Smitha Rao is a classically trained biotechnologist who got her first patent in her twenties, created over 200 products, and never meant to work in beauty at all. She now runs Parëva Beauty, a four-product skincare line she launched in 2025 and bootstrapped with no outside funding, built around a plant stem cell technology she calls molecule three. On this episode of Biohack-it, Iman Hasan asks he

Luke Olley, founder of Resonance Energy Wear, joins the show to tell the story behind one of the most unusual founder journeys in wellness. A former professional footballer whose career ended in a mysterious pelvis injury, Luke spent eight years as a professional gambler before a series of life changes, including his father's Parkinson's diagnosis and the birth of his daughter, sent him searching

Gary Brecka joins Iman Hasan on Biohack-it for a deep conversation about how to actually take your health into your own hands. Gary shares the origin story most people haven't heard, how a career predicting mortality for the life insurance industry and a personal bankruptcy led him to walk away and build a wellness movement from a vitamin shop in a Naples strip mall. He explains why you can't out-

Salim Najjar went from nuclear engineer to founder of a top US beverage brand to one of the leading voices in HRV (heart rate variability) and nervous system sovereignty. In this episode, Salim breaks down what HRV actually measures, why comparing your score to anyone else is keeping you stuck, and why chronic stress (not genetics) is the leading driver of cellular inflammation, aging, and disease

Scott Clary, founder of the Success Story Podcast and a serial entrepreneur, joins Biohack-it for a no-filter conversation on business, AI, fitness myths, and what success actually costs. Scott breaks down why the fundamentals of longevity (VO2 max, compound lifts) matter more than any biohacking trend, why he thinks CrossFit is one of the riskiest programs in fitness, and why he believes up to 90

For 12 years, Zane Griggs was the poster child for intermittent fasting. He wrote about it, preached it on every podcast, and built his brand on it. Then his body broke down. In this episode, Zane comes clean about the metabolic stress that wrecked his sleep, thyroid, and blood sugar, and explains why he now believes carbs, not fasting, may be the missing piece for so many people over 40. We dig i

Kayla Barnes is one of the most data-driven women in the biohacking space, and she is pulling back the curtain on exactly what it takes to optimize female health at every decade. In this episode of Biohack-It, Kayla breaks down how women should shift their protocols from their 30s through perimenopause, why bone density peaks at 30 and what to do about it, and the real reason most women are silent

Dr. Chris Motley joins Biohack-It to reveal one of the most jaw-dropping diagnostic approaches in integrative medicine: reading the human face to detect organ dysfunction, emotional patterns, and hidden infections. In this episode, Dr. Motley performs a live face and body reading, uncovering how gallbladder fatigue, lung congestion, and trapped grief show up physically in the body. He breaks down

What if your chronic pain, your tight shoulders, your low energy, and your brain fog are not physical problems? What if they are emotional ones stored inside your body?In this episode of Biohack-it, we sit down with Dr. Tamara Ghazi, specialist in chiropractic, myofascial release, and pelvic floor health, to break down what your body is really trying to tell you. Tamara explains how unprocessed em

Dr. Robert Whitfield, the surgeon known as "the explant guy," joins Biohack-it for a conversation the plastic surgery industry does not want you to hear. Dr. Whitfield has been blocked and censored on multiple platforms for speaking openly about breast implant illness, biofilm infections, and the systemic inflammation that silicone devices can trigger throughout the entire body.In this episode, he

Clinical nutritionist and holistic coach Suzan Terzian joins Biohack-it to break down what's really making women sick, exhausted, and hormonally imbalanced in midlife. If you've been told your labs are "normal" but you still feel terrible, this episode is for you.Suzan unpacks the real root causes of hormonal chaos, from cortisol dysregulation and blood sugar crashes to generational trauma stored

MJ Gandon, aesthetic medicine expert, joins Biohack-it to expose what is actually aging your skin, why 80% of facial aging comes from photo damage, and what your doctor is not telling you about your lab results. In this episode: the one SPF ingredient most sunscreens are missing, why Korean skincare will not save you, how to biohack your skin from the inside out with retinol, antioxidants, and hor

You think you are healthy. Dr. Poonam Desai is here to prove you wrong. Dr. Desai is a former emergency medicine physician turned longevity doctor who spent years watching people end up in the ER from conditions that were completely preventable. Now she is on a mission to help you get ahead of disease before it starts. In this episode of Biohack-it, we go deep on the decade-by-decade blueprint for

Everyone is talking about GLP-1s. But most people don't actually understand what GLP-1 is, where it came from, or why the injectable versions come with side effects like hair loss, muscle wasting, sunken face and mood flattening.I sat down with Becca McCarthy, co-founder of Evolv, a biotech company that has spent three years developing a patented oral GLP-1 peptide that mimics the same pathway as

I have been obsessed with layered laser treatments ever since I saw what clinics in Korea were doing and started wondering why nobody in the West was offering the same thing. Then I found Rebecca Treston. She has been layering multiple lasers at once for over 20 years and she is doing it better than anyone I have come across.In this episode I sit down with her right after my own treatment and we b

have been wanting to sit down with Dr. Darshan Shah for three years. We finally made it happen at South by Southwest in Austin and it did not disappoint.Dr. Shah is the founder of Next Health, one of the most advanced longevity and functional medicine clinics in the world with over 30 locations. He is also a surgeon who performed over 20,000 procedures and then had a personal health crisis in his

Sleep is the one thing I know I need to be better about. And when I found Dr. Chris Winter, I knew he was the person I wanted sitting across from me for this conversation. Dr. Winter is a neurologist and one of the leading sleep experts in the country. He has spent his career working with everyone from elite athletes to everyday people who just cannot get their sleep right. And in this episode, he

I have been wanting to have this conversation on Biohack-it for a long time. And I can personally vouch for everything Maria says in this episode. Maria Marlowe is a world renowned nutritionist who specializes in clearing skin from the inside out. She had severe acne for almost five years, tried every prescription, and was about to take Accutane when she saw the side effects on the label. Instead

I have waited two and a half years to bring you this conversation. Today, I am joined by the world-renowned OBGYN and women’s health expert, Dr. Jessica Shepherd from HERS. We live in a culture that promises "salvation" through a single shot, a specific pill, or one hormone replacement. But as Dr. Shepherd reveals, the truth about total body optimization is far more complex. This episode is an urg

I've been using Branch Basics for five years. It changed my health before I even fully understood why. In this episode I sit down with Allison Love, co-founder of Branch Basics, to break down something most people never think about: the toxic load hiding in your cleaning products, laundry detergent, personal care items and yes, the air inside your own home. We talk about how Allison's co-founder r