What's Actually Happening

Maahi is one of those people who cries at strangers' happy moments on TV, feels butterflies before anything nerve wracking, and has jolted awake from that falling sensation right before sleep. Sound familiar? This episode is all about the strange, beautiful, involuntary things your body does without asking your permission, and the fascinating science behind every single one of them. From your...

Ever wondered who actually tells you something hurts? Or why your muscles are fine during a workout but destroyed two days later? This episode starts with a hungover road trip, a friend asking all the right questions about painkillers, and ends with something Maahi learned the hard way about what too many painkillers can do to your liver. From how pain signals travel from your body to your brain,...

This episode is personal. Maahi shares the story of Josephine Auntie, his best friend's mother, a woman who has cooked for him, checked on him, and cared for him like her own son for over ten years, now living with Parkinson's. From there, the episode breaks down what's actually happening in the brain with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Dementia, what makes each one different, h...

Ever catch yourself doom scrolling at 4:30 AM when you meant to get up for the gym? Or skip one workout and somehow never go back? Or lie in bed exhausted while your brain replays every decision you've ever made? In this episode, Maahi gets brutally honest about three habits that quietly hijack the brain, and discovers they're all connected by the same underlying mechanism: how your brain...

Ever wondered why some people can remember exactly what you were wearing five years ago... while the rest of us can't remember where we put our keys twenty minutes ago? In this episode, Maahi takes you on a road trip from Atlanta to Ellijay, Georgia with his friend Gow - a DIY influencer who can literally build a media room from scratch - and a WhatsApp call with their friend Jyo in Germany, a...

Ever felt completely frozen after a major life setback? In this first episode of What's Actually Happening, Maahi gets real about losing his job and the unexpected ways stress took over his body - the couch paralysis, the overeating, the brain fog, the inability to do even the simplest tasks. But here's the thing... it's not laziness. It's biology. Maahi dives into the science of c...