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299 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe humans behind the big ideas shaping our world. Inspiration and help for future creators of big ideas and for all those who love big ideas and great stories.
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Personalised Petcare: High Tech, Genetics and Wearables
November 27, 2020 14:43 - 43 minutes - 51.7 MBIra Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Angela Hughes, is the Global Scientific Advocacy Relations Senior Manager and Veterinary Geneticist at Mars Petcare. Ira Pastor comments: The global pet care industry is significantly expanding. To such an extent that it is expected to reach USD 327 billion by 2026. And while we may associate the Mars Corporation, the world's largest candy company, with leading confectionary brands like Milky Way, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, Twix,...
Extreme Bionics: Sculpting Human Physiology
November 25, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 57.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Hugh Herr, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and head of the Biomechatronics group, MIT Media Lab. Ira Pastor comments: Dr. Hugh Herr, is Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and heads the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, as well as the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT, and is creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs. In 2011, TIME magazine coined him the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his...
The Frontiers of Mathematics, Computation, Systems and Design
November 18, 2020 07:45 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Jiangying Zhou, PhD, DARPA program manager in the Defense Sciences Office, USA. Ira Pastor comments: On this episode of ideaXme, we meet again once more with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but unlike the past few shows where we been spent time with thought leaders from the Biologic Technology Office (BTO), today we’re going to be focused on the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) which identifies and pursu...
Ali Jawad Paralympian and Dr Christian Busch talk of Serendipity
November 16, 2020 10:22 - 25 minutes - 30.8 MBAli Jawad, Paralympian gold medalist powerlifter and ideaXme interviewer talks with Dr Christian Busch, PhD, author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck. Ali asks Christian what inspired him to write his book. Furthermore, is curious to learn: Can we all learn how to create good luck - serendipity? Christian's career: Christian directs the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU) and teaches on purpose-driven business, entrepreneurship, eme...
Tripping Over the Mysteries of the Universe: Molecules, Particles and People
November 13, 2020 06:00 - 55 minutes - 67 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and CEO Bioquark interviews Dr. Michelle Francl, the Frank B. Mallory Professor of Chemistry, at Bryn Mawr College, and an adjunct scholar of the Vatican Observatory. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we have another fascinating guest working at the intersection of cutting edge science and spirituality Dr. Michelle Francl is the Frank B. Mallory Professor of Chemistry, at Bryn Mawr College, a distinguished women’s college in the suburbs of Philadeph...
Farmageddon: Protecting Animals, People and Planet
November 11, 2020 06:30 - 37 minutes - 45.5 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and CEO of Bioquark, interviews Philip Lymbery, award winning author of books Farmageddon and Dead Zone and CEO of Compassion in World Farming. Ira Pastor Comments: Compassion in World Farming (CIWF)is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organization which campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. Philip Lymbery, founder of Compassion in World Farming: Phil...
The Hurricane Hunter
November 06, 2020 08:27 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Frank D. Marks, MS, ScD, Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA. Ira Pastor comments: Weather and climate disasters affect the world's population. The total approximate cost of damages from weather and climate disasters in the U.S. alone from 1980 to 2019, is over $1.75 trillion, and a major component of that damage results from hurricanes. Few things in nature can compare to the destructive f...
Building Bones with Eggshells and Origami
November 04, 2020 06:30 - 31 minutes - 38.6 MBIra Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, UMass Lowell. Ira Pastor comments: A few episodes ago ideaXme hosted the University of Michigan’s Dr. Bruce Carlson. We spoke to him about the interesting topic of the importance of "substrate" in regenerative processes, for both the maintenance of normal tissue functions, and in the migration of cells or changes to tiss...
Think Big, Act Fast: Disaster Management
October 30, 2020 10:38 - 59 minutes - 69.9 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Craig Fugate Chief Emergency Management Officer of One Concern and former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The international context of this interview: In choosing our leaders it is becoming increasingly important to select people who can both anticipate and address and where possible avoid large scale disasters. Here, Craig Fugate discusses evaluating past disasters, planning for future events and reac...
Science Fiction to Science Fact: Regenerative Manufacturing
October 28, 2020 08:47 - 49 minutes - 57.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Alexander Titus Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI). Ira Pastor comments: The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) is one of 14 institutes of the Manufacturing USA network, and is a member-driven, non-profit organization, whose mission is to make practical the large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies. BioFabUSA, created by ...
Google / Alphabet's Quest to Solve Aging
October 23, 2020 07:36 - 49 minutes - 58.5 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Adam Freund, PhD, Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences (Calico). Ira Pastor comments: Calico is a research and development focused biotechnology company founded and backed by Google / Alphabet with the goal of combating aging and associated age-related diseases. Calico has a billion dollar partnership with the bio-pharma giant AbbVie, focused on aging and age-related diseases, such as neuro-degeneration and cancer. Cal...
A Revolution: Democratising Access to Medication
October 21, 2020 09:04 - 48 minutes - 58 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Daniel Liljenquist, former US Senator and Lead Architect and Board Chair of Civica Rx. Ira Pastor Comments: A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents, and are typically allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire. Once generic drugs enter the market, competition often leads to substantially lower prices for both t...
Smart Prisons: Managing and Rehabilitating Prisoners with Psychology, Empathy and Artificial Intelligence
October 16, 2020 07:53 - 34 minutes - 42.3 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Ms Pia Puolakka, Project Manager of the Smart Prison Project, under the Criminal Sanctions Agency, within Finland's Central Administration Unit. Criminal Sanctions Agency: Ira Pastor Comments: In 2018, according to the World Prison Population List, which gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories around the globe, there were close to 11 million people are...
Make Digital-First: Rupert Rixon, Founder of Perspective Pictures
October 14, 2020 09:02 - 20 minutes - 24.9 MBAmanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor and media and misinformation researcher, interviews Rupert Rixon, founder and Managing Director of digital-first video agency Perspective Pictures. Amanda Christensen Comments: The way we watch content is changing, from the big screen, to the small screen, to the endless streaming services - but it's evolving further than that, as we spend more and more of our time online, watching more and more videos on YouTube and social media. While many ...
The University Where US Intelligence Personnel Study
October 09, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Brian Holmes Ph.D., Dean of The National Intelligence University, Anthony G. Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence. Ira Pastor comments: The National Intelligence University (NIU), is a federally chartered research university which serves as the United States Intelligence Community's institution for higher learning in fields of study central to the profession of intelligence and national security. National Intel...
How to Abolish Modern Day Slavery and Address its Effects
October 07, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Bakary Tandia, Co-Founder of the Abolition Institute, a group working to promote awareness of, and dedicated to ending, the practice of slavery in the west African country of Mauritania. Slavery and enslavement are defined of the state and condition of being a slave, where the individual cannot quit their service to another person and is treated like property. In chattel slavery, the enslaved person is legally rendered the personal p...
Born Free - How to Keep Wildlife Wild?
October 05, 2020 13:37 - 52 minutes - 62.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Will Travers OBE, President of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network. Ira Pastor Comments: The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity that campaigns to "Keep Wildlife in the Wild." Founded by English actors and wildlife campaigners Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, its mission is to protect wild animals in their natural habitat, campaigns against the keeping of wild animals in capt...
Sex Tech, a Trillion Dollar Business?
October 02, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 43.3 MBParental guidance necessary. Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews internationally famous advertising executive Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, MakeLoveNotPorn, and Cindy Gallop LLC. Ira Pastor Comments: Cindy Gallop is an internationally famous advertising executive, public speaker, founder and former chair of the US branch of global advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty (now part of French multinational advertising and public relations company Pub...
Sir John Hegarty: The Power of Creativity
September 28, 2020 12:47 - 35 minutes - 43.4 MBAndrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Sir John Hegarty. Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of global advertising and communications company BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) and founder of The Garage Soho, Investment Company is one of the world’s most awarded and respected creatives in history. He has written 2 best-selling books with a possible third in the pipeline. Current books, Creativity: There Are No Rules and Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic have not just been benchmarks...
NASA Rocket Scientist Ushers Vehicles into Space
September 25, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes - 29.7 MBAna Guzman, ideaXme space ambassador and leading space communications and space exploration television producer interviews Caley Burke, Aerospace Engineer and Trajectory Analyst for NASA's Launch Program. Ana Guzman comments: In my next interview for ideaXme, I was able to sit down and chat with Caley Burke, aerospace engineer at NASA’s Launch Services Program. She works on the interface between the spacecraft and launch vehicle teams to get the spacecraft delivered to their final destin...
The Multiverse, Cosmological Neural Networks and "Space Noodles"
September 23, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr Vitaly Vanchurin, PhD, Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Minnesota (UMN). The Multiverse, Cosmological Neural Networks and "Space Noodles" Dr Vanchurin's big questions and the tools we need to answer them: "What is the origin of our Universe? What determines our vacuum and the cosmological constant that is responsible ...
World's First Blood Collection Device Without Needles
September 18, 2020 09:38 - 40 minutes - 48.9 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Rick Bente, MSc, MBA, BS, CEO of Seventh Sense Biosystems. Ira Pastor Comments: Getting blood drawn is not a fun activity for many. It can be scary for some (especially if you have children); it can be painful for others (especially where frequent blood draws are required). Studies show that a remarkable 20% of the population has some degree of fear of needles or injections, and 10% within that number suffer from what is known as T...
Next Mayor of New York 2021?
September 16, 2020 10:04 - 1 hour - 128 MBIn recent years we have seen the move away from ‘politics as usual’. Non-traditional figures have entered the political arena to disrupt the typical entrenched narratives. The election and worldwide popularity of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister just one example of a new kind of leader who prioritises national wellbeing and happiness in the belief that everything else will follow. Brigadier General (Retired) Dr. Loree Sutton Next Mayor of New York City? Brigadier General Dr. Lo...
High Tech Innovation, Support and Individualised Care For Leading Edge Rehabilitation
September 11, 2020 09:22 - 39 minutes - 47.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Rachel Ramoni, Chief Research and Development Officer at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Ira Pastor Comments: The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) @U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides comprehensive healthcare services to military veterans at over 1,000 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the US. It also provides several non-healthcare b...
Unity in Knowledge: From Islam and Ethics to Exponential Technology and Robotics
September 09, 2020 08:22 - 58 minutes - 68.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Imam Sheikh Dr. Usama Hasan, PhD, MSc, MA, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Research Consultant at the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change. Ira Pastor comments: Today, on the ideaXme show we are going to segue back towards the fascinating intersection of science and spirituality. We are joined by Imam Sheikh Dr. Usama Hasan, most recently Senior Researcher and Head of Islamic Studies at Quilliam International, a think...
Vimana: From Mythical Flying Chariots to Space Age Vehicles
September 04, 2020 08:29 - 48 minutes - 57.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Mr. Evgeni Borisov, CEO and Co-founder of Vimana Global Inc. Ira Pastor Comments: A flying car is a type of personal air vehicle, or "road able" aircraft, that provides door-to-door transportation by both ground and air, and was a popular theme in fantasy and science fiction stories throughout the early 20th century. One of the first debuts of a flying car was that of Henry Ford, back in 1926, when he displayed an experimental sing...
Billionaire Philanthropists Pour US$400 Million into Initiatives to Help Weak and Vulnerable
September 01, 2020 11:51 - 50 minutes - 59 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Shelley Lyford President and Chief Executive Officer of West Health, the Gary and Mary West Foundation, and the West Health Institute. Growth in Population of Weak and Vulnerable According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is on the brink of a demographic milestone. Since the beginning of recorded history, young children have outnumbered their elders. In about 5 years’ time, the number of people aged 65 or older wil...
Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World
August 28, 2020 08:58 - 40 minutes - 47.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Matthew Richardson a Canadian author "Threatened and Recently extinct Vertebrates of the World", primatologist and conservationist. "My forthcoming book, Threatened and Recently-extinct Vertebrates of the World, required me to assess and place some 15,000 species and subspecies within an updated biogeographic framework. I also had to coin common names for more than 5,000 of them; figure out an entirely new syst...
Human-Like Robots: Geminoids Created By Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro
August 25, 2020 15:12 - 35 minutes - 41.6 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Professor Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro is the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, of the Department of Systems Innovation, in the Graduate School of Engineering Science, at Osaka University, Japan. Professor Ishiguro is also the Director of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), a private company supported by industry, government and academia, with the aim of promoting fundamental and innovative R...
US Naval Research Laboratory: Disruptive Technology and Science
August 21, 2020 10:28 - 58 minutes - 68.3 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Patrick P. Rose, Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global, as well as Program Manager, Bio-industrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Established by Congress i...
Exploring the Implications of AI with Mastercard's AI Garage
August 19, 2020 10:35 - 33 minutes - 39.6 MBAmanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deep fake researcher, and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Nitendra Rajput, VP and Head of Mastercard's AI Garage. Amanda Christensen Comments: Artificial intelligence has become a technological buzzword, often solely referred to AI rather than depicting the possibly infinite amount of practical applications that artificial intelligence can actually provide, or the intricacies involved from industry to industry, and regi...
Hip-Hop, High Tech and Youth Empowerment
August 14, 2020 09:36 - 29 minutes - 36.4 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Kim Renard Nazel, rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, founding member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rap group N.W.A. as well as a burgeoning, technologist, venture capitalist, startup mentor and business advisor. Ira Pastor Comments: Today, we have a fascinating show for you with a set of truly "convergent" themes where we are going to be discussing music, entertainment, technology, innovation, investing, and social an...
WHO's Decade of Healthy Aging: Country Spotlight
August 12, 2020 13:37 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Alexandre Kalache, President of the International Longevity Centre-Brazil (ILC-Brazil). Ira Pastor Comments: As we continue our virtual road-trip around the globe per the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly Cities Global Movement, during the WHO defined “Decade of Healthy Aging”, we are headed down to the southern hemisphere to the country of Brazil. Dr. Alexandre Kalache: Dr. Alexandre Kalache is a medical epide...
Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting
August 07, 2020 11:33 - 1 hour - 104 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Eduardo Goncalves, founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting. Ira Pastor comments: Trophy hunting is hunting of wild game for human recreation. The trophy is the animal, or part of the animal, kept and usually displayed, to represent the success of the hunt. Over the past decade, hunters have taken home over 1.7 million trophies from animals they have killed for sport, more than 200,000 of them which were from animals in danger ...
How to Upgrade Reality?
August 05, 2020 10:23 - 34 minutes - 40 MBAndrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Kazuhiro Gomi (Gomi-san), M.S., CEO and President of NTT Research. Discover how this exciting Silicon Valley start-up plans to upgrade reality. NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) Global: NTT Global, the parent company of NTT Research, is a top 5 global technology and business solutions provider with operations in 80 countries worldwide. They service 85% of Fortune Global 100 companies and consider themselves as a big contribut...
Managing Future Longevity Risk at the IMF
July 31, 2020 12:28 - 52 minutes - 61.3 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews John Kiff, Senior Financial Sector Expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Stability Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Ira Pastor Comments: So on past shows as we’ve been profiling many of the novel products and technologies being developed by industry, by academia, and by governments on the healthy aging and longevity front, we’ve also taken time to discuss a range of the traditional and no...
Brain Computer Interfaces Developed by DARPA
July 29, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Al Emondi, Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Department of Defense. Ira Pastor Comments: Today, we are going to go down the fascinating pathway of advanced neuro-technologies and in doing so, are going to be joined again by our friends from theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is an agency of the United States Department of D...
Solving Problems of Data Privacy with CIS Labs
July 24, 2020 09:20 - 19 minutes - 23.4 MBAmanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deep fake researcher andMarketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Ilan Komargodski, Ph.D., Researcher at the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research. Amanda Christensen Comments: Data privacy has long been a topic of contention, and the importance of proper security protocols have never been more needed as we individuals, businesses, and governments have been forced to rapidly digitise everyday interactions ...
Bio-Electricity For Regeneration and Cancer Control
July 22, 2020 11:23 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University Professor who holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair in the Biology Department, and who serves as both the Director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. Ira Pastor comments: Form is generally defined as the shape and structure of something as distinguished from the materials that it’s constructed...
Saving Carpathia - The Yellowstone Park of Europe
July 17, 2020 10:53 - 53 minutes - 64.2 MBKaren Potter, Director of Sustainability Hub and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews Christoph Promberger, M.Sc., Executive Director Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC). Karen Potter comments: In 2009, the Foundation Conservation Carpathia was founded by a dozen international philanthropists and conservationists with the goal to stop illegal logging and to protect a significant surface of Carpathian forests to form a completely protected area. The FCC was founded in response...
Prevention of Violence and Injury: U.S. CDC Initiatives
July 15, 2020 10:25 - 35 minutes - 43.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the U.S. CDC. Ira Pastor comments: On the U.S. Center’s for Disease Control (CDC) "Ten Leading Causes of Death" list, right beneath the two major categories of heart disease and cancer, there is a category called "Unintentional Injuries" which cumulatively took the lives of over 167,000 Americans in 201...
Boxer George "Monk" Foreman III: Compassion and Everybody Fights@
July 10, 2020 12:16 - 38 minutes - 45.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews George "Monk" Foreman III; entrepreneur, professional boxer, trainer, coach, and Founder of Everybody Fights. Ira Pastor Comments: We're honored to be joined by Mr. George "Monk" Foreman III; entrepreneur, professional boxer, trainer, coach, son of businessman and former two-time heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, and founder of Everybody Fights, a rapidly expanding chain of high-end, state-of-the-art boxing and fitness gy...
Cross Species Aging Research
July 08, 2020 09:29 - 45 minutes - 54.5 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Matt Kaeberlein's Cross Species Aging Research: Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, is Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington. With a PhD from MIT in Biology...
The Great Reset: New Hope For Youth
July 03, 2020 08:38 - 28 minutes - 35.7 MBTali Ramsey, ideaXme guest interviewer and society, culture and youth commentator interviews Efe Ezekiel, BEM Youth Mentor, Inspirational Speaker and Founder of Youth Mentoring Company, Ushine Ishine. Crises Are Times for Transformation We’ve reached a global tipping point. “Unless we take the action necessary and we build in a greener and more sustainable and more inclusive way, we will end up having more and more pandemics and more and more disasters,” urges Prince Charles while discus...
Florian Brand Talks of Innovation in Mental Healthcare to Tackle Depression, Anxiety and Addiction
July 01, 2020 10:48 - 33 minutes - 39.3 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Florian Brand, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ATAI Life Sciences AG. Ira Pastor Comments: On a few recent episodes, we have journeyed into the area psychedelic therapies, which broadly refers to specific therapeutic practices involving pharmacotherapeutic interventions based on psychedelic drugs In psychedelic therapy, in contrast to conventional psychiatric medication taken by the patient regularly or as-needed, patients ge...
Relentless Pursuit of Excellence
June 26, 2020 11:07 - 34 minutes - 41.6 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dean Stott, former British Special Forces soldier, adventurer, philanthropist, author of "Relentless", international speaker, and two time world record holder. Ira Pastor Comments: Today we have the honor to be joined on the show by Mr. Dean Stott, former British Special Forces soldier, adventurer, philanthropist, author, international speaker, and two time world record holder in biking on the longest motor road in the world – The ...
Use of Patients' Health Data for Medical Breakthroughs
June 24, 2020 10:32 - 47 minutes - 56.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Chris Lunt, Chief Technology Officer of the All of Us Research Program run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Ira Pastor Comments Precision medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatments to the individual characteristics of each patient and away from the predominant “one-size-fits-all” approach of the last century, with the ability to classify individuals into sub-populations that differ in their susceptibility to a p...
The Human Life Extension Science
June 19, 2020 11:59 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Wei-Wu He, Ph.D, Executive Chairman of Human Longevity Inc (HLI). Ira Pastor Comments: The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls chronic degenerative disease “the public health challenge of the 21st Century,” especially as 75% of our healthcare spending is on people with chronic degenerative conditions, which are the leading causes of death and disability. Preventative healthcare consists of measures taken for chronic dise...
Personalised Nutrition App and Service For Better Gut Health and Overall Wellness
June 17, 2020 10:46 - 57 minutes - 66.5 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Naveen Jain, M.B.A, BS, Founder and CEO at Viome as well as founder of several companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. Ira Pastor comments: On this ideaXme episode, we are going to head back towards the theme of the human micro-biome, which represents the estimated 100 trillion aggregate of all microbiota (bacteria, fungi, protists, viruses, etc. ) that reside...
Compassion, Spirituality and Human Longevity
June 12, 2020 10:08 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training. Ira Pastor Comments: "Compassion" is broadly defined as sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others, involves allowing ourselves to be both 1) moved by the suffering and 2) experience the motivation to help alleviate and prevent it. Dr. Thupten Jinpa: Dr. Thupten Ji...