Your Life Depends On It
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsModern history is marked by astounding leaps forward in medicine and health science. But those breakthroughs don't do us any good if you don't understand them. Your Life Depends On It with Dr. Dave Schneider and host Mark Steele serves a single mission: to present the astounding and complicated intricacies of modern health in a manner that makes sense. The sort of sense that you want to make a part of your daily life.
Your Life Depends On It features its resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and author of The Invention of Surgery on Pegasus Books. Dr. Schneider has served as team physician for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Dodgers and is one of the most sought after total shoulder and total elbow replacement surgeons in the world. Dr. Schneider’s resume could go on for pages, but what matters most is that he remains curious and fascinated by the innovations in science and health, medicine and what they mean for better living.
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Episodes
Episode 16: Emotion with Detail
March 09, 2021 19:27 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview acting coach Warner Loughlin. She is the acting coach for modern icons like Ryan Reynolds and Amy Adams. Warner started her career as an actress, and during that time she was taught the method of substitution, where the performer takes his or her own past trauma and personal negative experiences and then relives them mentally and emotionally for the sake of the performance. Even though this method was taught by the grea...
Episode 15: Finding an Anchor
February 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 68 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Dr. Phil Roman, an expert cardiac anesthesiologist. Dr. Roman has trained in some of the leading institutions in the world, including Johns Hopkins and Duke University. However, despite his outstanding credentials, he describes himself as an intellectual late bloomer. Born to a Belgian father and a French mother, Dr. Roman’s childhood spanned the globe before they settled in the southern United States. As a college stud...
Finding an Anchor
February 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 68 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Dr. Phil Roman, an expert cardiac anesthesiologist. Dr. Roman has trained in some of the leading institutions in the world, including Johns Hopkins and Duke University. However, despite his outstanding credentials, he describes himself as an intellectual late bloomer. Born to a Belgian father and a French mother, Dr. Roman’s childhood spanned the globe before they settled in the southern United States. As a college stud...
Your Life Depends On It Episode 14: The Cyber Detective
February 16, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Michael Garnsey, a computer forensics investigator with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department. Michael was named the Nation’s Top Forensic Examiner in 2019. Unfortunately, the esteemed title comes with having a front row seat to the most depraved behavior of the human race. In his work to catch people who victimize children, how does he cope with the brutality of it? He finds strength in his fellow officers and the f...
Episode 14: The Cyber Detective
February 16, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Michael Garnsey, a computer forensics investigator with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department. Michael was named the Nation’s Top Forensic Examiner in 2019. Unfortunately, the esteemed title comes with having a front row seat to the most depraved behavior of the human race. In his work to catch people who victimize children, how does he cope with the brutality of it? He finds strength in his fellow officers and the f...
Episode 13: The Power of Hope
January 19, 2021 17:38 - 55 minutes - 51 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Dr. Kevin Lillehei, chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Kevin Lillehei grew up as the son of the most important pioneer of heart surgery. Every critical development in open heart surgery was inspired or invented by the elder Dr. Lillehei. Years later the torch was passed to the son. Dr. Lillehei has been a pioneer in the field of neuro-oncology. He has made it his life’s work to t...
Episode 12: Changing the Game
December 29, 2020 18:22 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview entrepreneur and champion youth football coach, Mike Piha. Mike is the CEO and Co-Founder of HitCheck, a cognitive assessment aid that is transforming the process of rapid concussion diagnosis. Mike’s life passion is coaching youth football. He has coached and inspired young athletes for 30 years. Many of whom have gone on to play college and pro-ball. The inspiration he creates comes from an unorthodox coaching method....
Episode 11: Band of Brothers
December 22, 2020 15:59 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview musician and recording artist Taylor Hanson. Taylor has spent the last 25 years of his life creating music with his brothers as a member of the superstar band, Hanson. When Taylor isn’t touring and releasing albums, he is working on eradicating hunger within his home state of Oklahoma. Taylor talks to us about his work with Food On the Move, an organization fighting to solve the predicament of food deserts. He discuss...
Episode 10: A Crisis on the Horizon
December 15, 2020 16:13 - 1 hour - 78 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview finance expert and author Michael (Mike) Wilkerson to discuss his new book, Stormwall: Observations on America in Peril. Mike is a graduate of Yale and Harvard. Mike is also the Chairman of the Board of charity: water, a nonprofit whose mission is to bring clean and safe drinking water to developing countries. He has an outstanding career at the very top of the world of business. Mike unpacks with Dr. Schneider the four...
Episode 9: The Power of Mentors
December 08, 2020 17:45 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview veterinary orthopedic surgeon and expert horseman Dr. Larry Bramlage. Dr. Bramlage opens up about the moments in life that led him to becoming the leading equine veterinarian in the world. Those important turning points in his life caused a ripple effect in the lives of racehorses around the globe. One of those ripples was Dr. Bramlage’s development of the lifesaving fetlock arthrodesis procedure that changed the sport ...
Episode 8: Do No Harm: The Opioid Crisis in America
December 01, 2020 18:31 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview renowned hand surgeon Dr. Asif Ilyas. Dr. Ilyas talks to us about two groundbreaking initiatives. One involving a unique way of doing anesthesia for orthopedic operations and the other centering around a new way of communicating to patients about pain control. In both instances, Dr. Ilyas and his partners at the Rothman Institute think out of the box, demonstrating the power of using imagination and science to change th...
Episode 7 : Creativity and Fatherhood
November 24, 2020 17:52 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBResident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., hosts Media Fabrica’s very own Mark Steele. We dive deep into Mark’s early years as an aspiring writer and standup comedian. Mark has used his award-winning career in the creative industry to uniquely tackle the challenges that come from being a parent to children on the autism spectrum. Dave and Mark open us up to what being on the autism spectrum actually means, and what an individual living with this disorder goes through on a daily basis. Mark el...
Episode 6: The Matriarchs of Medicine
November 17, 2020 18:52 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview award-winning author Wendy Moore. We dive deep into her fifth book, No Man’s Land, the story of the trailblazing women who ran Britain’s most extraordinary military hospital in WW1. Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray seized their moment in history and laid the groundwork for the future of women in medicine. They lived by the suffragette’s motto, “Deeds not words,” and with that philosophy they were able to not ju...
Episode 5 : How to Make Failure Valuable
November 10, 2020 16:11 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Alan Culpepper, an Olympian in both track and the marathon, who understands the nuances of endurance. Alan Culpepper, who began his running career at 15 years old, is versatile on an unheard-of level. Alan has run both under a four-minute mile and a marathon pace of under five minutes per mile. Even though these stats are phenomenal, they were not accomplished by accident, they are a result of preparing well. Alan’s ro...
Episode 4: The Power of Positivity for Professional Athletes
November 03, 2020 19:35 - 1 hour - 70 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Steve Hess, a former strength coach for the Denver Nuggets who believes positivity is the key to success when training professional athletes. Hess landed his dream job with the Nuggets when he was a young South African who never had a real job and was two feet shorter than every player in his charge. Over his career, Hess noticed that the life of the pro athlete seen by the public was not always the total picture. Often...
Episode 3: Curiosity, Comets and Modern Astrophysics
October 27, 2020 20:42 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider speak with Dr. Karen Meech, an expert at the forefront of modern astrophysics. Dr. Meech’s inspiration for her life’s work began at the age of seven when her obsession with Star Trek and camping out under the stars with her father motivated her to write science fiction essays throughout high school. Instead of those pursuits opening the door for a career as a science fiction writer, however, Dr. Meech’s imagination and curiosity granted...
Episode 2: Treating Parkinson’s Disease
October 20, 2020 14:25 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., interview Dr. David VanSickle, the Colorado neurosurgeon whose groundbreaking work has advanced deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's disease. After earning a master’s degree in engineering, Dr. VanSickle heard a new calling and determined that a career as an engineer was not actually the path best suited for him. So he listened to the calling and bravely started over, walking a new path to become a brain surgeon. Along th...
Battling The Coronavirus
October 08, 2020 10:06 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., discuss the battle against Covid-19 with Ken Bernard, a retired rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service. Bernard previously served in the George W. Bush Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense and as Assistant Surgeon General. During this time, he was the lead for public health issues on the National Security Council. Bernard currently serves as an adviser for Stanford Biosecur...
Episode 1: Battling The Coronavirus
October 08, 2020 10:06 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBHost Mark Steele and resident expert Dr. Dave Schneider, M.D., discuss the battle against Covid-19 with Ken Bernard, a retired rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service. Bernard previously served in the George W. Bush Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense and as Assistant Surgeon General. During this time, he was the lead for public health issues on the National Security Council. Bernard currently serves as an adviser for Stanford Biosecurity, whos...