Episode 128: Chris Mearns of LIV3 Health on Fructokinase, Endogenous Fructose, and Cravings
High fructose corn syrup dominated health headlines for years, then the conversation went quiet. Chris Mearns argues the research on fructose metabolism only got stronger, and that one enzyme called f...
20 Sep 53min
Episode 127: Gustavo Ruthes on Stress Inoculation and the Fighter Pilot Mindset Under Pressure
What do fighter pilots and founders have in common? Mental performance consultant Gustavo Ruthes explains why the same stress inoculation techniques used to train NATO fighter pilots can rewire how an...
13 Sep 44min
Episode 126: Tim Maloney of Dalhousie Athletics on GPS Data, Academics, and Winning Culture
Tim Maloney, Dalhousie University's Assistant Vice-President, Athletics & Ancillary Services, has spent over a decade proving that student-athletes can win conference championships and top the honor r...
6 Sep 46min
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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 40min
