Health Is A Skill with Todd Vande Hei

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Why Your Labs Look Normal But Your Body Knows Something's Wrong — The Hidden Mold Connection

July 02, 2026

All her labs came back normal. Imaging was clear. Nothing wrong, her doctors said. But her body was shutting down—hours collapsed in bed, winded by stairs, words dissolving mid-sentence. Then a mold inspector found it: high levels growing in the walls where she lived. That single discovery unraveled everything medicine had missed, pointing back to a problem documented in Leviticus that modern practitioners stopped looking for entirely. Ariana Thacker and Dr. Scott W. McMahon, MD explain biot...

Testosterone at 320 Is 'Normal' — But It's Destroying Your Leadership

June 25, 2026

A man collapses on a golf course with no warning. The doctors find AFib—atrial fibrillation—silently triggering seizures his body had been hiding for years. A stroke follows, same root cause, still invisible to every annual physical. He was running hard, ignoring every warning light, until his body gave him no choice but to listen. Todd Vande Hei, CEO of Stark, reveals the cascade that high performers don't see coming: how chronic stress systematically dismantles your hormonal infrastructure...

Your Feet Are Sabotaging Your Entire Body — The Blind Spot That Plateaus Performance

June 18, 2026

Nobody talks about your feet. Not in the boardroom, not in the biohacking forums, not when you're debugging why your knees burn after a decade of "doing everything right." But a guest arrives with a radical claim: the comfortable shoes you've worn your entire life have made you deaf to the ground beneath you. Your body compensates in ways that feel like aging but aren't. High performers who optimize everything from the neck up are building a house on sand. This episode maps the cascade: weak...