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Currently: patients with breast cancer are adjusted to fit a table for radiotherapy. Soon: the table will be fitted to them. A personalized shell, 3D-printed for one specific patient, will be used for all radiation sessions. Less pain. More comfort. Shorter radiation sessions. In this episode, you will hear about the benefits of radiotherapy in breast cancer radiotherapy for breast cancer side eff...

People with spinal cord injury will be able to stand up and walk again with this exoskeleton after some training In this episode, you will hear why TWIICE followed a strict rule of not allowing able-bodied people to test the exoskeleton how they accelerated the development of the exoskeleton how people after spinal cord injuries can move using it and more My guest, Dr. Tristan Vouga is a co-founde...

The goal is to have a breast cancer test at a point of care, say—at your family doctor’s office. And regularly. In this episode, you will hear about DNA origami and DNA as a building material the role of microRNAs and how a love for basketball led to becoming a DNA scientist My guest, Dr. Ivana Domljanovic, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg and a scientist at Xemperia. She...

No email, no name, not even a login is required when signing up.  You just start using the app so you don’t forget to take your meds. Wait, what? In this episode, you’ll hear about: a free medication reminders app why people don’t adhere to therapies how patients control what they share and even earn money and how pharmaceutical and insurance companies can listen better to patients and support the...

It is absolutely fascinating what impact such a simple, naturally occurring compound can have. An antioxidant that is 20-30 times more potent than vitamins C and E. And has the potential to protect brain longevity, including in cases of Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease, after stroke, depression, spinal cord injury. In this episode you’ll hear about how the brain ages an...

It is not human tissue, i.e., it doesn’t come from a human but it is recognized by the body and well-tolerated. In effect, patients undergoing urethral stricture reconstruction have better recovery and less pain. In this episode, you will hear about regenerative medicine urethral stricture symptoms a scaffold that attracts the patients’ own cells surrounding the removed tissue and stimulates regen...

How does your health tracker fit into your style? Well, my guest today wasn’t happy with how her plastic-looking health tracker did not match her Rolex. But longevity was important to her. Connecting the dots, she started developing a smart strap. To her Rolex. Or Omega, Gucci, Patek Philippe – any traditional watch you fancy. In this episode, you will hear about a health tracker that matches your...

Will we, in the future, be detecting diseases using extracellular vesicles? Will these diagnostics replace MRI or CT? In this episode, you’ll hear about the personalized medicine of the future what is nanomedicine how to isolate pure extracellular vesicles what are extracellular vesicles  and how they compare to stem cell treatments My guest today, Dr. Adva Krivitsky, is a co-founder and the CEO o...

Take a wild guess: how many years will you get back when you limit your screen time? Yes, I said: YEARS. Spoiler: more than you think. But my guest gives an exact number. Because in this episode, you’ll hear about a phone addiction – or “problematic phone use” if you prefer how to tell if you’re addicted to your phone how to break a phone addiction and how a screen time app can help My guest, Ondr...

80% of people who lost weight, kept that weight off after two years. But quite a few did not even start. Those who did, did not follow any particular diet. People are too individual to follow one diet. They did not count calories. People hate counting calories. They love healthspan. They love longevity. What science-backed solutions work? In this episode you will hear about 4 simple rules you will...

Cultured meat or cultivated meat, made from cells, is not science-fiction any more. It is pure science. Though I could not help but thinking about Nancy Kress science-fiction book Beggars and Choosers when preparing to this episode. She writes about a world in 2106 where the society is split into a ruling class of Donkeys, who have access to real food, and Livers, who rely on government-provided c...

If you've ever given up on something because you thought you didn’t have the predisposition, you should listen to this episode. From sports genomics to genetic-based training. Can genes predict sports performance? And injuries in athletes? What is the contribution of genes to sports performance? We're speaking percentages. Can some athletes be too gifted? Can you predict a child’s talent...

By helping pumping blood, Ventricular Assist Devices during end-stage heart failure can prolong life. They can be implanted instead of a heart transplant or while waiting for a heart transplant.  They may, however, come with some unwanted side effects, such as infections of a wound that doesn’t heal. The reason is that a cable connecting the Ventricular Assist Device to its power source must pass...

This might be a tool that sports psychologists have dreamed of: a way to measure athletes’ mental training efficacy for boosting sports performance. You know, like when a runner runs slower today than the day before their coach has the data to compare. If that same runner puts less effort into their mental training, their sports psychologist would not know. This is what my guest is working on, giv...

We are speaking about the world where wheelchairs will not be needed after a spinal cord injury. There are 250 000-500 000 spinal cord injuries globally each year. “A bunch of crazy guys,” in the words of my guest, him included, wants the spinal cord to self-regenerate. He is sure that in the future, we won’t be even speaking about regenerating the spinal cord after an accident but about healing....

How do you design a psychedelic trip that is predictable and effective? That frees people from cocaine addiction Without the common current side effects of psychedelics Just imagine being free from an addiction in a few hours This is what researchers and my guest today are trying to accomplish You’ll hear how did psychedelic studies continue in Switzerland while banned elsewhere the differences be...

There are people who believe that stopping aging will be possible. For now, we can already speak about slowing down aging or even reversing aging – as Bryan Johnson set off to accomplish waving his "Don't Die" slogan. In this episode, you’ll hear about is collagen good for you? vegan collagen precursor at what age the production of some coenzymes slows down – meaning how early your...

Fetal surgeons save the life of a fetus with a birth defect – or improve the outcomes after birth – operating while still in utero. In a woman’s womb. Unsolvable so far – a hole in an amniotic sac after the surgery which causes preterm births. But here is where bioengineers have stepped in to support the surgeons. In this episode, you’ll hear about  fetal abnormalities that can be addressed by sur...

The pain in your mouth is so bad that you cannot even drink, let alone eat. What is horrifying is that 50-80% of cancer patients undergoing chemo or radiotherapy can experience it – oral mucositis. And there is no approved treatment. This is what you’ll hear in this episode how a cute-looking willowherb grown in the Swiss Alps is making its way from traditional medicine to prescription medicine –...

Do you know what is the % of cancer drug candidates that fail in human trials? Guess, and I bet you underestimated it. This is what we speak at the beginning of this episode and what my guest wants to change dramatically. You will also hear about: the % of patients that actually benefit from approved cancer drug therapies (spoiler: so so low) cancer monotherapies vs. cancer combination therapies h...

Think: an insulin pen but for solid drugs.  Like, you are sure how much you administer EACH time. Like, you do not split the tablet in 3 worrying if this is 1/3 or closer to 1/4. And if that matters. One study showed that 1 in 4 caregivers gave a dose that deviated by more than 40%. And more studies point to drug administering errors. In this X-Health.show episode you’ll hear about an engineer’s i...

How long are you willing to stay in psychotherapy? Or do you want to just get better? This is what Joy wanted. To get better – faster. As a bioinformatician, she worked with big data sets and could not accept that in her psychotherapy she depended on paperwork, as if it was still the 20th century. You’ll hear in this episode what is digital phenotyping what passive digital data do you generate on...

Managing diabetes is complex enough, adding sports on top of it seems too much for many. But what if you had an app that would help? You’ll hear about the physiology of exercising with type 1 and type 2 diabetes what can go wrong hypoglycaemia and hiperglycaemia ketoacidosis tools to use to take control of the glucose level and do sports seriously, like there weren’t out there before My guest toda...

If you are a person with diabetes, you already know that some drugs cannot be administered other than via injections. Today’s guest works on a solution for these medications to be taken from the inside of the cheek. You’ll hear: how different kinds of drugs are absorbed why some drugs, macromolecular drugs, such as the ones for diabetes, need to be delivered in injections how Obaris has overcome t...

The small amount of brown fat can make you slim. Too much may kill you.  We just don't know who has it and how much.  But this may change with this test. You’ll hear about brown fat but also white fat and beige fat what happens when we have too much brown fat or too little a new contrast agent to see brown fat on a CT scan that allows targeted therapies for cancer, diabetes, obesity, and even...