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The Proof Podcast is a space for science-based conversation. Together with his guests, Simon Hill, a qualified physiotherapist and nutritionist, explores the health and longevity benefits that come with mastering physical exercise, nutrition, mindfulness, recovery, sleep, and alignment. Facts, nuance and trustworthy recommendations minus the hyperbole. All the proof you need to live better for longer.
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- How Much Muscle Can You Build Naturally? | Dr Eric Helms · 2 h 0 min · Season 1This week I'm joined by Dr Eric Helms, a sports scientist, coach, and WNBF pro natural bodybuilder with more than 20 years of drug-free training behind him. He co-founded MASS…
- Treating Obesity Is Treating the Brain | Dr Elizabeth Kazarian · 2 h 11 min · Season 1Elizabeth Kazarian is a physician double board-certified in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine, practising in Washington DC. She treats obesity for a living, which means she…
- Most 'Probiotic' Foods Aren't Actually Probiotic | Dr Maria Marco · 1 h 1 min · Season 1The word gut health is on almost everything now, from yoghurt lids to supplement labels. So I asked food microbiologist Dr Maria Marco, Professor at UC Davis and President of the…
- What Bone Density Scans Can't Tell You About Fracture Risk | A Masterclass on Bone Health · 1 h 8 min · Season 1In this masterclass, I bring together six experts to untangle bone health, from fracture risk and DEXA scans to strength training, joint pain, and surgery. Dr Lora Giangregorio…
- The Keto Study That Wasn't About Keto | Dr Nicola Guess · 49 min · Season 1Practising registered dietitian and senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, Dr Nicola Guess, returns to the show to discuss a new study whose findings were…
- 30 Years of Diet Trials: What a Stanford Scientist Is Most (and Least) Sure About | Dr Christopher Gardner · 1 h 55 min · Season 1This is Christopher Gardner's eighth appearance on the show. Christopher is a nutrition scientist at Stanford, director of the Stanford Nutrition Studies Research Group, and the…
- My Plaque Protocol, and Why I Started a PCSK9 Inhibitor | Simon Hill, MSc · 57 min · Season 1A few weeks ago I published my own heart scans, and one number travelled further than the rest: a 48% drop in plaque over 16 and a half months. The question underneath that video…
- Why Your MRI Doesn't Mean You Need Surgery | Dr Howard Luks · 1 h 26 min · Season 1Howard Luks is an orthopaedic surgeon with almost 30 years of experience, and a good deal of his week is spent telling people they do not need an operation. We work through the…
- Birth, Breastfeeding, and the Truth About Baby Food | Dr Federica Amati · 1 h 22 min · Season 1This is part two of my conversation with Dr Federica Amati, Head Nutritionist at ZOE and author of the Sunday Times bestseller Every Body Should Know This. In part one we covered…
- The Liver Disease 30% of Us Have and Never Feel | Prof Aleksander Krag · 1 h 20 min · Season 1Around 30% of the world's population has too much fat in their liver, and almost none of them know it. Liver disease stays silent until it is very advanced, which is exactly why…
- The Case for Treating Cholesterol Before Plaque Appears | Dr Thomas Dayspring and Dr Dan Soffer · 1 h 42 min · Season 1Almost all of us have atherosclerosis, and almost none of us are told so, because "normal" cholesterol is a population average rather than a physiological target. Dr Thomas…
- Bone Health, Falls, Medications & Healthy Longevity | Dr Deborah Kado · 1 h 35 min · Season 1Everyone wants to talk about longevity. Almost no one wants to talk about gerontology, the field that has been studying how to age well for a century. Dr Deborah Kado, Stanford…
- Type 2 Diabetes Remission in the GLP-1 Era | Prof Roy Taylor · 1 h 24 min · Season 1Professor Roy Taylor returns, three years after his first appearance, with the five-year DiRECT trial results and a clear-eyed assessment of where diet-driven type 2 diabetes…
- Lowering Blood Sugar Without Weight Loss | Dr Nicola Guess · 1 h 8 min · Season 1Can you meaningfully improve type 2 diabetes without losing weight? Dr Nicola Guess, registered dietitian and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, says the…
- The Fertility Test Most Men Are Never Offered | Dr Michael Eisenberg and Dr Natalie Crawford · 2 h 3 min · Season 1About one in seven couples are unable to conceive after a year of trying, and roughly half of those cases involve a male contribution. Yet in a quarter to a third of them, the…
- Superagers, statins, the latest cholesterol pill and the truth about heart disease risk | Dr Terry Simpson · 1 h 53 min · Season 1Dr Terry Simpson is back, and we go deep on the science of protecting your heart and brain for the long run. He is a surgeon and one of the clearest voices online for separating…
- The Science of Metabolic Flexibility, Zone 2, and Reversing Diabetes | A Masterclass · 2 h 20 min · Season 1Metabolic dysfunction rarely announces itself. We tend to think of metabolic health as a line you cross the day you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but the decay usually…
- New Science of Weight Loss | A Masterclass · 1 h 54 min · Season 1GLP-1 medications are transforming obesity treatment, but they're only one piece of the puzzle. In this masterclass, I bring together insights from Dr Terry Simpson, Dr Federica…
- Fertility, Sperm Health, and Nutrition Before and During Pregnancy | Dr Federica Amati · 1 h 23 min · Season 1We tend to treat pregnancy as the starting line for a child's health. In this episode, Dr Federica Amati, Head Nutritionist at ZOE, makes the evidence-based case that the window…
- Can You Reverse Heart Disease? What My Plaque Scans Showed | Dr Campbell Rogers · 1 h 15 min · Season 1In late 2024 a CT scan revealed a small amount of soft plaque in my arteries. Sixteen months later I scanned again, and my plaque volume had dropped by around forty percent. In…
- Reversing Artery Plaque: 8 Supplements Ranked by the Evidence | Simon Hill, MSc · 1 h 1 min · Season 1Can a supplement actually reverse the plaque in your arteries, or only slow it down? It is the question I am asked most, and after a 2024 scan revealed early plaque in my own…
- How to Lose Weight and Fix Your Metabolism in 2026 | Dr Mauricio Gonzalez · 1 h 29 min · Season 1For decades we have treated the number on the scale as the goal of metabolic health. Dr Mauricio Gonzalez, a triple board-certified physician and endocrinology fellow practising…
- Evidence-Based Exercise in Pregnancy and Postpartum | Dr Margie Davenport · 1 h 33 min · Season 1In this episode, exercise physiologist Dr Margie Davenport walks me through what the evidence actually shows about exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Margie…
- Nutrition for satiety and weight loss | Dr Federica Amati · 1 h 32 min · Season 1GLP-1 medications are now part of the mainstream conversation, but the biology of appetite and satiety, the system these drugs operate within, gets far less attention than the…
- The Surgeon Defending Statins, GLP-1s, and Ancel Keys | Dr Terry Simpson · 1 h 42 min · Season 1In this episode, I sit down with bariatric surgeon and science communicator Dr Terry Simpson for a wide-ranging conversation about health misinformation, GLP-1 medications…
- Has Optimisation Culture Gone Too Far? | Sarah Ann Macklin · 1 h 10 min · Season 1In this episode, I’m joined by Sarah Ann Macklin to explore the hidden psychological costs of modern wellness culture and why pursuing health can sometimes leave us feeling more…
- What the Headlines Get Wrong About the Future of Meat | Bruce Friedrich · 1 h 47 min · Season 1Six years on from our first conversation, global meat consumption is at a record high, and the harms of industrial animal agriculture have only deepened. Bruce Friedrich, founder…
- Improving cholesterol and blood pressure with diet | A Masterclass · 1 h 57 min · Season 1Cardiovascular disease is the world's leading killer, and yet the prevention conversation has become noisier and more confused than ever. In this Masterclass I bring together the…
- The Peptides Quietly Accelerating Aging | Dr Valter Longo · 1 h 47 min · Season 1The peptide and GLP-1 conversation has reached a fever pitch. Growth-hormone-releasing peptides are being marketed as longevity tools, GLP-1s are being treated as a default…
- The Diet That Lowers Cholesterol Like a Statin | Dr Andrea Glenn · 1 h 34 min · Season 1Plant-based nutrition has rarely been more contested. Seed oils are vilified, butter is celebrated, protein is treated as a pure quantity question, and nutrition epidemiology is…
- Food Labels, Fibre, and Ultra-Processed Foods: What Really Matters | Rhiannon Lambert · 59 min · Season 1Ultra-processed foods are now the central nutrition conversation of the decade, but the gap between the marketing and the evidence has never been wider. In this episode, I sit…
- The Peptide Lie: What a Drug Developer Reveals About the Compounds Everyone Is Injecting | Dr Leigh Baxt · 46 min · Season 1Peptides are being marketed as solutions for everything from injury recovery to longevity, but what does the science actually say? In this episode, Dr Leigh Baxt joins me to…
- Preventing and reversing osteoporosis | Dr Belinda Beck · 1 h 24 min · Season 1In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Belinda Beck to challenge long-held beliefs about osteoporosis and bone health. We break down what actually works, what doesn’t, and why many…
- New microbiome science | Dr Tim Spector · 1 h 25 min · Season 1In this episode, I return to a conversation I promised to continue - sitting back down with Prof Tim Spector, MD, to explore everything that has changed in microbiome science…
- Food and weight loss | Dr Kevin Hall · 1 h 56 min · Season 1In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Kevin Hall from the NIH to unpack the science behind ultra-processed foods, energy balance, and the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines. We explore…
- The exercise that builds strong bones and better balance | Dr Lora Giangregorio · 2 h 37 min · Season 1In this episode, I speak with Dr Lora Giangregorio about how to train for stronger bones, better balance, and long-term independence. We break down what actually matters when it…
- The dietary guidelines great debate | Dr Christoper Gardner and Dr Ty Beal · 2 h 51 min · Season 1In this episode, I’m joined by Christopher Gardner and Ty Beal to break down the science and debate behind the latest U.S. Dietary Guidelines. We explore ultra-processed foods…
- The sleep habit that quietly raises your risk of heart disease | Dr Kristen Knutson · 1 h 24 min · Season 1In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Kristen Knutson to unpack circadian health and how timing influences our metabolism, cardiovascular health, and sleep quality. We discuss the…
- The Science of Exercise for Women 40+: What to Prioritise (And What to Ignore) | Dr Lauren Colenso-Semple and Dr Alyssa Olenick · 2 h 58 min · Season 1Dr Lauren Colenso-Semple and Dr Alyssa Olenick join me to answer a question I hear constantly from women in midlife: “Why am I putting in so much effort, but not seeing the…
- Building muscle for longevity | Dr Brad Schoenfeld and Alan Aragon · 3 h 30 min · Season 1Dr Brad Schoenfeld and Alan Aragon join me to explore protein requirements, recomposition, and how to structure resistance training for long-term strength and muscle retention…
- The good and the bad of the new US dietary guidelines | Dr David Katz · 1 h 31 min · Season 1The 2025 US Dietary Guidelines are out, and they’ve sparked debate across the nutrition world. In this episode, I sit down with Dr David Katz to examine where the new…
- Reversing atherosclerosis with diet | Simon Hill, Msc · 54 min · Season 1Can diet really reverse atherosclerosis, or is that an overpromise? Since sharing my own coronary CT angiogram results, this question has come up almost daily. In this episode, I…
- How body fat affects your metabolic health and risk of metabolic disease | Dr Robert Eckel · 1 h 53 min · Season 1I’m joined by Dr Robert Eckel to unpack why obesity is far more complex than a BMI number and why insulin resistance plays such a central role in cardiometabolic disease. We…
- The science of fertility: Hormones, inflammation, and what you can control | Dr Natalie Crawford · 3 h 6 min · Season 1Fertility is not just about timing ovulation. In this episode, Dr Natalie Crawford explains how sleep, stress, insulin resistance, diet, toxins, supplements, and lifestyle…
- Why some people gain weight eating the same food | Dr Karen Corbin · 1 h 42 min · Season 1Could your gut microbiome influence how many calories you absorb from the same food? Karen Corbin explains the science behind energy absorption, faecal calorie loss, and why…
- Protein, increasing bone mineral density, saturated fat and more reflections | Drew Harrisberg · 2 h 16 min · Season 1In this episode, Drew Harrisberg and I go deep on life beyond macros and metrics. We talk about gratitude, regret, ageing, and how constant optimisation can quietly pull us away…
- Protein amount, quality and timing | Dr Luc van Loon · 1 h 47 min · Season 1I sit down with Dr Luc van Loon to unpack what really happens to protein in the body, from digestion to muscle and organ tissue. We explore why muscle protein synthesis is often…
- Evidence-Based Strategies for Heart Health and Longevity | Highlights of 2025 (Part 2) · 2 h 16 min · Season 1In Part 2 of Highlights of 2025, I revisit some of the most important conversations from the year on The Proof, covering cardiovascular prevention, blood pressure, cholesterol…
- What the Science Really Says About Nutrition | Highlights of 2025 (Part 1) · 2 h 35 min · Season 1Welcome to Part 1 of our Highlights of 2025 series, where I revisit the most important conversations from the year on The Proof, spanning nutrition science, misinformation, and…
- Science-based nutrition to prevent a heart attack | Michelle Routhenstein, MS, RD · 2 h 15 min · Season 1In this episode, I’m joined by cardiac dietitian Michelle Routhenstein to unpack why heart disease prevention is still so misunderstood. We explore cholesterol confusion, blood…
