HYDRATE with Tracy Duhs

Can you love someone you don't agree with? I preach the Bible and Jesus' love on this show. And I invited a transgender woman back on it. Why? Because we are called to love people, and it breaks my heart watching every difference get used to divide us. This week, I sat down again with Daviana Memont, a former Marine, powerlifter and strength coach who took her first hormone injection at 46...

What if the best filler you could put in your face was already running through your veins? I flew from San Diego to Connecticut to find out. This week, I sat down with Daurie Marsden, DNP, a nurse anesthetist turned regenerative aesthetics expert, founder of Hailo Medical, and, according to a doctor friend of mine, one of the best injectors in the world. She opened Hailo thinking it would be a fun...

You'd expect an egg to crack under a blowtorch. But what if a coating could protect what's inside? This week, inventor Ian Mitchell showed up at my house with Everclear, a blowtorch, and a compound his team calls “Egg Armor.” At 10 in the morning. Naturally, we turned my kitchen into a science lab. We started with an ordinary egg. It cracked in less than four seconds. Then came the coated...

What if the material for a facial filler could come from your own blood? This week I sat down with Ian Mitchell, founder of Wizard Sciences, at ECORE in Encinitas. He walked me through an idea I had a lot of questions about: a gel made from your own plasma and what he calls “day-zero” stem cells. I wanted to know how that differs from PRP, what he means by waking up dormant cells, and where the la...

Have you ever had a moment where everything you built your life on just gave out underneath you? I have. And I've never told you the whole story — until now. No guest this week. Just me, and the night I ended up on my kitchen floor. I was 38. A 13-year marriage was dissolving. I had two little girls and no idea who to call. So I called out to Jesus, over and over and over. My mom taught me there's...

What if the reason food isn't sitting right with you has nothing to do with the food? This week I sat down with Ryann Morris, an Ayurvedic chef, founder of Food Brilliance, and the woman behind the short film Food Is Everything, now traveling the international festival circuit. Her story starts with a routine foot surgery that went wrong. MRSA got into her bones. Five months of IV antibiotics, fou...

You have a supplement graveyard in your pantry. Admit it. Half-used bottles you feel guilty throwing away, and no real idea if a single one of them is doing anything. This week, I sat down with Michael Antonelli, founder and CEO of Healthgevity and one of the most obsessive formulators I've ever met — and we recorded inside a biotech lab on Park Avenue South, where scientists are growing human lac...

What if almost nothing you're putting on your face is actually getting in? This week, I sat down with Madalaina Conti, the New York esthetician behind Synergistic Skincare and the first practitioner to bring Qi Beauty to NYC. She's the one I fly across the country to see. But the skin you see now? That took over a decade. Madalaina spent her teens and twenties in deeply cystic, nodular acn...

You have questions, I have answers — and this round is equal parts personal and practical. This is Hydrate Q&A, where I answer the questions you send in. No single guest, no single topic. Just real talk, back to back. We open on something a little more personal — one of you asked about what I've been navigating these past couple of years, and I share honestly about self-worth, fear, and ho...

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...