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90% Healthy

by Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley

What if everything you thought about health was wrong? Most of us, when it comes to our health, are stuck at 50%—getting by, feeling “fine,” but far from thriving. In the 90% Healthy podcast, longevity journalist Klaudia and sports scientist Don Moxley peel back the curtain on wellness myths, extreme trends, and the obsession with perfection. This isn’t another podcast promising quick fixes, shortcuts, or hacks. It’s about 1% shifts at a time. With science-backed insights, relatable stories, and practical strategies, we’ll show you how to start feeling DAMN GOOD. Because 90% is all you need!

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  1. What’s in That IV? Plus Japan’s 100,000 Centenarians and the HRV Debate | Ep71

    Would you still sit in that IV chair if you knew what was being tested, and what wasn’t? Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley lead with a safety story moving fast: a third compounding pharmacy has recalled injectable glutathione over bacterial endotoxins, with more than 25 people sickened across at…

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  2. Apple's Longevity Play: The Health Age, the $119 Blood Test & the Study Apple Ran on Itself | Ep70

    Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley break down Apple's move into longevity: the new Health Age metric, the $119 Quest blood panel built into the Health app, and the company's own 1,000-plus-participant study claiming its watch is the most accurate on the market. Don, who wrote the book on HRV, read the...

  3. Rebuilding a Life After Brain Injury, Lyme, and Several Lost Years | Ep69 with Jordan Dunin

    In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, co-hosts Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley sit down with Jordan Dunin — founder and CEO of HatchPath and author of The Regulated Leader — whose recovery began with a dock dive that compression-fractured his spine and tore muscle off the back of his skull at...

  4. Why You Don't Need to Be an Athlete to Benefit From Measuring HRV

    You're not an Olympian, so why should you care about a number built for elite athletes? In Episode 68, co-hosts Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley make the case that heart rate variability was never really an athlete's tool, as they unpack Don's new release, The HRV Book, written for everyone who…

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  5. Is Cannabis Being Rescheduled? Here's What Changes | Ep 67

    What happens to your nervous system when stress stops being a moment and starts being a mark you carry? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, co-hosts Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley get into cannabis. Don Moxley worked inside the licensed cannabis industry before HRV and longevity, and in…

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  6. Can You Slow Down Aging Without Spending A Fortune, Or Is Longevity Only For The Ultra-Wealthy?

    In episode 66 of the 90% Healthy Podcast, co-hosts Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley unpack why the billionaire longevity race may be pointing everyone back toward the same affordable basics: sleep, breath, movement, nutrient-dense food, light, and community They dig into what the ultra-wealthy are...

  7. This WIll Be More Important To The Human Race Than AI Is | Ep 65

    You lose 30 pounds on a GLP-1. How much of it is muscle? On Episode 65, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley take on the objection nearly everyone lands on — "it eats muscle" — and find that it's wrong, but not entirely wrong. Don calls this class of drugs one of the most important developments in...

  8. The $7 Trillion Wellness Industry Is Selling You Anxiety | Ep64

    Your HRV dropped 15 points overnight. Does that ruin your day? On Episode 64, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley dig into the line between health agency and health obsession, and why "orthosomnia" (losing sleep over your sleep score) is a real and growing problem. We are the first generation that can...

  9. Leading HRV Expert On The Data Your Wearable Is Making Up | Marco Altini

    Dr. Marco Altini joins Klaudia and Don for the deepest heart rate variability conversation the show has done yet. Marco holds a PhD cum laude in applied machine learning, an M.Sc. in human movement sciences and high-performance coaching, has published more than 50 papers and patents at the...

  10. Does Our Nervous System Switch Control All 12 Hallmarks of Aging? MIT-Trained Engineer Says, Yes!

    We keep treating the 12 hallmarks of aging, like mitochondrial dysfunction, telomere shortening, epigenetic drift, and cellular senescence, as if they were the problem. JP Errico thinks they're symptoms. The real driver is upstream: the balance between your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous...

  11. Dead Cells, Fake Labels, and The Stem Cell Industry's Dirty Secret | Ep61 with Jeff Turk

    Jeffrey Turk has been inside the stem cell industry long enough to know where the bodies are buried — figuratively speaking. As a disabled veteran, NBC Operations Specialist, and founder of Mount Hydra, Jeff came into this space because stem cells were the only thing that helped him. What he…

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  12. The Blood Test Your Doctor Never Orders (But Should): 100 Biomarkers & Biological Age Explained

    Klaudia's recent blood work came back with a surprise: her biological age clocked in 10 years younger than her real age, tracked across 100+ biomarkers by Mito Health. We brought in founder Kenneth Lou to break down exactly how that number is calculated, why the standard annual physical misses…

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  13. Can You Outsmart Your Next Doctor’s Visit?

    Your Oura tracks your sleep. Your Whoop measures your strain. Your CGM watches your glucose. Your bloodwork sits in a PDF. And none of them talks to each other. In Episode 59 of the 90% Healthy Podcast, hosts Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley sit down with David Korsunsky — founder and CEO of Heads…

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  14. Stress Is Cellular: The Night My Average HRV Hit 222, and What It Took to Get There | Salim Najjar

    What if your heart rate variability score could tell you exactly how stressed, burnt out, or aligned you are?In this episode, we sit down with Salim Najjar (@ThatHRVGuy), a former nuclear power plant engineer turned HRV educator and nervous system coach. Salim broke down the science and the…

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  15. Why Vagus Nerve Stimulation May Be the Missing Link to Your Low HRV | Ep57 with Povilas Sabaliauskas

    If you track your HRV and the number won't move, this is the episode to listen to. Don Moxley has 8 years of HRV data. The day he started vagus nerve stimulation, his floors tripled and his ceilings doubled. He hadn't changed anything else. Povilas Sabaliauskas built the device that did it. A...

  16. What Olympic-Level Performance Requires (And What It Costs) | Ep 56

    The Harvard professor who studies Olympians says: If you have to choose between exercise and sleep, take the sleep. That's not an excuse to skip the gym. That's elite-level biology. This week on 90% Healthy, sports scientist Don Moxley and longevity journalist Klaudia Balogh broke down what it...

  17. Autonomic Rehabilitation: The Science of Training Your Nervous System to Recover | Dr. Raouf Gharbo | Ep 54

    There are only a handful of physicians in the world practicing autonomic rehabilitation. One of them is on this episode. Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley sits down with Dr. Raouf Gharbo, MD, Don's former Ohio State wrestling teammate, All-American, and one of the world's foremost experts in…

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  18. Muscle Function Matters More Than Size (Here’s Why) | Ep 54

    Muscle function matters more than muscle size, especially as we age. While most fitness conversations focus on building muscle mass and hypertrophy, the real predictor of longevity, independence, and injury prevention is functional strength. In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia and...

  19. Health Is Simpler Than the Internet Makes It | Ep 53

    We just wrapped up Year 1 of the 90% Healthy Podcast. After 50+ episodes, many world-class experts, and several hours of conversations on longevity, recovery, brain health, wearables, peptides, sleep, and metabolic optimization, this is what we believe may move the needle the most. In this…

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  20. The Brain Health Framework Everyone Needs Right Now | Ep52 Tommy Wood

    Brain health is having a moment, and not by accident. Post-COVID burnout, rising dementia rates, mental health struggles, and chronic brain fog have pushed cognitive health to the center of the longevity conversation. But most people still don’t know what works. In this 1-year anniversary episode...

  21. Peptides Explained: Science, Safety, and the Billion-Dollar Confusion

    Peptides are suddenly everywhere, from GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to recovery stacks, skincare, and “research-grade” compounds sold online. But what are peptides really? Which ones are proven? Which ones are dangerous? And why is the industry being called the Wild West right now? In this episode of...

  22. How This Founder Will Change the Way You Think About Light Therapy

    Most people think light therapy is about buying the brightest panel or sitting in a sauna longer. This conversation changes that. In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Don Moxley sits down with Robbie Bresser, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of TheraSage, to unpack why how light is...

  23. The Reason You Wake Up Tired (Even After 8 Hours) | Ep 49 with Sleep Scientist Dr. Dan Gartenberg

    Most people don’t need to “optimize” their sleep — they need to understand it. In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, sleep scientist Dr. Dan Gartenberg (PhD, founder of SleepSpace) breaks down why so many disciplined, high-performing people still wake up tired, and why copying sleep hacks...

  24. Why Disciplined People Still Feel Stuck — With Nervous System, Performance & Well-Being Coach Jose Maresma | EP48

    You know what to do. You’ve tried discipline, consistency, and self-control. So why does it still feel so hard? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, we speak with Jose Maresma, a nervous system–informed performance and wellbeing coach who works with physicians, first responders, elite...

  25. Did the Government Finally Get Nutrition Right? Plus the New Research on Physical Decline | Ep47

    This week on the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley break down one of the biggest nutrition policy shifts in decades — the newly released U.S. Dietary Guidelines — and what they actually mean for real people. For the first time, the guidelines prioritize real food, protein, fiber,...

  26. 5 Tools to Stop Repeating the Same New Year’s Resolution Mistakes | Ep46

    New Year’s resolutions are a yearly ritual… and most people are back to square one by February. Let's not make that you! So we’re giving it a 90% Healthy twist: instead of chasing perfect goals, we’re giving you a 5-step toolkit that survives real life — travel, stress, chaos, low motivation, and...

  27. Two New Studies Everyone Should Read Before Their January Reset

    Before you jump into a drastic January reset, juice cleanse, or extreme diet, this episode is worth your time. In this holiday-week conversation on the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley break down two new studies that challenge how we think about sustainable health...

  28. Why Your Biology Hates Modern Life | Evolutionary Mismatch Explained | Ep 44

    Are humans actually built for the world we live in? In Episode 44 of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia and Don unpack two big themes shaping 2026: 1️⃣ A groundbreaking Swiss study revealing how our biology is mismatched with modern life 2️⃣ The new leadership traits every human (not just…

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  29. 5 Wellness Trends You Should Ignore in 2026 | Ep 43

    Are you still doing wellness trends that don’t actually move the needle? In this episode, Klaudia and Don break down the biggest health, fitness, and longevity trends that are officially getting kicked to the curb in 2026—and what actually works instead. If you’ve felt overwhelmed by endless...

  30. The Health & Longevity Trends That Will Matter in 2026 | Ep42

    Did you know we’re entering a new era of longevity—one where strength training becomes medicine, recovery becomes a vital sign, and your smartphone can now do what a $300 scan used to? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and exercise physiologist Don Moxley break down the...

  31. Did You Know You Can Measure Your Body Composition With Your Smartphone’s Camera? And It’s Accurate | Ep 41 with Jason Moore

    For decades, accurate body composition meant expensive machines: DEXA, BodPod, InBody. Today, you can stand in front of your smartphone camera… and get near-clinical accuracy in under a minute. In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia and Don sit down with Jason Moore, Founder & CEO of...

  32. Why Most Footwear Are Destroying Your Body (And What To Do About It) | Ep40 Brent Meredith

    Take your damn shoes off more often. Seriously. Your feet have more nerve endings than almost any other part of your body, and they quietly control your balance, posture, gait, and long-term joint health. When your feet get weak, cramped, or numb inside modern cushioned shoes… your knees, hips…

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  33. Running Can Fix What Junk Food Breaks (Science Says So? And Why That News Headline Misleads You) | Ep39

    “Running fixes where junk food breaks the brain”—that headline exploded across the internet. But is it true? We break down what the science really says about movement, mood, and longevity, and why that headline is misleading... In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don...

  34. The Future of Fitness: AI, Data & The Death of Dumb Workouts | Ep38 with Eric Malzone

    AI is rewriting the rules of fitness. From personalized data-driven workouts to digital twins that test your health protocols before you try them — this is what the gym of 2035 really looks like. In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley talk with Eric Malzone…

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  35. HRV Explained Like Never Before: The #1 Mistake People Make When Reading HRV | Ep37

    ⚡️ Feeling drained? Your nervous system is trying to tell you something. In this week’s episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia & Don unpack the real science behind Heart Rate Variability (HRV) — your body’s internal “battery gauge” that reveals how resilient you truly are. Klaudia shares how...

  36. A 5-Minute Workout So Easy It Feels Like Play (But It Works) | Ep36 with Steve Carver

    What if feeling better didn’t mean pushing harder but bouncing smarter? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia and Don talk with Steve Carver from JumpSport about why rebounding (aka mini trampoline training) might just be the most underrated workout for your lymphatic system, mood,...

  37. The Secret Framework You Can Use to Stay Resilient and Win in Sports & In Life Too

    What does it really take to perform at your best — in sport and in life? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley break down The Complete Athlete Framework, a performance system 30 years in the making. 💥 You’ll learn: The Athlete Performance Triangle —…

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  38. The Fuel Source You're Missing to Improve Your Sleep & HRV | Ep 34

    You probably think you've tried everything to improve your sleep and nervous system recovery. Better mattresses. Sleep supplements. More exercise. Meditation. But there's ONE fuel source your body needs that almost nobody is using. And without it, you'll keep hitting a ceiling on your sleep…

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  39. What Your Sleep, The Air You Breathe & Social Life Say About Your Longevity | Part 2 of Longevity KPIs | Ep 33

    Don Moxley and Klaudia Balogh go beyond sleep in Part 2 of the longevity key performance indicators. They discuss some highly overlooked measures that may predict how well you'll age. Key Takeaways: Sleep timing consistency wins over sleep duration for longevity Your brain literally washes itself...

  40. Movement & Nutrition Metrics That Predict Your Healthspan | Part 1 of Longevity KPIs | Ep32

    In this comprehensive episode, Don Moxley and Klaudia Balogh break down the key performance indicators (KPIs) that matter most for longevity and healthspan. What You'll Learn: Why traditional medical metrics miss the mark for performance optimization Movement KPIs: Steps, moderate-vigorous…

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  41. The Shocking Benefits of Red Light Therapy Nobody Told You About | Sarah Turner | Ep31

    Red light therapy is more than a skin hack. In this evidence-led interview, neuroscientist Sarah Turner explains how specific wavelengths (esp. 850nm near-infrared) can structure cellular water, fuel mitochondria, and modulate the gut–brain axis—with implications for brain fog, mood, sleep, TBI...

  42. Why Women Get Injured 8x More Than Men + How to Train for Your Female Body | Ep30

    Discover why women are 2-8 times more likely to suffer ACL injuries than men and how understanding female physiology can revolutionize your training approach. In this episode of The 90% Healthy Podcast, hosts Don Moxley (former Ohio State strength coach) and Klaudia Balogh (Longevity Journalist)...

  43. Why Chugging a Gallon of Water Will Not Keep You Hydrated

    Are you walking around dehydrated—or worse, overhydrated? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley unpack the truth about hydration, electrolytes, and magnesium—and why “just drink more water” isn’t the whole story. You’ll learn: ✅ Why electrolytes (sodium,...

  44. Master Your Sleep: Fixing Insomnia, Circadian Rhythm & Nighttime Wakeups | Mollie Eastman | Ep 28

    Struggling with insomnia, constant wakeups, or feeling wired and tired? 😴 You’re not alone, and the good news is, better sleep is a skill you can learn. In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley sit down with Mollie Eastman, founder of Sleep Is A Skill, to uncover...

  45. How SuperAgers Keep Their Brains Young (Backed by 25 Years of Research)

    What if you could be 85 and think like you’re 55? This week on the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia and Don dive into the fascinating science of SuperAgers — people in their 80s whose brains function decades younger. We break down the 25-year Northwestern study on SuperAgers and explore: Why…

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  46. Why Your Health Goals Fail Without This 3-Step Framework And What Happens to Your Brain on Reels

    Your wearable can track your steps, your heart rate… and now your blood pressure. But is that still fitness—or is it medicine? Plus, a new study reveals how doomscrolling negatively impacts your brain and feeds an addictive loop. Klaudia and Don unpack: The FDA’s warning to WHOOP over its blood...

  47. The Human Energy Crisis You Didn’t See Coming: How to Reclaim Your Power & Avoid Burnout | Ep25

    Most of us think managing our energy means more coffee, more supplements, or taking a day off — but the truth is, rest isn’t always recovery. In this episode, Klaudia and Don talk with Jessica Corbin, founder of SORCE, about energetic literacy — the skill of reading and responding to your body’s...

  48. Doctor Reveals the Nervous System Trick to Boost Healing & Performance

    What if the real reason you’re not healing isn’t your diet, your workouts, or your supplements, but your nervous system? In this episode of the 90% Healthy Podcast, Klaudia Balogh and Don Moxley sit down with functional medicine doctor and vagus nerve expert Dr. Navaz Habib to explore the most...

  49. Can Saying No Be the Ultimate Longevity Hack We’re All Missing?

    What if the best biohack… is what you stop doing?In this episode, Klaudia and Don sit down with Sandy Martin, biohacker, wellness event producer, and author of Biohacking Starts with No. Sandy shares her powerful story of overcoming mold toxicity, challenging her doctor's advice, and learning…

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  50. Why The Workout Your Friend Loves Feel Like Torture To You

    Ever feel like some workouts just aren’t your thing, no matter how hard you try? There’s science behind it. In this episode, Don Moxley and Klaudia Balogh break down new research revealing how your personality type directly predicts the workouts you’ll enjoy most and stick with long-term. We…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

What if everything you thought about health was wrong? Most of us, when it comes to our health, are stuck at 50%—getting by, feeling “fine,” but far from thriving. In the 90% Healthy podcast, longevity journalist Klaudia and sports scientist Don Moxley peel back the curtain on wellness myths, extreme trends, and the obsession with perfection. This isn’t another podcast promising quick fixes, shortcuts, or hacks. It’s about 1% shifts at a time. With science-backed insights, relatable stories, and practical strategies, we’ll show you how to start feeling DAMN GOOD. Because 90% is all you need!

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