Return on Health

Most people think longevity is about living longer. Dr. Jack Kreindler thinks that's exactly where we've gone wrong. The longevity industry has never been bigger. Every week there's a new supplement, a new biomarker, a new biohack, or a new promise that you can slow aging. But after more than 25 years working with elite athletes, founders, CEOs and patients facing life-threatening dise...

Is the longevity supplement hype real - or are you wasting money? Bestselling author Bas Kast breaks down what actually works in nutrition, supplements, and slow aging. Most people don't suffer from a lack of health advice. They suffer from too much of it. One expert says eat more protein, the next says cut animal foods. One says supplements are useless, the next sells a 100-pill longevity sta...

Functional Medicine MD: What 5,000+ Patients Taught Him About Root Cause Medicine In this episode of Return on Health, we speak with Dr. Peter Martin, physician, former CNS pharmacology researcher, and founder of FunMed, one of Europe’s leading functional medicine clinics. Peter spent around 15 years in pharmacology research before his own burnout pushed him to look beyond the conventional model o...

Harvard MD: The Peptide Boom Is Here.. But Is Medicine Ready? In this episode of Return on Health , Niko and Miguel speak with Dr. Anand Vinjamoori , Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School trained physician, former founding Chief Medical Officer at Modern Age, advisor to Superpower, and founder of Next Generation Medicine. Together, they discuss why longevity medicine is booming while...

Most people think aging is something that happens later. In reality, the processes that determine how you age — and whether you stay functional — start decades earlier. In this episode of Return on Health , we sit down with Roberta Vella Azzopardi , a geriatrician and geroscientist with a PhD in cognitive frailty, to break down what aging actually looks like in clinical practice. Instead of focusi...

Karolinska MD PhD: You Feel Healthy. Your Data Disagrees Most people think they’re healthy. But biology doesn’t care how you feel. Long before symptoms show up, your physiology is already shifting.. and most check-ups won’t catch it. In this episode, we sit down with Natalia Trpchevska (MD, PhD Karolinska, Medical & Scientific Director at AYUN) to break down what longevity medicine actually lo...

Rethinking Primary Care and Longevity: Insights with Dr. Takhar. In this episode, Dr. Takhar, UCLA and Harvard trained physician-scientist shares his journey from emergency and internal medicine to building a groundbreaking primary care model focused on human connection, longer physician-patient times, and personalized longevity strategies. We explore how systemic issues hinder patient-centered ca...

Longevity science is advancing quickly. Healthcare systems are moving much slower. In this episode, Stanford-trained physician Dr. Hillary Lin explains why prevention, biological age testing, mitochondria, and health optimization often struggle to translate into real clinical practice. We discuss the limits of NAD+ supplementation, the risks around peptides, and why behavioral change still drives...

Unlock the secrets to lasting health and longevity with Dr. Rhea Kotecha - a physician bridging functional medicine, longevity, and science to transform the way we age. Discover why metabolic health is the underrated pillar of a long, vibrant life, and learn practical strategies that go beyond quick fixes to create real, sustainable change. If you've ever wondered how to assess your true healt...

This episode digs into why midlife health quietly shapes your future more than most people realize - and why the healthcare system is structurally bad at dealing with that phase of life. Together with Stanford-trained MD Ali Zaidi, we talk about what actually changes in your body during midlife, which signals people tend to miss, and where medicine often reacts too late instead of setting the righ...

In our first episode, we explain why this podcast exists. We talk about how Miguel and Niko met during their Master’s at NOVA SBE, how endless late-night debates about health, medicine, and broken incentives slowly turned into a shared frustration with the system - and why starting this podcast became the only logical step. We break down what “Return on Health” actually means: why most health deci...