The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy Koenig
The DNA of Things," hosted by Dr. Jeremy Koenig, is an auditory journey into the evolving world of health science, performance, and longevity. This podcast brings together the sharpest minds in the field, including elite health strategists, pioneering scientists, and wellness mavericks, to share cutting-edge practices and revolutionary insights. Each episode is meticulously curated to enrich your understanding of well-being and to extend your vitality, propelling you toward a future filled with possibilities. Join Dr. Koenig as he unveils the secrets of human potential through the lens of genomics, and discover how to transform your health and life trajectory.
Episodes
110 episodes
Episode 110: Your Body Can Heal Itself — Here's the Science Behind It | Christian Drapeau on Stem Cells & Longevity
What if your body already has everything it needs to repair itself — and the real problem is that we've been ignoring it? In this episode of DNA of Things, host Jeremy Koenig sits down with Christian Drapeau, stem cell researcher, neur...
Episode 109: "No Diploma, No Limits: From Dropout to Mars Commander with Dr. Kelly Haston"
Dr. Kelly Haston didn't take the traditional road — she left home at 15, has no high school diploma, and rebuilt her entire life through California's community college system before earning her way to Berkeley, UCSF, and Harvard. Now she's one ...
Episode 108: "She Built the Test That Didn't Exist" — Denisa Kim on Couples' Microbiome Testing & Closing the Gap in Women's Health Diagnostics
What do you do when the healthcare system fails you — for three years straight? If you're Denisa Kim, you build the solution yourself. A chemical engineer turned biotech founder, Denisa spent years battling chronic recurring UTIs before discove...
Episode 107: The 90% Problem: Why Women's Health Has Been Running on Male Data — and How Roma Van der Walt Is Changing That
Roma Van der Walt didn't stumble into women's health — she was forged into it. Raised by a Kenyan father who never owned a car, Roma was logging long-distance walks by age four, quietly building a resting heart rate that would later make elite ...
Episode 106: Why Resistance Training Is the Ultimate Longevity Tool with Dr. Stuart Phillips
In this insightful conversation, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Stuart Phillips—one of the world’s leading muscle physiologists—to explore why resistance training isn’t just for athletes anymore. As the first Canadian to lead the American...
Episode 105: The NeuFit Method: Why Your Nervous System Is the Key to Healing Injuries and Unlocking Performance with Garrett Salpeter
When college hockey player Garrett Salpeter tore ligaments in his wrist and was told he needed surgery, he discovered a radically different path using targeted direct current electrical stimulation to work with the nervous system instead of fig...
Episode 104: 378 Days on "Mars" and Back in the ER by Morning: The Resilience Blueprint of Dr. Nathan Jones
Dr. Nathan Jones is an ER physician, SWAT medic, and NASA CHAPEA Mission 1 medical officer — and his life reads less like a résumé and more like a dare. In this episode, he traces the thread from a rural Midwest childhood shaped by his father's...
Episode 103: From Bell Labs to Your Biology: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Health Company Looks Nothing Like a Hospital with Dr. Asif Naseem
What happens when a Bell Labs engineer who built a $90M software business, raised $70M in wireless tech, and watched Intel acquire his company decides to walk into a hospital — and can't unsee what's broken? In this episode of The DNA of Th...
Episode 102: The Gap Nobody Talks About: Why Great Healthcare Innovation Never Reaches Patients with Mariano Bendersky
Most healthcare innovation never makes it to the patient — not because the science is wrong, but because nobody figured out how to plug it into the real world. In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Mariano Bendersky, Head of Innovat...
Episode 101: Get In The Game: How At-Home Diagnostics Are Putting Health Back In Your Hands with James York
From the fast-paced trading floors of Wall Street to the cutting edge of molecular diagnostics, James York's career path is anything but conventional — and that's exactly what makes his work so powerful. As Chief Commercial Officer at Molecular...
Episode 100: From 23andMe to the Future of Personalized Genomics: Mike Polcari on Building the "Hugging Face of Multi-Omics"
What happens when the architect behind one of the world's largest consumer genomics platforms decides to build what comes next? In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Mike Polcari — former Chief A...
Episode 99: The Immune Age Revolution: From Cellular Avatars to Lifelong Health with Vijay Vaswani
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig talks with biotech leader Vijay Vaswani, co-founder and CEO of Omniscope, about how decoding the immune system at single-cell resolution is changing how we define true health and extend healthspan.✨ ...
Episode 98: The Trillion-Dollar Bet on Preventative Health with Dr. Travis McDonough
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Travis McDonough — serial entrepreneur and CEO of Wellnify AI — for one of the most honest conversations about the future of preventative health you'll hear. Travis spen...
Episode 97: Beyond Insulin - Stem Cells, Islet Engineering, and the Future of Diabetes Care with Dr. Quinn Peterson
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Quinn Peterson, a Mayo Clinic stem cell biologist, to explore how regenerative medicine could move type 1 diabetes from lifelong management to true biological restoration.✨ Key ta...
Episode 96: Rewriting Medicine - Upstream Health, Multi‑Omics & AI with Dr. Helen Messier
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy sits down with physician-scientist Dr. Helen Messier to unpack how multi-omics, AI, and “upstream medicine” are rewriting the future of healthcare—from managing chronic disease to truly preventing and reversing it.
Episode 95: When Ethics Meets Power: Stem Cells, AI, and the Future of Being Human with Dr. Insoo Hyun
In this episode, we sit down with leading bioethicist Dr. Insoo Hyun to unpack how ethics, politics, AI, stem cells, and the future of human identity are colliding in real time—from embryo models and gene editing to digital twins and data owner...
Episode 94: WellPro AI, Beyond 60-Page Reports - Building an Outcome-Native Health Operating System with David Lefkovits
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with David Lefkovits, visionary CEO and co-founder of WellPro AI, to unpack why personalized, preventative healthcare hasn't scaled yet—and what it's going to take to finally get there. They d...
Episode 93: From ICU to 100,000 Patients: Building the Future of Personalized Medicine
In this episode, Chris Spears, founder of OrderlyMeds, shares his transformative journey from a catastrophic ICU experience to building a human-centered medication management platform that's revolutionizing personalized healthcare. Chris opens ...
Episode 92: From Monsanto to AI: Accelerating the Race Against Cancer with Dr. Chadi Nabhan
In this episode, Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Chadi Nabhan, a physician-scientist, oncologist, and healthcare innovator who stands at the intersection of cancer care, precision medicine, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Nabhan shares his re...
Episode 91: From Last Pick to Olympian - Why You're One of One with Eli Bremer
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Eli Bremer, Olympic modern pentathlete turned systems thinker and international sport leader, for a profound conversation about human performance, individualization, and the courage to reject on...
Episode 90: The N of One Analyzer: Your Biology, Your Data, Your Health with Dr. Nathan Price
In this episode of the DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig welcomes back Dr. Nathan Price, co-director of the Center of Human Health Span at the Buck Institute and Chief Scientific Officer at Thorne. Dr. Price reveals how AI and multi-omic ...
Episode 89: Decoding Women's Health Through Systems Biology and AI with Dr. Elena Ikonomovska
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Elena Ikonomovska, a machine learning scientist and co-founder/CEO of Diadia Health, to explore how artificial intelligence and systems biology are revolutionizing women's health. Elena shar...
Episode 88: Building Healthcare's Missing Infrastructure with Pouria Sanae
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Pouria Sanae, CEO and co-founder of ixlayer, to explore the transformation of healthcare delivery through technology and systems thinking. Pouria shares his remarkable journey from aerospace eng...
Episode 87: Your Biology Listens: How Epigenetics and Microbiome Science Are Revolutionizing Personalized Health with Dr. Neal Kitchen
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Neal Kitchen, COO of Epimorphy and pioneer in personalized health through epigenetics and microbiome integration. As an identical twin with a divergent health journey fr...
Episode 86: From Lab to Kitchen: Ancestral Microbiome Science with Dr. Jens Walter
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Jens Walter, a global leader in microbiome research and professor at University College Cork Ireland, to explore how ancestral dietary patterns can reverse metabolic imbalances and restore g...
