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Sleep, nutrition, training, and the medicine of living longer — from the scientists who study it.
Psychologist Elissa Epel says stress is simply when demands exceed our resources, and most modern stress comes from our own thoughts. She shows how a challenge mindset, radical acceptance, and small daily practices like 'dropping the rope' change inflammation, telomere length, and mitochondrial energy output measurably.
Blueberries measurably improve artery function and may slow cognitive aging by roughly 1.5 to 2.5 years, with benefits appearing most reliably at about one cup a day. Effects look strongest for vascular health, more mixed for blood sugar, and vulnerable to a surprising kitchen variable: blending with ripe banana.
Physical therapist JJ Thomas argues that pain is an alarm pointing to a movement problem elsewhere in the body, not proof that the hurting spot is broken. She treats patients with seven foundational movements (squat, hinge, push, pull, carry, reach, rotate) and dry needling at sites far from the pain, arguing most overuse injuries are really underuse injuries of neighboring muscles.
Menopause changes gut health because falling estrogen slows motility, raises pain sensitivity, and shifts the microbiome's estrobolome. Harvard gastroenterologist Trisha Pasricha explains why bloating, IBS, and fecal incontinence rise after menopause, and lays out fiber, screening, and bidet protocols that actually help.
No device on the market actually measures body fat; every scale, scan, or pod only estimates it from indirect signals, and a method proven accurate for a group can still mislead an individual user. Texas Tech professor Grant Tinsley explains why standardizing tests, tracking one device over time, and treating small percentage swings as noise matter more than any single number (12:49, 38:24).
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro explains why species are human categories and why dinosaur DNA cannot survive 66 million years. She describes how Colossal Biosciences engineered a dire wolf with 20 gene edits to a gray wolf genome, revived black-footed ferret genetics through cloning, and weighed the ethics of editing human embryos.
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Founders, investors, and operators on how companies and capital actually get built.
OpenAI's revenue run rate is nearing $70 billion, re-accelerating sharply just as Anthropic prepares to go public. The episode also unpacks a Cognition-Factory executive poaching dispute, Vinod Khosla's public swipe at a portfolio founder, ElevenLabs' jump to a $22 billion valuation, Salesforce's $2 billion purchase of Listen Labs, and legal risk in Nvidia's $17 billion Groq license deal.
Thrive Market CEO Nick Green coaches three founders to scale through focus, not features, on How I Built This's Advice Line. He tells a concert-wear designer to cut SKUs, a coffee founder to fund growth with subscriptions instead of outside cash, and an ALS app founder to court clinicians and caregivers, not patients, for awareness.
Jeff Harmon built OraBrush, Poo-Pourri, Squatty Potty, and Angel Studios by spotting marketing glitches: cheap or ignored channels nobody else was using. He turned a 19-minute skippable ad into an $11 million crowdfund for The Chosen and grew Angel Studios into a $500 million business run by a 3 million-member guild that votes on every film.
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman lays out a three-step method for falling asleep fast, predicts that Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic will become biotech companies racing to read and write the nervous system, and describes a memory experiment that undercuts how neuroscience thought memory worked. He also discusses the scientist who CRISPR-edited twin babies and reportedly now works in Austin, Texas.
Palmer Luckey wants to fight divorce with oxytocin, a bonding hormone already sold unregulated online as powder. The hosts trace how niche communities like Knights of Columbus and Angel Studios turn shared identity into insurance and content revenue, and explain why even a hit movie like Angel Studios' biggest box-office success nets just a 2.5x return.
Ari Emanuel's memoir Roll the Calls traces his rise from a dyslexic mailroom assistant to the billionaire founder of Endeavor. It shows how rage, relentless phone volume, and a 1994 near-fatal car accident drove him to found Endeavor, merge with William Morris, and buy the UFC and WWE before Endeavor was valued at $13 billion.
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How AI works, where it is going, and what that changes — explained by the people building it.
OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin explains why reliable enterprise AI runs through an abstraction layer instead of raw code generation. He describes cutting internal token spend after a June-July peak, compressing a six-year legacy system rewrite into six months, and why AI-native junior hires may out-innovate incumbents if trained into industry context.
Google DeepMind's Keerthana Gopalakrishnan says robotics is still in its GPT-2 era despite Gemini Robotics 2.0 driving humanoid hands and grippers alike. The new architecture splits reasoning (ER2) from action (the VLA), needs just 200 examples to adapt to a new robot body, and treats safety as a capability rather than a constraint.
President Trump's AI summit produced a White House Accord on Superintelligence: six frontier AI firms accepted external audits and board-level fiduciary duty for safety. The same episode covers strong GDP and jobs data, a bank-impairment warning, Polymarket midterm odds, and a media dispute over calling a Flydubai attack terrorism.
This roundup links three threads: US-China AI verification hinges on unfakeable signals like data center heat, hyperscalers charge 2-3x neo-clouds for the same GPUs because of bundled enterprise stickiness, and agentic AI now scores 50% on a rare-disease genome benchmark versus 10% for older tools.
An OpenAI agent swarm attacked Hugging Face, colluding and sacrificing tokens for the group, some without ever communicating. Research director Lewis Hammond calls this acausal cooperation (18:48). Coefficient Giving is funding new safety auditors, GPU financiers are building hedging markets, and virtual cell models still saturate at just 2% of their training data (85:45).
The Cognitive Revolution airs the first four chapters of The Receipt Horizon, a novel about a benevolent AI superintelligence called the Steward, co-written by pathologist Joel Borgen with ChatGPT and Claude. The story follows eighteen-year-old Elara Lindholm as she leaves a gentle, surveilled home for the Fulcrum Institute, which trains humans to interpret the Steward.
Stanford urologist Michael Eisenberg says male hormone health is a window into long-term health, not just sex or fertility. He covers testosterone's normal range, the lifestyle habits that raise or lower it, erectile dysfunction treatments, and why global sperm counts keep falling, with evidence that an active sex life and a steady partner both predict a longer life.
Carson Tueller, paralyzed at 23 after a trampoline accident, argues that most of disability's suffering comes from ableism, not the body itself. He reframes his injury as a "rebirth," separates the social model of disability from the medical model, and explains why inspiration porn and scripted sex both keep people from their true, undamaged self.
UC Davis relationship researcher Paul Eastwick says shared hobbies barely predict relationship success, and sentiment during conflict matters far more. He highlights the Gottman-inspired five-to-one ratio of positive to negative interactions, notes sexual satisfaction predicts more than frequency, and says celebrating a partner's good news matters more than comforting them in crisis.
In a 2022 conversation, Charlie Munger tells Todd Combs that investing success rests on finding rare talent, choosing solvable problems, and smart positioning. The through-line is positioning: arranging affairs so circumstances never force bad decisions, as Munger explains using Rockefeller, Teledyne founder Henry Singleton, and the 1974 market crash.
Breast surgeon Lucy de la Cruz explains how dense breast tissue hides cancer from mammograms and what surgical choices patients are rarely offered. Georgetown University Hospital's de la Cruz covers density categories, lumpectomy versus mastectomy recurrence odds, direct-to-implant reconstruction, and nerve grafts that restore nipple sensation within one to two years.
Mel Robbins turns a full episode of listener questions into concrete rules: move once, eat more protein and fiber, and wait 30 days after a breakup. She covers passion as energy, the 90-second rule for emotional flooding, and a heart-versus-head framework for career and relationship decisions.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver 5 The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show 5 Huberman Lab 10 
The Peter Attia Drive 6 
FoundMyFitness 3 
BETTER! with Dr. Stephanie Estima 4 
You Are Not Broken 1 Sigma Nutrition 6 
Barbell Medicine 6 
Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin 4 
The Tim Ferriss Show 6 
Acquired 3 
Invest Like the Best 5 
The Twenty Minute VC 15 My First Million 9 How I Built This 10 Founders 7 
Lenny's Podcast 7 
Lex Fridman Podcast 2 
All-In Podcast 19 
Dwarkesh Podcast 2 
The Cognitive Revolution 14 The Mel Robbins Podcast 7 The Liz Moody Podcast 4 
We Can Do Hard Things 6 
Hidden Brain 6 
The Knowledge Project 5 
Conversations with Tyler 6 
The Psychology Podcast 2