Health topic

Metabolic Health

Insulin, blood sugar, ketones, CGMs, obesity and GLP-1s, from the metabolic-health conversations on the podcast.

Alexander Cortes on The Meat Mafia Podcast

Hormones & Fertility

Alexander Cortes on the Fertility Crisis: The Basics He Says Couples Overlook

Strength coach Alexander Cortes on his own family's unexplained infertility, why he says fertility runs on metabolic health, and the basics he puts first: body fat, sleep, nutrition and testing early. · Nov 4, 2026

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon speaking on The Meat Mafia Podcast

Longevity & Frontier Therapies

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on Muscle-Centric Medicine and Longevity

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon explains how a patient's brain scan led her to muscle-centric medicine, and why she calls skeletal muscle the organ of longevity. · Nov 4, 2026

Metabolic Health

Robb Wolf: From Vegan and Sick to the Paleo Diet, and Why Real Food Comes First

Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution, tells how a gut-health crisis on a vegan diet led him to paleo in 1998, and why he says getting people from junk food to real food matters most. · Nov 4, 2026

Dr. Phil Ovadia on The Meat Mafia Podcast

Metabolic Health

Dr. Phil Ovadia: A Heart Surgeon's Five Numbers for Metabolic Health

Heart surgeon Dr. Phil Ovadia explains the five metabolic health measures he tracks, why he links heart disease to metabolic health, and how losing over 100 pounds changed his career. · Nov 4, 2026

Calley Means speaking with Harry Gray and Brett Ender on The Meat Mafia Podcast

Metabolic Health

Calley Means on the Food System and Metabolic Health

Calley Means tells us how his mother's death and years inside food and pharma lobbying changed how he sees metabolic health, sugary drinks and the incentives behind nutrition advice. · Nov 4, 2026

Chris Kresser in glasses and a red hoodie speaking into a microphone on The Meat Mafia Podcast

Root-Cause Medicine

Why Chronic Disease Keeps Rising: Chris Kresser on Ultra-Processed Food and Functional Medicine

Functional-medicine clinician Chris Kresser explains why he blames the modern lifestyle for chronic disease, where conventional care shines, and how to pick a practitioner. · Nov 4, 2026