Heal Thy Self with Dr. G
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Health and wellness is louder and more confusing than ever. One expert says eat more meat. Another says cut it out completely. One supplement is called life-changing. The next day, someone says it will make you sick. It’s overwhelming. And that’s exactly why Heal Thy Self exists. Hosted by Dr. Christian Gonzalez, Heal Thy Self cuts through the noise and delivers clarity in a space flooded with contradictions. This isn’t trend-based wellness or recycled talking points. It’s direct, grounded truth that blends real science with deep spiritual and emotional intelligence. Each week, get expert conversations with doctors, scientists, shamans, and healers spanning physical health, mental wellness, emotional healing, and spirituality. Dr. G does the heavy lifting for you, investigating the wellness industry by reviewing third-party testing and breaking down supplements and products to reveal what’s safe, what works, what’s marketing hype, and which companies deserve your trust. You’ll also get channeled episodes that inspire and elevate beyond the physical. This is a fully integrated approach connecting body, mind, nervous system, trauma, energy, and consciousness. If you’re tired of conflicting advice and ready for clarity that empowers, relieves, and inspires, this is the podcast you’ve been missing.
Episódios 538
5 Best Supplements to Help Seniors Sleep
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👉 Thorne Sleep Bundle, the three I use together: PharmaGABA 250, Magnesium Bisglycinate and Melatonin 3. Code DRG20:
https://theswellscore.com/cvbbvtiydo👉 Zuma Nutrition L-Theanine, if you lie in bed replaying the whole day. 200 mg a capsule, the exact amount from the study. Code DRG20:
https://theswellscore.com/lw8dc👉 Herb Pharm Ashwagandha, if stress is what keeps you up at night. Code DRG20:
https://theswellscore.com/ibpq1If you're exhausted all day and your mind switches on the second your head hits the pillow, there are five supplements with real research behind them. Dr. G ranks all five and shows you the three he'd put together for a real night's sleep.
He covers the 2023 study that tested 25 melatonin gummies off US shelves and found 22 of them didn't match their own label, why the ashwagandha bottle almost never tells you which extract is inside, how ordinary room light before bed cuts your melatonin window by about 90 minutes, and why no supplement will out-run the stress you haven't dealt with.
Melatonin resets your clock. Ashwagandha is for stress. Magnesium matters because most of you are low. L-theanine quiets a busy mind. GABA is the gentle one for a wired body.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:45 The Two Systems Behind Your Sleep
1:12 #5 GABA, for a Wired Body
2:33 #4 L-Theanine, for a Busy Mind
3:26 Why You'd Need 12 Cups of Green Tea
3:54 #3 Magnesium, for a Restless Body
4:38 Why the Form of Magnesium Matters
5:13 #2 Ashwagandha, for Stress That Keeps You Up
6:05 The Extract Problem on the Label
7:00 #1 Melatonin, for a Shifted Body Clock
8:14 25 Gummies Tested, 22 Mislabeled
9:12 No Supplement Beats Unmanaged Stress
9:53 The Whole Ranking in One Minute👉 Save 15% on tested supplements with code DRG20:
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Why Chronic Illness Can Feel Like It Came Out of Nowhere | HTS 535
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https://theswellscore.com/collections/Dr. Chelsea Azarcon is a naturopathic and functional medicine doctor in Northern California who works with Lyme, mold illness and mast cell activation, and who has been in remission from several of those conditions herself. This conversation covers why women with chronic illness can do everything right and still not lose weight, the landmark study showing that something from decades ago is still shaping your biology, and why treating the mold or the Lyme is only the first step, not the cure.
Dr. Chelsea's health takes, in order:
Take 1: "Women with chronic illness are working 18 times harder to lose weight"
Healthy mitochondria make 36 energy molecules per glucose. Inflamed ones make two.Take 2: "The detox nobody is talking about is toxic relationships and trauma"
17,000 people studied. Nearly 70% carried at least one adverse childhood experience.Take 3: "I don't believe our bodies have everything they need to heal"
Not in this environment. Sometimes the foundations aren't a strong enough signal.Take 4: "Treating your Lyme or your mold is not going to get you better"
That stops the gas leak. The damage the fire did still has to be repaired.The number one predictor of longevity isn't your diet or your exercise. It's the strength of your relationships.
Find Dr. Chelsea Azarcon:
Website: https://chelseaazarcon.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturallydrchelsea/Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:32 "Women With Chronic Illness Are Working 18 Times Harder"
3:05 The Loop: Cortisol, Insulin, Fat and Muscle
6:23 The Cell Danger Response
13:10 "The Detox Nobody Is Talking About"
13:23 The ACE Study: 17,000 People, 70% With at Least One
17:29 Four Kinds of Brain Injury, and the Fourth One Nobody Names
23:01 "I Don't Believe Our Bodies Have Everything They Need to Heal"
24:07 The Bucket: Genetics, Exposures and the Event That Tips It
29:45 "Treating Your Lyme or Mold Is Not Going to Get You Better"
34:37 The Link Between Toxic Mold and Toxic Relationships
36:33 Where to Find Dr. ChelseaEducational content only. Not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before making any changes to your health routine.
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Scientists Found The 3 Most Powerful Supplements for Type 2 Diabetes
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👉 Thorne Alpha Lipoic Acid, for burning, tingling or numbness in your hands and feet. 300 mg a capsule, so two gets you to the 600 used in the research:
https://theswellscore.com/a3k12👉 Thorne Magnesium Citrate, if you've never had your magnesium checked. One scoop is 250 mg, under the 350 mg daily limit:
https://theswellscore.com/5pqf3👉 ProHealth Longevity Berberine Pro, the one with the most research behind it. 600 mg a capsule, so two a day with meals lands in the studied range:
https://theswellscore.com/gopuurfileIf your blood sugar keeps creeping up no matter how carefully you eat, you are not out of options. Dr. G walks through three supplements that have actually been tested in people with type 2 diabetes, including one that went head to head with metformin, and gives you the honest numbers on each.
He covers what that metformin study really was and the part the headlines left out, why the magnesium most people already own is barely absorbed, the proprietary blend problem that leaves you taking a supplement that never had the dose in it, and how a dysregulated nervous system can push your blood sugar past 200 without you eating a thing.
Berberine has the most research. Magnesium matters most if you're actually low. Alpha lipoic acid supports your nerves. Your food, your movement, your sleep and your stress are still the foundation.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:45 What's Actually Happening When Blood Sugar Creeps Up
1:17 #3 Alpha Lipoic Acid and Your Nerves
2:02 The Proprietary Blend Problem
2:49 #2 Magnesium: The Mineral Nobody Checks
3:52 Why the Cheap Form Barely Absorbs
4:45 #1 Berberine: The Most Research of the Three
5:23 The Metformin Study and What the Headlines Left Out
5:53 Dosage, Side Effects and Who Should Be Careful
6:28 Why Capsule Size Matters
7:02 How Stress Raises Blood Sugar Without Food
7:46 Start With One Thing👉 Save 15% on tested supplements with code DRG20:
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6 Popular Wellness Trends a Doctor Says Are Overhyped | HTS #533
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Episode Description:
Dr. Mary Pardee is a naturopathic and functional medicine doctor and the founder of Modrn Med. She's also one of the few people in this space willing to call out the tests and trends her own field sells. This conversation covers the expensive stool tests she says give people false hope, why the "parasites" in the toilet usually aren't parasites, what testosterone actually does and doesn't do for women, why sauna is overhyped, and the food sensitivity test that may be creating more anxiety than answers.
Dr. Mary's health takes, in order:
Take 1: "They're giving people false hope" Run a $600 microbiome test on 100 healthy people and most come back "positive."
Take 2: "Women are going on testosterone hoping to build muscle" In normal female ranges, it won't. The real evidence is libido.
Take 3: "If you're skipping workouts to sauna, you're missing the mark" One observational study built the hype. The randomized trials didn't back it.
Take 4: "It may be giving you health anxiety around food" The test flags the foods you already eat, and people cut them for years. The most diverse diet possible is the healthiest diet.
Find Dr. Mary Pardee:
Website: https://www.modrnmed.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.marypardee/
Podcast: Modrn Wellness
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:33 "They're Giving People False Hope"
2:00 Why Genus and Species Aren't Enough
3:40 "I Was Riddled With Candida": What's Really Happening
6:01 When a Parasite Test Is Actually Worth Running
6:49 Parasite Cleanses and the Mucus Strings That Look Like Worms
10:04 Testosterone and the Muscle Claim That Isn't Backed
11:43 What the Evidence Actually Supports
13:26 What to Do Instead as You Approach Perimenopause
15:33 Sarcopenia and Why Muscle Predicts Outcomes
16:38 "If You're Skipping Workouts to Sauna"
19:03 How Much Exercise Actually Pays Off
20:13 Should Women Lift? Will They Get Bulky?
20:46 "It May Be Giving You Health Anxiety Around Food"
22:14 Why the Test Flags Foods You Already Eat
24:20 Should Everyone Quit Gluten?
25:36 Where to Find Dr. Mary
Educational content only. Not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before making any changes to your health routine.
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Doctor Reveals Top Glutathione Brand
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Episode Description:
About 75% of how you age comes down to what you do daily, not your genes. And one of the simplest places to start is something your body already makes: glutathione, the master antioxidant that sits at the center of how your cells protect and clean themselves. Your body makes less of it as you get older.
So Dr. G went looking for the best version to actually take, and found that most products with that word on the label are getting it wrong. This episode covers why glutathione is so fragile that most of a regular capsule breaks down before your body can use it, why almost no brand will hand you a lab report when you ask, the two things to look for on a label, and the certificate of analysis he read line by line, including the heavy metal results.
You don’t pick your genes. You do get a say in the other 75%.
Timestamps:0:00 – Cold open: 75% of aging comes down to daily habits, not genes
1:35 – What oxidative stress is: the rust in your pipes
2:20 – Your body makes less glutathione as you age
3:45 – Why most glutathione supplements fail: poor absorption and no lab proof
4:50 – The two things to look for in a glutathione supplement
5:25 – Why liposomal glutathione solves the absorption problem
6:45 – Why detox kits are mostly marketing
7:55 – The certificate of analysis: dose, heavy metals, and purity
9:30 – How to take it and who should consider it
11:00 – The other 75%: daily choices that build longevity
11:45 – Discount code and final thoughtsThese statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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Is Your Coffee Tested for Mold? What’s Really in Your Cup and Why Quality Matters | HTS #531
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https://theswellscore.com/collections/Episode Description:
There are 19,000 studies on coffee and health, and most coffee companies don't even run the basic tests. Andrew Salisbury founded Purity Coffee after two professors at Vanderbilt's Institute for Coffee Studies showed him what good coffee actually does for the body. This conversation covers why the mold testing almost nobody runs costs $300, how roasting can destroy the very antioxidants you're drinking coffee for, and why the jitters and acid reflux you blame on coffee may not be the coffee's fault at all.Andrew's health takes — in order:
Take 1: "The reality is they don't want to get the information"
Testing a container for mold and mycotoxins costs about $300, so when companies skip it, it isn't about the money.Take 2: "Imagine if there was a pill that could do this"
Coffee is tied to lower risk of fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, dementia and heart disease, and for most Americans it's their single biggest source of antioxidants.Take 3: "Not all coffee is created equal"
Avoiding pesticides and heavy metals is the low bar. Keeping the antioxidants through the roast is the hard part, and most roasters never measure it.Take 4: "It's not a reaction to coffee, it's a reaction to poor quality coffee"
The jitters, the acid reflux, the stomach trouble. Andrew's challenge is to drink a clean cup beside your usual brand and see what changes.Ice baths may be good for you. Coffee is the one you'll actually do every single day.
Find Purity Coffee:
Website: https://puritycoffee.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/purity_coffee/
Andrew Salisbury on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewsalisbury35/Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:27 The $300 Test Most Coffee Companies Skip
1:16 Is Mold Really a Problem in Coffee?
2:09 What a Real Health Standard Looks Like
2:36 The Roast Curve: What's Created and Destroyed
3:56 Coffee Pods, French Press and Espresso
6:00 The Pill Hiding in Plain Sight
7:11 The Wife Who Wouldn't Quit Coffee
9:01 Decaf: Why the Method Matters
10:01 Four or Five Cups and No Jitters
11:04 Testing 59 Brands Against Their Own
14:19 Why 99% of Coffee Companies Miss This
16:29 Soil, Regenerative Farming and the Cup
22:33 Your Jitters May Not Be the Caffeine
23:24 "Coffee Is Too Acidic for Me"
24:00 What 68,000 Reviews Actually Say
26:29 The One Thing You Do Every Single Day
27:19 Where to Find Purity CoffeeEducational content only. Not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before making any changes to your health routine.
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Doctor Reveals 7 Non-Approved Hair Loss Treatments That Can Actually WorkDoctor Reveals 7 Non-Approved Hair Loss Treatments That Can Actually Work
Herb Pharm Saw Palmetto Extract, if your hairline is receding at the temples or the crown is thinning: https://theswellscore.com/usokrbhyvp HairMax Ultima 12 Classic LaserComb, red light, if you'd rather not …
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Herb Pharm Saw Palmetto Extract, if your hairline is receding at the temples or the crown is thinning:
https://theswellscore.com/usokrbhyvp
HairMax Ultima 12 Classic LaserComb, red light, if you'd rather not take anything:
https://theswellscore.com/vnzb9
HairMax PowerFlex 272 Laser Cap, the hands-free version:
https://theswellscore.com/hp0cv
Thorne Iron Bisglycinate, only if your ferritin comes back low:
https://theswellscore.com/ydmko
ProHealth Longevity Vitamin D3 + K2, if yours is low:
https://theswellscore.com/owido
Thorne Zinc Bisglycinate 30 mg, if your hair and nails are brittle and cuts heal slowly:
https://theswellscore.com/neclk
Zuma Botanical Hair Oil Serum, rosemary, if you'd rather rub something on than take a pill:
https://theswellscore.com/hhrpr
Herb Pharm Ashwagandha Extract, if the shedding started after a hard stretch:
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Episode Description:
If your hair is thinning, you've been given two options: one drug you rub on forever, and one many men quietly quit over what it did in the bedroom. But "not FDA approved" usually means nobody could patent it, not that it doesn't work. Dr. G walks through seven treatments with real evidence behind them, including one that went head to head with minoxidil and tied, with less scalp itching.
He covers the plant extract that works on the same hormone as the drug, the red light that feeds the follicle, the blood marker your doctor probably skipped, the vitamin that flips a resting follicle back on, the mineral that builds the hair itself, the oil that matched minoxidil over six months, and the stress root nobody connects to their hairline.
Most people need two or three of these together, because each one does a different job.
Your hair isn't falling because your body is broken. It's falling because your body is trying to tell you something.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Cold open: the two hair-loss drugs and the natural options that rival them
0:40 – How hair loss works: the hormone that shrinks the follicle
1:05 – #1 Saw palmetto for hormone-driven thinning
3:45 – #2 Red light therapy for the scalp
5:10 – Laser comb vs. cap: choosing a device that works
6:15 – #3 Iron and ferritin for all-over shedding
8:25 – #4 Vitamin D3 with K2
10:15 – #5 Zinc for thin, brittle hair
12:10 – #6 Rosemary oil vs. minoxidil
14:20 – #7 Ashwagandha for stress-related shedding
16:30 – Wrap-up: what your hair is telling you
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What Peptides, Botox, and GLP-1 injections Really Do to Your Body
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Episode Description:
If you're tired, foggy and inflamed, there may be a root cause your doctor is missing. Dr. Clement Lee is a regenerative medicine doctor in Old Town Pasadena who treats everyone from biohackers to cancer patients. This conversation covers what Botox does beyond your face, why peptide doses are often far too high, the stealth infections behind chronic fatigue, and the injection that resets a nervous system stuck in fight or flight.
Dr. Lee's health takes — in order:
Take 1: "Botox doesn't just freeze your face, it can freeze your feelings"
When you can't express an emotion, the feedback loop to your brain goes quiet too, and the neurotoxin carries risks beyond the cosmetic.
Take 2: "Peptides don't fix a broken lifestyle, they amplify a good one"
Standard GLP-1 doses are often far higher than needed, and sleep, food and gut health come first.
Take 3: "There's a root cause your doctor might be missing"
Mold, Lyme, H. pylori and dormant viruses hide behind fatigue and brain fog, and partners often pass them back and forth.
Take 4: "Hidden infections, toxins and trapped emotions are the main causes of disruption"
Repressed emotion is inflammatory, and neural therapy resets a nervous system that never came down from stress.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. If it's stuck in your system, it's going somewhere.
Find Dr. Clement Lee:
Website: https://www.opthealthwellness.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drclementlee/
Clinic: Optimal Health & Wellness, Pasadena and Monterey Park
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:26 "Botox Doesn't Just Freeze Your Face, It Can Freeze Your Feelings"
2:54 The Real Dangers of Botox
4:27 Who Should and Shouldn't Inject You
6:02 Where Botox Ranks on the Risk Scale
6:36 Botox and Long-Term Cognitive Decline
7:23 "Peptides Don't Fix a Broken Lifestyle"
8:38 Why Most GLP-1 Doses Are Too High
9:18 GLP-1s Beyond Weight Loss: Inflammation and Autoimmunity
11:11 His Favorite Peptides and What They Do
14:44 Where the Peptide Industry Gets Risky
17:31 "There's a Root Cause Your Doctor Might Be Missing"
18:09 Why Mold May Be the Biggest Hidden Driver
19:35 The Symptoms That Point to a Stealth Infection
20:16 Lyme, H. Pylori and What Partners Pass Back and Forth
24:31 "Trapped Emotions Are a Main Cause of Disruption"
25:23 Are Repressed Emotions Inflammatory?
27:47 Neural Therapy: Resetting a Stuck Nervous System
31:30 What It Feels Like and How Long It Lasts
33:58 Where to Find Dr. Lee's Clinic
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Doctor Reveals the Truth About Statin Side Effects (Muscle Aches & Fatigue)
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Episode Description: You take the pill every day to protect your heart, but your muscles ache, your legs feel heavy, and you're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. It might not be age. Your statin may be draining the one nutrient your heart and muscles need to make energy, and almost no one tells you to replace it. Dr. G covers what to replace and how, the natural options with real human evidence for lowering cholesterol, the cholesterol myth that had you fearing the wrong foods, and the one number to ask your doctor about.
Dr. G breaks it down, in order:
Take 1: "Your statin may be quietly draining you"
The same pathway statins shut down also makes CoQ10, so it's worth replacing, in the right form, with a meal that has fat.Take 2: "I really wish every doctor was talking about citrus bergamot" A standardized extract gently lowered total and LDL cholesterol in human trials.
Take 3: "The single most proven natural lever for LDL" Plant sterols block cholesterol from being absorbed in your gut and lower LDL by roughly 8 to 10%.
Take 4: "You don't need to take a pill" Psyllium husk and oats trap cholesterol so your body carries it out.
Take 5: "You don't want to cut out the eggs"
Refined carbs, sugar, belly fat and chronic stress drive cholesterol far more than the food on your breakfast plate.Your cholesterol number isn't the enemy. The particles underneath it are.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:26 How Statins Drain Your CoQ10
2:39 The Free Fix That Makes CoQ10 Actually Absorb
3:27 The CoQ10 Dose and Form That Matter
4:16 The Leg Pain That Disappeared in Two Months
5:23 Citrus Bergamot: The Gentle Cholesterol Lowerer
6:43 Plant Sterols: The Most Proven Natural Lever for LDL
7:34 The Fiber That Carries Cholesterol Out
8:30 The Cholesterol Myth That Had You Fearing Eggs
9:24 How Stress Pushes Your Cholesterol Up
10:03 Don't Stop Your Statin: Do This With Your Doctor
10:46 The Whole Protocol in One Minute
11:31 The One Number to Ask Your Doctor ForEducational content only. Not medical advice. Do not stop or change your statin or any medication on your own. Talk to your doctor before starting any supplement, especially if you take blood thinners or cholesterol medication.
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A Neurosurgeon’s Warning About Your Brain After Treating Over 10,000 Patients
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→ NUROPOD | Head to https://nuropod.com/DRG for 5% off. Every order comes with a 30-day risk-free trial. #Nuropod #VagusNerve
→ TIMELINE | Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/DRG
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https://theswellscore.com/collections/
Episode Description:
You can have the healthiest heart, body and muscles in the world, and still not feel healthy if your brain isn't right. Dr. Amir Vokshoor is a neurosurgeon and spine surgeon who has treated more than 10,000 pain patients. He is also the founder of the NeuroVella Brain Spa in Santa Monica. This conversation covers what's damaging our brains, what chronic pain does to the nervous system, why so many spine and brain problems start in the gut, and the two-second exercise he gives every patient.
Dr. Vokshoor's health takes — in order:
Take 1: “There is no health without brain health” Your brain was never built for 24/7 information, and constant stress stops your nervous system from resetting.
Take 2: “Your life is your artwork” Science is never 100% certain, and flow state is how you tap into abilities we haven’t uncovered yet.
Take 3: “Pain is not always a bad thing” Chronic pain rewires the brain, and most of the pain patients he sees carry an emotional element.
Take 4: “It’s called the second brain for a reason”Many brain and spine problems start in the gut, and gut health can make or break recovery from surgery.
Close your eyes. Take one deep breath. Set an intention. That's dropping in.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - "There Is No Health Without Brain Health"
1:50 - What's Damaging Your Brain: Toxins, Infections and Trauma
2:07 - The 5 Things He Tells Every Patient Before Surgery
3:47 - His Biggest Worry for Young People's Brains
6:16 - What Constant Stress Does to Your Nervous System
9:58 - What Sleep Actually Does for Your Brain
19:45 - Why Science Is Never 100% Certain
24:31 - Flow State and Why You Need to Make Art
29:41 - Pain Is Not Always a Bad Thing
30:32 - How Chronic Pain Rewires the Brain
32:38 - How Much Pain Is Emotional?
36:44 - Why Brain and Spine Problems Start in the Gut
39:52 - Mold, Toxins and the Thoughts That Don't Serve You
43:37 - Why Connection Matters for Your Brain
47:58 - The "Dropping In" Exercise
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Doctor Reveals The Natural Fiber That Mimics Ozempic (No Needle Needed)
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Your body already makes the same fullness hormone Ozempic copies. Most of us just switch it off three times a day at the table. If you're cutting portions and your hunger comes roaring back an hour later, your body isn't fighting you. Your fullness signal never fired.
Dr. G breaks down the supplement everyone calls "nature's Ozempic," the fiber that actually turns your own GLP-1 back on, the exact dose and timing, and the one sign that tells you it's working again.
Dr. G breaks it down, in order:
Take 1 Berberine isn't "nature's Ozempic." It helps blood sugar, but it has no GLP-1 data.
Take 2 One fiber from the konjac root triggers your own fullness hormone. Dr. G gives the dose, the timing and the label check.
Take 3 When you eat protein matters as much as how much. Eat it first and the fullness switch flips before the sugar hits.
Take 4 A gut bacterium helps drive your GLP-1 signal. Dr. G shows how to feed it with everyday foods.
Take 5 Rushed meals keep you hungry. Slowing down tells your body it's safe to feel full.
The sign it's working: you can go 4 to 5 hours between meals without food on your mind.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:40 – Why "Nature's Ozempic" Is Oversold
2:39 – What GLP-1 Actually Does, in Plain English
3:26 – The Eating Mistake That Keeps Your Fullness Signal Off
4:28 – The Fiber That Physically Triggers Fullness
5:38 – The Dose, the Timing and the Label Check
6:24 – Why Protein First Changes Everything
7:13 – The Gut Bacteria Behind Your GLP-1 8:06 – The Free Habits That Amplify It
9:06 – The Nervous System Piece Most Channels Skip
9:46 – Already on a GLP-1 Drug? Read This First 10:25 – The Whole Protocol and the Sign It's Working
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A Doctor-Turned-Shaman Reveals What Your Body Is Really Trying To Tell You
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Episode Description:Cancer is not a random attack on the body. It is the body's last attempt to get your attention.
Manex Ibar is a shaman, mystic, and the founder of The Sphinx Code, with more than 25 years of initiation into indigenous wisdom, bioenergetics, and plant medicine. His upcoming book is Doctor Shaman. This conversation goes into territory most health podcasts never touch — the emotional root of disease, the identity people build around illness, and why some people heal from things that should be impossible.
Manex's health takes — in order:
Take 1: "Cancer is the body's last attempt at aligning you to your life purpose" Manex opens with the take that stopped Dr. G in his tracks. He walks through a stage four lung cancer patient given three months to live and the single emotional revelation that cleared her lungs completely within three weeks. The oncologist had no explanation.
Take 2: "The disease becomes a crutch — and then it becomes an identity" When the illness becomes the story someone tells about themselves, healing requires something the prescription pad cannot give. Manex explains why some patients choose their disease over their life and what it actually takes to break that bond.
Take 3: "It's not a function of age — it's a function of willingness" A 72-year-old said old dogs can't learn new tricks and went home to die. A 91-year-old walked in asking how to reinvent himself. Manex draws the sharpest line in the episode between the two and explains why the only thing that determines healing is the answer to one question.
Take 4: "Singing and dancing and making love — that's our purpose on earth" After 44 days on a vision quest, Manex arrived at the three things humans do that benefit every other species and harm none of them. Dr. G admits every one of his somatic clients gets the same assignment: to sing and move from the body, not the mind.
This is ancient medicine. The body has always known.
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Website: https://manexibar.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manex_ibar The Sphinx Code app: https://sphinxcode.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - The Stage 4 Lung Cancer Patient Told She Had 3 Months to Live — And What Healed Her
3:09 - "Nothing in Her Lungs": The Oncologist's Reaction Three Weeks Later
3:20 - Why Lung Cancer = Grief: The Emotional Organ Map Explained
4:52 - Breast Cancer: Left Breast vs. Right Breast and the Giving vs. Receiving Split
5:00 - Dr. G Gets Personal: His Mother, Breast Cancer and What He Now Understands
6:28 - How He Finds the Emotional Hook That Medicine Completely Misses
8:05 - The 72-Year-Old Who Chose Death Over Change — and the 91-Year-Old Who Asked to Be Reinvented
9:29 - Crohn's Disease and the Family Business: The Guilt That Lives in the Gut
10:12 - When We're Sick, We Finally Get the Love We Never Got When We Were Well
11:07 - Disease Is Not a Malfunction — It's the Body Functioning Perfectly to Teach You Something
12:34 - Chronic Illness Is a Cultural Identity Crisis in Disguise
12:49 - Health Take #2: The Real Root of the Fertility Crisis Nobody Is Discussing
14:00 - If You're Not Living Your Own Life Authentically, How Can You Create Life?
20:41 - Women Are Creative Forces by Nature — and What Happens When They Abandon That
21:56 - What a Man's True Purpose Actually Is (And Why Inventive vs. Creative Matters)
22:07 - The Masculine-Feminine Polarity: What Women Need From Men to Relax Into Life
24:13 - The Power a Woman's Full Trust Has on a Man's Purpose and Success
24:31 - What True Love Actually Is (The French Etymology Changes Everything)
26:34 - Health Take #3: Every Immune Disease He's Seen Is a Crisis of Identity
27:53 - Why 80% of Modern Disease Is Autoimmune — and the Social Cause Medicine Ignores
29:01 - Can Religion Guide People Toward Misidentity? He Answers Honestly
31:03 - The Seven Deadly Sins Were Actually Chakra Teachings — Here's How It Maps
31:50 - Growing Up Catholic: Dr. G on Sexual Shame and the Identity It Created
33:50 - What Every Prophet in History Did Before Receiving Their Message
34:00 - The Lost Rites of Passage and Why Their Absence Is Making Us Sick
36:00 - What the 5- and 10-Year Cancer Survivors All Had in Common (Dr. G Observed This Clinically)
37:04 - Cancer Is a Gift — The Harshest, Most Loving Gift the Body Can Give
43:28 - The Three Things Humans Do That Benefit All Other Species and Harm None
45:10 - Why Dr. G Assigns Every Somatic Client the Same Practice Before Anything Else
46:23 - The Book, the App and Where to Find Him
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Your Beef Liver Capsules Don’t Work - Use this Instead
Episode Description: Hundreds of voices online told you that beef liver is nature's perfect multivitamin. It is ancestral. It is clean. It is the thing that is finally going to fix your energy. And you have …
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Hundreds of voices online told you that beef liver is nature's perfect multivitamin. It is ancestral. It is clean. It is the thing that is finally going to fix your energy. And you have been taking it every single day. There is a problem.
Beef liver is not a multivitamin. A multivitamin gives you a small dose of a lot of things. Beef liver does the opposite. It gives you a massive dose of a few things and almost nothing of the rest. And the dose is exactly what is hurting people.
Dr. G breaks it down — in order:
Take 1: "Beef liver is not nature's multivitamin. It's a mega dose" Dr. G reframes the entire organ meat supplement trend and explains why the comparison to a multivitamin is the most dangerous idea in this space. More is not better when the ceiling is this low and the nutrient is fat soluble.
Take 2: "A single serving of beef liver already doubles the daily upper limit for vitamin A" The National Nutrition Board ceiling for vitamin A is 3,000 micrograms. One 3 oz serving of beef liver has more than 6,000. Dr. G explains why this matters more than most people realize, what fat soluble storage actually means for your liver and bones over months of daily use, and why pregnant women especially need to hear this one.
Take 3: "Oysters are closer to nature's multivitamin than beef liver is" Packed with zinc, B12, copper, and selenium in a form that is almost impossible to overdo, oysters make the case that beef liver ever earned the multivitamin title in the first place. Dr. G explains why the organ meat trend picked the wrong organ.
Take 4: "If a company is not willing to show you third party testing, skip it" The liver is the filter organ for the animal you are eating. If the animal was raised poorly, that filter collected everything. Dr. G names the multivitamin brands that passed his independent investigation and explains exactly what he looks for on a label before he recommends anything to a patient.
Eat it as a food sparingly. Do not take it as a daily supplement. Know the difference.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - The Myth That Gets People Hurt: Beef Liver Is Not a Multivitamin
1:30 - Why Vitamin A Is the Hidden Problem Nobody Warns You About
2:30 - The Exact Ceiling Your Body Has — and How One Serving Blows Past It
3:30 - Copper, Iron and What Happens When They Quietly Build Up
4:15 - How to Take Organ Meat the Right Way If You Still Want To
5:00 - What Dr. G Actually Recommends Instead
5:45 - The Multivitamin Brands That Passed His Standards
7:00 - Who Should Skip the Organ Trend Entirely
7:30 - The One Food That's Actually Closer to Nature's Multivitamin
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Do This When You Wake Up at 3 AM | Heal Thy Self #528
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Episode Description:Most people do not have a sleep problem. They have a nervous system problem. And you cannot talk yourself into calm. You have to demonstrate safety.
Katheryn Nicolai is a 20-year yoga and meditation teacher, the creator of the Nothing Much Happens podcast, and one of the most listened-to voices in sleep. She grew up in Flint, Michigan in the 80s and learned as a three-year-old to build a safe world in her mind to fall asleep in. She has spent the past two decades figuring out how to teach that skill to everyone else. This conversation covers incomplete stress cycles, nervous system dysregulation, why lack of sleep causes depression rather than just correlating with it, and why the stories she tells work in under ten seconds for millions of people.
Katheryn's health takes — in order:
Take 1: "Most people don't have a sleep problem. They have a nervous system problem" Katheryn explains why the body cannot be reasoned into rest and why demonstrating safety to the nervous system is fundamentally different from trying to think your way to sleep. This reframe changes everything about how you approach a sleepless night.
Take 2: "Sleep is not earned. It is a biological requirement and your body will take it whether you want to or not" Katheryn challenges the hustle culture scam that treats sleep as optional and explains why sleep works more like breathing than like eating. You cannot bank it, trade it, or skip it without your body eventually forcing the issue.
Take 3: "If you think you can't meditate because your mind is loud, you're doing it right" Twenty years of teaching meditation distilled into one take. Catherine reframes the most common reason people quit before they start and explains what is actually supposed to happen when you sit down and close your eyes.
Take 4: "Stress cycles get opened and they don't get closed — that is almost universal" Katheryn explains what a complete stress cycle actually looks like, why so many people are carrying years of incomplete ones, and why the things that close a stress cycle are exactly the things you would never do if you were actually in danger.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Sleep Is Not Earned — It's a Biological Requirement (And Your Body Will Collect What You Owe)
0:52 - Can You Actually Make Up a Sleep Deficit? The Honest Answer
1:46 - Why We Sacrifice Sleep Before Anything Else (And Why It Says Something Deeper)
2:41 - Growing Up in Flint, Michigan: The Childhood Origin of Everything She Does
3:21 - Good Sleep Is a Modern Superpower — and Most People Don't Know They Can Build It
4:37 - The Magic Recipe Behind Why Her Voice Puts People to Sleep in Under 10 Seconds
6:17 - If You Think You Can't Meditate Because Your Mind Is Loud, You're Doing It Right
7:29 - The Cave Behind the Waterfall: What Meditation Actually Looks and Feels Like
8:27 - You Are Not Your Thoughts — You Are the One Watching Them
9:05 - How Long Should You Actually Meditate Every Day? She Throws Out the Rulebook
9:38 - If Someone Says There's Only One Way to Meditate — You're in a Cult
10:29 - The New York Finance Guy Who Hunts (And Doesn't Know He's Been Meditating for Years)
11:53 - What People Consistently Report After Starting a Practice
13:03 - Why Answers Come in Stillness — Not When You're Looking for Them
17:49 - Why Stories Let You Experience Something Safely That Might Otherwise Break You Open
18:02 - Why Every Culture on Earth Has Stories — and What We Lost When We Forgot That
19:22 - The Childhood Book That Lives in Your Nervous System Forever
21:14 - One Thing You Can Do Right Now: The Breath That Shifts You Out of Fight or Flight
22:15 - The Most Common Driver of Dysregulation in the American Lifestyle
23:29 - Italy, Siesta, and Why She's Less Stressed When She's There (It's Bigger Than the Nap)
24:33 - How to Know If Your Nervous System Is Dysregulated (The Shavasana Test)
25:53 - What a Complete Stress Cycle Actually Looks Like — and How Few of Us Ever Finish One
26:31 - You Cannot Talk Your Body Into Feeling Safe — You Have to Demonstrate It
28:22 - Three Podcasts, One Book and a Vision for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Adults
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Scientists Found a $4 Root That Melts Fat
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The belly fat you can grab with your hand is not the fat that is hurting you. The fat that is actually driving your blood sugar issues, your heart disease risk, and your chronic fatigue is the fat you cannot even pinch. It is wrapped deep around your liver and your organs. And most of what is being sold to address it is doing nothing at all.
Visceral fat is not a willpower problem. It is an insulin problem. And there is a cheap ingredient sitting in your grocery store right now with real human evidence showing it goes directly after the cycle that is creating it.
Dr. G breaks it down — in order:
Take 1: "You don't have a belly fat problem. You have an insulin problem and it's manifesting as a belly" Dr. G reframes the entire visceral fat conversation and explains why the fat burner shelf at your local drugstore is full of stimulants that raise your heart rate and do nothing for the fat around your organs. The real target is insulin resistance.
Take 2: "Ginger at two grams a day is one of the most studied natural agents on earth for insulin resistance" Across dozens of solid human trials, standardized ginger extract has been shown to lower insulin resistance, reduce body fat, and shrink waistlines. Dr. G gives the exact dose, the exact duration, and the label trick that separates a real product from a pinch of powder in a proprietary blend.
Take 3: "Liquid sugar is the fastest way to build visceral fat" Sodas, juices, and sweet coffee drinks go almost directly to the liver and start packing fat around the organs. Dr. G explains why cutting liquid sugar is the fastest lever you can pull to stop feeding the engine before the ginger can start doing its job.
Take 4: "Stress is telling your body to store fat deep in your belly" When you are living in chronic fight or flight, your stress hormones are directing fat storage directly to the visceral region. Dr. G makes the case that unresolved and repressed emotion is a metabolic variable, not just a mental health one.
Ask your doctor for a fasting insulin test, not just fasting glucose. Watch that number fall.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Why Every Fat Burner on the Drugstore Shelf Is Completely Missing the Point
1:45 - Visceral Fat Is Not a Willpower Problem — It's Something Else Entirely
2:30 - The Cheap Ingredient in Your Kitchen That Has Real Human Evidence Behind It
4:00 - What It's Actually Doing Inside Your Cells (This Changes How You Think About It)
5:30 - The Dose, the Form and the Label Trick That Separates Results From Wasted Money
7:00 - The Two Free Things That Make Everything Else Work Better
8:15 - Why Stress Is One of the Fastest Ways to Pack On Visceral Fat
9:15 - The One Number to Ask Your Doctor For That Proves It's Working
10:00 - The Whole Protocol in One Minute
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Why The Lights in Your House Are Actually Making You Sick | Heal Thy Self
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We are losing our humanity to an overstimulating and sterile lifestyle. The human nervous system is designed to spend 90% of its time in a state of being. Right now we have it completely flipped.
Brian Richards is the founder of SaunaSpace, the near infrared sauna company built around the idea that light is medicine, grounding is not optional, and stillness is one of the most healing things a human being can experience. This conversation goes far beyond detox and heat. It covers the nervous system crisis of modern life, why depression is simply anxiety taken too far, why your phone is giving your brain more stimulation in two minutes than your ancestors received in a full day, and how near infrared light works at the cellular level to do something that a traditional hot box sauna cannot.
Brian Richards' takes — in order:
Take 1: "We're losing our humanity to an overstimulating and sterile lifestyle" Brian opens with the nervous system reality most people are living inside without recognizing it. He explains why doing has replaced being almost entirely and why that flip is the root cause behind the anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout epidemic.
Take 2: "A few minutes on social media gives you more stimulation than your ancestors got in a day" It is not just the content. It is the volume and speed of incoming data that your nervous system cannot consciously process. Brian explains where all of that unprocessed information actually goes and why it shows up as irritability, restlessness, and disconnection.
Take 3: "Near infrared light penetrates your skin and charges your mitochondria directly" This is the science that separates near infrared from conventional saunas. Brian explains how near infrared photons interact with cytochrome c oxidase in the mitochondria to produce ATP, why that process also triggers melatonin production deep inside the cells, and why mitochondrial light is not the same thing as sweating in a hot room.
Take 4: "This is not just a sauna. It is an experience of being a human" After 20 minutes inside, Brian describes coming out feeling more centered, more focused, more himself. He makes the case that stillness plus light plus grounding creates something restorative that no gym sauna, no cold plunge, and no supplement can replicate.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:21 - Your Nervous System Is Supposed to Be in a Being State 90% of the Time — Ours Is Inverted
3:16 - Why Stillness Is Not Boredom — It's the Only Time Your Body Can Actually Integrate
4:28 - Two Minutes on TikTok Gives Your Nervous System More Stimulation Than Our Ancestors Got in a Day
6:38 - Why You're Irritable and Don't Even Know Why (The Answer Is the Phone)
7:25 - The Further We Get From Nature, the Further We Get From Health
8:44 - The First Three Things He Does Every Morning to Bring Nature Back Into His Day
10:02 - What Air Conditioning Is Actually Doing to Your Indoor Air (Beyond Temperature)
10:56 - Why He Keeps Night Shift Mode On His Phone All Day Long
11:41 - Why Homes in the UK Feel Warmer and Calmer — and What American Lighting Is Doing to Us
13:30 - The Mall Story: What Happens to Your Body Under Fluorescent Light That You Can't Unsee
17:00 - The Light Your Body Runs On That Nobody Told You About
22:00 - Sunscreen, Sunlight and the Biggest Misunderstanding in Modern Health
27:15 - Why Saunas Are No Longer a Luxury — They're a Necessity in the Toxic World We Live In
28:55 - The Chemicals Acting as Hormones in Your Body Right Now (Xeno Estrogens, Explained)
30:28 - The Only Known Natural Therapy Shown to Reduce Risk of Dying From All Non-Trauma Causes
31:18 - Why You Get Out Feeling Like More of Yourself — Not Just Sweaty and Tired
32:42 - What Makes This Sauna Different: EMF Shielded, No Blue Light, Grounding Mat Built In
34:12 - How He Uses His Own Sauna Every Morning (and Why He Never Skips It)
37:57 - It's Not Just a Sauna — It's a Sacred Time to Be Still and Hear Yourself
38:48 - Where to Find Sauna Space and How to Save on Your First Order
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Scientists Found 4 Supplements That Actually Slow Aging in Humans
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That recovery that now takes days instead of hours. The strength slipping. The words you stumble on. The energy that used to feel automatic. That is not just your age. That is your biological clock running faster than it needs to. And the anti-aging shelf is not going to fix it.
Resveratrol looked great in a petri dish. So did a hundred other supplements. Most of them were never tested on human aging clocks. We can now measure biological aging directly through DNA methylation. Only a handful of supplements have actually moved those clocks in real human trials. Dr. G breaks down the four that have, the label tricks that waste your money, and the one thing at the end that no supplement company will ever sell you.
Dr. G breaks it down — in order:
Take 1: "If a supplement has never slowed down aging in a living human, you are buying a headline" Dr. G calls out the resveratrol hype and explains why petri dish and mouse study results have been sold to consumers for years without ever being tested on human aging clocks. Find out what DNA methylation testing actually measures and why it changes everything.
Take 2: "Omega-3s are the one supplement on earth shown to slow biological aging in real human trials" In a three year randomized controlled trial in older adults, one gram a day measurably slowed several DNA methylation aging clocks. Dr. G gives the exact form, the exact dose, and the label trick that turns a promising fish oil into an expensive bottle of oxidized oil.
Take 3: "Urolithin A clears out the dead power plants inside your cells" As you age the cleanup crew that removes broken mitochondria slows down and garbage accumulates. Dr. G explains the mitophagy process, why most people cannot produce urolithin A from food alone, and what the randomized controlled trial showed about muscle strength and endurance after four months.
Take 4: "GlyNAC reversed multiple hallmarks of aging at once and it is cheap" The Baylor University trial showed improvements in glutathione, mitochondrial function, insulin resistance, walking speed, strength, and cognition in 16 weeks. Dr. G explains how glycine and NAC work together to rebuild your body's master antioxidant and why this one belongs in almost everyone's stack.
Take 5: "Spermadine switches on the process that keeps your brain recycling itself" Found in wheat germ, aged cheese, and mushrooms, spermadine activates autophagy — the cellular trash removal process that dims as we age. Dr. G walks through the memory trial data and explains why the dose on the label matters more than the ingredient name.
Nothing ages you faster than a stressful life. No supplement is going to touch that.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Most Anti-Aging Supplements Were Never Tested on a Single Human
2:00 - There Is One Supplement Proven to Slow Your Biological Clock
3:15 - Supplement #1: The Dose, the Form and the Label Trick That's Costing You
4:30 - Supplement #2: What's Happening Inside Your Cells That You Can't Feel
6:00 - Supplement #3: The Cheapest One — and the Biggest Reset on the List
7:30 - Supplement #4: For the Person Who Feels Like Their Mind Is Slipping
8:45 - The One Thing That Beats All Four (No Company Will Ever Sell You This)
10:00 - Where to Start
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How Big Food Makes the Problem, So Big Pharma Can Sell You the Band-Aid | Heal Thy Self
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There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma and almost nobody is naming it directly. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight or obese because of what the food industry has done to our food supply. And the solution the medical industry is now selling is a drug that suppresses the appetite for the food that is still being made and sold and eaten. The wound is being bandaged. The source of the wound is untouched.
Dr. Josh Levitt is a naturopathic physician with 25 years of clinical experience, the co-founder of UpWellness, and one of the most grounded integrative voices in medicine. This conversation covers the big food and big pharma racket, the Nova food classification system, what real food actually looks like, the emotional roots of physical disease, and why dogma on both sides of medicine is killing people.
Dr. Josh Levitt's health takes — in order:
Take 1: "There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma" Dr. Levitt lays out the cognitive dissonance at the heart of modern medicine. The drugs that suppress appetite are genuinely effective, and they are also a band-aid placed over a wound created by the same economic system that has no incentive to heal it.
Take 2: "Balance is a fallacy" Health is not a static destination. Dr. Levitt uses his background as a surfer to explain why people who are good at balance are actually good at the active management of imbalance, and why that reframe changes everything about how you approach the ups and downs of your own health.
Take 3: "I have seen people die on the hill of dogma" This is the take most people on both sides of medicine do not want to hear. Dr. Levitt makes the case that extreme conviction in either direction, whether it is that all natural medicine is quackery or that all conventional medicine is poison, has genuinely cost people their lives.
Take 4: "I wish people didn't need the supplements I make" Dr. Levitt closes with the most honest take of the episode. He explains why supplements are a tool that help people earn back a sliver of faith in their body's ability to heal, and why the real goal is a world where most of what he sells becomes unnecessary.
We have all the technology. We should be crushing it. We are not.
Find Dr. Josh Levitt:
Website: https://www.upwellness.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/reels/
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - GLP-1s Are a Band-Aid for a Problem That Started in Our Food Supply
2:25 - The Core Problem With American Food (And Why "Natural" Labels Are Part of It)
3:49 - The Foundational Approach He Uses With Every Patient — No Diet Required
6:38 - Rapid Weight Loss Is a Good Thing — But Nobody Is Warning You About This
7:50 - Where Those Lost Pounds Actually Go (The Answer Will Change How You Think About Your Liver)
8:29 - Brain Fog, Fatigue and Skin Issues During Weight Loss? Here's Why
9:15 - Is Stored Fat Also a Storehouse for Emotional Toxins?
11:12 - Dr. G's Patient Who Couldn't Lose Weight — Until She Did This
14:00 - What Conventional Medicine and Alternative Medicine Both Get Dangerously Wrong
18:00 - The Crisis of Faith: How Chronic Illness Makes People Stop Believing in Their Own Bodies
22:49 - You Can Lose Faith in Your Body Through Supplement Addiction Too
23:54 - What Happens Inside a Person Who Feels Betrayed by Their Own Body
24:43 - Can the Body Recover From Any Disease? A 25-Year Naturopathic Doctor Answers
25:35 - Why "Holistic" Means More Than Mind-Body — It Means You Are Connected to Everything
26:51 - The Little Win That Starts the Cascade Back to Healing
30:11 - The Body Is Talking to Us All the Time — Are You Listening?
31:35 - What He Would Say to Someone With Cancer Who Has Lost All Faith
33:34 - We Have the Best Medical Tools in History — So Why Are We Failing?34:54 - About UpWellness and Where to Find Dr. Josh Levitt
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Your Gut Health Supplements Do Nothing - Use These Instead
Episode Description: The bloating after every meal. The gas. The afternoon energy crash. The brain fog. The belly fat that will not move. Almost all of it runs through one place. And it is not a willpower …
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Episode Description:
The bloating after every meal. The gas. The afternoon energy crash. The brain fog. The belly fat that will not move. Almost all of it runs through one place. And it is not a willpower problem. It is your gut.
Most people have already spent real money on a probiotic, felt nothing, and concluded that probiotics do not work. The truth is worse. Most of those bacteria are dead before they reach you. The label counts them at manufacturing, not when you swallow them. You may have been paying for a probiotic graveyard for years. Dr. G breaks down four gut supplements with actual human proof behind them, the exact label tricks companies use to take your money, and the one thing that does more for your gut than all four combined.
Dr. G breaks it down — in order:
Take 1: "A dead probiotic is just an expensive way to feed your toilet" Dr. G exposes the 50 billion CFU scam and explains why most probiotics never survive the journey to your intestines. Find out why the strain on the label matters far more than the number and what to look for instead.
Take 2: "Saccharomyces boulardii is the one probiotic that actually arrives alive" It is a yeast, not a bacteria, which means stomach acid and antibiotics cannot touch it. Dr. G breaks down what it does once it gets there, the exact dose used in randomized controlled trials, and the one strain designation that separates the real product from the filler.
Take 3: "A probiotic does nothing if you are not feeding the bacteria you already have" Partially hydrolyzed guar gum is one of the most underrated gut supplements in existence and almost nobody is talking about it. Dr. G explains why it feeds your existing microbiome without triggering the gas and bloating that sensitive guts get from other fibers.
Take 4: "Enteric coated peppermint oil beats placebo across dozens of randomized controlled trials" If your gut hurts, cramps, or spasms, this is the one. Dr. G explains the exact mechanism, why the enteric coating is non-negotiable, and what happens if you take the version without it.
Take 5: "Glutamine is the mortar between the bricks of your gut wall" When the lining goes leaky, food sensitivities, immune reactions, and gut symptoms follow. Dr. G breaks down the randomized controlled trial showing 15 grams a day nearly normalized gut permeability, and why most gut repair blends are burying a useless dose inside an expensive label.
Supplements are tools. Your diet and nervous system are the foundation.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Why That Expensive 50 Billion CFU Probiotic Is Probably Just an Expensive Graveyard
2:00 - The One Probiotic That Actually Survives Your Stomach Acid (It's Not a Bacteria)
3:30 - The Exact Strain and Dose to Look for on the Label
4:30 - The Gut Supplement Almost Nobody Talks About — and Why It Beats Most Probiotics
6:15 - How to Spot the Prebiotic Label Scam Before You Buy
7:00 - For the Person Whose Gut Actually Hurts: The Supplement With Surprisingly Strong Research
8:45 - The Single Most Important Word on the Label (Skip It and You'll Just Have Expensive Heartburn)
9:30 - The Fourth Supplement: What Rebuilds the Gut Wall Itself
11:00 - The Does Most People Miss (And Why a Tiny Amount Does Nothing)
11:45 - The One Thing That Does More for Your Gut Than All Four Supplements Combined
13:30 - Why Stress and Repressed Emotions Are Feeding the Exact Problem You're Trying to Fix
14:00 - The Full Protocol in One Minute
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Naturopathic Doctor: The 1 Longevity Trend Wasting Your Money | Heal Thy Self #518
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Episode Description:
The longevity industry is booming, the clinics are multiplying, and most of them are doing it wrong. Peptides, NAD IVs, hyperbaric chambers, a la carte menus of expensive therapies chosen by patients who have no framework for choosing. The tools are real. The approach is broken.
Dr. Guy is a regenerative medicine physician and the founder of Citron Wellness and Citron Longevity in Los Angeles. He has spent his career at the intersection of functional medicine, peptide therapy, mitochondrial health, and trauma physiology. This conversation goes from the longevity industry's biggest blind spots to NAD delivery methods to stored trauma as a driver of aging and chronic disease. It is one of the most clinically honest conversations about what longevity medicine should actually look like.
Dr. Guy's health takes — in order:
Take 1: "The whole longevity industry is a waste of money if you're not evaluating what the body is expressing" Dr. Guy calls out the a la carte model dominating high end longevity clinics and explains why jumping between sexy therapies without a whole body assessment is the same mistake conventional medicine has always made, just with a bigger price tag.
Take 2: "NAD works — but not the way most people are taking it" Dr. Guy explains why oral NAD and most precursors do not move the needle the way the industry claims, why IVs create a one time spike rather than sustained levels, and why subcutaneous injections have become his go-to delivery method for real mitochondrial support.
Take 3: "Mitochondrial dysfunction is really a systemic inflammatory picture" NAD is not the only answer and sometimes not even the first one. Dr. Guy breaks down what is actually driving mitochondrial decline and why addressing inflammation at the root changes everything about how you approach the longevity stack.
Take 4: "Emotional drama keeps you locked and can break the body" Trauma is a buzzword right now but almost nobody is talking about the physiology behind it. Dr. Guy explains what happens to cortisol, inflammation, and every aging mechanism in the body when the stress cycle never completes, and why stored trauma may be one of the most underestimated drivers of chronic disease.
Sleep. Eat right. Then we talk about peptides.
Find Dr. Guy:
Website: https://www.doctorguy.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrguy/
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Peptides, IVs, Chambers: The A La Carte Problem Nobody Is Talking About
3:24 - Is Most of What Longevity Clinics Offer Actually a Waste of Money?
3:46 - Bryan Johnson: What He Gets Right (And What Puts People Off)
4:21 - Does NAD Actually Work? When Yes, When No, and Why It Depends
5:04 - The Best Way to Take NAD — It's Not IV, Not Oral, Not Precursors
6:48 - What Mitochondrial Dysfunction Actually Is (The Warehouse Analogy)
8:01 - What He Uses Beyond NAD: CoQ10, Hyperbaric Oxygen and Two Specific Peptides
9:17 - Peptides Are the Future — But They're Far More Complex Than Instagram Makes Them Look
10:39 - The Real Danger of Cheap Peptides: What Bottled in China Actually Means
13:05 - How to Do Peptides Safely (And Why Being Cheap Is the Worst Decision You Can Make)
14:01 - Why You Must Track Peptides With Labs — Not Just How You Feel
17:00 - Who Should and Shouldn't Be on Peptides
17:32 - GLP-1s Are Not Your Enemy — But Doctors Are Overdosing Them
18:33 - The Biggest Problem He Sees With GLP-1s Being Done Wrong
19:16 - Why He Always Starts With a Microdose (And What He Looks at First)
21:32 - What Microdosing GLP-1 Can Do Beyond Weight Loss
22:11 - Retatrutide: Why He Thinks It Could Be the First Trillion-Dollar Drug
23:20 - Emotional Drama Keeps You Locked — and Breaks the Body
24:40 - Can Unresolved Trauma Be One of the Leading Causes of Aging?
27:47 - His Non-Negotiables: What to Fix Before You Touch a Single Peptide
28:14 - About Citron Longevity and Where to Find Him
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The Magnesium in Your Cabinet Is Doing Nothing — Here's the Right Form
Episode Description: The magnesium sitting in your cabinet right now is probably one your body can barely absorb. Most people buy it for sleep, for anxiety, for leg cramps, or for constipation, feel nothing …
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The magnesium sitting in your cabinet right now is probably one your body can barely absorb. Most people buy it for sleep, for anxiety, for leg cramps, or for constipation, feel nothing, and conclude that magnesium does not work. Magnesium works. You just bought the wrong kind, and nobody told you there was a wrong kind.
70% of people are deficient in magnesium. Most of them are taking magnesium oxide, which has about 4% absorption. The other 96% moves through you and loosens your stools. But the bigger problem is that magnesium is not one supplement. It is a family of forms, and the form on the label decides the entire job it does in your body.
Dr. G breaks it down — in order:
Take 1: "You just bought the wrong kind and nobody told you" Dr. G exposes the magnesium oxide scam hiding in plain sight on every drugstore shelf and in most cheap multivitamins. Find out why the form on the label is more important than anything else and how companies hide what is actually inside the bottle.
Take 2: "The form that fixes your sleep is not the same form that fixes your cramps" Magnesium glycinate is the calming form backed by a randomized placebo controlled trial showing measurable sleep improvement. Dr. G gives the exact dose, the exact timing, and the label trick companies use to underdose you while making the number on the front look impressive.
Take 3: "This one actually crosses your blood brain barrier" Magnesium L-threonate was specifically designed to raise magnesium levels inside the brain, where it supports the connections between neurons. Dr. G breaks down the randomized controlled trial data on memory and cognition and explains why cheap versions of this form are almost always a waste of money.
Take 4: "Stress is burning your magnesium faster than you can replace it" The same fight or flight response keeping you wired at night is draining your mineral reserves all day long. Dr. G explains why chronic stress, sugar, alcohol, and heavy caffeine make you dump magnesium through your urine, and why the supplement only works in its full glory when the nervous system is also being addressed.
Glycinate for sleep and anxiety. Malate for muscles and daytime energy. L-threonate for brain fog and memory. Citrate for the gut. Oxide for almost nobody.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - The Most Common Form Sold in Drugstores — and Why Only 4% Gets Absorbed
1:30 - Magnesium Is Not One Supplement — The Form on the Label Changes Everything
2:00 - Form #1: Magnesium Glycinate — For Sleep, Anxiety and a Wired Nervous System
3:15 - The Exact Dose, Timing and Label Trick That's Quietly Scamming You
4:45 - Form #2: Magnesium Malate — For Muscle Cramps, Tension and Daytime Fatigue
5:30 - Form #3: The Only Form That Actually Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier
6:45 - Form #4: Magnesium Citrate — For Your Gut (and Why People Buy This for Sleep by Mistake)
7:30 - Why 70% of People Are Depleted — and the Four Things Draining It Every Day
8:30 - The Nervous System Connection Almost No Doctor Is Talking About
9:15 - Who Needs to Talk to Their Doctor Before Taking Any of These
9:45 - The Quick Reference: Which Form for Which Problem
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Sometimes You Don't Need Prozac, You Need a Divorce: Harvard Doctor | Heal Thy Self
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Your lab work is not your health. Your biography is.
Dr. Lucy McBride is a Harvard-trained internal medicine physician with 25 years of clinical practice and the author of Beyond the Prescription, published with Simon and Schuster in August 2026 with a foreword by Mary Claire Haver. She practices medicine the way almost no one does anymore: by treating the whole person, not the panel. This conversation moves through childhood trauma and metabolic disease, weight loss and GLP-1s, SSRIs and the one thing no pill will ever fix. It is one of the most honest conversations about what health actually is that Heal Thy Self has ever had.
Dr. Lucy McBride's health takes:
Take 1: "The lab work you get done with your doctor rarely shows the most interesting aspects of your health" Dr. McBride makes the case that biographic data is clinical data. Growing up in poverty, in a chaotic household, with an alcoholic parent — none of that appears on a blood panel, and all of it directly shapes how a patient thinks, eats, drinks, relates, and heals.
Take 2: "The body is the scorekeeper" Chronic nervous system dysregulation does not stay in the nervous system. Dr. McBride explains how unprocessed emotional stress shows up as high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and autoimmunity, and why prescribing a pill without asking the deeper question is solving the wrong problem entirely.
Take 3: "Sometimes you don't need a GLP-1. Sometimes you just need to eat lunch" One of the most counterintuitive takes of the episode. Dr. McBride explains why chronic low-grade restriction sends the metabolism into survival mode, why stubborn weight that will not move is sometimes the body's response to not being fed enough, and why the first question to ask is about your relationship with food — not your caloric intake.
Take 4: "Sometimes you don't need Prozac. You need a divorce" Dr. McBride closes with her most powerful take. SSRIs are not the problem — the system that prescribes them in five-minute appointments is. She makes the case that no amount of pharmacology can resolve the social and emotional toll of living in chronic fear or unhappiness, and that agency is the medicine no pill can replicate.
Find Dr. Lucy Mcbride:
Website: https://www.lucymcbride.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlucymcbride/?hl=en
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Childhood Trauma as a Data Point That Never Shows Up in Any Test 2:16 - How a Dysregulated Nervous System Becomes High Blood Pressure and High Blood Sugar
5:11 - When Abnormal Labs Are a Downstream Symptom of What's Really Going On in Someone's Life
6:18 - Autoimmunity and Why the Body Is Always the Scorekeeper
7:15 - Does Cancer Have a Life Story Element? A Harvard-Trained Doctor Answers
8:59 - Dr. G Opens Up About Addiction in His 20s — and Why Shame Made It Worse
9:27 - The Most Surprising Discovery From GLP-1 Research (It's Not the Weight Loss)
10:28 - Why Most Patients With Obesity Aren't Lazy — They Just Haven't Had the Right Tool
14:52 - What Menopause Actually Is Beneath the Hot Flashes and Brain Fog 16:00 - Hormone Replacement Therapy: The Standard of Care Most Women Are Still Being Denied
21:07 - Perimenopause: What It Is, When It Starts and What You Can Actually Do About It
23:27 - For Stubborn Weight Gain: Sometimes You Just Need to Eat Lunch 25:32 - Your Body Makes Its Own GLP-1 — Here's What Triggers It
26:30 - Is Excess Weight Sometimes Emotional Protection? She Answers Honestly
27:21 - What to Ask Yourself About Your Relationship With Food (Before You Try Anything Else)
28:44 - "Sometimes You Don't Need Prozac — You Need a Divorce"
30:22 - The Hard Work No Pill, Supplement or GLP-1 Can Do for You
33:18 - The Book, the Foreword and What It's Really a Guide For
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The Coffee I Switched To - Half the Caffeine, 2x Productivity | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #512
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Episode Description:
The cup you reach for every single morning before you do anything else could be quietly delivering mold toxins, heavy metals, and pesticide residues into your body. And you will never taste a thing. Because nobody is checking. Not the brands. Not the grocery store. Not the FDA, which sets no limit at all for heavy metals in coffee.
In 2025, an independent lab ran 7,000 tests on 57 of the bestselling coffee brands in America and found acrylamide, glyphosate breakdown products, and heavy metals in every single sample. Dr. G investigated over 50 coffee companies looking for one that could actually hand him a lab report on the finished product. This is the one that passed.
Dr. G breaks it down — in order:
Take 1: "The mold can die in the roaster but the toxins survive" Ochratoxin A is the main mold toxin found in coffee and the World Health Organization has officially flagged it as potentially cancer-causing. Dr. G explains why your body holds mycotoxins for over a month and what that means if you are drinking poor quality coffee every single morning.
Take 2: "There is no safe level of lead" Heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic accumulate in your bones, kidneys, and brain for decades with almost no way for your body to eliminate them. Dr. G uses the bathtub analogy to explain exactly what is happening over years of daily exposure.
Take 3: "Even organic coffee tested positive for glyphosate residue" The weed killer sprayed on coffee crops does not just affect your cells. It targets the bacteria living in your gut, disrupting the microbiome that governs your immune system, mood, and hormonal health. Dr. G explains why even the organic label does not guarantee you are safe.
Take 4: "Bulletproof says their process is proprietary and won't share testing data" The brands that market themselves as clean and mold-free are not always showing their work. Dr. G names names and explains exactly what a trustworthy coffee company has to be willing to show you before it earns a place in your kitchen.
Take 5: "Everyday Dose ran three independent randomized controlled trials on their own product" Almost no coffee company has ever done this. Dr. G breaks down what those trials actually found, including measurable improvements in sleep confirmed by Oura ring data, and explains why this is his number one coffee of 2026.
In this episode, you will learn:
• What ochratoxin A, heavy metals, and glyphosate are each doing inside your body with daily long term exposure, and why the damage is invisible until it is not
• Why pairing l-theanine with caffeine produces focused calm instead of jitters and crashes, and what the research on alpha brain wave states actually shows
• What lion's mane, chaga, and grass-fed collagen each contribute to the cup and why putting evidence-based ingredients into a daily ritual you are already doing is one of the most efficient health upgrades available
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Mold Toxins in Coffee: What Ochratoxin A Does to Your Kidneys and Immune System
2:30 - Heavy Metals (Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic): No Safe Level — and the FDA Sets Zero Limits
4:30 - Glyphosate in Coffee: Why Even Organic Brands Tested Positive
6:30 - The 2025 Lab Study That Tested 57 Best-Selling Brands — and What They Found in All of Them
8:00 - Why Starbucks, Folgers and Dunkin Won't Hand You a Lab Report
8:45 - Even Bulletproof Says Their Process Is "Proprietary" — Here's What That Actually Means
9:30 - Dr. G's #1 Coffee Pick for 2026 (The Only One He'll Touch)
10:15 - Why L-Theanine Changes the Entire Coffee Experience
11:15 - Lion's Mane: The Brain Ingredient With a Double-Blind Trial Behind It
12:00 - Chaga: The Antioxidant Workhorse You Feel Three Months In
12:45 - Grass-Fed Collagen: The Ingredient Almost No Coffee Brand Includes
13:30 - The Only Coffee Company That Has Run Three Independent Clinical Trials
14:15 - Where to Find It and Why He's Never Going Back
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21 Million Women Have This—And Suffer in Silence | ft. Happy V HTS #514
Episode Description: Over 21 million women in the United States are dealing with bacterial vaginosis right now. Most of them have never told a single person. Not their doctor, not their closest friend, not …
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Over 21 million women in the United States are dealing with bacterial vaginosis right now. Most of them have never told a single person. Not their doctor, not their closest friend, not their partner. Because somewhere along the way we decided this was not something we talk about. Today we will talk about it.
Danielle spent five years cycling through antibiotics, specialists, Reddit rabbit holes, and remedies that did not work. When she finally told her then new boyfriend Hans, he did not run. He asked how he could help. Hans happened to come from a family that had been manufacturing dietary supplements for 30 years. What came out of that conversation became Happy V, a vaginal probiotic that does not just feed the good bacteria but hunts down the bad ones.
Danielle and Hans break it down — in order:
Take 1: "Antibiotics eliminate all the bacteria — and then it comes right back" Danielle explains why the standard treatment for BV sets women up for a revolving cycle of reinfection. She breaks down what is actually happening in the vaginal microbiome and why the conventional approach keeps missing the root cause.
Take 2: "The shame around BV is destroying relationships" From new couples to long marriages, BV is ending intimacy and keeping women isolated in embarrassment. Hans and Danielle share what that conversation looked like for them and why having it honestly changed everything.
Take 3: "Not all probiotics are the same and most gummies are basically useless" Hans pulls back the curtain on how the supplement industry actually works and why most probiotic products on the shelf cannot deliver what they promise. He explains what three things a label has to show before a probiotic is worth buying.
Take 4: "Probiotics hate water, acid, and heat — which is everything a gummy is made of" This one will make you look at your cabinet differently. Hans explains exactly why the gummy format destroys the very bacteria you are trying to consume and what format actually protects them.
Take 5: "Give it time — anyone telling you this works overnight is lying to you" Dietary supplements are not magic and the marketing around vaginal health is especially aggressive. Danielle and Hans give the honest timeline and explain what patience actually looks like when you have the right product.
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why recurring BV is not a hygiene problem, what is actually driving the imbalance, and why the antibiotic cycle keeps women stuck instead of healed
• How to read a probiotic label and what three things the International Probiotic Association says must be present for a product to actually be legitimate
• Why the vaginal microbiome is one of the most undertreated areas of women's health and how an imbalanced pH affects everything from intimacy to confidence to daily comfort
This one is for every woman who has suffered in silence and every partner who wants to understand.
Find Happy V: Website: https://www.happyv.com
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Danielle's Story: 5 Years of BV, Antibiotics That Kept Failing, and Reddit Rabbit Holes
7:00 - The Conversation Every Woman Dreads Having With a New Partner (And How Hans Responded)
11:00 - Why Antibiotics Make You More Vulnerable to BV the Next Time Around
15:00 - What BV Actually Is: The Vaginal Microbiome Explained Simply
19:00 - Why This Is a Couples Issue, Not Just a Women's Issue
23:00 - The Garlic, Yogurt Tampon and Hydrogen Peroxide Remedies — Do Any of Them Work?
27:00 - What Makes Happy V Different: Hunting Bad Bacteria, Not Just Feeding Good Ones
31:00 - The Strain, Dose and CFU Conversation Most Probiotic Brands Don't Want You to Have
35:00 - Why Probiotic Gummies Are Basically Useless (The Science Behind It)
38:00 - How to Read a Probiotic Label and Know If You're Getting Scammed
41:00 - How Long It Actually Takes to Work (And Why Anyone Saying "Overnight" Is Lying)
43:30 - They've Helped Over a Million Women — Here's What the Reviews Say
45:30 - Where to Find Happy V and How Every Purchase Gives Back
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Walk With a Former T-Mobile VP: 4 Takes on 5G and EMFS | Heal Thy Self
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Episode Description:
You are living in an electromagnetic soup and most people have no idea. Over 4,000 published studies show harmful effects from EMF exposure on the brain, blood, nervous system, fertility, and more. The European Parliament has its own report on the cancer and fertility risks. And with 6G rolling out faster than 5G ever did, it is not getting better.
This guest spent years as a VP at T-Mobile before switching sides. Now he studies and develops technology designed to harmonize EMF exposure rather than ignore it. This conversation covers what EMFs are doing inside the brain within seconds of exposure, why the problems accumulate silently until they are hard to trace back, and what anyone can actually do about it right now.
Dr. G and his guest break it down — in order:
Take 1: "EMFs are detrimental to human health and there are over 4,000 studies that show it" Most people cannot find this research on the first page of a Google search, but it exists and it spans decades. The guest breaks down what the evidence actually shows and where to find it.
Take 2: "Within seconds in the brain, everything linked to stress fires up" EMF exposure does not wait weeks or months to affect your nervous system. The guest explains what happens inside the brain almost immediately upon exposure and why that matters for anxiety, brain fog, and chronic stress.
Take 3: "You cannot hide from EMFs anymore" From 5G towers to Starlink to electric vehicles, there is nowhere left to escape. The guest explains why the goal cannot be avoidance and what the realistic path forward actually looks like.
Take 4: "6G is going to be much worse than 5G" The next wave of wireless technology is already rolling out and the latest generation of mobile phones attacks the lymphatic system faster and deeper than the one before. The guest lays out what is coming and why staying informed matters.
Take 5: "You can start becoming more coherent right now, for free" Meditation, sunlight, nature, yoga, and tai chi all support your biofield even before any technology gets involved. The guest gives the honest baseline of what lifestyle alone can do and where its limits are.
In this episode, you will learn:
• Why EMF exposure causes problems that accumulate silently, why most people attribute their symptoms to something else entirely, and why the brain is especially vulnerable because it is the central steering organ for everything in the body
• How gamers, pilots, Uber drivers, and anyone with multiple screens and Bluetooth devices are experiencing compounded EMF exposure at levels the body was never designed to handle
• What coherence technology is, how it differs from simply blocking or shielding EMFs, and what the research behind it actually shows
Find Quantum Upgrade:Website: https://www.quantumupgrade.io
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - 4,000+ Studies on EMF Health Effects (And Why You Don't Find Them on the First Search)
5:00 - Is There Anywhere Left on Earth to Escape EMFs?
8:00 - Are These Studies Being Suppressed? A Former T-Mobile VP Answers Honestly
10:00 - Why the Brain Is the First and Most Sensitive Organ to Take the Hit
13:00 - How Short-Term Exposure Triggers the Stress Response — And Why It Gets Worse Over Time
17:00 - Kids, Three Screens, Bluetooth Headphones and Why No One Is Connecting the Dots
21:00 - Why We're Not Talking About EMFs the Way We Should Be (It's Because They're Invisible)
25:00 - 5G Was Bad — Here's What 6G and Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Do
29:00 - What You Can Do for Free Right Now to Start Protecting Yourself
33:00 - From VP at T-Mobile to This: Why He Crossed to the Other Side
35:00 - The Technology That Harmonizes EMFs Without Removing Them
38:00 - The 15-Day Free Trial and Where to Find It
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Podpage: Scientists Found 4 Things That Actually Lowers Inflammation | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #512
Episode Description: That stiffness when you wake up. The puffiness in your face. Feeling exhausted after eight hours of sleep. That is inflammation. And chronic inflammation is a low silent fire burning in …
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That stiffness when you wake up. The puffiness in your face. Feeling exhausted after eight hours of sleep. That is inflammation. And chronic inflammation is a low silent fire burning in your body every single day, quietly driving almost every disease you are afraid of.
Most people have already spent good money trying to fix it. Most of them felt nothing. And the truth is not that supplements for inflammation are a scam. The truth is that most of what is on the shelf is underdosed, in the wrong form, and targeting the wrong pathway. Dr. G breaks down four supplements with real research behind them, the exact doses used in the trials, and the label tricks companies use to take your money without delivering results.
Dr. G breaks down his anti-inflammatory protocol — in order:
Take 1: "Ibuprofen does not lower your inflammation" Dr. G exposes why the most common go-to for pain and inflammation is only a temporary mask, not a fix. He reveals the molecule your body already makes to shut inflammation off and how to actually support it.
Take 2: "One capsule of fish oil a day is doing close to nothing" The dose that moves inflammatory markers in real bloodwork is dramatically higher than what most people take. Dr. G gives the exact EPA and DHA number to hit and shows how to spot the label trick that makes you think you are getting more than you are.
Take 3: "Boswellia hits a branch of inflammation that fish oil cannot reach" This is the one almost nobody is talking about. Dr. G breaks down why Boswellia serrata blocks a completely different inflammatory pathway and what has to appear on the label or the product is essentially useless.
Take 4: "Cheap curcumin exits your body before it does anything" The most counterfeited anti-inflammatory supplement on the shelf gets a full breakdown. Dr. G explains what absorption actually requires, why black pepper is not enough, and what form to look for instead.
Take 5: "Ginger is criminally underrated" It is dirt cheap, probably already in your spice drawer, and blocks both major inflammatory pathways. Dr. G makes the case for why ginger belongs in every anti-inflammatory protocol and what dose the research actually used.
In this episode, you will learn:
• Why ibuprofen only presses the alarm button down temporarily while your body already has its own system for switching inflammation off, and how omega-3s at a real dose provide the raw materials for that system to work
• Why Boswellia serrata blocks a completely different branch of inflammation than ibuprofen or fish oil, why that matters if you have joint or autoimmune issues, and the one number that has to appear on the label or you have no idea what you are getting
• Why cheap curcumin is barely absorbed and exits your body before it does anything, what standardized and phytosome actually mean, and why ginger at one to three grams a day lowered objective inflammatory markers in clinical trials
Plus why none of these four supplements will work if chronic stress is keeping your nervous system in low grade fight or flight every day.
Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication.
We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Why Most Inflammation Supplements Have Done Nothing for You (And Who's Responsible)
2:00 - What Ibuprofen Actually Does — And What It Completely Misses
2:45 - Supplement #1: The Molecule That Actually Switches Inflammation Off
4:30 - The Exact Dose That Moves Your Inflammatory Markers in Bloodwork
5:30 - The Fish Oil Label Scam That's Making You Pay for Filler Oil
7:00 - Supplement #2: The One That Hits the Inflammation Pathway Ibuprofen Can't Reach
8:30 - The Label Red Flag That Means You Have No Idea What You're Actually Taking
9:00 - Supplement #3: The Most Bootlegged Anti-Inflammatory Supplement on the Market
10:00 - The Absorption Problem That Makes Most Turmeric Products Useless
11:00 - Supplement #4: The Cheapest and Most Underrated One — Already in Your Spice Drawer
12:00 - Why All Four Supplements Will Barely Work if You Don't Fix This First
13:15 - Who Needs to Be Careful Before Starting Any of These
13:45 - The One Blood Test to Ask Your Doctor for Right Now
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Frozen Fruit Isn't Harmless, Chinese Medicine Actually Hates It | Heal Thy Self
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Your morning smoothie might be working against you. Your intermittent fasting routine might be dysregulating your hormones. And Botox, from a Chinese medicine perspective, is freezing the very nervous system pathways that keep your skin alive. Dr. Felice Chan is back on Heal Thy Self and this time the conversation happened outside, on a walk, in a rosemary bush.
Dr. Felice is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner based in Los Angeles, and she connects dots between ancient medicine and modern biology in a way that stops you mid-sentence. This conversation covers breakfast, fasting, facial acupuncture, Botox, aging, and why everything in the body comes back to nervous system regulation and the rest and digest state.
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why cold and blended foods create what Chinese medicine calls dampness in the body, how that slows metabolism and digestion, and what Dr. Felice's own smoothie habit led to after two to three months of daily use
• Why most fasting research was done on men, what happens to a woman's cortisol and hormones when she skips breakfast, and the Chinese medicine case for a warm morning meal
• The difference between what Botox does to the face neurologically versus what cosmetic acupuncture does, and why one freezes while the other reinvigorates
Beauty from the inside out. This is what that actually looks like in practice.
Find Dr. Felice Chan:
Website: https://www.feliceacupuncture.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfelicechan/?hl=en
Timestamps:0:00 - Why Smoothies Are One of the Worst Breakfast Choices (Chinese Medicine Explains Why)
2:20 - What Actually Happens in Your Body When You Drink a Smoothie and Drive to Work
4:00 - How Her Morning Smoothie Habit Sent Her to the ER and Changed Everything
5:30 - What to Eat for Breakfast Instead (Her Actual Morning Meal)
6:44 - Why Intermittent Fasting Is Doing More Harm Than Good for Most Women
8:00 - What Skipping Breakfast Does to Your Hormones, Metabolism and Energy Over Time
10:14 - The Symptoms She Sees in Every Woman Who Skips Breakfast
12:05 - Why Most People Think Their Nervous System Is Fine — And Why It Isn't
12:45 - The Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System You're Probably Overlooking
15:13 - The #1 Mental and Emotional Effect of Living in Chronic Fight or Flight
15:52 - When Gut Problems Have Nothing to Do With Food
16:55 - The Five Organs, the Five Emotions and Where They Live in Your Body
18:36 - Is a Dysregulated Nervous System One of the Top Drivers of Disease?
19:04 - Botox vs. Cosmetic Acupuncture: What's Actually Happening Beneath the Skin
21:54 - What Chinese Medicine Says Is Really Causing Your Fine Lines and Wrinkles
23:06 - Why Cosmetic Acupuncture Results Last Longer Than Botox (And What It Takes)
24:30 - Graceful Aging Is an Energy — And You Can Feel It on Someone
25:27 - The One Thing She Wants Every Listener to Walk Away With
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Why I Would Never Take Melatonin to Fall Asleep | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #510
Episode Description: You are probably taking melatonin wrong and it is almost certainly not your fault. Most people take it like a sleeping pill every night, wake up groggy, and eventually need more and more to …
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You are probably taking melatonin wrong and it is almost certainly not your fault. Most people take it like a sleeping pill every night, wake up groggy, and eventually need more and more to get the same effect. That is not a melatonin deficiency. That is melatonin being used for something it was never designed to do at a dose your body would never produce on its own.
The amount of melatonin your brain actually releases at night is about 3 tenths of 1 milligram. Your gummy says 10. The research is humbling and the label may not even be accurate. Researchers tested 30 melatonin products off store shelves and found the real content ranged from 83% below the label to nearly five times above it. In roughly one out of four products they found serotonin, a compound that was not listed on the label at all.
In this episode, you will learn:
• Why melatonin is a timing hormone and not a sedative, what it is actually designed to do in the body, and why taking a giant dose expecting to be knocked unconscious was never how it works
• Whether long term melatonin use shuts down your body's own production, why the answer is no, and what the real risks actually are
• Why Dr. G never raises the dose when a patient says melatonin has stopped working, what he does instead, and the specific scenarios where melatonin is genuinely the right tool
Plus the warning every parent needs to hear before giving melatonin to a child.
Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication.
We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better.
Timestamps:0:00 - Intro
1:30 - The One Thing About Melatonin That Changes Everything
2:30 - Mistake #1: The Dose Most People Take Is 10 to 30 Times Too High
4:00 - Will Melatonin Shut Down Your Body's Own Production? The Real Answer
5:30 - Mistake #2: Using It Like a Sleeping Pill When It Was Never Designed for That
7:00 - Mistake #3: The Study That Shows You Can't Trust the Number on the Label
8:30 - How Dr. G Actually Has His Patients Use Melatonin
9:30 - The Warning Every Parent Needs to Hear Before Giving This to Their Kids
10:00 - The Whole Truth in One Line
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The Real Reason You Wake Up Anxious for No Reason | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #509
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Episode Description:
Every person comes into this world with a spiritual container. If your container can only hold 60 watts of energy, that is all you are getting. No strategy, no opportunity, no amount of hustle changes that. What changes it is expanding the vessel itself.
David Ghiyam is a Kabbalah teacher and spiritual coach who has spent 25 years working with people at the intersection of consciousness, abundance, and transformation. This is one of the most expansive conversations Heal Thy Self has ever had. It moves from money ceilings and competing belief systems to anxiety as a message from your highest destiny, to darkness as excess light, to the energetic pipes of mother and father that govern healing and abundance. It goes places most podcasts never go and it earns every minute of it.
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why the ceiling you keep hitting with money, love, or opportunity has nothing to do with the outside world, and why fixing your circumstances without expanding your spiritual vessel is fighting a shadow instead of the seed
• What competing belief systems are and how a hidden belief you are completely unaware of can quietly sabotage every goal your conscious mind is working toward
• Why anxiety is not a problem to solve but a signal that your higher destiny is trying to come in and cannot, and what it actually takes to open the channel
This one will stay with you.
Find David Ghiyam:
Website: https://davidghiyam.com/yis
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidghiyam/?hl=en
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Your Spiritual Container: The Real Reason Wealth, Love and Opportunity Stop at a Certain Point
2:30 - The Two Belief Systems That Are Quietly Blocking Everything You Want
4:00 - The Hidden Desire That Was Costing David Millions Without Him Knowing It
6:00 - Why Moving Cities, Changing Jobs or Finding New People Won't Fix the Problem
8:30 - 100% Aligned Desires = Instant Manifestation — Here's What That Means
11:55 - Anxiety Is Not a Disorder — It's Your Higher Destiny Trying to Come In
13:00 - Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light — It's the Excess of It
13:35 - The Single Biggest Block for High-Achieving, High-Anxiety People
14:00 - Why Every Best Idea You've Ever Had Came When You Were Alone
15:00 - The Real Reason People Fear Public Speaking (It Has Nothing to Do With Confidence)
17:50 - Why Staying in Something That's Not Working Is Hurting Everyone Around You
19:00 - Giving From the Left Column vs. the Right Column (And Why Most Leaders Only Do One)
23:00 - The Energy of One Disengaged Employee Is Quietly Killing Your Company
25:00 - The Amazon $5,000 Quit Check — And Why David Uses the Same Principle
26:00 - Why You Can't Attract a Partner Who Has What You're Not Willing to Build in Yourself
29:00 - The Real Estate Broker, the $50M Listing, and the Lesson About Her Mom
31:50 - What Blaming Your Parents Is Actually Blocking in Every Area of Your Life
32:00 - Father Energy and Mother Energy: The Two Pipes That Govern Abundance and Love
34:30 - Prayer Is Not Woo Woo — It's a Technology That Expands the Vessel
35:30 - How to Call In the Healing (Even If You Don't Want to Want It Yet)
37:00 - Where to Find David and How to Go Deeper
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The 4 Supplements I Use to Lower Cortisol | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #508
Episode Description: Wired and exhausted at the same time. Weight around your midsection that will not move no matter what you do. Mind racing the moment your head hits the pillow. That is not too much …
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Wired and exhausted at the same time. Weight around your midsection that will not move no matter what you do. Mind racing the moment your head hits the pillow. That is not too much cortisol. That is a cortisol curve that has lost its shape. And there is a very real difference between those two things.
Before Dr. G gets into the four supplements that have actual human research behind them, he is going to expose the cortisol detox teas and adrenal fatigue narrative for what they are. You cannot detox a steroid hormone. And the concept of adrenal fatigue was examined across 58 studies and has no scientific basis. What you actually have is a dysregulated HPA axis, and that is something you can actually fix.
In this episode, you will learn:
• Why ashwagandha is the most proven cortisol lowering supplement on earth by a wide margin, the exact label trick companies use to sell you an underdosed product, and who should never take it regardless of stress levels
• The difference between the person who spikes easily under pressure and the person who crashes after sustained stress, why these require completely different supplements, and what phosphatidylserine and rhodiola each do that the other cannot
• Why 45% of fish oil on shelves is already rancid, how to read the label to find out if your EPA and DHA numbers are actually therapeutic, and how omega-3s physically blunt both resting cortisol and cortisol spikes under stress
Plus the one warning sign that means your cortisol issue is not everyday stress and you need to see a doctor immediately.Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication.
We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Cortisol Detox Teas Are a Scam — Here's Why in 30 Seconds
1:30 - What the Cortisol Curve Actually Is (And What Chronic Stress Does to It)
2:45 - The Belly Fat, Sleep and Energy Connection Nobody Explains Correctly
3:45 - Supplement #1: The Most Proven Cortisol-Lowering Herb on Earth
5:30 - The Label Tricks Companies Use to Quietly Drain Your Wallet
6:15 - Who Should Never Touch This Supplement (Especially Thyroid Conditions)
6:45 - Supplement #2: The One for People Who Spike Hard Under Pressure
8:15 - Why the Lower Dose Does Absolutely Nothing (The Research Is Precise)
8:45 - Supplement #3: The Adaptogen for People Who Can't Get Out of Bed in the Morning
10:30 - The Most Manipulated Supplement in This Category and How to Spot a Fake
11:15 - Supplement #4: The Foundation Sitting Beneath All Three
12:30 - The Fish Oil Label Scam That's Making People Pay for Rancid Oil
13:30 - The One Thing That Beats All Four Supplements Combined
14:30 - When Your Cortisol Problem Is Actually Something More Serious
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