The HumanWare Project

At Golden Door, one of America’s best-known health retreats, guests are served a light tomato broth in the middle of the day, after a morning of hard work and before lunch at one o’clock. It looks simple, but there is a lot of thinking behind it. In this episode, Méline visits Golden Door in California and speaks to Executive Chef Greg Frey Jr about how the soup is made and why it works. The broth...

Everyone is waiting for humanoid robots to walk into their homes and take over the chores. According to George Ekas, that moment is still a few years away. Meanwhile, the robots that will change how we work are already here, and they walk on four legs. George Ekas is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Toborlife AI, a Mountain View robotics company and North American distributor for Unitree Robotics...

Dr. Ángel Durántez Prados, is the Partner and Medical Director at Clinica Neleva in Madrid, one of Europe's leading longevity and preventive health clinics. In this 60 seconds, he shares the single most important treatment for your health, the one biomarker he would test first, and the two daily habits he never skips. He explains: ◼ Why the most powerful treatment for your health has nothing...

Méline heads to Paris Fashion Week to ask a question the fashion industry rarely stops to consider: does what you wear define who you are, or does who you are define what you wear? Joined by Alyne Hansen Damm, a fashion and luxury consultant with 27 years of experience working with some of the world's most prestigious brands, Méline attends four couture shows including George Hobeika, Rahul M...

What does it actually take to live well past 100? Javier Ramírez Sabau, founder of Clínica Neleva in Madrid, one of Europe's leading longevity clinics, says the answer is simpler and more powerful than most people expect. In this short, Javier shares the three things that matter most for longevity, why healthspan matters far more than lifespan, and the one thing he says is more important than...

Malminder Gill has been a hypnotherapist for over 16 years. She has worked in rehab centres around the world, written a book of therapeutic sleep stories, and built an entire practice from word of mouth alone. When it comes to overthinking and sleep, she speaks from personal experience: at 18, she suffered a year of insomnia following a car accident and found a solution in hypnotherapy. In this co...

Bill Kapp is a former orthopaedic surgeon who built nine hospitals, founded Fountain Life alongside Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins, voted the number one longevity centre in the world by the Buck Institute.  He started Fountain Life because of one devastating realisation: the American healthcare system is designed to treat disease, not prevent it. And by the time most people find out they are sic...

Madrid has the highest life expectancy in Europe, with people living to an average of 86 years old. But living longer is not the same as living better. So what does it actually take to add not just years to your life, but health to those years? In this episode, Méline visits Clinica Neleva, one of Madrid's leading longevity clinics, to put her own health to the test and find out. She sits dow...

Peter Diamandis is one of the world's leading voices on longevity, exponential technology, and the future of human health. He is the founder of XPRIZE, co-founder of Singularity University, and the founder of Fountain Life, an advanced health and longevity centre that collects 200GB of data about your body in a single day to find what conventional medicine misses entirely. In this conversatio...

The HumanWare Project magazine edition three has launched.  Méline Liu shares what the project stands for and why she built it: to tell the story of science at the highest production quality in the world, and to help people become a better version of themselves every day. 0:00 Welcome to the HumanWare Magazine Launch 0:33 Méline on Why She Built HumanWare and What It Stands For ◼ Read the HumanWar...

What does it actually look like inside one of the world's most consequential scientific laboratories? Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Lefkowitz opens the doors to his lab at Duke University and shows us exactly where the science happens. In this short tour, Professor Lefkowitz walks through the equipment, the experiments, and the team of scientists and students driving his research forwar...

Professor Robert Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose discovery of G protein-coupled receptors underpins more than 700 of the drugs in use today, including beta blockers, antihistamines, antidepressants and GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. At 83 years young, he still runs his lab at Duke University, exercises an hour every day, and eats entirely plant-based food after quadruple bypass...

Stacey Gallello is the founder of Gallello Atelier, a couture house built on a radical idea: that the craft of the 1950s couture atelier belongs not just in evening wear and special occasions, but in everyday life. Gallello Atelier is on a mission to bring couture craftsmanship back to the modern wardrobe and keep the art of the couturier, the tailor, and the seamstress alive in the process. In th...

What if your sense of smell was one of the most powerful and underused tools for human performance? At Hynt, a digital scent company, that is exactly what they are proving. In this episode, Méline visits the Hynt lab to meet co-founder Emmanuella Maggioni and experience the technology firsthand. Emmanuella and her colleague Fahad Zia are building a system that harnesses the science of scent to hel...

Greg Frey Jr is the Executive Chef at Golden Door, one of California's most celebrated wellness retreats, where food is grown on site and every meal is designed to fuel transformation. In this quick-fire 60 seconds, Greg shares the rule that matters most for a long and healthy life, and it has nothing to do with superfoods. He explains: ◼ Why stress is the single biggest threat to your longev...

Méline Liu has sat across from some of the world's leading voices in longevity, neuroscience, and human performance. But what does she actually do herself? In this candid behind-the-scenes moment, Méline shares the daily habits she never skips, the brain food she swears by, the biohack that surprised her most, and why she launched a print magazine in a world that said print was dead. She also...

Tilak Mandadi spent years at Disney building some of the most ambitious guest experiences in the world, from Shanghai Disneyland to Star Wars Land. Now he is applying that same consumer-first thinking to one of the most complex and broken systems on the planet: American healthcare. Tilak is the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at CVS Health, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world...

Golden Door has been transforming the lives of its guests for 75 years. Tucked away in the hills of Southern California, it is a place built around a single belief: that true wellbeing comes from movement as well as stillness, and that carving out space for yourself is not a luxury, it is a necessity. In this episode, Méline visits one of the world's most respected wellness retreats to unders...

Martha Soffer has been quietly transforming the health of some of the world's most recognisable people from a small room beneath her house in Santa Monica. Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, and Kourtney Kardashian have all found their way to her door. Most of them came because nothing else was working. Now Martha is the founder of Surya Spa and one of the world's leading Ayurve...

Fredric Marshall has spent 32 years studying how humans learn, resist, and ultimately change. As an AI investor who sees the business plans and deal sheets, he has a message most people are not ready to hear: the pace of change we are living through today is only the beginning, and the world is quietly splitting into two groups of people. Fredric Marshall is a learning and change expert, founder o...

Emad Mostaque puts his personal probability of human extinction from AI at 50%. A coin toss. And yet he believes this is the most exciting time in human history to be alive. Emad is the founder of Stability AI, the creator of Stable Diffusion with over 300 million downloads, and now the architect of a sovereign AI stack being built to give every person on earth ownership of their own intelligence....

Dr. Dawn Mussallem, is Global Chief Medical Officer of Fountain Life, stage 4 cancer survivor, and heart transplant recipient carrying a stranger's heart inside her chest. She spent 25 years at Mayo Clinic, lost her husband to the very disease she now fights to detect early, and emerged from her own mortality with a singular mission: to change the way humanity approaches health. In this conve...

In this episode, we meet Luke Mooney, CEO of Dephy — an MIT-trained engineer who started by building robotic prosthetics to to make walking easier and less exhausting. It helps people walk further, faster, and with less effort We meet the Dephy Sidekick: a powered footwear system that acts like an extra calf muscle, giving.  We sit down with Luke to understand how it works, who it's built for...

What if one of the most powerful therapies for longevity, brain performance, and recovery has been hiding in plain sight - used by elite athletes, Hollywood figures, and high-performing entrepreneurs for years? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline sits down with Andrei Nicolescu and Alexandru R. Harbuzaru from HPO.Tech - engineers and pioneers at the forefront of hyperbaric oxygen ther...

What if your car could refuel itself while you slept, while you worked, while you simply lived your life? That's not a distant promise - it's what Aptera Motors has already built. In this episode, we step inside the Aptera, the world's first true solar electric vehicle, and speak with Chris McCammon, Head of Marketing, about the philosophy behind one of the most radical rethinks of...