Dr. Darshan Shah on AI-Powered Personalized Health

Well Beyond 40

JJ Virgin

Nutrition, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How can you use AI to better understand your labs without replacing your doctor? I’m talking with Dr. Darshan Shah about one of the most exciting shifts happening in health: the intersection of AI, personalized medicine, and longevity. Dr. Shah is a physician, founder of Next Health, and the author of the upcoming book Your New Health OS, and he breaks down how women can start using labs, wearables, and AI in a smarter, safer way. We also dig into why muscle, hormones, HRV, morning routines, and the basics of lifestyle medicine still matter more than the flashiest biohacks. What you’ll learn: (05:35) AI is changing personalized health and why women over 40 need to learn how to use it wisely. (08:01) Lab testing is more available than ever, and how AI can help connect the dots between your results. (10:22) How to use wearables without creating data anxiety or obsessing over daily scores. (11:27) HRV is one of the most important health metrics to track for stress, recovery, and nervous system balance. (17:17) What a digital twin is and how it could help predict your response to health interventions. (22:29) Why Dr. Shah created Next Health and how it brings longevity, functional medicine, and biohacking tools under one roof. (24:22) Sleep, exercise, nutrition, and metabolic health need to come before advanced longevity therapies. (33:33) Why skeletal muscle mass may be the most important health metric for women over 40 to track. Love the podcast? Here’s what to do: Subscribe to the podcast. Leave a review. Text a screenshot to me at 813-565-2627 and wait for a personal reply because your voice is so important to me. Full show notes (including all links mentioned): https://jjvirgin.com/drshah Episode Sponsor: Try Qualia risk-free for up to 100 days and use code VIRGINWELLNESS for 15% off If your routine or eating habits have changed recently head to BodyBio.com/JJVIRGIN to start supporting your gut. Mitopure supports the cellular energy that allows your muscles to actually respond and adapt. Mitopure gummies make it simple. Visit https://timeline.com/jjvirgin for 20% off your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is a digital twin?
0:01.5	A digital twin, basically, first is created by having enough of your data, so we understand
0:07.8	what is a current state of your biology.
0:10.0	And then the second step of digital twin is programming it with the data of what happens
0:15.4	with specific interventions.
0:17.0	And then we can make a prediction on how would that intervention affect you in your digital twin?
0:23.2	I mean, I think this is something that will be a game changer for menopause, for example.
0:27.8	So say you're having symptoms and you want to try a particular intervention.
0:31.7	How is it going to affect you?
0:32.7	Like, you don't know until you try it or you can have your digital twin try it and see and see what the data tells us.
0:39.0	This is wild.
0:40.2	Yeah.
0:40.6	It's going to be an incredible new world that we're in in the next five years for sure.
0:44.8	Well, what do you see the risks with all of this?
0:46.7	One of the biggest risks will probably be the people out there that fully transfer all of their medical care to an AI model.
0:56.1	Even when you're doing all the right things,
0:58.5	your strength training, staying after,
1:00.4	prioritizing protein,
1:01.9	keeping the muscle you built over a lifetime gets harder with age.
1:06.1	Now, our parents were told to accept that it's just getting older.
1:09.7	I don't buy that. And that's why I use
1:12.2	Timeline powered by Midepure. Here's the real story. Muscle isn't just about strength or looking good.
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