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The Untold Story Of Uric Acid: Solving The Puzzle Of Obesity, Diabetes And Chronic Disease with Dr. David Perlmutter Feb 16, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and Cozy Earth.

Uric acid is a central player in metabolic mayhem. Despite its long association with gout and kidney stones, it’s involved in so much more—especially our metabolic disease epidemic. There are three things that raise our levels of uric acid: purines, alcohol, and fructose. The latter is the biggest challenge, due to its overwhelming presence in our Standard American Diet. That doesn’t mean all fruit is bad or even that all alcohol and purine-rich foods have the same effect. Like all parts of health and nutrition, there are nuances we need to consider to create optimal health.

That’s why I’m so excited to take a deep dive into the topic of uric acid with my friend and colleague Dr. David Perlmutter. Dr.Perlmutter is a Board-Certified Neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. He serves on the Board of Directors and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. He is the author of Grain Brain among others, and his new book, Drop Acid was just released. Dr. Perlmutter received his M.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was awarded the Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and The Journal of Applied Nutrition.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

What is uric acid and how does it affect our health? (5:30 / 2:00)
The impact of fructose consumption on our physiology (11:45 / 8:10)
The differences between fructose and glucose (19:20 / 16:29)
Why high fructose corn syrup is used in so many foods (21:13 / 17:40)
The three sources of uric acid (22:57 / 19:23)
Fructose consumption, uric acid, and gut health (28:19 / 23:43)
How to eat to reduce uric acid (33:54 / 28:52)
Medications that increase uric acid (47:07 / 42:04)
Uric acid and Alzheimer’s (50:28 / 45:28)
Heavy metals, supplements, sleep, exercise, and uric acid (54:12 / 49:14)

Get Dr. Perlmutter’s new book, Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid—The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar and Achieving Extraordinary Health here.

Daily Steps To Boost Energy & Never Be Tired Again Feb 14, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Mitopure.

Between 20 and 30 percent of all doctor visits are initiated due to lack of energy, or chronic fatigue. It is a common problem that plagues so many of us. Often we don’t realize that the last thing we want to do—exercise—could be an easy solution to increasing our energy levels. When we create stress in the body from exercise or other stressors, also called hormesis, we can actually build back stronger as the body heals and repairs.

In this episode of my new Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about all the things we can do to improve our energy levels. We also talk about how caffeine and sugar in your diet impact energy, as well as answer questions from our community about the value of napping, if MCT oil increases energy, and why fruit juice is not a great choice.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Three things we can do to improve our energy levels (4:37 / 00:50)
Three things that zap your energy (8:17 / 4:29)
Steps to evaluate chronic fatigue (12:34 / 7:02)
How to reduce fatigue and increase energy (15:37 /11:43)
Evaluating caffeine consumption and if it works for you (18:24 / 14:17)
Why blood sugar management is important for optimal energy (20:42 / 16:49)
What I do to support my energy level (27:22 / 23:25)
Questions from our community (39:26 / 35:37)

Mentioned in this episode:

Try This: Why You Need a Coffee Break and How to Do It

New Barn Organics Almond Milk

OmegaQuant

Levels

Use Your Mind To Heal Your Body Feb 11, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Athletic Greens.

Our thoughts have a profound physiological effect on the body and can either help or hinder the healing process. Even just thinking about a negative experience can set off a cascade of physiological events in the body just as if it’s happening right now—the mind-body connection is truly that powerful.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Emily Fletcher, and Dr. Leonard Calabrese about why our thoughts influence our physiology and what we can do to improve our health, even when we feel we are stuck. Once we are aware of our thoughts and learn to retrain our brains, using such techniques as meditation to break the conditioning process, we see substantial changes in health.

Dr. Joe Dispenza’s passion can be found at the intersection of the latest findings from the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics, where he explores the science behind spontaneous remissions. He uses that knowledge to teach people how to heal their bodies of health conditions, make significant changes in their lives, and evolve their consciousness. Since 2010, he has partnered with scientists and universities to perform extensive research on the effects that meditation has on the brain and body. He and his team have also studied gene expression, protein regulation, immune response, neurotransmitter changes, telomere length, and variations in bioactive cellular metabolic particles in novice and advanced meditators.

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva, the creator of the Ziva Technique, and regarded as a leading expert in meditation for high performers. She is also the author of Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance.

Dr. Leonard Calabrese is a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and vice chair of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases. He is the director of the RJ Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic and holds joint appointments in the Department of Infectious Diseases and the Wellness Institute. He has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the advancements of immunology and wellness.

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How Fast Food Companies Coopted Black America with Marcia Chatelain Feb 09, 2022

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Food and racism are heavily tied, and the history of fast food franchises in America is one of many examples. In order to continue the fight for civil rights and name ongoing social and racial disparities, it’s important to learn how we got here. I’m excited to dig into all this with Marcia Chatelain.

Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, she teaches about women’s and girls’ history, as well as black capitalism. Her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America examines the intricate relationship among African American politicians, civil rights organizations, communities, and the fast food industry. In 2021, Marcia received the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Hagley Prize in Business History, and the Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award for Franchise. Marcia has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The history of African American owned fast food franchises (6:01 / 3:00)
African American food culture, access, health, and economics (11:24 / 6:30)
The food industry targets marginalized communities toward junk food consumption (16:44 / 9:30)
Making the healthy choice the easy choice (18:19 / 15:20)
Social determinants of health and necessary policy change (24:55 / 20:50)
The true cost of the food we eat (34:22 / 29:00)
The dark side of corporate social responsibility spending (36:49 / 31:25)
Overcoming the power of corporate lobbying (39:07 / 33:46)
Food sovereignty and traditional foods (47:16 / 41:30)
Improving societal systems and institutions (54:37 / 49:20)

Learn more about Marcia Chatelain hereand get a copy of her book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, here.

How To Reduce Your Risk Of Cancer Feb 07, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Eight Sleep.

An astonishing seventy percent of cancer is diet-related. When it comes to treating cancer, conventional medicine is good at cutting it, burning it, and poisoning it, but many doctors fail to treat the root cause. Functional Medicine empowers patients and practitioners to optimize health by addressing the root causes of disease.

In this episode of my new Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the cancer epidemic, including the biggest cancer risks.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30+ million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Five things we can do to reduce our cancer risk (4:08 / 00:56)
The link between sugar and cancer (10:39 / 6:44)
Emerging diagnostic tests and treatment options (12:56 / 9:24)
My approach to handling a cancer diagnosis (15:35 / 12:10)
Case study of a prostate cancer patient (18:10 / 14:56)
Questions from our community on reducing risk, cancer education resources, foods to fight cancer, and more (24:20 / 19:25)
Recap of how to reduce your cancer risk (32:06 / 27:34)

Mentioned in this episode:

Environmental Working Group

Dr. Ralph Moss (Cancer Decisions)

The Cancer Code

Eat to Beat Disease

Anticancer: A New Way of Life

The Longevity Diet

The Truth About Sugar Addiction And How It Affects Your Health Feb 04, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, Paleovalley, and Rupa Health.

Sugar lights up the addiction center in our brains, just like heroin and cocaine. Yet many of us consume more sugar than we are aware of because it’s lurking in so many foods that we would never expect. The average person consumes 152 pounds of it per year! Sugar is not just responsible for an increased waistline but also impacts our metabolic health, immune systems, mental health, and more.

In today’s episode, I talk with Keegan Allen and Tom Hopper, Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai, and Dr. Casey Means about why sugar addiction is so detrimental to our health and what we can do about it.

Keegan Allen is an American actor, musician, photographer, and author. He’s known for his main role as Toby Cavanaugh on the Freeform series Pretty Little Liars. Allen’s passion in his younger years tended towards photography, cinematography, and other roles behind the camera.

Tom Hopper is an English actor. He has appeared as Sir Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, and Luther Hargreeves in Netflix’s new show The Umbrella Academy.

Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai is a double board-certified physician in Obesity Medicine and Psychiatry. She is the Founding Director of Stanford University’s Metabolic Psychiatry program and Silicon Valley Metabolic Psychiatry, a new center in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on optimizing brain health by integrating low carb nutrition, comprehensive psychiatric care, and treatment of obesity with associated metabolic disease.

Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. Means’ perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more.

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The Worst And Best Foods For Your Blood Sugar with Dr. Casey Means Feb 02, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

What if you had a tool that helped you not only make better health decisions but also gave you real-time feedback on how your body uniquely reacts to any kind of food? Thanks to continuous glucose monitors this is something we’ll all be able to take advantage of in the near future. Levels is one company that’s been spearheading the field of wearable technology, providing an incredible amount of information on blood sugar responses and metabolic individuality. I talk to Dr. Casey Means about what we can learn from the 51 million data points Levels has already gathered on blood glucose reactions.

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Here are more of the details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The leading driver of mortality in the Western world (5:52 / 3:46)
The type of foods that are driving cardio and metabolic disease (8:38 / 5:03)
Learnings from 51 million continuous glucose monitor readings (12:28 / 8:53)
Foods commonly believed to be healthy that actually spike blood sugar (20:39 / 17:04)
How various food combinations affect blood sugar (21:16 / 17:44)
Walking after eating can lower glucose levels (23:32 / 20:00)
Foods we should never eat and surprising foods that spike glucose levels (27:27 / 22:07)
Foods that don’t spike blood sugar but should still be avoided (44:22/ 38:52)
How food combinations, sequencing, and when we eat influence glucose levels (51:33 / 46:03)
What are normal and optimal blood sugar levels? (1:06:34 / 1:01:01)

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Exclusive Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive: Thyroid + Hashimotos Feb 01, 2022

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Is Sleep More Important Than Your Diet When It Comes To Optimal Health? Jan 31, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Sleep is medicine, just like food is medicine, and may even be more important than diet. Sleep regulates your brain function, helps stabilize your mood, and is a time when the body heals. It’s absolutely critical for a healthy body. Sadly, over 70 million Americans don’t sleep well. This lack of sleep is degrading our health. We feel it in our energy level, it’s hard to focus, and it can even contribute to chronic illness.

In this episode of my new Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, all about sleep and why it’s essential for a healthy body. We discuss why sleep is so important, how we can get better sleep including tips to create your own sleep ritual, and answer a variety of questions from our community.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30+ million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The importance of sleep (3:54 / 1:00)
Three things that can improve quality of sleep (6:27 / 3:34)
The risks of chronic sleep deprivation (10:31 / 7:34)
Ideal hours of sleep (11:36 / 8:46)
Conventional versus Functional Medicine approach to sleep problems (16:28 / 13:26)
Case studies (19:34 / 16:40)
Creating a sleep ritual before bed (22:25 / 19:26)
My morning routine to ensure good sleep (24:24 / 21:26)
Questions from our community including circadian rhythm, frequent wake ups, sleep trackers, and more (25:23 / 22:20)

Mentioned in this episode:

Sweet Dreams: How to Sleep Better, Lose Weight, and Live Longer

Lights Out

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Daily Hacks To Improve Your Health & Age Backwards Jan 28, 2022

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and Eight Sleep.

Aging doesn’t have to be a one-way street. Our diet and lifestyle patterns are fundamental to the quality of our health, and the way we age. In this episode, my guests and I explain how to support our health to help us live longer, and more vibrantly.

Dr. David Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study longevity, aging, and how to slow its effects. Their focus is on studying sirtuins as well as metabolism, neurodegeneration, cancer, cellular reprogramming, and more.

Mark Sisson is the founder of the popular daily health blog, Mark’s Daily Apple, godfather to the Primal food and lifestyle movement, and New York Times bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet and The Primal Blueprint. Mark launched Primal Kitchen, a real-food company that creates Primal/Paleo, keto, and Whole30-friendly kitchen staples.

Dr. Gerald Lemole is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon and integrative physician. In 1968, he was a member of the surgical team that performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States. His books include After Cancer Care, The Healing Diet, An Integrative Approach to Cardiac Care, Facing Facial Pain, and Lymph & Longevity: The Untapped Secret to Health.

Dr. Mehmet Oz has won ten Daytime Emmy® Awards for The Dr. Oz Show and is an Attending Physician at NY Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Center. Dr. Oz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and obtained a joint MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. Dr. Oz is the proud author of eight New York Times bestsellers including his most recent, Food Can Fix It.

Dr. Cindy Geyer received her bachelor of science and her doctor of medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. and is triple board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine.

Dr. Richard Isaacson serves as Director of the Center for Brain Health and Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic (APC) at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine. He previously served as Director of the APC at the Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Program, Assistant Dean of Faculty Development, and Associate Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine & NewYork-Presbyterian.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and Eight Sleep.

Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account here.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 free travel packs with your first purchase here.

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