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
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 Jul 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 Jul 37min
Episode 118: How AI Found What 15 Years of Dermatologists Couldn't | OK Capsule's Dr. Andrew Brandeis
Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Andrew Brandeis, CMO and co-founder of OK Capsule, for a wide-ranging conversation about the real reason personalized supplements fail: it's not the science, it's ...
12 Jul 45min
Episode 117: The Molecule That Made Rats Live 90% Longer — Chris Burres on ESS60 & The Science of Aging
Chris Burres has spent over three decades chasing a molecule most people have never heard of, and the story behind it sounds almost too wild to be true. In 2012, a French toxicity study accidentally d...
5 Jul 42min
Episode 116: Death by Five-Minute Paper Cuts: Fixing Functional Medicine's Data Problem with Jeremy Malecha
Jeremy Malecha spent his career building cloud-connected medical devices at ResMed before functional medicine pulled him in through the side door — literally, as his wife's first patient. What he foun...
28 Jun 56min
