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473: Aleks Rybchinskiy on Pain, Trauma, and Inner Work for Health and Healing Aug 26, 2021

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I’m here with Aleks Rybchinskiy, co-founder of Primal Fusion Health, a company that specializes in wellness education and primal integration. If you’re asking what primal integration might be, it’s simply how all of the areas of life (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) intersect to create your best state of health. I’m excited to go deep …

472: Josh Trent on Breathwork for Health, Inner Peace, and Learning to Feel Safe In Your Body Aug 23, 2021

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This podcast is all about breathwork and how this simple (and free!) practice can profoundly impact health. Just a few small changes to how we breathe can promote feelings of safety in our own body, activate our parasympathetic nervous system, improve health, and so much more! I’m here with Josh Trent, the founder of Wellness …

471: Dr. Jen Forristal on Umbrella Parenting and Raising Children With Strong Coping Skills Aug 19, 2021

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This episode is on a really cool new concept called “umbrella parenting,” a term for raising children with strong coping skills. I’m here with Dr. Jen Forristal, a naturopathic doctor and the founder of the Umbrella Project, a well-being curriculum that is currently running in hundreds of schools internationally. Since tools for emotional well-being are …

470: Amy Emerson of MAPS on the Future of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy & Research Aug 16, 2021

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This episode goes deep on the science of psychedelic-assisted therapy and research in light of some really astounding Phase III clinical trials that have recently come out about some of these substances. I am here with Amy Emerson, the CEO of the MAPS Public Benefit Corporation of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Just as …

469: Dr. Kenneth Bock on Brain Inflamed & Healing the New Childhood Epidemics Aug 12, 2021

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I’m here with Dr. Kenneth Bock, a leader in integrative medicine with over 35 years of direct experience helping brain-inflamed children. He’s well respected as a leader on some of the new childhood epidemics, such as autism, PANS, PANDAS, tick-borne illnesses, and a lot more. Unfortunately, it’s no secret that a lot of these chronic …

468: Daniel Vitalis on Human Domestication and Our Diminishing Relationship to Nature Aug 09, 2021

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I loved doing this interview! This podcast goes deep on the idea of human domestication and our diminishing relationship with nature. I’m here with Daniel Vitalis, host of the WildFed TV show and podcast. For over a decade, he has taught in the U.S. and abroad about living healthier, more integrated, nature-based lives. He’s also …

467: Dr. Tim Jackson on Mold Toxicity, Testing, and Remediation Aug 05, 2021

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This episode is all about mold! Mold exposure, mold toxicity, and mold remediation, both in the home environment and in the body. I’m here with Dr. Tim Jackson who is a functional medicine practitioner and biohacker, and he’s also a member of the Wellness Mama medical review board because I really trust his opinion and …

466: Cynthia Thurlow on What Makes Fasting Unique for Women Aug 02, 2021

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I’m here with Cynthia Thurlow, who is the CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project. She’s also a nurse practitioner and a globally recognized expert when it comes to intermittent fasting and nutritional health. In fact, she has a TED talk on intermittent fasting that has been watched over 8 million times!

We go really, really specific on the differences between fasting for men and women, how to fast without stressing out your body, and some really important reasons to stop snacking. If you fast or practice time-restricted eating (or are considering it), this is the episode for you!

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The reason for the differences in fasting between men and women
How to navigate fasting as a woman during fertile years
The time of the month that it is better not to do much intensive fasting
A reason to stop snacking
The importance of hydration and electrolytes with any type of fasting
How snacking keeps insulin elevated and makes weight loss difficult
The reason our body (liver especially) needs a break from food between meals
What the mitigating motor complex is and why it’s important
Why not to over-exercise and what we get wrong about this
The importance of electrolyte balance, especially during fasting
How fasting changes after menopause
Her tips for mitigating stress and staying in parasympathetic mode
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465: Sara Gustafson on Physiological, Limbic, Somatic, Biochemical & Psychological Differentiation Levels Jul 29, 2021

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Did you know 80% of all autoimmune diseases and 90% of fibromyalgia diagnoses are in women? And (less surprisingly) that women experience more anxiety and PTSD than men?

This episode separates fact from fiction when it comes to how men and women differ on the physiological, limbic, semantic, biochemical, and physiological levels. Sara Gustafson is a holistic tech practitioner and a women’s health researcher from Austin, Texas. She has a lot of expertise in many areas, but today we’re digging into tough questions like why medical studies focus on men, what factors in our modern world affect women more than men, and how to use this knowledge for better health.

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The problems that arise when studies look primarily at men but women receive the same treatments
A fascinating hormonal difference that affects how women respond to viruses
The surprising reason so many Alzheimer’s patients are women
Two items that we use on a daily basis that were designed on the measurements of women and not on the average man
How we can understand and use knowledge of cellular differences based on sex to better help everyone
A metaphysical link to chronic disease symptoms and why this affects women more
The surprising statistic of how much work women do, unpaid and paid
Why autoimmune disease often comes from a feeling of not feeling like you have worth or that you aren’t good enough
The link between breast cancer and disease and self-sacrificial emotions
A short exercise to help get emotionally unstuck by asking “is this true?” and “what else could be true?”
The cortisol connection: how our cortisol response is still pumping out cortisol for a 24 hour period after a stimulus
Drastic differences between cortisol patterns in response to stress in women and men
Why Sara recommends reading a lot of books written before 1989!
And more!

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464: Justin Mares on Regenerative Agriculture as the Solution to Climate Issues (and Health Issues) Jul 26, 2021

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It’s always a pleasure to chat with Justin Mares, who’s a friend of mine and also the founder and CEO of Kettle & Fire bone broth. Today we go deep on regenerative agriculture as a solution to climate issues and health issues. We go into the different ways that animals are raised and how certain …

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