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Doug Ethell is the founder and CEO of Leucadia Therapeutics, a pre-clinical stage company developing an early diagnostic for Alzheimer’s disease and a therapeutic device to stop that disorder in its earliest stages.
Over 321 books from 170 plus interviews over 5 years
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PODCAST INFO:
The Learning With Lowell show is a series for the everyday mammal. In this show we’ll learn about leadership, science, and people building their change into the world. The goal is to dig deeply into people who most of us wouldn’t normally ever get to hear. The Host of the show – Lowell Thompson- is a lifelong autodidact, serial problem solver, and founder of startups.
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Dough Ethell Links
https://www.leucadiatx.com/aboutus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougethell/
Timestamps / Show notes
00:00 Introducing Doug Ethell
00:25 Doug Ethell’s background
03:30 Learning new things
07:30 Faking ignorance in exams
09:40 Problem solving environment optimization
11:51 Cold showers, nutrition, and fitness
12:40 Coffee addiction
13:30 Textbooks saying the brain doesn’t repair vs real life
20:20 Growth Cone / axolotls
21:50 Seeing the science
24:50 Finding a tumor
25:45 Finding animal models that will translate results into human brains for alzheimer’s research
28:30 Horror stories of skipping animal models and non animal research FDA
30:15 Choosing data to give FDA and auditing
31:20 NeuroAge, alzheimer’s drama, and trusting researching
34:12 Alzhimers drama explained / amyloid hypothesis
50:30 Cholesterol / brain combination and Leucadia therapy
54:12 Progression of Azheimer and filtering CFS
59:16 Utilizing the nose pathway and spinal tap
01:01:5 Theoretically get the same amount of CFS from nose as from spine
01:02:22 Leucadia device development
01:04:05 Close / open valve and pacemaker simile
01:06:30 Animal model downside for research, and researching the effect of nose CFS occlusion
01:10:05 Baseline ferret testing, progression
01:10:40 Timeline for device to market and cost efficient Leucadia plan
01:12:30 Ferrets regaining function and what they monitored
01:13:30 Team member needs
01:14:20 Investors / Series A
01:15:20 Picking places to do research
01:15:48 Books!
01:17:26 Currently learning / hobbies
01:18:47 Einsteins weird brain
01:20:20 PTSD
01:20:51 Ways to stay up to date with Leucadia ad Doug