Season 2

When I was a kid, I questioned rules that didn’t make sense. I resisted illegitimate authority. I could be difficult, inquisitive, sometimes arrogant. My dad used to joke that I had oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, a be...

When Elon Musk publicly revealed he uses ketamine to manage his depression, the revelation sent shockwaves through both tech and mental health communities. Here was one of the world’s most high-profile figures openly discussi...

What if the future of mental health treatment involves substances we’ve spent decades criminalizing? For years, psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA were dismissed as dangerous drugs with no medical value. But a growing body...

Exercise is practically a religion in modern culture. We’re told it helps us sleep better, lose weight, reduce anxiety, and lower our risk of countless diseases. So like millions of others, I’ve stayed active—triathlons, mara...

When you listen to an audiobook, especially fiction, you want to be transported, swept into another world where characters feel real and scenes play like movies in your mind. A great narrator doesn’t just read words; they bre...

Cancer doesn’t discriminate. It strikes scientists and artists, children and the elderly, the famous and the unknown. We’ve all felt its cruel grip, whether through our own diagnosis or watching someone we love fight a battle...

Would you believe me if I told you that the flowers in your window and the trees in your yard are actually sophisticated chemical laboratories, producing compounds that could cure disease? Plants can’t run from predators or h...

In early 2024, Kaitlyn Gilbert, a designer I’ve worked with for several years, reached out after hearing me discuss my book The Healing Book on a podcast. “I see parallels in our stories that are too striking to pass up,” she...