The Evolution of Medicine Podcast

James Maskell sits down with Dr. Zach Bush to explore biological elegance, biological intelligence, and the future of healthcare. They discuss nature deficit disorder, the limitations of symptom-focused interventions, why health is relational, the power of community and groups, AI vs. biological intelligence, aging, and how practitioners can shift from trying to fix patients to listening and witnessing the intelligence of the body.

James Maskell sits down with holistic psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora, author of Season of the Witch: The Psychiatrist’s Case for Magic. They discuss intuition as “the witch’s compass,” grief and ongoing connection with lost loved ones, the pros and cons of wearables, and why spirituality and community matter for mental health.

James Maskell sits down with Kirkland Newman, founder of MindHealth360 and Executive Director of IMMH, to discuss her personal journey through postpartum depression, the biochemical root causes of mental illness that conventional psychiatry often overlooks, and this year’s IMMH conference bringing together the leading voices in integrative mental health.

James Maskell sits down with Nikki Schultek, founding director of the Pathobiome Research Center, to discuss the infectious drivers of Alzheimer’s disease, her own journey through chronic illness, and the global research consortium working to bring precision medicine to neurodegenerative disease.

Host James Maskell sits down with Dr. Helen Lavretsky, professor of psychiatry at UCLA, to discuss the neuroscience of spiritual awakening, her Kirtan Kriya meditation research, and the growing movement to treat brain health as economic and human rights policy.

Live from the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Annual International Conference, host James Maskell sits down with Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark — who delivered the conference’s opening keynote — to discuss communal ritual, culinary medicine, and rebuilding the connection modern life has stripped away.