Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD

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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...

177. Dr. Jila Senemar: The Hormone Conversation Women Should Have Before Menopause

June 30, 2026

A lot of women are taught to think about hormones only when something becomes impossible to ignore. Painful periods. Birth control decisions. Fertility anxiety. Postpartum changes. Perimenopause symptoms. Menopause. But what if those are not separate conversations? What if the body has been giving clues for years before the symptoms become loud enough to finally get attention? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Jila Senemar to look at women's hormone health through a much wider lens. We tal...

176. Dr. Labib Ghulmiyyah: What Fertility Can Reveal About Your Long-Term Health

June 25, 2026

When a couple is trying to get pregnant and it is not happening, the conversation can become very intense very quickly. Suddenly, you are hearing about IVF, egg freezing, AMH, sperm count, hormones, age, cost, and timing. But before the conversation jumps straight to the next procedure or the next number to panic over, there may be a deeper question worth asking: What is fertility trying to tell us about the health of the mother, the father, and the future child? In this episode of Extend, I ...