Inside the Wellness Boom: Separating Scams From Science
On with Kara Swisher
New York Magazine
4.2 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What about my fish oil? |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, your fish oil is good. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, except you get fish breath with fish oil. |
| 0:06.7 | You burp a lot. |
| 0:08.1 | You do. |
| 0:09.3 | It's on. |
| 0:09.8 | Hi, everyone from New York Magazine in the Box Media Podcast Network. This is on with Kara Swisher, |
| 0:25.2 | and I'm Kara Swisher. As you might know, my new CNN series debuted this past weekend. It's called |
| 0:31.1 | Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever. It's a big look at longevity, anti-aging, and the huge |
| 0:36.5 | industries popping up around all these topics. |
| 0:39.2 | I wanted to cut through all the scams and hype and talk about the real science around how to live longer, healthier lives. |
| 0:45.4 | I do not want to live forever, by the way. |
| 0:47.5 | Longevity is also the subject of today's show, and I've got three experts with me to talk about it. |
| 0:52.4 | Katie Couric is a journalist. She's also been a |
| 0:54.4 | long-time advocate for people to get cancer screenings after her first husband died of colon cancer, |
| 0:59.3 | and she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Amy LaRaca is an award-winning journalist and author of |
| 1:04.7 | the book How to Be Well, Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, one dubious cure at a time. She is in the series. And so is my brother, |
| 1:12.7 | Dr. Jeffrey Swisher. He's the chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the California |
| 1:17.4 | Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. And he recently caught, before it happened, |
| 1:22.8 | the possibility of a so-called widowmaker heart attack. His wife has also been diagnosed with stage three colon cancer and is actually doing really well. |
| 1:31.9 | It's a really interesting time to talk to these people because all of them have dealt with |
| 1:35.5 | health in a very different way. |
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