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The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy Koenig
The DNA of Things," hosted by Dr. Jeremy Koenig, is an auditory journey into the evolving world of health science, performance, and longevity. This podcast brings together the sharpest minds in the field, including elite health strategists, pioneering scientists, and wellness mavericks, to share cutting-edge practices and revolutionary insights. Each episode is meticulously curated to enrich your understanding of well-being and to extend your vitality, propelling you toward a future filled with…
Episodes
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 124: Finding Your Oldest Organ Before Disease Finds You with Paul Coletta from Vero Bioscience
What if your biological age is hiding the one organ that matters most? In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Paul Coletta…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 123: The Human Sleep Paradox: Why We Sleep Less Than Every Other Primate with Dr. David R. Samson
What if the biggest problem with modern sleep isn’t duration, but disconnection? Dr. David R. Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 122: Joel Smith on Why Play Beats Protocol: Gamified Training, Flow States, and Jumping Higher at 41
Speed and jumps coach Joel Smith (Just Fly Performance) joins Dr. Jeremy Koenig on The DNA of Things for a conversation that starts with a missed dunk and ends…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 121: He Carries the Alzheimer's Gene — So He Built a 650-Person Experiment to Beat It with Dr. Kevin Tran
At 34, pharmacist Dr. Kevin Tran took a routine consumer gene test expecting supplement tweaks — instead he found two copies of APOE4, a variant tied to up to…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 120: Dr. Bruce Dame - The Hot Springs Hypothesis and the Origin of Life
How did life actually begin — and did it start in Yellowstone's boiling hot springs instead of the deep ocean? In this episode, astrobiologist Dr. Bruce Damer…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 119: His Testosterone Was 159. What Happened Next Changed Everything with Kyle Hulbert
At 22, Kyle Hulbert was doing everything "right" — clean diet, eight hours of sleep, daily workouts — and still found himself standing on a 27th-floor balcony…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 118: How AI Found What 15 Years of Dermatologists Couldn't | OK Capsule's Dr. Andrew Brandeis
Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Andrew Brandeis, CMO and co-founder of OK Capsule, for a wide-ranging conversation about the real reason personalized…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 117: The Molecule That Made Rats Live 90% Longer — Chris Burres on ESS60 & The Science of Aging
Chris Burres has spent over three decades chasing a molecule most people have never heard of, and the story behind it sounds almost too wild to be true. In…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 116: Death by Five-Minute Paper Cuts: Fixing Functional Medicine's Data Problem with Jeremy Malecha
Jeremy Malecha spent his career building cloud-connected medical devices at ResMed before functional medicine pulled him in through the side door — literally…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 115: Your DNA Isn't a Death Sentence - Kate Wilson on Genetics, Story, and the Future of Genomic Access
Kate Wilson has spent over twenty years watching the genetics field move faster than the people it was built to serve — patients in rural communities who…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 114: Erik Jivmark on Why a Billion People Have Sleep Apnea — and 80% Don't Know It
Most people know Sleep Cycle as the app that wakes you up at the right time. Erik Jivmark, CEO of Sleep Cycle, is here to tell you it's something much bigger…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 113: Stop Treating the Tire, Fix the Alignment: Neuro-Reconditioning Secrets from 37 Years in Elite Sport with Scott Livingston
If you've ever rehabbed an injury only to watch it come back six months later, this episode is going to change how you think about your body. Scott G…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 112: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Your Wearable Might Be Lying to You with Marco Benitez
Most health tech companies are racing to build the insight — Marco Benitez went and built the thing underneath it. Marco is the co-founder and CEO of Rook, the…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 111: "You Can't Sprint — Yet: What Olympic Coach Stuart McMillan Wants Every Athlete (and Non-Athlete) to Know About Speed
Stuart McMillan has coached at 10 Olympic Games, helped athletes from 19 countries medal in Rio, and built ALTIS — one of the most respected human performance…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 110: Your Body Can Heal Itself — Here's the Science Behind It | Christian Drapeau on Stem Cells & Longevity
What if your body already has everything it needs to repair itself — and the real problem is that we've been ignoring it? In this episode of DNA of Things…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 109: "No Diploma, No Limits: From Dropout to Mars Commander with Dr. Kelly Haston"
Dr. Kelly Haston didn't take the traditional road — she left home at 15, has no high school diploma, and rebuilt her entire life through California's community…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 108: "She Built the Test That Didn't Exist" — Denisa Kim on Couples' Microbiome Testing & Closing the Gap in Women's Health Diagnostics
What do you do when the healthcare system fails you — for three years straight? If you're Denisa Kim, you build the solution yourself. A chemical engineer…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 107: The 90% Problem: Why Women's Health Has Been Running on Male Data — and How Roma Van der Walt Is Changing That
Roma Van der Walt didn't stumble into women's health — she was forged into it. Raised by a Kenyan father who never owned a car, Roma was logging long-distance…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 106: Why Resistance Training Is the Ultimate Longevity Tool with Dr. Stuart Phillips
In this insightful conversation, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Stuart Phillips—one of the world’s leading muscle physiologists—to explore why resistance…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 105: The NeuFit Method: Why Your Nervous System Is the Key to Healing Injuries and Unlocking Performance with Garrett Salpeter
When college hockey player Garrett Salpeter tore ligaments in his wrist and was told he needed surgery, he discovered a radically different path using targeted…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 104: 378 Days on "Mars" and Back in the ER by Morning: The Resilience Blueprint of Dr. Nathan Jones
Dr. Nathan Jones is an ER physician, SWAT medic, and NASA CHAPEA Mission 1 medical officer — and his life reads less like a résumé and more like a dare. In…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 103: From Bell Labs to Your Biology: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Health Company Looks Nothing Like a Hospital with Dr. Asif Naseem
What happens when a Bell Labs engineer who built a $90M software business, raised $70M in wireless tech, and watched Intel acquire his company decides to walk…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 102: The Gap Nobody Talks About: Why Great Healthcare Innovation Never Reaches Patients with Mariano Bendersky
Most healthcare innovation never makes it to the patient — not because the science is wrong, but because nobody figured out how to plug it into the real world…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 101: Get In The Game: How At-Home Diagnostics Are Putting Health Back In Your Hands with James York
From the fast-paced trading floors of Wall Street to the cutting edge of molecular diagnostics, James York's career path is anything but conventional — and…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 100: From 23andMe to the Future of Personalized Genomics: Mike Polcari on Building the "Hugging Face of Multi-Omics"
What happens when the architect behind one of the world's largest consumer genomics platforms decides to build what comes next? In this episode of The DNA of…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 99: The Immune Age Revolution: From Cellular Avatars to Lifelong Health with Vijay Vaswani
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig talks with biotech leader Vijay Vaswani, co-founder and CEO of Omniscope, about how decoding the immune system at…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 98: The Trillion-Dollar Bet on Preventative Health with Dr. Travis McDonough
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Travis McDonough — serial entrepreneur and CEO of Wellnify AI — for one of the most…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 97: Beyond Insulin - Stem Cells, Islet Engineering, and the Future of Diabetes Care with Dr. Quinn Peterson
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Quinn Peterson, a Mayo Clinic stem cell biologist, to explore how regenerative medicine could move type 1…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 96: Rewriting Medicine - Upstream Health, Multi‑Omics & AI with Dr. Helen Messier
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy sits down with physician-scientist Dr. Helen Messier to unpack how multi-omics, AI, and “upstream medicine” are rewriting the…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 95: When Ethics Meets Power: Stem Cells, AI, and the Future of Being Human with Dr. Insoo Hyun
In this episode, we sit down with leading bioethicist Dr. Insoo Hyun to unpack how ethics, politics, AI, stem cells, and the future of human identity are…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 94: WellPro AI, Beyond 60-Page Reports - Building an Outcome-Native Health Operating System with David Lefkovits
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with David Lefkovits, visionary CEO and co-founder of WellPro AI, to unpack why personalized, preventative…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 93: From ICU to 100,000 Patients: Building the Future of Personalized Medicine
In this episode, Chris Spears, founder of OrderlyMeds, shares his transformative journey from a catastrophic ICU experience to building a human-centered…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 92: From Monsanto to AI: Accelerating the Race Against Cancer with Dr. Chadi Nabhan
In this episode, Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Chadi Nabhan, a physician-scientist, oncologist, and healthcare innovator who stands at the intersection of…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 91: From Last Pick to Olympian - Why You're One of One with Eli Bremer
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Eli Bremer, Olympic modern pentathlete turned systems thinker and international sport leader, for a profound…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 90: The N of One Analyzer: Your Biology, Your Data, Your Health with Dr. Nathan Price
In this episode of the DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig welcomes back Dr. Nathan Price, co-director of the Center of Human Health Span at the Buck Institute…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 89: Decoding Women's Health Through Systems Biology and AI with Dr. Elena Ikonomovska
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Elena Ikonomovska, a machine learning scientist and co-founder/CEO of Diadia Health, to explore how…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 88: Building Healthcare's Missing Infrastructure with Pouria Sanae
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Pouria Sanae, CEO and co-founder of ixlayer, to explore the transformation of healthcare delivery through…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 87: Your Biology Listens: How Epigenetics and Microbiome Science Are Revolutionizing Personalized Health with Dr. Neal Kitchen
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Neal Kitchen, COO of Epimorphy and pioneer in personalized health through…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 86: From Lab to Kitchen: Ancestral Microbiome Science with Dr. Jens Walter
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Jens Walter, a global leader in microbiome research and professor at University College Cork Ireland, to…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 85: 80% of Disease is Preventable: Why Your Doctor Can't See It Coming with Guy Leitersdorf
Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Guy Leitersdorf, founder and CEO of Longevity AI, for a powerful conversation about transforming healthcare from reactive to…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 84: The Biology of Belief: How Consciousness Shapes Your Genes with Dr. Garrett Yount
In this episode of the DNA of Things, host Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Garrett Yount from the Institute of Noetic Sciences to explore the fascinating…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 83: CENEGENICS: Tailored Longevity for All Ages with Kristy Berry
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Kristy Berry, CEO of CENEGENICS, to explore how longevity medicine evolved from a “fringe” idea to the future…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 82: Dr. Lee Hood on Systems Biology, P4 Medicine, and the Future of Health
In this episode, Dr. Lee Hood, one of the great pioneers of modern biology, joins Dr. Jeremy Koenig for an in-depth conversation about the evolution of…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 81: Designing the Future of Medicine: Dr. Don Brown on AI, Genomics, and Precision Health
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig welcomes Dr. Don Brown — physician, entrepreneur, software visionary, and founder of Bioscope — to…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 80: Your Health, Your CEO Moment: Taking Charge in the Age of Digital Medicine with Eliad Josephson
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Eliad Josephson, a Wall Street banker turned Hollywood financier and now diagnostics…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 79: AI, Adaptability, and the Founder’s Journey with Matt Cooper of Volta
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Matt Cooper, CEO of Volta, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, to explore how curiosity, discipline, and…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 78: DNA, Behavior, and Relationships: The Real Keys to Healthspan
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Josh Bowerman, co-founder and managing director at JB Andrews, takes the host seat to interview molecular biologist and…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 77: Beek Health and Beyond: How Data Empowers Patients to Take Control with Brent Dial
In this episode of The DNA of Things, host Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Brent Dial, founder of Beek Health, to uncover the hidden architecture of…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 76: Beyond the Peak: How Athletes Transition Into Entrepreneurship with Jaco Burger
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Jaco Burger—entrepreneur, elite performance coach, and Chief Innovation Officer at Volta…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 75: Feeding Your Microbes: Why Gut Diversity Shapes Longevity with Dr. Sean M. Gibbons
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig is joined by Dr. Sean Gibbons, systems biologist and computational microbiome researcher at the…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 74: Healthspan Over Lifespan: How NOVOS Is Redefining Aging with Science with Dr. Diogo Barardo
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with longevity scientist Dr. Diogo Barardo to explore how science is reshaping the way we…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 73: The Symphony of Aging: Dr. Raghav Sehgal on Epigenetic Clocks & Longevity
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Raghav Sehgal, a Yale-trained computational biologist and longevity researcher, to uncover the science…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 72: How Insurance Companies Are Using Epigenetics to Help You Live Longer with Tom Nodine
In this episode, we dive deep into the groundbreaking intersection of epigenetics, insurance innovation, and human longevity with Tom Nodine, a trailblazer…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 71: Kick Sciatica Out of Your Life: Dean Volk’s Proven Pain Relief Method
In this episode of The DNA of Things, host Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dean Volk, a dedicated sciatica relief expert and founder of Sciatica Relief Now…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 70: Your DNA is Not a Verdict: Rhiannon Neuharth on Turning Genetic Insights into Healing Paths
In This Episode of The DNA of Things 🎙️Functional nutrition counselor, trauma-informed coach, and MTHFR specialist Rhiannon Neuharth joins Dr. Jeremy Koenig to…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 69: Muscle vs. Bread: Unlocking the Truth About Insulin Resistance with Dr. Steve Bennett
In this episode of The DNA of Things, we sit down with Dr. Steven Bennett—engineer turned functional medicine pioneer and founder of CardioMetaboliQ—to explore…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 68: From Olympian to AI Trailblazer: Simon Arkell’s Mission to Transform Healthcare
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with two-time Olympian and serial entrepreneur Simon Arkell to explore his incredible…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 67: Redefining Ethics in Medicine: Kristin Lee on Bioethics, AI & Genetic Innovation
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Kristin Lee — a rising scientific thinker and bioethics advocate — whose unique academic…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 66: Feeding the Future: How the Infant Microbiome Shapes Lifelong Health with Dr. Heather Armstrong
In this episode of The DNA of Things, host Dr. Jeremy Koenig is joined by Dr. Heather Armstrong, a leading microbiome researcher and translational scientist at…
The DNA of Things with Dr. Jeremy KoenigEpisode 65: Gut Instincts: Using AI to Decode the Microbiome with Omer Ozkan
In this episode of The DNA of Things, Dr. Jeremy Koenig dives deep into the invisible ecosystem shaping our health with Omer Ozkan, founder and CEO of…