Category Archives: Longevity and Aging

Dr. Victor Dzau

US$30 MILLION GLOBAL GRAND CHALLENGE: Longevity and Healthy Aging

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Victor Dzau, President of the United States National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Ira Pastor comments: On today’s show, we are going to continue upon a theme that we started a few weeks ago, and […]

George MacGinnis, Credit: UKRI

UK Government To Add 5 Healthy Years To UK Citizens’ Lives?

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Mr. George MacGinnis, Challenge Director of the Healthy Ageing Programme at UK Research and Innovation. Ira Pastor comments: Over the 20th century, breakthroughs in medicine, public health, and social and economic development have resulted in unparalleled extensions of the human lifespan across the world. This […]

Nina Khera, Credit: Nina Khera

Nina Khera, 13 year old Biotech Superstar

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder f Bioquark, interviews Nina Khera, 13-year-old longevity and genomics researcher and Founder and CEO of Biotein. Ira Pastor comments: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a term used to group together four key academic disciplines used extensively when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools […]

Tardigrade, Credit University of Wyoming

Discover Biology At The Extreme Limits of Life

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Thomas Boothby, Assistant Professor from the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming. Ira Pastor comments: A few episodes ago, we began to segue into a fascinating area of biology that has broad potential applications across various domains of human health and enhancement, […]

Credit: Cryonics Institute

Cryonics: An Ambulance to the Future?

Ira Pastor ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Mr Dennis Kowalski, Cryonics Institute President, EMT-paramedic, certified in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), advanced pediatric life support (PALS), a CPR Instructor for the American Heart Association, and a firefighter! Ira Pastor comments: Cryonics is defined as the extremely low-temperature freezing (or vitrification – […]

Dr. Lorna Harries's Team, Credit: University of Exeter

RNA – Essential For All Human Life: Therapies

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at University of Exeter Medical School. Ira Pastor comments: Today as we continue our discussions on ideaXme pertaining to the biological hierarchy of life, we are going to journey into what I refer to as the “metabolic […]

David Fajgenbaum for Wharton Magazine, Credit David Fajgenbaum

Could Millions Benefit from Dr. Fajgenbaum’s Self Cure?

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. David Fajgenbaum, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Patient Impact of the Penn Orphan Disease Center, Founding Director of the Castleman Disease Center, and Co-Founder & Executive Director of […]

Dr. Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, Credit: Dr. Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim

Global Sustainability and Biodiversity

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, biodiversity scientist and former President of Mauritius 2015-2018. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we are going to touch on several themes from recent shows (including natural products, bio-diversity, conservation, innovation, Africa, island nations, and micro-nations) and bring them together for what is […]

Dr. Kinoshita, Credit Osaka University

Blood for Everyone!

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Manabu Kinoshita, Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, at the National Defense Medical College in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. Blood Transfusions Today the ideaXme show is going to travel around the world to Japan, to discuss the topic of artificial blood […]

Daniel Addario

Dan Addario, Drug War Veteran: History And Ideas On How To fight Today’s War on Drugs

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Daniel Addario, former Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Drug Abuse On a few previous shows we touched on the global problem of drug abuse (of both legal and illegal drugs) primarily looking at the problem from a therapeutic perspective, […]