The New Rules of Preventive Medicine: Catch Disease Early & Extend Your Healthspan | Dr. Darshan Shah | #181

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3&   Medicine trained us to wait until you're sick. Most doctors tell you to get healthy. But almost nobody tells you where to start.    Dr. Darshan Shah, board-certified surgeon and founder of Next Health. We talked about how he reverse-engineered his own recovery, what peptides actually are, how red light and hyperbaric oxygen really work, and the whole-body MRI that found something in his own body days before a routine biopsy. Stop waiting for permission from a study that will never be funded. Ask the only two questions that have ever mattered: could this help me, and could it hurt me. What we explore: - How peptides work, and what BPC-157 actually does in the body. - Why sourcing and physician oversight matter more than the peptide itself. - What a real biomarker panel includes, and why standard bloodwork misses it. - How red light therapy reaches your mitochondria, and how often to use it. - Why hyperbaric oxygen works, and why daily sessions are the wrong protocol. - How to time recovery therapies around heavy strength training days. - What whole-body MRI catches, and the scan that saved Dr. Shah's life. - Why functional medicine and root-cause testing changed his entire practice. - How at-home labs and AI make preventive care possible without a clinic. - What longevity really means, and why healthspan beats lifespan.   About Darshan Shah:  Dr. Darshan Shah is a board-certified surgeon, entrepreneur, and founder of Next Health, the health optimization and longevity clinic he built after fixing his own health first. He's the kind of doctor who reads the research, tests it on himself, and then tells you plainly what the risks are.   Connect with Darshan Shah: Website: https://www.drshah.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darshanshahmd/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshanshahmd/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/darshanshahmd   Timestamps   00:00 Why a Surgeon Built a Longevity Clinic 06:59 10 Meds, 5 Diagnoses, and Useless Labs 10:43 Is Functional Medicine Actually Woo Woo? 14:40 What Peptides Are and Who Needs Them 16:45 How Rockefeller Rewrote Medical Education 19:49 Why the FDA Pulled Peptides Off Shelves 26:16 What Red Light Therapy Does to Cells 29:54 What Hyperbaric Oxygen Actually Does 34:06 How Often You Should Use HBOT 38:29 The MRI Scan That Saved His Life 42:41 How to Start Without a Longevity Clinic 47:54 Longevity Is Healthspan, Not Extra Years 🎤 Women's Health Conversations 2026 Three days of world-class speakers, wellness activations, and 1,000+ women choosing themselves. Join us this November 15-16 at Orlando, FL. 👉 Grab your spot: https://theunbreakablelifestyle.com/whc-2026   🧠 Start your Unbreakable journey Most women are never given a clear plan for how to stay strong as they age. The Unbreakable Lifestyle is where that changes. This is the home of Dr.