The Daria Hamrah Podcast
Welcome to The Daria Hamrah Podcast—where world-leading minds translate science into real-life tools for healthspan, performance, and aesthetics.
I’m Dr. Daria Hamrah. By day I’m a facial cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon and wellness enthusiast; the rest of the time I’m a teacher and relentless student of longevity. After years of speaking with colleagues and hearing your questions on social media, I launched this show to go deeper than headlines and quick takes.
Here’s what’s different. We’ll often take a single theme and stay with it—sometimes for an entire month—so you actually master it. That could be metabolic and mitochondrial health, sleep architecture, brain performance, strength and protein strategy, hormones across the lifespan, the microbiome and gut, skin longevity, oncology prevention, mental fitness, relationships, and purpose. Some episodes are solo—clear frameworks and clinic-tested protocols. Many feature world leaders in their fields: scientists, physicians, and founders pushing the frontier of health and wellness.
We’ll talk tools in plain language:
- Behavioral practices (what to do—and what to stop doing)
- Nutrition strategies and supplementation
- Business and Entrepreneurship in Healthcare
- How to navigate current trends and hypes withoug gimmicks
And this is a two-way conversation. Your comments, reviews, and upvotes guide what we cover next. Tell us what you want more of, and we’ll build it.
No hype. No one-note protocols. Just evidence, nuance, and practical steps you can start this week—whether you’re a clinician guiding patients or a motivated listener optimizing your own life.
Thanks for being here. Let’s redefine aging—and living—from the inside out.
The Daria Hamrah Podcast
How Passion and Determination Superseeds All Odds - Dr. Rania Habib
Today I want to welcome my next guest, who like many of my previous guests is an inspiration and role model to many people. As if growing up as a minority and daughter to Egyptian parents in Texas and Minnesota wasn’t hard enough, she chose a career path dominated by men and also known to be owned by the “old boys club” in the United States. Choosing to become a doctor and on top of it, a surgeon comes with a lot of sacrifices and traditionally our society has been discouraging women to enter the field. Kind of an outdated vision if you ask me, but so it was for Dr. Rania Habib, who is currently an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
To many known as a male-dominated field (for context, only about 8% of all OMS’s are female), she did not shy away from the challenge and followed her passion and since never looked back. Her passion for treating children in need, lead her to pursue additional training in Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery, and today she teaches young students at the University and inspires many more through her social media channels on Instagram and TikTok, just like she was inspired by her own parents and many of her mentors.
She is a great example of how well parenting and mentorship cultivates your passion, motivates you to reach for the sky and ultimately leads to success. In a society where we are so quick to blame lack of opportunity, bad influence from the outside, or demonize social media, we have forgotten to hold ourselves accountable for our own actions, successes, and failures.
While most people get caught up in pontificating and thinking about what they want to do or better even, think about thinking, until they find 10 reasons why they won’t be able to succeed, the Ranias out there just go out there and do it. They don’t look for excuses and instead look for solutions to their problems keeping only one goal in mind, follow your passion, no matter what the odds say.
I always tell people, if you know only one person that has done it, that means you can do it too. Period!
So listen in and hopefully her story will inspire you as it has inspired me.
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