Creating a New Healthcare

Episode #226 Medicine That Helps People Be Healthy with Daphne Bascom, Chief Operating Officer, The Vegan Gym

May 19, 2026

Dr. Daphne Bascom earned a DPhil/PhD in physiological sciences at the University of Oxford, a medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh, and completed fellowship training in microvascular and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck at Oregon Health Sciences University. She has more than two decades of executive leadership across health systems, health technology, and community health. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Population Health at Saint Luke’s Health System...

Episode #225 Extending the Health Span with Tzipi Strauss, Head of Sheba Longevity Center

May 12, 2026

In the last decade of a person’s life, we spend 7x what we spend on taking care of them in all the years that came before. SEVEN TIMES! That’s not only unbelievable, it’s unsustainable, particularly as our aging population grows and life span increases. So, if it’s not just about increasing life span, or the number of years someone lives, what is it about? For Dr. Tzipi Strauss, Founder and Director of the Sheba Longevity Center, it’s about increasing health span, that is the numb...

Episode #224 Cognitive Decline is No Longer Inevitable with James Maskell and Dr. Kristine Burke

May 05, 2026

Without intervention, in 2050, everyone in the US population will either have Alzheimer’s disease or be caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the state of where we’re at with cognitive decline. Right now, if you reach the age of 85, your chances of developing cognitive decline are 1 in 2. That’s right, 50%. But, BUT, new research is helping us understand the hidden drivers of cognitive decline and creating hope at the same time. Because now that we understand the origin of risk ...