Health Longevity Secrets
The health advice you're getting isn't working. Want to know what the experts actually do for themselves?
Health Longevity Secrets reveals the real science behind longevity, metabolic health, fasting, and disease reversal—the protocols that researchers and physicians use in their own lives, not just what they tell patients.
Robert Lufkin MD is a medical school professor, practicing physician, and New York Times bestselling author. After reversing his own chronic disease through lifestyle medicine, he's on a mission to share what actually works.
Each episode features in-depth interviews with world-class scientists, doctors, and biohackers who share their personal health strategies—no sponsored talking points, just real answers.
Your health transformation starts here.
Episodes
264 episodes
EXPLAINER: What Happens to Your Body in 5 Days Without Ultra-Processed Food
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. Robe...
The 91-Year-Old Physicist Betting His Body on Mitochondrial Transplant | John Cramer PhD
What if aging isn't a hundred separate problems but a single one — an energy crisis inside the tiny power plants of every cell? At 91, Dr. John G. Cramer is betting his own body on the answer.In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, ...
EXPLAINER: 3 Blood Tests Your Doctor Skips (That Predict Heart Attacks & Alzheimer's)
Your doctor orders a lipid panel every year — but 3 cheap blood tests predict heart disease, diabetes, and even dementia far better than cholesterol, and most doctors never order them. In this episode, Robert Lufkin MD walks through fas...
Your Phone Is Rewriting Your Biology — Daniel DeBaun (Former Bell Labs Engineer)
What if the single device you hold closest to your body for 10+ hours a day is quietly rewriting your biology — and your grandchildren's?In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Daniel DeBau...
EXPLAINER: Medicine's Forgotten Biomarker - The Homocysteine Story Your Doctor Missed
In 1969, Harvard pathologist Kilmer McCully discovered elevated homocysteine causes arterial damage and heart disease. He was forced out of Harvard. The Framingham Heart Study confirmed him. Then the AHA buried it anyway.CHAPTERS:
AI-Powered Longevity Science — One Gene to Reverse Aging? | Daniel Ives PhD
What if an AI could run centuries of aging experiments in a year? Dr. Daniel Ives, CEO of Shift Bioscience, explains how his team used a virtual cell to discover SB000 — a single gene that matches Yamanaka factor rejuvenation without cancer risk.<...
EXPLAINER: 90% of Americans Have This Disease — And Most Have Never Heard of It
In October 2023, the American Heart Association officially admitted something that changes everything: heart disease, kidney disease, and diabetes are not separate conditions — they're one syndrome. CKM syndrome. And 90% of US adults already have ...
Keto Saved My Life — The Future of Metabolic Medicine | Nick Norwitz PhD MD
A ketogenic diet put his ulcerative colitis into complete remission — off all medications, confirmed on colonoscopy. Dr. Nick Norwitz (PhD Oxford, MD Harvard) explains why evidence-based care isn't always optimal care, how keto rewires the gut and...
EXPLAINER: The Magnesium LIE — Why Your Blood Test Is Missing 99% of the Problem
Your doctor says your magnesium is normal. But that test measures less than 1% of your body's total magnesium. Nearly half of US adults are deficient in the mineral required for 600+ enzymatic reactions, every ATP molecule, insulin signaling, bloo...
Can a Transplant Cure Aging? | Catherine Baucom MD PhD
Imagine treating chronic disease by restoring the cell's energy engines rather than chasing symptoms. That's the bet behind mitochondrial organelle transplantation — delivering healthy donor mitochondria to failing tissues.CHAPTERS:<...
EXPLAINER: Walking Won't Burn Fat (Here's What It Actually Does)
Walking videos are everywhere — "walk 10,000 steps and melt belly fat." The conclusion is right: walking does reduce body fat. But the explanation is completely wrong. Your body compensates for ~80% of exercise calories. The real reason walking...
The Longevity Nerve: The Missing Link in Stress, Aging & Brain Health | Elisabetta Burchi MD
What if one nerve quietly connects your brain to your heart, gut, immune system, and even how long you live? Dr. Elisabetta Burchi explains why the vagus nerve may be the missing link in stress resilience, cognition, and longevity.CHAPT...
A Glucose Sensing Watch | Sabih Chaudhry PhD
Ever wished continuous glucose data didn’t require needles, adhesives, or a prescription? We sit down with Sabih Chaudhry, PhD, founder of AFON Technology, to unpack GlucoWare—a wrist-worn, noninvasive glucose wearable that uses low-power RF si...
The $101 Million Race to Solve Longevity | Jamie Justice PhD
Dr. Jamie Justice is the Executive Director of XPRIZE Healthspan - a $101 million, 7-year global competition to extend human healthspan by developing therapies that restore muscle, cognitive, and immune function by 10 to 20 years in people over...
How To Reverse Alzheimer's | Heather Sandison ND
Dr. Heather Sandison was told in medical school that suggesting you could help someone with Alzheimer's was promoting false hope. Then she ran a clinical trial and 74% of participants with measurable cognitive impairment improved in six months....
The Sugar Addiction Lie | Christine Trimpe
Christine Trimpe was morbidly obese, pre-diabetic, and couldn't walk a half-mile mountain trail. Ten years later, she's lost over 100 pounds, reversed fatty liver disease and sleep apnea, and coaches thousands of women through metabolic healing...
We’re Not Sick. We’re Being Sold | David Etheridge
A high calcium score, a stack of prescriptions, and the nagging sense that “healthy eating” wasn’t working—David Etheridge’s story captures what millions feel but rarely decode. When he shifted from chasing calories to controlling insulin, ever...
Why Am I Always Hungy? | Jason Fung MD
What if the real lever for lasting weight loss isn’t calories, but hunger itself? We sit down with Dr. Jason Fung to unpack why willpower-based diets fail and how hormones like insulin, cortisol, GLP-1, and sympathetic tone quietly set your “fa...
Why Your Brain Doesn’t Have to Age | Majid Fotuhi MD
Think your brain has to slow down with age? We push back hard with science, stories, and a step-by-step plan that has helped patients regain clarity in weeks, not years. Our guest, Dr Majid Fotuhi, a Harvard- and Hopkins-trained neurologist who...
The Movie Amazon Doesn’t Want You to See | Vinny Lingham
A tech founder’s health fell apart, and the fix didn’t come from a supplement stack or another glossy wellness trend. It started with a hard look at seed oils, blood sugar spikes, and the way ultra-processed “healthy” foods quietly inflame the ...
Ancient Health Secret Revealed | Shivani Gupta PhD
Pain that creeps in, brain fog that lingers, weight that resists every effort—what if the culprit isn’t “just getting older,” but inflammaging? We sit down with Dr. Shivani Gupta, author of The Inflammation Code, to connect ancient Ayurvedic wi...
How Ancestral Wisdom Transforms Our Health
What if the most powerful biohack is simply getting the morning sun in your eyes and letting your wearables prove it works? We explore Medicine 4.0 with Steven Stavrou DCM, a South African physician-biohacker who blends Chinese and functional m...
When ‘Normal Labs’ Are Unhealthy | Sandeep Palakodeti MD
Feeling “fine” is not a plan. We sit down with Dr Sandeep Palakodeti —an Ivy League–trained internist who left elite institutions—to unpack why so much of healthcare reacts to disease instead of building durable health, and how treating your bo...
Is Oxygen the Root Cause of Chronic Disease?
What if the core of fatigue, brain fog, and “getting old” is really an oxygen problem? We sit down with Brad Pitzele to unpack how exercise with oxygen therapy (EWOT) and red and near-infrared light can reboot cellular energy, open microcircula...
What if the Future of Medicine is in Your Home?
What if the most powerful health checkup you ever had happened at your kitchen table, not a clinic? We sit down with Dr. Natasha Milinkovic, a UK physician who moved from the front lines of vascular surgery and emergency medicine to the leading...