589: Are You Trying Too Hard to Be Healthy? How Optimizing Your Health Can Backfire | Lucy McBride, MD

Aug 12, 2026 · 1h 15m

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0:00What's going on everybody?

0:01It's episode 589 of The Genius Life.

0:05Let's rock.

0:18The Genius Life.

0:23What's going on, everybody?

0:24Welcome back to The Genius Life.

0:25I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and today's episode is all about how to take control of your health in a world where wellness itself has gotten a little out of control.

0:33My guest is Dr.

0:34Lucy McBride.

0:35She's a Harvard-trained internal medicine physician and author of the new book, Beyond the Prescription.

0:41Today, we talk about why modern medicine so often fails to treat the whole person, how the wellness industry has stepped into that void with an endless stream of protocols, gurus, supplements, and optimization, and how to become the CEO of your own health without becoming your own doctor or obsessing over every single biomarker.

0:57We also get into GLP-1 drugs, peptides, menopause, and the difference between actually improving your health and simply doing more.

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