Live More Podcast
🎙️ The LiveMore Podcast — Official Description (Optimised)
The LiveMore Podcast explores what it really means to live longer, healthier, and show up as your best self — every single day.
Hosted by Rob Shakhani (BioHackRob), this podcast sits at the intersection of peak human performance, health optimisation, and longevity, while openly confronting the trade-offs that rarely get discussed.
Because peak performance does not always equal optimal health.
Each episode dives into the biological, psychological, and lifestyle factors that shape how we think, move, work, recover, and age — blending quantitative metrics (biomarkers, physiology, performance) with qualitative dimensions (mental health, purpose, stress, relationships, meaning).
Through in-depth conversations with leading experts — from cardiologists and bone health specialists to mental health advocates and performance thinkers — the LiveMore Podcast tackles the questions that truly matter:
- How do we optimise healthspan, not just lifespan?
- When does performance enhancement start to undermine long-term health?
- What actually moves the needle for sustainable wellbeing?
- How do we build resilience — physically, mentally, and emotionally — in a demanding world?
Topics span heart health, metabolic health, bone density, mental health, suicide prevention, stress, sleep, exercise, nutrition, recovery, and longevity science, always with an emphasis on practicality, nuance, and real-world application.
This podcast is not medical advice.
It is a space for curiosity, critical thinking, and informed conversation — designed to share evidence-based perspectives, challenge simplistic narratives, and help you make better decisions for your own life.
If you care about living well, performing with intention, and building a body and mind that can carry you through life, this podcast is for you.
Train for life. Think long-term. LiveMore.
Live More Podcast
Heart Disease Is the World’s #1 Killer — Dr Aseem Malhotra Explains Why
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Heart disease is still the world’s #1 killer — responsible for more deaths than all cancers combined.
So why, after decades of cholesterol-focused medicine, are outcomes barely improving?
In this episode of the LiveMore Podcast, I’m joined by consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra to challenge conventional thinking on heart disease, statins, cholesterol, and prevention — and to explore what actually drives cardiovascular risk in the real world.
This is a nuanced, evidence-based conversation about heart disease as a chronic inflammatory and metabolic condition, shaped as much by lifestyle, stress, and environment as by biology.
🧠 In this episode, we explore:
Why modern medicine has delivered only incremental gains against heart disease
The cholesterol hypothesis, statins, and what absolute risk data really shows
Why patients are rarely fully informed about benefits vs side effects
Insulin resistance, inflammation, triglycerides, HDL, and metabolic health
Why fitness ≠ health — and how overtraining may increase cardiac risk
Chronic stress as a cardiovascular risk factor comparable to smoking
Social isolation, meaning, anxiety, and their biological consequences
Diet vs exercise: what matters most for long-term prevention
Calcium scores (CAC), screening tools, and their limitations
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, muscle loss, and lifestyle-first alternatives
Supplements, vaping, seed oils, and hidden inflammatory drivers
Simple, actionable principles to protect heart health and healthspan
🧩 Core takeaway
Heart disease is not a cholesterol deficiency.
It’s largely a lifestyle-driven, inflammatory, metabolic condition.
And most of what truly protects your heart:
isn’t expensive
isn’t glamorous
and isn’t incentivised by the healthcare system
📚 Referenced in this episode
Dr Aseem Malhotra
Instagram: @lifestylemedicineDoctor
Books:
Statin Free Life
The Pioppi Diet
Mathias Desmet – psychologist and author of
The Psychology of Totalitarianism (on stress, social isolation, and mass psychology)
💬 Join the discussion
If heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, what do you think we’re still getting wrong?
Lifestyle? Stress? Metabolic health? Medical incentives?
👇 Share your perspective in the comments.
⚠️ Medical disclaimer
This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice.
Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about your health, medications, or treatment.