HYDRATE with Tracy Duhs

Is the "purest" water you can buy actually the worst thing for your body? This week I sat down with Martin Riese, the world's water sommelier and water advocate, the man behind the very first water menu and the guy Netflix, National Geographic, and Buzzfeed all call when they want the truth about water. Martin's been studying water since 2005, and he's built his whole career...

Got a question about your health? I want to hear it — because that's exactly what this new series is all about. This is Hydrate QnA, where I'm answering the questions you've been sending me. No single guest, no single topic. Just real answers to real questions, back to back. First up: the scale versus the mirror. If you're 60 and still chasing a lower number, I explain why body com...

You think you know what's in your beef? You don't. This week, I sat down with Anthony Thomas — a 15-year professional rodeo cowboy turned direct-to-consumer rancher who's spent his life raising and butchering beef across multiple countries. He ran away from home at 12, landed on a million-acre cattle station in the Australian outback, and learned to source real food straight from the l...

You can be the best in the world at something — and still be terrified you'd quit if it ever got hard enough. This week, I sat down with Josh Thomson — a former UFC and PRIDE fighter, Strikeforce World Champion, and 20-year veteran of the sport. For most of his career he treated water, rest, and recovery like weaknesses. Coaches drilled it into him: waters for the weak. Twelve ounces a day. Pr...

Your brain is being hijacked. Quietly, constantly, by the dopamine loops built into every screen you touch — reshaping your focus, your relationships, even your intimacy. It's the silent epidemic of our time. And the wild part? Rewiring it back is simpler than you think. This week, I sat down with Dr. Trish Leigh, a best-selling author and cognitive neuroscientist who maps people's brains...

What if the most important thing happening inside your body right now isn't a hormone, a supplement, or a nutrient — but something you've been completely ignoring? This week, I sat down with Dr. Ali Asadi, Chief Innovation Officer at TAM Global and a double PhD chemist who spent nearly a decade at Illumina — the world's largest genomics company — before joining the frontier of cancer a...

What if the cancer diagnosis your doctor gave you is technically correct — but the treatment they chose has almost nothing to do with your actual cancer? This week, I sat down with Ed Clay, co-founder of TAM Center and Stem Cells, one of the world's most advanced translational medicine hospitals in Tijuana, Mexico. Ed started this journey the way most great things do — out of love. His mom got...

What if the biggest threat to your fertility isn't your age, your hormones, or your egg quality — but your thoughts? This week, I sat down with Dr. Elizabeth Wade, a naturopathic fertility and hormone specialist who has built her practice around one radical idea: you cannot biohack your way out of an unhealed inner world. Elizabeth didn't arrive at this from a textbook. She was doing every...

What if the symptoms in your body aren't a malfunction — they're a message? And what if disease isn't caused by your genetics or bad luck, but by unresolved emotions you've been quietly suppressing for years? This week, I sat down with Dr. Sue Morter, bioenergetics physician and author of the USA Today #1 bestseller The Anatomy of Awakening . Her father literally coined the term &q...

Do you feel like no matter what you try, your body just won't let go of something? Like it's stuck in a loop you can't think your way out of? This week I sat down with Britt Piper, somatic therapist and author of Body First Healing — someone who's lived every layer of this work. Taken from her mother at birth, she lost her brother at 15, survived a brutal assault at 20, and ended u...

When was the last time you thought of sex as a health protocol? Not a nice-to-have. Not a reward. An actual pillar of longevity — right up there with sleep, nutrition, and exercise. Because according to my guest this week, that's exactly what it is. This week, I sat down with Susan Bratton, intimacy expert to millions and the woman who coined the term "sex span." Susan's sex life...

What if the protein you're working so hard to eat is barely getting absorbed — and the answer has been growing in fresh water for four billion years? This week, I sat down with Catharine Arnston PhD, CEO and Founder of EnergyBits and one of the world's leading experts on algae nutrition, who left a 25-year corporate career after her sister's breast cancer diagnosis sent her down a rese...

You've done the work. The therapy, the journaling, the healing retreats. So why does it still feel like something invisible is holding you back? Igor Galibov had a spiritual awakening so sharp in 2004 that he couldn't participate in ordinary reality. What came out of years of navigating that — and healing himself in the process — is a precise, practical framework for understanding the ener...

Your home is either working for you or against you. Most people have no idea which one it is. Cliff Tan has spent his career at the intersection of architecture and feng shui — and what he's uncovered is less mystical than you'd think, and more powerful than you'd expect. This isn't about lucky charms or superstition. It's about why you can't sleep, why your relationship fe...

You've been breathing recycled air, sleeping in sealed walls, and painting your home in plastic. And nobody told you. Tracy sat down with Jack and Evelyn from Kingdom Builders — a husband-and-wife team rewriting the rules of home construction from the studs out. Jack is a builder. Evelyn is the health visionary behind every decision. Together, they're building homes that don't just she...

You've had surgery. You woke up. You moved on. But your nervous system? It never forgot. Tracy sat down with Dr. Sande Bergeron - anesthesiologist, PhD, and the person inside the OR asking the questions no one else is asking. What she's uncovered after 22 years in medicine will change how you think about every surgery you've ever had, and every one you might have next. Because there's what anesthe...

Eczema flares feel like your body is betraying you — even when you're doing everything right. Clean products, good food, the supplements. And you're still itchy, inflamed, and frustrated. Tracy sat down with Dr. Diane Angela Fong, naturopathic doctor and eczema specialist, to break down what's actually happening beneath the surface. The big reveal: your skin might not be the problem — it might be...

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Sponsored By: → Quinton Minerals | Get all 78 trace elements your body needs for complete hydration and healthy cell building. Visit https://thehydratestore.com/product/quinton-isotonic and get yours today! → Hydro Shot | Boost your blood flow and reduce inflammation. Zero calories, delicious taste, perfect pre-workout. Visit https://h2bev.com/ and use code Hydrate to get 15% OFF . Peptides are ev...

Nicotine is having a moment. Biohackers are popping pouches. Health influencers are praising its focus benefits. Your aunt just texted asking if she should try it. But nobody's talking about what actually matters: where it comes from, how it's processed, and whether the stuff on the market is helping you — or slowly wrecking your gums, your lungs, and your nervous system. David Avocado Wol...

She survived an ambulance crash. Relearned how to walk. Relearned how to talk. Came back stronger than before. And then something the size of a pinhead almost ended it all. Evelyn Halford spent years as a paramedic — saving lives, running trauma codes, lifting bodies twice her size. But when Lyme disease hit, the same medical system she'd dedicated her career to told her it was all in her head...

What if the most expensive part of your skincare routine isn't doing what you think it's doing? What if your collagen isn't building collagen — and your topicals are only scratching the surface? Today I'm sitting down with Dr. Lily Shapiro — a pharmacist who spent 15 years on Wall Street, helped run a machine learning hedge fund, and then left it all behind after reading over 300 clinical trials a...

There's a hidden architecture to everything — the way a snowflake forms, the way your cells communicate, the way water moves. And at the center of all of it? Frequency. Today I'm with John Stuart Reid, the sound researcher who made vibration visible and showed the world that water doesn't just carry life — it responds to it. Let’s get into the episode! Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction to John Stua...

On this special episode from 2025’s A4M Longevity Fest , I sit down with Alex Tarnava — the scientist who didn’t just create hydrogen tablets, but went on to fund and publish more hydrogen research than any commercial company in the world. In this conversation, we unpack why most hydrogen products don’t work, why dose and delivery matter more than the label, and how intentional stress — paired wit...