Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD

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180. Dr. John Kim: The Hidden Stressors Keeping Your Body in Defense Mode

July 09, 2026

When labs look normal, it is easy to assume the body is fine or that the biggest risks have been ruled out. Dr. John Kim's story challenges that belief. At 33, after a normal lipid panel and without the classic heart attack picture, he ended up with an 85% blockage in his LAD. That experience forced him to ask what standard markers were missing. The answer led him into the deeper cellular stressors that can keep the body in defense mode: mold, mycotoxins, chronic infections, biofilms, heavy m...

179. Dr. Scott McMahon: The Hidden Trigger Behind Your Unexplained Symptoms

July 07, 2026

Most people assume that once they leave a mold-exposed building, their body should recover. But I see this all the time in my clinic, the mold exposure ends, and the symptoms don't. In this episode of Extend, I sit down with Dr. Scott McMahon, medical director at MoldCo, to ask why removing the source doesn't always mean removing the illness. We get into a switch inside the immune system, one that determines whether the body can actually call off an inflammatory response once a threat is gone...

178. Dr. Matt Kaeberlein: The Science, Risk, and Hype Behind Today's Longevity Trends

July 02, 2026

If you care about longevity, you have probably seen the same pattern over and over again. A new peptide, supplement, biological age test, off-label drug, or protocol starts gaining attention, and suddenly it sounds like the missing piece everyone should be using. The hard part is not wanting to be proactive. The hard part is knowing which claims have real evidence behind them, which ones are still early signals, and which ones may carry risks no one is measuring carefully enough. In this epis...