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
123 episodes
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 why humans sleep less than every othe...
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 through the freshman-year college moment that conv...
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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 neurologists across three countries told him the ...
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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 hypothesis, the origin-of-life theory h...
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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 doctors telling him nothing was wrong. It took...
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 the logistics. Andrew shares his journey fro...
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 discovered that Carbon 60 (ESS60) extended ra...
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 found was a mess: lab results in one place, wear...
Episode 115: Your DNA Isn't a Death Sentence - Kate Wilson on Genetics, Story, and the Future of Genomic Access
Kate Wilson has spent over twenty years watching the genetics field move faster than the people it was built to serve — patients in rural communities who didn't know their tumor could be tested, payers drowning in $60,000 EOBs with no answers, ...
Episode 114: Erik Jivmark on Why a Billion People Have Sleep Apnea — and 80% Don't Know It
Most people know Sleep Cycle as the app that wakes you up at the right time. Erik Jivmark, CEO of Sleep Cycle, is here to tell you it's something much bigger than that. In this episode, Erik breaks down how a shift from motion tracking to audio...
Episode 113: Stop Treating the Tire, Fix the Alignment: Neuro-Reconditioning Secrets from 37 Years in Elite Sport with Scott Livingston
If you've ever rehabbed an injury only to watch it come back six months later, this episode is going to change how you think about your body. Scott G. Livingston — Master Neuro-Reconditioning Practitioner, Athletic Therapist, Strength & Con...
Episode 112: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Your Wearable Might Be Lying to You with Marco Benitez
Most health tech companies are racing to build the insight — Marco Benitez went and built the thing underneath it. Marco is the co-founder and CEO of Rook, the API platform that normalizes and standardizes data from 400+ wearables into one clea...
Episode 111: "You Can't Sprint — Yet: What Olympic Coach Stuart McMillan Wants Every Athlete (and Non-Athlete) to Know About Speed
Stuart McMillan has coached at 10 Olympic Games, helped athletes from 19 countries medal in Rio, and built ALTIS — one of the most respected human performance organizations in the world — out of a million dollars of debt and what he openly call...
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.✨ ...
