Health Is A Skill with Todd Vande Hei

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Chronic Stress Can Age You 15 Years Faster Than Your Calendar

August 06, 2026

I broke. For years, I thought discipline would carry me through the pressure. It didn't. The body simply couldn't sustain what the mind demanded. This episode dismantles the mythology around stress as a performance tool and exposes what chronic pressure actually does at the cellular level. You'll learn why high performers age faster, how gray hair biochemically reverses when stress lifts, and why 60% of your cellular energy gets diverted to crisis management under sustained load. Most critic...

The Drug Already Exists — You Just Don't Know It Yet

July 30, 2026

The entire foundation of medicine is shifting faster than most people realize. Not in theory, not in projections five years out, but right now—in clinical trials, in regulatory approvals, in the actual molecules people are taking. The transformation is so fundamental that calling it an improvement misses the point entirely. It's a different category of performance. This episode explores what happens when artificial intelligence enters drug discovery. You'll learn how AI transforms an impossi...

Why Alcohol and Fructose Are Identical Threats — The Pathway Nobody Discusses with Chris Mearns

July 23, 2026

You wake up one morning and feel it—a sudden shift, not gradual but unmistakable. Energy returning for the first time in years. Euphoria. A moment so disorienting you almost don't trust it's real. But it is. Chris Mearns has spent years mapping the mechanism behind this experience: why so many of us operate in what he calls an energy debt, where fuel surrounds us yet our cells starve. In Health Is a Skill, he walks through the specific biology—how fructose degrades the mitochondrial battery,...