Is It Possible to Hack Your Body for a Longer Life?
5/23/20261 hr 4 min
From GLP-1’s to peptides to hyperbaric chambers, we’re awash in medical information and wellness trends. But what do we really know about improving longevity and increasing your healthspan? This is the first episode of the Hacking Longevity series. Kara breaks down the best advice for actually living longer (spoiler alert: it’s boring, and you probably already know it), and hears from some members of her own medical team about how to make the best health decisions. First is Dr. David Agus, the founding CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute. Later on, she leads a roundtable discussion with Dr. Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, an oncologist, public health expert and author of Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life. Plus two members of her own personal care team: Dr. David Daniels, a cardiologist at Sutter Health in San Francisco and the founder of Solo Pace. (He’s also the surgeon who repaired the heart defect that led to Kara’s 2011 stroke.) And Jason Braun, founder of the Tidal Elite Performance Center in Washington and Kara’s own personal trainer. Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky @onwithkaraswisher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJason Braun· Guest0:01
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Kara Swisher· Host0:02
Hi, everyone. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media podcast network, this is On with Kara Swisher, and I'm Kara Swisher. Over at CNN, I've been working on a series, Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever. The title is a nod to the growing obsession among the tech billionaire class with longevity. But it's not just folks like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos or Bryan Johnson, leader of the Don't Die movement. Longevity has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry filled with influencers, charlatans, scam artists, and occasionally some good advice. I did a lot of different reporting for that series, including looking at the science behind a lot of longevity, which is really promising. But there's many other things to talk about, and I wanna continue the conversation. So we're bringing you a special series on hacking longevity. For the next four episodes, I'll be talking to some of the leading experts on longevity and the science behind increasing your health span. It's a big topic and requires a lot of reporting and a lot of facts, and a lot of the stuff that traffics on social media, which can be very dangerous or expensive or just downright silly. Later in this episode, we'll hear from health policy expert and oncologist Dr. Zeke Emanuel, and two members of my own personal care team, my cardiologist Dr. Dave Daniels,