SuperHuman
SuperHuman
Playlist by SuperHumanSuperHuman is a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat docuseries that dives into the launch of what many have called the “Doping Olympics” - the Enhanced Games - a controversial new sporting event where perf…Follow the podcast:
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From How to Life Forever: The Longevinauts
When an astrologer tells Mangesh that he’ll (probably) die early, he takes it in stride. But his family and friends (not to mention all the Don’t Die longevity influencers on his FYP) feel differently… and besides, if science can keep his brain sharp and his tennis game strong for longer, why not t…
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Billionaires, PEDs, and a $1M World Record with Michael Easter
Chris and Sam joined Michael Easter on his podcast, Two Percent with Michael Easter, to break down the aftermath of the Enhanced Games. Almost no world records fell. Clean athletes kept beating the enhanced ones. They get into what it was actually like to be there, what the billionaires behind it a…
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How We Got Here
What exactly is wrong with doping? It sounds like a simple question until you try to answer it. Dr. April Henning has spent her career studying exactly that. She’s a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and one of the world’s leading experts on the history of anti-doping. She walks us t…
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What Nobody Tells You About Steroids with Dr. Mike Israetel
What does it actually feel like to use performance-enhancing drugs? Not the results everyone sees on the outside - the real stuff. The rage in the car on the way to the gym. The panic attack at midnight, The thought about ripping open a training partner’s rib cage. Dr. Mike Israetel has a PhD in sp…
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A Vegas Buffet
The Enhanced Games are finally here. We arrive at a makeshift arena on the Las Vegas Strip not knowing quite what to expect. Hours pass, event after event, and the world records don’t come. Then something even more unexpected starts happening. It all comes down to one final race, and one last chanc…
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New Normal
Performance enhancing drugs aren’t just for professional athletes anymore - they’re everywhere. We go inside the grey market, the underground world of steroids and peptides being bought, tested, and injected by everyday people. We meet Aaron, a Florida salesman who’s lost 43 pounds with grey market…
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The Protocol
The Enhanced athletes are training in Abu Dhabi - and their “enhancement” protocol keeps getting delayed. Week after week, the athletes are told it’s starting soon. Then it doesn’t. Then missiles start dropping outside their hotel windows as the war in Iran begins. And still, somehow, the hardest p…
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Vegas
Over Memorial Day weekend, we traveled to Las Vegas for the inaugural Enhanced Games. Where things heated up.
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A New Age for Mankind
Before the athletes signed up, this all started with an idea. We go inside the minds of the men behind the Enhanced Games. They believe they’re doing something much bigger than sports: ushering in a new age of mankind. But the deeper you go into their vision, the more complicated it gets.
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Silver Medal Mentality
We travel to the Enhanced Games training camp in Las Vegas to meet the competitors at the heart of this experiment. Former world champion Ben Proud, who walked away from the Paris Olympics with a silver medal and a looming question: who was he without swimming? And Megan Romano, a retired world cha…
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