Did Joe Rogan Just Interview the Bald Elizabeth Holmes?

Any time someone tells me they want to blood test me to deliver a miracle panacea for all of my worldly ills, I assume I’m getting Elizabeth Holmes-ed. For those unfamiliar, scam queen Holmes and her company Theranos claimed that they had totally revolutionized blood testing. Their promised advancement in medical technology would only require a dramatically small amount of blood to do complete analysis. This was, in fact, bullshit. Now, Holmes is cooling her jets in federal prison with workout buddy and former Real Housewives star Jen Shah, and I am still getting nine vials of blood drawn to determine I have low levels of iron and vitamin D. 

This little backstory brings us to Joe Rogan’s latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. It’s a totally outrageous three hours and 20 minutes long. Rogan’s guest is Brigham Buhler, the founder of the Texas-based regenerative and wellness clinic Way2Well. Buhler has been on the show two times before. His company focuses on “Bloodwork, Stem Cell Therapy, Peptides” and takes a preventative approach to healthcare. It’s important to note that Buhler wasn’t a doctor or any other form of healthcare provider before launching his clinic — he worked on the sales side of the healthcare industry. 

His personal Instagram is filled with renowned healthcare experts like Rob Schneider, Smith & Wesson rifles, Tom Segura and King of the MAHA universe, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Way2Well offers an annual bloodwork membership, stem cell therapy, peptide therapy, longevity lab work and pricey supplements. While it isn’t a full-on Theranos scam, Way2Well is clearly a way to sell overpriced supplements. 

Buhler’s company isn’t promising to figure out everything that’s wrong with you with just a few drops of blood, but they are advertising wellness through a pricey and rigorous regimen of blood testing. Meanwhile, the Way2Well TrustPilot rating is 3.2, with one reviewer saying “it could be potentially harmful if you’re relying on this for legitimate medical insight or guidance.”

If Theranos had lasted through the second Trump administration, Elizabeth Holmes would be getting a spot on the board of the CDC not doing prison pilates. And before the bald Elizabeth Holmes gets angry, I concede that the American healthcare system is broken, that our food and medicine infrastructure is broken and that the way our society is structured doesn’t encourage healthy living. That’s what the bulk of the podcast episode with Joe Rogan is about. Big Pharma is evil, the FDA is flawed, we’re a society of chronically ill people made sicker by an environment manufactured to harm us. 

However, I’m not too keen to take healthcare advice from a man who has done podcasts with RFK Jr., and is having serious conversations about prescription medications with Rob Schneider. That’s just not the guy I’m turning to for my healthcare advice. That would be like buying your vitamins from Alex Jones. 

Please, for the love of God, don’t stop going to the doctor even if you do decide to get a “blood test membership” after listening to JRE.