Health Optimization Medicine and Practice
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The Health Optimization Medicine Podcast is dedicated to offering one-cent solutions to life's $64,000 questions across health optimization, decision-making, consciousness, performance, and human potential. Produced by Health Optimization Medicine & Practice (HOMeHOPe) and Smarter Not Harder, Inc., the makers of Troscriptions, this podcast bridges rigorous science with real-world clinical application. Each episode features in-depth conversations with leading researchers, clinicians, and original thinkers, including Karl Friston, Donald Hoffman, Anna Lembke, Adam Robinson, and Dominic D'Agostino. Together, they explore how small, precise interventions can create meaningful and lasting impact.…
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scott Scherr turns specialized health conversations into close examinations of how clinicians interpret data, weigh uncertainty, and make treatment decisions.
Health Optimization Medicine Podcast follows Scott Scherr through detailed conversations with clinicians working at the edges of conventional and integrative care.
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A framework-first episode that treats health as capacity, not just the absence of disease.
Health Optimization Medicine Podcast frames health as something built, not just the absence of disease, and it returns to salutogenesis, neotenization, and holobiontology as its main lenses.
A systems-minded lab discussion that treats biomarkers as signals, not verdicts.
This episode treats lab work as a set of context clues rather than a verdict pinned to one number. It connects B12, vitamin D, insulin resistance, thyroid function, and the microbiome as parts of one system, and it keeps circling back to the idea that a low marker may reflect…
A grounded look at hormones, GLP-1s, and why medical judgment still matters.
This conversation keeps its focus on fasting, menopause, HRT, and the practical limits of GLP-1 dosing. Rather than leaning on slogans, it treats sleep, stress, libido, and hormone replacement as parts of one system.
A clinically dense look at pelvic pain, bladder pain, and the limits of routine testing.
This episode keeps its focus on pelvic pain, bladder pain, interstitial cystitis, and persistent urinary problems, with Dr. Linda Kiley drawing on decades of urogynecology experience to favor practical judgment over abstraction.
A pediatric neurologist takes autism discussion beyond a single-label explanation.
Dr. Melissa Jones, a pediatric neurologist, talks through autism, PANS/PANDAS, and the recurring mold-and-infection questions with a wider lens than the usual diagnosis-first frame.
A clear conversation about genomics, metabolites, and how layered data sharpens clinical judgment.
The conversation is strongest when Dr. Helen Messier makes multiomics feel usable in a clinic, not just interesting on paper. Dr. Scott Scherr and Messier keep returning to a plain problem: one lab value, or even one normal result, rarely tells the full story.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
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The conversation centers on fasting, menopause, hormone replacement therapy, and what GLP-1s look like in practice.
The show opens by pushing back on the idea that not being sick means being well.
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The episode starts with lab work.
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Neuroscientist Amanda Wiggins of the CGP Lab tells host Jodie that the 2024 Lancet Commission's 14 modifiable risk factors account for about 45% of dementia risk.
Grace Hawkins, a naturopath practising near Byron in Australia, traces her career to a burst appendix at 19, after five visits in five days ended with 'there's nothing wrong with you.' She describes a triangle model that uses DNA as a 'blueprint', blood tests as a 'three-day snapshot' and hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) as a 'three-month' view.
Dr Libby Weaver, author of Fix Iron First, calls iron the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and says it has been overshadowed by magnesium, vitamin D and creatine.
Veronika Gold, who met Stanislav Grof at 16 at a transpersonal psychology conference in Prague, describes how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy works in practice.
The Smarter Not Harder episode opens with the hosts saying patients now bring ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini output into consults, and they ask to see the patient's prompt first.
This episode introduces the cell danger response concept, explaining its history and relevance to health optimization.
The episode discusses fecal microbiota transplant and other health optimization topics with a guest joining from Bali.
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Clinicians discuss how patients can make significant lifestyle changes that create bifurcation points, leading to major improvements in their health trajectory.
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An interview with elite performance coach Bob Hurd discussing his coaching method, leadership, and reshaping thoughts for elite performance.
This episode discusses the importance of nasal breathing for health and energy efficiency, featuring a speech language pathology expert on myofascial oropharyngeal airways.
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