What if optimism wasn’t just a mindset but a daily act of strength and self-belief?

In this episode, psychiatrist and author Dr. Sue Varma unpacks the science and soul of practical optimism, a philosophy that blends positivity with action, helping us move from wishful thinking to real change. Drawing from her work with 9/11 survivors, her personal story of burnout, and decades in mental health, Dr. Varma reveals how optimism isn’t about ignoring pain, it’s about believing in the possibility of good while doing the work to make it happen.

We explore why our brains are wired toward negativity, how to reframe pessimistic thoughts into growth, and what neuroscience says about the left and right sides of our emotional lives. Dr. Varma breaks down her eight pillars of practical optimism, from finding purpose and processing emotions to building self-compassion and practicing healthy habits and offers four daily anchors anyone can start today: movement, mindfulness, mastery, and meaningful connection.

Discover how to turn hope into action and make optimism your superpower.

📌 What You Will Learn

• How to Practice Practical Optimism

• The Real Difference Between Optimism and Practical Optimism

• How to Reframe Negative Thinking

• How to Process Difficult Emotions

• The Four P’s That Keep You Stuck in Pessimism

• The Daily Habits That Boost Mental Health

• How to Strengthen Emotional Resilience

  
  

⏱ Timestamps

00:31 Creating a one-stop approach to prevention and treatment

01:20 Learning from working with 9/11 survivors

04:16 Understanding the difference between optimism and pessimism

07:55 Recognizing the downside of too much optimism

13:49 How the brain of an optimist works

17:14 Knowing when pessimism becomes something more

20:28 Discovering mindfulness-based stress reduction

26:21 Exploring the eight pillars of practical optimism

28:46 Finding joy in what you do

32:58 Redefining purpose beyond grand goals

37:02 Accepting that comparison is inevitable

41:19 Using the four-step plan to process emotions

46:31 Reframing your emotional state

52:02 Practicing the four Ms of mental health

59:37 Seeing the risks of overrelying on AI

01:02:57 Using AI for early mental health intervention

01:06:18 Reconnecting with ancient wisdom

01:11:01 Nurturing yourself and focusing on growth

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Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being

What if the real path to longevity is mastering fundamentals while measuring what matters?

In this episode, recorded at Copenhagen Health Week, Siim Land - author, longevity educator, and anthropology graduate - breaks down a pragmatic roadmap to living longer and better. We get honest about diet debates, biomarkers, and what to do before you touch a single peptide or pharmaceutical.

We cover why adaptation defines human health, how to use blood work and objective markers to see risk decades ahead, the case for sleep, movement, diet, and environment, and where rapamycin, metformin, and methylene blue actually fit. Siim shares his supplement stack, the VO2 max trade-offs with creatine, and a grounded outlook on gene editing, embryo selection, and the ethics of enhancement.

📌 What You Will Learn
• Adaptation, anthropology, and why context matters
• Diet through the biomarker lens, not dogma
• The four fundamentals that move the needle
• Rapamycin, metformin, methylene blue: promise vs proof
• Siim’s stack and why he keeps it simple
• VO2 max, creatine, and training trade-offs
• Social connection and purpose as longevity inputs
• Gene editing timelines and ethical questions
• A clear framework for risk in the “escape velocity” era

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 – The hidden health crisis and why prevention wins
1:12 – Siim’s path: fitness to anthropology to longevity
4:12 – Humans adapt, and that changes the rules
9:58 – Diet diversity, sensitivities, and n of 1
16:51 – Assess first: biomarkers that predict disease risk
18:27 – Fixing sleep, movement, diet, environment
22:47 – Caution on rapamycin, metformin, methylene blue
25:54 – FOXO3 stem-cell study and what it means
37:15 – Mindset and willpower as real enhancers
41:44 – TMG, astaxanthin, melatonin, creatine
47:09 – VO2 max priorities and performance trade-offs
48:51 – Balancing fitness with joy and purpose
53:18 – Biomarkers mediate risk more than labels
1:01:00 – 2030–2040: what is realistic
1:04:02 – Immortality probabilities and living well now
1:12:10 – Final thoughts

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What if longevity could be designed into your daily life? In this episode, Allen Law shares how he went from turning around a foreclosed hotel at 23 to building Morrow, a $170M wellness ecosystem that applies Lifestyle Medicine, coaching, community, and AI to close the gap between healthspan and lifespan.

We talk about the real bottleneck in health — action, not knowledge — and how to turn diagnostics and wearables into decisions you can stick with. Allen explains why he prices for the median, not the elite, what Singapore’s “engineered Blue Zone” gets right, and where the market is heading by 2030. We cover supplements vs food first, how to build adherence through community, and the potential of stem cells as regulations evolve.

This one is practical, hopeful, and focused on what works.

📌 What You Will Learn

• The six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and how to apply them

• Coaching and AI as the bridge from data to daily action

• Designing facilities and protocols that people actually use

• Healthspan vs lifespan and Allen’s “Vision Zero” goal

• Pricing accessibility and why the median matters

• Investing in longevity: real-world bets and filters

• Alcohol’s cultural shift and healthier social rituals

• Purpose, screens, and building a life you do not need to escape
  

⏱ Timestamps

0:00 Future of longevity in Geneva + event note

0:31 Take control of your health

3:17 Hotel turnaround at 23 and early lessons

8:59 Morrow and Lifestyle Medicine

11:26 The action gap and AI coaching

18:44 Training, recovery, and measurement

22:27 Pricing for access

24:25 Singapore’s healthspan gap

26:47 Vision Zero

30:22 Investing in longevity

33:38 Food first, tests before pills

35:34 The 2030 longevity economy

39:14 Health as Priority One

41:24 Stem cells and scale

43:26 Operator advice

47:29 Culture shifts: alcohol and rituals

50:27 Escapism, purpose, and screens

53:10 Final advice

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What if the most important step in healing is learning how to feel, reframe, and reconnect?

Natalie Lefevre joins me to share a powerful journey from upheaval and illness to purpose and service. We talk about turning grief into gratitude, regulating the nervous system, breathwork and stillness, rewriting limiting beliefs, and why community and compassion change the trajectory of a life. It is a grounded, heart-led conversation about healing yourself while helping others thrive.

📌 What You’ll Learn

• How reframing loss can unlock meaning and momentum

• Why calm is the prerequisite for healing

• Practical tools: breathwork, meditation, nature, and supportive circles

• Identifying and rewriting limiting beliefs

• The role of purpose, connection, and service in long-term wellbeing

• How to bridge divides with empathy and clarity

  
  

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 – Rock-bottoms and recovery
9:06 – Grief to gratitude
15:27 – Feeling to heal
27:53 – Calm first, then protocols
34:33 – Free ways to start
36:17 – Limiting beliefs
50:19 – Be the bridge
53:39 – Looking to 2030
56:13 – Use your voice

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Can AI meaningfully extend healthspan without losing what makes us human?

Journalist and author of Hacking Humanity, Lara Lewington joins me to share a grounded, optimistic view of AI in healthcare. We unpack the real risks to focus on now, the gains already happening in screening and prediction, and why lifestyle is still the strongest lever, with technology finally helping us measure, adhere, and act earlier. We get into wearables and pattern tracking, dementia risk signals, genomics and the microbiome, and the practical ethics of data and access. Most of all, we talk about lifestyle & joyspan, purpose, community, and companionship, as vital health inputs that no gadget can replace.

📌 What You Will Learn

• The near-term risks: disinformation, cyber threats, scaling for bad actors, and job shifts

• How AI is improving cancer and chronic disease prediction and treatment precision

• Wearables in 2025: accuracy gains, long-term patterns, and early brain-health signals

• Joyspan vs healthspan: the non-negotiables of purpose, community, and happiness

• From genome and microbiome to action: what is useful today, and what is not yet

• Robots in real life: augmentation over humanoids at home

• Data, privacy, and making prevention accessible to everyone

  
  

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 – Why balanced optimism matters
3:37 – “Hacking Humanity” and hacking healthcare
6:32 – Wearables, accuracy, and what patterns reveal
10:20 – Real risks in the AI era
13:17 – Joyspan, Blue Zones, and purpose
18:03 – Lifestyle as the lever, tech as the feedback loop
23:45 – Personalization, genomics, and the road to actionable care
27:39 – Lara’s daily stack for healthspan
36:39 – How norms shift as tech matures
50:32 – Breakthroughs vs compounding incremental change
53:13 – One takeaway: choose lifestyle you can sustain

Hacking Humanity, Lara's new book is available to purchase now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hacking-Humanity-Personalised-Predictive-Preventative/dp/075356114X

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What if the secret to healing isn’t in medicine, supplements or therapy but hidden in your own body?

In this episode, Garry Lineham, co-founder of Human Garage, shares his journey from chronic pain and failed treatments to discovering fascia - the connective tissue that holds everything together. After spending over $17 million searching for answers, Garry reveals why belief, emotion, and self-sovereignty are the real foundations of health.

We dive into the rise of chronic disease, the collapse of healthcare and how social media, fear, and disconnection are silently shaping our biology. This conversation will make you rethink what it means to heal and who really has the power to do it.

📌 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

Why modern medicine often treats symptoms, not causes

How fascia connects every system in the human body

The story behind Garry’s 35-year journey through pain and recovery

Why belief and self-sovereignty are essential to true healing

The emotional roots of physical illness and how perception shapes biology

How Human Garage is teaching millions to heal themselves

The coming collapse of traditional healthcare systems

Why Gen Z’s emotional health crisis is a sign of deeper imbalance

How social media is silently damaging our biology

What the future of health looks like when people take control

⏱ Timestamps

0:00 – The hidden health crisis no one is talking about

3:14 – Garry’s story: from government work to chronic pain

7:52 – Spending $17 million searching for real healing

11:45 – The moment everything changed - discovering fascia

15:20 – Why modern science still misunderstands the human body

19:08 – What fascia really is and why it’s the foundation of structure

23:47 – How emotions and trauma shape physical health

28:33 – Why belief is the missing ingredient in recovery

33:12 – The problem with biohacking and “optimization culture”

38:04 – The collapse of healthcare and rise of self-care

43:41 – The social media epidemic and the biology of fear

49:26 – How Human Garage is redefining healing for the next generation

54:50 – Final reflections: the future of self-healing and human potential

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What if the future of humanity wasn’t just about living longer, but radically extending life itself?

Join me at the Global Longevity Summit this October. Use code BEYONDTOMORROW for 10% off your ticket:

In this episode of The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast, I sit down with Boyang Wang, investor and co-founder of Immortal Dragons, a $40M fund betting on the boldest longevity breakthroughs.

From growing up with health challenges in China to building a successful tech business, Boyang now invests his own capital into moonshot biotech projects like whole-body replacement, artificial wombs, 3D bioprinting, and plasma exchange therapies.

He also shares why Eastern and Western cultures view longevity so differently, how regulation holds back life-saving science, and why he believes healthy lifespan could soon be the world’s most valuable currency.

📌 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Boyang Wang’s personal journey from tech entrepreneur to longevity investor

• Why Immortal Dragons was built as a purpose-driven fund for radical life extension

• The philosophy of “replacement over repair” in extending human life

• Cutting-edge projects: 3D bioprinting, organ replacement, and artificial womb technology

• The controversial idea of whole-body replacement and brain transplantation

• Why cultural attitudes toward longevity differ in the East vs. the West

• How special economic zones like Prospera enable experimental therapies

• The promise and risks of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE)

• Predictions for longevity biotech by 2035 and the role of AGI in medicine

• Practical advice for anyone curious about entering the longevity space
  

⏱️ Timestamps

0:00 – Will health become the new currency by 2035?

2:40 – Boyang’s personal journey: childhood asthma, food allergies, and survival

4:21 – East vs West: cultural and religious attitudes toward longevity

7:52 – Building Immortal Dragons: a $40M fund for radical life extension

9:23 – From video gaming entrepreneur to biotech investor 11:13 – “Replacement over repair”: 3D bioprinting blood vessels and new organs

13:42 – Artificial wombs and the future of human reproduction 17:21 – Whole-body replacement: cloning bodies and transplanting the brain

22:51 – Special economic zones: testing gene therapy and stem cells abroad 25:55 – East Asia’s progressive stance on cloning and animal experimentation

33:19 – Where investors should really place their bets in longevity

39:22 – Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE): why it could be a blockbuster therapy

45:41 – Final advice: following the natural path and Eastern lessons for health

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What if we could add not just years to life but life to years?

Join me at the Global Longevity Summit this October. Use code BEYONDTOMORROW for 10% off your ticket: https://www.a4m.com/global-longevity-summit-2025.html

In this episode, I’m sitting down with Dr. Mehmood Khan, CEO of Hevolution Foundation, a global initiative pledging up to $1 billion per year to advance longevity science. Dr. Khan shares how his team is tackling one of humanity’s greatest challenges: helping everyone stay healthy for as long as possible.

From the economics of an aging world to cutting-edge therapies like senolytics, epigenome modulation, and AI-driven discovery, Dr. Khan explains why healthspan - not just lifespan is the real moonshot. He reveals how Hevolution funds hundreds of research programs worldwide, why the Gulf region faces unique aging patterns, and how breakthroughs in the next decade could transform medicine, society, and the global economy.

Whether you’re a biotech investor, health enthusiast, or simply curious about living better for longer, this conversation delivers science, strategy, and a hopeful vision of the future.

📌 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why healthspan matters more than raw lifespan

• The $1 billion annual commitment behind Hevolution Foundation

• How aging challenges economies, families, and global stability

• Genetic vs. lifestyle factors in accelerated aging

• Promising therapeutics: senolytics, mTOR modulation, epigenome reprogramming

• How AI accelerates longevity research

• The TAME trial and metformin’s potential

• Scaling breakthroughs so everyone benefits

• The next decade of longevity science - what’s realistic and what’s hype
  

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – Opening & mission to expand healthy lifespan

01:04 – Global Longevity Summit & Hevolution’s vision

02:24 – Why “healthspan” is the true goal

05:09 – Dr. Khan’s early career and medical insights

07:17 – Building a foundation to invest $1 billion annually

09:55 – Saudi Arabia’s long-term approach to longevity

12:49 – Why some populations age faster

16:27 – Economic and social costs of an aging world

22:42 – How to spark a global movement for healthspan

28:21 – Balancing visionary goals with practical milestones 32:59 – Funding breakthroughs - senolytics, TAME trial, more 38:32 – Targeting senescent cells in real-world therapies

44:01 – Making advanced treatments affordable for all

47:33 – The most promising areas: mTOR, epigenome, gene therapy

52:07 – Predictions for 2030 and realistic healthspan gains 55:28 – The role of AI in longevity research

1:00:42 – Why Dr. Khan is optimistic about the future

1:03:09 – Closing thoughts and next-episode preview