The Corrupt Incentives Inside America’s Healthcare System (with Brigham Buhler)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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On today's episode, Andy travels to Austin to visit with Ways2Well founder Brigham Buhler at his Longevity Lab lab to discuss the search for the genetics secrets to eliminating chronic disease and how some species seem to live forever. They dig into why how the field is practiced today often leave patients without real answers, and why Buhler believes a more preventative, patient-focused approach could change that. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters: (00:00) Intro (02:08) Redesigning the Clinic: Making Healthcare Fun (07:10) How Insurance & PBMs Broke the Medical System (14:42) Big Pharma’s War on Compounding & Telemedicine (18:22) Why Your Doctor Is Trapped in a Broken System (21:18) Ways2Well Tour: 80s Nostalgia & UV Murals (30:52) The Opioid Crisis & Brigham’s Origin Story (38:25) Fighting the FDA & The Illusion of Surgical Safety (43:47) What Are Peptides & Why Pharma Wants Them (48:22) ALLEN: The Ways2Well AI Health Assistant (52:14) Debunking Medical Myths: Testosterone & HRT (58:16) Wearables & The Future of Proactive Health (01:10:57) Inside the Lab: Stem Cells, Red Light, & Hyperbaric Oxygen (01:17:48) Next-Level Detox: Blood Filtration (IBU) & Ozone Saunas (01:20:25) Gene Editing & The Future of Human Evolution Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ GHOSTBED: Go to https://www.GhostBed.com/IRONCLAD and use code IRONCLAD for an extra 15% off sitewide. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing.
0:06.4	Hey, if they don't kill a cop and bury him, what are they going to do to me?
0:09.9	What really happened to the missing deputy?
0:13.4	Valley of Shadows, a new series from Pushkin Industries about crime and corruption in California's high desert.
0:21.9	Listen to Valley of Shadows wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.7	Do you think China's creating humans?
0:31.9	Oh, yes.
0:32.7	What do you think they're doing?
0:33.7	They have like dire wolf humans right now?
0:35.2	Well, they're making genius level humans for sure. They're already doing that.
0:39.3	I recently had the opportunity to visit healthcare entrepreneur and founder of the company Ways to Well, Brigham Bueller,
0:49.3	at his state-of-the-art longevity lab in Austin, Texas.
0:53.3	One of the first things you notice when visiting the facility are images of jellyfish.
0:58.0	It's a creature that has deep significance to Bueller and the science he and his team are trying to unlock.
1:03.0	All right, man, this is your playground.
1:05.0	It is. So, I mean, everything kind of has a reason behind it, behind the chaos.
1:10.0	We did a jellyfish
1:12.2	wall. And the reason being is one of the first things that I learned that blew my mind was getting
1:17.5	to know this scientist, Dr. Ian White, who's now our chief science officer. Ian, 22 years at the bench,
1:23.9	stem cell research, literally kept a heart alive in a petri dish for three months
1:29.2	using nothing but stem cells. A human heart? A human heart. And one of the things that he explained
1:33.9	to me is we share a common ancestor with almost every species on earth, including jellyfish.
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