#312 - Is Moderate Drinking Actually Healthy? | Dr. Tim Naimi & Mike Haney
Alcohol has spent the last 40 years bouncing between two health narratives: a little is good for your heart, or any amount is dangerous. The science doesn’t really support either slogan.Dr. Tim Naimi ...
24 Sep 53min
#311 - Can Your Blood Predict Your Future Health? | Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray & Mike Haney
From a single blood sample, new proteomic tools can now measure thousands of proteins at once. Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray’s lab is using that flood of data, together with machine learning, to build a much hi...
17 Sep 1h
#310 - Can We Measure Aging Well Enough to Treat It? | Dr. Nir Barzilai & Mike Haney
Aging science has gotten much better at describing who appears to be aging faster or slower. What medicine still lacks is a reliable feedback loop: a way to tell whether something we do is actually ch...
10 Sep 1h 3min
#309 - What AI Sees That Doctors Can’t | Dr. Ziad Obermeyer & Mike Haney
Medical AI is already getting good at doing things doctors do. Dr. Ziad Obermeyer thinks the bigger opportunity is using AI to discover things medicine doesn’t yet know.His work shows both sides of th...
3 Sep 1h 5min
#308 - Why Some Foods Are So Hard to Stop Eating | Dr. Dana Small & Mike Haney
Why do we crave some foods the more often we eat them? Are we addicted?Dr. Dana Small’s research suggests that food craving reaches far beyond taste or willpower, and that “addiction” isn’t a helpful ...
27 Aug 1h 11min
#307 - It Took Months to Interpret His Genome. Claude Did It in 30 Minutes. | Dr. Euan Ashley + Mike Haney
Twenty-five years ago, sequencing the human genome seemed poised to usher in an era of personalized medicine. Dr. Euan Ashley helped turn that promise into an actual clinical experiment, leading one o...
20 Aug 1h
#306 - Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Work? | Dr. Courtney Peterson & Mike Haney
Is intermittent fasting biohacker wellness hype or legit health intervention? Some studies show real benefits, others find nothing, and the occasional headline calls it bad for your heart.Dr. Courtney...
13 Aug 1h 14min
#305 - What You Can Learn from Measuring Everything | Dr. Michael Snyder & Mike Haney
What if we could measure the human body the way engineers monitor a jet engine?For nearly two decades, Stanford geneticist Dr. Michael Snyder has been trying exactly that. By continuously tracking eve...
6 Aug 1h 10min
