Former Leeds Beckett First XV captain Barney Davis joins Sam Peters to share how repeated concussions brought his rugby career to an end and left him battling prolonged, debilitating symptoms. He discusses the pressure to return too soon, the physical and psychological sides of recovery, and how his experience inspired him to support others living with post-concussion syndrome.

In this episode of the Luca Health podcast, Sam Peters sits down with Kosta Economou — physiotherapist, concussion specialist, and Luca Health adviser with over a decade of clinical experience across elite sport, including the Chelsea FC Academy, Olympic skiing, and the Vancouver Bandits.Kosta explains the vestibular and ocular motor system in plain terms, why your eyes really are a window into how your brain is functioning, and how targeted rehab "clears the traffic" on the neural pathways disrupted by concussion. The conversation digs into the pressure physios face from parents, coaches and agents, why objective measures matter, what the UK can learn from North America, and the often-overlooked challenge of returning to school and life — not just to play.A thoughtful look at where concussion management is heading, and why the change may come from the bottom up.🎧 Subscribe for more. Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The Luca Health podcast — where we put the athlete first.

Sam Peters sits down with world record holder Sam King to talk about his extraordinary journey from being the bullied "big guy" at school, through teenage Call of Duty addiction as the world's number one player, into a hard-charging London consultancy career, and finally to running 80 ultramarathons in 80 consecutive days — a new Guinness World Record for a man. Sam opens up about hitting 19 stone in his late teens, the wake-up call of seeing himself in birthday photos, and how he went on to lose seven stone in six months and run a sub-3:30 London Marathon just two months after starting to run. He describes the moment his mum collapsed in his arms with a brain bleed, the decision to walk away from his career to take on Project 74 in her honour, and the brutal first three weeks of the challenge — night sweats, a swollen tendon that took him from a size 9 to an 11½, projectile vomiting, and the very real worry from those around him that he wouldn't make it. He talks through the routine that eventually clicked, the moment the challenge went viral with thirty days to go, and the perfect final day in Frinton, when his mum waited at the top of the church steps with her arms outstretched. Plus an unexpected late-night phone call from a local MP, the celebrity supporters who got behind the cause, and over £74,000 raised for Headway, the brain injury charity.