42. The Long Game Against Cancer — Part 1: Our Why, The Stats, & The Case for Prevention
The most personal series we’ve ever made. It opens with Nisha’s story — her blood cancer diagnosis eleven years ago — and reframes what cancer actually is: not an outside invader, but a breakdown of t...
5 Nov 37min
41. Short Takes: Exercise vs. Cancer, Statins After 70, Hormones & the Brain, and the Probiotic Paradox
Welcome to Short Takes — an occasional format where Dr. Vikas Patel breaks down current medical news and new journal studies while they’re still current, in 15–20 minutes, and tells you what he’d actu...
22 Okt 18min
40. M.E.D Series Part 2: The Minimum Effective Dose: The Clap Back to the Overoptimizers
Part Two of the M.E.D. (minimum effective dose) Series — The minimum effective dose is the smallest amount of the right thing that captures the large majority of the benefit. Not the maximum. The mini...
8 Okt 1h 1min
39. M.E.D. Series, Pt. 1- The Overoptimization Trap: How the Wellness Industry Lost the Plot
Part One of the M.E.D. (minimum effective dose) Series. Dr. Vikas Patel and Dr. Nisha Patel take you up in the helicopter over the entire wellness industry — how it works, how it makes its money, and ...
24 Sep 1h 4min
38. Bone Health: Why Prevention Starts Decades Before Medicine Looks — Muscle, DEXA, and the Long Game
Would you wait until sixty-four to check your retirement account for the first time? That's exactly what the medical system does with your bones — the first DEXA comes at sixty-five, after decades of ...
10 Sep 55min
37. Environmental Curveballs: Sorting Real Toxin Exposure Risk From the Noise
Wildfire smoke. Cyclospora. Microplastics. Seed oils. Gas stoves. Every environmental scare that'll trend on your feed six weeks from now. Dr. Vikas Patel and Dr. Nisha Patel give you a four-question ...
27 Aug 51min
36. Why Dementia Prevention Beats Treatment: APOE Testing, Women's Brain Health, and the Levers You Control
If you live into your mid-eighties, your odds of dementia are roughly one in three. Most people spend zero minutes of midlife thinking about it — and Dr. Vikas Patel and Dr. Nisha Patel make the case ...
13 Aug 1h 5min
35. The Over-40 Injury Playbook: How to Prevent and Rehab Injuries When Life Hands You Lemons
Anyone over 40 who's felt a tendon go knows the sound — and the sinking feeling right after. Why midlife makes us injury-prone: sedentary weekdays, weekend-warrior spikes, unstructured training, and m...
30 Jul 1h 22min
