Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDoes Red Light to the Brain Boost Endurance In Trained Cyclists? What the Data Actually Says
Episode 310
Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) is everywhere in performance culture —shine near-infrared light on the prefrontal cortex and supposedly you ge…
1 week, 3 days ago
Can Red Light Actually Lower Blood Sugar? Early Clinical Trials Suggest a Real Signal (Not a Miracle)
Episode 309
Can photobiomodulation (red + near-infrared light) meaningfully improve glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes? In this Deep Dive, Dr. Mike …
1 week, 4 days ago
Alzheimer’s Isn’t “Just Aging”: Human Brain Data Shows a Distinct Mitochondrial Collapse — Especially in the Hippocampus
Episode 308
Most conversations about Alzheimer’s and mitochondria stay in broad strokes. This Deep Dive episode doesn’t. Dr. Mike Belkowski breaks down a study t…
1 week, 5 days ago
Mitophagy: The Invisible Process That Quietly Controls Aging, Inflammation, Brain Resilience (and Disease Risk)
Episode 307
Mitophagy is the body’s targeted mitochondrial cleanup system; not general autophagy, but the precise identification and removal of damaged mitochond…
1 week, 6 days ago
ROS & Cancer: Why “Antioxidants Prevent Cancer” is Too Simple (and How Tumors Use Oxidation to Survive)
Episode 306
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) sit at the center of modern cancer biology and the conversation around them is often wildly oversimplified. In this Dee…
2 weeks ago
Red Light Therapy Just Went Mainstream: Why Nature’s Featured Article Means the Field Is Finally Growing Up (and Where the Real Proof Lives)
Episode 305
Red and near-infrared light (photobiomodulation) is hitting a legitimacy inflection point; not because it “does everything,” but because the science …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Chronic Pain Isn’t “In Your Head”—It’s an Energy Crisis: The Mitochondria–Inflammation Loop (and Where Red Light Fits)
Episode 304
This episode builds a real framework for chronic pain by connecting two worlds that rarely get stitched together: (1) a mechanistic review arguing th…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Pancreatic Cancer’s Hidden Achilles’ Heel: Targeting Mitochondria to Force Tumor Cell Death
Episode 303
Pancreatic cancer is aggressive, often detected late, and notoriously resistant to standard chemotherapy. In this Deep Dive, Dr. Mike Belkowski break…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Asthma is a Redox Problem: The Mitochondria–Inflammation Loop (and What Methylene Blue Did in Mice)
Episode 302
Most people think of asthma as tight airways and allergies. This Deep Dive reframes it as something deeper: inflammation + oxidative stress + mitocho…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Urolithin A vs Inflammaging: The Liver “Brake” Protein That UA Protects (NR77)
Episode 301
Aging isn’t just time, it’s immune balance drifting out of control, and one of the most consistent signatures is inflammaging: chronic, low-grade inf…
2 weeks, 5 days ago