Health Longevity Secrets

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  Ultrasound to Calm the Nervous System | Jon Hacker 15.09.2026 42мин

  Modern technology is tricking your nervous system into fight-or-flight — and it's decently profitable to keep you there. Jon Hacker, CEO of NeurGear, explains how focused ultrasound vagus nerve stimulation can switch you back. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Jon Hacker, biomedical engineer and CEO/co-founder of NeurGear, the company behind ZenBud — the first ultrasound-based vagus nerve stimulator. They cover how the vagus nerve governs your rest-a...
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  EXPLAINER: Will mRNA Vaccines Cure Cancer? 08.09.2026 8мин

  For the first time in history, a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has passed a Phase 3 clinical trial. Robert Lufkin MD breaks down the Moderna/Merck melanoma result, how a vaccine custom-built from your own tumor actually works, the 49% drop in recurrence risk behind the headlines — and the honest answer to whether mRNA vaccines will cure cancer. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD explains the science of personalized mRNA cancer vaccines: neoantigens, the AI-desig...
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  The Alzheimer's Lie: It's Not The Amyloid | David Perlmutter MD 01.09.2026 49мин

  Neurologist David Perlmutter MD says the beta-amyloid theory of Alzheimer's is wrong — and the real culprit is your brain's own immune cells. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with the #1 New York Times bestselling author to unpack his new book Brain Defenders: how diet, blood sugar, and metabolic health flip the brain's microglia from protective to destructive, why anti-amyloid drugs offer "trivial" benefit, and which biomarkers actually predict your bra...
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  EXPLAINER: Human Age Reversal Has Begun 25.08.2026 8мин

  They just injected youth genes into a human eye. On June 9, 2026, a patient with glaucoma became the first human ever dosed with ER-100 — an epigenetic reprogramming gene therapy designed not just to slow aging, but to reverse it. In this solo explainer, Dr. Robert Lufkin breaks down the science of partial cellular reprogramming, the Harvard study that restored vision in old mice, the built-in genetic safety switch, and what this first-in-human trial really means — and doesn't mean — for the ...
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  Your Beliefs Control Your Genes with Bruce Lipton PhD 18.08.2026 1ч

  What if your genes aren't your destiny? Cell biologist Bruce Lipton PhD — the former medical school professor whose cloned stem cell research helped pioneer epigenetics, and author of The Biology of Belief (published in over 50 languages) — joins Robert Lufkin MD to make the case that perception, not DNA, controls your biology. A positive belief can heal (the placebo effect); a negative belief can harm (the nocebo effect) — which is why Bruce calls a prognosis a prescription. And now, after a...
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  EXPLAINER: The Longevity IV That Killed a 27-Year-Old 11.08.2026 8мин

  A healthy 27-year-old walked into a Bronx wellness center for an NAD+ "longevity infusion" — and was dead within the hour. The man holding the needle wasn't licensed to practice medicine anywhere in the US. Robert Lufkin MD breaks down the Elizabeth Baron case: what actually happened, what NAD+ can and can't do based on the real evidence, why the billion-dollar med spa industry operates like the Wild West, and the three-license checklist that can protect you before anyone puts a needle in you...
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  Heart Surgeon: It's Not Cholesterol — It's Metabolic Health | Philip Ovadia MD 04.08.2026 47мин

  A cardiac surgeon who's performed thousands of open-heart operations says most of his patients didn't have to be there — and the culprit isn't cholesterol, it's metabolic health. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Dr. Philip Ovadia, board-certified cardiac surgeon and author of the new book "Stay Off My Kitchen Table." Once morbidly obese and prediabetic himself, Ovadia lost nearly 100 pounds and rethought everything he was taught about heart disease....
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  There's No Such Thing as a Weight Problem | Ben Azadi 21.07.2026 45мин

  "There's no such thing as a weight problem — it's a weight symptom." Ben Azadi joins Robert Lufkin MD to dismantle the calorie myth and reveal the metabolic root cause underneath stubborn fat, fatigue, and disease. Ben Azadi — functional health practitioner, founder of Keto Camp, and bestselling author of "Metabolic Freedom" — unpacks metabolic flexibility, diet variation, fasting, and why staying in ketosis forever can backfire. He previews his revised book "Keto Flex" (out July 21) and shar...
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  The Nerve in Your Ear That Controls Stress | Jane Ollis (Sona) 07.07.2026 47мин

  What if a single nerve in your ear could shift you out of fight-or-flight in 10 minutes? Jane Ollis explains why your vagus nerve and HRV may be the most overlooked levers for stress, sleep, and longevity. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Jane Ollis — founder and CEO of Sona, medical biochemist with a career across NASA, Oxford, and the NHS — to unpack the science of the vagus nerve, heart rate variability (HRV), and the autonomic nervous system. ...
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  EXPLAINER: Glucosamine and Alzheimer's: Protection or Poison? 23.06.2026 9мин

  The same glucosamine pill millions take for joint pain may protect a healthy brain — and accelerate Alzheimer's in a brain already in decline. Here's the science. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD breaks down the 2026 plot twist on glucosamine and dementia: why a supplement once hailed as a longevity hack now carries an Alzheimer's warning, and why the answer comes down to one thing — the state of your metabolism. The same molecule helped the metabolically healthy ...
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  What If The Pain Is Actually The Fuel? — Ben Barbic 16.06.2026 42мин

  What if the pain you've been trying to escape is actually the fuel you've been looking for? Recording artist Ben Barbic walked away from alcohol, nicotine, and blood pressure medications at 28 — and built a 15-year operating system for resilience. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Ben Barbic — chart-climbing reggae and hip-hop recording artist, San Jose-based studio owner of Where Dreams Sail Studios, and author of the new memoir Rise and Climb: Find...
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  EXPLAINER: Does Creatine Cause Cancer? What the Science Actually Says 11.06.2026 9мин

  Creatine causes cancer to spread — that headline is built on a real mouse study. But what does the human data actually say? In this solo explainer, Dr. Robert Lufkin breaks down both halves of the science behind the most studied supplement on the planet. He walks through the 2021 mouse metastasis study behind the viral claim, the surprising evidence that creatine actually powers the immune cells that HUNT cancer (CD8 T cells and, per new UCLA research, dendritic cells), and what the human dat...
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  The Smart Toilet That Could Detect Cancer Before You Know You Have It | Scott Hickle (Throne) 09.06.2026 42мин

  Colorectal cancer is now the #1 cancer killer in Americans under 50 — and roughly 60% of cases are diagnosed at stage III or IV. What if your toilet could spot the earliest sign years before symptoms? Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Scott Hickle, co-founder and CEO of Throne Science, to talk about the first AI-powered smart toilet — a hands-free, daily monitor that detects fecal occult blood, tracks gut microbiome shifts, measures hydration and prostate health via sonouroflowmetry, and uses A...
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  EXPLAINER: Sleep Isn't For Muscle Repair — Here's What It's Actually For 04.06.2026 11мин

  Forget muscle repair. The reason sleep actually transforms your health is happening inside your skull every night — and it's not what Matthew Walker's TED Talk made famous. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD breaks down the real science of sleep: the glymphatic system that flushes beta-amyloid from your brain, the hippocampal "sharp wave ripples" that lock in memories, the slow-wave growth hormone pulse you can't make up, and the testosterone and insulin damage tha...
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  Are We In A Longevity Revolution? — David Donnelly (Director, Forever Young) 02.06.2026 44мин

  What if the longevity revolution isn't really a science problem, but a human one we're completely unprepared for? In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with David Donnelly — the award-winning filmmaker behind "Forever Young" (winner of the Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Award). David spent three years across three continents embedded with the world's leading longevity scientists — the Buck Institute, Dr. Eric Verdin, Dr. Steve Horvath, and more — and cam...
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  EXPLAINER: ANKTIVA- The Next Great Longevity Drug? 28.05.2026 12мин

  There's a single number on your routine blood test that predicts your risk of dying from cancer, heart disease, and infection better than cholesterol — and an FDA-approved drug may now move it. In this Health Longevity Secrets explainer, Robert Lufkin MD breaks down lymphopenia, the IL-15 cytokine, and ANKTIVA (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept) — the first FDA-approved IL-15 super-agonist and possibly one of the most important longevity drugs of the decade. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Introduction: The Bl...
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  The Army Ranger Who Found Magic Mushrooms Save Lives — Neil Markey (Beckley Retreats) 26.05.2026 48мин

  What if the same symptoms we see in combat veterans — the broken sleep, the irritability, the brain fog — were already quietly spreading through the healthiest, highest-performing people you know? In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Neil Markey — a former US Army Special Operations captain from the 75th Ranger Regiment turned McKinsey consultant, now the co-founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats and a Harvard Chan School student researching psychedelic-a...
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  EXPLAINER: 5 Longevity Myths the Latest Science Has Debunked 21.05.2026 9мин

  Five longevity beliefs that millions have followed for decades have just been overturned by the latest research. Some of these will surprise you. In this explainer, Robert Lufkin MD walks through five of the most widely believed longevity myths — and what the most recent science actually says about each one. From genetics and middle age to antioxidants, alcohol, and caloric restriction, the evidence has shifted dramatically. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Introduction 00:32 — Myth 1: Your Genes Determin...
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  Perimenopause Is the Inflection Point Breaking Women's Health — Dr. Mayoni Gooneratne 19.05.2026 44мин

  What if the most dangerous metabolic inflection point in a woman's entire life is the one we've been taught to simply endure? In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Dr. Mayoni Gooneratne — a London-trained former NHS colorectal and pelvic floor surgeon, now the founder of Human Health and vice-chair of the British College of Functional Medicine. Dr. Mayoni walks us through why she walked away from the operating theater and how perimenopause — not menopau...
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  EXPLAINER: What Happens to Your Body in 5 Days Without Ultra-Processed Food 14.05.2026 8мин

  Ultra-processed food makes up over half the calories Americans eat - and over 60% for kids. Here's what the research shows happens inside your body in the first 5 days after you quit. In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Dr. Robert Lufkin walks through the hour-by-hour timeline: the glucose spikes that disappear within 24 hours, the insulin resistance that drops 30%+ in 48 hours, the gut microbiome that reorganizes in 3 days, the blood pressure that falls 6-8 mmHg in a week, and the N...