Category Archives: Health

Dr. Michael Roizen

Preventative and Wellness Care for Health and Longevity

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, Founding Chair of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and developer of the RealAge Test. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to journey into […]

Sexual Longevity with Dr. Betito

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Laurie Betito, President of the Sexual Health Network of Quebec and Director of the PornHub Sexual Wellness Center. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we are going to journey into the fascinating intersection of human sexuality, psychology and aging. Today we are joined by Dr. Laurie […]

Credit: Mary Furlong

U.S. NIH – Funding Longevity Innovation and Commercialization

Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Todd Haim, Chief of the Office of Small Business Research at National Institute on Aging. Ira Pastor comments: On several recent shows, we’ve been discussing some of the novel, alternative funding pools that have been emerging in and around the biotechnology space, specifically related […]

Sir David Richard CEO of the Brazzaville Foundation

Sir David Richmond: $30 Billion Global Threat Of Fake Medicine

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sir David Richmond, CEO of the Brazzaville Foundation. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to start off with a bit of a crazy figure – the World Health Organization (WHO) currently estimates that 1-in-10 medicines in the developing world (over $30 billion worth) are […]

Credit: Hebrew Senior Life

Dr. Inouye: Delirium An Under Diagnosed Area Of Brain Aging And Degeneration

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew Senior Life. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to touch on a topic that […]

Dr. Michael B. Fossel, Credit: Telocyte

Dr. Michael B. Fossel: Gene Therapy For Alzheimers and Other Diseases Of Aging

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D.,  Founder and President of Telocyte. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we are going to journey back to the topic of Alzheimer’s disease, which as we’ve discussed on previous episodes, is one of those conditions, that while not responsible for […]

Credit: Perry Marshall

$10 Million Prize To Discover the Origin of Humans’ Genetic Code

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Mr. Perry Marshall, business consultant, best-selling author, and founder of Natural Code LLC. Ira Pastor comments: On several recent shows we’ve been discussing some of the novel funding mechanisms that have been emerging in and around the biotech space, specifically related to some of […]

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Accelerating Stem Cell Therapies For Unmet Medical Needs

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Maria Millan, President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to journey into the always fascinating topic of stem cells and regenerative medicine. We’re going to head over to the west coast of the USA, […]

Dr. Josh Bongard, Credit: Dr. Josh Bongard

Xenobots: Living Machines

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Josh Bongard, Professor in the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont. Ira Pastor comments: On a recent ideaXme episode, we delved into the fascinating topics of “living architecture” and “living machines” and […]

Dr Ellen de Brabander Research and Development Food, PepsiCo

PepsiCo: The Future of Food

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Ellen de Brabander, Senior Vice President Research and Development at PepsiCo. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to segue into the food industry, which is a fascinatingly complex and diverse set of businesses that supply most of the food consumed by […]