Ancestral Health Today

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Evolutionary insights into modern health

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How the brain controls eating and obesity.

Stephan Guyenet on How the Brain Controls Eating and Obesity This episode with Stephan Guyenet examines the brain processes that drive appetite and eating behavior. Stephan is a neuroscientist who has studied what drives many of us to overeat and become overweight, and why it is so hard to lose weight. He did his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the University of Washington, and wrote the popular heath blog, Whole Health Source. In 2017 he published a highly acclaimed book about this - The Hungry Brain....

Oct 18, 2023•1 hr

The Microbiome's Impact on Health

Dr. Alessio Fasano, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Fasano’s translational science is focused on the role of impaired intestinal barrier function in the pathogenesis of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including celiac disease, autism and type 1 diabetes. Director of th...

Oct 10, 2023•43 min

What Evolution Teaches Us

This episode with Michael Rose will look at longevity from an evolutionary perspective. Michael is an experimental evolutionary biologist who has spent the last several decades running experiments to understand the role that natural selection plays in aging. He's a distinguished professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine, and a great talk at the Ancestral Health Symposium 2018 on Diet, Aging and Evolutionary Mismatch. You can check it out on the AHS YouTube site. In today's episo...

Oct 03, 2023•1 hr

Katy Bowman

On this episode of the Ancestral Health Today we have Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman. Katy teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. Her work has been featured in diverse media including The Today Show, CBC Radio One, The Seattle Times, and Good Housekeeping. One of Maria Shriver’s “Architects of Change” and an America Walks “Woman of the Walking Movement,” Bowman...

Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 11 min

Breathing for better health with James Nestor

In this episode of Ancestral Health Today, we bring you a conversation with James Nestor. James Nestor is a science journalist and author of the bestselling book Breath, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 18 weeks, and won the a 2020 prize for Best General Nonfiction. James also wrote a book on free divers who test their limits by diving to the ocean floor without oxygen tanks, and he's published articles in Scientific American, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Surfer's Jou...

Sep 19, 2023•1 hr

Ancestral Health Today

Welcome to Ancestral Health today. In this episode we bring you part 2 of our discussion with Darryl Edwards. We released part 1 last week on September 5th, which also happened to be Ancestral Health Today’s very first episode. Today we dive into the rest of the pillars of health, including diet, avoiding toxicity, breathing, play and living with purpose. You can find more about Darryl by visiting his website Primal Play Thank you for being part of this episode. Please make sure to subscribe on ...

Sep 12, 2023•1 hr

Ancestral Health Today

Welcome to the first episode of Ancestral Health Today. We are excited to bring you part one of a two part episode with the Amazing Darryl Edwards. Darryl is the founder of Primal Play , a super creative and always evolving movement program, a social and community experience with play at the center. Darryl is the best selling author of the book Animal Moves , he is a keynote and motivational speaker, and has millions of views on his Ted Talk titled Why working out isn't working out . Darryl has ...

Sep 05, 2023•59 min

Ancestral Health Today

Thank you for listening to our mini episode and get to know our hosts, Isabel and Todd. Together they will bring amazing interviews and insights. Please consider becoming a supporter to grow this work and continue to communicate the latest research to a growing audience. Our supporters will enjoy exclusive content, early and discounted registration to the ancestral Health Symposium, live interviews with our guests and more. If you are not in a position to support us financially, please share wit...

Sep 01, 2023•5 min

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