have been wanting to sit down with Dr. Darshan Shah for three years. We finally made it happen at South by Southwest in Austin and it did not disappoint.Dr. Shah is the founder of Next Health, one of the most advanced longevity and functional medicine clinics in the world with over 30 locations. He is also a surgeon who performed over 20,000 procedures and then had a personal health crisis in his early 40s that changed everything. He was 50 pounds overweight, had high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and an autoimmune condition, and was on 10 different medications at the same time.He fixed all of it in 8 months through functional medicine. And he has never gone back.In this episode we talk about the hidden causes of inflammation that show up even in people who think they have a clean lifestyle. Why your toothpaste and Listerine are sabotaging your health. The biomarkers every person should be testing and what optimal actually looks like versus disease state. Why 80 to 90 percent of the surgeries he performed over his career could have been avoided. How AI is now reading thousands of your health data points and finding connections that even experienced doctors miss. What Therapeutic Plasma Exchange actually does to your blood and why it is being used to reverse biological age. The truth about peptides and why buying them without a prescription from online sources is genuinely dangerous. What the NVIDIA founder said about the future of human biology that stopped Dr. Shah in his tracks. And the one functional lab test he would take to a desert island.This is one of the most information dense episodes we have done on Biohack-it. You will want to take notes.Sponsors:Try Branch Basics:20% off Premium Starter Kit https://branchbasics.com/BIOHACKIT20 Code:Biohackit20Rho Nutrition:Check out Rho's Liposomal NAD+ at rhonutrition.com and Use code BIOHACKIT for 20% off sitewide.