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245: Veganize Your Wardrobe: The Future of Fashion is Cruelty-free, Sustainable and Ethical Feb 19, 2019

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We all love a good outfit. But fashion is cruel to animals, cruel to people and cruel to the planet. Especially luxury fashion, which is synonymous with fur, cashmere, leather, angora and silk. Can fashion ever be compassionate? It can now.

Meg and Komie were raised vegetarian. From a very young age they understood that animals are not here for food. Also from a young age, they loved nothing more than customizing their outfits. As they started shopping, they found it nearly impossible to find clothes they liked that were also cruelty-free. That's why they created Delikate Rayne, a 100% vegan, sustainable, luxury clothing line made in LA. Their mission: to make a positive impact and give back through something people love - great fashion! And they're spreading the message, having recently been featured in the prominent fashion publication PAPER.

What's so wrong with fast fashion? Firstly, the impact on animals: it's a myth that fur and leather are by-products of the meat industry. Animals are raised specifically for that purpose, they are confined in tiny cages, tortured and slaughtered for their skin. Secondly, the impact on the environment. Constantly changing trends mean there is an incredible amount of waste. The process of dying fabrics pollutes water. And finally, the social impact. If you're paying $10 for a t-shirt, how much is the person who made it getting paid?

The solution? To go for a brand that is vegan, affordable, sustainable AND gorgeous… we love Delikate Rayne's fashion range that ticks all these boxes.

Meg and Komie's tips for green shopping and living:

Keep a reusable bottle (have a few so you always have one to hand)
Shop in thrift stores - have a clear idea of what you want and then go search for it
Buy high-quality timeless pieces rather than an abundance of cheap clothes
Host a fashion pot-luck evening and swap clothes with your friends

Check out Delikate Rayne's game changer movement in partnership with PETA.

Being hailed as "Sex and the City for Food," The Food Heals Podcast brings together experts in the field of nutrition, health and healing to teach you the best-kept natural secrets to being a hotter, healthier, happier YOU!

The Food Heals Podcast is hosted by Allison Melody and Suzy Hardy – two self-proclaimed natural chicks who will rock your world and change your beliefs about health! This sexy, savvy duo provides eco-friendly advice on a variety of issues including the healing power of nutrition, living authentically, turning your passion into your career, choosing the best natural health and beauty products, the benefits of a plant-based diet and so much more!

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244: Romance Mash Up - Our Best Clips About Love, Intimacy, Sex, And Relationships Feb 12, 2019

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The 5 Languages of Love with Leanne Linksy

What makes a relationship strong? It's the little things. Going to the grocery store, taking out the trash. And the most important thing is to learn your partner's love language. What's your love language? For some, it's physical affection. For others, love is shown through the little gestures. Getting to know how you and your partner communicate love will help you become closer. Suzy, Alli and Leanne talk 5 Love Languages.

Best Foods For Sex With Jason Wrobel

The wine is flowing, the superfood chocolates come out, and we're talking sex. Jason Wrobel - vegan chef and best-selling author of Eaternity, shares the secrets of how to eat for better sex. What would Jason cook for a first date? What foods improve blood flow and libido? For one, all foods containing magnesium - this is a mineral most people are deficient in. Think raw chocolate, kombucha squash, and maca.

Harness Your Yoni Power With Elise Carr

Here's to the sacred healing power of the Jade Egg. Elise Carr is a tantra practitioner, reiki master and artist. We're talking yoni - the female sacred space. When you hold a jade egg in your yoni, you do more than just tone your pc muscles and make sex more pleasurable. It's a powerful practice that supports your divine female energy and allows you to release any old negative energies.

First Date Horror Stories

Sometimes you date frogs before your perfect match comes along. Erica Mandy from the NewsWorthy and Laura Petersen from Copy That Pops tell their first date horror stories - insults, lateness, and accidents with artichokes.

Relationship Talk From an NBA Champion

John Salley shares his relationship philosophies. The difference between making out and having sex. What men really think. How to deal with your partner's honesty. And how women make the decisions.

Opening Yourself Up To Love With Emunah Malinovitz

Emunah is on a mission to help us have more love in our lives. Authentic, juicy, connective, soulful love. How can we create sacred love that lasts? You have to start with you and the universe - the relationship will follow. There's a whole buffet available, so don't just settle for scraps.

Emunah's tips to welcome love into your life:

Let go of your fear of loving and of being loved
Create a safe space for love
Find love within yourself instead of seeking it from external sources
Take responsibility - are you attracting closed-hearted people into your life?

Picking Your Partner With JJ Flizanes and Michael Neely

It's been found that most people choose their partner based on their parents or their parents' relationship. Imago therapy is based on the theory that you pick your partner based on the wounds of your past, and helps you to unpick this so that you can heal your marriage… or pick a love that lasts.

Find Your Soulmate With Tracy Crossley

What's the difference between soul groups and soulmates? Tracy believes we reincarnate, and have a soul group that we are connected to throughout time. You know that feeling when you have an instant rapport with someone? That's because they're part of your soul group. And it doesn't have to be a lover, it can be a friend. So relax - because this means there's more than just one single person out there for you!

How We Met Our Husbands With JJ Flizanes

Suzy met her husband online, but it wasn't smooth sailing. In the beginning, she thought they would just be friends. They didn't kiss until the fourth date… but what took time to blossom turned into a beautiful love story. Alli and her husband were neighbors, and friends. When he kissed her the first time, she told him never to do it again. But their relationship soon turned into true love… you'll have to listen to the episode for the details!

How We Got Engaged With Sahara Rose

Sahara and Alli's engagement stories. Proof that men can be super romantic when they put their mind to it!

Sexy Meditation With Danielle Mercurio

How to make your date feel really great? Guide them through a meditation. Danielle shares her Man Magnet Meditation to revolutionize your date nights.

Making Yourself Over With Kimberly Seltzer

Are you giving away your power through the clothes you choose to wear? Many of us do! We're scared of being seen, we hide ourselves away in a cocoon of loose or dark clothes. The clothes we wear send out a message. So that means we can dress for love! Kimberly Seltzer shares how to make over your wardrobe, and your love life, with a little red dress.

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243: Free Yourself From Cravings and Overeating with Radical Weight Loss Expert David Zappasodi Feb 08, 2019

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Diets don't work. Neither do New Year's resolutions. Just 3% of people who go on a diet successfully lose weight. Why? They're based on the idea that if you lose weight, you'll transform your life. In fact, you need to transform your life first, then the weight loss will happen.

Alli was a healthy plant-based holistic salad eater by day…. sugar junkie by night. Sugar addiction ruled her life. Nothing she tried ever worked. Until she met David Zappazodi. Now, her cravings for sugar have disappeared.

David Zappazodi has been a healthcare professional specializing in weight loss for over 20 years. He uses radical methods. Instead of coaching people to find their why, and motivating them to change their habits, he tells his clients to stop exercising and eat the junk foods they crave several times a day. It sounds nuts. But…. It works.

How do you transform your life first? You have to focus on the struggles that are preventing the weight loss, and then focus on the weight loss itself. To do this, David uses three brain flips that tackle cravings, overeating, and exercising.

Brain Flip Your Cravings

Cravings are like bullies. You have to stand up to them in a way that lets them know you're not going to be pushed around. Trying to avoid bullies, or fight them, doesn't work long-term. It's the same with your cravings. You might try avoiding your cravings, but that doesn't work. Eventually the cravings win. Then you indulge and feel guilty. The only way to free yourself is to eat the food you crave… but eat it in a different pattern.

Think about it. You've resisted for so long, then finally you give in. In that moment when you indulge, there is pleasure. This is the core point where things need to change. If you create pain in the moment of indulgence, then you begin to flip your brain to eradicate your desire for that particular food. How? By creating a pain tool. This is a recording of what could go wrong in your life if you don't solve this issue, which you listen to while you eat the food. By inserting pain in that indulgence, you begin to make friends with your cravings. You stop associating indulging with pleasure, and the cravings subside.

Brain Flip Overeating:

The way David tackles overeating is to get his clients to split their usual portion into two plates. You eat the first one normally, but you eat the second portion while listening to another pain tool, so you learn to associate being overfull with being in pain. This creates another brain flip.

Brain Flip Exercise:

David calls this the body brain flip. Now that the cravings and overeating are dealt with, it's time to reprogram your brain to look at exercise in a completely new way. David gets his clients to create a vision tool - the opposite to a pain tool. Imagine the best that could happen to you as you transform your health and lose the weight, and listen to that audio several times a day to really connect with the feeling of joy. This turns around your usual thinking about exercise being a chore, into something you're excited about doing. And when you're excited about doing something, it becomes effortless.

Want more? Check out Episode 233, where David delves deep into how the brain flip works to free you of chaotic or compulsive eating.

David's tips to reduce your cravings:

If you're really struggling - schedule a free call with David at www.brainflipweightloss.com/talk
Increase the enjoyment of healthy foods - for example listen to great music when you eat them - this will create a positive association
Don't eat healthy foods while you're stressed - it will create a negative association
Don't allow indulging in the cravings to de-stress you. Relax first, and then indulge.
Disconnect indulging in your cravings with usual activity (like eating ice cream while watching tv) - indulge in a different environment
Don't use junk food as a reward - ask yourself "how can I reward myself without eating junk food, in ways that would be even more enjoyable?"
Join David's Facebook support group

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242: Be Part of the Food Revolution and Change The World With Ocean Robbins Feb 05, 2019

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You can save animals from factory farms. You can shift culture. You can stop rainforests from being chopped down. You can help communities. You can create the kind of world you want to live in. This is the power of your fork. The food revolution is a revolution you can fight peacefully, and everyone wins: the animals, the people, and our environment.

Food really matters. It's the foundation of good health. But unfortunately, for many people it can also be the foundation of disease. A standard American diet means standard American diseases.

This is something Ocean Robbins witnessed in his own family history. His grandfather was one of the founders of Baskin-Robbins. His dad refused to go into the business, and walked away from a path paved with gold and ice-cream. He moved to an island off Canada with his wife, built a log cabin, grew vegetables, practiced yoga several hours a day, and had a child: Ocean.

From this island, Ocean's dad wrote the book Diet for a New America, which helped thousands of people rethink their food choices. One of his readers ended up being his own father, who, after years of eating a standard American diet, was at death's door. But making the changes suggested in the book, he reversed his heart disease and diabetes, lost 30 pounds, and lived 19 more healthy years.

When Ocean was 16, inspired by his dad and grandfather, he founded a nonprofit called Yes, and travelled to 65 countries giving talks and helping young activists build a healthier world for future generations. It was during these travels that Ocean realized how much of an impact food has on our health. He saw that as the American way of eating and producing food was expanding, so too were the diseases related to this diet. He realized food was at the source of a lot of the suffering on the planet: the torture of animals, the use of chemical poisons to grow crops and hijack our taste buds, the subsidies given to support the unhealthiest foods.

In 2012, Ocean joined forces with his dad and launched the Food Revolution Network, to promote healthy, sustainable food for everyone. They push for policy changes that could change our world. One of their goals is to make sure medical doctors get proper nutrition education. They also lobby to stop policies that support junk foods, and get the food industry to take health seriously.

But perhaps the most important goal is to share this life-boosting information with as many people as possible and help them put healthy change into action - not just for themselves, but for their community and the whole world.

We're so excited to announce that Ocean's new book 31-Day Food Revolution is out today. It's packed with information and a step by step plan to put new habits into action.

The 4 principles to starting your own Food Revolution:

Less sugar and processed junk
Less animal products
More whole plant foods (veg, greens, legumes, whole grains, fruits - lots of fiber)
Conscious sourcing - buy food that is organically, ethically, and fairly produced

How to be plant-based affordably:

Stop buying calories that are toxic (from junk foods)
Avoid food waste - plan ahead, cook up extra meals and freeze them
Eat out less
Buy the real superfoods - cabbage, carrots, onions, beans, quinoa, spices…

All these things put together can get you to ultimate vitality and help create a better world.

But it's about more than just health. Food can also connect us. Ocean's book gives tips to help you be a positive influencer, teach people about nutrition in a loving way, and how you can build a community. Because we are not lone wolves, we need community to thrive.

And for every copy of the book that's ordered, Ocean will donate to Trees for the Future, a nonprofit that plants trees all over the world. Every time a new copy is ordered, they will plant an organic fruit or nut tree in a disadvantaged community. This means when you order Ocean's new book, you participate in the food revolution right away.

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241: Ayurveda 101 with Sahara Rose: How to Balance Your Doshas and Thrive Jan 29, 2019

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World renowned keynote speaker, best-selling author, world traveler… and she recently got engaged in Bali after one of the most epic proposal stories we've ever heard! But Sahara Rose wasn't always a glowing picture of health and success.

In fact, she went through a really tough time - she didn't have periods, lost her hair, suffered from bloating and constipation. No one could find the cause or cure the problem. Until one day she read about the Vata dosha - it was like reading her autobiography. Following ayurvedic practices to bring this dosha back into balance, Sahara regained her health.

But it was hard - Ayurveda processes are old school, and many don't work for today's busy lifestyles. So Sahara decided to redesign these ancient practices to fit the modern world.

Her two books - The Idiot's guide to Ayurveda, and Eat Feel Fresh (with a foreword by Deepak Chopra!) offer simple and easy to follow strategies to get your doshas, and your health, back into balance.

What is Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is over 5000 years old; it's the world's oldest heath system. It means "the knowledge of life." Ayurveda involves your entire life in order to heal you: nutrition, digestion, self-care, movement, morning rituals, your environment, your relationships, and your purpose.

What Dosha Are You?

Dosha means energy. In Ayurveda, we're all made up of three energies from the elements space, air, fire, water and earth. The three doshas are Vata (air and space), Pita (fire and water) and Katha (earth and water).

Vata

Mind: creative, artistic, go with the flow, visionary… but if unbalanced: difficulty coming down to earth, anxiety, everything up in the air, head in the clouds, not liking a set schedule

Body: lean, flexible… but if unbalanced: cold skin, slow digestion, bloating, cracking joints, unbalanced appetite, dry skin.

Pita

Mind: feisty, high energy, driven, business-minded, regimented, likes routine, motivated…. But if unbalanced: angry, aggressive.

Body: strong and athletic… but if unbalanced: high risk of inflammation, heart burn, acne, rashes.

Katha

Mind: calm, peaceful, very giving… but if unbalanced: gives too much, unable to set boundaries, people pleaser.

Body: solid, endurance… but if unbalanced: lethargic and prone to increased mucous.

We are all a combination of all three of these doshas, in varying amounts. What's more, these doshas may change depending on where you are in your life. Ayurveda heals the doshas within us so that we can rebalance our health.

To find out your dosha, take the quiz on Sahara's website.

How to Rebalance Your Dosha:

Vata:

Warm, grounding foods - think roots! Stay away from excessively cold foods.

Pita:

Cooling, alkalizing foods - more leafy greens, bitter veg, coconut. Avoid spicy foods.

Kapha:

Stimulating foods - warming spices to rev up metabolism.

In her latest book, Eat Feel Fresh, Sahara makes it easy to incorporate this ancient healing practice into your life with over 100 ayurvedic plant-based recipes. Her other book, An Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda contains all the self-care and lifestyle strategies to take your health to the next level. Check out Sahara's podcast, Highest Self.

Ayurvedic self-care 101:

Tongue scraping - helps your digestion, keeps your mouth fresh
Oil pulling followed by warm water and salt - swill oil (coconut, sesame) for 3 to 20 minutes.
Dry brush - brush your skin upwards towards your heart - this removes dead skin cells.
Oil your body - give yourself a massage, hone in on the dry bits, show your body some love.

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240: The Secrets to a Healthy Microbiome - How to Heal Your Gut and Heal Your Life with the Gut Health MD, Dr. B Jan 22, 2019

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You're only 10% human. Yes, really.

Just over a decade ago, doctors believed there were around 200 species of bacteria living on and in the human body. We now know there are over 30,000 species. We have a community of 100 trillion microorganisms in our gut. That is 10 times the number of human cells in the body. This basically means we're 10% human, 90% bacteria!

The microbiome was an unknown entity, but now science has shown it to be a game changer. It's an integral part of our health, and if we can support it, we can thrive.

We are in a synergistic relationship with the microorganisms in our body - we need them to survive, and they need us. They've been a part of us since the beginning of human evolution. But we're bailing on them right now. In the last century, we've stopped taking care of them. Our diets (the chemicals we use to process our food), environment (the chemicals we use to clean our homes), lifestyles (lack of sleep, lack of movement, stress), medications (antibiotics) - destroy the delicate microbiome we rely on for health.

Doctor Will Bulsiewicz, also known as Dr. B, is an internal medicine doctor and expert gastroenterologist. While his conventional medicine training did not include any nutrition study, science was emerging about the power of diet to treat gastrointestinal disease. So he began studying it in his own time and discovered the untapped potential of a healthy gut. Having witnessed amazing results with his patients, he decided to spread the word beyond his clinic. The Gut Health MD was born.

Why your gut is your first step to thriving health:

All health starts here.
It controls your metabolism and how you process your food. It dictates whether you gain weight, or lose weight, and how easy it is to maintain your weight.
It's in constant communication with your immune system.
It regulates your mood and impulses - 95% of serotonin (your happy hormone) is produced in the gut.

What can you do to heal your gut?

The most important thing is to eat a wide variety of plants - the more different plants you eat, the healthier your microbiome.
Unless you have an allergy, don't blanket-eliminate foods from your diet - taking out foods reduces your diet's variety and therefore your gut's microbiome.
Get proper sleep, exercise every day, drink plenty of water.
Avoid dairy, meat and processed foods - these damage your microbiome.
Fasting gives your gut a break and strengthens your microbiome.
Check out the American Gut Project. Go to their website, they will send you a kit - give them a stool sample and fill out a survey about your lifestyle, and for just $99 they will tell you what your microbiome looks like.

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239: Is Toxic Mold Destroying Your Health? Tips to Diagnose, Detox and Heal with Wholistic Health Boss Jenn Malecha Jan 15, 2019

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Could mold be affecting your health? Mold is a tricky thing. It's affected people since the dawn of time - but conventional medicine rarely addresses it. But it is a serious issue. Mold produces mycotoxins that can drive up estrogen levels, overburden the body with toxicity and elevate inflammation - so if you're sensitive to mold (25% of people have the gene that make them sensitive) other symptoms will appear, like frequent illness, more allergies, exhaustion and hormonal issues.

Jenn Malecha's healing journey had bumps along the way. She'd had a pretty healthy up-bringing - garden, vegetables, an active lifestyle. But when she got to college, the long hours and stress caused by studying and working crazy hours caused her health to decline. Then, at just 25, and having never been a sun-worshipper, Jenn was diagnosed with skin cancer. She knew it had to be caused by her environment and lifestyle. Functional tests revealed that she had high oxidative stress, a clogged-up liver, and adrenal dysfunction. So she tackled all those things, and felt like herself again…

Until five years later. She began gaining weight, her periods were all over the place, she had candida overgrowth and inflamed breasts. She went to experts, who were unable to tell her what was going on. Until one day she opened the cupboard near her work desk and there was black mold everywhere. Toxic mold had devastated her health. Having understood what was causing these issues, she began rebalancing her health. She became the boss of her health instead of relying on doctors. She now empowers others to have that same connection with their body.

Here are some of the strategies she used to free her home and her body from mold:

Screen for Mold at Home:

Visual contrast screening - You can take the test for just $15
Even if you pass this test, take an at home microscopy mold test by Citrisafe. This is a small Petri dish that collects mold spores. Once sent to the lab, researchers will analyze the type of mold present in your home.
The other test is called an ERMI test and is available from Mycometrics . This is a cloth with which you dust surfaces around your house. The cloth is then analyzed for mold - this test can be good to do because, unlike the microscopy test, it doesn't depend on the mold spores being alive.

Screen for Mold Toxicity:

Are you electrically charged all the time?
Are you urinating more frequently?
Nasal swab - order through a naturopathic doctor or functional practitioner.

Getting Rid of Mold:

Hire professionals to remove the mold.
Clean air ducts.
Buy anti-mold solution Bio-Balance anti-mold solution. This is a natural toxin-free solution to remove mold from your home.
Get rid of mold on your carpet and your pets - products available at www.citrisafe.com.
After 30 days, retest your home for mold.
Get some functional tests done - if you're sensitive to mold, it will trigger a chronic inflammatory response. This will come up on a functional test.

Detox Your Body and Feed Yourself Right:

Biotoxins can make the body hyperreactive to wheat. So avoiding gluten is essential.
Eat more natural detoxifying foods like beets, dandelion tea, grapefruit, lemon.
Eat an anti-inflammatory diet - remove grains, dairy, soy, sugar, and processed foods from your diet.
Run a food sensitivity test to find out which foods to stay away from.
Look at your personal care products - do they contain allergens like oats or almonds?
Keep a food journal - this will help you identify what triggers your symptoms.
Listen to your body - tune in and see what the body is telling you rather than just trying to follow protocols.
Think yourself healthy - mindset and health are completely linked.
Meditate, feed your mind positive thoughts, give yourself enough sleep (leave your cell phone out of the bedroom).
Make time to switch off and relax.

Jenn now helps busy professional to take back control of their health by offering lab tests and resources to find the missing piece of their health puzzle. With over a decade of personal training experience, Jenn creates personalized health-rebuilding programs for her clients that are realistic and achievable. Book a complimentary discovery call today!

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238: Transform Yourself From The Outside In With Makeover & Dating Expert Kimberly Seltzer Jan 08, 2019

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New year, new you! We always feel like a makeover is needed in January. So what better way to begin 2019 than with style coach Kimberly Seltzer?

You might not realize it, but your outfits are more than just clothes. They say a lot about you. They can keep you feeling down, block love, and give away your power. Yes, really. Wearing muted colors, going for the bigger size, wrapping up in layers all send a strong message, both to the outside world and to yourself: that you are not confident and are not comfortable in your own skin. From that space, implementing positive change is an uphill struggle.

Often, we're told that if we work on what's on the inside - our mindset - we can transform what's on the outside. But this can work the other way too: a great outfit can make you feel empowered, and over time this boosts your confidence and improves your mindset, so you can attract what you want - whether it's in love or in business. If you work on both your mindset and your wardrobe, transformation gets much faster. Kim knows about this first-hand.

Twenty years ago, she was a traditional therapist - in other words, she was totally focused on the inner work side of things. But life happened, she got a divorce. Life as she knew it was over. Her mood was so low she couldn't even get out of bed, let alone be a helpful therapist. Despite her knowledge of talking therapy, she couldn't get out of her own way or change how she felt. One day, she looked in the mirror. And she was horrified. Frumpy, wearing oversized clothes, a nursing bra and Birkenstocks. She looked like her mindset: sad, and hiding in a cocoon of black. So she went shopping. Luckily, a personal shopper saw her picking out her usual uniform and intervened with a sexy little red dress. This chance encounter changed Kim's life forever. She suddenly felt like herself again. Her confidence started growing. And the rest is history. Now, Kim is determined to help others reconnect with themselves and find their perfect partner.

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237: The Funniest, Healthiest and Hottest Moments of Food Heals History Jan 02, 2019

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Laughter heals - so we've gathered the funniest moments since we started the podcast three years ago, to bring you an episode that will make you laugh out loud. If you've not checked these episodes out yet, make sure you do!

Katie Krimitsos

Did you stop shaving your armpits?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/180-katie/

iTunes: http://apple.co/KatieKrimitsos

Sage & Anna-Blanca

Are you leaking Jing?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/182/

iTunes: http://apple.co/sageandannablanca

Amanda Deming

Let's get to the wine!

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/8

iTunes: http://bit.ly/HealingCervicalCancer

John Lee Dumas

Are your goals smart?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/116-2/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/Ep116

Dr. Joel Kahn

Get out of your body's way and let it heal.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/49/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/DrKahnDiet

Stephanie Goldfinger

Praise carrots!

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/1/

iTunes: http://apple.co/1J5dfpp

John Salley

Lion vegetarian?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/54/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/JohnSalley-Part1

New Year's episode with Jay, Joy and Sophie

Rampage of gratitude!

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/185/

iTunes: https://bit.ly/2018wellnesstips

Drew Canole

Shamanic talk, green juice and foreplay.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/181/

iTunes: http://apple.co/DrewCanole

Gabby Bernstein

What does the world need right now?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/153/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/SpiritJunkiePodcast

Lori Harder

Have you seen Jesus's abs?

iTunes: http://bit.ly/LoriHarder

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/227/

Dr. Masley

Leafy green sexiness.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/187/

iTunes: https://bit.ly/DrMasley

Leslie Durso

Juice cleanse or smoothie cleanse?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/96/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/LeslieDursoPt2

Dr. Stephen Cabral

What's the sign of a healthy balanced body?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/186/

iTunes: https://bit.ly/StephenCabral

Whitney Lauritsen

Take the risk for your passion.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/21/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/EcoVeganGal3

Dr. Zagone

Improve health, happiness and sexiness with this one move.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/109/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/DrZagone

Adam Schaeuble

Things are getting hot in the studio.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/235/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/MillionPoundMission

Danielle Mercurio

Self-love or self-ok?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/207/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/DanielleMercurio

Alison Crowley

Type A personality and yoga.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/46/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/AlisonCrowley

Kate Erickson

The power of rituals - or is it karaoke?

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/119-2/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/KateErickson

Jason Wrobel

Best karaoke moments EVER.

Blog: http://foodhealsnation.com/15/

iTunes: http://bit.ly/JasonWrobelLive

What you'll learn in Episode 237:

How to set goals you'll stick to
What it means to focus
What eating a sirloin does to your arteries and your gut
The BEST way to begin your new year (and it's not setting resolutions)
How you can change someone's life
The daily habit that will make your brain 11 years younger
Leslie's ultimate smoothie recipe
The sign of a healthy well-balanced body
One move that will improve your health and mood

Our favorite moments:

@6:11 Big and bold? Who cares!

@8:55 It's a little nutty

@15:45 It's a miracle!

@19:02 Your gut is screwed up, baby

@23:28 Mind equals blown!

@29:52 Crazy woowoo

@41:25 A little more hip action

@50:35 I cannot believe I didn't do this sooner

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236: Chris Beat Cancer and You Can Too! Dec 22, 2018

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Imagine being just 26 years old and being told you have stage 3 colon cancer. Just before Christmas. That's what happened to Chris Wark. What began as intermittent abdominal pain was actually a tumor the size of a golf ball. He was rushed into surgery, but woke up to the news that the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes. His options? He only had one: chemotherapy for 9 to 12 months.

But poisoning himself back to health didn't make sense to Chris. He wanted to build his body back up, not tear it down. He began researching alternatives. The books he read opened his eyes to the healing power of nutrition and how our diet impacts our health. Suddenly he realized that he'd created his cancer, so he could fix it. He immediately bought a juicer and went from a standard American diet to 100% vegan and 100% raw.

It wasn't easy to make that decision. His oncologist told him he was insane not to have chemo. He warned Chris that fruits and vegetables would "fight" the treatment, and that chemo was his only hope - without it, there was a 50% chance he would be dead within 5 years. Chris was crushed, and frightened.

Unfortunately, this is something that happens to almost all cancer patients. They are manipulated into believing that chemotherapy and cancer drugs are the only solutions. They're told that diet makes no difference. When Chris woke up from the surgery to remove his tumor, his first hospital meal was a sloppy joe - despite the fact red meat is classed as a "probable carcinogen" by the World Health Organization.

Patients are told their cancer is either bad luck or bad genes. This turns patients into victims of circumstance, whose only hope is to show up for "standard" treatment. But we know that cancer is multifactorial. Only 5% of cancers are genetic - 95% are caused by diet, lifestyle and environment. What this means is that cancer is not something that just happens, and it isn't something we are powerless against. We have cancer cells in our bodies all the time, but our immune system is designed to fight and kill these cells. The difference between someone with cancer and someone without is their internal environment. We can make our bodies somewhere cancer can thrive (through a poor diet, high stress, environmental toxins), or somewhere cancer cannot survive. But how?

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