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A Nobel Prize Winner On Why We Age And How Long We Can Live

2026-11-1352:42

As a young teenager, Randy Schekman cycled to his local police station and told the duty officer he was running away from home. His mother kept borrowing the money he was saving for a microscope. Half a century later, that same microscope sits in the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. Randy Schekman won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how cells package and ship their molecules. That work now underpins how a third of the world’s insulin is made. He is a professor of mol...

Inside a Nobel Prize Winner’s Lab Where Microscopes Meet AI

2026-11-0607:10

Most microscopes have a limit to what they can show us. Eric Betzig helped to break that limit, and won a Nobel Prize in the process. In this episode, Méline goes behind the scenes at Eric’s lab at UC Berkeley. Eric is a physicist and a winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shows her a microscope built to look inside transparent zebrafish, where blood cells can be seen flowing through capillaries live. He explains why he believes most biology is done on the wrong cells. He also exp...

He Quit Science, Then Won a Nobel Prize With a Microscope Built on a Living Room Floor

2026-10-3056:50

Eric Betzig once walked away from science altogether. Years later, he and his best friend put $25,000 each of their own money into building a microscope on a living room floor, and it won him the Nobel Prize. In this episode, Méline sits down with Eric in his office. Eric is a physicist, a winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, and a Professor at UC Berkeley. He talks about his years at Bell Labs, the frustration that led him to quit, and the ...

Trying Tropical Fruits in Hainan, China (Ranked Out of 10)

2026-10-2307:59

What if some of the best health and longevity secrets are not found in laboratories or supplements, but growing on trees right in front of us? In this episode, Méline travels to Hainan, China’s tropical island, with her friend Dhinil to taste fruits rarely seen in London. They rate each one as they go. First, Méline meets Chen Ge, a farmer whose organic fruit and vegetables have built a loyal following. He shares what he believes separates naturally grown produce from what we buy in the shop...

Healthy Tomato Soup Recipe From a Top California Health Retreat

2026-10-1604:01

At Golden Door, one of America’s best-known health retreats, guests are served a light tomato broth in the middle of the day, after a morning of hard work and before lunch at one o’clock. It looks simple, but there is a lot of thinking behind it. In this episode, Méline visits Golden Door in California and speaks to Executive Chef Greg Frey Jr about how the soup is made and why it works. The broth is built from filtered water and crushed tomatoes, then steeped for about an hour with the trim...

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