Welcome to Radix Radio, hosted by Jake Maciaszek and Hayley Vera, the founders of Health Pillars Lifestyle Coaching. Radix Radio was born from the challenges we faced in our own health journeys and the growing frustration with the broken medical systems that so many of us have come to rely on. Frustrated with unanswered questions, misleading information and the complexity of modern health problems, we have made it our mission to uncover the truth, push past the noise, and find the answered rooted in truth. Radix Radio: Rooted in Truth. Focused on the Way Forward.
Why do so many people add more cardio and still stop losing fat? We break down Duke researcher Herman Pontzer’s constrained energy model — the Hadza hunter-gatherer findings, the energy “budget” your body defends, and where the burned calories quietly get clawed back.
Then we get practical: why strength training keeps paying off through progressive overload while cardio plateaus, why muscle isn’t the calorie furnace it’s sold as, and why nutrition is the real fat-loss lever. Exercise is essential — just not for the reason you think.
5 Oct 2026
EPISODE 42: Your Metabolism Didn't Break: Hormones, GLP-1s & Peptides with Sharon Lemoine, ARNP
Sharon Lemoine has spent 30 years in healthcare, 25 of them in emergency medicine. She's also a Type 1 diabetic and a thyroid cancer survivor, and she went through surgical menopause. She's made high-stakes medical decisions from both sides of the exam table.
Now she runs a practice prescribing hormones, GLP-1s, and peptides. So Jake asked her the hard questions on all three.
They cover what really changed when the FDA pulled the black box warnings from hormone therapy, and whether the pendulum has swung too far. They get into why Herman Pontzer's research suggests your metabolism probably didn't crash at menopause, and what's actually changing instead. They talk about how to keep your muscle on a GLP-1, and whether anyone is really coming off them. And they look at where peptides like BPC-157 stand after this summer's FDA panel vote, and why "available" doesn't mean "proven."
In this episode:
What the 2002 hormone study got wrong (and what it got right)
Bioidentical vs. compounded hormones, and testosterone for women
The energy budget: why exercise alone struggles for weight loss
GLP-1s, muscle loss, and the off-ramp
The peptide regulatory mess, explained
28 Sept 2026
EPISODE 41: Why Willpower Always Fails (And What Works Instead) | Tony Crescenzo
Most people don't have a knowledge problem. They have a follow-through problem.
You know you should sleep more, train consistently, and stay calm under pressure. So why does it fall apart the moment life gets hard? In this episode, Jake sits down with Tony Crescenzo, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, CEO of Intelligent Waves, and founder of the cognitive-performance platform Peak Neuro, to talk about what separates people who perform under pressure from people who crack.
Tony has spent more than 30 years leading teams in high-stakes environments, and he's been open about his own battle with PTSD. He and Jake dig into why willpower always runs out, what actually builds lasting self-efficacy, how the military trains people to think clearly when everything is going wrong, and why two people can respond completely differently to the exact same intervention.
Then Jake puts neurotech on trial. Brain training, neuroacoustics, and "brain hacking" are exploding into mainstream wellness, but how much of it holds up? Tony isn't a neuroscientist or clinician, and he takes the hard questions head on: what the science can prove, where the hype outruns the evidence, and what you're really handing over when you share your brain data.
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