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In bygone times, there were traveling healers called "quack doctors" who would peddle potions and curealls from town to town. Quacks were looked down upon for...well...poisoning lots people with mercury. But also for being empirical above any rational explanations, like humors and blood letting. So when they weren't using mercury, these traveling quacks discovered bottom up health solutions through trial and error. This podcast is about finding health solutions in the strangest places, even if they don't make sense
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Quax makes technical and unconventional health ideas approachable through curious interviews that connect biological mechanisms with practical questions and unsettled evidence.
Quax follows Lucas and Brian as they chase health questions into cellular biology, nutrition, unconventional treatments and the limits of medical practice.
Older spiders meet zombie cells, and your longevity rabbit hole gets a sense of humor.
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A steady microbiome discussion that stays curious without treating the science as finished.
This episode keeps the microbiome conversation grounded. Christina Campbell gives a clear view of a field that is still taking shape, even as the research keeps growing quickly. The tone stays steady, and the show mostly resists turning the topic into hype.
A keto conversation that stays with mechanisms instead of slogans.
Kyle Mamounis takes a close, mechanism-first look at keto. The episode keeps returning to insulin, insulin resistance, and the way free fatty acids, cortisol, endotoxin, and inflammatory cytokines may affect signaling.
A wide-ranging health interview about light, EMF, cold therapy, and the push for more transparency in care.
Dr. Leland Stillman joins the Quacks Podcast for a broad talk on light, EMF, and cold therapy, drawing on his MD background and work in hospitals and a clinic in Virginia.
A plainspoken look at hypermobility, missed diagnosis, and the symptoms people often live with before the label arrives.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome comes across less like a narrow diagnosis and more like a wider look at hypermobility, pain, bruising, and the ways symptoms can slip past notice.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
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Lucas and Brian bring on Christina Campbell to sort through the microbiome.
Lucas and Brian bring on Kyle Mamounis, who has a PhD in nutritional science and is doing postdoc work in biochemistry, to talk through keto from the cellular side.
Lucas brings on Dr.
Jan joins to unpack what Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is and why it gets missed so often.