gy/rzknqt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're wondering about supplements for specific health issues, this is for you. In this video, we're going to talk about the best supplements for a range of common health conditions. Learn about the top supplements that have worked for thousands of people! 25 TOP SUPPLEMENTS THAT REALLY WORK (Downloadable File): https://drbrg.co/40hy54r 1. Vitamin D is one of the best supplements for immune support. It can help with autoimmune diseases, cancer, and AIDS. It's also beneficial for the following health concerns: •Depression •Glaucoma •Low back pain •Hip pain •Deep bone pain •Tumors •Hair loss •Dermatitis Always take vitamin D supplements with cofactors magnesium, zinc, and vitamin K2 2. Magnesium glycinate is beneficial for the following: •Blood sugar •Migraines •Sleep •Prevents clotting •Supports healthy blood pressure •Prevents muscle cramps •Prevents arrhythmias •Improves energy •Prevents kidney stones 3. Betaine hydrochloride helps with heartburn and indigestion. It helps to acidify the stomach and keep the valve at the top of the stomach closed. 4. Zinc carnosine is the best remedy for ulcers and can help calm down gastritis. 5. Selenium is beneficial for people with AIDS and Hashimoto's. 6. Vitamin B1 is an excellent remedy for nervous tension, worry, stress, anxiety, and restless legs syndrome. 7. Benfotiamine is a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 that's beneficial for peripheral nerve issues. 8. Calcium lactate is beneficial for chronic coughing. 9. Iron is beneficial for low blood pressure and energy, but choose food sources of iron rather than supplements. 10. Potassium is essential and often beneficial for salt-sensitive people. You need 4700 mg every day! 11. Coenzyme Q10 is essential if you're on statins. 12. Tocotrienols are the most potent form of vitamin E. They are beneficial for fibrosis, chest pain, infertility, and the arteries. 13. TUDCA is a type of bile salt that is even good for neurological problems! 14. Iodine helps with fibrocystic breast and regulates excess estrogen. 15. Vitamin C is good for collagen and bleeding gums. 16. Probiotics are vital, especially if you consume a lot of diet sodas. 17. Biotin is beneficial for your hair, nails, and skin. 18. Manganese is good for tourettes and tics. 19. NAC supports the liver and can help eliminate toxins 20. Mastic gum can help with gastritis. 21. Melatonin is beneficial for sleep. 22. Niacin is good for anything related to cholesterol. 23. Clove oil is beneficial for tooth or gum pain.

Drs Kaniksha Desai and Trevor Angell discuss selenium and its role in thyroid health. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

In today's episode, we're thrilled to host Mike Verinder, a veteran in the automation testing space and the brain behind some of the most prominent LinkedIn groups and communities for tools like Playwright and Selenium. Mike discusses the intricacies of job engagement in the testing community, managing thriving online groups, and all things related to automation tools. We'll explore Mike's extensive background, which includes managing vast online communities, how to grow them, and the importance of continuous learning in software testing. Whether you're a seasoned tester or just starting, this episode is packed with practical and valuable takeaways to help you stay ahead in your automation testing career. You'll leave here feeling empowered and ready to implement these insights.

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In this episode, Ashish Ghosh, a test automation architect at ING Bank, shares a new open source Playwright automation framework called INGenious Playwright Studio. Ingenious is a low-code test automation framework designed to empower business users in the automation process. Ashish shares insights on overcoming the challenges of traditional coded solutions, emphasizing the importance of business user involvement and the cost-effective advantages of open-source tools over commercial alternatives. He explains how Ingenious seamlessly transitioned from Selenium to Playwright, enhancing reliability and eliminating the need for glue code in BDD approaches. Join us to discover how the INGenious framework supports comprehensive enterprise-grade testing, from web applications to APIs, databases, and mobile testing, while fostering a collaborative culture through community feedback and contributions.

Find out if a mineral deficiency is the cause of your aging spots! In this podcast, we're going to talk about the causes and remedies of aging spots. Aging spots are sometimes called liver spots, but they're not necessarily caused by the liver. Around 90% of people over 60 have these age spots. Age spots are composed of melanin, the pigment that gives hair, skin, and eyes their color. Melanin protects against UV radiation, but we also need this radiation for vitamin D. UV damage causes oxidative stress, or stress that occurs at the cellular level. Antioxidants can help neutralize this damage. Oxidative stress triggers melanin and increases hyperpigmentation. Increased estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy, diabetes, inflammation, certain drugs, and stress can also increase melanin production. Melanin absorbs UV rays and neutralizes the damage by dispersing it through the body and turning it into heat. I reviewed some of the patents for age spot remedies, and they included natural remedies such as vitamin C, grape seed extract, zinc, licorice extract, and berries. Many natural remedies for age spots include zinc and selenium. Zinc is good for everything related to your skin. It's involved in hundreds of enzyme reactions and biochemical pathways and is considered a very powerful antioxidant. Zinc can naturally lower excess melanin production. Zinc combined with selenium can be very effective against age spots. Selenium is a precursor to glutathione, one of the most powerful antioxidants. Selenium and zinc also protect your DNA. You can use a cream with zinc and selenium or take them as a supplement combined with other trace minerals.

The Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease by Vitamin E and Selenium trial randomized more than 7,500 older men to take vitamin E, selenium, both, or neither (just placebos) for five years.

Today, I'm going to tell you why two Brazil nuts each day may help with hypothyroid conditions. Most hypothyroid conditions are really Hashimoto's disease, which is an autoimmune condition. 14 million people are diagnosed with Hashimoto's each year in the US alone. Hashimoto's puts you at risk for developing other types of autoimmune disease. Selenium is a trace mineral needed in very small amounts. It's involved in over 25 different genes related to antioxidants. It also has potent anti-inflammatory effects. Selenium-rich foods include seafood, shellfish, organ meats, and Brazil nuts. Brazil nuts have the highest concentrations of selenium. Two Brazil nuts each day give you 200 mcg of selenium. Several randomized controlled trials found that selenium reduces the antibodies that attack the thyroid. When thyroid-stimulating hormone increases, it does not connect with the thyroid, leading to a hypothyroid condition. Selenium can also help with this condition. If you have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, lots of hydrogen peroxide is generated. Selenium helps to neutralize hydrogen peroxide. Selenium helps control the T helper cells, which orchestrate your immune response. It also feeds the T-reg cells, which help prevent autoimmune diseases. Your brain, immune system, and reproductive system depend heavily on selenium, so sometimes, there's not much left for the thyroid to function correctly. This may lead to Hashimoto's symptoms, which include feeling tired, cold, weight gain, hair loss, and brittle hair. Try eating two to four Brazil nuts daily to support your thyroid gland's health. Don't do more than that because it's possible to overdo it with selenium. In addition to selenium, ensure you're getting enough sunlight or consume high doses of vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 can help regulate an overactive immune system.

Today, we're going to talk about resolving hearing loss with nutrients. Viruses and nutritional deficiencies are the leading causes of hearing loss. When you experience an acute infection, there is an initial dramatic decrease in zinc and iron. Both are related to hearing loss. Viruses can also cause selenium deficiency. Selenium is important in converting T4 to T3 and supports the T-helper cell, which coordinates the entire immune system. Diabetes can damage the sensory nerves in the ear and cause hearing impairment. This is known as diabetic autonomic neuropathy. Hearing loss associated with diabetes results from severe vitamin B1 deficiency. Vitamin B1 is the key nutrient supporting the autonomic nervous system; if you're diabetic, you're likely deficient. Take benfotiamine, a form of B1 that can penetrate the myelin sheath, for hearing loss associated with diabetes. Vitamin D plays a critical role in protecting against autoimmune conditions. Many autoimmune conditions, such as autoimmune inner ear disease, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis, can cause hearing impairment. If the small bones inside your ear are damaged, you could develop hearing loss. Adequate potassium levels are vital for hearing. PRODUCT LINK: https://www.antiaging-systems.com/pro... DATA: https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R21-DC... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...