Episode 125: Olympic Medalist Andrew Steele on Genomics, Gut Microbiome Testing, and Biological Age
Andrew Steele went from Olympic sprinter to co-founder of DNAFit to CEO of Stride, and he thinks biological age testing is the "Wild West" of consumer health, with no standardized way to measure it. D...
30 Elo 44min
Episode 124: Finding Your Oldest Organ Before Disease Finds You with Paul Coletta from Vero Bioscience
What if your biological age is hiding the one organ that matters most? In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Paul Coletta, Co-Founder and CEO of Vero Bioscience, to ex...
23 Elo 50min
Episode 123: The Human Sleep Paradox: Why We Sleep Less Than Every Other Primate with Dr. David R. Samson
What if the biggest problem with modern sleep isn’t duration, but disconnection? Dr. David R. Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, joins Dr. Jeremy Koenig to explain wh...
16 Elo 59min
Episode 122: Joel Smith on Why Play Beats Protocol: Gamified Training, Flow States, and Jumping Higher at 41
Speed and jumps coach Joel Smith (Just Fly Performance) joins Dr. Jeremy Koenig on The DNA of Things for a conversation that starts with a missed dunk and ends in Jungian psychology. Joel walks throug...
9 Elo 1h 4min
Episode 121: He Carries the Alzheimer's Gene — So He Built a 650-Person Experiment to Beat It with Dr. Kevin Tran
At 34, pharmacist Dr. Kevin Tran took a routine consumer gene test expecting supplement tweaks — instead he found two copies of APOE4, a variant tied to up to a 33x higher Alzheimer's risk. When neuro...
2 Elo 40min
Episode 120: Dr. Bruce Dame - The Hot Springs Hypothesis and the Origin of Life
How did life actually begin — and did it start in Yellowstone's boiling hot springs instead of the deep ocean? In this episode, astrobiologist Dr. Bruce Damer joins Jeremy to unpack the hot springs hy...
26 Heinä 1h 21min
Episode 119: His Testosterone Was 159. What Happened Next Changed Everything with Kyle Hulbert
At 22, Kyle Hulbert was doing everything "right" — clean diet, eight hours of sleep, daily workouts — and still found himself standing on a 27th-floor balcony in Dubai, depressed and suicidal, with do...
19 Heinä 37min
